WW 693: Greece is the Word - MS Fall Hardware Launch, Antitrust in Congress

Microsoft's fall hardware launch: more evolution than revolution

As expected, the new small Surface Laptop, christened Surface Laptop Go

Updated models of Surface Pro X

New accessories

And that's it. No refreshes on the Surface Pro, Surface Book, Surface Studio, Surface Go

This is nothing short of a strategy do-over for Surface. Granted it's been unfolding for years.

Related: Some more impressive PCs were announced this week too

Related: New Win 10 test build for Dev Channel adds a new optional customization page, file-association management

Let the antitrust games begin for FAMA

Big tech companies are abusive monopolies that need breaking up or regulating, says the U.S. House Judiciary committee

Microsoft isn't on the guilty list this time around. Why? Outside gaming, not much consumer impact. And it's not a monopoly any more in any market.

Not a great week for the Microsoft cloud

Back to back (to back) Outlook problems this past week, starting with this one

And today, we're back to admin portal issues for M365/O365. Sigh

A post-mortem on the big Azure AD outage: Definitely the perfect storm

Related: Greece is the word (for a new MS datacenter region... someday in the future)

Bing is rebranded to Microsoft Bing. This is huge!

Microsoft celebrates the best-ever year for Xbox Game Studios

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Display file extensions. It came from the Twitters: Power users are confused about why Windows doesn't display file extensions by default. Power users should know better.

App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code. Everyone's doing it! And now you can access Edge Dev Tools right in the editor

Dev picks of the week: DConf: Microsoft's first Java dev conf for the community. Free reg, Oct. 27 to 29. Learn JavaScript for free with Microsoft's new course

Codename pick of the week: A bevy of Surface-related codenames. Nora, Wakita and Wolfe, Canon, Silas and Goma (thanks Aggoramenti Lumia)

Whiskey pick of the week: Screwball Whiskey. Like peanut butter? Then this is too dangerous to drink. It's unbelievable. Now I need to pair it with a grape jelly vodka :)

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