Windows Weekly (Audio)

Patch Tuesday has arrived and Windows 11 23H2/24H2 gets those preview updates we talked about two weeks ago: Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects on taskbar, File Explorer improvements, Mouse improvements, Time Zone changes without admin privileges, OneDrive continuity (23H2 only), Windows Share improvements (23H2 only), new keyboard shortcut for Magnifier. While Windows 10 gets the new Outlook, you lucky dogs! Windows Beta (yesterday) - Beta/Dev window is open, Beta will move to 24H2 soon, this new build was for 23H2, new Paint app MIDI IS BACK BABY! MIDI Services 2.0 now in public preview Photos app OCR capabilities are back - feature was in testing but disabled in November, supports 160 languages HoloLens is finally dead: Microsoft partners with tech bro to offload US Army contract AI/Dev Microsoft schedules Build 2025 for May 19-22. And then Google schedules I/O 2025 for May 20-21 Elon Musk and investors supposedly make bid for OpenAI - hilarity ensues OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is You don't have to sign in to OpenAI to use ChatGPT Search now Google Gemini 2.0 family is now (mostly) generally available GitHub Copilot is getting agentic features this year Remember the so-called Windows Copilot Runtime? It's finally happening. Paul noticed that the Windows App SDK 1.7 Experimental 3 release finally had WCR bits, was quietly released last week Coding hands-on: Building text rewrite and summarize requires just a few lines of code More Earnings/Corporate Qualcomm - $11.7 billion in revenues, up 17 percent It's over! Arm Holdings drops Qualcomm complaint, will not terminate license Amazon: $188 billion in revenues, up 9.5 percent - AWS was $29 billion in revenues, up 16 percent. Amazon to spend $75 billion this fiscal year on AI infrastructure build-out, similar to MSFT, that figure was $28 billion in the previous quarter Here comes Conversational Alexa - Amazon devices and services event February 26 Sonos continues its downward spiral - Before earnings, restructuring and layoffs Xbox Good news/bad news on Xbox console sales - Better than expected, honestly Candy Crush Solitaire is first new King game under Xbox - Perfect King/Microsoft mashup Tips and Picks Tip of the week: A few steps forward (and back) for the 2025 online accounts push Tip of the week #2: Get the Bill Gates book Source Code App pick of the week: Notion is nearly perfect RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 with Robert Smit Brown liquor pick of the week: Mackmyra Brukswhisky Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $24.1 billion on revenues of $69.6 billion in the quarter ending December 31, the second quarter of its fiscal 2025. Those figures represent gains of 10 percent and 12 percent year-over-year (YOY), respectively. Microsoft Earnings Overview Not much going on with client-side products and services, so a focus on AI Productivity and Business Processes: $29.4 billion in revenues, up 14 percent YOY. This was 42.2 percent of Microsoft's earnings Intelligent Cloud: $25.5 billion in revenues, up 19 percent YOY. This was 36.6 percent of Microsoft's earnings More Personal Computing: $14.7 billion, unchanged from the year-ago quarter. (Literally flat YOY.) This was 21.1 percent of Microsoft's earnings Windows Microsoft testing AI-powered search in Windows 11 Dev New Canary build- Windows Midi Services preview, OneDrive resume, File Explorer folder resume Microsoft is experimenting with new Windows 11 UIs Microsoft Edge text rendering comes to all Chromium web browsers on Windows - That only took a few years Microsoft explains deprecation after using the term for decades AI Week 2 of submitting to our new Chinese overlords Gemini catapults into the lead for a few days as Gemini 2.0 becomes broadly available Inspired by DeepSeek, OpenAI releases reasoning model to free ChatGPT This comes after Microsoft added it to Copilot Reasoning vs. traditional models Also, DeepSeek R1 is on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Sam Altman discusses DeepSeek, more OpenAI offers up an AI research assistant More Earnings (Lightning Round) Intel - $14.3 billion in revenues, down 7 percent AMD: Revenues up 24 percent, market share gains on Intel Apple - Record $124.2 billion in revenues, up 4 percent Alphabet/Google: Revenues at $96.47 billion, up 12 percent - CapEx expenditures closing in on MSFT Samsung - Revenues up 12 percent to $52.2 billion Spotify is profitable for full year for the first time Microsoft 365 Designer makes its way to Photos (Windows) and Microsoft 365 Copilot app (mobile) Microsoft is removing the VPN from Microsoft 365 Family and Personal Outlook for Mac to get email recall feature Xbox Starfield is coming to Game Pass Standard this month, more Game Pass titles Forza Horizon 5 is coming to PS5 Two Age of Empires titles are coming to PS5 Remember that Microsoft partnership with Start.gg? Me neither Nintendo revenues, Switch sales fall more than expected, will no longer beat DS this fiscal year Tips and Picks Tip of the week: It's time for an online account audit App pick of the week: Another week of big browser update RunAs Radio this week: Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans Margarita of the week: 2 oz white tequila, 1.5 oz Triple Sec, 1 oz fresh lime juice. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security 1password.com/windowsweekly uscloud.com

Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell go over the latest batch of preview updates for January 2025, including KB5050094! The big story of the week revolves around DeepSeek and its noticeable effects on the modern AI world. Sinofsky even wrote a big piece on the latest AI assistant! Windows 11 Preview updates for Windows 11, 10 arrive ahead of February Patch Tuesday Windows 11 - Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects in the system tray, many File Explorer fixes, more Windows 10 - New Outlook replaces Mail, Calendar, People New Dev and Beta channel builds - Overdue battery icon updates in Dev, Snap Layout experiments in Beta New Canary build today with new File Explorer home view tab Microsoft to remove Dev Home from Windows - This never made sense, so that's fine, but its most important features will live on Microsoft Edge for Windows now has a Scareware blocker in preview AI DeepSeek explodes out of the gate, sends Big Tech/AI stock reeling and opening up questions about how much money these companies are spending on AI Nadella, Altman, Nvidia all react to this change in interesting ways Steve Sinofsky - This was inevitable, disruption always comes from outside Ahead of this blockbuster development, a look at how the Microsoft/OpenAI relationship is changing - and now we need another look OpenAI announces Operator agent for ChatGPT in preview Google is bringing new Gemini features to Android and Pixel Google is also bringing NotebookLM to almost every Workspace tier, including the cheap one I (Paul) use, NotebookLM Plus to WS Standard and better Microsoft Microsoft preps smaller Surface Pro and Laptop models with Snapdragon chips for some reason Microsoft is closing its UK-based "experience center" Xbox Thanks to Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is the biggest game publisher in the world Phil Spencer: Xbox Series S a "real advantage" for coming portable gaming product Phil Spencer says hardware still "critical" to Xbox. More like "critical condition," am I right? No surprises at Xbox Developer_Direct, but a solid collection of games, including the new DOOM Tips and Picks Tip of the week: It's time to start watching Dave's Garage App pick of the week: PowerToys, now with Zoomit RunAs Radio this week: Querying for Breaches with Mark Morowcyznski Brown liquor pick of the week: Blair Athol 12 Floral & Fauna Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

OpenAI, Stargate Project, 24H2 Preview Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/916 Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly uscloud.com zscaler.com/security

The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 brings temporary but sweet relief. There were no preview updates last month, so this month is just security/bug fixes. Plus, will Microsoft back down from its Windows 10 EOL line in the sand? It appears not. Finally, got New Year's resolutions? Paul's got a better idea. Maybe... Windows New Canary build with nothing in it Microsoft will not support Office on Windows 10 after October EOL date Microsoft is auto-installing the new Outlook in Windows 10 too - Don't let the door hit you on the way out Parallels Desktop for Mac now supports running x86 Windows VMs. Very slowly AI, Microsoft 365 New business models for AI emerge in 2025. Pay as you go vs. pay or no pay Microsoft has shifted its business model strategy over two years 15 months of Copilot in Windows: Madness Microsoft announces pay-as-you-go AI agents Google has a different (better) take with "the best of Google AI" in Workspace What to expect: Price hikes on subscription services to pay for this AI Massive reorg of Microsoft's engineering groups is all about AI - There are PM-level layoffs happening now all over Microsoft OpenAI adds tasks in beta to ChatGPT Microsoft Excel in Windows will soon support dark mode. Wait, what? Hardware Surface teases a big announcement on January 30 AMD surges on incredible new x86 chips and Intel's epic fail Former Surface design lead Ralf Groene joins Panos at Amazon. Why? Arm Holdings plans massive licensing price hikes. Everyone needs to settle the F down There's a 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 now. But at this price, a low-end NUC is the better choice for most Dev .NET 9.0.1 arrives - and with it, the fix for the app-crashing WPF/Windows 11 theming bug Paul tried GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. It is MAGIC Xbox Microsoft is clearly planning something big for gaming handhelds. Windows or Xbox? Or both? Happy New Year, Xbox fans! Microsoft to bring more Xbox exclusives to PS, Switch Xbox to host a Developer Direct event next week Microsoft introduces new Xbox repair options The Nintendo Switch 2 is leaking all over the place, and there were prototypes at CES Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Think about making micro changes each month or quarter instead of huge, sweeping changes once a year App pick of the week: Start11 v2.5 RunAs Radio this week: DevOpsDocs with Mattias Karlsson Brown liquor pick of the week: Buchanan's Deluxe 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: cachefly.com/twit

We heard you missed us. We're back. Windows Microsoft declares 2025 the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." As likely as "year of the Linux desktop" The theory: Windows 10 EOL, AI PCs, lingering security fears from CrowdStrike The issue: Windows 10 has 63 usage share right now. At this point in time, Windows 7 had only 25 percent usage share (and was in second place, not first) Intel joins in on this fever dream but we've stopped listening More interesting: AMD is kicking ass and taking names. And we thought the existing chips were good (they are). Related to this, PC makers are embracing AMD like never before. Check out HP's workstations (including laptops) Microsoft is blocking the 24H2 update on PCs with Auto HDR enabled New Canary and Beta builds ring in the New Year Not that it matters, but Windows 11 almost had Vista Ultimate Extras-like dynamic wallpapers Dell kills XPS and all its other PC brands because Dell is stupid and doesn't know what it had Arm & PCs Qualcomm defeated Arm Holdings in licensing dispute court case. And, yes, it won big time, contrary to Arm's nonsense Qualcomm announces an even lower-end Snapdragon X chip for $600 PCs, so ASUS announces an $1100 laptop that uses it Snapdragon Dev Kit update Part 2 of Paul's history of Windows on Arm is up New Arm PCs announced, including desktops. Ahead of CES, Geekom jumped the gun and said it was coming out with a Snapdragon X-based NUC. Lenovo has a NUC/SFF NVIDIA and MediaTek confirm partnership on Arm chips for PCs Microsoft 365 First, GitHub Copilot, but now Microsoft 365 Copilot will allegedly stop using OpenAI exclusively Microsoft reveals (confirms) it will spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in FY 2025 as it suckles up to Trump like the rest of the tech industry Microsoft and OpenAI allegedly tied AGI milestone to profits, not intelligence Xbox & Gaming Microsoft discusses a console-like experience for Windows handheld gaming. Tied to that, a new generation of handheld gaming PCs is on the way Xbox Game Pass says Happy New Year with a full slate of Activision Blizzard titles. Just kidding NVIDIA announces new graphics cards for PCs No one wants this, but Xbox is coming to LG smart TVs Xbox Rewards shuffles the deck chairs, hopes no one notices it's worse now Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Spend a little, upgrade to Windows 11 App pick of the week: Microsoft PowerToys RunAs Radio this week: Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik Brown liquor pick of the week: Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: uscloud.com zscaler.com/security

Windows Weekly wishes all viewers and listeners a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here's a look back at Microsoft's 2024! NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot Pro announced Copilot GPT Builder Impressions XZ Utils Backdoor Found by Microsoft Hero Copilot+ PC & Recall Announced Recall Drama Prompts Opt-in Changes Thurrant: WSJ Hit Piece on Qualcomm? Lenovo's nutty ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid 3 Mile Island Revival Halo Studios & Unreal Engine 5 Snapdragon Dev Kit Unboxed Coffee and Nespresso tangent! Steve Gibson's Worry About "Connected Experiences" Intel's CEO "retires" Clonakilty Whiskey in studio! Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Real-time translation, AI steak video, The Great Circle Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/912 Sponsors: uscloud.com cachefly.com/twit

Recall impressions, Copilot Vision preview, x86's future Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/911 Sponsors: threatlocker.com uscloud.com

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS FROM INTEL Intel announces Arc B-series GPUs!!! CEO Pat Gelsinger "retires," but was really forced out by the board of directors Why? Theories include too-slow progress, major partner bailing on foundry, disagreements over keeping x86 design and foundry, etc. Windows All Quiet on the Windows Front No Insider builds last week. Thanks Thanksgiving! Today, a new Canary build with Win32 app updating in the Store Patch Tuesday is next week - this will be a big one The rest of December will be quiet too Microsoft: TPM 2.0 is "non-negotiable" in Windows And now, a long-threatened change: Watermark on the desktop of unsupported PCs PC sales slid 1.5 percent in Q3 after two quarters of "growth"/flat sales Samsung is killing DeX Phone Link is the new Dex. Interesting, given the partnership with Microsoft Plus, Google is FINALLY adding desktop capabilities to Android. This should have always come from the platform maker AI, Cloud FTC is investigating Microsoft for cloud licensing too - And about 16 other things apparently Microsoft: SHE HIT ME FIRST! Spotify Wrapped 2024 uses Notebook LM to create a personalized podcast for each customer OpenAI is solving the biggest problem with AI... its lack of advertising! The Browser Company's next browser is called Dia and it's all about AI. Does it have a chance? Xbox Xbox Year in Review is live Indiana Jones and more is coming to Game Pass in the first half of December Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting big reliability updates. Hopefully, Boeing is helping out here For some reason, Sony announces that it sold 160 million PlayStation 2 consoles Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get out of the basement App pick of the week: Google Drive RunAs Radio this week: A SysAdmin Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow Brown liquor pick of the week: Dewar's 8 Year Old Caribbean Smooth Rum Cask Finish Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly Melissa.com/twit veeam.com uscloud.com

Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview) Windows Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice Look at how facile the complaints are now This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? HP and Dell earnings The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025 Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea? Microsoft 365 Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week AI, antitrust, corporate Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested Xbox Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away Tips and Picks Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133 RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: uscloud.com e-e.com/twit flashpoint.io

It's Microsoft Ignite and we are totally not there One word summary: Agentic A wave two for Copilot, essentially Agents that work on your behalf autonomously The Snapdragon Dev Box was such a success that Microsoft is offering more hardware Copilot+ PCs are getting new AI capabilities. Eventually Copilot Actions brings, um, actions to Microsoft 365 Windows 11 Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 on Arm ISO - Here's some advice When you think about Windows, we're guessing security and resiliency aren't what comes to mind. So why is Microsoft pushing this so hard at Ignite?? Google Drive is now available in Beta for Windows 11 on Arm. Paul's national nightmare is over! Here's what's coming to Windows 11 SOON - a new Release Preview channel build shows that 24H2 was just the start of this coming year's updates Canary: Mostly bug fixes, no clear vision for this channel we can see - new Canary build today with the new Hello experience, new Taskbar thumbnail previews Beta: Jump list sharing and other features no one has ever, ever, ever asked for Microsoft is shutting down Beta channel for Windows 10, just months after it revived it Lenovo revenues surge, PC sales only up slightly but it sees big growth in the coming quarters AI, antitrust, more DOJ reportedly wants Google to sell off Chrome - How does this compare to the previous Microsoft breakup attempt? Some thoughts about Uno Platform Studio and a re-do of last week's .NET news now that Richard is back A WPF on .NET 9 update Xbox Phil Spencer speaks: Portable Xbox hardware, mobile store, more Microsoft's new Xbox ad triggers PTSD or celebration, depending on your views You can now play (50) games you own on Xbox Cloud Gaming! It's been a while, but this is a killer month for Game Pass Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available Avowed is an Xbox console exclusive and it's coming in February Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters arrive alongside Warcraft 3: Reforged 2.0 - celebrating the 20th anniversary Valve celebrates the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2! The OG Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free, and they run on modern PCs too Sony PlayStation Portal can now stream some PS Plus games Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get 1 TB of additional Xbox storage for just $99 App pick of the week: ChatGPT for Windows and Mac RunAs Radio this week: Testing Databases with Dan Mallott Brown liquor pick of the week: Haavaldsen Sledgehammer 2024 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: threatlocker.com uscloud.com cachefly.com/twit

Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9, and more! Windows 11 The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end. Patch Tuesday arrives Windows team says no Preview update in December... but what about November? Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator improvements. WHERE ARE THE ARM ISOs??? Most recent episode of Run as Radio is worth discussing again here Dev and Beta: Nice new "run as admin" shortcut in Dev, minor changes in Beta Canary: Mostly bug fixes Microsoft Edge is using a new trick to steal Chrome data It's dead, Jim: Microsoft reminds world that Outlook will replace Mail, Calendar, People If you pay for Copilot (dummy) you can make custom Outlook themes now for some reason Quick laptop update: AMD Zen 5 vs. Intel Lunar Lake vs. Snapdragon X Still more earnings Arm: $844 million, but disappointing. Also, Qualcomm legal battle looms Qualcomm: $10.24 billion in revenues, up 19 percent AMD to lay off 4 percent of (26,000 employee) workforce globally, focus on AI Dev Microsoft releases .NET 9 That means WPF support for Windows 11 theming is live But there's a surprise: Microsoft added one of the features we need .NET Conf is happening as we speak - Thursday is third-party day, and I am curious about Avalon and Uno announcements Qualcomm has a webinar tomorrow for AI developers and Snapdragon X Xbox Surprise! Death Stranding comes to Xbox three years later to the day Phil Spencer talks PS5, mobile devices, more in a new interview MAJOR NEW ACTIVISION RELEASE ON GAME PASS Just kidding, it's some stupid purple dragon Friend requests now available (again) to all Xbox users Paying GeForce Now customers get monthly usage caps NVIDIA app replaces GeForce Experience, no need to sign in anymore Sony has sold 65 million PS5 consoles ... it needs 20+ million more to surpass PS3 Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update App pick of the week: Stardock DesktopGPT App pick of the week #2: Quick Share Cocktail of the week: Salmoncito Ingredients 1 oz. tonic water, plus more for topping 1½ oz. London dry gin ¼ oz. Campari ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice Grapefruit twist and grapefruit supreme (for serving) Preparation Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 1 oz. tonic water, then pour in 1½ oz. London dry gin, ¼ oz. Campari, and ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice. Top off with more tonic water and stir gently with a bar spoon. Express oil of a grapefruit twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with a grapefruit supreme. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: uscloud.com veeam.com

On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week. Windows New 24H2 bug More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!) New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently) Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates A Tale of 2 Chips Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues More Earnings Learnings Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues Microsoft 365/AI Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for Xbox It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024 Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly lookout.com threatlocker.com

Enjoy Leo's many hats in this fun and silly edition of Windows Weekly. Happy Halloween! Windows 11 Yes, Windows 11 version 24H2 got its preview update for October too, a few days late as expected 24H2 was a surprisingly big platform shift - no enablement updates - faster updates going forward Dev and Beta get new builds, minor changes in each Microsoft 365/AI/dev Teams is... getting weird Microsoft 365 apps get Handoff support on Apple devices Notion Mail - a light alternatives to Google Workspace and M365? GitHub Copilot goes multi-LLM Apple Intelligence wave one arrives, mostly to indifference. Wave two in December. EU is getting it in the Spring New Macs this week with M4. But the big news? 16 GB of RAM, minimum. Finally. The Browser Company can't realize its vision for the future with Arc Earnings/Corporate Microsoft and Google duke it out over Cloud licensing - This one is getting ugly Google - $88.3 billion in revenues AMD - OK, but dominated by Intel on PCs and NVIDIA in AI/datacenter Xbox More games, more people, more devices, Microsoft says Less emphasis on console but what might a next-gen console look like? Arm? Mobile? Third-party hardware makers? Cloud Gaming is limited to the most expensive Game Pass tier - that has to change, and what about a standalone tier? Mobile app stores are coming - but what about native mobile games? Call of Duty Black Ops 6 lands on PC Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Cloud Gaming - Paul puts aside his grudge and gives it a shot Microsoft previews new Home experience for Xbox app on Windows Tips and Picks Tip of the week: It might be time to look at the Raspberry Pi again App pick of the week: My God, it's full of web browsers RunAs Radio this week: Updating Windows on ARM with Aria Hanson Brown liquor pick of the week: Laird of the Fintry Black Label Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly uscloud.com threatlocker.com Melissa.com/twit

In case you missed it You didn't. But Qualcomm canceled that Snapdragon Dev Box, will refund customers Qualcomm picked the wrong company for this Also, there are plenty of Copilot+ PCs and does it make more sense to develop against the type of PC your customers will use? Windows 11 23H2 gets a preview update, as expected Copilot key customization, Gamepad for virtual keyboard, notification suggestions, etc. Qualcomm and Microsoft solve Paul's only hardware issue with Arm, more Qualcomm brings Oryon cores to the phone, comes out firing against Intel, and is sued by Arm Dev channel: That Gamepad virtual kb thing Canary: That Copilot key customization thing Photos app gets Super Resolution feature - Microsoft says in preview, but Paul sees it in stable Microsoft Store is getting "immersive trailers" because ADHD Microsoft 365, AI, more Report details mounting tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI. Worst partnership ever? Several months after releasing Mac and iPhone ChatGPT apps, OpenAI delivers a comicly-named "early version" of it for Windows. Thanks guys, don't hurt yourselves. Microsoft announces first AI agents for commercial space, DIY in AI Studio AI in phases? Copilot is phase one, this thing that works beside you (app, essentially) Agents is phase two, this thing that works on your behalf away from you (service, essentially) Copilot comes to OneNote for Mac, iPad in beta Two years behind in AI, Apple has figured out the right quips and marketing messages As expected, Google gets a stay of execution (pardon the pun) in Epic case (also, pardon the pun) WTF is happening with smartphones? Did Apple and Google look at the 2024 Windows 11 Mess and say, we want us some of that? Apple Intelligence to roll out over at least four major iOS 18 updates and then forever Google rushes Android 15 dev to meet new August deadline for Pixel 9 series, whiffs it, and then delivers it 2 months late ... But at least it's jam-packed with AI Xbox Age of Empires goes mobile In the wake of Xbox/Halo adopting Unreal Engine, Unity ships Unity 6 Engine Netflix shuts down AAA game studio - I could've saved you guys a lot of money New Xbox Wireless Headset more battery, better Bluetooth, new voice isolation Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Scott and Mark, sitting in a tree... App pick of the week: Affinity Photos 2.6 Beta RunAs Radio this week: Securing Data using Azure Virtual Desktop with Jim Duffy Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: uscloud.com flashpoint.io veeam.com e-e.com/twit

On this episode, Leo Laporte shows off his new Snapdragon Dev Kit to Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell. He also tries setting it up, and the process is TOTALLY "seamless." AMD has revealed the Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series alongside Intel's launch of the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. The FIDO Alliance has published new credential exchange specifications. Sarah Bond announces that Xbox games will be purchasable on Android. And Paul unveils his new "get rich" scheme... as he looks for some feedback. x86's Last Stand? Intel and AMD announce partnership that is clearly aimed at taking on Arm. Intel was already working on simplifying the x86 architecture by removing older, unused bits Don't worry, Intel and AMD will still compete. And AMD just released new AI processors, with Intel also announcing first Core Ultra chips for Desktop Which raises a question: Why do the desktop chips not meet the Copilot+ PC spec? Windows Redmond, we have a quality problem: 24H2 is besieged by a curious number of issues despite several months of gestation and a shared feature set with 23H2. Dev and Beta: Beta is minor, but Dev has some Taskbar updates Release Preview: New builds for 23H2 and 24H2 hint at this month's Week D preview updates - since this announcement, some features have been delayed Microsoft 365/Surfac Google Workspace is adding a OneDrive (for Business) data migration capability Is there some new cloud interoperability thing going on? We're seeing this in the consumer space too. Wondering if this is related to regulatory attention A Lunar Lake Surface Laptop? Probably not Passkeys Get Real As expected, FIDO Alliance will standardize passkey portability Two sides to this: Portability between devices but also import/export between password managers Amazon has 175 million customers using passkeys - one year after initial unveil Xbox With Google antitrust loss, Microsoft vaguely reveals that Xbox games are coming to Android Long-forgotten ability to stream games you purchased over Cloud Gaming is now coming soon Microsoft settles BS "Gamers' lawsuit" for what we hope was a pittance The only gamers with a case to sue Microsoft are Xbox fans - one year this week Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more are headed to Game Pass if anyone still cares Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S mid-season replacements are here, and they come with a fun surprise New Xbox wireless headset is incoming Microsoft to host Xbox Partner Preview tomorrow, October 17 Steam forced to communicate that you don't own anything you buy Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Check out the Thurrott swag App pick of the week: Arc browser, now native on Windows 11 on Arm! RunAs Radio this week: Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Irish Whiskey Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: lookout.com threatlocker.com 1password.com/windowsweekly uscloud.com

Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio. Windows 11 24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time 22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2) 24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline New Canary build today as well Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day. Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say Antitrust Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking. DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list Microsoft 365/AI/Dev Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification? .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features RIP, Surface Duo Xbox Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29 Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro Tips and picks Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now) RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: veeam.com Melissa.com/twit 1password.com/windowsweekly cachefly.com/twit

After a flurry of last-second pre-release activity, Microsoft shipped 24H2 a week earlier than expected! Copilot also gets a major update for individuals too, and Copilot+ PCs get more features. 24H2 is here! Last week's Week D updates did finally go out, first to 22H2/23H2 and then to 24H2 That 22H2/23H2 preview update was apparently a hot mess Now Microsoft has issued a fix Windows 11 version 24H2 is fully available. Arm64 ISOs are coming soon The first LTSC version(s) of Windows 11 is now available - Windows 11 Enterprise Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) 24H2 + Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024) New Dev and Beta builds, not much new, but new Snipping Tools spreads further Canary build today Copilot Copilot morphs into an AI companion or something Copilot+ PCs are getting new features, including one with a serious Recall vibe Microsoft is trying a different tact with the new AI features - explaining why they can be trusted. Can they be trusted? Microsoft belatedly explains why you can trust Recall As expected, Microsoft does a song and dance on changes to Recall, but notably never thanks the feedback it got from the security community. Good. But this is still a win-win, if just for opt-in and, now, uninstall Google pushes Gemini more in ChromeOS Microsoft 365, More Microsoft finally kills HoloLens 2 Germany has a plan for regulating all of Microsoft, not just the products that fall under the DMA Office 2024 is here for individuals too Intel rejects buyout offer... from Arm? Xbox Xbox announces new games at Tokyo Game Show First Game Pass titles of October reveal a bonanza of Activision titles, is what I wish we could discuss Starfield expansion arrives on Xbox, PC J Allard joins Amazon for some reason Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get the 24H2, refresh your recovery drivers/setup media App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2025 are here RunAs Radio this week: Data Security and Governance with Nikki Chapple Brown liquor pick of the week: Russell's Reserve 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT 1password.com/windowsweekly flashpoint.io Melissa.com/twit

Windows 11 24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos Microsoft issues last-second updates to 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 in the Release Preview on Monday. Paul predicted these would turn into our Week D updates later in the week and that we'd get nothing on Tuesday Dev and Beta channels got some interesting updates recently as well The Windows App is now available on Windows, Mac, and iOS HP announces two new flagship AI PCs, one AMD and one Intel. Plus a lower-cost 8-core Snapdragon model. This is officially a trend. A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirmed it shipped the same update to Surface Pro 11. This has had a major negative effect on the device's instant-on capabilities Microsoft 365, cloud, AI Microsoft is reviving Three Mile Island and other headlines I never thought I'd write Google formally complains about alleged Microsoft antitrust abuses in the EU LinkedIn is training AI with your data. You can turn it off because Microsoft loves opt-out Microsoft issues a SFI progress report and they are doing GREAT, thank you very much Gemini comes to Workspace Apple Intelligence will hoover 4GB of drive space on iPhones to start, more later as more features are added More! Qualcomm makes another offer to acquire Intel Investment firm offers Intel a $5 billion lifeline Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings Paul has finished updating .NETpad for Windows 11 theming support in .NET 9, will put code up in GitHub after .NET ships in stable Xbox A new tell-all about Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox arrives October 8 Game Pass features are coming to Xbox mobile app where they belong Also, Game Bar Compact mode as part of September Xbox Update New Indie Selects titles Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is available for preorder and it will look a lot better and take up a lot less disk space Xbox Ambassador's Program is dead, Jim Xbox spends $1 billion per year to acquire Game Pass titles Xbox figured out how to reduce its carbon emissions. You know, besides selling fewer consoles Sony announces 30th anniversary PS5 collection Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Stop paying so much for everything App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: e-e.com/twit lookout.com bigid.com/windows veeam.com