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It's the closest thing we have to the old "Semi-Annual Channel" and "Current Branch for Business."

In the past few hours, Microsoft has given its deployment go-ahead for Windows 10 version 1903, putting it in the CBB/SAC/&ready for broad deployment& branch. The Windows 10 release information page now says:

Current status as of September 26, 2019:

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Got extra smartphones sitting around your office? How about tablets? As we move multiple generations into mobile technology, more and more of us are building up collections of old, dated devices from both our work and our personal lives. And more often than not, those devices do little more than take up space and gather dust.

Here's a little secret, though: Your abandoned Android gadgets are actually virtual gold mines. You just have to find the right way to tap into their potential and give them new life.

So grab the nearest DustBuster and get ready: Here are 20 ways to make your old phone or tablet useful again.

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Most of the people I spoke with at Facebook Oculus Connect see the proliferation of virtual reality as a foregone conclusion, one thatjust a matter of timing at this point. For Facebook, the conference&The Time is Now& catchphrase showcased that they feel their hardware is ready for everyone.

But despite the success, they feel like they&ve tapped into when it comes to hardware iterations, the companybread and butter social networking prowess feels like itbarely improved in-headset in the past several years of VR experimentations.

&On the social side, looking back, itkind of embarrassing all of the stages we&ve gone through at Oculus,& Oculus CTO and veteran programmer John Carmack conceded onstage during his signature rambling annual keynote, noting that his own social APK was followed by Oculus Rooms, Oculus Venues, Facebook Spaces and now the companylatest shiny pearl Facebook Horizon.

Horizondebut this year included a flashy trailer for what quickly seemed to be the companybiggest gamble and first potential social hit, a massive multi-player online world. In introducing the software, Zuckerberg talked about people-centric software as Facebook&bread-and-butter,& noting, &We build a lot of the best social experiences for phones and computers, and we want to do this for virtual reality as well.&

But Facebook does not actually appear to hold that much of an advantage over much smaller game studios in terms of understanding how to make social virtual reality experience take off.