WW 686: The Impression of Fairness - RIP Internet Explorer, Oracle wants to Buy TikTok, Flight Simulator 2020
Windows Weekly (Video)
English - August 19, 2020 21:58 - 2 hours - 1.69 GB Video - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTech News News Technology twit technology paul thurrott richard campbell leo laporte windows microsoft xbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
RIP Internet Explorer, Oracle wants to Buy TikTok, Flight Simulator 2020
A moment of silence, please...
Microsoft outlines the plan to kill off Internet Explorer and Legacy Edge, at least from Microsoft 365.
But there's still no actual end of life date for IE11... just lots of lead-ups to it
Surface
Mary Jo finally got 2004 on her Surface Laptop 3!
Panos Panay joins the Sonos board of directors
The press/blogger briefing for Surface Duo is now public
Surface Duo after the dust settles: Has anyone come up with a good use case?
This week in TikTok
Now Oracle's joined the bidding
Is Oracle in it to win it? Could they actually manage to host TikTok in their cloud? (Maybe. See Zoom.) Or are they in it to pressure Microsoft boost their offer?
Microsoft 365
The first Microsoft Teams Display is quite limited for now
No new Dev Channel build of Windows 10 today (or likely this week) due to an unspecified bug Xbox
Xbox is getting a new Dashboard ... everywhere
There are some great games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the next two weeks
There are now over 2000 indie games on Xbox
Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available on PC
Tip of the week: Can't get enough of MJF and Paul? (and who can't??) We recorded an episode of MJFChat that focuses on learning
Enterprise pick of the week: Making Azure outage communications less terrible. Microsoft is trying.
Codename pick of the week: Project Osaka. A blast from the MS codename past. Project Osaka, aka CollabDB, was supposed to be a list-sharing app for O365. MS killed it several years ago, but elements of it remain in the new M365 Lists app.
Beer pick of the week: Westbrook Lemon Meringue Pie. In my ongoing series of beers made to taste like desserts, I offer you Lemon Meringue Pie. Lemon Meringue Pie is a sour from the excellent Westbrook Brewing. It does include vanilla, lemon, milk sugar, graham crackers and cinnamon and clocks in at a modest 4 percent. You can have your pie and drink it, too!
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com
Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com
The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
Sponsors:
adobe.com/businessmoves
LastPass.com/twit
canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT