Windows Weekly 598

Edge vs Chromium

• Is Microsoft about to switch rendering engines in its Windows 10 browser?
• Is this a good thing or bad thing for 1. the industry; 2. developers; 3. users (Yes, yes, and yes; let's debunk some myths.)
• Will it still be called Edge?
• Will it look/work like Edge does today? What about extensions, etc.?

Windows Lite

• Windows RT failed. Windows 10 S Mode failed. Can Windows "Lite" succeed?
• Our guesses about how Windows Lite fits in with WCOS
• If this isn't called Windows, what should/might it be named? ("Yoghurt"? "DillyDally"?)

Related to these two topics, we need to talk about Terry Centaurus: The dual-screen successor to Andromeda

• If at first you don't succeed in landing a dual-screen pocketable device, should you try, try again?
• Microsoft is working on another attempt to take on Chromebooks with Centaurus

Xbox + Surface futures

• Brad drops a bombshell about the future of Xbox and for Surface too

Microsoft Connect roundup

• Microsoft open sources WPF, Winforms and WinUI
• Microsoft releases public preview 1 of Visual Studio 2019
• Microsoft open sources the ONNX inference engine
• Azure Machine Learning is now generally available

Microsoft v. FCC

• The FCC says that most Americans have access to broadband. Microsoft says that's not even close to reality.

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: You can once again download the Windows 7 and 8.1 ISOs. But…
  • Plus: Yes, Bootcamp still sucks
• App pick of the week: Typora
  • Plus: Google Arts & Culture mobile app adds a cool AR Vermeer experience
• Enterprise pick of the week: CNAB
• Codename pick of the week: Chromium
• Beer pick of the week: Collective Arts Ransack the Universe

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