EU investigates Teams, Loop in the Microsoft Store, Beta build 22631.2129
Windows
- Insider: Last week, Canary got features from Dev plus some new features of its own.
- Dev channel: Improved screen cast, HDR background support, more Voice access, presence sensing, more.
- Beta channel: Windows Copilot, Dev Drive, enhanced Narrator/Excel integration, new Voice access text authoring features, passwordless experience for Windows Hello for Business, plus screen cast, presence, and voice access from above.
- Intel is profitable again, hopeful for the future (and massive fab expansion in Oregon)
- AMD revenues fell 18 percent, but also some hope for the future
Microsoft 365
- The EU announces formal investigation of Teams bundling in Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Teams gets spatial audio support
- Microsoft lowers storage allotments for M365 Education customers, kills Office 365 A1 Plus
- Clipchamp is coming to Microsoft 365 commercial (with OneDrive storage integration)
Dev
- Microsoft to launch .NET 8 at .NET Conf in November
Xbox
- CMA publishes Microsoft's list of "material changes" in its Activision Blizzard case, gives public four days for feedback
- Unexpectedly, not a single new concession, just a bunch of new "evidence" that appeared since the decision
- Xbox Games with Gold goes out with a whimper
- Here come the first August Game Pass titles
- Final Fantasy XIV Online is FINALLY coming to Xbox
- Microsoft starts testing game streaming from Xbox to Discord
- You can buy Xbox controller parts now
- Sony has now sold over 40 million PS5s
- EA revenues up 9 percent in Q2
- Nintendo's next Switch to debut next year
- Microsoft is killing the Xbox Console Companion app, has never made a new solution for getting Xbox console screenshots and videos on the PC
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Enroll in the Windows Insider Beta channel if you want to test 23H2
- App pick of the week: Loop for Windows is now available
- RunAs Radio this week: Windows 11 and Windows Update for Business with Julie Andreacola
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Angel's Envy
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