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Arif Bacchus

Arif is a freelance technology writer for OnMSFT and Digital Trends. He has over five years of experience covering all things Microsoft, including Surface, Windows 10, Xbox, Microsoft 365, and more. He also writes how-to guides, op-eds, reviews, and loves to play with the latest tech --- Microsoft or not.

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News

Surface Duo January update brings touch stability and audio improvements

Microsoft is now rolling out the January Update for the Surface Duo. For those sporting the device, the latest firmware…

Arif Bacchus · January 27, 2021 · 1 min read

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Microsoft tests its service pipeline with cumulative update build 21296.1010 in the Dev Channel

Late this afternoon Microsoft announced the release of cumulative update build 21296.1010 to the Dev Channel. Showing in Windows Update…

Arif Bacchus · January 25, 2021 · 1 min read

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Check out this cool video celebrating Your Phone, Fluent Design, and Windows 10 cross-device experiences

Microsoft has released a cool new video celebrating Your Phone, Fluent Design, and Windows 10 cross-device experiences. The minute-long clip…

Arif Bacchus · January 25, 2021 · 1 min read

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Developer gets Windows 10X running on an old Lumia 950 Windows Phone, and it works well

A lot of attention has been paid to Windows 10X as a Chrome OS alternative from Microsoft, but could it…

Arif Bacchus · January 25, 2021 · 2 min read

How-to

How to create a Flow in Microsoft Teams and why you might want to help you stay productive

How to create a Flow in Microsoft Teams With Power Automate and Microsoft Flow, you can create certain “Flows” to…

Arif Bacchus · January 25, 2021 · 5 min read

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Microsoft releases new 20H2 build for Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels

Following the launch of a new Dev Channel release earlier in the day, Microsoft has now also released a new…

Arif Bacchus · January 21, 2021 · 5 min read

How-to

How to use Immersive Reader in Microsoft Teams to learn and translate languages, or make messages easier to see and hear

How to use the Immersive Reader in Teams With the Immersive Reader in Microsoft Teams, you can Hear posts, chat…

Arif Bacchus · January 21, 2021 · 4 min read

Feature

Samsung HMD Odyssey+ Review: Windows Mixed Reality Is One Of Microsoft’s Most Underrated Products Ever – OnMSFT.com

Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled a newly rebranded initiative known as Windows Mixed Reality (which I shorthand as WMR.) With…

Arif Bacchus · January 20, 2021 · 7 min read

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Latest Microsoft Edge Dev build finishes the rollout of Vertical Tabs feature

Another Tuesday means another Microsoft Edge Dev build has arrived. Coming at build 89.0.767.0 this week, this latest release is…

Arif Bacchus · January 19, 2021 · 2 min read

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Hands-on with the newly redesigned Microsoft Teams public preview: A cleaner dark mode, and more

Since its introduction in 2017, Microsoft Teams hasn’t really seen a lot of visual or design changes. The app has…

Arif Bacchus · January 18, 2021 · 3 min read