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Kip Kniskern

Kip has been a Microsoft enthusiast since forever, and worked on/ran LiveSide.net, a website dedicated to all things Windows Live, for 9 years. Kip came to (WinBeta.org) onmsft.com in December 2014, and is loving every minute of it. Twitter email

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Articles by Kip Kniskern

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Windows 10 Redstone 5 build 17758 makes its way to the Slow ring

On Wednesday Microsoft released the latest RS5 build, version 17758, to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring, and today the…

Kip Kniskern · September 14, 2018 · 1 min read

The Wider Web: This week it’s All About Apple

Each week we take a look at what’s going on around the tech world outside of our Microsoft centric roots,…

Kip Kniskern · September 14, 2018 · 2 min read

Microsoft to reportedly re-org Windows team after RS5 release | On MSFT

Microsoft to reportedly re-org Windows team after RS5 release Kip Kniskern Sep 14th, 2018 in Latest news In his weekly…

Kip Kniskern · September 14, 2018 · 2 min read

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Azure prepares for Hurricane Florence at east coast datacenters

Microsoft, along with much of the US east coast, is preparing for the landfall of Hurricane Florence, expected to be…

Kip Kniskern · September 12, 2018 · 1 min read

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Insider build 17758 for Fast Ring

Microsoft just released another new build on the final lap for RS5, this time build 17758. As usual for a…

Kip Kniskern · September 11, 2018 · 2 min read

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Rare officially releases Sea of Thieves “Forsaken Shores” trailer

Sea of Thieves, the much promoted pirate game for Xbox and Windows 10 PC, is set for a new major…

Kip Kniskern · September 7, 2018 · 2 min read

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The Wider Web: Appearing (or not) before Congress, Vimeo pivots, and Alex Jones silenced?

Microsoft is gearing up for its Ignite conference at the end of the month, and readying new 19H1 Windows 10…

Kip Kniskern · September 7, 2018 · 2 min read

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Azure outage update: services still down as outage hits San Antonio data center (update updated!)

The problems for Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio Team Services, and a number of Azure and Office 365 services began…

Kip Kniskern · September 4, 2018 · 2 min read

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Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio Team Services suffer outages

Some Microsoft services including Azure Active Directory, the Azure Bot Service, and Visual Studio Team Services are down, apparently stemming…

Kip Kniskern · September 4, 2018 · 1 min read

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The return of the tease: Microsoft hints at new Windows 10 RS5 Insider build

For a while, it was quite the game: follow @DonaSarkar on Twitter, decipher the sometimes exceedingly cryptic hints, and learn…

Kip Kniskern · August 31, 2018 · 1 min read