Windows Weekly (Audio)

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November 20, 2024WW 908: Twenty-Six Boxes of Napoli - Microsoft Ignite 2024, Half-Life 2 turns 20, "Agentic"
It's Microsoft Ignite and we are totally not there
One word summary: Agentic

A wave two for Copilot, essentially

Agents that work on your behalf autonomously

The Snapdragon Dev Box was such a success that Microsoft is offering more hardware

Copilot+ PCs are getting new AI capabilities. Eventually

Copilot Actions brings, um, actions to Microsoft 365
Windows 11
Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 on Arm ISO - Here's some advice

When you think about Windows, we're guessing security and resiliency aren't what comes to mind. So why is Microsoft pushing this so hard at Ignite??

Google Drive is now available in Beta for Windows 11 on Arm. Paul's national nightmare is over!

Here's what's coming to Windows 11 SOON - a new Release Preview channel build shows that 24H2 was just the start of this coming year's updates

Canary: Mostly bug fixes, no clear vision for this channel we can see - new Canary build today with the new Hello experience, new Taskbar thumbnail previews

Beta: Jump list sharing and other features no one has ever, ever, ever asked for

Microsoft is shutting down Beta channel for Windows 10, just months after it revived it

Lenovo revenues surge, PC sales only up slightly but it sees big growth in the coming quarters
AI, antitrust, more
DOJ reportedly wants Google to sell off Chrome - How does this compare to the previous Microsoft breakup attempt?

Some thoughts about Uno Platform Studio and a re-do of last week's .NET news now that Richard is back

A WPF on .NET 9 update
Xbox
Phil Spencer speaks: Portable Xbox hardware, mobile store, more

Microsoft's new Xbox ad triggers PTSD or celebration, depending on your views

You can now play (50) games you own on Xbox Cloud Gaming!

It's been a while, but this is a killer month for Game Pass

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available

Avowed is an Xbox console exclusive and it's coming in February

Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters arrive alongside Warcraft 3: Reforged 2.0 - celebrating the 20th anniversary

Valve celebrates the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2!

The OG Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free, and they run on modern PCs too

Sony PlayStation Portal can now stream some PS Plus games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Get 1 TB of additional Xbox storage for just $99

App pick of the week: ChatGPT for Windows and Mac

RunAs Radio this week: Testing Databases with Dan Mallott

Brown liquor pick of the week: Haavaldsen Sledgehammer 2024

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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3h 31min
November 13, 2024WW 907: It's Interesting Being Me - Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9
Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9, and more!
Windows 11
The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end.

Patch Tuesday arrives

Windows team says no Preview update in December... but what about November?

Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator improvements. WHERE ARE THE ARM ISOs???

Most recent episode of Run as Radio is worth discussing again here

Dev and Beta: Nice new "run as admin" shortcut in Dev, minor changes in Beta

Canary: Mostly bug fixes

Microsoft Edge is using a new trick to steal Chrome data

It's dead, Jim: Microsoft reminds world that Outlook will replace Mail, Calendar, People

If you pay for Copilot (dummy) you can make custom Outlook themes now for some reason

Quick laptop update: AMD Zen 5 vs. Intel Lunar Lake vs. Snapdragon X
Still more earnings
Arm: $844 million, but disappointing. Also, Qualcomm legal battle looms

Qualcomm: $10.24 billion in revenues, up 19 percent

AMD to lay off 4 percent of (26,000 employee) workforce globally, focus on AI
Dev
Microsoft releases .NET 9

That means WPF support for Windows 11 theming is live

But there's a surprise: Microsoft added one of the features we need

.NET Conf is happening as we speak - Thursday is third-party day, and I am curious about Avalon and Uno announcements

Qualcomm has a webinar tomorrow for AI developers and Snapdragon X
Xbox
Surprise! Death Stranding comes to Xbox three years later to the day

Phil Spencer talks PS5, mobile devices, more in a new interview

MAJOR NEW ACTIVISION RELEASE ON GAME PASS

Just kidding, it's some stupid purple dragon

Friend requests now available (again) to all Xbox users

Paying GeForce Now customers get monthly usage caps

NVIDIA app replaces GeForce Experience, no need to sign in anymore

Sony has sold 65 million PS5 consoles ... it needs 20+ million more to surpass PS3
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update

App pick of the week: Stardock DesktopGPT

App pick of the week #2: Quick Share

Cocktail of the week: Salmoncito
Ingredients
1 oz. tonic water, plus more for topping

1½ oz. London dry gin

¼ oz. Campari

¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice

Grapefruit twist and grapefruit supreme (for serving)
Preparation
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 1 oz. tonic water, then pour in 1½ oz. London dry gin, ¼ oz. Campari, and ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice. Top off with more tonic water and stir gently with a bar spoon. Express oil of a grapefruit twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with a grapefruit supreme.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2h 18min
November 06, 2024WW 906: Turnip Boy Robs a Bank - Recall delayed again, Prism update, ChatGPT search
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week.
Windows
New 24H2 bug

More features coming to Prism emulator in Windows 11 on Arm (!)

New generative AI features are coming to Paint, Photos, and Notepad

Beta channel: Here's the new Windows Hello experience, with explicit references to passkeys

Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm

Windows Server 2025 is GA (and some are being mistakenly force-upgraded. This is what you get when you share a codebase with Windows 11, apparently)

Google shifts Android development cycle - Major update each Q2, minor update each Q4, monthly feature/quality updates
A Tale of 2 Chips
Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it's awesome. Paul is also reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop, and it is not awesome

Early glee around Lunar Lake was misplaced

Laptop reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for once), that the performance is horrific. You need to switch to "Best performance" power management mode for reasonable performance, but this hasn't solved all the issues

COD: Black Ops 6. Average FPS under Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native resolution/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low

Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It will no longer package RAM with processors because of margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market and was key contributor to recent financial issues
More Earnings Learnings
Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AW

Apple: $95 billion in revenues, a small uptick in iPhone revenues
Microsoft 365/AI
Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Pro credits with base subscription (Word, Excel, etc.), Designer, ... and the long-overdue and dreaded price increase

This must be a test for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This is not the Google Search replacement you're looking for
Xbox
It's November, so here's the incredible list of Activision Blizzard games now coming to Game Pass! Just kidding, but we are getting Flight Sim 2024

Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox because something something AI

Switch sales drop off a cliff, Nintendo will announce backward-compatible successor before the end of March

Sony launches the PS5 Pro to meh
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Windows 11 minus the MSA

App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive

RunAs Radio this week: Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn

Brown liquor MOVIE pick of the week: Whisky Galore

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2h 31min
October 30, 2024WW 905: Regulated Goods Content - Astroturfing, Microsoft FY25 Q1 Earnings, Notion Mail
Enjoy Leo's many hats in this fun and silly edition of Windows Weekly. Happy Halloween!
Windows 11
Yes, Windows 11 version 24H2 got its preview update for October too, a few days late as expected

24H2 was a surprisingly big platform shift - no enablement updates - faster updates going forward

Dev and Beta get new builds, minor changes in each
Microsoft 365/AI/dev
Teams is... getting weird

Microsoft 365 apps get Handoff support on Apple devices

Notion Mail - a light alternatives to Google Workspace and M365?

GitHub Copilot goes multi-LLM

Apple Intelligence wave one arrives, mostly to indifference. Wave two in December. EU is getting it in the Spring

New Macs this week with M4. But the big news? 16 GB of RAM, minimum. Finally.

The Browser Company can't realize its vision for the future with Arc
Earnings/Corporate
Microsoft and Google duke it out over Cloud licensing - This one is getting ugly

Google - $88.3 billion in revenues

AMD - OK, but dominated by Intel on PCs and NVIDIA in AI/datacenter
Xbox
More games, more people, more devices, Microsoft says

Less emphasis on console but what might a next-gen console look like? Arm? Mobile? Third-party hardware makers?

Cloud Gaming is limited to the most expensive Game Pass tier - that has to change, and what about a standalone tier?

Mobile app stores are coming - but what about native mobile games?

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 lands on PC Game Pass, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Cloud Gaming - Paul puts aside his grudge and gives it a shot

Microsoft previews new Home experience for Xbox app on Windows
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: It might be time to look at the Raspberry Pi again

App pick of the week: My God, it's full of web browsers

RunAs Radio this week: Updating Windows on ARM with Aria Hanson

Brown liquor pick of the week: Laird of the Fintry Black Label Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 46min
October 23, 2024WW 904: Not Sexy, but Important - Snapdragon Dev Kit canceled, Unity 6, "A-R-M"
In case you missed it
You didn't. But Qualcomm canceled that Snapdragon Dev Box, will refund customers

Qualcomm picked the wrong company for this

Also, there are plenty of Copilot+ PCs and does it make more sense to develop against the type of PC your customers will use?
Windows 11
23H2 gets a preview update, as expected

Copilot key customization, Gamepad for virtual keyboard, notification suggestions, etc.

Qualcomm and Microsoft solve Paul's only hardware issue with Arm, more

Qualcomm brings Oryon cores to the phone, comes out firing against Intel, and is sued by Arm

Dev channel: That Gamepad virtual kb thing

Canary: That Copilot key customization thing

Photos app gets Super Resolution feature - Microsoft says in preview, but Paul sees it in stable

Microsoft Store is getting "immersive trailers" because ADHD
Microsoft 365, AI, more
Report details mounting tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI. Worst partnership ever?

Several months after releasing Mac and iPhone ChatGPT apps, OpenAI delivers a comicly-named "early version" of it for Windows. Thanks guys, don't hurt yourselves.

Microsoft announces first AI agents for commercial space, DIY in AI Studio

AI in phases? Copilot is phase one, this thing that works beside you (app, essentially)

Agents is phase two, this thing that works on your behalf away from you (service, essentially)

Copilot comes to OneNote for Mac, iPad in beta

Two years behind in AI, Apple has figured out the right quips and marketing messages

As expected, Google gets a stay of execution (pardon the pun) in Epic case (also, pardon the pun)

WTF is happening with smartphones? Did Apple and Google look at the 2024 Windows 11 Mess and say, we want us some of that?

Apple Intelligence to roll out over at least four major iOS 18 updates and then forever

Google rushes Android 15 dev to meet new August deadline for Pixel 9 series, whiffs it, and then delivers it 2 months late ... But at least it's jam-packed with AI
Xbox
Age of Empires goes mobile

In the wake of Xbox/Halo adopting Unreal Engine, Unity ships Unity 6 Engine

Netflix shuts down AAA game studio - I could've saved you guys a lot of money

New Xbox Wireless Headset more battery, better Bluetooth, new voice isolation
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Scott and Mark, sitting in a tree...

App pick of the week: Affinity Photos 2.6 Beta

RunAs Radio this week: Securing Data using Azure Virtual Desktop with Jim Duffy

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 20min
October 16, 2024WW 903: Absolutely Seamless! - Swag store, x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, Jameson
On this episode, Leo Laporte shows off his new Snapdragon Dev Kit to Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell. He also tries setting it up, and the process is TOTALLY "seamless." AMD has revealed the Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series alongside Intel's launch of the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. The FIDO Alliance has published new credential exchange specifications. Sarah Bond announces that Xbox games will be purchasable on Android. And Paul unveils his new "get rich" scheme... as he looks for some feedback.
x86's Last Stand?
Intel and AMD announce partnership that is clearly aimed at taking on Arm.

Intel was already working on simplifying the x86 architecture by removing older, unused bits

Don't worry, Intel and AMD will still compete. And AMD just released new AI processors, with Intel also announcing first Core Ultra chips for Desktop

Which raises a question: Why do the desktop chips not meet the Copilot+ PC spec?
Windows
Redmond, we have a quality problem: 24H2 is besieged by a curious number of issues despite several months of gestation and a shared feature set with 23H2.

Dev and Beta: Beta is minor, but Dev has some Taskbar updates

Release Preview: New builds for 23H2 and 24H2 hint at this month's Week D preview updates - since this announcement, some features have been delayed
Microsoft 365/Surfac
Google Workspace is adding a OneDrive (for Business) data migration capability

Is there some new cloud interoperability thing going on? We're seeing this in the consumer space too. Wondering if this is related to regulatory attention

A Lunar Lake Surface Laptop? Probably not
Passkeys Get Real
As expected, FIDO Alliance will standardize passkey portability

Two sides to this: Portability between devices but also import/export between password managers

Amazon has 175 million customers using passkeys - one year after initial unveil
Xbox
With Google antitrust loss, Microsoft vaguely reveals that Xbox games are coming to Android

Long-forgotten ability to stream games you purchased over Cloud Gaming is now coming soon

Microsoft settles BS "Gamers' lawsuit" for what we hope was a pittance

The only gamers with a case to sue Microsoft are Xbox fans - one year this week

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more are headed to Game Pass if anyone still cares

Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S mid-season replacements are here, and they come with a fun surprise

New Xbox wireless headset is incoming

Microsoft to host Xbox Partner Preview tomorrow, October 17

Steam forced to communicate that you don't own anything you buy
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Check out the Thurrott swag

App pick of the week: Arc browser, now native on Windows 11 on Arm!

RunAs Radio this week: Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Irish Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 39min
October 09, 2024WW 902: Nothing to Declare - Passkey providers, Halo Studios, "commodity"
Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio.
Windows 11
24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time

22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)

24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same

Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live

Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline

New Canary build today as well

Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.

Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say
Antitrust
Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking.

DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better

Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list
Microsoft 365/AI/Dev
Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive

Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification?

.NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features

RIP, Surface Duo
Xbox
Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans

Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC

Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29

Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read

App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)

RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke

Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 13min
October 02, 2024WW 901: 75% Corn - Copilot Vision, Office 2024 release, Bundeskartellamt
After a flurry of last-second pre-release activity, Microsoft shipped 24H2 a week earlier than expected! Copilot also gets a major update for individuals too, and Copilot+ PCs get more features.
24H2 is here!
Last week's Week D updates did finally go out, first to 22H2/23H2 and then to 24H2

That 22H2/23H2 preview update was apparently a hot mess Now Microsoft has issued a fix

Windows 11 version 24H2 is fully available. Arm64 ISOs are coming soon

The first LTSC version(s) of Windows 11 is now available - Windows 11 Enterprise Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) 24H2 + Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024)

New Dev and Beta builds, not much new, but new Snipping Tools spreads further

Canary build today
Copilot
Copilot morphs into an AI companion or something

Copilot+ PCs are getting new features, including one with a serious Recall vibe

Microsoft is trying a different tact with the new AI features - explaining why they can be trusted. Can they be trusted?

Microsoft belatedly explains why you can trust Recall

As expected, Microsoft does a song and dance on changes to Recall, but notably never thanks the feedback it got from the security community. Good. But this is still a win-win, if just for opt-in and, now, uninstall

Google pushes Gemini more in ChromeOS
Microsoft 365, More
Microsoft finally kills HoloLens 2

Germany has a plan for regulating all of Microsoft, not just the products that fall under the DMA

Office 2024 is here for individuals too

Intel rejects buyout offer... from Arm?
Xbox
Xbox announces new games at Tokyo Game Show

First Game Pass titles of October reveal a bonanza of Activision titles, is what I wish we could discuss

Starfield expansion arrives on Xbox, PC

J Allard joins Amazon for some reason
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Get the 24H2, refresh your recovery drivers/setup media

App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2025 are here

RunAs Radio this week: Data Security and Governance with Nikki Chapple

Brown liquor pick of the week: Russell's Reserve 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 31min
September 25, 2024WW 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility - LinkedIn AI training, Three Mile Island, Apollo's offer
Windows 11
24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos

Microsoft issues last-second updates to 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 in the Release Preview on Monday. Paul predicted these would turn into our Week D updates later in the week and that we'd get nothing on Tuesday

Dev and Beta channels got some interesting updates recently as well

The Windows App is now available on Windows, Mac, and iOS

HP announces two new flagship AI PCs, one AMD and one Intel. Plus a lower-cost 8-core Snapdragon model. This is officially a trend.

A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirmed it shipped the same update to Surface Pro 11. This has had a major negative effect on the device's instant-on capabilities
Microsoft 365, cloud, AI
Microsoft is reviving Three Mile Island and other headlines I never thought I'd write

Google formally complains about alleged Microsoft antitrust abuses in the EU

LinkedIn is training AI with your data. You can turn it off because Microsoft loves opt-out

Microsoft issues a SFI progress report and they are doing GREAT, thank you very much

Gemini comes to Workspace

Apple Intelligence will hoover 4GB of drive space on iPhones to start, more later as more features are added
More!
Qualcomm makes another offer to acquire Intel

Investment firm offers Intel a $5 billion lifeline

Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well

Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings

Paul has finished updating .NETpad for Windows 11 theming support in .NET 9, will put code up in GitHub after .NET ships in stable
Xbox
A new tell-all about Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox arrives October 8

Game Pass features are coming to Xbox mobile app where they belong

Also, Game Bar Compact mode as part of September Xbox Update

New Indie Selects titles

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is available for preorder and it will look a lot better and take up a lot less disk space

Xbox Ambassador's Program is dead, Jim

Xbox spends $1 billion per year to acquire Game Pass titles

Xbox figured out how to reduce its carbon emissions. You know, besides selling fewer consoles

Sony announces 30th anniversary PS5 collection
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Stop paying so much for everything

App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates

RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas

Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 38min
September 18, 2024WW 899: Functional But Disturbing - Copilot agents, HP Omnibook Ultra, What's Next?
On this episode, Paul Thurrott gets a bit better at unmuting! Mikah is back once again while Leo is away, and Richard features a classic single malt scotch. Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot kicks off, including an agent builder! Lenovo's got an everything-in-one ThinkBook, HP's got a Ryzen AI 300-based Copilot+ PC, and Netflix has a new series with Bill Gates.
Windows 11
Microsoft comes clean on the schedule for Windows 11 version 24H2

First AMD Zen 5-based Copilot+ PC in here (if here means "Paul's house")

A few thoughts on where we're at with Copilot+ PCs, AI, etc

Microsoft deprecates legacy DRM in Windows

Google is bringing desktop windowing capabilities to Android
Microsoft 365 + AI/Dev
Microsoft announces "Copilot Wave 2" with new Agent Builder, Pages experience, more

Slack: Look at me, look at me! I have agents too!!

Office LTSC 2024 is now available for businesses - consumer versions in "the coming weeks"

Microsoft held its security summit with CrowdStrike, etc. There were no reports of a tarp on the floor

Apple releases annual upgrades for all its hardware platforms and not an iota of AI in sight

This is the end of an era. An era we will think back on as "the good old days"

Microsoft issues .NET 9 RC1 ahead of November release. Clear to Paul that the WPF support in this release will never be updated again, which sucks
Hardware
Intel finally has some good news: Foundry subsidiary spin-off, AWS expanded partnership, more CHIPS money

Intel also has some bad news: It lost out on the PS6 contract to AMD, which made previous gen PS chips

A Windows 11 2-in-1 (like Surface Book) in which the detachable display is a powerful, standalone Android tablet
Xbox
Microsoft lays off 650 more Gaming division employees

Microsoft realizes that some Xbox members do have friends, is bringing back Friends Requests

Microsoft concludes September with three more Game Pass titles

Bonus points: How many of these are Activision Blizzard titles?

Bonus tip: If you play Overwatch 2 on Xbox, there are now some bonus perks for Game Pass members: Six hero skins, 30 Mythic prisms to spend on Mythic unlocks, a stackable XP boost, and access to Overwatch 2 Shop cosmetics from prior seasons

Unity: Just kidding about that runtime fee, please stop harassing us now
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: How to spend your time and your money

App pick of the week: ExplorerPatcher

RunAs Radio this week: Asymmetric Encryption with Eli Holderness

Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 10

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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