Users of Outlook on Office 365, Microsoft's subscription-based cloud productivity suite, will find that the ":)" emoticon will actually get autocorrrected into a standard emoji.

Thankfully, in 2017, Microsoft added an emoji picker accessible via a simple keyboard shortcut: Win + . In other words, hold the start button and period at the same time and you’ll see a pop-up ...

The Unicode Consortium has conducted research into the emoji symbols which have been used most frequently in 2021. And on first glance, the top 10 are reassuringly positive in outlook: Laughter ...

They've included skin-tone modifiers, and a means of mixing and matching different emoji, allowing users to create the symbols which best represent them. Microsoft explains more in a blog: ...

Users of Outlook on Office 365, Microsoft's subscription-based cloud productivity suite, will find that the ":)" emoticon will actually get autocorrrected into a standard emoji. Which means that ...

That's not the only thing Microsoft revamped in its massive update. In addition to introducing more than 1700 new symbols, the new Windows emoji let you mix and match skintones so you can create ...

Google and Microsoft have already included Unicode 9.0 emoji in the OS updates they're releasing this fall, and Apple will presumably do the same when it's ready.