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Windows Weekly 958: Personal Turkey

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Windows 11 just got its most noticeable Start menu revamp in a while, but is it a productivity boost or just more Microsoft meddling? The team digs into Patch Tuesday's big surprises and whether generative tools are transformative essentials or just a passing fad.


Windows 11

  • Patch Tuesday was yesterday, your new Start menu is right where Microsoft left it
  • Copilot+ PCs: Improvements to Click to Do, File Explorer, Voice access, and Windows Search
  • All PCs, eventually: Taskbar improvements, Administrator Protection (off by default), Quality updates
  • Heading into Ignite next week, Microsoft cites recent security wins in Windows 11 and Surface
  • First 26H1 build comes to Canary to prove that there will be nothing new in it, ever
  • Qualcomm takes a one-time $5.7 billion hit thanks to Big Stupid Bill but still nails it in quarterly earnings

    • Microsoft

    • WSJ continues its Microsoft financial accountability criticisms
    • Also reports that internal documents state OpenAI expects to lose $74 billion in 2028, the year Anthropic will break even
    • If Paul starts a business and it loses money for three years in a row, it becomes a hobby. So WTF is OpenAI exactly?

      • AI

      • Microsoft AI creates a Superintelligence team as a sort-of alternative to AGI
      • Microsoft launched .NET 10 at .NET Conf on Tuesday - Plus, Visual Studio 2026 with a new monthly release schedule and Insider versions going forward
      • Double-digit performance improvements again, somehow
      • Uno announced Uno Platform Studio 2.0 with a fun surprise for Paul: They upgraded the original WPF version of .NETpad into a cross platform app in 3 minutes! There will be a demo on Thursday
      • .NETpad is transitioning to WinUIpad with the Windows App SDK rewrite. It is going poorly because Windows App SDK is terrible, cannot be open sourced quickly enough

        • Xbox

        • Steam announces a new videogame console, the Steam Machine!
        • Backbone Pro Xbox Edition is now available
        • Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is here with with Xbox Play Anywhere support, Creations
        • Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming, so Halo: Infinite becomes a lot more finite
        • Call of Duty Black Ops 6 player on PC? Hope you enjoyed that 180 GB "update" you had to install before playing a year-old game (also got a 6.7 GB update Wednesday. For the love of God)
        • GTA VI has been delayed yet again as it edges into Duke Nukem Forever territory
        • Sony has now sold over 84 million PS5 consoles, meaning it has outsold every Xbox generation ever made
        • Sony is selling a 27-inch gaming display in the U.S. and Japan

          • Tips & picks

          • Tip of the week: Solving the problem over identifying the problem
          • App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder
          • RunAs Radio this week: Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kyoto Whisky Kuro-Obi Black Belt Blended

            • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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