News of the Week

• As of late last week, Windows 10 1809 (the October 2018 update) is now ready for broad deployment, MS says.
• Microsoft drops eBooks from Microsoft Store and Edge Without Warning.
• Surface Book 2 is 1.5 years old and it just got a new configuration and it's complicated.
• HoloLens is being used by the Royal Canadian Navy.
• Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2019 for Max and VS Live Share are all now available.

Tips and picks

• Tip/app pick of the week: Time for some games
• Tip/app pick of the week #2: It's past time to abandon Groove
• Enterprise pick of the week: Putting the 'open' in ODI (Open Data Initiative)
• Codename pick of the week: Cayman
• Beer pick of the week: Founders KBS 2019

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