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Your Microsoft Weekly Recap, Editorial: Microsoft 365 is my favorite product, and more

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Steven Parker
January 01, 2023

Happy New Year to all! We hope you are having a fun time, meanwhile here's a recap of our most recent news from our new home on Beehiiv, as well as the Microsoft Weekly, we hope you take a look! Have a good one! Cheers, Steve.

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 95, tabs in Notepad, and Teams updates

Check out our final edition of Microsoft Weekly for 2022, covering a quieter period with some nostalgia, an interesting UI change for Notepad, and some updates to first- and third-party Windows apps.

Security researcher bags $107K bounty for hacking Google Home to spy on you

A security researcher recently discovered serious vulnerabilities in Google Home smart speakers that could allow an attacker to install a "backdoor" account on the device and gain remote access.

Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on Neowin in 2022

With 2022 over, it is time to look back at the most popular stories published on Neowin during the year. Windows 11 updates, Skynet, the Y2K22 bug, browser efficiency tests, and more in this recap.

Software updates

Weekend PC Game Deals: Winter sales reach finale as freebies continue

This weekend's PC game deals return for the final time in 2022 with another round of holiday sale promotions from all over the internet, and there are still more freebies to claim too.

Games with Gold: Iris Fall is now free to claim on Xbox

The first Games with Gold promotion of 2023 has arrived, with Microsoft offering the monochrome puzzle adventure game Iris fall as a bonus game to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate holders.

Windows 11 22H2 Patch Tuesday apparently causing freezing issues on AMD Ryzen PCs

The final Patch Tuesday of 2022 on Windows 11 22H2 (KB5021255) is apparently causing issues on AMD Ryzen systems per some user reports. These users are reporting random 10-20 second freezes.

From the Forums

Clean Install or Not Clean Install Windows 11 On Supported Desktop

Hello All My Last System clean install was Christmas 2020 when i got my Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB M.2 NvMe drive, Would it be a waste of TIme or a good thing to do prior to installing any new PC Games at Christmas or Software? I do have System image backup, but my 8TB drive ran out of space, so ...

TWIRL 98: SpaceX to orbit rival company's internet-beaming satellites

This week, SpaceX will perform two launches, a rideshare mission and the orbiting of 40 OneWeb satellites. Interestingly, the latter satellites are competitors of SpaceX's Starlink.

Microsoft 365 is my favorite Microsoft product

I've been a Microsoft 365 subscriber for the past few years and I've begun to realize that it's easily my favorite Microsoft product. Find out why and whether it could be worth your money too!

This week's deals

Unpublished deals

How to make the Taskbar in Windows 11 bigger or smaller in size

If you find the Taskbar arrangement in Windows 11 awful or if its icons appear so small that they go virtually unnoticed, try adjusting its size. It will make the icons more clearly visible. See how!

How to log a device off of Facebook

Sometimes you might use someone else's device to look at your Facebook account and forget to sign out. Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to learn how to log off from another device.