Windows Weekly 528: B is for Brad

Leo, Mary Jo, and I discuss Microsoft’s financial results, the Great Paint Fiasco of 2017, Windows 10 news, and much more.

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Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Buy a 1 TB Xbox One S Bundle, Get a Free Game

Yes, the Xbox One S does seem to be in a perpetual state of rotating sales and other promotions.

App pick of the week: Kaspersky Free

Kaspersky now offers a free version of its AV software that is more highly rated than Defender.

Enterprise pick of the week: Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances, a new Azure service, available in public preview today for Linux (and soon for Windows) enables set up and deployment of containers without VM tears.

Codename pick of the week: Project Rome

Project Rome is what makes Pick Up Where You Left Off tick. It’s the tech that does app-handoff.

Beer pick of the week: Gun Hill Citra Sour Soft Serve

This is an excellent “sour IPA” from Gun Hill Brewing in the Bronx. What’s interesting is there’s lactose in it, hence the “soft serve” part of the name. Very smooth, creamy. Great way to try a sour.

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  • Damon Achey

    27 July, 2017 - 1:40 pm

    <p>Notepad2 is very very close to notepad</p>

  • nbplopes

    28 July, 2017 - 7:03 am

    <p>For imaging Paint does not do the job at any level. Most people I see, use Paint to crop or rescale images and for that matter is really overly complicated. But people learned to do it in it and its ok for them.</p><p><br></p><p>Good design is not putting every single feature into some product, but nailing the reason why people use it. Just because something is more professional looking does not make the user more professional or smarter, neither making it simpler, make the user less demanding. Actually I find users that want and need simpler things are far more demanding than the ones that want everything because out of ignorance … achieving simplicity and efficiency is not easy task at all, by any means. Sure if money is no object than te easy route is to just pack the damn thing with features … but what about investing that money to achieve simplicity? What's wrong with that?</p>

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