Programming note: Weston’s offices will be closed on Thursday, January 1, 2026, for the New Year Holiday. Here’s hoping you have an enjoyable New Years!
As we say goodbye to 2025 and dive into 2026, we’d like to look back on the year with a year in review newsletter, looking back at the most popular newsletter articles of the year and some of the things we got accomplished this year. As always this time of year, New Year’s technology resolutions of the past still apply as good practice and the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015’s year-end wrap-ups are all worth a read.
Our core purpose at Weston is to better the lives of others. That is why we are in business in the first place and we have really taken that to heart the last couple years. We truly care about the communities we live and do business in as we support lots of great non-profit organizations financially and continue to provide our time and expertise whenever we can. These organizations directly impact the well-being of those in our local communities, nation and the world and we feel it is a privilege to help and support them. We’ve been doing this for over 31 years now, and we’re glad you’re here with us.
Looking back on the year…
- We introduced Aaron, and Jack.
- We started offering Teams Phones Solutions.
- Tariffs messed with pricing on things.
- AI (especially via Copilot) was a big topic of discussion (and is affecting pricing on some hardware — we’ll get into that next month).
- Dell debuted a new naming scheme.
- Microsoft adjusting some pricing for 365 (including for non-profits). Just a heads up, more price increases are coming later in 2026, which we’ll bring up in the next newsletter.
- Windows 10 officially went end of life.
- We started selling Foxit PDF Editor, which we feel is superior to traditional Acrobat solutions.
We hope this newsletter has been a valuable resource to you (and please email us if there is any particular type of content you’d like to see more or less of). We ran some numbers to see what people are reading in this newsletter and on our blog. These individual articles from the last year were the most popular based on newsletter clicks and post views, so you can revisit them again or read them for the first time if you missed them when we mentioned them before. These are in no particular order:
- Setup Two Chrome or Edge Profiles to Separate Work and Home
- AI Notetakers: How to Kick Them Out of Your Teams Meeting
- Hidden Setting Enables Right Click on Taskbar to End Task
- Updated MIDI 2.0 Support Coming to Windows
- Malicious Calendar Invites in Outlook: How to Defend Yourself
- Compare and Analyze Excel Spreadsheets with Inquire
- Control Your Mouse with your Keyboard
- 10 Obsolete Tech Treasures We Secretly Long to See Make a Comeback
- New Outlook is Here, But It’s Not Quite Ready
- Writing Better Prompts in Copilot to Get Better Results
- Excel’s New Copilot Function Brings AI to your Spreadsheets
- Quick Tip: Hiding Cell Data in Excel
- Tools Like Evilginx Are Why You Need Multiple Layers of Protection
- What Makes One Processor Faster Than Another?
- Disabling Teams Third Party App Installs
- Speed Up Your Excel Spreadsheets
- Text Extractor Being Added to Snipping Tool
- Windows Blue Screen of Death is Changing Colors
- Copilot Agent Mode: Next-Level Productivity in Office Apps
- Your Server Closet Needs a Lock and Your Laptop Needs a Leash
- Save Your Copied Data with Clipboard History
- Microsoft Won’t Support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
- Let Copilot Summarize Your Word Documents
- Microsoft Debuts New Office Icons
- Collaborate with Copilot in Teams chats with @Copilot
- New Teams Features: Live Chat, Manage Sharing
- Windows 11 Support for 7zip, TAR and RAR
- A Couple Microsoft Products Are Going Away
- Threaded Channel Conversations in Teams Coming Soon
In addition, these articles we wrote up prior to 2025 are still getting a lot of traffic and are still relevant:
- Why are my USB Ports Different Colors?
- Missing Calibri? How to Get Rid of Aptos (Mostly)
- Quick Tip: Outlook Out of Office from Outlook Mobile
- Disable Excel’s Auto Formatting of Dates
- How to Lock Position of an Image In Word
- View Your Saved WiFi Passwords
- Microsoft Publisher Is Officially Discontinued
- Add Stock Data to Excel Spreadsheets
- Removing “Get Outlook…” Signature in Outlook Mobile
- Adjust Kerning (Letter Spacing) in Word
- Insert Icons into Your Word Documents
- Quick Tip: Ctrl-Shift-V and Ctrl-Alt-V to Paste Plainly
- Use Vector Images in Office Apps For Higher Quality Documents
- Is Data Truly Deleted When You Delete It?
- Truly Random Numbers in Excel
- What is this New Copilot Key on my Keyboard?
- Synchronize Changes in PowerPoint While Presenting
- Chrome Removing HTTPS and WWW from Address Bar
- New Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word
- New Outlook and Teams Feature: Follow Meetings
- Tech Tip: Adjust Spelling and Grammar Settings in Office
- Tech Tip: Freezing Rows and Columns in Excel
- Intel i3 vs i5 vs i7 vs i9
- Saving Thumbnails for your Office Documents
- Placing Images into Cells in Excel
- Add a Live Camera Feed to Your PowerPoint Slide Show
- 7 Things to Look for In a New Laptop for Remote Work
- Format Your Word Document with Borders and Dividers
- Checkboxes Now Available in Excel
- Quoting a Message in Teams Chat
- Tech Tip: Wifi that Requires Logon or Hotspot Agreement Page
If you’re looking to catch up on all the past reading material, you can follow our blog posts here and make sure you sign up for our newsletter here to get all sorts of fun bonus reading material (catch up on old issues here)!
Thanks for supporting us and we look forward to working with you in 2026!