WW 738: Gidget Goes to Mexico - Windows 11 updates, PrintNightmare continues, Xbox Game Pass

Windows 11 updates, PrintNightmare continues, Xbox Game Pass

  • Microsoft lights up more Teams Chat features and delivers updated Windows 11 inbox apps for Insider testers
  • Windows 11 Tip: Change Default Apps


Microsoft Consumer

  • Microsoft hires former Uber exec in effort to grow its Teams consumer business


PrintNightmare

  • Microsoft Tries, Again, to Get in Front of Printing Vulnerabilities


Microsoft vs. AWS

  • Microsoft protests Amazon's $10 billion NSA cloud contract win
  • Amazon Retail Sales Surpass Walmart


Xbox

  • Microsoft Reveals More Game Pass Titles for August
  • Microsoft is Testing a Higher Resolution Dashboard on Xbox Series X
  • Sea of Thieves Now Has 4.8 Million Active Users


Tips and picks

  • Tip of the week: Try Game Pass
  • App pick of the week: elementary OS 6
  • Enterprise pick of the week: An updated M365 Roadmap site is coming
  • Buzzword pick of the week: Ransomware
  • Beer pick of the week: Off Color Brewing Beer for Beaches

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