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The future of PR lies in the fusion of technological expertise and creative human insight, as professionals in communications navigate the growing impact of AI and beyond, opines Karan Bhandari of Weber Shandwick.

The world's most-recognizable default wallpaper is back, in sweater form.

Aptos is Microsoft's new default font for Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel, replacing Calibri after 15 years.

The new Aptos font is now rolling out to Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel apps as the new default font, which was designed to be used with higher resolution displays.

Microsoft has been using Calibri as the default font across Office applications and services since 2007, replacing Times New Roman and Arial. Now there’s a new default font coming to a Word document near you: Aptos.

The new improvements in the latest preview 0.2 version of the Dev Home app include the dashboard showing a loading progress ring while loading widgets and that widgets now work on Arm64 devices.

Your weekly Microsoft Weekly recap is here, bringing you the most interesting stories about new Windows 11 features, gaming announcements, controversies, bugs, and other developments from Microsoft.

Microsoft Design created a number of images for the company's recently launched Dev Home app, and you can download them as wallpapers for your own PC background right now on the Design site.

This Microsoft website hosts official wallpapers in 4K for free! A Diverse Collection of Stunning 4K Wallpapers for Your Computer.

Captured by Charles O'Rear, Bliss is the name of the default desktop wallpaper on Windows XP. You can download a high-quality 4K render of the popular wallpaper made by the Microsoft Design team.