November 13, 2024

Windows Weekly 907: It's Interesting Being Me

2 hours 17 minutes

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

...more

View all episodes

By TWiT

3.6

1616 ratings

November 13, 2024

Windows Weekly 907: It's Interesting Being Me

2 hours 17 minutes

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

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

...more

Share Windows Weekly 907: It's Interesting Being Me

Sign up to save your podcasts

Windows Weekly 907: It's Interesting Being Me

Windows Weekly 907: It's Interesting Being Me

More shows like Total Leo (Video)

MacBreak Weekly (Audio)

This Week in Tech (Video)

MacBreak Weekly (Video)

AppleInsider Podcast

iOS Today (Video)

Tech News Weekly (Video)

Security Now (Video)

Hands-On Tech (Video)

All TWiT.tv Shows (Video)

Windows Weekly (Video)

This Week in Google (Video)

Home Theater Geeks (Video)

TWiT News (Video)

Hands-On Tech (Video)

TWiT Throwback (Video)

TWiT Events (Video)

Total Mikah (Video)

Hands-On Apple (Video)

Hands-On Windows (Video)

This Week in Space (Video)

Untitled Linux Show (Video)