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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
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com
The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
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