Plus: Builds, Teams, a bit of Xbox and other things Microsoft fiddled with last week
Roundup It has been a bumper week at Microsoft with new builds, bigger meetings and streaming software.
It’s taken a while, but Skype has finally leapfrogged FaceTime in the group meeting stakes, bumping the maximum participants in a group call from 25 to 50.Apple trumpeted a mere 32 back when it launched the functionality in iOS 12 back in 2018. The fruity firm later temporarily pulled the feature following the discovery of a horrific privacy bug in January.
Skype’s new functionality is currently available to insiders and will also now send a notification rather than ringing the devices of those members who can’t join.
Skype for Business, on the other hand, allows up to 250 participants in a group call.
As is the norm this close to the release of a Windows 10 build, there was little to get too excited about in the new Fast Ring emission – build 18358 – although fixes of note included upgrades failing and having to rollback and a worrying bug where certain upgrade paths could result in the contents of the Recycle Bin being left under Windows.old.
Microsoft again reminded its Fast Ring insiders that the company would really like them to have a crack at zombie botherer, State of Decay. It also introduced a new bug that prevents app updates being automatically installed from the Microsoft Store.
Slow Ring users, now tracking mere days behind their Fast Ring cousins, also received quick fire builds as Microsoft first leapt from build 18351.
