November 27, 2024

Windows Weekly 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred

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2 hours 39 minutes

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

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November 27, 2024

Windows Weekly 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred

Listen Later

2 hours 39 minutes

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

...more