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SMB compression improved in Windows 11 & Server 2022; QNAP TS-233 review; Microsoft Weekly

August 28, 2022

Sunday, Aug 28. Hello everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! I've put some of our recent content together that I hope you want to check out, have a good one! —Steve

If you need local storage or a small server in your home, then check out the two-bay QNAP TS-233. We look at its overall performance as well as how it can work as a server with Container Station.

Microsoft released a fresh batch of firmware updates for its Surface laptops. The August 2022 update is now available for the Surface Book 2, Surface Laptop 3, and Surface Laptop 2.

Software updates

Microsoft Edge 105 (and newer) support Encrypted Client Hello, a mechanism that enhances privacy by encrypting metadata in TLS. This guide will show you how to improve privacy by enabling ECH in Edge.

Saint's Row players rejoice! Wine 7.16 has been released and ships with fixes for this, Metal Gear Solid and Star Citizen. Though Deck owners may have to wait for these changes to be merged upstream.

From the Forums

A lot happened in the world of Microsoft this week, but fret not, because you can catch up on anything important that you may have missed through our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly!

Microsoft is making major changes to how SMB compression operates in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The enhancements will particularly interest IT admins and users in client-server environments.

This week on Neowin deals

This weekend's PC game deals include a bundle full of fantasy games published by WB alongside two other bundles, A dungeon crawling giveaway, and even a free weekend for Age of Empires IV

Netflix seems to be fine-tuning its upcoming ad-supported subscription tier. The new plan could cost half of the Standard tier which offers ad-free 1080p streaming, and have small commercial breaks.

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