September 25, 2024

Windows Weekly 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility

2 hours 37 minutes

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.

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September 25, 2024

Windows Weekly 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility

2 hours 37 minutes

Windows 11

24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos

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.

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

...more

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