Microsoft 365

While Google has lately tried to push Chromebooks as a cheaper way to enjoy cloud gaming, many owners of the Chrome OS devices use it for work, ...

It includes, among other features, access to Outlook without ads on mobile apps and its website, along with 100GB of OneDrive cloud space. The fact that it is making a special effort shows that Google knows many Chromebook users like using Microsoft 365, which could spur more purchases of Chromebooks by business users. However, Google recently announced it will be much easier to install and use those services for Chromebooks in the near future. The new system will move those Chromebook Files content into OneDrive when users launch Microsoft 365. It will be available first on the Chrome OS Dev and Beta channels before its official release, which will happen sometime in the months ahead. At the moment, it's not all that intuitive to install Microsoft 365 and OneDrive on Chromebooks.

Google revealed that it will integrate Microsoft 365 with Chrome OS later this year so that Chromebook users can more easily access the service.

And then any documents opened with the Microsoft 365 web app will move to OneDrive. To further help these users, we will have a new integration later this year on ChromeOS, making it easier to install the app and open files.” “Today, users of Microsoft 365 and OneDrive software can use the Progressive Web App for their Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or Excel needs.

Google's Chrome OS team is testing out a way to bring Microsoft 365 integration to Chromebooks later this year via its Beta Tester Community.

It remains to be seen if the Google team will add the automatic sync option to documents shared between the File system and OneDrive. Users will be offered a guided setup experience that takes them through the process of installing the Microsoft 365 web app and connecting Microsoft OneDrive to their Chromebook Files app. The new M365 integration in Chrome OS will tie the Microsoft OneDrive app to the Chrome OS File system as well as natively open the PWA versions of the Office apps instead Google Docs.

Office 365 Government Secret cloud from Microsoft brings secure and compliant productivity tools to help secure classified data.

In addition, the company says it works closely with government partners to develop a secure and trusted infrastructure to help migrate workloads to the cloud. We hope you'll take a couple minutes to complete a short survey that will aid us in discovering your organization's collaboration and meeting room needs for 2023. Federal Civilian, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and other government partners working within the Secret domain.

Sign language view is a new meeting experience in Microsoft Teams that helps signers—people who are deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH), interpreters, and others who ...

We’ve also removed more friction from the process of inserting photos from your Android phone into documents by adding a new Insert Picture from mobile device command to Word and PowerPoint for the web ( [now in Insiders](https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/insert-pictures-from-your-android-phone-in-word-and-powerpoint-for-the-web)). [Dark Mode in Word for the web](https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/dark-mode-now-in-word-for-the-web) is now generally available, so you can protect your eyesight no matter where you use Word (web, Windows or Mac). [Disability Answer Desk](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/disability-answer-desk) (DAD) can assist you via phone (800-936-5900) or chat. [1-click instant polls](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-forms-blog/easily-launch-an-instant-poll-in-teams-meetings-to-engage-with/ba-p/3657521) to that list. [Reactions](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-blog/microsoft-outlook-your-personal-organizer-helps-you-be-more/ba-p/3646388) to thumbs-up, laugh, heart, celebrate, or shed a tear in reaction to emails, rather than typing out and sending incremental messages. [In the Teams app for Android, you can now use live transcription for 1:1 calls](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-november-2022/ba-p/3686698), so you can follow along on the go or get a record of your discussion without having to divide your focus to take notes. And finally, if you store Teams meeting recordings or other videos in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business, you can now upload, download, delete, or replace the WebVTT caption files (Web Video Text Tracks) that accompany them. Using the new Accessibility Settings menu in Teams, you can now [enable captions to appear across all your Teams meetings](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/introducing-sign-language-view-for-teams-meetings/ba-p/3671257), cutting down on tedious pre-meeting setup tasks. Sign language view can be turned on for all meetings in the Settings menu or enabled on the fly within any meeting, and like pinning and captioning, this view is personal and will not affect others in the meeting. Designed by, for, and with members of the D/HH community, sign language view targets the common scenario where a D/HH participant is working with one or more interpreters in a meeting and wishes to keep one or two signers visible at all times. Sign language view is a new meeting experience in Microsoft Teams that helps signers—people who are deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH), interpreters, and others who use sign language—keep one another prioritized on center stage, in a consistent location, throughout every meeting. We have been busy across Microsoft 365, obsessing over new ways to help everyone communicate, create, and comprehend in the way that works best for them.

Chromebooks are designed to work with Google services first and foremost, but they also work well with everything from Linux apps to cloud gaming platforms.

- › Not everyone will be a fan of local files being copied to cloud storage just for viewing and editing, so hopefully the Docs feature remains an option, or Google could also work with apps like [Polaris Office](https://redirect.viglink.com/?key=e7eab128eb8d1c53e14db14f4c632447&u=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.infraware.office.link&cuid=xid:fr1675116987aab) to offer more non-cloud options. There aren’t many specific details yet, but it sounds like opening Microsoft Office files from local storage (like a USB drive or the Downloads folder) will display a prompt for setting up Microsoft 365 on your Chromebook.

Microsoft has given some detail on the causes of the recent cloud outage that affected customers using its services.

The command that caused the issue has different behaviors on different network devices, and the command had not been vetted using our full qualification process on the router on which it was executed." It's also now requiring all command execution on the networks devices to follow safe change guidelines. Prior to the outage, Microsoft had warned customers that a planned update might cause latency or timeouts from 07:05 UTC on Wednesday when customers attempted to connect to Azure resources in Public Azure regions, Microsoft 365, and Power BI. Microsoft's monitoring systems detected domain name service (DNS) and WAN issues at 07:12 UTC. "As part of a planned change to update the IP address on a WAN router, a command given to the router caused it to send messages to all other routers in the WAN, which resulted in all of them recomputing their adjacency and forwarding tables. The outage also affected Azure Government cloud services that were dependent on Azure public cloud, according to Microsoft.

Serious outage affected Microsoft Teams, Outlook and more.

The company is also working on adding a new requirement for all command execution on its devices to follow safe change guidelines. The command that caused the issue has different behaviors on different network devices, and the command had not been vetted using our full qualification process on the router on which it was executed." > "As part of a planned change to update the IP address on a WAN router, a command given to the router caused it to send messages to all other routers in the WAN, which resulted in all of them recomputing their adjacency and forwarding tables.

Google wants to make it easier for Chromebook users to download the Office Progressive Web App and establish more convenient access to the Chromebook Files ...

Files will be moved to Microsoft OneDrive when opening in the Microsoft 365 app.” According to Google, the latter will be achieved through a better connection between the Chromebook Files app and OneDrive. Specifically, Google wants to make it easier for Chromebook users to download the Office [Progressive Web App](https://mspoweruser.com/?s=Progressive+Web+App&tcb_sf_post_type%5B%5D=post) and establish more convenient access to the Chromebook Files app using OneDrive.

In a postmortem, Microsoft said that changes made to its WAN had hit connectivity between clients and Azure, across regions and cross-premises via ExpressRoute.

However, Microsoft said the initial problem with the WAN meant automated systems for maintaining its health were paused. This recovery was completed at 12:43 UTC," the postmortem added. During this re-computation process, the routers were unable to correctly forward packets traversing them. "The command that caused the issue has different behaviors on different network devices, and the command had not been vetted using our full qualification process on the router on which it was executed." "As part of a planned change to update the IP address on a WAN router, a command given to the router caused it to send messages to all other routers in the WAN, which resulted in all of them recomputing their adjacency and forwarding tables. The global outage of Microsoft 365 services that last week prevented some users from accessing resources for more than half a working day was down to a packet bottleneck caused by a router IP address change.

Unstable border-gateway routing tables led to high packet loss, leaving Microsoft customers unable to reach Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and other services ...

“Given the rapidity of these changes in the routing table, we think that some of this was caused by automated action on the Microsoft side,” Sanjta said. The command that caused the issue has different behaviors on different network devices, and the command had not been vetted using our full qualification process on the router on which it was executed.” And if they don't have enough time to react to the influx of large amounts of traffic, obviously, what you're going to see is overutilization of certain interfaces, ultimately resulting in drops.” More importantly, the routing changes caused significant packet loss, leaving customers unable to reach Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and other applications. “As a result, we can see that a lot of routers were executing best path selection algorithm, which is not really a cheap operation from a power-consumption perspective.” Border gateway protocol (BGP) tells Internet traffic what route to take, and the BGP best-path selection algorithm determines the optimal routes to use for traffic forwarding.