Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte

Dec 30th 2020

Windows Weekly 705

Married With Windows

What you can expect from Microsoft in 2021

Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
Category: News
  • Microsoft news from the past two weeks
  •  Microsoft is designing its own ARM chips
  •  Windows 10 version 20H2 is already on 13.6 percent of Windows 10 PCs
  •  Google and Facebook colluded on online ads
  •  Apple's response to Facebook full-page ads is priceless
  •  Microsoft Edge is out for M1-based Macs
  •  Together Mode comes to Skype
  •  Flight Sim is now available in VR
  •  Games with Gold for January

 

Our 2021 predictions

  •  Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021


Windows

  •  Windows 10
  •  Windows 10X
  •  Windows on ARM
  •  Android on Windows 10 (Project Latte)
  •  Cloud PC
  •  Windows Server


Surface

  •  Surface Duo 2
  •  New Surface Pro, ProX, Book
  • Any 10X devices from Surface in 2021? Rumors say no.


Cloud

  • M365: Teams, first-line workers, and bears (oh my)
  • Azure – more regions, more AWS-competitive services, more AI
  •  Universal Search and MetaOS/Fluid Framework


Gaming

  •  Console
  •  Cloud streaming


Consumer

  •  Chredge, Bing, and MSN
  •  Teams consumer v. Skype


Dev

  •  Project Reunion
  • .NET MAUI
  •  PWAs


Tips and picks

  •  Tip of the week: Lose yourself in a tech podcast
  •  App pick of the year: Affinity Photo
  •  Enterprise picks of the week: Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate, Azure free account users get 5 more services
  • Beer pick of the week: Evil Twin Happy New Beer

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