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Podcast: Windows Weekly (MP3)
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WW 612: N is for OneNote

Category: Technology
Duration: 02:10:50
Publish Date: 2019-03-13 20:55:33
Description:

Windows

  • Microsoft is ready to start nagging users about Windows 7's end of support deadline. So here come the pop-ups. Luckily, you can turn them off completely.
  • Plus: Microsoft brings DirectX 12 to Windows 7 ... for some reason.
  • Windows 10 19H1 users start testing Android app-mirroring.
  • Breaking: Windows 10 19H1 Home edition may allow you to defer updates by 35 days! (This is in A/B testing it seems)
  • Windows 10 now on more than 800 million active devices. Right on schedule!
  • Microsoft makes good on its year-old promise to give consumer app devs a 95% cut of revenues.
  • Microsoft says it is now able to remove faulty Windows 10 updates without user intervention – but are they? A mysterious support article mentions this with no details

Xbox + Gaming

  • Microsoft demos xCloud game streaming service.
  • There's a cool new controller, but it's not the Elite rev we all want
  • Minecraft is FINALLY coming to Xbox Game Pass in April
  • Master Chief Collection is FINALLY coming to Windows
  • Plus: Microsoft announces 13 new ID@Xbox titles
  • Plus: Xbox and PS gamers can now play Fornite together
  • Plus: Google is about to announce some big gaming news. But first, their controller.

Microsoft

  • Microsoft cuts 200 jobs in commercial sales
  • Microsoft sues Foxconn parent Hon Hai over 2013 patent-licensing deal

Tips and picks

  • Tip of the week: Crackdown 2 is now free on Xbox One
  • Plus: Spotify Premium users can get free (ad-supported) Hulu
  • App pick of the week: Google Chrome 73
  • Plus: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 is here, and you can get it on the Mac too!
  • Plus: our favourite podcast app.
  • Enterprise pick of the week: No more Semi-Annual Channel releases for System Center
  • Developer pick of the week: DTrace is coming to Windows 10 19H1
  • Beer pick of the week: Two Roads Brewing Co. Irish Exit

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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