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Microsoft is giving its OneDrive program the 64-bit treatment to take advantage of greater memory and other resources. In a blog post published Thursday, Microsoft announced that the new 64-bit version of OneDrive is now available as a public preview, which means anyone can download and install it as long as you meet the necessary requirements. The new edition is aimed at OneDrive work, school and home accounts, and will supplement—not replace—the existing 32-bit version.

With Microsoft calling a 64-bit OneDrive a “long awaited and highly requested feature,” the new version will benefit from the 64-bit flavor of Windows, which has long been available for all versions of Windows from XP to 10. Compared with its 32-bit predecessor, a 64-bit OneDrive will be able to tap

Today, siloed departments and information; outdated, inflexible processes; and disparate tools and technology still remain a hindrance within many businesses. How can your company accelerate strategy execution and thrive during business fluctuations? According to a recent global benchmark study by Lawless Research and Planview, some companies have successfully embraced uncertainty to adapt to the speed of change. Here are the key takeaways to help your company quickly adapt strategy execution to market disruptions.

SEE: Juggling remote work with kids’ education is a mammoth task. Here’s how employers can help (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

The current state of business strategy and execution 

Companies around the globe have had to accept a new reality; disruptions are now the norm. Those not accelerating often hold on to legacy business processes, practices

Single-vendor open source projects are somewhat common, but are they actually “open source” in any useful sense of that term? It’s often said that open source is as much about community as code, but in a project with all committers and maintainers sitting behind the same firewall, there’s no real contributor community. So why bother with open source at all?

I asked that question of Twitter (yes, all of it). Turns out, there are good reasons to open source your code, even if you never expect a single other contributor to submit a pull request.

SEE: 10 ways to prevent developer burnout (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

A matter of persistence

The first reason may have nothing to do with community, but everything to do with posterity. According to Steven Rostedt, “To

Outlook’s Recall feature, which ostensibly offers users a way to recall emails they have sent either by mistake, with incorrect or inappropriate information or in the heat of a bad moment, has been around for some time across numerous versions. Its usage was especially common when the “press Ctrl-Enter to send” problem was well underway (this can be disabled in Options and every place I’ve worked recently has done so via policies) … and also hilarious.

SEE: 69 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic)

Why hilarious? In the past it hasn’t been entirely reliable, and instead of NOT recalling the message, recipients have received a new message stating the sender tried to recall the prior

Education technology was a sleepy corner of the startup world until COVID-19 hit. It’s wide awake now.

Coursera’s IPO in late March 2021 valued the company at nearly $6 billion. Meanwhile, according to HolonIQ, an education market research firm, ed tech companies raised more than $16 billion globally in 2020, with China and India accounting for over three quarters of that total. 

This is perhaps not surprising, given that the coronavirus pandemic pounded the traditional education paradigm and suddenly everyone, from parents to teachers to administrators and, finally, investors began hunting for solutions. Among the most promising companies are those harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education.

SEE: Juggling remote work with kids’ education is a mammoth task. Here’s how employers can help (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

Riiid, AI and education