Windows Weekly 621

This Week's Stories
• Windows 10 is now on 825 million PCs, according to internal Microsoft documentation
• What's going on with PWAs in Windows 10 … and with app distribution and the Store?
• And with UWP? Is it dead? (Yes.) Kevin Gallo doesn't want to use the D word. But he might as well have.
• The notion of Fluid Framework as the end of apps is more than a bit premature.
• Where in the world is Windows 10 version 1903?
• And what about 19H2? MJF: my guess is builds will start in June.
• Microsoft patches a security flaw … in Windows XP Is this related to ZombieLoad?
• Lenovo debuts the world's first folding PC - some mystery around which Windows it's running.
• Reminder: What is Centaurus?
• Lenovo also announces a new line of ThinkBook laptops … for some reason.
• HP launches a dual-screen gaming laptop.
• Does a new SCOTUS ruling signal the coming end to 30 percent vigs at app stores?
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is now in preview … and it's a deal.

Tips and picks
• App pick of the week: New PowerToys for Windows 10!
• App pick of the week #2: Groupy 1.2 for Windows is all the Sets you need.
• Enterprise pick of the week: Build 2019 Book of News
• Codename pick of the week: Tardigrade
• Beer pick of the week: Machine House Brewery Stinging Nettle Ale 

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Links

• Windows 10 is now on 825 million PCs, according to internal Microsoft documentation
• What's going on with PWAs in Windows 10
• Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps
• Microsoft wants to close the UWP, Win32 divide with 'Windows Apps'
• The End of Apps
• Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription, virtual microphone arrays
• Microsoft Rolls Out Second Quality Update for Windows 10 Version 1903
• Microsoft patches a security flaw … in Windows XP
• Intel Reveals a Serious New Chip Security Flaw
• Lenovo Previews a Foldable ThinkPad Tablet
• Microsoft's 'Centaurus' device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy
• Lenovo Targets SMBs with New ThinkBook Line
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Apple, Allows Antitrust Suits
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Now Available in Preview
• Microsoft Reboots the PowerToys for Windows 10
• Stardock Delivers Groupy 1.2 for Windows
• Build 2019 Book of News
• Microsoft wants its Azure servers to be as durable as tardigrades
• Beer pick of the week: Machine House Brewery Stinging Nettle Ale