Microsoft recently released Office 2019, the most recent version of its Windows and Mac office suite, with useful new features slotted almost seamlessly in to the familiar interface. A distraction-free mode for Word, better pivot tables for Excel, and graphics and support for digital pencils for PowerPoint are just a some of the many tweaks and enhancements towards the venerable Office. While these aren't huge upgrades to the suite, they may be big productivity boons to the right users.

Office 365 users points out that they've had many of these features for a while now, but local software fans will counter that many of them haven't seen a new bill for Office since a minimum of 2016 (when office 2016 was launched), whereas Office 365 users need to pay every single month. Both versions are excellent, of course, and we'll go into the pros and cons of every later within this review.

Pricing, Versions, and Compatibility

As always, Microsoft provides more versions of Office than anyone wants to keep track of. The Office 2019 versions that most individuals will care about are Office Home & Student 2019, at $149.99, which includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and is licensed for just one Windows machine or one Mac only. Office Professional 2019 at $439.99 for just one Windows PC only, adds Outlook, Publisher, and the Access database.

You need Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit) for the PC version; older Windows versions aren't supported for Office 2019, although Office 365 will work under Windows 7 until January 2020, when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 altogether. (Windows 8 support stop in January 2023.) Around the Mac, you should use the three most recent macOS versions, Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave.

Subscribe or Buy?

One reason you might not have noticed Office 2019 is the fact that Microsoft would rather publicize its subscription-based office suite Office Home 365, and its business version, rather than pushing you to definitely buy Office 2019. Many corporations, colleges, and government offices prefer what Microsoft calls "perpetual" items like Office 2019 and its predecessor Office 2016, rather than spending annual fees to Microsoft and tying themselves to Microsoft's cloud services.

For most word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation work, the buy-once Office and the subscription-based Office are effectively exactly the same. That said, Office 365 subscription adds real-time collaboration features (such as the excellent Microsoft Teams), high-powered mobile apps, access to cloud-based research and editing tools, and regular infusions of recent features every few months.

In comparison, Office 2019 will remain the same-except for monthly security updates and occasional bug fixes-until you decide to upgrade it to some future version a couple of years from now. Unlike Office 365, Office 2019 doesn't need you to register having a Microsoft account unless you wish to. Users worried about privacy be more effective off ignoring the sign-in button within the title bar of the Office apps altogether. Around the downside, Office 2019 doesn't include access to Office's high-powered mobile apps. I discuss additional explanations why quite a few users may like the buy-once Office 2019 version to the cutting-edge Office 365 version in a later section.

A Familiar Face

Microsoft introduced the Ribbon interface in Office 2007 and hasn't made any comparably drastic interface changes since. Office 2019 need to look familiar to those who have used any version from Office 2007 onwards. To put it simply, Word 2019 is an attractive, but not a compelling upgrade. If you are pleased with Office 2016, think twice before spending hard-earned money on the new version if you don't want or need some of the new version's unique features. Word and Outlook, for example, get a new group of features-called "Learning Tools"-that allow it to be easy to concentrate on text. Spreadsheet app Excel gets new functions and charts, including a funnel style and 2D maps, plus enhanced pivot and query tools.

Additional features

Presentation powerhouse PowerPoint receives a Morph transition that shows separate objects moving to new locations in one slide to the next-matching Apple's Magic Move feature in Keynote. PowerPoint also gets a Zoom feature that lets you jump to the slide or section inside your presentation, without following the traditional linear order-somewhat like the fluid, non-linear presentations pioneered by Prezi, but with a clunkier feel and look.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can import graphics in the scalable SVG format popular on the web-and not yet supported by Keynote or Apple's other office apps. Office apps may also import-with just a few clicks-3D models from the Microsoft-created Remix 3D community website.

A new Insert an Icon item appears a menu with around five-hundred well-designed icons that you can insert in any Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document. They're all black-and-white by default, however, you can change the color from a pop-up menu. Word's elegant powerful equation editor now supports LaTeX syntax, with some variations from the standard syntax-and Microsoft has beefed up Office's online assist with complete information on equation syntax and far else, mostly eliminating the frustrations in earlier versions when you clicked on an aid button simply to find out that help wasn't available.

The final word on Word

A well-hidden Speak feature in Office 2016 has blossomed into the improved Read Aloud tool offered by the Review ribbon in Word. It's also available from the brand new Learning Tools portion of the View ribbon. The Learning Tools menu includes options to displaying widely spaced text for simple reading as well as text with dots showing between syllables. For the former option, you are able to display either just the current line, or one or two lines above and below it, with the rest from the text almost invisible. Alternatively, you can change the background color for legibility or invert the colors (white text on a black background).

Microsoft Word has always outclassed almost every other word-processor in its range of view options-including draft, web, and distraction-free reading modes-and the training Tools build on this strong foundation. On the Mac, oddly, the training Tools require an Office 365 subscription, and aren't part of the standalone Office 2019 product, because they are on Windows. Exactly the same limitation pertains to the freeform Zoom presentation feature in PowerPoint.

Math-tastic

Office has had drawing tools provided I'm able to remember, but the 2019 version adds ink features that convert mouse- or pencil-drawn scrawls into geometric shapes like circles or triangles, or that convert hand-written formulas into typographic math. This selection works even with my clumsy tries to write equations having a trackball, but it is mostly created for use with a pencil on a tablet, especially a Microsoft Surface model.

Office 2019 enhances digital-pencil support, with pressure- and tilt-sensitivity and also the ability to move text by dragging it with a pencil.

Cross-Platform Excellence

Office 2019 may be the smoothest, slickest, and most powerful set of office applications ever written, though that doesn't mean it is the perfect for the way you work. On the plus side, the Office file formats are universal. Should you share a thing document or Excel worksheet, anyone can open it on any modern computer, and also on any modern mobile device with the free Office mobile apps installed.

If you use every other office suite-like Apple's iWork apps, the open-source LibreOffice, or Corel WordPerfect Office-you'll probably have to export your files in Office formats before sharing all of them with other people. The same thing pertains to online suites like Google Docs. You can share online access to some Google Docs documents by sending a sharing link to anyone, but when you need to share the document itself as a file, you will need to download it in Word or some other standard format.

Office Strengths

Also on Office's plus side are features and talents that little else can match. Excel handles larger and much more complex spreadsheets than any rival. PowerPoint is the only Windows-based presentation app that comes close to matching Apple's Keynote in dazzling transitions along with other effects. Word's professional-level features make it simple to limit the find-and-replace feature so that it only finds text formatted with specific fonts or spacing. Word also offers a strong group of well-integrated drawing tools, so the Windows crowd can use advanced graphics features such as the ones that Apple offers using its Pages word-processor for macOS and iOS.

Office Drawbacks

As all long-term users know, Office has some negative aspects. For example, if you like to select how to format your documents (like the headings and indentations), rather than letting Word decide, you have to turn off twelve options hidden in Word's auto-correct feature. Microsoft Word stores many default settings in the Normal.dotm template. While advanced users can back up this file and make different versions of it for various purposes, Microsoft doesn't help you figure out where this file is in your hard disk. (It's in a hidden folder inside your user folder named AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.)

I am not the only real user that has been annoyed by Word's Master Document feature, which lets you embed separate subdocuments inside a container document, while letting you edit the subdocuments separate files. This selection has a bad history of leaving the contents of subdocuments inside a master document instead of keeping them separate. Word 2019 seems to be more reliable with master documents than older versions, but, being burned in the past, I am not yet prepared to trust this selection when focusing on a multi-chapter book.

One Note About Onenote

One app you won't see in the Windows version of Office 2019 is a latest version of Onenote 2016. Rather than updating the desktop form of Onenote, Office 2019 now uses the modern Microsoft Store form of Onenote which comes preinstalled on Windows 10. Onenote for Windows 10 automatically opens Onenote 2016 notebooks stored in the cloud, however, you still Onenote 2016 if you are using notebooks stored on a local PC. Onenote 2016 remains a totally free download from Microsoft. All this applies to Windows only. Onenote on the Mac hasn't changed aside from its regular monthly minor updates.

Another new development which will matter into it departments: Office 2019 installs itself through the efficient click-to-run technology familiar from Office 365, not the standard full-scale .MSI installer used by most commercial software, including earlier versions of Office.

Office 2019 vs. Office 365

If, like most Windows users, you've put your main working life into Office, should you buy or rent-buy Office 2019 or sign up for Office 365? Corporate and government offices that frown on sharing data on Microsoft's servers will decide to buy. All students and teachers could possibly get Office 2019 either free or an inexpensive price (typically $14.99) through site licenses negotiated by schools and colleges. However, subscription-based Office 365 is the obvious option for offices which use Microsoft's ecosystem for collaboration and sharing and anybody who would rather keep documents in the cloud. Office 365 has an optional automatic continuous-save feature for documents stored in the cloud that's not obtainable in Office 2019 even if you save to Microsoft OneDrive. And, of course, Microsoft 365 enables you to edit and collaborate in your cloud-based documents from the desktop machine, mobile phone, or internet browser.

If, much like me, you customize your Office apps by creating macros to perform complex, repetitive tasks, you might encounter gotchas such as the one that tripped up my Office 365 form of Word a few months ago. I favor to make use of the keyboard-friendly spell-check dialog from older versions of Word instead of the more awkward proofing panel in recent versions. As described on many web postings relating to this subject, Microsoft made it possible to make use of the old dialog by default by writing a macro and attaching it to the same key that normally opens the brand new proofing pane.

For some months last year, however, a badly designed Office 365 update broke that macro making it impossible for many users to access the old-style dialog. No one outside Microsoft ever figured out why some users weren't affected. A few months later, Microsoft finally seems to have fixed the issue in Office 365. But users with Office 2016 never encountered the problem at all, because Office 2016 (like Office 2019) does not get the kind of regular update that may break existing features.

This problem made me change to "perpetual" Office 2016, and now Office 2019, for that Windows machines I use for mission-critical work. Around the Mac, I still use Office 365 because Office 2019 for that Mac lacks features included in the subscription-based product, though I do not see any valid reason for that different feature takes hold Mac and Windows Office 2019.

Office Alternatives

Finally, the use of Office whatsoever, when Google Docs is free for everybody on all platforms, LibreOffice is free of charge for those desktop users, and Apple's gorgeous iWorks apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) have the freedom on the Mac and iOS? For those its minor faults, Office still towers over all alternatives.

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides may be the first choice for anyone who prefers free software and effortless sharing, as well as for casual users that do not want to keep their documents in files on a pc.

LibreOffice is feature-rich, open-source, and free, and opens legacy documents in additional formats than other things, but after decades of development, will still be clumsy-looking and too prone to crashing to inspire confidence.

Apple's iWork apps (which are not sold like a combined suite) look dazzling and have unique features like Numbers' tables that may be moved around with an empty canvas, unlike a conventional worksheet that utilizes merely a single grid. But iWork has desktop apps only on Macs, and can make you export documents if you want to share them outside Apple's ecosystem.

Corel WordPerfect, available only for Windows, offers unparalleled precise treatments for document formatting and it is easier than Office for specialized purposes like clearing up documents created by OCR software, but WordPerfect will be a distinct segment product.

Still the Champion

You might complain relating to this or that corner of Microsoft Office, but it's still probably the most comfortable, familiar, powerful, and reliable set of productivity apps on this or other planet. If you're pleased with Office 365, you don't need Office 2019. If you are pleased with Office 2016, you simply need Office 2019 if you want its additional features. One way or another, you probably want Office on your hard drive, and though the 2019 version isn't a truly essential upgrade, measuring only since the last version has organized very well. In either case, Office 2019 is the best office suite you can buy, and it remains an Editors' Choice.

Cybersecurity experts revealed a new cyber espionage cell accountable for a series of targeted operations against diplomatic facilities and telecommunications companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017.

The campaign, dubbed BackdoorDiplomacy, involves targeting vulnerabilities in devices exposed to the web, for example web servers, to conduct a variety of cyber hacking activities, including moving laterally across the network to deploy a custom implant called Turian that's able to exfiltrating sensitive data stored on removable media.

Jean-Ian Boutin, head of threat research at Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said, "BackdoorDiplomacy shares tactics, techniques, and procedures with other Asia-based groups. Turian likely represents a next stage evolution of Quarian, the backdoor last noticed in use in 2013 against diplomatic targets in Syria and also the U.S."

Reconnaissance and lateral movement

Following the initial compromise, the BackdoorDiplomacy group frequently used open-source reconnaissance and Red Team technologies to scan environmental surroundings for brand new attack targets and lateral movement. The tools listed include:

EarthWorm is a basic network tunnel that includes SOCKS v5 server and port transfer features.
Mimikatz, as well as various versions such as SafetyKatz
Nbtscan, a command-line NetBIOS scanner for Windows
NetCat, a network program that reads and sends data over network connections.
PortQry, a program that displays the status of TCP and UDP ports on remote systems
SMBTouch, used to determine if a target is vulnerable to EternalBlue

Various NSA tools from the ShadowBrokers dump, including although not limited to:

DoublePulsar
EternalBlue
EternalRocks
EternalSynergy

The next directories are frequently employed for staging recon and lateral movement tools:

C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\en-US\
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\InstallAgent\Checkpoints\
C:\ProgramData\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan\
%USERPROFILE%\ESET\ESET Security\Logs\eScan\
C:\Program Files\hp\hponcfg\
C:\Program Files\hp\hpssa\
C:\hp\hpsmh\
C:\ProgramData\Mozilla\updates\

Cybercriminal group can attack both Windows and Linux os's

The cross-platform group has the capacity to attack both Windows and Linux operating systems. They target management interfaces for network devices and servers with open ports on the web, probably using the China Chopper web shell for initial access and using it to explore and install the backdoor.

Platforms attacked include F5 BIG-IP devices (CVE-2020-5902), Exchange Server, and Plesk web hosting control panels. Victims happen to be identified at Foreign Ministries in several African countries in addition to Europe, Middle East, and Asia. In addition to that, African telecommunications providers and a minimum of one Middle Eastern charity were targeted.

BackdoorDiplomacy is believed to overlap with previously documented activities of the Chinese-language organization called CloudComputing, Kaspersky said.

Based on ESET, the network encryption protocol utilized by Turian is nearly just like that utilized by WhiteBird, a C++ backdoor operated by an Asian threat actor called Calypso which was installed in diplomatic organizations in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during the same period of time as Backdoo.

Google Chrome is the world's number one desktop browser and Microsoft Edge is offered as the default option on Windows 10, but neither have the je ne sais quoi you can find in Vivaldi.

Because yes, Vivaldi was, is, and will continue being a browser coming by having an insane arsenal of features, and while some say it's an underdog of this software category, you just have to give it a try to finally figure out what its magic is all about.

And version 4.0, that is currently available on all supported platforms, brings this magic to a brand-new level.

The changelog is absolutely huge, and thus may be the official announcement, but I'm going to highlight the primary improvements within this latest version just to know what to anticipate when downloading Vivaldi 4.0.

First of all, the browser now comes with Vivaldi Translate, a built-in translation engine run by Lingvanex which comes pre-loaded using the browser. Also available on Android and Chromebooks, the translation feature includes one major benefit: it runs on Vivaldi servers in Iceland, therefore the data is not uploaded to third parties to operate the translation.

Hello, Vivaldi Mail!

Vivaldi 4.0 also comes with new tools, including early betas of Vivaldi Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader.

You can easily determine their intention simply by reading their names, but there's something I want to highlight about the mail client: it supports pretty much every account, including IMAP, POP3, and Google accounts. Exchange support doesn't appear to be available just yet, but as with everything Vivaldi, it's probably only a matter of time until it's being added if enough feedback in connection with this is received.

And finally, Vivaldi 4.0 now comes with a modern first-run experience that allows users to automatically configure the browser how they want using three pre-loaded configurations called Essentials, Classic, and Fully Loaded. If you're a power user, you'll probably stick with fully loaded, since it includes everything plus the beta builds of Vivaldi Mail, Feed Reader, and Calendar.

Again, this update is absolutely huge, also it once again shows Vivaldi is really a browser that simply just get better and better. And if Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge aren't necessarily your favorite glasses of tea, just try out Vivaldi and you'll be impressed.

Microsoft has already announced a surprise Windows event for June 24, even though the company has always been completely tight-lipped on which exactly we're supposed to get later this month, several Microsofties keep teasing a reasonably large announcement.

After CEO Satya Nadella himself announced the biggest Windows update since the debut of Windows 10 in the summertime of 2015, now Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate V . p ., Todays lifestyles, Search & Devices Group at Microsoft, fuels the excitement suggesting the company would announce a brand new version of Windows.

"I haven't been this excited for any latest version of @Windows since Windows 95! Although I don't remember the box being that big. Be sure you save the date for June 24!" he tweeted now.

While no specifics have been provided, it's the "new version of Windows" bit the main one that's getting all the attention on the Internet.

Windows 11 is originating

While Microsoft was originally expected to take the wraps off the upcoming Sun Valley update, that has so far been known as Windows 10 version 21H2, it appears as though Microsoft will in fact unveil this "new version of Windows" that could become none other than Windows 11.

Without a doubt, the debut of Windows 11 is fairly surprising for everyone who's been keeping an eye on everything Microsoft, especially because Windows 10 has long been considered "the last version of Windows." In other words, Windows 10 was supposed to be the last major Windows version, with all the improvements released for that operating-system to land as feature updates.

But because it turns out, Microsoft still wants separate Windows releases to become a thing, and naturally, after Windows 10, Windows 11 is the OS that's supposed to overhaul the operating system on the desktop.

No confirmation on Windows 11 has been offered so far, but we're likely just a few weeks from the official announcement anyway.

Microsoft has released Microsoft Edge 91 with major improvements, including when it comes to performance, but because it turns out, this latest version also comes with a bug that some people believe it was actually the intended behavior.

More specifically, Microsoft Edge now displays a prompt requesting users to update their browser settings, suggesting the switch to Microsoft Bring because the default internet search engine.

While this type of prompt is sensible to be displayed after the update, some users here on reddit claim the same message shows up over and over again for absolutely no reason. What's even more surprising is that some say they get to see this message even when Microsoft Bing is already the default internet search engine.

Only a bug

Worth knowing, however, would be that the event is simply a bug, and also the prompt wasn't supposed to appear repeatedly on Windows 10 devices.

A Microsoft Edge Community Manager said on reddit the team has already been investigating, though additional information seems to be required at this time.

"I shared your thoughts with the team to determine which may be happening here. They're curious to understand whether you are signed into an AAD account in Edge. I'll share this info together and find out next steps then," she shared.

In the meantime, if you too keep seeing exactly the same message, the simplest way to cope with it is to just close the prompt and stick with your current settings. Microsoft is likely to unveil an area in the future, though for now, the investigation continues and no specific ETA is available.

The bug seems to occur exclusively on Windows 10, using the other OS versions not affected, as the prompt shows up properly.

Microsoft's Build developer conference has taken quite a compelling teaser of what's arrive at the world of Windows, with CEO Satya Nadella himself promising an update that will completely revamp the knowledge using the operating system.

Nadella did not share any specifics, but most likely, he was talking about the upcoming feature update due within the fall and often known as Sun Valley.

Theoretically, Sun Valley should really revamp Windows 10 in one end to another, essentially refreshing the UI with round corners and a more modern UI overall. Additional features will also be planned, some of which are presently in beta testing as part of the Windows Insider program.

Microsoft's CEO says this would be the largest overhaul of Windows 10 since launch, and explaining that it'll bring new opportunities for developers and creators.

Arriving the fall of Windows 10

Nadella says Windows 10 is currently used by more than 1.3 billion users worldwide, which is an essential achievement for Microsoft, especially given the growth the PC ecosystem has recorded this past year when everybody started working remotely.

Called the next-gen of Windows and nicknamed by a few Windows 11, the upcoming Sun Valley update will obviously be considered a free update for everyone already running Windows 10, and it's also likely to pack a series of Windows 10X features too.

Windows 10X was Microsoft's super-ambitious operating system designed to power the dual-screen PC revolution, but the company has decided to ditch the project, choosing instead to create some of its key features to the full version of Windows 10. Microsoft hasn't shared any specifics on this plan, but Windows 10X was well received by the community of users available, mostly thanks to its modern look and UI overhaul that covered every little area of the operating-system.

We've known for some time that Microsoft was planning to pull support for syncing activities through the built-in Windows 10 Timeline feature, but now it appears as though the feature goes away much sooner than originally expected.

More specifically, the official announcement landed in April when Microsoft decided to drop sync support in Windows Timeline for Windows 10 preview users.

"If you've your activity history synced across your devices through your Microsoft account (MSA), you will no longer can upload new activity in Timeline. AAD-connected accounts won't be impacted," the company said at that time.

Now it appears as though Microsoft is in a big rush to drop the feature for everybody running Windows 10, as WL has spotted an update to the original support document which indicates the clients are removing the support for uploading activities to Timeline as soon as this upcoming July.

Only a server-side switch and it's off

Quite simply, starting come july 1st, you'd no longer be able to sync Timeline across devices, and this is thought to be only the initial step towards ditching this selection completely.

"Starting in July 2021, if you have your activity history synced across your devices using your Microsoft account (MSA), you'll no longer have the option to upload new activity in Timeline. You'll still be able to use Timeline and see your activity history (details about recent apps, websites and files) on your local device. AAD-connected accounts won't be impacted," Microsoft now explains.

So as it turns out, Microsoft doesn't want to wait for the launch of the new Windows 10 feature update for the entire thing, as Timeline sync support could be dropped with just a server switch in July. For the time being, Microsoft hasn't officially confirmed that Timeline would go away completely though.

The number of developers joining the ARM bandwagon keeps growing, with Blizzard announcing now that Wow: Shadowlands are now able to operate on Windows 10 ARM too.

Microsoft is betting big on Windows 10 ARM in the long run, especially now that Apple has come up with Apple Silicon so that they can provide customers with an increase of performance and longer battery life.

Windows 10 ARM, on the other hand, isn't necessarily getting so much traction, though developers are slowly joining the woking platform weight loss devices running it see the daylight.

Blizzard says it conducted extensive testing of World of Warcraft on Windows 10 ARM, even though everything was in working order, don't be too surprised should you come across small glitches.

"While our internal testing has been successful, we're looking for any unexpected issues that may be out there, so please test the most recent Chains of Domination PTR build on your Windows 10 ARM64 devices and tell us should you encounter any issues within this forum thread. Particularly, we expect the performance of the game to become in accordance with the specifications of the device, so don't hesitate to inform us regarding your specs and how WoW performs for you personally," the organization says.

Still no Linux support

In the event you're wondering who wants to play Wow on Windows 10 ARM, imagine that Surface Pro X is really a device powered by this platform, as well as in the long term, there's an opportunity more such products hit the shelves.

As the great news is that World of Warcraft has become running natively on Windows 10 ARM, the sport still doesn't support Linux, even though there are methods to launch the sport here too. However, without native support, Linux users wouldn't receive the same gaming experience, so it remains seen if Blizzard is planning an update in this regard as well or otherwise.

NVIDIA has just presented the times Gone Game Ready driver update, namely version 466.47, which adds increased details, higher foliage draw distances, 4K rendering, a configurable field of view, ultra-wide monitor support, unlocked frame rates, and much more.

Moreover, the developer offers optimal support for Knockout City, fixes the reduced performance/frame rate observed in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and ensures Starbase doesn't crash on GeForce RTX 20/GTX 16 Series configurations.

Moreover, NVIDIA highlights that this update is needed by GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070, and GeForce RTX 3060 TI graphics cards with LHR that ship starting late May 2021.

As for known issues, be aware that version 466.47 might still experience certain problems regarding Wow: Shadowlands, Batman Arkham Knight, NVIDIA Ampere GPU, flickering on HDMI displays (a reboot should fix this), along with other bugs as described in the Release Notes below.

When it comes to compatibility, the accessible packages are suitable for both desktop and notebook configurations running one of Microsoft's Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 operating systems. Also, don't forget there are two files for Windows 10: one DCH and one Standard variant.

Therefore, save and run the appropriate package for your device, wait for all files required to be extracted, and follow all instructions displayed on-screen for a complete upgrade. Once finished, it would be a good idea to perform a system reboot to permit all changes to consider effect.

Having said that, download NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 466.47, consider every aspect mentioned above and check back with our website as frequently as you possibly can to stay up to speed using the latest releases.

A current bug discovered in Microsoft Edge browser causes the browser to crash when users load YouTube, and obviously, given how popular Google's video sharing service is becoming, the issue affects quite a lot of users.

Microsoft, however, has already acknowledged the problem, by having an Edge engineer recently explaining that the full fix continues to be within the works best for everybody.

However, a workaround was already provided, and it's obtainable in the Canary build from the browser.

"It is definitely video related, I can confirm that much. I can also state that if you are still experiencing this, we're working on setting it up sorted out. The Canary fix I mentioned helped a lot of people, but not everyone, and there's an upstream fix arriving soon. I am not entirely sure when that will be, but I will follow track of you once I know," the Microsoft engineer explained on reddit.

Fix in route

In the meantime, sticking with the Canary form of Microsoft Edge is pretty much the best choice if you too are hitting issues on YouTube.

"Head over to our Insider web site to download and install our Canary channel. Watch a YouTube video you know to result in the problem available, and let me know your results there. Should you continue to see issues, realize that we're still investigating. I'll provide updates here as I get them," the engineer added.

Strangely enough, the problem doesn't seem to be hitting all users, as YouTube is still working properly on my device running the latest stable version of Microsoft Advantage on Windows 10 version 20H2. However, Microsoft says it's still attempting to determine whether the Canary fix will the trick for everybody, so an update in this regard is probably coming.