Windows Weekly 746: Token Woof

Global Azure Outage, Ally.io Acquisition, Visual Studio 2022

Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too

AMD-Based PCs Suffer a 3-15 Percent Performance Hit with Windows 11

Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store

It's Official: The PC Market Stalled in Q3

Azure & Cloud

Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services

Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Blames Russia for Most Nation-State Cyberattacks

Microsoft 365

EU regulators asking Teams rivals about Microsoft's bundling practices, per Slack's 2020 complaint

Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva

Smooth Scrolling is Coming to Excel for Windows

Amazon Embraces Hybrid Work

Developer

Microsoft delivers near-final VS 2022 Release Candidate and designates November 8 as GA date

Microsoft to Launch Visual Studio 2022 on November 8

Xbox

Microsoft Embraces Right to Repair

Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary Xbox Hardware

Quake Gets a Big Update for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5

Tips and picks

App pick of the week: Start11 RC

App pick of the week: Vivaldi 4.3

Enterprise pick of the week: Ignite sessions are live now

Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard

Beer pick of the week: Allagash Ghoulschip

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