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WW 907: It's Interesting Being Me - Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9

WW 907: It's Interesting Being Me - Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9

Update: 2024-11-13
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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


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