August 03, 2022

Windows Weekly 788: A Mai Tai of Headwinds

2 hours 5 minutes

Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues

Windows 10 22H2

Microsoft enters the final test phase for Windows 10 22H2 before rollout - but doesn't announce what the new features are

Microsoft said information about the "scoped features" will come later

Windows 11

Dev channel got a new build today with Game Pass widget

Beta Channel gets two new builds because of course it does

Windows Subsystem for Android to get gamepad support

Microsoft 365

Outlook Lite arrives for low-end Android devices

Uber emails are crashing Outlook

Teams for Apple silicon Macs is rolling out 'in the coming months'

More Earnings Learnings

Apple: All businesses but iPhone and Services were down, and Services growth was half that of the past year, and they lost subscribers

Amazon: Net loss because of Rivian investment, but AWS revenues jumped 33 percent YOY to $19.74 billion

Intel: Net loss of $454 million on revenues of $15.3 billion, a decline of 22 percent year-over-year. Why? PCs

AMD: Net income of $447 million on revenues of $6.6 billion in the quarter ending June 25, 2022

Microsoft added more than 40,000 employees in the last year and is now well over 200K employees

Xbox & Gaming

Activision Blizzard limps through the quarter, and Microsoft disses them to pass regulatory approval

Google is not killing Stadia. Yet

Amazon Luna heads to 2022 Samsung Smart TVs

PS5 sales plummet, but Sony finalizes Bungie acquisition

Nintendo misses on earnings, sales down 4.7 percent

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Buy the PC you need, not the PC you might need

App pick of the week: VMWare Fusion 22H2 for Mac

Enterprise pick of the week: More Microsoft Defender products for defending all the things

Codename pick of the week: Oasis

Beer pick of the week: Deciduous Lollipop Forest

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.

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August 03, 2022

Windows Weekly 788: A Mai Tai of Headwinds

2 hours 5 minutes

Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues

Windows 10 22H2

Microsoft enters the final test phase for Windows 10 22H2 before rollout - but doesn't announce what the new features are

Microsoft said information about the "scoped features" will come later

Windows 11

Dev channel got a new build today with Game Pass widget

Beta Channel gets two new builds because of course it does

Windows Subsystem for Android to get gamepad support

Microsoft 365

Outlook Lite arrives for low-end Android devices

Uber emails are crashing Outlook

Teams for Apple silicon Macs is rolling out 'in the coming months'

More Earnings Learnings

Apple: All businesses but iPhone and Services were down, and Services growth was half that of the past year, and they lost subscribers

Amazon: Net loss because of Rivian investment, but AWS revenues jumped 33 percent YOY to $19.74 billion

Intel: Net loss of $454 million on revenues of $15.3 billion, a decline of 22 percent year-over-year. Why? PCs

AMD: Net income of $447 million on revenues of $6.6 billion in the quarter ending June 25, 2022

Microsoft added more than 40,000 employees in the last year and is now well over 200K employees

Xbox & Gaming

Activision Blizzard limps through the quarter, and Microsoft disses them to pass regulatory approval

Google is not killing Stadia. Yet

Amazon Luna heads to 2022 Samsung Smart TVs

PS5 sales plummet, but Sony finalizes Bungie acquisition

Nintendo misses on earnings, sales down 4.7 percent

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Buy the PC you need, not the PC you might need

App pick of the week: VMWare Fusion 22H2 for Mac

Enterprise pick of the week: More Microsoft Defender products for defending all the things

Codename pick of the week: Oasis

Beer pick of the week: Deciduous Lollipop Forest

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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:

infrascale.com/TWIT

UserWay.org/twit

CDW.com/LenovoClient

...more

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