Windows Weekly (Video)

The drama of the week: Microsoft is closing its retail stores Perhaps overdue, but shocking nonetheless: Microsoft is closing all of its retail stores Related: A look back at the 2012 opening of the first Boston-based Microsoft Store The drama of last week: Apple, the morning (OK, week) after Two developments of interest to the Microsoft community As expected, the first Apple Silicon developer device destroys Surface Pro X in benchmarks, no matter how you look at it Apple is reportedly thinking about bringing a Continuum-like feature to the iPhone where it could run macOS and be connected to a keyboard, mouse, and display. A more reasoned assessment about the impact of Apple's moves on Windows Windows 10 version 2004 is off to a slightly faster start than 1903. And now (finally) SL3 and SP7 can get 2004. Yay? (But not SL1 and SL2. Boo!) Windows 10 Pro no longer has deferral capabilities Except that it sort of still does. Here's what changed. That shift from rings to channels just happened Microsoft to expand automatic Edge rollout to education then businesses Microsoft announces new digital skills initiative Related: Teams is getting a new learning app Big changes coming to OneDrive for consumers and businesses It's July, so Xbox Games with Gold and Game Pass subscribers have new games on the way Mixer co-founder is OK with closure Xbox Game Bar is now extensible Tip of the week: Download this tool, just in case: Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool you'll want to download just in case. App pick of the week: Amazon Prime for Windows 10. I don't often get to recommend Store apps. Also: Power Apps and Power Automate. You need to look at these M365 commercial features. Enterprise pick of the week: Your Office 365 IT pro bible has gotten a feature update. Tony's Redmond's 7th edition (2021) of Office 365 for IT Pros is now available: Windows Weekly listeners will get $10 off with this offer code. Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: STOCKHISTORY. Pulling stock prices directly into Excel has been a top request for a while. It's almost here in the form of STOCKHISTORY. And perfect timing, given Microsoft's stock price has been at an all-time high lately. Beer pick of the week: Victory Prima Pils. Hosts: https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte, https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley, and https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at https://www.thurrott.com/ Check out Mary Jo's blog at http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/ The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of https://twitter.com/carlfranklin. Sponsor: http://canary.tools/twit

Sorry (but not sorry): We need to discuss Apple. Ladies and gentlemen, start your gongs! The Mac transition to ARM and how this is better than Windows 10 on ARM The new macOS UX and how this is better/more consistent than Fluent in Windows 10 The new iOS 14 UX and how it's the same thing as live tiles, just 10 years later Related: Microsoft complained about Apple's business practices; Apple subtly announced small changes to address the concerns. Edge memory improvements are coming to Chrome too Consumer features start appearing in Teams on mobile in preview Skype for Windows 10 and Skype desktop are consolidated. Confused yet? From the "oh, you'll pay" department: Edge enterprise sync comes to Microsoft 365 Business Premium; Windows Defender ATP comes to Android in preview Send Later feature coming to Outlook on the web. Some of it, anyway. Microsoft shuts down Mixer More Game Pass games coming this week! Tip of the week: Paul embraces Linux, and you should too. How to correctly install and configure WSL 2. What's the future of WSL? App pick of the week: Opera. Opera 69 for desktop picks up Twitter integration. Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft's latest acquisitions in data modeling and IoT. It's always interesting to see where Microsoft is putting its acquisition dollars. In the past two weeks, the company bought a data-modeling company, ADRM Software, and an IoT security company, CyberX. Developer pick of the week: Microsoft releases phase one of OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM. Microsoft loves Java! Cocktail pick of the week: Grand Cosmo: A tribute to CosmoDB (COME ON)... Paul's wife's unique take on a Cosmopolitan: - 6 parts pear vodka - 2 parts Grand Marnier (or triple sec or Cointreau) - 2 parts lime juice - 4 parts cranberry juice - Shake with ice and serve over ice. Garnish with a lime wedge or slice. Hosts: https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte, https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley, and https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at https://www.thurrott.com/ Check out Mary Jo's blog at http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/ The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of https://twitter.com/carlfranklin. Sponsors: http://getroman.com/WINDOWS https://expressvpn.com/windows

Sorry (but not sorry): We need to discuss Apple. Ladies and gentlemen, start your gongs! The Mac transition to ARM and how this is better than Windows 10 on ARM The new macOS UX and how this is better/more consistent than Fluent in Windows 10 The new iOS 14 UX and how it's the same thing as live tiles, just 10 years later Related: Microsoft complained about Apple's business practices; Apple subtly announced small changes to address the concerns. Edge memory improvements are coming to Chrome too Consumer features start appearing in Teams on mobile in preview Skype for Windows 10 and Skype desktop are consolidated. Confused yet? From the "oh, you'll pay" department: Edge enterprise sync comes to Microsoft 365 Business Premium; Windows Defender ATP comes to Android in preview Send Later feature coming to Outlook on the web. Some of it, anyway. Microsoft shuts down Mixer More Game Pass games coming this week! Tip of the week: Paul embraces Linux, and you should too. How to correctly install and configure WSL 2. What's the future of WSL? App pick of the week: Opera. Opera 69 for desktop picks up Twitter integration. Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft's latest acquisitions in data modeling and IoT. It's always interesting to see where Microsoft is putting its acquisition dollars. In the past two weeks, the company bought a data-modeling company, ADRM Software, and an IoT security company, CyberX. Developer pick of the week: Microsoft releases phase one of OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM. Microsoft loves Java! Cocktail pick of the week: Grand Cosmo: A tribute to CosmoDB (COME ON)... Paul's wife's unique take on a Cosmopolitan: - 6 parts pear vodka - 2 parts Grand Marnier (or triple sec or Cointreau) - 2 parts lime juice - 4 parts cranberry juice - Shake with ice and serve over ice. Garnish with a lime wedge or slice. Hosts: https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte, https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley, and https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at https://www.thurrott.com/ Check out Mary Jo's blog at http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/ The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of https://twitter.com/carlfranklin. Sponsors: http://getroman.com/WINDOWS https://expressvpn.com/windows

Everything You Need to Know About Windows 10 20H2 Hosts: https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte, https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley, and https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/677 Sponsors: http://openshift.com/windows http://lastpass.com/twit

Everything You Need to Know About Windows 10 20H2 Hosts: https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte, https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley, and https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/677 Sponsors: http://openshift.com/windows http://lastpass.com/twit