Tweet Today, Microsoft announced that it’s going to be shutting down a big chunk of the consumer services that Cortana provides. Music, smart home, and third-party skills are all going away. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft released this week’s Windows 10 Insider Preview in the Fast ring today, and while many were expecting Skip Ahead builds to arrive soon, the company confirmed it’s not coming back. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Skype users are seeing a message warning them of the impending death of the SMS Connect feature next month. Microsoft is instead pushing the Your Phone app to send and receive SMS on your PC. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Outings, a Microsoft Garage project, is being retired at the end of this month. Much of the insights provided by the app over its run of almost two years will be used to improved the Bing experience. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Today, Google announced that moving forward, it will only support 64-bit versions of Android Studio. The 32-bit version will be deprecated at the end of the year, and will be discontinued in 2020. Read more… Neowin