A Billion Pages – Windows Weekly 640

Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul discuss the xCloud public beta, why Windows 10 is so unreliable, 900 million Windows 10 PCs, and more.

Download this episode and subscribe

Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube

Windows Intelligence In Your Inbox

Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — and get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift!

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Learn to program

Microsoft has launched multiple videos series this week for aspiring developers.

App pick of the week: Microsoft Office 365

Whether they rename it or not, Office 365 remains Microsoft’s most vital offering on the client. And that’s true whether you’re on PC, Mac, mobile, or web, or whether you choose a consumer or business version.

Enterprise pick of the week: Where is Win Server 1909/19H2?

Insiders haven’t seen it, but it does exist and is coming “soon-ish” ™. This will be a refresh of Server 1903 plus the latest cumulative update.

Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Dynamics 365 Wave 2

October 1 is the kick-off of Wave 2 of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 features and products. This week, we learned about several new apps and features coming as part of this wave (which we didn’t know about until now). New members of the “Insights” family, new Commerce and store offerings and more.

Beer pick of the week: Hermit Thrush Gin Barrel Saison

Do you like gin? If so, you might like this saison from Hermit Thrush which is made by aging the beer in gin barrels. Really unusual and very tasty. Plus only 6.5%.

 

Share post

Please check our Community Guidelines before commenting

Conversation 2 comments

  • thejoefin

    Premium Member
    26 September, 2019 - 10:57 am

    <p>In this episode you talked a little about Blazor. I'm no expert but here is what I understand to be the cool new thing with Blazor. </p><p><br></p><p>Initially demoed, Microsoft showed Blazor client-side rendering which was revolutionary. Essentially when the browser would request content from a site the site would send down a small .Net runtime (now they use Mono) and that runtime would run with WebAssembly in the browser to read the rest of the page logic which is all written in C#. This is essentially ASP.NET technology but without going back and forth to the server for new HTML. What you described where the server feeds HTML to the browser is classic ASP.NET. </p><p><br></p><p>A big shift with Blazor seems to be the ability to create reusable components, similar to how React or WPF architectures work. However I do not understand why this is a new thing, and why ASP.NET didn't have this all along? Whatever the reason it sounds like there are many software component vendors which built with Web Forms in the past now getting in on the Blazor action.</p><p><br></p><p>Finally, most of what I know about Blazor comes from "DotNet Rocks" eps: 1652, 1649, 1622, 1539, 1517, 1455</p><p>Here is the original demo of Blazor from June 2017: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLAE6HMr10&quot; target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLAE6HMr10</a></p&gt;

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      26 September, 2019 - 12:02 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#471031">In reply to TheJoeFin:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nice, thanks. I've been getting sidetracked a lot by Blazor this week. :)</p>

Windows Intelligence In Your Inbox

Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Thurrott © 2024 Thurrott LLC