You’ll need Windows 10 to run Microsoft Office 2019

With Microsoft Office 2019 set to come out in the latter half of the year, Microsoft made an important announcement about the productivity suite. The latest version will need users who aren’t subscribed to Office 365 to have machines running on Windows 10. Obviously, this move is the company’s attempt to get businesses to subscribe to its Office 365 business. They have even extended support for Windows 10 enterprise and education customers running versions 1511, 1607, 1703, and 1709 an additional six months to update to the latest supported versions of Windows 10. The support lifecycle for Office 2019 is changing, too. It gets five-year mainstream support and “approximately two years of extended support.”

Office 2019 will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook client apps as well as server versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. Preview copies are going to be released in the middle of 2018. The software is intended for organizations that aren’t using the cloud Office 365 versions. It must be noted that Office for Mac won’t be affected by this change as it’s a different product with its own release schedule.

Source: The Verge

Telegram’s been taken out of the Apple App Store because of ‘inappropriate content’

Telegram, a messaging app that was one of the first to introduce end-to-end encryption, has been taken out of the Apple App Store for “inappropriate content.” What kind of content we can’t say but as Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov tweets, “We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store.”

There is no word yet when the app will be back but it was taken down perhaps in violation of some of iOS guidelines that say there needs to be filters for objectionable material, mechanisms to report these, and the ability to block users from the service. There’s a possibility that some questionable content made it through the filters Telegram has in place. The app has been criticized in the past for the secretive nature of its messages for being the “app of choice” for terrorists.

Source: The Verge

Kevin Feige talks about future of X-Men and Fantastic Four in the MCU

Ever since the news broke that Disney is set to buy most of 20^th Century Fox, people have been excitedly talking about the possibilities of the X-Men and Fantastic Four being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel’s boss and producer Kevin Feige shares his thoughts on the matter. He shuts down rumours saying these Marvel superheroes won’t be making a cameo in Avengers 4 set to come out in 2019. The earliest he says they can come in would be the year 2020.

Talking to Vulture, Feige says, “The truth of the matter as I understand it is the deal has to be figured out. There’s been no communication. We’re not thinking about it. We’re focusing on everything we’ve already announced. If and when the deal actually happens, we’ll start to think more about it.” He adds, “We’ve announced everything through 2019, so none of those would be adjusted.” So far, after Avengers 4, we know that Phase 4 of the MCU will be kicked off with the Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Source: Express

Are we finally getting an 18:9 Sony Xperia Compact?

Is the nex Sony Xperia Compact going to be bezel-less?

Is Sony finally ready to leave behind its 16:9 displays? A new FCC certification suggests this might be a possibility. It shows a Sony Xperia Compact with a tall aspect ratio—or at least that’s what the dimensions suggest. Based on the description, it has a 5-inch screen (126mm) with 135.43 x 64.63mm measurement. If you compare this with the Xperia XZ1 Compact with its 129 x 64mm measurement, it has the same width but it’s shorter. The FCC certification only shows the display diagonal and not the aspect ratio or sides. GSMArena tried to compare these measurements to see how it would look. Whether we’d see this device soon is not something we can say just yet. But it does give us some pretty good evidence that perhaps Sony is ready to let go of its bezels.