Aug 18th 2021
Windows Weekly 738
Gidget Goes to Mexico
Windows 11 updates, PrintNightmare continues, Xbox Game Pass
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Windows 11 updates, PrintNightmare continues, Xbox Game Pass
- Microsoft lights up more Teams Chat features and delivers updated Windows 11 inbox apps for Insider testers
- Windows 11 Tip: Change Default Apps
Microsoft Consumer
- Microsoft hires former Uber exec in effort to grow its Teams consumer business
PrintNightmare
- Microsoft Tries, Again, to Get in Front of Printing Vulnerabilities
Microsoft vs. AWS
- Microsoft protests Amazon's $10 billion NSA cloud contract win
- Amazon Retail Sales Surpass Walmart
Xbox
- Microsoft Reveals More Game Pass Titles for August
- Microsoft is Testing a Higher Resolution Dashboard on Xbox Series X
- Sea of Thieves Now Has 4.8 Million Active Users
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Try Game Pass
- App pick of the week: elementary OS 6
- Enterprise pick of the week: An updated M365 Roadmap site is coming
- Buzzword pick of the week: Ransomware
- Beer pick of the week: Off Color Brewing Beer for Beaches
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Links
- Microsoft lights up more Teams Chat features and delivers updated Windows 11 inbox apps for Insider testers
- Microsoft hires former Uber exec in effort to grow its Teams consumer business
- Microsoft Tries, Again, to Get in Front of Printing Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft protests Amazon's $10 billion NSA cloud contract win
- Microsoft Reveals More Game Pass Titles for August
- Microsoft is Testing a Higher Resolution Dashboard on Xbox Series X
- Sea of Thieves Now Has 4.8 Million Active Users
- Microsoft takes a stake in Rubrik to combat ransomware
- Azure Sentinel Gets Fusion AI Early Ransomware Detection in Preview
- BEER FOR BEACHES