WW 739: Panos Paint - Windows 11 fork in the road, Microsoft 365 for business price hike

08/25/21 • 109 min

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 commercial is getting a price hike in March 2022
Power Apps portal misconfiguration exposed data for 38 million users. But it's fixed now.
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Part II: The Quickening is in November again, but still virtual.
Microsoft Teams for Education gets a Reading Progress app
Microsoft is ending support for the Android apps on Chrome OS next month

Windows 11

WWMJFD? Windows 11 Dev channel builds are about to get less reliable/stable. Here's what to do.
New Windows 11 build (Dev and Beta) adds focus sessions. Plus there's our first ISO!
Microsoft teases updated Paint app

Xbox

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Xbox Series/One this holiday
Microsoft introduces a new wired Xbox headset
Halo Infinite will not include co-op single-player, Forge at launch. And you thought the disappointment was behind us.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting World Update VI, new aircraft, and more
Quake, Quake II, and Quake III Arena come to Game Pass! But it's complicated.
Here comes a new Call of Duty! What's old is old again.

Listener Q&A

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Get to know your Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts
There are some new and different shortcuts in Windows 11.
App pick of the week: Quake for Xbox
The Xbox version of Quake is a delight and it delivers an incredible amount of content. And it's just $9.99.
Plus: Momentum New Tab browser add-on
Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Server 2022 is here!
Lucky we found it since Microsoft hasn't said almost anything about it so far. A very odd "launch"
Codename pick of the week: Pinebrook
Xbox console cloud gaming had/has a codename, according to the Xbox fairies. That codename is Pinebrook.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 commercial is getting a price hike in March 2022
Power Apps portal misconfiguration exposed data for 38 million users. But it's fixed now.
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Part II: The Quickening is in November again, but still virtual.
Microsoft Teams for Education gets a Reading Progress app
Microsoft is ending support for the Android apps on Chrome OS next month

Windows 11

WWMJFD? Windows 11 Dev channel builds are about to get less reliable/stable. Here's what to do.
New Windows 11 build (Dev and Beta) adds focus sessions. Plus there's our first ISO!
Microsoft teases updated Paint app

Xbox

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Xbox Series/One this holiday
Microsoft introduces a new wired Xbox headset
Halo Infinite will not include co-op single-player, Forge at launch. And you thought the disappointment was behind us.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting World Update VI, new aircraft, and more
Quake, Quake II, and Quake III Arena come to Game Pass! But it's complicated.
Here comes a new Call of Duty! What's old is old again.

Listener Q&A

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Get to know your Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts
There are some new and different shortcuts in Windows 11.
App pick of the week: Quake for Xbox
The Xbox version of Quake is a delight and it delivers an incredible amount of content. And it's just $9.99.
Plus: Momentum New Tab browser add-on
Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Server 2022 is here!
Lucky we found it since Microsoft hasn't said almost anything about it so far. A very odd "launch"
Codename pick of the week: Pinebrook
Xbox console cloud gaming had/has a codename, according to the Xbox fairies. That codename is Pinebrook.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Sponsors:

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

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Azure & Cloud

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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