Oct 8th 2014
Windows Weekly 383
I Did It My Sway
Windows 10 one week in and a new Surface Pen firmware update.
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley take a one week in look at Windows 10 from under the hood to top user requests and more. The Surface Pen has a new firmware update and support from Adobe Creative Cloud now that Adobe opens up to touch and high-DPI displays. Also, Microsoft is raking in $1 billion from Samsung every year in Android patent licensing fees!
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Links
- The Top 10 User Requests for Windows 10
- Windows Technical Preview is Microsoft's Alchemy Moment
- Enterprise Stuff Under the Hood
- The great Windows 7 non-controversy
- Like Azure, Intune drops the "Windows" name
- Surface Pen updated out of band with Patch Tuesday
- Adobe finally takes Creative Cloud into the 21st century, supports touch and high-DPI displays
- Microsoft adds new Sway presentation application to the Office family
- Outlook.com updated with better OneDrive-based file sharing
- OWA and OneDrive for Business updated so they actually work together
- MS is raking in $1 billion a year from Samsung
- New cloud event coming
- MS diversity report: 29 percent of its employees are women now
- Microsoft Commits to Protecting Student Privacy
- HP Confirms It Will Split into Two Companies
- Roku Adds Miracast Screen Mirroring to Recent Devices
- Software pick of the week: Microsoft Xim for Windows Phone and Android
- Software pick of the week #2: GlassWire
- Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Server v. Next (Windows Server 10)
- Codename pick of the week: Haven
- Beer pick of the week: Firestone Walker Oaktoberfest