A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will use the power of the Azure cloud
- Daydream Labs Accessibility in VR
- Vehicular combat title War Thunder finally heading to Xbox One
- EA shuts down fan-run servers for older Battlefield games
- As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549 (Jacob KastrenakesThe Verge)
- Seven New Titles are Coming to Xbox Game Pass on November 1
- Walmart testing robots in 50+ stores for repetitive jobs like scanning shelves for out-of-stock products, incorrect pricing, and mislabeling (Natalie GagliordiZDNet)
- Hubble Digs into Cosmic Archaeology
- FAQs Windows Server 1709; Fixing Windows Store on WIndows 10; DHCP Scopes
- Android Supporting Chromebook List Gets Significant Update
- Google Extends Warranty on Pixel 2 to Two Years
- In memoriam Stephen Toulouse, Xbox Live’s former head “beat cop”
- Amazon Key Bad idea or evolutionary pressure tactic
- Stephen ‘Stepto’ Toulouse, 1972-2017 Microsoft mainstay handled tough jobs with authority, humor
- Delve Into ‘Project Honolulu’ For Windows Server, And More On The Friday Five
- The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB Review
- Domaining Europe to return to Valencia in 2018
- After Windows 10 upgrade, do these seven things immediately
- SpaceX unlocks “steamroller” achievement as company eyes 19 launches in 2017
- Microsoft just opened a hologram studio for VR and AR content
- Out of the Box What Colors Can I Impact on the Schedule Board
- Assassin’s Creed Origins Is Now Available For Xbox One
- NGC 7635 Bubble in a Cosmic Sea
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hoursday, up 70% in the last year (Peter KafkaRecode)
- Microsoft 1Q18 Office 365 is booming, Azure continues to climb
- Seattle’s housing market is growing twice as fast as San Francisco’s — signaling a tech exodus
- Managing modern mobile productivity with Enterprise Mobility + Security
- Joining your Windows 10 computer to a domain
- A new Project Online Content Pack for Power BI
- Is Raleigh the East Coast's Silicon Valley
- Expedia posts 15% Q3 revenue increase in first quarter since CEO departed for Uber
- Amazon tops 540K employees after swallowing Whole Foods in $13.7B deal
- .Com.Net base grew by 1.47 million in Q3
- Microsoft revenue up 12% to $24.5 billion, powered by commercial cloud business
- Amazon crushes profit expectations, sales rise 34% to $43.7B, stock up 7%
- Microsoft hits its $20 billion commercial cloud revenue run-rate goal ahead of schedule
- Microsoft cloud continues to grow, powers first quarter results
- Microsoft Q1 revenue of $24.54B, up 12% YoY, vs. $23.56B expected; net income up 16% YoY to $6.6B; Productivity revenue hits $8.2B, up 28% YoY; stock up 3%+ (Microsoft Investor Relations)
- Amazon beats with Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs. $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours (Business Wire)
