Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte

Apr 7th 2021

Windows Weekly 719

Project Sous Vide

OpenJDK, Paint in the Windows Store, Azure outages, Azure immersion cooling

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Category: News

OpenJDK, Paint in the Windows Store, Azure outages, Azure immersion cooling

Microsoft rolls out a preview of OpenJDK

  • mikMicrosoft rolls out its OpenJDK preview release
  • Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags on
  • Programming Windows: Hello, Visual J++
  • Google Wins Java Copyright Case
  • Android Now Supports Rust for Low-Level Code


Windows 10

  • Microsoft Paint is Finally Available in the Microsoft Store, Sort Of
  • Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21354


Surface

  • Here Comes Surface Laptop 4


Cloud

  • Microsoft Cloud services were down for some users
  • Microsoft: Here's what caused our Azure cloud-computing outage
  • Microsoft gets two-phase immersion cooling running in an Azure data center


Corporate

  • Microsoft pushes back 'full' Redmond campus reopening to September 7
  • It's official: Microsoft Build will be May 25 to 27


Xbox

  • More Games Are Coming to Xbox Game Pass This Month
  • MLB The Show 21 is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One


Tips and picks

  • Tip of the week: Kensington's VeriMark Windows Hello fingerprint reader
  • App pick of the week: Parallels Toolbox 4.5 for Windows and Mac
  • Enterprise pick of the week: How to use Word/Teams as a teleprompter in presentations
  • (Fake) Codename pick of the week: Boa
  • Beer pick of the week: Grimm Black Forest

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