Use Microsoft Teams to chat online with your colleagues. Start a chat with another person. Start all chats the same way: by selecting New chat at the top of your chat list.

Tips for creating an effective presentation. Consider the following tips to keep your audience interested. Minimize the number of slides. To maintain a clear message and to keep your audience attentive and interested, keep the number of slides in your presentation to a minimum.

PCs originally built with Windows 8.1 are designed with technology that is about 10 years old. Once you move to a new PC, there will be many aspects of Windows that you will find familiar, but also with important software and hardware innovations and capabilities that were not available a decade ago.

The Calculator app for Windows is a touch-friendly version of the desktop calculator in previous versions of Windows. You can open multiple calculators at the same time in resizable windows on the desktop and switch between Standard, Scientific, Graphing, Programmer, Date calculation, and Converter modes.. To get started, select the Start button, and then select Calculator in the list of apps.

Updates to the default screen and sleep settings now help you use energy more efficiently and extend battery life. You can find efficiency settings in Windows 11 at Settings > System > Power & battery .. For a guided walkthrough of how each of the power and battery settings can improve your device's performance, click the button to open the Get Help app:

Screen time reporting shows daily and weekly details about when and for how long your family member used their devices. Gain insight into the amount of time your family member spends on a particular social media app, game or web browser and decide whether you would like to enable screen time limits for any connected devices. To view screen time for a family member, tap Today, then Screen time ...

Edit photos and videos. Whether you like to apply changes that affect your photo's quality, feel, and look—or you want to add information on top of your photos, the Photos app offers you comprehensive features to transform your photos and videos looking their best.

Windows provides the following privacy settings to give you control over your privacy. Advertising ID. Windows generates a unique advertising ID for each user on a device, which app developers and advertising networks can then use for their own purposes, including providing more relevant advertising in apps.

To check the end-of-support dates for your version of Windows, see the product lifecycle information for Windows.. If your version of Windows is still supported, you should always install the latest updates for Windows.To download and install these updates, use Windows Update in the Settings app.

To learn more, see Start an instant meeting in Microsoft Teams.. Call in. If you can't use the Teams app or Teams for web, join some meetings by phone number. Learn more here: Join a Teams meeting by phone. If you find a phone number and conference ID in the meeting invite, dial the number to join.