Ask Paul: February 15 (Premium)

Happy Friday! Here’s another round of questions and answers to wind down the week.
Contacts in Android
cwfinn asks:

I have finally accepted reality and bought an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy, fwiw). I can't seem to get my Microsoft People contacts to sync to the Android (Samsung?) Contacts. Exporting from Outlook to a DSV file was easy, Android/Samsung Contacts only wants to import vCard. Grrr. Am I missing an easy solution? I've used Samsung Smart Switch to "sync" my Outlook Calendar and Contacts but it is a one-time "solution" and seems to need to be done every time I add/edit a Contact and/or Calendar item.

When you say Microsoft People, I assume you mean Outlook.com and not Outlook on Web (Office 365 commercial/Exchange Online) though the process should be similar.

More important, there’s no need to export contacts and then import them on the phone. It looks like Smart Switch is a one-time tool for transferring data to your phone. What you really do want/need here is a way to sync your contacts from an online account to your phone. That way any changes you make on the phone are reflected back in the account (and vice versa).

You also want your contacts to show up in the Phone app. That way, when you receive or make a call, you won’t just see a number but will instead see the person or business that is associated with that number. If you’re using Microsoft Outlook for email/calendar, your contacts should sync with the device as well. This will populate the Phone app’s contacts list. (Otherwise, yes, you may need to export once, though any changes you make later won’t sync to the phone.)

I saw your exchange with Sprtfan in the original post, but that’s pretty much all you can do to enable sync.
Windows 10 19H1, 19H2, and 20H2
Dan1986ist asks:

Why is Microsoft referring to both 20H1 and 19H2 in regards to the latest Skip Ahead build of Windows 10? Are they changing the development cycle and how often new Windows 10 versions come out?

We can only speculate about whether they’re changing the development cycle now because Microsoft is being very vague. But there will be a 19H2 this year as well. Something about 20H2 requires Microsoft to start testing it this far in advance. My guess is that 20H2 will remain in Skip Ahead and 19H2 will be added to Fast ring once 19H1 development is complete.

I wrote about my issues with this complexity earlier today in Slow Down Windows 10 Development, You Say? (Premium)
Azure Sphere in the real world
North of 49th asks:

Have you ever heard of any companies using Azure Sphere in products consumers might have heard of? After all of the press, everything went quiet.

I have not. And you’re right, it’s been very quiet on the Azure Sphere front after an initial burst of excitement last April.

It’s not clear what the story here is. Looking at the current Azure Sphere Development Kit, I see a note that it “can be only used for prototyping. It cannot be...

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