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Live animated widget notifications, Pixel 6a, Dev Box Preview

Windows 11

Windows 11 version 22H2 arrives in September
Windows 11 is getting widget notifications
Camera app goes native on Arm, gets privacy shutter support 
Microsoft shuts down Windows Insider enterprise test bed
Microsoft 365

Outlook for Windows moves the cheese. Predictably, no one is happy
About those ads in Outlook Mobile...
Dev

Microsoft makes Dev Box available in preview
Microsoft, Canonical bring native .NET to Ubuntu Linux
Microsoft launches a Markdown language server
Mobile

Android 13 arrives a month early. Any other surprises?
Paul reviews the Pixel 6a - It's terrific.
Xbox

Microsoft only sold ~50 million Xbox Ones. Thanks, Kinect!
Here is the second round of Game Pass titles for August
Sony complains about Microsoft AB acquisition - but there's a simple fix for Sony's Microsoft/COD concerns
Sony to make an even bigger push on PC gaming
Google lets you launch cloud-streaming games from search results
Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
App pick of the week: Brave for iOS
Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft still won't say what's happening with S4BS
Codename pick of the week: LaTTe: Language Trajectory Transformer
Beer pick of the week: Transmitter Brewing W4 Dry Hopped Gose
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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MLX Team layoffs, Clipchamp Essentials plan, OneDrive turns 15

Microsoft lays off its Modern Life Experiences teams, has perhaps halted almost all hiring. 
Windows

New build (22621.382) for the Windows 11 Insider Preview Release Preview channel - 22H2 is still being refined. But there's no blog post and the support page for this release 404s.
New builds for Dev and Beta channels, and Devs get an ISO
Windows Package Manager 1.3 arrives with support for portable apps
Clipchamp has a single paid tier now but it's still too much. 
Microsoft is making its emoji library available on GitHub and Figma
Microsoft 365

Microsoft Edge 104 arrives
DuckDuckGo to block Microsoft trackers after embarrassment 
OneDrive turns 15 and Microsoft is redesigning its home page
.NET/dev

Visual Studio 2022 17.3 arrives with MAUI support, plus several .NET milestone releases
Xbox

Microsoft is FINALLY testing an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Family plan
Xbox Series S gets a memory boost
Microsoft is returning to Gamescom for some reason
A white Elite controller leaks and it is horrible
Unity picks Azure for its cloud developer tools
Nintendo has sold over 111 million Switch consoles
Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: Upgrading/Upgraded to Windows 11? You need to look at this OneDrive setting
App pick of the week: Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac
Enterprise pick of the week: Revisiting the M365-Office connectivity warning
Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Entra Verified ID now generally available
Beer pick of the week: Trillium Brewing Congress Street IPA
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues

Windows 10 22H2

Microsoft enters the final test phase for Windows 10 22H2 before rollout - but doesn't announce what the new features are
Microsoft said information about the "scoped features" will come later 
Windows 11

Dev channel got a new build today with Game Pass widget
Beta Channel gets two new builds because of course it does
Windows Subsystem for Android to get gamepad support
Microsoft 365

Outlook Lite arrives for low-end Android devices
Uber emails are crashing Outlook
Teams for Apple silicon Macs is rolling out 'in the coming months'
More Earnings Learnings

Apple: All businesses but iPhone and Services were down, and Services growth was half that of the past year, and they lost subscribers
Amazon: Net loss because of Rivian investment, but AWS revenues jumped 33 percent YOY to $19.74 billion
Intel: Net loss of $454 million on revenues of $15.3 billion, a decline of 22 percent year-over-year. Why? PCs
AMD: Net income of $447 million on revenues of $6.6 billion in the quarter ending June 25, 2022
Microsoft added more than 40,000 employees in the last year and is now well over 200K employees
Xbox & Gaming

Activision Blizzard limps through the quarter, and Microsoft disses them to pass regulatory approval
Google is not killing Stadia. Yet
Amazon Luna heads to 2022 Samsung Smart TVs
PS5 sales plummet, but Sony finalizes Bungie acquisition
Nintendo misses on earnings, sales down 4.7 percent
Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Buy the PC you need, not the PC you might need
App pick of the week: VMWare Fusion 22H2 for Mac
Enterprise pick of the week: More Microsoft Defender products for defending all the things
Codename pick of the week: Oasis
Beer pick of the week: Deciduous Lollipop Forest
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Earnings Learnings 2022, Windows 11 22H2 review, Sound Schemes

Microsoft earnings

Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $16.7 billion on revenues of $51.87 billion in the quarter ending June 30. 
Microsoft discloses Teams usage numbers.
This was the first time MSFT has missed on earnings since 2016 - and it adjusted its guidance in June too.
Windows 11

Paul reviewed Windows 11 22H2 and found lots of little improvements... but also little in the way of addressing feedback. 
Also, let's recap the new servicing and Windows 12 rumors.
Windows 10 22H2 is also coming with no new features.
Microsoft Edge adds disk caching compression with v102.
Microsoft 365

Microsoft now blocks external VBA macros by default.
Ignite is coming October 12-14. It's a hybrid event with a few in-person venues worldwide.
Dev

The next .NET Conf will focus on .NET MAUI
Power Platform now has over 7 million MAUs 
Xbox

Microsoft speeds Xbox Series X|S boot time by 5 seconds.
Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Get to Sound schemes as quickly as possible
App pick of the week: iA Writer
Enterprise pick of the week: Windows 11 onboarding and deployment kits
Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Office 2016 and 2019 users: Mark your calendars
Beer Pick of the week: Hill Farmstead Charlie
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Let's talk Windows 12! Or Win 11 X?

Windows is moving to a new schedule, with major drops every three years and multiple smaller feature drops in between
The next "major" Windows client release is coming in 2024. 
What happens to the promised once-yearly feature releases like Win 11 22H2? And Windows 10?
Will Microsoft end up supporting each Windows release going forward for three years?
Let's talk about the canceled Surface Duo.

A plastic Surface Duo 2 'lite'? Microsoft canceled it, but why (besides price) was this a thing at all?
Qualcomm Technology Summit coming November 15
What's happening with the rumored MS-Qualcomm exclusive deal, and what this will mean
Microsoft and Netflix

Microsoft wants to get more money and market share from ads.
One analyst says this paves the way for Microsoft to buy Netflix.
Inspire Partner Conference

Excel Live: Viva Engage: Not a Facebook rip-off as some thought.
Viva Engage: Not a Facebook rip-off as some thought.
Microsoft's unified digital contact center: Microsoft's Nuance acquisition is already paying off
Tips & Picks

App pick 1: Unigram - Telegram for Windows
App pick 2: Forza Horizon 5 Hotwheels
Enterprise: Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty
Codename: Project AirSim
Hosts: Mary Jo Foley and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Rich Woods and Zac Bowden

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Mid-Year Predictions, Dev Channel Build 25158, Search Highlights

Microsoft layoffs. Ahead of Q4 earnings on July 26
What will happen with Windows 10 and 11 for the rest of this year?
EdgeOS vs. ChromeOS?
Where is Fluid?? Where is Teams 2.0?
Windows

New Dev Channel build 25158 out today that adds notification badging with widgets
A closer look at the new Rufus 3.19 Windows 11 ISO capabilities 
Patch Tuesday arrives. Gentlemen and ladies, start your updates
Windows Autopatch is now GA and (maybe) here to help
PC sales to fall in 2022 ... and for a LOT of reasons
Microsoft 365

Microsoft plays rope-a-dope with Office VBA macro blocking
Dev

Microsoft announces EOL date for .NET Core 3.1
Surface

Surface Duo 2 gets camera improvements in the July update
Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Back-to-school sale
App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.60
Enterprise pick of the week: Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Wave 2 plans for 2022
Codename pick of the week: Salus
Beer pick of the week: A Deal With the Devil
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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