Nov 7th 2018
Windows Weekly 594
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Samsung's Foldable Phone
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- Samsung (sort of) reveals their first foldable phone.
- Cortana boss Javier Soltero is leaving Microsoft.
- Cortana is getting embedded deeper and deeper into Office, instead of being promoted as a standalone assistant. That retrenchment obviously isn't everyone's cup of tea.
- Windows 10 version 1809 is officially a fiasco.
- Microsoft Outings comes to Windows Mixed Reality.
- Microsoft is now selling the $500 Surface Go variant that was previously a Costco exclusive.
- Apple copies Microsoft yet again, will stop revealing unit sales.
- Xbox One loses a TV streaming feature.
- Mixer gets a big set of updates with a stupid name.
- With us: PUBG is free on Xbox for a limited time.
- Against us: PUBG is heading to PS4 in December after a year of exclusivity on Xbox.
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Buy Brad's Surface book
- App pick of the week: Microsoft Launcher 5
- Enterprise pick of the week: Kaizala
- Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Microsoft pauses Office 365 tips
- Beer pick of the week: Cigar City Cubano Espresso Brown
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