Sep 10th 2014
Windows Weekly 379
Snarknado
MS to buy Minecraft and the Xbox One heads to new markets.
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley and Leo Laporte
Is Microsoft going to buy Minecraft? MSN awakes from the dead, Surface Pro 3 is to get a firmware update this month, AT&T will sell the Lumia 830, Xbox One new updates and markets, and more.
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Running time: 1:45:37
Links
- Minecrosoft: Is MS going to buy the company behind Minecraft?
- MSN the 13th: MSN awakes from the dead
- Microsoft Surface Firmware Updates
- That $200 HP Stream laptop is really a $300 HP Stream laptop
- Windows Phone and Nokia rebranding rumors
- AT&T Wireless will sell the Lumia 830 in time for the holidays
- Thinking About Microsoft's New Lumias
- An interesting new inexpensive Windows Phone option for the US
- A fun new video in which iPhone users go to group therapy because of Cortana
- Xbox One heads to 29 new markets this month
- Xbox One gets another major system update for October
- MS replacing some Xbox Ones due to excessive noise
- EU finally asks Google for more search concessions
- Software pick of the week: Skype for Windows Phone
- Software pick of the week #2: Stardock ShadowFX
- Enterprise pick of the week: Delve
- Codename pick of the week:Vega
- Beer pick of the week: Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin IPA