July 09, 2025

Windows Weekly 940: The Donkey Always Wins

2 hours 41 minutes

It's been a big year for Windows 11 updates. This month is at least semi-manageable! Also, a few more bits from the layoffs. Plus, Amiga Forever 11 and C64 11 Forever help you live in the past!

Patch Tuesday

Copilot+ PC only: Ask Copilot action for Click to Do

24H2 only: Show smaller Taskbar icons. Screen curtain feature in Narrator. Settings home page for commercial customer

23H2 and 24H2: Windows Share shows preview when sharing web content. Beginning of PC migration feature in Windows Backup. More changes for EU users to meet DMA requirements, mostly Edge related

Windows 10: EU/DMA updates as above

More Windows 11

WE DID IT! Windows 11 is now in use on more PCs than Windows 10. It's time for Windows 12!

No new Insider features but some bug fixes in Canary

Microsoft Edge keeps getting more responsive

Microsoft 365 and AI

Teams gets threading in Channels about three years later than needed

Google brought its Veo 3 video generation model to all AI Pro subscribers last week, and now it's bringing that and two other big AI features to Pixel

Perplexity just launched its AI web browser

Xbox and gaming

No, Phil Spencer is not retiring

Romero Games forced to cancel Xbox shooter, lay off 100 employees

Warcraft Rumble Mobile won't get any more updates

Xbox angst in the wake of last week's layoffs is mostly undeserved

Xbox fans keep finding new ways to complain - Most of the game/studio closures we know about were well-deserved. If anything, Microsoft let these things continue for too long with no viable deliverables

But what is Xbox? Looking at the platform and what Microsoft has done under Phil Spencer paints a very different picture than all the moaning we see on social media

Game Pass was key to getting Satya Nadella to keep Xbox going, but after the Activision acquisition, the day and date promise was unworkable. After the changes and price hikes, it's possible that Game Pass has peaked.

Microsoft uploaded an out of date version of Call of Duty: WWII to the Store and hilarity ensues

Sony to publish a game for Xbox for the first time

Epic Games quietly settled with Samsung ahead of today's Unpacked event - but not with Google

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Office 365 for IT Pros 2026 Edition is now available

App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge

RunAs Radio this week: Building Real Software using PowerApps with Luise Freese

Brown liquor pick of the week: Bolster Road Maple Rye Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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