Jul 5th 2017
Windows Weekly 525
Token Ring's Back
Big Layoffs Coming at Microsoft?
A new fiscal year is here. And it is bringing more changes to Microsoft's corporate structure. Windows 10: Microsoft pushes Timeline feature back to March 2018. Windows 10 Autopilot is another attempt to make Windows 10 deployment simpler. Microsoft is bringing its "privacy theater" interface to older Windows 10 versions. Windows App Studio is heading to the big Zune in the sky. Yes, Surface Mini was always real. We knew this. Microsoft buys Cloudyn.
- Tip of the week: Games with Gold and a great games sale
- App pick of the week: Stamp
- Enterprise pick of the week: Free Azure training courses
- Codename pick of the week: Brainwave
- Beer of the Week: Westbrook Gose
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Links
- Microsoft announces internally its new 'commercial and consumer' sales model
- Microsoft Shifts Its Strategy to “Cloud First” (Premium)
- Microsoft won't deliver Timeline as part of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- Over-Promise, Under-Deliver (Premium)
- Microsoft partners with Token on biometric ring for logging into Windows 10
- Microsoft aims to simplify Windows 10 PC set-up with Windows AutoPilot
- Online Gallery Support Coming to Hyper-V Quick Create
- Microsoft Pushes New Privacy Interface to Older Windows 10 Versions
- French Regulators Say Windows 10 Now Conforms to Privacy Laws
- Microsoft is Retiring Windows App Studio
- The Surface Mini in Red
- Microsoft buys cloud-monitoring vendor Cloudyn
- Games with Gold Goes Platforming in July
- Xbox Ultimate Game Sale is Now Live
- Xbox One Deals
- Tip: Move Your Music Collection to a New Subscription Service
- Free online courses
- Edge of AI
- Westbrook Gose
- Reading the Redmond Tea Leaves