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	Podcast:		Windows Weekly (MP3)
	Episode:		WW 657: Bingjacked
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		02:03:31
	Publish Date:		2020-01-29 18:25:28
	Description:		Thinking more about Surface Neo and Duo - Last week, Microsoft released the SDK and emulator for the Android-based Duo; ones for Neo coming soon - The Duo SDK for Mac developers also is now available (as of this week) - So let's think ahead about why Microsoft is calling these devices "a new category" - Who is the intended audience? It's not creatives (who were big targets of the Surface tablets/PCs) - Are these going to be positioned as PCs? Tablets? Is Apple still a primary competitive target for these devices? - What kinds of software and services will be preloaded? - What are the hardware, M365/O365 and Edge/MSN/Bing teams contributing? (they supposedly develop these new devices together) New launcher, unified search, stuff like Collections? - Will developers find these dual-screen devices interesting enough to target? Or not till the UI comes to "regular" PCs? - Will Neo and Duo attract users who don't see a need for a PC anymore? Does MS think they could be users' sole (or maybe secondary) devices? Thinking more about search - Last week, Microsoft made a bad move: Deciding to hijack the Chrome browsers of O365 ProPlus users and switch their search engine to Bing - So far, Microsoft has not claimed "based on user feedback" that they're undoing this move - The real reason for this: Microsoft is starting to push Bing as an Intranet search engine (see MS Search in Bing; Project Cortex, the new Office app experience) - Implications of this - Microsoft will lose the moral high-ground if it doesn't do the right thing Windows 10 - Windows version 1909 usage share hits 15 percent - New Insider build, no more Insider PWA app - New CU fixes at least some File Explorer problems for 1903/1909 users - Related: Microsoft to bring Edge tab management feature to Chrome - Semi-related: A major USB-C bug has hit virtually all modern ThinkPads. - Not really related, but still worth a mention: Premium Outlook.com users are losing personalized email addresses at end of Feb. (unless you subscribe to O365) Windows 7! - FSF wants Microsoft to open-source Windows. They're nuts. And yet... - Microsoft has one more security update coming for Windows 7 Xbox - New Games with Gold for February Tips and picks - Tip of the week: Help me pick the next programming project - .NETpad (Visual Basic/Windows Forms/.NET Framework) is winding down, so the next one will be a C#/WPF/.NET Framework/Core project. And I need some ideas. - App pick of the week: Surface Duo Emulator - Enterprise pick of the week: Dynamics 365 Wave 1 2020 - Enterprise pick No. 2: Beware the LDAP signing apocalypse in March - Beer pick of the week: Perennial Abraxas 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. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT FreshBooks.com/windows
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