Garage project Journal becomes Microsoft Journal

Big news for enthusiasts of digital ink—Journal, a Garage project, is now Microsoft Journal. Microsoft Journal, an app for Windows, offers a delightful freeform personal notetaking experience that lets you take notes and reason through ink. Thank you for using Journal as a Garage project. Your input has shaped it into what Microsoft Journal is today. What makes Journal special?….

A new way to author and share Excel named formulas: advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project

Advanced formula environment, a Microsoft Garage project, enables Excel users to write complex formulas efficiently and then share them in an Office Add-In for Excel. With the recent addition of the LAMBDA function to Excel, it is now possible to author your own custom functions using the same formula language that powers millions of spreadsheets today. Excel LAMBDA significantly expands….

Garage project Journal celebrates its anniversary with folders to keep you organized

Journal, released as a Microsoft Garage project one year ago, continues to delight today. It is designed—from the ground up—for personal journaling and notetaking with a digital pen. The Journal app is powered by AI to help you write, search, and annotate your ideas quickly and naturally. “We think of Journal and our other incubations as platforms to explore and….

Journal, a Garage project, adds tactile signal support for a more natural and intuitive writing experience

Ink feels more natural and gestures feel more intuitive with support for tactile signal capable pens and devices. Now, you can experience tactile signals on devices like the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop Studio with our Surface Slim Pen 2, when you download the latest version of Journal from the Microsoft Store. Experience these tactile signals in two ways—ink-feel….

Garage project Journal makes your ink more powerful with improved lasso, multi-select, support for different languages, and more

Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is an ink and touch-first note-taking experience that uses AI to help you stay in the flow of your writing. You can use scratch out to quickly erase something, tap ink to quickly select a word or sentence, and use search to filter to things you’ve written like an item you starred or doodle you….

A new digital assistant for your browser with Stay Current, a Microsoft Garage project

We view the browser as a “window to the world”. As we browse online, we have access to all kinds of resources and information. There are some tasks we do every day that are monotonous and can very much be automated. With Stay Current, our mission is to transfer the power to automate to the people with relatively little effort—users….