Jun 15th 2016
Windows Weekly 470
Microsoft Bought Whaaat?
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion
Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Mary Jo Foley discuss Microsoft's gigantic deal with LinkedIn, Xbox One's little brother and big sister at E3, Xbox Design Lab for customizing controllers, the slow approach of the Anniversary Update, a new startup by former Microsoft employees, available mods for Cyanogen OS 13.1, the Windows 10 Xbox App for Android/iOS, and more!
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Links
- Microsoft Surface Hub chief, Holoportation researchers leave to form stealth startup
- Microsoft buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
- Why Microsoft just bought LinkedIn: It's all about the data
- Why Is Microsoft Buying LinkedIn?
- With LinkedIn Purchase, Microsoft Not Learning Lessons of the Past
- LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is likely to get a Microsoft board seat
- Microsoft Xbox One S Preview
- Xbox “Project Scorpio” Preview
- Xbox Play Anywhere: Buy Once and Play On PC or Xbox
- Should You Buy the Xbox One S?
- Xbox Design Lab Lets You Customize Your Own Xbox Wireless Controller
- Insiders Get New Builds of Windows 10 for PCs and Mobile
- A Quick Look at the Office Online Extension for Microsoft Edge
- NFC Tap to Pay is coming to Windows 10 Mobile with Microsoft Wallet 2.0
- Windows 10 for PC and Mobile Updated to Build 10586.420
- Microsoft Skype, Cortana, OneNote mods for Cyanogen OS 13.1 start rolling out
- Microsoft builds on Azure Blockchain as a Service with Project Bletchley
- New Enterprise improvements coming to IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.1
- Band 2 Updated to Support Real-Time Heart Rate Zone Notifications
- Windows 10 Tip: Add a Windows Hello USB Peripheral to Your PC
- Microsoft Brings Windows 10 Xbox App to Android and iOS
- Starbucks for Outlook Add-in Now Available!
- A ton of UWP apps of interest
- Windows Server Essential Licensing Questions
- How Fable Legends Took Down Lionhead
- Raspberry Saison
- End of Watch: A Novel
- RATTLE N' HUM WEST