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episode 788: A Mai Tai of Headwinds - Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues
Intel down, AMD up, the Windows 10 22H2 mystery continues
Windows 10 22H2
- Microsoft enters the final test phase for Windows 10 22H2 before rollout - but doesn't announce what the new features are
- Microsoft said information about the "scoped features" will come later
Windows 11
- Dev channel got a new build today with Game Pass widget
- Beta Channel gets two new builds because of course it does
- Windows Subsystem for Android to get gamepad support
Microsoft 365
- Outlook Lite arrives for low-end Android devices
- Uber emails are crashing Outlook
- Teams for Apple silicon Macs is rolling out 'in the coming months'
More Earnings Learnings
- Apple: All businesses but iPhone and Services were down, and Services growth was half that of the past year, and they lost subscribers
- Amazon: Net loss because of Rivian investment, but AWS revenues jumped 33 percent YOY to $19.74 billion
- Intel: Net loss of $454 million on revenues of $15.3 billion, a decline of 22 percent year-over-year. Why? PCs
- AMD: Net income of $447 million on revenues of $6.6 billion in the quarter ending June 25, 2022
- Microsoft added more than 40,000 employees in the last year and is now well over 200K employees
Xbox & Gaming
- Activision Blizzard limps through the quarter, and Microsoft disses them to pass regulatory approval
- Google is not killing Stadia. Yet
- Amazon Luna heads to 2022 Samsung Smart TVs
- PS5 sales plummet, but Sony finalizes Bungie acquisition
- Nintendo misses on earnings, sales down 4.7 percent
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: Buy the PC you need, not the PC you might need
- App pick of the week: VMWare Fusion 22H2 for Mac
- Enterprise pick of the week: More Microsoft Defender products for defending all the things
- Codename pick of the week: Oasis
- Beer pick of the week: Deciduous Lollipop Forest
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