Summary: <p>Thinking more about Surface Neo and Duo</p><ul> <li>Last week, Microsoft released the SDK and emulator for the Android-based Duo; ones for Neo coming soon</li> <li>The Duo SDK for Mac developers also is now available (as of this week) - So let's think ahead about why Microsoft is calling these devices "a new category"</li> <li>Who is the intended audience? It's not creatives (who were big targets of the Surface tablets/PCs)</li> <li>Are these going to be positioned as PCs? Tablets? Is Apple still a primary competitive target for these devices?</li> <li>What kinds of software and services will be preloaded?</li> <li>What are the hardware, M365/O365 and Edge/MSN/Bing teams contributing? (they supposedly develop these new devices together) New launcher, unified search, stuff like Collections?</li> <li>Will developers find these dual-screen devices interesting enough to target? Or not till the UI comes to "regular" PCs?</li> <li>Will Neo and Duo attract users who don't see a need for a PC anymore? Does MS think they could be users' sole (or maybe secondary) devices?</li> </ul><p>Thinking more about search</p><ul> <li>Last week, Microsoft made a bad move: Deciding to hijack the Chrome browsers of O365 ProPlus users and switch their search engine to Bing</li> <li>So far, Microsoft has not claimed "based on user feedback" that they're undoing this move</li> <li>The real reason for this: Microsoft is starting to push Bing as an Intranet search engine (see MS Search in Bing; Project Cortex, the new Office app experience)</li> <li>Implications of this - Microsoft will lose the moral high-ground if it doesn't do the right thing</li> </ul><p>Windows 10</p><ul> <li>Windows version 1909 usage share hits 15 percent</li> <li>New Insider build, no more Insider PWA app</li> <li>New CU fixes at least some File Explorer problems for 1903/1909 users</li> <li>Related: Microsoft to bring Edge tab management feature to Chrome</li> <li>Semi-related: A major USB-C bug has hit virtually all modern ThinkPads.</li> <li>Not really related, but still worth a mention: Premium Outlook.com users are losing personalized email addresses at end of Feb. (unless you subscribe to O365)</li> </ul><p>Windows 7!</p><ul> <li>FSF wants Microsoft to open-source Windows. They're nuts. And yet...</li> <li>Microsoft has one more security update coming for Windows 7</li> </ul><p>Xbox</p><ul><li>New Games with Gold for February</li></ul><p>Tips and picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Help me pick the next programming project</li> <li>.NETpad (Visual Basic/Windows Forms/.NET Framework) is winding down, so the next one will be a C#/WPF/.NET Framework/Core project. And I need some ideas.</li> <li>App pick of the week: Surface Duo Emulator</li> <li>Enterprise pick of the week: Dynamics 365 Wave 1 2020</li> <li>Enterprise pick No. 2: Beware the LDAP signing apocalypse in March</li> <li>Beer pick of the week: Perennial Abraxas</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>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://canary.tools/twit">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://FreshBooks.com/windows">FreshBooks.com/windows</a></li> </ul>
