Windows Weekly 789: Made in Raccoon City

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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