Episode 312 | Inspire Tidbits and Big Cloud Wins

This week AC and CJ discuss a bunch of cloud news from Microsoft, Facebook and a wrap up from Microsoft’s partner conference Inspire. Naturally they talk about the Apollo 11 anniversary and of course some picks. Enjoy!

Banter

• Apollo 11 In Real Time

News

• Microsoft
  • Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to develop AI technologies on Azure
  • Microsoft to pay $26 million to settle probe into Hungarian kickback scheme
  • Microsoft, AT&T sign cloud deal worth more than $2 billion
• Other
  • Microsoft says its Teams app is bigger than Slack and growing faster
  • Workplace, Facebook’s service for business teams, is raising its prices for the first time since launch
• Microsoft Inspire 2019
  • Microsoft Wows Inspire Crowd With Language-translating HoloLens Hologram
  • Azure Lighthouse
  • Azure Migration Program
  • New Program for Business Applications ISVs
  • We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that
  • Microsoft Power Platform business model and licensing updates
  • An Office 365 Users Guide to PowerApps and Flow Licensing – October 2019 Edition

Picks

• AC’s Pick
  • Unpublished video takes you inside the cockpit of a B-2 stealth bomber while it’s in flight
• CJ’s Pick
  • A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon