Ask Paul: October 26 (Premium)

Happy Halloween! This week's Ask Paul includes a follow-up from last time plus a ton of new questions.
Microsoft Outlook follow-up
In Ask Paul two weeks ago, I was asked whether Outlook 2016 or 2019 would ever behave like the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10 and "be able to do Toast notifications when closed?" I promised to ask Microsoft about this, and did so. And received the following statement.
There are no plans to enable Toast notifications for Outlook 2016 or 2019 when the program is not running. We always take user feedback about current and desired features into consideration, and may consider this functionality at a future date.
Where, oh where, is Windows 10 version 1809
hrlngrv asks:
More of a betting pool question: MSFT released a new Insider build today, 18267, so how many more Insider builds will MSFT release before they release an 1809 build which doesn't fubar user files?
I had expected Microsoft to re-release Windows 10 version 1809 a week ago today. And when that didn't happen, perhaps this past Tuesday, because Microsoft often ships updates on Tuesdays. It's possible that the second (ZIP-related) data loss bug may have played a role in the new delay. Or as Mary Jo suggested on Windows Weekly this week, that Microsoft felt that waiting until after its earnings release would be more prudent.

Whatever the reason, today would be an obvious day for this release. As would next Tuesday, the second to last day of the month.
TBH, it's difficult not to interpret new Insider builds as indications MSFT doesn't much care about the problems with 1809.
I completely agree. It is unprofessional for Microsoft to forge ahead with new 19H1 builds while this problem persists. No one would fault them for suspending new Insider builds for a week or so. But doing otherwise is questionable.
What's going on with Intel and 10 nm?
jimchamplin asks:
What’s up with Intel? Really, why is it they can’t do what much smaller designers and fabs are doing? They’ve gotten whipped in process, power, and speed by more forward-looking companies like Qualcomm and Apple, but can’t do what those guys have already done.
This is something that I think about a lot. And in trying to find a similar situation in platform software, I have to go back to Apple's inability to succeed the classic Mac OS in the late 1990's and its subsequent decision to find an outside solution, which was of course NeXTStep.

That said, you might also equate Intel's failure here to Microsoft's inability to compete in mobile. Here's a giant tech firm that has seen amazing success in one type of product but just can't seem to extend that to a world that has gone mobile. The similarities are there, for sure, and I think they're relevant. More on that in a moment.

I've also spoken with hardware analyst Ryan Shrout---who just this week actually joined Intel---about this issue a few times over the past year. What he told me was that Intel was succeeding where it m...