This Week in Tech
Microsoft and technology-related updates for the week of June 13, 2022
This Week’s Stories
- Microsoft Viva Sales: A new companion app that works with many CRM systems
- “Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new sales app on June 16 that it’s branding as ‘Viva Sales.’ Viva Sales is a CRM ‘companion’ app that is meant to integrate with Teams, Outlook and Office apps including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Officials said that it would work with Microsoft’s own Dynamics 365 Sales CRM app/service and CRM systems from other companies.” READ MORE
- Microsoft patches actively exploited Follina Windows zero-day
- “Microsoft has released security updates with the June 2022 cumulative Windows Updates to address a critical Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina.” READ MORE
- Microsoft is working on games for Microsoft Teams
- “While you won’t be playing Halo or Forza inside Teams anytime soon, Microsoft is clearly looking at games as another way to improve the meetings experience as businesses continue to balance the needs of hybrid and remote work.” READ MORE
- Firefox boosts privacy by giving ‘total cookie protection’ to all users by default
- “The design change, labeled ‘Total Cookie Protection,’ aims to give enhanced protection against online tracking by limiting the ability of websites to read cookies created by third-party services. Access to any given cookie will be restricted to the website that deposited the cookie in a user’s browser, so a cookie created by one website or service will not be readable by other websites that a user visits.” READ MORE
- Google Maps now estimates toll charges for your journey
- “Google says that displayed toll pricing is based on “trusted information from local tolling authorities,” and takes toll passes and time of day into account when calculating the total cost. There’s also still a toggle to “avoid tolls” when calculating routes.” READ MORE
- New Android malware bypasses multi-factor authentication to steal your passwords
- “In addition to remotely stealing passwords, bank details and cryptocurrency wallets, MaliBot can access text messages, steal web browser cookies and can take screen captures from infected Android devices.” READ MORE
- Learn the basics of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Read about it in this week’s Opal blog! READ MORE