Windows Weekly 512: Windows as a Disservice

Greatest Windows Weekly episode title ever? Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss a ton of Windows 10 Creators Update news, some thoughts about the Spring hardware event, and Android’s ascendancy.

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Tip of the week: Take the Xamarin Challenge!

A quick reminder that you should be taking the Xamarin Challenge, and could win one of two Surface Studio PCs. I wrote some tips for getting through the first step.

Plus: You can actually get links to some Windows Store items.

Plus: Outlook.com Premium promotional pricing has been extended through June

Plus: Games with Gold, of course!

App pick of the week: Netflix

Netflix for Windows 10 picks up offline viewing. Finally.

Enterprise pick of the week: Run your Win 10 desktop virtually on Azure

There are lots of caveats and requirements, but Win 10 desktops can now run on Azure

Plus: O365 Enterprise K1 plan users get Teams, StaffHub. MS is taking aim at “frontline” workers, not just typical office workers.

Codename pick of the week: Sopris

Microsoft is working with microcontroller makers to try to help secure cheap IoT devices. The codename of this effort is “Project Sopris.” My guess as to why has to do with Colorado.

Beer pick of the week: KBS 2017

Speaking of spring events… the new batch of KBS is out. It’s big. It’s bourbonic. Thanks, Founders!

Audible pick of the week: Russia House

Russia House by John Le Carre

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  • nbplopes

    09 April, 2017 - 6:08 am

    <p>What is doing with its productivity suite regarding other platforms but Windows is no more than the same with what they do with Windows and hardware. Let others build the mobile OS and Office365 runs. With Windows let other build the hardware and Windows runs.</p><p>If one criticizes Apple for not adopting this strategy how can than one legitimize MS doing otherwise without being …</p><p>MS is a company that does not create markets, it requires a lot of precision, work and foresight and the probability of failure is high. Its more a company that let others create the market and than if its interesting they, using Bill Gates words, come in and humbly try to provide their contribute. Sometimes they end up dominating it, an amazing feat, other times they simply get kicked out … for awhile. This happened over and over again.</p>

    • nbplopes

      09 April, 2017 - 6:18 am

      <blockquote><a href="#96765"><em>In reply to nbplopes:</em></a></blockquote><p>Examples of already healthy markets that MS decided to "contribute" to:</p><ul><li>Productivity Solution (Office to replace WordPeferct / Lotus Notes / … )</li><li>Search (Bing to replace – Google / Altavista / Yahoo )</li><li>News Site (MSN to replace – Yahoo, CNet ….)</li><li>Console Gaming (To replace Sony in particular)</li><li>Music (Groove To replace iTunes, Spotify …)</li><li>Cloud (Azure to Replace AWS and Google, ….)</li><li>Music Device (Zune to replace iPod, …)</li><li>Cloud drives (Onedrive to replace …).</li><li>….</li></ul><p><br></p><p>The list goes on and on.</p><p>I remember a interview with SJ and BG where how each CEO approached technology and products was different.</p>

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