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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