Windows Weekly 798: Queued for Unenrollment

Apple integrations, Surface Laptop 5, Microsoft Designer

Microsoft Ignite 2022

Loop components news!
Teams Premium Add-on, Mesh avatars in preview, more new features
New/rebranded Microsoft 365 app for Windows, mobile devices, and the web
Microsoft Places: A new app for coordinating hybrid work
Microsoft Edge is getting a workspaces feature
Dev Box in preview
New Outlook features for hybrid work
Microsoft Editor gets some AI updates

Surface Event

Surface Laptop 5, Surface Pro 9, Surface Studio 2+ announced - all of it leaked already.
Oddly, the new peripherals are more interesting. OK, not oddly...
What exactly is Microsoft trying to accomplish with Surface?
Microsoft: iCloud Photos, Apple TV and Apple Music are coming to Windows 11
Microsoft Designer steals the show (and will be up next on "Killed by Microsoft")

Windows 11

Let's talk 22H2, October update, and new features — there is some confusion
New Dev build adds support for third-party widgets

More Microsoft

Microsoft partners with Meta on the Metaverse ... productivity and games

Xbox

Brazil OK's Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition
Enthusiasts spy device on Phil Spencer's shelf, it's just an old prototype
You can launch Xbox Cloud Gaming titles from Bing search results for some reason

Tips and picks

Microsoft has a tip: disable security features to improve gaming on Windows 11!
App pick of the week: Oracle VirtualBox 7.0
Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Syntex
Codename pick of the week: Haven
Beer pick of the week: Southern Tier Pumking

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