The latest rotten deeds of Microsoft may be found below, mixed within positive Linux and Open Source news.
Microsoft Teams Is Getting Worse for Free Users
The company has announced that the free version will no longer be able to sync with Google Calendar. Additionally, Microsoft is doing away with location sharing, which displayed your live location to folks in your contact list. The company is also nixing the Safe feature, which allowed you to store sensitive information like banking information and personally identifiable data in Teams and access it across mobile devices. Tasks, which shared to-do items with your contacts and work groups, is getting the ax as well. Mini Teams, the feature that placed a compact chat window directly on the desktop, is being discontinued as well.
Microsoft: Word deletes some documents instead of saving them
Microsoft warned users of a new known issue that may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them. As the company explains, this bug only impacts users of Word for Microsoft 365 version 2409, build 18025.20104. Furthermore, this problem only arises when users close Word after editing and are prompted to save. After saving their changes this way, the file may disappear.