Live From Building 7

We break down the SolarWinds hack, together mode comes to Skype, and Mac users get a couple of big Office app updates!

Plus, Microsoft helps NORAD track Santa and Azure free accounts add more services to stuff your stockings!

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Azure Government adds Top Secret new cloud, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will bring game streaming to browsers for iOS and PCs, and Breakout rooms are available in Teams.

Plus, Logic Apps has a new runtime chock full of updates, Microsoft signs the Climate Pledge, and Azure Functions adds custom handlers to support any language!

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Microsoft buys eSports platform smash.gg, M365 removes usernames from the Productivity Score feature, and Teams releases updates to together mode and calling!

Plus, Azure Pureview helps organizations track their confidential data and Microsoft is selling old-school Windows holiday sweaters to raise money for Girls Who Code!

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Microsoft announces a new sustainable datacenter region in Sweden, the Xbox Series X has plans to resolve performance bugs, and the Azure portal can now be used to migrate resource groups to a new region!

Plus, Azure IoT Central adds a tier for low-throughput devices and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management releases add-ins for scaling Edge and Cloud compute.

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Azure announces new supercomputing achievements at SC20, M365 Family and Personal adds driver data to the Family Safety App, and the new Microsoft Pluton processor design protects against physical attacks.

Plus, Microsoft speaks out against cyberattacks targeting companies involved in Covid vaccines, GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl repository, and we get a new round of Teams features.

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.NET 5 has been released and we dive into the details! Azure App Service will have day-zero support for .NET 5 as well as future .NET preview updates.

Plus, Xbox Series X/S is shipping, Visual Studio launches 16.8 for Windows and 8.8 for Mac, and Azure PowerShell brings intelligent command completion.

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Teams delivers advanced production features, speaker attribution for live captions, anonymous grading for educators, and many other new features!

Plus, the Hololens 2 Development Edition and custom retry policies for Azure Functions.

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Excel adds custom live data types, the Lobe app makes DIY image recognition fun and easy, and Teams releases new display devices for the workplace!

Plus, Microsoft partners with c3.AI and Adobe to build industry-specific AI CRMs, Alex drops the email tip of the year, and Xbox gives Snoop Dogg a refrigerator!

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Microsoft is offering Modular Datacenters and Azure Space partners with SpaceX Starlink to connect those Modular Datacenters over a satellite network!

Plus, Xbox offers a mobile gaming option for iOS, a new Windows release, and Microsoft will be powering CES!

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Xbox will share digital revenue with GameStop, Microsoft disrupts prolific botnet Trickbot, and Azure Cognitive Services image captioning matches human performance.

Plus, Surface Go reviews, Microsoft explores a partnership with Northern Lights on a project to capture liquid CO2, and Azure App Service Private Endpoints is GA!

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