July 16, 2025

Windows Weekly 941: K... and Q

2 hours 38 minutes

Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it.

Windows 11

Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels

Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)

Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now

Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it

PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat

Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android

ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart

Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over

Microsoft 365, AI

Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI

Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose

Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion

All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf

Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory

OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world

It's working on a web browser

It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts

Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools

Xbox and Gaming

Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality

Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished

App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop

RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag

Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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July 16, 2025

Windows Weekly 941: K... and Q

2 hours 38 minutes

Windows 11

Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels

Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)

Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now

Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it

PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat

Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android

ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart

Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over

Microsoft 365, AI

Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI

Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose

Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion

All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf

Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory

OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world

It's working on a web browser

It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts

Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools

Xbox and Gaming

Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality

Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished

App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop

RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag

Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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