<ul><li><strong>Microsoft's fall hardware launch: more evolution than revolution</strong></li> <li>As expected, the new small Surface Laptop, christened Surface Laptop Go</li> <li>Updated models of Surface Pro X</li> <li>New accessories</li> <li>And that's it. No refreshes on the Surface Pro, Surface Book, Surface Studio, Surface Go</li> <li>This is nothing short of a strategy do-over for Surface. Granted it's been unfolding for years.</li> <li>Related: Some more impressive PCs were announced this week too</li> <li>Related: New Win 10 test build for Dev Channel adds a new optional customization page, file-association management</li> </ul><p> </p> <ul><li><strong>Let the antitrust games begin for FAMA</strong></li> <li>Big tech companies are abusive monopolies that need breaking up or regulating, says the U.S. House Judiciary committee</li> <li>Microsoft isn't on the guilty list this time around. Why? Outside gaming, not much consumer impact. And it's not a monopoly any more in any market.</li> </ul><p> </p> <ul><li><strong>Not a great week for the Microsoft cloud</strong></li> <li>Back to back (to back) Outlook problems this past week, starting with this one</li> <li>And today, we're back to admin portal issues for M365/O365. Sigh</li> <li>A post-mortem on the big Azure AD outage: Definitely the perfect storm</li> <li>Related: Greece is the word (for a new MS datacenter region... someday in the future)</li> </ul><p> </p> <ul><li><strong>Bing is rebranded to Microsoft Bing. This is huge!</strong></li> <li><strong>Microsoft celebrates the best-ever year for Xbox Game Studios</strong></li> </ul><p> </p> <ul><li><strong>Tips and picks</strong></li> <li>Tip of the week: Display file extensions. It came from the Twitters: Power users are confused about why Windows doesn't display file extensions by default. Power users should know better.</li> <li>App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code. Everyone's doing it! And now you can access Edge Dev Tools right in the editor</li> <li>Dev picks of the week: DConf: Microsoft's first Java dev conf for the community. Free reg, Oct. 27 to 29. Learn JavaScript for free with Microsoft's new course</li> <li>Codename pick of the week: A bevy of Surface-related codenames. Nora, Wakita and Wolfe, Canon, Silas and Goma (thanks Aggoramenti Lumia)</li> <li>Whiskey pick of the week: Screwball Whiskey. Like peanut butter? Then this is too dangerous to drink. It's unbelievable. Now I need to pair it with a grape jelly vodka :)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley">Mary Jo Foley</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a> </p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a> </p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a> </p> <p>Check out Mary Jo's blog at <a href="http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/" target="_blank">AllAboutMicrosoft.com</a> </p> <p>The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://try.eset.com/twit">try.eset.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code WINDOWS</a></li> <li><a href="http://hover.com/twit">hover.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2020-10-07 13:32:44