Summary: <ul> <li>The drama of the week: Microsoft is closing its retail stores</li> <li>Perhaps overdue, but shocking nonetheless: Microsoft is closing all of its retail stores</li> <li>Related: A look back at the 2012 opening of the first Boston-based Microsoft Store</li> </ul><p> </p><ul> <li>The drama of last week: Apple, the morning (OK, week) after</li> <li>Two developments of interest to the Microsoft community</li> <li>As expected, the first Apple Silicon developer device destroys Surface Pro X in benchmarks, no matter how you look at it</li> <li>Apple is reportedly thinking about bringing a Continuum-like feature to the iPhone where it could run macOS and be connected to a keyboard, mouse, and display.</li> <li>A more reasoned assessment about the impact of Apple's moves on Windows</li> </ul><p> </p><ul> <li>Windows 10 version 2004 is off to a slightly faster start than 1903.</li> <li>And now (finally) SL3 and SP7 can get 2004. Yay? (But not SL1 and SL2. Boo!)</li> <li>Windows 10 Pro no longer has deferral capabilities</li> <li>Except that it sort of still does. Here's what changed.</li> <li>That shift from rings to channels just happened</li> <li>Microsoft to expand automatic Edge rollout to education then businesses</li> <li>Microsoft announces new digital skills initiative</li> <li>Related: Teams is getting a new learning app</li> <li>Big changes coming to OneDrive for consumers and businesses</li> <li>It's July, so Xbox Games with Gold and Game Pass subscribers have new games on the way</li> <li>Mixer co-founder is OK with closure</li> <li>Xbox Game Bar is now extensible</li> </ul><p> </p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Download this tool, just in case: Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool you'll want to download just in case.</li> <li>App pick of the week: Amazon Prime for Windows 10. I don't often get to recommend Store apps.</li> <li>Also: Power Apps and Power Automate. You need to look at these M365 commercial features.</li> <li>Enterprise pick of the week: Your Office 365 IT pro bible has gotten a feature update. <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/O365IT/windowsweekly">Tony's Redmond's 7th edition (2021)</a> of Office 365 for IT Pros is now available. <a href="https://gumroad.com/l/O365IT/windowsweekly">https://gumroad.com/l/O365IT/windowsweekly</a> </li> <li>Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: STOCKHISTORY. Pulling stock prices directly into Excel has been a top request for a while. It's almost here in the form of STOCKHISTORY. And perfect timing, given Microsoft's stock price has been at an all-time high lately.</li> <li>Beer pick of the week: Victory Prima Pils.</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>Sponsor:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://canary.tools/twit">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> </ul>
