Microsoft has a trade in program for your older equipment. Which is good because I hear through the grapevine that a new Surface Laptop Studio is coming soon. Before I go spend $2000 on a new laptop I thought I’d see what my current laptop is worth. Turns out, not much. Looks like it’s only worth about $170. My old Xbox One X is worth $90. It’s a simple matter of entering in your machine details and then it gives you an estimated value.

The new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge has come a long way in the past month. A lot has been said about this new technology in the press and although I’ve stayed out of it until now, it isn’t because I don’t like the tech. There is just so much to say about this topic that I think it deserves a long post of it’s own (or maybe a YouTube video).

Enterprise Microsoft 365 users (E3 or E5) have a new feature to play with today. If you are an Insider running on either the Beta CHannel or the Current Channel (Preview) you can use Loop directly inside of Outlook for Windows! Scenarios for this include keeping track of a project status and to collect knowledge using a Q&A Loop component. I would use this to gather feedback from other teams to find out if something is either implemented or not.

Are you or someone you know looking to get into coding but not sure where to start? Microsoft has the answer for you. They are looking for beginners to participate in a hackathon this March. The idea is that there is a list of top Microsoft Graph scenarios that you may build or you can build one of your own with inspiration from this list. Whenever you have questions there are experts available to help guide you.

Well, with a release of 17.5 comes the preview of 17.6 of Visual Studio 2022. Yawn right? Well not if you are running VS 2022 on Project Volterra. This release of Visual Studio includes the .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) workload for Arm64. This is great news because now we can build MAUI apps using the Project Volterra. Other improvements include GitHUb issue searching from within the commit message box in VS.