Microsoft has renewed its partnership with Samsung to make the Korean company the official TV partner for its Xbox Series X consoles in the US and Canada. If you got your hands on Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console, the company is now recommending Samsung Neo QLED and QLED TVs to get the most of its new hardware.

The relationship between Xbox and Samsung started back in 2017 with the release of the Xbox One X, when Microsoft recommended Samsung QLED TVs for the best 4K HDR gaming experience. It’s true that Samsung’s quantum dot technology remains a great alternative to the more expensive OLED screens from LG and other TV manufacturers, even though QLED TVs still use LED-backlit panels that can’t provide the same perfect blacks as OLED screens.

Still, there’s a lot to like about Samsung’s Neo QLED and QLED TVs, which support HDMI 2.1 features including 4K gameplay at 120FPS with a low 5.8ms response time. Some of Samsung’s new QLED TVs also come with Variable Refresh Rate support in the form of AMD Freesync Premium Pro, allowing these TVs to reduce stutter and tearing by adjusting their refresh rate in real-time to match what the console can output. But that’s not all.

“Samsung’s 2021 Neo QLED and QLED line-up features the new and intuitive Game Bar in Game Mode, allowing players to easily adjust the screen’s aspect ratio, check input lag, connect wireless headsets, and more. Game Mode also optimizes gameplay with its next-gen Samsung Neo Quantum Processor, utilizing AI based deep-learning to elevate your gaming experience,” added Chris Munson, Sr. Xbox Global Brand Partnerships Lead.

It will be interesting to see how Microsoft’s partnership with Samsung will evolve in the coming weeks. Not so long ago, Xbox head Phil Spencer said that he wanted to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to other platforms including Smart TVs, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the cloud gaming service comes first to Samsung’s new Neo QLED and QLED screens.

This morning, Microsoft spent most of the Ignite 2021 keynote unveiling Microsoft Mesh, the new Virtual Reality platform taking HoloLens and virtual reality to a whole new level. Now, after the announcements are over, Microsoft has released a set of new sessions at Ignite, all scheduled for today, Tuesday March 2nd.

The hidden Microsoft Mesh sessions are now available on the agenda for #MSIgnite! pic.twitter.com/tpwRQMwDwN

— Thomas Lewis (@TommyLee) March 2, 2021

Here are the sessions:

• An Introduction to Microsoft Mesh
• Ask the Experts: Microsoft Mesh
• Introducing Microsoft Mesh | New platform to deliver collaborative mixed reality experiences

If you’re interested in learning more about Microsoft Mesh, you can check these sessions out, and you can learn more in this blog post Microsoft Mesh – A Technical Overview

Microsoft has been building tight integrations between platforms on their road to providing a comprehensive business solution. Teams is at the core of collaboration and it provides first class integration with most Microsoft 365 offerings. Now that goodness is coming to Microsoft Dynamics 365. There are huge productivity and collaborative improvements coming to many areas of the platform.

Sales teams now have the ability to track career movements using LinkedIn Sales navigator as well as share sales records with Microsoft Teams without leaving Dynamics 365 Sales.

Customer service is also getting nod with access to Teams chat directly from Dynamics 365 Marketing. This means users don’t have to leave the platform keeping them in their flow as they collaborate with stakeholders and members of their team providing a smooth and seamless experience.

Now users will also be able to self service and interact with Dynamics 365 Human Resources directly from Teams. This feature means users will be able to take care of many Human Resource related questions on their own freeing valuable time for the Human Resources team and managers.

Another exciting feature coming to the platform is Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management, this new configurable artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software-as-a-service (SaaS) application is designed to help customers scale their order management process maintaining compatibility with legacy enterprise resource planning systems. A feature worth mentioning is the ability for businesses to adjust and change order paths based on recommendations given by the system in order to achieve optimal efficiencies for stock levels and cash flow.

Microsoft Ignite is typically an event for IT professionals and developers, and we usually don’t hear about the latest Windows 10 innovations during the annual extravaganza. But that doesn’t mean Windows isn’t mentioned at all, though, as our list of most interesting sessions pointed to.

Indeed, even though Microsoft is apparently planning a dedicated Windows press event soon, (according to Tom Warren) there are still some Windows-themed things at Ignite 2021 you might not want to miss. Here’s a look!

A Windows fireside chat with Panos Panay and Roanne Sones: Tuesday, March 2 – 11:30 AM PST

First up, there’s the biggest session of them all. This one features Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay. He’ll be sitting down with Platform CVP Roanne Sones, and will talk about the recent Windows innovations for commercial customers and the IT community. It’s unlikely that he’ll mention Windows 10X, or Sun Valley, but since 10X is catered for commercial and education users, you might never know. This one is worth keeping an eye on!

Engineer to engineer: Let’s talk Windows: Wednesday, March 3 – 4 PM PT

Second on the list is this breakout session dedicated to the engineering behind Windows 10. This session is set to feature Windows CVP Aidan Marcuss. Along with the security and endpoint management engineering team, Marcuss is apparently going to chat about “shiny new things that will help prepare commercial organizations for the future and ensure that IT receives the hero’s welcome it deserves.” Microsoft’s Ramya Chitrakar, David Weston, Gabe Frost will also make appearances, too.

This session also has a live Q&A, so you might not want to miss it if you’re an IT folk. Keep in mind that it’s also available on-demand as a replay on Thursday, March 4 at 1:30 AM PT, if you’re in other parts of the world and can’t make it for the first.

Ask the Experts: Windows & Devices: Wednesday, March 3, 5 PM PT & 11:30 PM PT

Final on the list is this ask the experts session. Set for Wednesday, this session will have members of the Windows engineering team, as well as the Microsoft Endpoint Manager team. Microsoft is also promising members of the Surface, Microsoft Edge team to appear, too. It’s a great chance to network and meet the folks who work on Windows!

Other sessions

As we covered before, there are tons of other sessions that you can find at Ignite which relate to consumer products like Windows. One of them is an ask the experts session on Edge, set for Tuesday, March 2 at 11:30 PM PT. Another is a session about Surface and security, and, the final one relates to the top reasons why customers love Edge. You won’t want to miss a single minute of the news coming out of Microsoft Ignite, so be sure to stay tuned to OnMSFT for more all week long!

Microsoft has launched a new hardware and software platform called Azure Percept in the public preview today. The latest offering makes it easier for customers to develop and implement AI solutions for scenarios such as anomaly detections, object detection, shelf analytics, and more.

Azure Percept is an entire platform that aims to simplify the ways customers can enable AI capabilities at the edge. It seamlessly integrates with other Azure services, including Azure Machine Learning, Azure Live Video Analytics, Azure Cognitive Services, and more to provide vision and audio detailed insights to customers in real-time.

According to Microsoft, Azure Percept offers useful features like pre-built AI models and solution management for developing prototypes and an end-to-end edge AI platform. It also helps to protect sensitive and high-value assets of an edge AI solution with built-in security measures.

“We’ve started with the two most common AI workloads, vision and voice [and] sight and sound, and we’ve given out that blueprint so that manufacturers can take the basics of what we’ve started,” Microsoft VP Roanne Sones said today. “But they can envision it in any kind of responsible form factor to cover a pattern of the world.”

For starters, the Azure Percept platform comes with a couple of additional offerings, including a hardware development kit, Azure Percept Audio, and Azure Percept Studio. You can find more details about these tools below:

• Azure Percept DK: A pilot-ready development kit with a carrier board, mounting tools, and Azure Percept Vision, a camera-enabled system on module (SoM) for rapid scenario-based customization.
• Azure Percept Audio: A voice-enabled system on module (SoM) with a 4-mic linear array to apply custom commands, far field speech and anomaly detection.
• Azure Percept Studio: A new experience that guides customers through the entire AI lifecycle, including developing, training and deploying proof-of-concept ideas.

Microsoft says that it is also collaborating with some third-party “silicon and equipment manufacturers” to develop an entire ecosystem of solutions that will run on the Azure Percept platform. In addition, the Azure Percept team is also working with select customers to gather some early feedback.

If you’re interested to learn more about the Azure Percept platform, be sure to check out the official blog post, and pricing details are available on this page.

As you might remember, Microsoft Ignite 2020 was split into two separate events: Part 1 took place in late September, and the follow up will kick off this morning. The all-digital event will last through March 4, and there will be plenty of news for IT Pros, developers, data professionals, and decision makers. The Day 1 introducing keynote will kick off at 8:30 AM PT and will feature Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman.

As Microsoft’s focused has shifted to the cloud in recent years, so has, for the most part, the content of the conference. Azure is expected take center stage, though there should also be news about Microsoft 365 and business applications such as Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Join us and thousands of others across the globe get the latest news about Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows and beyond.

The Ignite 2021 introducing keynote will be Microsoft’s first keynote experience designed for HoloLens devices and other VR headsets. If you have a Windows Mixed Reality headset or or an HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Oculus Quest, you can watch the keynote in Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform. We invite you to visit this page to download what you need to get ready for the VR experience.

After the keynote is over, will be followed at 9:45 AM by another interesting session with CVP of Microsoft 365 Jared Spataro titled “The Hybrid workplace.” You can find the full agenda for the conference on this page, make sure to register so that you can create your personalized agenda for the next 3 days of Ignite 2021. You can check out our recommendations for some of the more interesting sessions, too.

At Ignite 2021, Microsoft is promoting the Zero Trust security mindset. With recent security breaches in mind, Microsoft believes the Zero Trust security mindset helps address and encompass “all types of threats, both outside in and inside out,” and is the “right approach is to address security, compliance, identity, and device management as an interdependent whole.”

For those who aren’t familiar with Microsoft’s terminology, the Zero Trust security news means that Microsoft is basically pushing four security innovations across what it is calling “identity, security, compliance, and skilling.”

To get there, Microsoft says the first step is to start with a cloud identity foundation, which includes strong authentication, protecting user credentials, and devices that are essential. Some of these things are coming to Azure Active Directory, as seen below.

• Passwordless authentication, which eliminates one of the weakest links in security today, is now generally available for cloud and hybrid environments. Now you can create end-to-end experiences for all employees, so they no longer need passwords to sign in to the network
• Passwordless authentication, which eliminates one of the weakest links in security today, is now generally available for cloud and hybrid environments. Now you can create end-to-end experiences for all employees, so they no longer need passwords to sign in to the network
• Azure AD verifiable credentials is entering public preview in just a few weeks. Verifiable
  credentials let organizations confirm information—like their education or professional
  certifications someone provides—without collecting and storing their personal data.

As for the second security aspect, there are a bunch of improvements to Microsoft’s products coming here, too. Microsoft believes that they are taking a “holistic approach” to security, unlike other vendors which face “time-consuming challenge” to integrate both SIEM tools and endpoint or email protection. Their solutions are built from the ground up, with these new advancements, as seen below.

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Office 365 customers can now investigate and remediate threats from the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
• Incidents, schema, and user experiences are now common between Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Sentinel.
• New Threat Analytics provides a set of reports from expert Microsoft security
  researchers that help you understand, prevent and mitigate active threats.
• Secured-core is coming to Windows Server and edge devices to help minimize risk from
  firmware vulnerabilities and advanced malware in IoT and hybrid cloud environments.

When it comes to the third aspect, Microsoft is also working on compliance protections, too. This relates to managing risks related to data, as well as third parties, too. This is why Microsoft is introducing the following. Full details are in this blog post.

• Co-authoring of documents protected with Microsoft Information Protection
• Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management Analytics, which can identify potential insider risk activity within an organization and help inform policy configurations
• Microsoft 365 now offers data loss prevention (DLP) for Chrome browsers and on-premises server-based environments such as file shares and SharePoint Server.
• Azure Purview is integrated with Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to apply the same sensitivity labels defined in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center to data residing in other clouds or on premises

The approach ends with the final aspect of skilling. This is one of the most simple, to help keep people up to date with the latest security issues, with learning resources. Microsoft is introducing four new security, compliance, and identity certifications tailored to specific roles and needs, regardless of where someone can be in their skilling journey. This includes the Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification,  Information Protection Administrator Associate certification, Security Operations Analyst Associate certification, as well as the Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification. More information about today’s news is available here.

Microsoft is kicking off its virtual Ignite 2021 conference today, and as you would expect, there’s a lot that’s new. The company is introducing a whole bunch of new capabilities and features for Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. Here’s a look at everything you need to know.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has unveiled a slew of updates for its Teams collaboration platform, and the list includes new employee experiences, meetings enhancements, and a lot more. The first set of capabilities introduces some new tools for presenters to improve meetings in the remote work era. With the general availability of PowerPoint Live in Teams, presenters will now be able to see notes, slides, meeting chat, and participants all in a single view. Microsoft Teams meetings feature is launching a new Presenter mode and Dynamic view later this month. (Update #1: The Presenter mode will begin rolling out later this month, and the new Dynamic view will become generally available in April (via Microsoft)).

The collaboration service is picking up new Webinar features, and organizers will now be able to create interactive webinars for up to 1,000 attendees. The Teams app is also introducing view-only broadcast support for up to 20,000 attendees, and this limit will be in place through June 30, 2021. (Update #2: The 20,000-person broadcasts limit will be in place through the end of this year).

Coming to Teams later this year is a new export webinar contacts feature, which will enable users to export their webinar contacts directly into Dynamics 365 Marketing. In addition, the ability to deliver webinars as part of Dynamics 365 Marketing campaigns is now generally available for everyone.

Finally, the app is introducing Teams Connect in private preview, and some existing features like Microsoft Viva modules are rolling out more broadly. These features and other highlights, including Microsoft Teams Rooms as well as new security and compliance-related updates for Teams, can be seen in our separate post.

Microsoft Outlook

Next up, Microsoft announced a couple of new Outlook features to make it easier for users to manage their schedule tasks, and calendars. Now, with the calendar board view in Outlook on the web, users will be able to better organize and manage files, calendars, to-do lists, reminders.

The Outlook mobile apps are also adding some notable improvements for business customers. With a new Suggested times feature, the app will now use AI to automatically determine the availability of participants for meetings. This capability will begin rolling out later this month.

Security, Compliance, and Identity features

There are several important announcements with regards to all Microsoft 365 services to promote the Zero Trust security mindset across the board. Some major highlights are listed below:

• The ability to co-author documents protected with Microsoft Information Protection
  (MIP) is now available in preview.
• New Threat Analytics service is available in public preview for Microsoft 365 Defender.
• Passwordless authentication in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is now generally available for employees.
• Microsoft 365 is introducing data loss prevention (DLP) for Chrome browsers and on-premises server-based environments in preview.

Microsoft Universal Print, and other updates

To end the recap, we’ll look at some updates for Microsoft Universal Print and the other Microsoft 365 services. The software giant launched a new Microsoft 365 cloud print solution, Universal Print, in public preview last year. The subscription-based service that enables organizations to centralize print management through the Universal Print portal is now generally available.

Lastly, Microsoft is expanding the availability to Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo to Teams. Coming in Spring, this update will let organizations control the storage location of their Teams data in specific data centers.

Microsoft will kick off its second Ignite 2021 conference this morning, with lots of news about Azure, business applications, and Microsoft 365 apps. As you can expect, the company has some updates for Microsoft Teams, an app that has been enjoying some unprecedented momentum with the rise of remote work since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Microsoft Teams has become a great Zoom alternative with an increasing number of tools to help presenters keep participants more engaged. The app can now be used to create interactive webinars for up to 1,000 attendees, and it will support view-only webinars with up to 20,000 attendees later this month. PowerPoint Live is also generally available in Teams, combining slides, notes, and meeting chat in a single view.

The new Dynamic view for Teams meetings is also coming next month, and it should make video conferences even more engaging for attendees by dynamically adjusting the elements of your meeting, as seen below. A new Presenter mode is also coming soon and will allow meeting organizers to use three different modes to display their content next to their video feed.

Microsoft Teams will also get improved security with invite-only meetings controls, end-to-end encryption for 1:1 calls, and multi-geo support for Teams data. Microsoft will also be expanding Teams later this year with Microsoft Teams Connect, which will allow companies to create shared channels with external partners. Shared channels are currently in private preview and will be available later this year.

Microsoft also announced new features for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the integrated meeting room solutions for business customers. These devices now support the new Together Mode and large gallery view for meetings, allowing meeting participants to seamlessly see all meeting content. The software giant also announced today that intelligent speakers that use AI to identify speakers and apply their name and profile to live meeting transcripts will be available in private preview later this year.

In case you missed it last month, Microsoft is building a new employee experience platform in Teams named Microsoft Viva. Viva Insights was the first Viva module to launch in public preview last month, along with the Viva Topics module available as an add-on to Microsoft 365 commercial plans. Viva Connections, a curated portal providing access to relevant news, conversations, and other resources from SharePoint and Yammer will be generally available on the desktop later this month, with a mobile experience to follow this summer. The Viva Learning module will also enter public preview in April.

To learn more about these new Microsoft Teams features, we invite you to check out Microsoft’s Modern Work and Teams featured sessions. Jared Spataro, CVP of Modern Work at Microsoft will present a session titled “The Hybrid workplace” today, and Nicole Herskowitz, General Manager, Microsoft Teams Marketing will follow up with “The Latest Innovations with Microsoft Teams” tomorrow.

Microsoft announced this morning some important updates for Azure Arc, the company’s new management tool for hybrid cloud application infrastructures. First of all, the Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes, which has been in preview since last year, has finally become generally available.

“We are excited to see Microsoft bringing Azure Arc to manage cloud native applications on any infrastructure. With Azure Arc, we can easily deploy our applications across the cloud and on-premises to meet regulatory and compliance requirements while ensuring consistent management and governance, delivering a huge benefit to our business,” Martin Sciarrillo, Multi-Cloud Expansion Lead, EY Technology said today.

The service allows customers to easily manage and control their Kubernetes clusters from Azure across data centers, Azure Stack Hub, and multi-cloud environments. It offers some essential Azure features to customers, including Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and Azure Resource Graph. Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes is currently supported in the East US and West Europe Azure regions.

Next up, the software gaint has announced that Azure Arc-enabled machine learning is now available in public preview. The latest addition will drive innovation in machine learning by enabling data scientists to develop new machine learning models, deploy and manage them without learning Kubernetes.

It should help to meet security and compliance requirements, as well as reduce network latency and data movement simultaneously. To get started, customers can sign up here to opt into the public preview today and check out this page for more details.

Lastly, Microsoft has built a new hybrid datacenter with Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc for large enterprises or highly regulated industries. It has also partnered with some popular Kubernetes platforms in order to test and verify their implementations with its Azure Arc service. The list includes Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), and more.

Microsoft’s annual Ignite 2021 conference is underway, and there’s a lot of Azure and cloud news coming out of the event. The biggest of them all is the announcement that Microsoft is opening a new datacenter region in northern China. Of course, there are also new tools for Azure Data and AI, too.

First off, there’s the news about the new datacenter region. Despite strict laws set forth by the Chinese government, Microsoft has managed to establish another new datacenter region in northern China. Details are scarce, but the company says that the region will enable more Chinese customers to experience Azure and the rest of Microsoft 365. This brings their total Azure regions in China up to five, in addition to China East, China East 2, China North, and China North 2.

Now, for the rest of the stuff. There are some new improvements for Azure Data. These are all designed to ease customer deployments, improve reliability, as well as cross-platform capabilities. The big one here is the launch of Azure Synapse Pathway, which will allow Microsoft’s customers to simplify and accelerate migrating legacy cloud data warehouse to Azure Synapse Analytics. Other changes announced are below.

• Azure Stream Analytics, now generally available, has been updated
  to provide support for single tenant dedicated clusters
• Multiple updates are available for Azure Purview, a unified data governance
  service that facilitates the mapping and control of organizational data
  no matter where it resides
• Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers of Azure Cache for Redis are now
  generally available. The Enterprise tiers of Azure Cache for Redis
  expand upon existing product capabilities by adding powerful features such
  as real-time search and time-series capabilities.
• Four new updates for Azure Cosmos DB (Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB, Mongo v4.0 server support in Azure Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB, Azure Cosmos DB Continuous Backup and Point-in-Time, and Cosmos DB role-based access control (RBAC)
• Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, a new semimanaged service
  offering, is now available in preview. THis helps remove the need for database administrators and developers to manage infrastructure or manage
  and update their version of Cassandra.

Finally, we end with Azure AI. The new features for Azure AI are, of course, catered for developers. Microsoft is introducing a new semantic search capability in Azure Cognitive Search. They believe this new search capability should deliver results based on user intent as opposed to a keyword-based searced used by others in the industry. Also introduced is a new SharePoint connector for Azure Cognitive Search, to ingest and explore SharePoint content from within the service. The list below will cover some other changes.

• Form Recognizer, an Azure Cognitive Service, is introducing support for
  pre-built identification documents (IDs) and invoice extraction
• Data extraction from invoices will further help customers extract text,
  key-value pairs and tables from documents
• Role-based access control (RBAC) is now generally available in Azure Machine LEarning
• There’s a new integration with Azure Synapse Analytics in preview for large-scale interactive data preparation tasks
• Azure Percept, a family of devices and services, is now available in preview.
• Azure Arc now supports Azure Machine Learning

There’s still a lot of news coming out of Microsoft Ignite. We remind you to stay tuned to OnMSFT all week long for the biggest news coming out of the annual IT and developer extravaganza. We’ll be watching right alongside you!

At Ignite 2021, Microsoft is announcing some updates for Power Platform. The updates cover the entire range of products, with new features coming to help IT admins, as well as businesses.

We’ll be starting first with the introduction of Microsoft Power Fx. This is the first low-code programming language, according to Microsoft, with origins coming from Excel. It’s set to be available on GitHub, too, with the plans of Microsoft using it as the consistent language across the Power Platform. Here’s how Microsoft describes it

Power Fx leverages the knowledge of Excel users to reduce barriers for
citizen developers getting started with low-code development. Professional
developers can accelerate their app development with the simplicity of
formulas and code using their favorite professional developer tools.

Next up, there are some new AI capabilities for Power Virtual Agents. It’s now in preview, with the goal of building smart chatbots. Two features include Topic overlap detection, which can help find overlaps between topics to avoid clarifying questions, as well as topic suggestions from chat transcripts. The second feature is able to analyze chat transcripts from previous conversations to suggest new topics. Here’s a deeper explanation.

These new AI-infused features enable chatbots to engage more naturally
and more accurately and are designed to help organizations and citizen
developers feel more confident about addressing customer and employee
needs with chatbots at scale.

Third on the list is an important update for Power BI premium. Microsoft says there are lots of new under the hood improvements for performance, stability, and security. Known as “Premium Gen 2” the updates are catered for flexibility to license per user or per capacity, a 16x performance boost with Microsoft managed architecture, the ability to autoscale to automatically add capacity when needed, and Consistent and reliable cost management with utilization metrics. Here’s Microsoft’s description.

For enterprises and IT admins, the new Power BI Premium offers major improvements in governance and scale with features like Microsoft-owned resource management, utilization
metrics, autoscale and integrated security

The final updates for Power Platform cover Power Automate Desktop as well as e a new Power Platform admin center and capabilities. With Power Automate Desktop, you’ll be able to use it on Windows 10 for no additional cost. As for the admin center and capabilities, Microsoft says these are centered around data loss prevention and new controls for reporting and security standards.

It’s taken a while but Twitter has finally begun to integrate their Fleets feature into the Windows 10 app and Twitter website. While Fleets, Twitter’s solution to Instagram’s Stories, still aren’t visible across the top of the Windows 10 Twitter app and site like they are on iOS and Android, they have begun to be curiously integrated into direct messages with a small group of users.

Also of note is the rollout of Twitter’s new Newsletters feature which can now be accessed by everyone via the More button within the left menu. Newsletters launched very recently on the Twitter social network in direct response to email newsletter services such as Substack which have taken off in a huge way over the past year or so.

Twitter’s Newsletters, as its name implies, lets users create their own newsletters which they can send to followers. The feature also offers some monetization tools which creators can use to earn additional income from their content and runs under the new label, Revue.

In addition to the two above feature launches, a number of minor fixes and changes have also been made to the Twitter experience both on web and in the Windows 10 app over the past month or so.

Here’s the official list of all of the changes:

New

• Fleets: We’re beginning to support Fleets on Twitter.com! We’ll be starting with an experiment enabling consumption of Fleets within DMs. Keep an eye out for additional functionality as it becomes available.
• Newsletters: Look for the new Newsletters menu item under the More button to discover other ways of reaching your audience through Revue! Learn more here.

Updated

• DMs: We will now properly add interstitials to Tweets shared in DMs which have been marked as sensitive content.
• Hover Labels: We’ve continued rolling out hover labels to more components! Look for them on buttons, sliders, Tweet actions, lists, and more.
• Night Mode: We’ve made some improvements to dark mode, and some users might have been reverted to the default light theme due to an inconsistent state. You can update your Display setting to correct this inconsistency. The default dark mode is now Lights Out, and you can still switch back to Dim in your settings.

Fixed

• Accessibility: J and K keyboard navigation on timelines will now focus visible items instead of content you’ve scrolled away from. We’ve also made improvements to maintaining your position and focus when you’ve navigated away from a timeline and then return.
• Accessibility: Text within misinformation nudges will now be correctly read out by screen readers.
• Browser: Fixed an issue where Firefox on iOS was showing as an unsupported browser.
• DMs: Profile bio text will now be properly centered within DM conversations.
• DMs: Deleting conversations in your low quality inbox will no longer jump you into your primary inbox.
• DMs: Removed unnecessary scrollbars in the DM Reaction summary popover.
• DM Drawer: Fixed layout and legibility issues with certain tombstones within the DM drawer.
• Home Timeline: Resolved issues with the Home button and period keyboard shortcut not taking you to the top of the home timeline.
• Lists: Corrected discrepancies in verbiage when viewing List membership.
• Tabs: Fixed an issue where you were unable to scroll through all tabs when using right-to-left languages.
• Timelines: Resolved problems with popover menus resetting scroll positions in odd ways.
• Timelines: Fixed instances of the Retry button failing to properly retry requests on Explore and Topics timelines.
• Tweets: Clicking “View” on a Quote Tweet that has an interstitial will now reveal the quoted Tweet inline instead of taking you to the conversation screen.
• Video: Corrected instances where the video player volume slider exceeded the height of the player, and would disappear during mouse over.

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