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There's finally a way to get new versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without a subscription

TL;DR: Replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2024, now on sale for $129.97. The thing about software subscriptions is you're stuck paying for something you'll never ...

Windows 11 24H2 KB5068221 fixes problems with Office apps0 0

Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for Windows 11 version 24H2 to address problems with Microsoft Office ...

You no longer need a subscription to get Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft 365 is $99.99 per year, at minimum. A more affordable alternative is to switch to Microsoft Office 2024 Home and ...

Microsoft Paint is finally getting project files with saved layers

Microsoft continues to upgrade Paint in Windows 11 with more and more advanced features, evolving it into a real tool with ...
Bloomberg L.P.

‘PowerPoint Broke Me’: The Challenges for Blind Professionals

When Emeline Lakrout quit her job at Unilever Plc in March after five years with the company, it wasn’t for a better offer or a career pivot. She left, she said, because too much of the software she ...
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Eastern Iowans get chance to send Christmas gifts to children in need around the world

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Even though the holidays are a few months away, eastern Iowans are asked to begin considering what gifts they’ll send to children in need around the world. Since the 1990s, ...
MarketWatch

U.S. unemployment rate jumps to nearly 4-year high as weak job creation in August tees up Fed rate cut

The economy added a skimpy 22,000 new jobs in August and the unemployment rate rose to a nearly four-year high, underscoring the increasing fragility of the U.S. labor market. The fourth subpar ...
Washington Monthly

Epstein Files Are Herpes For Trump

A couple of weeks ago, I was fatalistic about the outrageous Epstein cover-up. As the story faded from the headlines, it looked as if Donald Trump’s patented combination of delay, distraction, and ...
Wall Street Journal

FTC Prepares to Question AI Companies Over Impact on Children

The Federal Trade Commission plans to study the impact of artificial-intelligence chatbots on children’s mental health and request documents from OpenAI and other tech companies, a signal that ...
WTTW

Pritzker Says He’ll File Suit to Stop ‘Nefarious’ Plan to Send National Guard, Military to Chicago

Video: Joining “Chicago Tonight” to discuss potential National Guard deployments are Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward), Ald. Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez (33rd Ward) and Chicago-Kent College of Law ...
The Conversation

How Frank Rizzo, a high school dropout, became Philadelphia’s toughest cop and a harbinger of MAGA politics

Timothy J Lombardo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
New York Post

Chicago tried a Trump-style surge to stop crime a decade ago, and it worked — but Dem leaders canned it because of ‘optics’

Chicago experimented with using federal agents and a flood of cops to tackle crime nearly a decade ago, and it saved lives. But Dem city leaders canned the program, and didn’t ask for more help ...