WW 685: It's Not a Phone - Preorder Surface Duo Now! Plus Minecraft Education Edition on Chromebooks

Preorder Surface Duo Now! Plus, Minecraft Education Edition on Chromebooks.

Microsoft announces Surface Duo
Surface Duo will cost $1400 and is available for pre-order; ships on September 10

Windows 10
One 20H2 build with just fixes. Nothing to see here.
Today, a new Dev Channel build with a new "post-feature update" welcome experience
An interesting Windows-related reorg last week, which gave Pumped Panos more POWER
Lots of mindless corporate drivel-speak in the internal memos.

Microsoft 365
Microsoft Ignite 2020 is now a two-part show
Office and cloud services are booming. But so is Windows. Lucky M365 is one, big happy family!

Cloud
Microsoft reuses another codename: Fiji is now an AWS Outposts hybrid competitor
Could Twitter steal TikTok away from Microsoft? (No.) But one can hope!

Xbox + games
Xbox Series X is coming in November ... But Microsoft delays Halo Infinite
Antitrust: Apple's war on cloud gaming is impacting Microsoft, needs to be stopped
Cloud Gaming comes to mobile in beta ahead of September launch
Leak reveals that Xbox Series S DOES exist
Minecraft Education Edition is now available on Chromebooks

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Make the move to YouTube Music. A lot of people are down on YouTube Music because it's not just like Google Play Music. But it has one major advantage that makes it the single best music service available.
App pick of the week: Parallels Desktop 16. PD 16 arrives with better perf and macOS Big Sur support.
Codename pick of the week: Deschutes. Microsoft's coming CloudPC service has a codename: Deschutes. It *might* be named for the brewery which makes the excellent Fresh Squeezed IPA and Black Butte porter. Or maybe (and more likely) it's named for the place/river in Oregon.
Codename pick 2 of the week: Oakdale. Oh, Dynamics 365/Power Platform team... how did this happen? You seemingly infringed on another company's branded trademark. But at least we have Project Oakdale, the version of the soon-to-be-renamed Dataflex for Teams.

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