Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire

This seems to be a theme of late… Microsoft retiring features and applications for various reasons. The latest retirement is the Microsoft Lists mobile application in iOS and Android, and it’ll be completely shut down by mid-November, 2025. There is no reason listed as to why, but I’m going to guess that the mobile app for Microsoft Lists never really gained the traction they expected when they released Microsoft Lists as a whole. To be clear, this doesn’t affect Microsoft Lists in general… only the ability to access and use it on the mobile app.

Here’s the information provided by Microsoft:

Clipboard History in Windows 11

I really enjoy having a wife that works in the same technology field that I do. At dinner last night, she said “Here’s a SparkOne tip for you… Clipboard History in Windows!” Boom… mind blown! This feature allows you to store a history of clipboard copies so you can easily refer back to them when you need to paste that text again. Here’s how it works…

Past calendar event color changes for Outlook on the web

So… this isn’t an earth-shattering change, but It’s sort of interesting. Sandra noticed yesterday that when viewing the Outlook calendar on Outlook on the web, meetings that were before the current date and time now appear in a lighter color gradient than current/future meetings. Here’s what that looks like…

Using Copilot to get a summary of a PDF document

I recently covered how Copilot provides an automatic summary of a Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive. Copilot also does much the same thing with a PDF document, but it’s not as “automatic” as it is with Word. Here’s how the summary works for PDFs…

Using Copilot to get a summary of a Word document

Have you ever opened up a large Word document from SharePoint or OneDrive, and you wish you could easily get a summary of the document automatically so that you have some idea of what it contains? Now, Copilot will provide that for you! Here’s what it looks like when you open that large Word doc…