Summary: <p>This week CJ flies solo and recaps some of the goings on in the cloud world, including amazon, slack, azure office 365 and more! Short, sharp and to the point!</p><p>Notes:</p><p>News<br> Cloud Wars</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-arr-earnings-8-billion-2019-7">Google revealed that its cloud business is on run rate of more than $8 billion, and it plans to triple the size of its salesforce</a></li> <li><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/amazon-earnings-q2-2019/">Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37%</a></li> </ul> <p>Slack</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxBi-FUZJQ&feature=youtu.be">Brainstorm Tech 2019: Slack CEO Sees Microsoft Having Trouble Competing on Quality</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20703458/slack-desktop-app-performance-improvements-windows-mac-features-download">Slack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAM</a></li> </ul> <p>Azure</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-publishes-guidance-for-secure-cloud-adoption-by-governments/">Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments</a></li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/expanding-the-azure-stack-partner-ecosystem/">Expanding the Azure Stack partner ecosystem</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-owned-linkedin-moving-public-cloud-guess-platform-choosing/">Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is moving to the public cloud, and guess which platform it’s choosing?</a></li> </ul> <p>Office 365</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/80961-german-state-bans-use-office-365-tools-schools.html">German state bans the use of Office 365 tools in its schools due to privacy concerns (Update)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.bgr.in/news/microsoft-office-365-web-based-e-mail-leaking-out-ip-addresses-mails/">Microsoft Office 365 web-based e-mail is leaking out IP addresses in e-mails</a></li> <li><a href="https://securityintelligence.com/news/phishers-use-fake-office-365-alerts-to-compromise-admin-accounts/">Phishers Use Fake Office 365 Alerts to Compromise Admin Accounts</a></li> </ul> <p>Cortana</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/07/24/new-approaches-to-home-and-xbox-voice-commands-roll-out-to-xbox-insiders/">New Approaches to Home and Xbox Voice Commands Roll Out to Xbox Insiders</a></li> </ul> <p>Picks<br> CJ’s Pick</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://ascienceenthusiast.com/nasa-giving-away-apollo-era-saturn-rocket-anyone-wants/">NASA is just giving away an Apollo-era Saturn rocket to anyone who wants it</a></li> </ul> <p>Guest Pick: Michael Jonsson</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/japan-just-landed-its-spacecraft-on-an-asteroid-and-the-photos-are-nuts">Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are Nuts</a></li> </ul> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: </strong></p> <p><a href="http://nintex.com?utm_source=mscloudshow&utm_medium=email"><img src="http://assets.microsoftcloudshow.com/media/mscloudshow/logos/nintex.png" border="0"></a><br> What if you could take any process your teams use to get work done, and make it happen automatically? 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