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Andreas Kling, a Swedish developer, tells the "ReCursive" podcast how an unfinished childhood goal and addiction recovery led him to create a new OS.

In this week's recap of everything that happened in the Microsoft-verse in the past few days, we have news related to a lot of Windows 11 leaks, a bunch of Teams upgrades, and some security insights.

Threat groups often hide malware behind macros in innocent-seeming documents, but Microsoft's proposed change should make that route less effective

Microsft said earlier today via a blog post that it will block all Office files (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word), that contain VBA Macros, by default, to protect users from malware.

Big security change introduced for the productivity suite

Macros can be the Office version of a phishing attempt.

Macros can be the Office version of a phishing attempt.

Macros can be the Office version of a phishing attempt.

The next time you download a Microsoft Office file, you’ll have one less thing to worry about, as Microsoft is blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in downloaded files.

Microsoft is finally planning to block Visual Basic for Applications macros by default in a variety of Office apps. The change will apply to Office files that are downloaded from the internet and... #officeapps #homeusers #informationworkers