Windows Weekly 746

Global Azure Outage, Ally.io Acquisition, Visual Studio 2022

•  Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too
•  AMD-Based PCs Suffer a 3-15 Percent Performance Hit with Windows 11
•  Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store
•  It’s Official: The PC Market Stalled in Q3

Azure & Cloud

•  Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services
•  Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure
•  Microsoft Blames Russia for Most Nation-State Cyberattacks

Microsoft 365

•  EU regulators asking Teams rivals about Microsoft's bundling practices, per Slack's 2020 complaint
•  Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva
•  Smooth Scrolling is Coming to Excel for Windows
•  Amazon Embraces Hybrid Work

Developer

• Microsoft delivers near-final VS 2022 Release Candidate and designates November 8 as GA date
• Microsoft to Launch Visual Studio 2022 on November 8

Xbox

•  Microsoft Embraces Right to Repair
•  Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary Xbox Hardware
•  Quake Gets a Big Update for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5

Tips and picks

•  App pick of the week: Start11 RC
•  App pick of the week: Vivaldi 4.3
•  Enterprise pick of the week: Ignite sessions are live now
•  Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard
•  Beer pick of the week: Allagash Ghoulschip

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Links

• MICROSOFT IS UPDATING NOTEPAD IN WINDOWS 11
• AMD performance issues
• Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store
• It’s Official: The PC Market Stalled in Q3
• Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services
• Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack
• Microsoft Blames Russia for Most Nation-State Cyberattacks
• EU regulators asking Teams rivals about Microsoft's bundling practices, per Slack's 2020 complaint
• Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva
• Smooth Scrolling is Coming to Excel for Windows
• Amazon Embraces Hybrid Work
• Microsoft delivers near-final VS 2022 Release Candidate and designates November 8 as GA date
• Microsoft to Launch Visual Studio 2022 on November 8
• Microsoft Embraces Right to Repair
• Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary Xbox Hardware
• Quake Gets a Big Update for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5
• Stardock Delivers Start11 Release Candidate
• Vivaldi 4.3 Adds PWA, Sync, Download Improvements
• Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy?
• Ignite Session catalog
• Empowering cloud sustainability with the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard
• Record, report, and reduce your environmental impact
• GHOULSCHIP