What’s The Vig? – Windows Weekly 584

What’s The Vig? – Windows Weekly 584

Xbox All Access Is Official

–Xbox All Access is real goes live in the US. What is this thing? It’s a subscription-based financing option that points to the future.
–Intel announces « new » 8th-generation Core chips. But only the Wi-Fi is new.
–IFA: PC makers announce new PCs. It’s like CES 2.
–Windows 10 Build 17746 puts Your Phone in Release Preview, but no new features.
–Sticky Notes 3 is official, available to Skip Ahead Insiders
–Wish List is coming to the Microsoft Store
–Related: Microsoft is warning users on Windows 10 version 1607 to upgrade
–Related: Why did the HP CEO undermine the entire PC industry?
–Related: The bizarre story of the new zero-day Windows vulnerability
–Microsoft announces OneDrive for Business features, calls it OneDrive and confuses everyone. Again.
–Microsoft Teams picks up « feature parity » with Skype for Business. Just kidding.
–Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive all have over 500 million downloads on the Play Store. So does Word.
–Microsoft is reorganizing the Games library screen on Xbox One, again
–Microsoft announces a white Elite controller – but it’s the old design, wtf – WHERE IS THE NEW VERSION??? (MJF: « Settle down, Game Boy! »)

Tips and picks

–Tip of the week: You can use your Xbox One controller on Android now
–App pick of the week: Get the Pixel launcher(ish) on almost any Android handset
–Bonus pick: Modern Warfare 2 is on Xbox One Backward Compatibility.
–Enterprise pick of the week: The end of hybrid Intune support is coming
–Codename pick of the week: TDBN (Tidbin)
–Beer pick of the week: Jack’s Abby House Lager 

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