November 19, 2025

Windows Weekly 959: Thurrott Syndrome

2 hours 29 minutes

Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.

Ignite 2025

Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?

No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again

Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture

MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers

New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service

Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already

Windows 11

Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions

The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected

Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more

OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed

Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash

Xbox and gaming

Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming

Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11

FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience

Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising

Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support

Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms

Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20

As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again

Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2

RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

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

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November 19, 2025

Windows Weekly 959: Thurrott Syndrome

2 hours 29 minutes

Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.

Ignite 2025

Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?

No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again

Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture

MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers

New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service

Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already

Windows 11

Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions

The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected

Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more

OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed

Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash

Xbox and gaming

Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming

Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11

FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience

Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising

Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support

Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms

Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20

As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again

Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2

RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

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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