Microsoft partners are on a rampage

• Microsoft is cutting internal use rights for its products and services, meaning no more free ride on product licensing for partners
• Not a good look for Microsoft the week before its annual partner rah-rah fest. And potentially a risky move, too
• Is it really all about the money? Or is this also a way to winnow down the partner contingent, eliminating smaller partners
• Also bad timing: The week before its Ready sales kick-off Microsoft is cutting jobs and moving folks around

Windows 10: As the Insider builds turn

• ISOs are out for 18932 (Windows 10 20H1)
• A new Windows Server 20H1 build is out. What's new? No idea
• All the existing Windows 10 variants (1507 to 1903) got Cumulative Update patches on Patch Tuesday
• Related: Remix3D.com shutdown is imminent. (Wait, it's still there?)

Non-Windows Microsoft news

• Microsoft Android apps getting house ads - What are we to make of this?
• Look who's on the private Linux developer list
• Microsoft is not moving to manufacture out of China
• Feeling British? Try these new Surface skins

To the cloud

• Microsoft's Desktop Analytics service now in preview. And of course, it's got an AI angle
• ServiceNow becomes the latest ISV to make Azure its 'preferred cloud'

Xbox

• July 2019 Xbox Update is here
• Microsoft patents a cool mobile controller
• Cuphead is going to be a Netflix series. I assume it will be as violent as Game of Thrones.

Tips and picks

• App pick of the week: Firefox 68
• App pick #2: Windows 1.11 is a (lame) Stranger Things tie-in
• App pick #3: New Outlook on the web is heading out to everyone on Office 365 commercial
• Enterprise pick of the week: SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 have left the building
• Enterprise pick No. 2: MJFChat on Petri.com
• Beer pick of the week: Highland Park Brewery No Rest

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• Mozilla's privacy-enhancing DNS over HTTPS support
• Facial recognition and automobile license plate scanners
• The future of satellite-based Internet services
• How a Ruby code repository was hacked
• The UK GCHQ's proposal for adding "ghost" participants into private conversations

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• Apple kills MacBook, updates MacBook Air and Pro
• Improved keyboard coming with 16-Inch MacBook Pro
• Apple drops Mac storage prices
• 10.2 Inch iPad coming this month?
• The App Store turns 11
• Apple re-releases Texas Hold'em app
• FaceTime will fake eye contact
• Students get 6 months of free Apple Music, free Beats headphones, $100 off MacBook Air
• Huawei wants to be as private as Apple
• Xiaomi "Mimoji" obviously rips off Apple's Memoji
• Bill Gates admits he wasn't as good of a wizard as Steve Jobs
• Apple congratulates US Womens World Cup Soccer Team
• Original Apple 1 operation manual can be yours for only $10,000
• Zoom vulnerability lets others spy on your webcam, secretly reinstalls Zoom

Tips and Picks
• Leo's Pick: Anker PowerPort Atom PD 1 and 2 with gallium nitride
• Andy's Tip: Take a break between tasks
• Rene's Pick: Nike (Yes! Nike!) Air Shoes
• Lory's Pick: mophie Powerstation Hub

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• Gaming's Streaming Future Might Make Microsoft and Sony Buddies
• Apple TV Focuses on Quality Over Quantity (Except When It Comes to the Remote)
• MacBook Keyboard Might No Longer Be Crap Soon
• Facetime Will Force You to Make Eye Contact via AR Magic
• Can Apple Design Without Jony Ive?
• Amazon: 25 Years of the Commodification of Our Existence
• Soon Your Car Will Tell You Where the Nearest Parking Spot Is
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Hits a Congress-Sized Speed Bump
• Amazon Wants to Launch 3,000 Internet Satellites
• Facebook Image Tags Revealed in Outage
• Superhuman Email is (No Longer) Spying on You
• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones

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Windows 10
• 19H2 FINALLY - The first 19H2 build heads to the Slow ring. Mary Jo was right: It's an R2/SP type release.
• Also: Why does Microsoft keep promising things and not doing them, and then belittling customers when they ask about it?
• Windows 10 version 1903 continues to roll out very slowly
• Another new 20H1 test build for the Fast Ring with minor tweaks is out today (July 3)
• Your Phone can now show Android notifications in Windows 10
• Cortana is getting pushed aside even further in Windows 10. Will it be removed from the OS next?

Office 365/Microsoft 365
• Microsoft readies Office for virtual desktop services, including Windows Virtual Desktop
• Microsoft wants to start marketing Microsoft 365 as a single product in its new fiscal year

Xbox
• More games come to---and leave---Xbox Game Pass this month - including some of 11 indie games coming to the service
• Here are the Games with Gold titles for July - one is a personal favorite
• Major Cuphead DLC Release Delayed to 2020

More
• Microsoft ebook refunds start arriving
• Corel reportedly sold for $1 billion

Tips and picks
• Tip of the week: Consider joining Microsoft's Insider programs
• Tip #2: A Windows 10 Field Guide update
• Tip #3: Enable tracking protection in the new Edge
• Codename pick of the week: M365 FX
• Beer pick of the week: Cigar City Jai Ali

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• Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones
• Samsung Galaxy Fold Ready for Launch (Again)
• Trump Says Huawei Can Sell Phones in the US Again - But Can They? (They Can't.)
• Galaxy Note 10 Launch August 7
• Google Jigsaw's Toxic Culture
• Less Secure Apps and G Suite
• New Zealand vs Google
• Germany vs Facebook
• Facebook vs Anti-vaxxers
• Twitter Warns You About Controversial Tweets from Public Figures
• Florida and Georgia hit by Ransomware
• White House Social Media Summit July 11
• Berkeley Wins Right to Warn You About Cell Phone Radiation
• Google Launches Fuchsia Developer Site
• Google Patents Multi-Page Foldable Phone
• How to Opt-Out of Airport Face Recognition
• Why the Pentagon is Shooting Lasers at Your Heart
• Intel Auctions Its 5G Patents
• Wikipedia Founder Calls for Social Media Strike
• Equifax CIO Jailed for Insider Trading
• Microsoft Gives Refunds for Yanked Ebooks

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• Leo's Tool: Dozens of Drivers Got Stuck After Blindly Following Google Maps Into a Mud Pit
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