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Google has announced that physical USB security key support is coming to all version of G Suite over the next few weeks.  Support of security keys, to this point, has been limited to Enterprise level customers.  That is changing as all variants of the service will be gaining support.

Security Keys are a physical USB key that you plug into a device that gives you access to it.  It is perhaps the ultimate in 2-Factor authentication.  Yubico is perhaps the most well known of these types of keys and they are readily available at low cost.

A new update to Microsoft Outlook for Android is rolling out, bringing improved conversation viewing and interactions for users.  The new update is version 2.2.121 for those keeping score at home.  It has been released to the Play Store so if you have Outlook installed, you should get the OTA update over the next few days.

First, all messages now appear uncollapsed in conversations and with cleaner separation between messages.  This makes it easier for you to scan email conversations to find a particular email in the thread.  Previously, everything was collapsed into one header and you it looked like one giant email.

A busy day on the Chrome OS front.  The Chrome OS Dev Channel was updated to a sixth Chrome 66 build and now the Chrome OS Stable Channel has seen its second Chrome 65 build.  The new build is 65.0.3325.184 (Platform version: 10323.62.0/1) for those keeping score at home.  Perhaps more important to everyone is that this build is coming to Chromebooks that can run Android apps.

Having checked for this update this morning on my Pixelbook, which you can do by typing chrome://help in the browser bar, the update is already out there and has been applied.

A sixth and perhaps final build has landed in the Chrome OS Dev Channel.  Build 66.0.3359.48 (Platform version: 10452.22.0) is now available to devices in what is considered the Alpha channel of Chrome OS and you can download it by typing chrome://help in the browser bar.  This is the sixth consecutive week that a new build has made its way into the Dev Channel and is somewhat rare.  Most of the time only 4 or 5 builds land here before the build is bumped up to the Chrome OS Beta Channel.

As for what is new, the Chromium team has released a partial log in the Git for the build.  Review it, most of the changes are security and performance changes since the latest Dev build.