Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, September 24th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Office 2019 is here. Serious XM acquires Pandora,

the whole Chrome browser log-in controversy.

More missed revenue numbers in digital media,

and Eric Schmidt says there could someday be a regular internet and a separate Chinese internet.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Microsoft's Ignite Conference kicked off this morning in Orlando and a bunch of news has already been made.

First up, Office 2019, the official successor to Office 2016, is available today

for Windows and Mac. If you get it, you'll get some of the key features that Microsoft has been

rolling out to Office 365

subscribers all along and notice I said some. If you want all the up to the minute

Office features, Microsoft really really wants you to be an Office 365

subscriber nowadays. This standalone version of Office won't get the sometimes

monthly feature updates that subscribers get.

It will only get security updates and fixes.

And it should be noted, Office 2019 will only run on Windows 10, not Windows 7 or 8.1.

Also for many years now, there have been a whole

slew of third-party virtual solutions that allow you

to run Windows and a virtual machine.

I actually have used parallels for the better part of a decade.

But until now, Microsoft has basically stayed out of this particular ball game.

Well, no more. Microsoft has announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure-based service that provides a full

virtual multi-user Windows 10 experience and Office 365 Pro Plus. Microsoft says that deploying Windows on any machine using Azure with Office will only take a few minutes to set up and will feature all the built-in security and compliance features of a natively running Windows

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