Feb 24th 2021
Windows Weekly 713
Pot-Bellied Mastodons
Updating Windows, Microsoft Ignite, and Power Fx
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Updating Windows, Microsoft Ignite, and Power Fx
Microsoft Office
- Microsoft announces two new Office updates for 2021:
- Office LTSC
- Office 2021 for commercial and consumer customers
Windows 10
- Microsoft is cutting Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC support from ten years to five
- Microsoft Brings Another FEP to the Windows Insider Beta Channel
- Microsoft to talk about the future of mixed reality' at Ignite conference next week
Power Platform
- Microsoft readies Power Fx, a new Power Platform low-code language
- Too late; P# already exists
Surface
- Microsoft is Selling Replacement SSDs for Surface Pro 7+
Microsoft
- Microsoft Concludes Its SolarWinds Investigation
- Microsoft Calls for Australian-Style Media Arbitration in EU
- Microsoft unveils three more 'industry clouds' for financial, manufacturing and nonprofit
Xbox
- Microsoft Announces Games for Gold for March
- Fall Guys Lands on Xbox This Summer
- Sony is Bringing VR to PlayStation 5
- Sony is Bringing PlayStation Games to the PC
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Buy cereal, get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
- App pick of the week: Tiles 2.0
- Developer pick of the week: .NET Conf Focus on Windows
- Enterprise pick of the week: Automatically translate Word docs into PowerPoints
- Beer pick of the week: Delirium Black Barrel Aged
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Links
- Office LTSC
- Microsoft Announces Office 2021
- Microsoft is cutting Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC support from ten years to five
- Microsoft Brings Another FEP to the Windows Insider Beta Channel
- Microsoft to talk about 'the future of mixed reality' at Ignite conference next week
- Microsoft readies Power Fx, a new Power Platform low-code language
- PSharp
- Microsoft is Selling Replacement SSDs for Surface Pro 7+
- Microsoft Concludes Its SolarWinds Investigation
- Microsoft Calls for Australian-Style Media Arbitration in EU
- Microsoft unveils three more 'industry clouds' for financial, manufacturing and nonprofit
- Microsoft Announces Games for Gold for March
- Sony is Bringing VR to PlayStation 5
- Sony is Bringing PlayStation Games to the PC
- Kellogg's Offer
- Buy junk food, get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
- Tiles
- Object Desktop
- Firefox 86 Adds Total Cookie Protection, More
- .NET Conf
- Transform Word documents into PowerPoint presentations
- Delirium Black Barrel Aged