July 23, 2025

Windows Weekly 942: A World of Wonder

2 hours 47 minutes

Microsoft finally kills Movies & TV show service in the Microsoft Store. This was the final vestigial minder of Zune that remained. There was Groove Video and Xbox Video, too. Microsoft previously killed eBook (2019) and music (2017) sales. At this point, you would have to be insane to buy content from Microsoft, sorry... but you can get to some of your content on other services via Movies Anywhere - and use the Movies & TV app for now in Windows, which is no longer bundled.

Windows 11

It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard

A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10

Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint

Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery

Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year

Describe image action for Click to Do (for AMD/Intel), image descriptions in Narrator (AMD/Intel), performance log improvements (!), Click to Do search bar test, Lock screen improvements, privacy improvements head to Dev and Beta channels

Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time

Brave will automatically block Recall

WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app

Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform

Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone

Surface/Copilot+ PC

Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features

It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life

All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers

Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside

Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming

Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"

Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw

DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search

Xbox and gaming

The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC

Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?

App pick of the week: Proton Lumo

RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam

Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

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July 23, 2025

Windows Weekly 942: A World of Wonder

2 hours 47 minutes

Windows 11

It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard

A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10

Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint

Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery

Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year

Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time

Brave will automatically block Recall

WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app

Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform

Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone

Surface/Copilot+ PC

Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features

It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life

All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers

Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside

Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming

Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"

Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw

DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search

Xbox and gaming

The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC

Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?

App pick of the week: Proton Lumo

RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam

Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10

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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