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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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Articles by Arif Bacchus

How-to

Top 5 tips and tricks to get the most out of Teams on mobile

Top 5 tips and tricks to get the most out of Teams on mobile In our latest entry to the…

Arif Bacchus · January 11, 2021 · 4 min read

News

Microsoft Edge Dev is now optimized for Apple’s M1 Macs

Late yesterday Microsoft announced the release of the first major Edge Dev build for the year 2021. Coming in at…

Arif Bacchus · January 7, 2021 · 3 min read

Editorial

The new Microsoft Edge is missing a proper tablet mode, but does anyone care?

Microsoft’s new Chromium Edge browser has come a long way since the stable version was introduced to start last year.…

Arif Bacchus · January 7, 2021 · 4 min read

How-to

Cortana has a new home in Microsoft Teams on mobile — here’s how to use it

How to use Cortana in Microsoft Teams on iOS and Android Cortana can now be found in Microsoft Teams on…

Arif Bacchus · January 5, 2021 · 4 min read

News

Microsoft Launcher gets a quality update on the Surface Duo

Over the holidays, Microsoft Launcher on the Surface Duo was updated to version 6.2.201102.92686. This quality update brings some small…

Arif Bacchus · January 4, 2021 · 1 min read

Feature

Hands on with TextGrab for Windows 10: An app that will make your life easier

One of the most common things you might find yourself doing in Windows 10 every day is copying and pasting…

Arif Bacchus · January 4, 2021 · 3 min read

News

Old Windows Core “Polaris” build leaks, confirming that the ex-Microsoft project was a real thing

If you’re a close follower of Windows and Microsoft, you might remember the rumors of an operating system known as…

Arif Bacchus · January 4, 2021 · 1 min read

Deals

You can now get the Microsoft Surface Duo at the lowest price ever, just $740 at CDW

Microsoft’s Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone is one expensive venture, coming in at $1,400, but if you’ve been holding off…

Arif Bacchus · January 3, 2021 · 2 min read

News

Text Grab, a new Windows 10 app from Joe Finney, applies auto OCR to screen grabs, pastes it to your clipboard

Ever wanted to copy text from a photo or a video that you see, and then paste it into your…

Arif Bacchus · December 29, 2020 · 1 min read

News

In 2020, world stocked up on laptops at a level “not seen since the iPhone debuted,” says report

The global COVID-19 pandemic might have been hard on Microsoft, forcing the company to delay dual-screen PCs like Surface Neo,…

Arif Bacchus · December 28, 2020 · 2 min read