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  • Apple, Google to bring dozens of new, more inclusive emoji to devices via iOS 13 and Android Q

    World Emoji Day took place on Wednesday, complete with Apple and Google unveiling a slew of new emoji based on the approved characters in Unicode 12 that will be arriving in iOS 13 and Android Q later this year.

    The theme for this year seems to be inclusion, meaning users of any race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability will find something with which to express themselves. For example, the Holding Hands emoji has been expanded to include more than 70 combinations and sex, gender, and race, allowing you to express your relationship to others.

    Android phones will see gender-ambiguous emoji for symbols such as construction worker, police office, genie, and vampire. Other new diversity-themed emoji will include symbols for people who are blind, deaf, or paralyzed, as well as guide dogs, prosthetic limbs, and hearing aids. Users will also see new emoji for animals, food and objects, including a yo-yo, felafel plate, skunk, garlic, flamingo, and yawning face.

    All said, there will be 59 new emoji on iPhones and 65 on Android phones, not including the various skin tones and gender options.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via PCWorld

  • CrossOver 18 now available, features macOS 10.14.Mojave support, other fixes

    CrossOver 18 has arrived, complete with full macOS 10.14 Mojave support as well as a number of fixes and improvements.

    CodeWears announced that CrossOver 18, which can be used for running Windows applications on macOS desktops without using Windows itself, is now available and ready to go.

    The CodeWeavers team has updated Wine, the core technology behind CrossOver that allows Windows software to run on macOS and Linux, bringing it up to version 3.14. According to the company, the change makes “thousands of improvements” in CrossOver 18 over previous versions, just from its inclusion.

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  • Microsoft announces Office 2019 for Mac, highlights OneDrive-based Files On-Demand service

    It may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but it’s pertinent.

    At its Ignite event in Orlando, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac, alongside a test version of Files on Demand which allows users to see all their OneDrive files on the Mac desktop, and only download what needs to be used.

    Per Microsoft Office 2019 will include a number of features that had been added to Office 365 ProPlus, its cloud-connected version, over the course of the last three years.

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  • Microsoft officially ends support for Office for Mac 2011

    It had to come to an end sometime.

    Microsoft has officially ended support for Office for Mac 2011. As such, there will be no further updates if anything goes wrong or stops working in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or Outlook.

    Microsoft has warned users the end was coming and made it very clear the official end of line would happen on October 12th, 2017. The company didn’t even bother to test Office 2011 for macOS High Sierra compatibility.

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  • Microsoft announces Office 2019, states users will be able to buy software via one-time fee as opposed to a recurring subscription

    You’ll be able to purchase Microsoft Office 2019 outright as opposed to signing up and paying for it on a monthly basis, as you currently have to do with Microsoft Office 2016.

    Office 2019 will ship in the second half of 2018, Microsoft said, with a preview version scheduled for mid-2018. The Office 2019 suite will include the standard complement of Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, plus server apps like Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. It’s thought that Microsoft will offer different versions of Office 2019, including a version for the Mac, but executives didn’t say.

    Microsoft has called Office 2019 a suite of “perpetual” apps wherein a customer pays for them with a one-time fee as opposed to a recurring subscription. The company will continue to offer Office 365 on a subscription basis with the payment spread out over a longer period of time. At present, Microsoft’s Office 365 Home retails for $100 per year.

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