MarketWatch provides the details of Microsoft’s latest reorganization. The biggest change seems to be this:

Executive Vice President Terry Myerson will lead a newly formed team, Windows and Devices Group (WDG), focused on enabling more personal computing experiences powered by the Windows ecosystem. This new team combines the engineering efforts of the current Operating Systems Group and Microsoft Devices Group.

Stephen Elop will transition out and Mark Penn is — finally — leaving to spend more time with his Scroogled mugs. Actually, it says he “has decided to pursue another venture outside Microsoft” so I wish him every success as Donald Trump’s campaign manager.

I would not be surprised if Firewatch won’t run on my 2012 MacBook Air and Star Wars Battlefront looks sa-weeeeet.

Have to. Get to. Tomato. Tomahto.

Rene Ritchie provides the highlights. I would have loved to get Siri on OS X but I’ll be happy with stability and Find My Cursor. I’m terrible at that game and would gladly pay a dollar to unlock the cheat codes.

Microsoft had many good reasons to buy Minecraft but it sure makes a killer demo for the HoloLens and is likely to inspire a whole generation to get the device,

This week on America’s darnedest dadcast we talk about the impending horrors of middle school.

It’s not rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic it’s more like a party boat going around and around in circles. Hopefully it’ll get steered in the right direction now. Glad I’m not at at the helm. Well, other than the money.

A terrific episode and a terrific interview. And not just because I have a new book jacket blurb. I mean that’s the high point but the next 55 minutes is still pretty good. The new Apple that talks to people can be pretty fun.

Ben Thompson on yesterday’s Keynote:

The first 90 minutes were excellent: very tight, with excellent clarity and momentum, well-rehearsed speakers delivering mostly iterative announcements with the occasional surprise. The final 60, on the other hand — the “one more thing” — were the exact opposite: unclear and dragging, with unprepared speakers delivering…well, I’m honestly not sure about what most of them were saying. If there was a surprise the lack of a coherent message has to be top of the list.

Apple Music may turn out to be great, but I watched the Keynote and really have no idea what Apple Music means for iTunes, Apple Radio, Beats, iTunes Connect, Family Sharing and probably half a dozen other Apple services. I do know more than I wanted to know about what music Eddy Cue likes, though, so there’s that.

If someone had said “We’re making a smartoven!” to me I would have punched them in their bakery hole but as the primary cook in our house I see this and I’m like, crap, I need that. It’s the Nest of ovens except Google doesn’t own it yet so they’re not harvesting all your nutritional information and showing you ads on it.

Lex is away, The Rockford Files.