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

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.

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