Windows Weekly 513: Always Be Spinning

Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss Microsoft’s May hardware event, the Windows 10 Creators Update launch, and what’s next.

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Tips and picks

Tip of the week:

I’ve published tons of Windows 10 Creators Update and Xbox One (with Creators Update) tips recently. My favorite? Track achievements.

App pick of the week: Skype Translator

Skype Translator now supports real-time Japanese voice translation.

Plus: Outlook for Mac Preview

Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Insider for Business program

The doors are officially open. If you or your company aren’t already in the Insiders program and want to test early builds along with your biz peers, you might want to sign up.

Codename pick of the week: Bespin

Thanks to Cassim Ketfi at Numerama for this one. He helped unlock the whole May 2 thing by unearthing this codename, which has to do with Star Wars and Cloud City. (Paul: Obviously!)

Beer pick of the week: Allagash White

It’s spring and time for some nice light Belgian beers. Here’s a really good one from Maine. (leave your Blue Moons at home)

 

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  • Chris Blair

    13 April, 2017 - 9:42 pm

    <p>I could be on a different planet, but I think an educational PC needs a pen. You can't write math equations, or sketch the human form or buildings, using a keyboard and touch pad. You, instead, need a tablet (ish) device, and hopefully, a digital pen. On the flip side a keyboard + touchpad is clearly best for a creative writing, journalism, or software programming class. What this says to me is that a general EDU device needs to be a low cost Surface type device — rather than a Surface Book or clamshell — because if MS goes the clamshell route they would give up so many of the advantages they've built into Windows 10. Anyway, we'll see. In the mean time it's fun to speculate. </p>

  • robincapper

    14 April, 2017 - 6:13 am

    <p>I like that you spent all that time speculating about the event but still really have no idea what Microsoft might come up with. It isn't like that for Apple these days.</p>

  • cjhawkins3rd

    15 April, 2017 - 12:56 pm

    <p>If I put my comments here, do the people who write standard comments see my comment. I certainly don't want to mix with standard people. Not too many premium people will see my comments, based on the number of people who have commented.</p>

  • Nonmoi

    20 April, 2017 - 5:48 pm

    <p>Paul, you were absolutely wrong (and continues to be wrong on later episode Windows Weekly on 19th) on the topic of that MS never updated the hardware of a Surface Pro device in the middle of its life cycle. </p><p><br></p><p>In fact, here is your own write up on the issue in question:</p><p>http://m.winsupersite.com/mobile-devices/surface-pro-21</p><p>(also a retrospective note: the update puts SP 2.1 up with the same CPU as the SP 3 which was announced only about 5 months later.)</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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