WW 658: Ring the Red Bell

This Week's Stories:

Panos Is Wumped (Windows plus Pumped) Panos is running a new combined Windows and Devices team. JoeB is going to OXO What will PC OEMs do? Key takeaway: This is good for Windows and for Microsoft Related: More reorg news of the day. Teper is going to run Teams. And Jeff Weiner is out as CEO of LinkedIn.Microsoft controversies of the week!

#1 Surface Hub 2X: What's happening After a leak claimed that Microsoft was delaying or even canceling Surface Hub 2X, Microsoft revised its plans (again, remember this is the second major delay/issue). What the heck is going on with Surface?#2 Microsoft Store/UWP on the decline Another nail in the coffin: Microsoft is shutting down the ad-based monetization of UWP apps in the Store. But which coffin? This probably says more about Microsoft Store than UWP.#3 BingJacked: The sequel? Windows Search is down for many this morning. It's back now (but you probably need a reboot or 3)Microsoft at MWC Microsoft will show off some stuff at MWC, but nothing like last year. Looks like Paul is staying home.Microsoft earnings We're a week late and a dollar short, but let's talk about Microsoft's earnings. Microsoft earned $11.6 billion on revenues of $36.9 billion in the quarter ending December 31. Windows had a larger than expected contribution Paul's business-by-business analysisXbox There's a new System Update (2002, of course) coming in February Microsoft launches a new Xbox Bounty ProgramPicks of the Week Tip of the week: Give Game Pass for PC a shot App pick of the week: Outlook ... on mobile, not the PC Enterprise pick of the week: System Center 2019 Update Rollup 1 is out Codename pick of the week: Aruba Beer pick of the week: Allagash Tripel

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