Windows Weekly 631

Microsoft earnings

• Microsoft delivered another blockbuster FY and FYQ4.
• Analysis: FY19 - Xbox (bad), Surface (not the highlight people think), Windows (good, with businesses only), Office 365 (great) and Azure is … slowing?. The big news: More Personal Computing is not Microsoft's biggest BU for the first time. Entire business in balance for now.

Antitrust

•  Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google come under DOJ scrutiny
•  Qualcomm is fined by the EU
•  Will Microsoft continue to avoid the steely gaze of regulators?

The weirdness that is Windows 10 20H1

•  Remember when Microsoft released a 19H2 build with unavailable new features last week? Yeah, some of them are available now. In a new build for some reason.
•  And then they released another build, this time with one new feature
•  Also, Windows Defender will become Microsoft Defender in 20H1

Plus…

• Microsoft accidentally deployed a Canary (?) build of Windows 10 to all Insiders and it shows the Lite OS Start menu with no live tiles
• Microsoft invests $1 billion in AI! OK, just kidding.
• LinkedIn to finally start using Microsoft technology. It's the least they can do, literally.
• Microsoft makes changes, again, to how it licenses Dynamics 365

Xbox

• Gears 5 multiplayer beta hits again this weekend
• Mixer commits to civility
• Fortnite controller (not) arriving just in time for Fortnite World Cup

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Eloquent JavaScript
• App pick of the week: VirtualBox
• Enterprise pick of the week: Data-sharing agreements/licenses
• Naming pick of the week: Office Online is no more
• Beer pick of the week: Transmitter Hx Raspberry Sour  

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Links

• Qualcomm Gets Fined €242 Million by the European Union
• Microsoft Q4 FY19: Why is Azure 'slowing' and Windows growing?
• FY19 (Premium)
• DOJ to Investigate Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
• Microsoft Accidentally Pushes Canary Windows 10 Build to Insiders
• Internal Windows 10 Build Shows Off New Start Menu Design Without Live Tiles
• Microsoft Releases New Windows 10 19H2 Build to Some Insiders
• Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI, which is going all-in on Azure
• Microsoft's LinkedIn unit commits to starting to move its services to Azure
• Microsoft is set to shake up Dynamics 365 pricing and packaging again
• Mixer Commits to Community, Kills Mixer Create
• Eloquent JavaScript
• Welcome to VirtualBox.org!
• Microsoft looks to 'do for data sharing what open source did for code'
• Microsoft is rebranding the web-version of Office as 'Office' (minus the 'Online')
• Transmitter Hx Raspberry Sour