Windows Weekly (Video)

We broke this story a month ago but Microsoft just confirmed that S mode is real. But won't happen until 2019!? Windows 10 builds are coming fast and furious: The end is nigh! Debian and Kali come to Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows 10 usage share for Dummies, you can edit 3D images in 3D now in Paint 3D. Skip Ahead folks get a new Windows 10 Redstone 5 build with more Sets functionality. Related: MS made a few Win 10 announcements at Win Dev Day. Windows 10 is now an AI platform for devs. What does this mean? MSIX is Microsoft's new container/packaging solution

• Tip of the week: Enable 1440p support on Xbox One
• App pick of the week: Groupy 1.1
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft 365, Azure Stack for Government, Azure for Students
• Beer pick of the week: Russian River Damnation

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

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Windows 10 RS4 Build 17110 has no new features for consumers - but some interesting enterprise features. Microsoft v. U.S. email case heats up, but the Supreme Court will clear up this mess to everyone's satisfaction. Did Apple just kick Azure to the curb? Fear and loathing in developer land. Google releases Flutter beta. What does this mean to PWAs? Or to Xamarin? More Andromeda silliness. 5G is coming. You can preorder the HP Envy x2 ARM. Mobile World Congress is underway. Samsung Galaxy S9 looks amazing. Nokia joins Android One and is coming to the US. Huawei keeps copying Apple. Google ARCore goes live.

• Tip of the week: Games with Gold! Plus: COD: WWII gamers on Xbox/PC have a nice addition coming this week
• App pick of the week: Grammarly for mobile. Plus: Microsoft Edge for iOS updated with 3D touch
• Enterprise pick of the week: True guest access to be available for MS Teams starting March 5. Plus: There might be a free, standalone version of Teams coming after all.
• Codename pick of the week: Zanzibar
• Beer pick of the week: Other Half Forever Ever

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

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

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• Tip of the week: You're still going to need an ad blocker
• PLUS: WINKEY + CTRL + c
• App pick of the week: Tweeten
• Also: Amazon Music makes a surprise appearance in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. Ahead of iTunes.
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft for Startups
• Codename pick of the week: Seville
• Beer pick of the week: The Bruery White Chocolate

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

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2018: A transition year for Windows 10. SKUmorphic: Windows 10 line-up changes coming. Windows 10 S becomes Windows 10 S Mode. New Home Advanced edition coming. Here come Progressive Web Apps for Windows 10. Support changes coming for Windows 10, Office users. Office 365 ProPlus will only work on Windows 10 starting in 2020 - and Office 2019, too. Q2 FY 2018 Earnings Recap. Surface business up only one percent - and that is a serious problem. MS brass still bullish about Cortana - and they are delusional. Build 2018: Microsoft hasn't announced this yet for some reason, but we know the date and place. An Xbox One S PUGB bundle is coming. Does this mean that the game is about to exit beta? The long-awaited new Xbox Wireless Adapter is now available.

• Tip of the week: Two ways to get Cortana on your Android device's lock screen
• App pick of the week: Opera 51
• Enterprise pick of the week: OneDrive for Business switch offer
• Codename pick of the week: The other "Polaris"
• Beer pick of the week: Boulder Shake Chocolate Porter

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

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Yes, Polaris is real. No, it's not a new version of Windows. Microsoft corrects an Intel patch. Windows Defender to crack down on scareware starting March 1. The Windows 10 in-box apps suck. Story Remix in Photos gets a big update. Windows Camera getting an update. Rumor of the week: Microsoft to buy EA? Please be true. Plan B: Valve. Plan C: PUBG. Plan D: MJF jumps off the roof (clutching an Xbox). Related: Microsoft buys PlayFab (there's an Azure angle to all this). Related: Over 4 million people on PUBG for Xbox One now. Microsoft Teams gets its biggest update since its launch last March. By the way, why is there no Teams client app in the Microsoft Store? Maybe because PWAs not coming until Spring? We mentioned this in passing last week, but it's true: The Office 365 apps are in the Microsoft Store now. (For Office 365 Home and Personal only, for now). Coming up after the bell: MS Q2 FY 2018 earnings.

• Tip of the week: Get two Sonos speakers for the price of one HomePod.
• Plus: Buy any Xbox One and get a free game. Yes, including X!
• App pick of the week: OneDrive and Office apps for iOS
• Plus: Ink to Code, an intriguing new app generator
• Enterprise pick of the week: Azure Standard Support
• 'Microspeak' pick of the week: Pentad
• Beer pick of the week: Avery Ginger Sour

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

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What's NExT for Windows? There have been some shakeups (and layoffs) recently in the Windows org. Let's try to read the tea leaves re: what MS considers its Next Generation Experiences. Applause, please: MS Office codebases across platforms are now finally aligned. Xbox Gaming Pass just got way more interesting (for some of us, anyway).

• Tip of the week: Want to escape fake news and political posts? Try Instagram instead of Facebook or Twitter.
• App pick of the week: Office 365 comes to Microsoft Store. Maybe. I think so. Also: Object Desktop 2018 ... Now with Groupy!
• Enterprise pick of the week: Spectre madness continues!
• Enterprise pick No. 2: Always Connected PCs
• Beer pick of the week: Baxter Window Seat

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

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Let's talk about Microsoft as an AI company. MS is going to look for the AI angle for every announcement this year, and many customers are right there with them. Cortana becomes less of a search front end and more of a conversational chatbot. Will MS go so far as to call Windows 10 an " AI OS" at some point? Microsoft continues to add AI smarts to its apps and services – Outlook, Office, Skype. Azure supports several AI services now – machine learning, bot service, cognitive services, predictive analytics.

Win 10 1709 is now 'fully deployed' and ready for business: what does this actually mean? Related: MS says 1709 (Redstone 3) was "fastest to reach 100 million devices"... The evil plan is working! The march to 1803 continues — Redstone 4 17074 available for PCs.

The industry marks 6 straight years of PC sales decline.

Hold onto your IMs: Skype is finally getting end-to-end encryption (in a preview for Skype Insiders now). What took so long? The OneDrive for business rollout of Files Restore is about to begin. No one seems to understand this is business only, and cloud-only.

Xbox: yes, Microsoft is FINALLY working on a gen-2 Xbox Elite Controller. The WOW starts NOW! Over 3 million people on PUBG. But it's still pretty terrible on Xbox.

• Tip of the week: Get free IT training ... From Google!?
• App picks of the week: PowerShell Core, Object Desktop 2018
• Enterprise pick of the week: A great chart for comparing Skype for Business and Teams
• Codename pick of the week: Panther
• Beer pick of the week: Cloudwater NE DIPA Citra Mosaic

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

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CES 2018: what a mess. There are new PCs: Dell XPS 15 2-in-1, Miix 630 (Snapdragon), ThinkPad X1, and HP. Oh, and remember that Intel is a thing in the Always-Connected PC space, too. More mobile carriers (including Verizon!) are on board with Windows 10 on ARM PCs.

Digital assistants are the top story at CES, but where is Cortana? Google Assistant owns CES - 1 million actions, with unbelievable device and services coverage. PC makers are pushing a non-Cortana agenda. HP and Lenovo both showed off Alexa on Windows 10 PCs. Lenovo + Google = first standalone Daydream headset. Lenovo creates the first assistant-based smart display. Microsoft says it is not giving up on Cortana. Microsoft pretends that Cortana is not dead. This is Windows phone all over again. Cortana thermostat is shipping in March and is at CES. And why is it killing off Dynamics 365 integration? A solution: open up Windows 10 to other assistants.

Intel security vulnerabilities: Intel has lied to us all, but it continues to claim that it can make CPUs "Immune" to bugs. Microsoft comes clean on the real-world impact. It's bad, and worse than what Intel claimed -- especially on Server. Remember: we still don't really know how this is going to affect performance. Benchmarks are almost nonexistent. Microsoft's exact words don't tell us much, either. Paul: it's really bad on everything but Windows 10 on the latest hardware, we have heard this repeatedly. Making lemonade: Intel problems will help Microsoft a lot, as it turns out. Xbox One: there's a system update on the way.

• Tip of the week: Maybe it's time to buy a new PC
• App pick of the week: Super Lucky's Tale
• Enterprise pick of the week: Work Folders on Demand
• Enterprise pick of the week No. 2: Lots of .NET goodies including free e-books, samples, videos & other resources that any .NET architect or aspiring one would love.
• Thanks to Scott Hanselman for the beer pick of the week: Bittersweet Nitro

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

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CES is coming! ARM PCs and connected cars will be there. Microsoft predictions for 2018: Windows 10 usage should finally surpass that of Windows 7 (note that June 30 was the original target for 1 billion users.) VR/MR for Xbox One. Microsoft 365 for individuals. Windows 10 S - something has to give. Maybe progressive web apps will come to the rescue. No Andromeda tablet/phone until RS5 or later. All hands on Teams! Full steam ahead, especially as a way to get more users to upgrade to O365 E5. MS continues to chip away at integrating LinkedIn. MS Graph integrations in 2018. AI-washing of everything/anything continues. FPGA access opened up in Azure to all. Outlook.com Beta - Calendar and People. Windows as a Service? Formally extend the support timeframe for businesses only perhaps?

About that Intel kernel-memory leak issue: we won't really know much until next week on the Windows side - is it 30 percent? Or .3 percent? Probably the latter is closer to reality.

Fall Creators Update usage soars to over 50 percent in just two months.

Edge (ahem) edges Chrome and Firefox in battery life again - but does it matter? And what does this say about Windows 10 on Snapdragon, which has exactly the same advantage?

Revisiting Microsoft v. Google RE: Chrome in the Store. This is still Microsoft's fault, but Google knows exactly what it's doing (and why.)

Now anyone can buy Surface Pro with LTE.

Microsoft formally kills Kinect.

Groove Music Pass is dead: Music entry disappears from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. Remembering 11 years of ineptitude.

• Tip of the week: Windows 10 Field Guide is 50 percent off! Intel CPU bug sale! Get Windows 10 Field Guide for 50% off until Patch Tuesday! Plus: First Games with Gold of 2018! Happy New Year: Enjoy your free games.
• App pick of the week: Write! Also: Kodi for Xbox One
• Enterprise pick of the week: Avere (and its flash storage tech) join Microsoft
• Codename pick of the week: 8828080
• Beer pick of the week: Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (2017 vintage)

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

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

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