Live animated widget notifications, Pixel 6a, Dev Box Preview Windows 11 Windows 11 version 22H2 arrives in September Windows 11 is getting widget notifications Camera app goes native on Arm, gets privacy shutter support  Microsoft shuts down Windows Insider enterprise test bed Microsoft 365 Outlook for Windows moves the cheese. Predictably, no one is happy About those ads in Outlook Mobile... Dev Microsoft makes Dev Box available in preview Microsoft, Canonical bring native .NET to Ubuntu Linux Microsoft launches a Markdown language server Mobile Android 13 arrives a month early. Any other surprises? Paul reviews the Pixel 6a - It's terrific. Xbox Microsoft only sold ~50 million Xbox Ones. Thanks, Kinect! Here is the second round of Game Pass titles for August Sony complains about Microsoft AB acquisition - but there's a simple fix for Sony's Microsoft/COD concerns Sony to make an even bigger push on PC gaming Google lets you launch cloud-streaming games from search results Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II App pick of the week: Brave for iOS Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft still won't say what's happening with S4BS Codename pick of the week: LaTTe: Language Trajectory Transformer Beer pick of the week: Transmitter Brewing W4 Dry Hopped Gose Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: ClickUp.com use code WINDOWS infrascale.com/TWIT

MLX Team layoffs, Clipchamp Essentials plan, OneDrive turns 15 Microsoft lays off its Modern Life Experiences teams, has perhaps halted almost all hiring.  Windows New build (22621.382) for the Windows 11 Insider Preview Release Preview channel - 22H2 is still being refined. But there's no blog post and the support page for this release 404s. New builds for Dev and Beta channels, and Devs get an ISO Windows Package Manager 1.3 arrives with support for portable apps Clipchamp has a single paid tier now but it's still too much.  Microsoft is making its emoji library available on GitHub and Figma Microsoft 365 Microsoft Edge 104 arrives DuckDuckGo to block Microsoft trackers after embarrassment  OneDrive turns 15 and Microsoft is redesigning its home page .NET/dev Visual Studio 2022 17.3 arrives with MAUI support, plus several .NET milestone releases Xbox Microsoft is FINALLY testing an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Family plan Xbox Series S gets a memory boost Microsoft is returning to Gamescom for some reason A white Elite controller leaks and it is horrible Unity picks Azure for its cloud developer tools Nintendo has sold over 111 million Switch consoles Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Upgrading/Upgraded to Windows 11? You need to look at this OneDrive setting App pick of the week: Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac Enterprise pick of the week: Revisiting the M365-Office connectivity warning Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Entra Verified ID now generally available Beer pick of the week: Trillium Brewing Congress Street IPA Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: UnifyMeeting.com code WW Secureworks.com/twit

Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues Windows 10 22H2 Microsoft enters the final test phase for Windows 10 22H2 before rollout - but doesn't announce what the new features are Microsoft said information about the "scoped features" will come later  Windows 11 Dev channel got a new build today with Game Pass widget Beta Channel gets two new builds because of course it does Windows Subsystem for Android to get gamepad support Microsoft 365 Outlook Lite arrives for low-end Android devices Uber emails are crashing Outlook Teams for Apple silicon Macs is rolling out 'in the coming months' More Earnings Learnings Apple: All businesses but iPhone and Services were down, and Services growth was half that of the past year, and they lost subscribers Amazon: Net loss because of Rivian investment, but AWS revenues jumped 33 percent YOY to $19.74 billion Intel: Net loss of $454 million on revenues of $15.3 billion, a decline of 22 percent year-over-year. Why? PCs AMD: Net income of $447 million on revenues of $6.6 billion in the quarter ending June 25, 2022 Microsoft added more than 40,000 employees in the last year and is now well over 200K employees Xbox & Gaming Activision Blizzard limps through the quarter, and Microsoft disses them to pass regulatory approval Google is not killing Stadia. Yet Amazon Luna heads to 2022 Samsung Smart TVs PS5 sales plummet, but Sony finalizes Bungie acquisition Nintendo misses on earnings, sales down 4.7 percent Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Buy the PC you need, not the PC you might need App pick of the week: VMWare Fusion 22H2 for Mac Enterprise pick of the week: More Microsoft Defender products for defending all the things Codename pick of the week: Oasis Beer pick of the week: Deciduous Lollipop Forest Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: infrascale.com/TWIT UserWay.org/twit CDW.com/LenovoClient

Earnings Learnings 2022, Windows 11 22H2 review, Sound Schemes Microsoft earnings Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $16.7 billion on revenues of $51.87 billion in the quarter ending June 30.  Microsoft discloses Teams usage numbers. This was the first time MSFT has missed on earnings since 2016 - and it adjusted its guidance in June too. Windows 11 Paul reviewed Windows 11 22H2 and found lots of little improvements... but also little in the way of addressing feedback.  Also, let's recap the new servicing and Windows 12 rumors. Windows 10 22H2 is also coming with no new features. Microsoft Edge adds disk caching compression with v102. Microsoft 365 Microsoft now blocks external VBA macros by default. Ignite is coming October 12-14. It's a hybrid event with a few in-person venues worldwide. Dev The next .NET Conf will focus on .NET MAUI Power Platform now has over 7 million MAUs  Xbox Microsoft speeds Xbox Series X|S boot time by 5 seconds. Tips and picks Tip of the week: Get to Sound schemes as quickly as possible App pick of the week: iA Writer Enterprise pick of the week: Windows 11 onboarding and deployment kits Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Office 2016 and 2019 users: Mark your calendars Beer Pick of the week: Hill Farmstead Charlie Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: tanium.com/twit newrelic.com/windows itpro.tv/windows use code WW30

Let's talk Windows 12! Or Win 11 X? Windows is moving to a new schedule, with major drops every three years and multiple smaller feature drops in between The next "major" Windows client release is coming in 2024.  What happens to the promised once-yearly feature releases like Win 11 22H2? And Windows 10? Will Microsoft end up supporting each Windows release going forward for three years? Let's talk about the canceled Surface Duo. A plastic Surface Duo 2 'lite'? Microsoft canceled it, but why (besides price) was this a thing at all? Qualcomm Technology Summit coming November 15 What's happening with the rumored MS-Qualcomm exclusive deal, and what this will mean Microsoft and Netflix Microsoft wants to get more money and market share from ads. One analyst says this paves the way for Microsoft to buy Netflix. Inspire Partner Conference Excel Live: Viva Engage: Not a Facebook rip-off as some thought. Viva Engage: Not a Facebook rip-off as some thought. Microsoft's unified digital contact center: Microsoft's Nuance acquisition is already paying off Tips & Picks App pick 1: Unigram - Telegram for Windows App pick 2: Forza Horizon 5 Hotwheels Enterprise: Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty Codename: Project AirSim Hosts: Mary Jo Foley and Mikah Sargent Guests: Rich Woods and Zac Bowden Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Secureworks.com/twit ClickUp.com use code WINDOWS infrascale.com/TWIT