September 17, 2025

Windows Weekly 950: Coding Makes Me Cry

2 hours 29 minutes

With Windows 10's end-of-life looming, Paul and Leo dissect the real risks, questionable hardware requirements, and whether dumping old PCs in landfills is an acceptable trade-off for modern security. Plus, why is Apple finally buying up touchscreen displays for MacBooks after years of resistance, and what could that mean for the future of both Mac and Windows hardware?

Windows

Consumer Reports asks Microsoft to continue Windows 10 support

Reminder: Windows 11 25H2 ISOs are available... x64 only, in Insider Preview. Arm version is from Dev channel and is a VHDX

Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2) - Copilot prompt in Click to Do, Prompt recommendations in Start, controller navigation for gaming handhelds, SCOOBE, agents in the Store, more

Release Preview (24H2 AND 25H2) - Click to Do table detection, action tags, and Summarize improvements; agent in Settings improvements, Hardware indicator improvements, more

Quick Machine Recovery is a solid addition to your recovery toolbox

Microsoft releases Windows 365 Cloud Apps in Preview

A MacBook with a touch screen? Oh the irony

Microsoft 365

Microsoft finally settles Teams antitrust case with EU and you're not going to believe what happens next

Microsoft 365 desktop apps (i.e. "Office") gets Copilot chat even for free - Web grounded? That's ungrounded, right?

Microsoft 365 commercial pulls in previously separate sales, service, and financial services

Outlook Lite is heading off to a farm to chase rabbits

No more Office file editing in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPhone and iPad

OpenAI and Microsoft hint at another major restructuring of their partnership

Auto AI model selection comes to Visual Studio Code. Your orchestration is showing

Visual Studio 2026 on .NET Rocks and the recent news about configuring GitHub Copilot in VS 20xx.

Hardware

October is going to be a big month for new hardware

Apple rumored for October

Google Home on October 1 with Gemini

Amazon devices (September 30, close enough)

Where are the next-gen PC chips?

Xbox & games

Third-party store integration comes to Xbox app on Windows

Microsoft kicks off another big half month for Xbox Game Pass

Epic Games can't stop beating Google in court

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Improve Windows 11 security

App pick of the week: Google app for Windows

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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