Welcome to the second beta episode of the Neowin Podcast, the weekly show where Rich Woods and João Carrasqueira talk about the biggest Microsoft and tech news of the past week. With a rather slow news period for the past few days, we turned some of our attention to the upcoming developer events from Microsoft and Google - Build and I/O. We also talk about the slow rollout of Windows 10 version 1809 and the new HoloLens 2 Development Edition.
Before you jump into this week's episode, here's a rundown of the news we talk about, so you can get some context:
- Microsoft announces the HoloLens 2 Development Edition for $3,500
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AdDuplex: The October 2018 Update is still on only 29.3% of Windows 10 devices
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Build 18890 is now in the Fast Ring, 17763.439 is available for users on Windows 10 version 1809 (also be sure to check out build 17763.475, which was released after we recorded this episode)
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Chromium-based Edge gets translation capabilities, PWA installation improvements, and a few fixes in the Dev branch.
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Xbox Game Pass gets eight new games; Games with Gold offers four others
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Facebook unveils new design and features for its apps and website, new and improved apps for Messenger
Episode 0.2 is available on SoundCloud and embedded below. We're also looking to make it more accessible to everyone using dedicated podcasting apps such as Pocket Casts, so you can now add this RSS feed to your app of choice:
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:300504435/sounds.rss
This means that new episodes will now be delivered to you automatically as they're released. We tried it and it's working with Castbox for Android, but let us know if you have any trouble. Without further ado, here's the episode:
Leave your opinions and feedback in the comments below, and stay tuned next week for the first episode following Microsoft Build and Google I/O!
