Surface Duo Hardware First Look

Install the New Windows PowerToys

Windows PowerToys is back, and it rocks! Many of us have been reliving the “old days”, this week as Windows 95 turned 25. I loved Windows 95 when it came out and even tweeted this week how it changed my life. Without Windows 95, I don’t think I would have spent my career working with computers.



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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Install the New Windows PowerToys via Dan Patrick
• Surface Duo Hardware First Look via Dan Patrick
• Terraform Feature Flags & Environment Toggle Design Patterns via Chris Pietschmann
• Tip 276 – Top 10 Azure resources that you can use today via Azure Tips and Tricks
• Docker 101 and How do containers work? via Scott Hanselman
• China may have banned the sale of TikTok’s secret sauce via Surur
• Microsoft and Walmart are teaming on a potential TikTok takeover deal via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
• Walmart says it’s partnering with Microsoft on a TikTok deal via Tom Warren
• Nvidia 3070, 3080, 3090 doubles performance of last-gen series; starts at $499 via Lewis White
• Advancing a culture of reliability at the pace of Azure via Mark Russinovich

Recent Videos from Build5Nines

• Getting Started with Azure CLI and Cloud Shell – Azure CLI Kung Fu Series
• A Look at winget, Windows Package Manager for Windows 10
• Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money
• Create Azure IoT Hub in Azure Portal
• Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Certification (AZ-220) Prerequisites, Objectives, and Study Tips

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Azure DNS: Introducing automatic child zone delegation
• Manage your Azure & Amazon Web Services (AWS) spending in a single location with Azure Cost Management +Billing
• Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management
• View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
• Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDKs by 31 August 2022
• New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now available
• Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series
• Start using Power BI Embedded to access, share and distribute content easily
• Azure Private Link support in Azure Data Factory now available
• Azure Blob versioning is now general available
• Azure Container Registry now available in UAE Central region
• Azure Container Registry now available in Switzerland West region
• Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
• Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
• Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub
• Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bastion
• Configure upstream source for universal Packages with Azure Artifacts
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview
• Azure Monitor Logs – Log Analytics REST APIs general availability
• Update your Traffic Analytics queries by 31 August 2022
• Version 2 of Translator is retiring on 24 May 2021
• Update your Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK by 31 August 2022
• Immersive Reader is now generally available
• Azure Certified for Plug and Play is now available
• Azure Data Explorer: Create a table with the new 1-click experience
• Ingestion data isolation in Log Analytics
• Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available

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