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What you need to know Immersive Reader is on the way to Microsoft Teams on iOS and Android. The feature will let you hear posts out loud in the mobile apps. Immersive Reader is already available for the Teams desktop apps and the web. The mobile apps of Microsoft Teams will soon gain the Immersive Reader feature thats currently available on the Teams desktop apps and the web. The feature allows people to listen to posts and messages within the Teams app on iOS and Android. The feature appears o...

If you are using the new version of Microsoft Edge, there is a new feature that you may really like, called the Immersive Reader. Microsoft’s Teams collaboration platform has become something of a memory hog, meaning Windows 10 users need at least 16GB of RAM to keep things running smoothly. Enter reading mode using Immersive Reader To enter reading mode, go to the website you want to read in Microsoft Edge and select Enter Immersive Reader in the address bar or use the keyboard shortcut F...

Stories Navigation Menu Students have a new, less stressful way to improve their reading — and it’s easier for teachers, too By Susanna Ray Andres Villegas is a serious, quiet 11-year-old who has loved to read since he was 4 — especially Harry Potter and science fiction. But whenever he was asked to read aloud, his palms would get sweaty and he’d skip or mispronounce words, even ones he knew. Then his fifth-grade teacher found a new prog...

Microsoft details more education features coming through August May 4, 2021 14:12 EDT with 2 comments Today is Teacher Appreciation Day, and in celebration of it, Microsoft has announced an array of education-focused features, starting with the introduction of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. Theres a bit more being announced today, though, with features covering different aspects of learning. In a separate blog post, Microsoft has highlighted a num...

Microsoft announces Reading Progress for Teams for education May 4, 2021 10:00 EDT with 2 comments Microsoft Teams offers a wide range of tools for educators and students already, and Microsoft today announced another major new feature specifically aimed at younger children, called Reading Progress. As you can probably infer from the name, the purpose of the feature is to help children with their learning process when it comes to reading and pronunciation, a skill th...

Accessible technology can unlock opportunities in every part of society, the firm believes

April 28th, 2021 Microsoft Big Techs efforts to improve accessibility are a work in progress. Microsoft, which has been around a lot longer than its counterparts, has been leveraging that experience in its bid to improve inclusivity across its products and workforce. In 2020, it offered insights into how its managed accessibility in the past, along with its first-ever report on disability representation. Now, its using some of that wisdom to plan for the next five years. Today, Microsoft has an...

Final Edge Dev build based on Chromium 91 includes new printing options and more Apr 22, 2021 06:22 EDT with 2 comments Though it came a little later than it usually does, Microsoft has released its weekly build of the Edge browser to Insiders running the Dev channel version of the browser. This weeks update brings the version number to 91.0.864.1, and as promised last week, its likely the last build based on Chromium 91 in the Dev channel. Edge 91 should move to the...

An enhanced version of ESO for next-gen (now current-gen) consoles, a smattering of optional Windows updates, and some new features for Teams all showed up in the news this week. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of March 28 – April 3. ESO enhanced on console We begin the column with some gaming news, as ZeniMax Online has announced that a next-gen variant of The update will allow folks to run the game at 60FPS, with increased dr...

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