Summary: <p>Visual Studio Live Share: Coming soon to a pair of programmers near you. New collaboration service coming in early 2018: VS Live Share. New Visual Studio Tools for AI extension. MariaDB as an Azure service; Databricks (Spark) as a service; and Cassandra as a service. VS App Center is now GA. <br>Microsoft v. perception: how can Microsoft make itself part of the conversation? Related: Microsoft half-asses another phone. <br>Windows (7, 8.1 and 10) news: Paul is starting a Redstone 4 features deep-dive series, starting with Fluent Design System. Some Windows 10 1511 users get a 6-month support extension. Some apps are coming back from the dead. SteamVR is coming to Windows Mixed Reality today. <br>Surface: two big releases this week. Surface Book 2 and Surface Precision Mouse are out tomorrow. <br>Xbox controversy of the week: What's a launch title? </p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: You can now gift games on Xbox </li> <li>Tip #2: Get the Invoke for just $99! Or an Xbox One S for $175! </li> <li>App pick of the week: Groupy </li> <li>Plus: Firefox Quantum </li> <li>Enterprise pick of the week: New Skype Professional service integrates productivity tools with Skype </li> <li>Skype Professional preview coming soon (US only at first).</li> <li>Beer pick of the week: Prairie Birthday Bomb!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mary-jo-foley">Mary Jo Foley</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a></p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p> <p>Check out Mary Jo's blog at <a href="http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/" target="_blank">AllAboutMicrosoft.com</a></p> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a> for the bandwidth for this show.</p> <p>The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://BLUEAPRON.COM/WINDOWS">BLUEAPRON.COM/WINDOWS</a></li> <li><a href="http://betterment.com/windows">betterment.com/windows</a></li> <li><a href="http://sonic.com/twit">sonic.com/twit</a></li> </ul>
