Aug 10th 2022
Windows Weekly 789
Made in Raccoon City
MLX team layoffs, Clipchamp Essentials plan, OneDrive turns 15
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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
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Links
- Microsoft adjusts its consumer-strategy priorities (yet again)
- Microsoft Ships New Windows 11 Insider Builds for the Dev and Beta Channels
- Microsoft Releases Windows Package Manager 1.3
- Clipchamp Moves to a Single Paid Tier
- Microsoft is making available more than 1,500 of its 3D emoji to creators via GitHub and Figma.
- Microsoft Edge Version 104 is Now Available
- In Wake of Controversy, DuckDuckGo to Block Microsoft Trackers
- OneDrive to Get a New Web App for its 15th Anniversary
- Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2022 17.3
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Family Plan Launches in Preview in Colombia and Ireland
- Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Gets a Memory Boost
- Xbox is Returning to Gamescom
- New White Version of Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller Leaks
- Unity Picks Up Microsoft’s Azure Cloud to Improve its Developer Tools
- Nintendo Has Sold Over 111 Million Switch Consoles
- Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac Improves Windows 11 Support on Apple Silicon Macs
- Office 2016 and 2019 users won't be cut off from Microsoft 365 back-end services next year
- Microsoft Entra Verified ID now generally available
- Congress Street
- John Carmack talks about Keen, Doom, Quake, and more