Windows Weekly (Audio)

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Windows Weekly is about more than Windows. Veteran Microsoft insiders Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell join Leo for a deep dive into the most valuable company in the world. From consumer to enterpri... more

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April 05, 2023WW 823: The Door is Made of a Rake - Microsoft turns 48, Edge Workspaces public preview, Xbox Remix Special Edition Controller
File Explorer access keys, Edge Workspaces public preview, Xbox Remix Special Edition Controller
Happy birthday, Microsoft
Microsoft turned 48 this week (April 4). It took a wrong left turn in Albuquerque
Windows 11
New Beta channel build adds Access Keys to File Explorer, Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC), and, yes, a new Bing button on the Taskbar

Microsoft Edge Workspaces now in limited public preview
Microsoft 365
Oh you didn't think the new Bing was free, did you?

(New) Outlook for Windows Preview gains Gmail support, finally

Right before the new Bing launch, Microsoft fixed a major security vulnerability that compromised Bing

Google secretly enacted a 5 million file limit on Drive then retracted it after complaints
Surface
Microsoft announces Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock (Surface Dock 3) with no Surface Connect connector
Xbox
Microsoft reveals first Game Pass titles for April

New Xbox Wireless Controller contains "some" recycled materials, is very expensive
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Enable split window feature in Microsoft Edge

App pick of the week: Google Nearby Share for Windows

This week on RunAs: IPv6 and Azure Active Directory with Pierre Roman

Brown liquor pick of the week: Auchentoshan Virgin Oak

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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2h 6min
March 29, 2023WW 822: Squirt a Little Fresh Air - Week D production-quality updates, revamped widgets board, Microsoft Teams redesign
Week D production-quality updates, revamped widgets board, Microsoft Teams redesign
Windows 11
Microsoft debuts new Windows 11 features in Preview. And now we have a new updating schedule!

Coming via Canary: another Widgets UX update

Surface Hub 2S is still a thing and will be upgradeable to Teams Rooms OS soon

You can hide the Bing button in Edge 111.x now
Microsoft 365
As expected, Microsoft announces Teams 2.0 with Apple-like improvement claims
AI o' the week
OpenAI announces ChatGTP plug-ins capability - Now it's a platform! Next stop: sentience

Microsoft brings AI-based copilot capabilities to security pros
Xbox
UK CDMA: Just kidding on Microsoft's AB acquisition issues, will likely approve it

Japan FTC approves Microsoft's AB acquisition without conditions

Activision CEO disappointed in his best partner, Sony

Microsoft announces red and blue (get it?) Elite Series 2 Core Controllers

No more $1 intro offer on Xbox Game Pass

Now even Xbox developers can help your console use less power

Steam will drop support for Windows 7/8.x in 2024
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Still on Windows 7/8.x? Switch to Firefox

App pick of the week: Oofhours.com Media Creation tool

This week on RunAs Radio: When does Multi-Cloud Make Sense with Phoummala Schmitt

Brown liquor pick of the week: Dalmore 12

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 26min
March 22, 2023WW 821: Windows Everywhere - Microsoft Loop public preview, GibHub Copilot X, Adobe Firefly
Microsoft Loop preview FINALLY arrives
Microsoft Loop web app launches in public preview for MSA and work/school accounts - Yeah, it's a Notion rip-off. Alarmingly so.
Windows 11
Now, Microsoft is testing Windows 11 features first in Release Preview

New Dev channel build: Seconds in the system tray is a game changer! /s

Minor changes coming to default apps

Based on a single hardware review, it appears that 13th Gen Intel Core processors have the same problem with docks and hubs as do 12th Gen processors.
AI all the things
Bill Gates describes AI as the biggest technology transformation since the GUI.

Bing Chatbot can now generate images from text

GitHub launches ChatGPT-4 powered Copilot X

Adobe launches responsible/ethical generative AI tools

Google launches Bard in early access

Mozilla.ai startup goes live

Opera adds AI prompts, sidebar ChatGPT
Xbox
Microsoft's AB acquisition is all about mobile, not COD

Microsoft announces it will launch mobile apps store on iPhone and Android as soon as regulators make it possible

FOSS patents: We've moved into the acceptance phase, and this acquisition is on track

Netflix is expanding its mobile games library dramatically

Microsoft releases a third set of Game Pass titles for March

Get a Steam Deck for 10 percent off to celebrate its first birthday
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Inbox Zero

App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code

RunAs Radio this week: SMB over QUIC File Servers with Ned Pyle

Brown liquor pick of the week: Ben Nevis 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 51min
March 15, 2023WW 820: Mustard Can Solve Any Problem - OpenAI's GPT-4 released, KB5023706 update, YouTube Music
OpenAI's GPT-4 released, KB5023706 update, YouTube Music
Windows 11
Moment 2 is official; mostly a solid update

The ensh*ttification of Windows/Microsoft 365 continues: Microsoft Word, Paint, Teams, and Edge
AI all the things
One wonders, if everything is AI, is anything AI?

OpenAI releases ChatGPT 4

Microsoft "reveals" it was using an early version all along, duh

BING CHATBOT IS OPEN TO EVERYONE

Bing will move Chatbot responses to the top of search results

Microsoft's LinkedIn is adding GPT AI to improve the writing of profiles and job postings

Grammarly adds more AI

Google Workspace is getting generative AI features, obviously... and it's raising prices (coincidentally!)

Duolingo adds two new AI features at great cost
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Word is getting two keyboard shortcuts it should have always had: "Paste as Text" & Zoom
Dev
Microsoft Build 2023 is May 23-25, live and remote

GitHub starts rolling out its 2FA requirement for contributors
Xbox
Microsoft announces two 10-year cloud gaming deals with companies not named Sony: Boosteroid & Ubitus

Epic Games takes a page from the Microsoft Store and will allow self-publishing
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: YouTube Premium member? Play some games

App pick of the week: YouTube Music

This week on RunAs: Incident Management with Hila Fish

Brown liquor pick of the week: Springbank 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 21min
March 08, 2023WW 819: Sixty-four Threads but None for You - Windows Insider Canary Channel, video super resolution, Outlook for Mac goes free
Microsoft adds Windows 12 to the Insider Program
Last week's feature release shows you how these Insider channels map to the next release, which is sometimes a Moment now and not just a formal Feature Update. Don't worry. They didn't tell anyone that.

Canary - big changes that need lots of incubation time (e.g. kernel changes), no release target

Dev - changes that need incubation, no release target

Beta- testing changes targeting the next release

Release preview - testing changes that are slated to ship imminently in the next release barring any major explosions (e.g. printers)

Stable - nothing works

First Canary build today: Access keys and File Recommendations in File Explorer, LSA Protection Enablement on upgrade.

Dev channel: This channel is "rebooted" to 23000 series now, per above. This build has live captions in more languages, access keys in the File Explorer context menus (another Win11 regression), Recommendations in File Explorer, and other changes.

Dev channel (last week): Microsoft is working on a new volume mixer.
Windows 11
Microsoft is bringing "video super resolution" to Microsoft Edge

We're still not done with PC maker results: Dell goes down in Q4 too
AI
Satya Nadella, marketing AI, now says that Cortana was "dumb as a rock." Come on.

Microsoft to talk up AI in work next week

Microsoft talks up AI in Microsoft 365 - this will never end now

Microsoft brings more AI to devs at Azure Open Source Day

Brave Search adds an AI-powered Summarizer

DuckDuckGo adds a similar Answer feature
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Outlook is now free on the Mac
Xbox
EU likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Told you so?

Halo Infinite Season 3 is live. Can it save this game?

Halo players have created over one million maps with Forge Beta

Microsoft announces new titles for Xbox Game Pass

Starfield arrives in September
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Don't be a statistic

App pick of the week: Start11

RunAs this Week: FIDO2 and Passwordless with Kyle Kotowick

Brown liquor pick of the week: Craigellachie Bas Armagnac Cask Finish 13

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 26min
March 01, 2023WW 818: Antitrust Theater - New features in KB5022913 update, Microsoft's defense of Activision Blizzard bid
New features in KB5022913 update, Microsoft's defense of Activision Blizzard bid

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 15min
February 22, 2023WW 817: The Moment of Confusion - Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac, AI anthropomorphism, WinUI 3 & WinAppSDK
Microsoft FINALLY brings Windows 11 on Arm support to Apple Silicon Macs
A new Release Preview build shows us what the next Moment update will look like

New Beta channe builds are a bit less interesting

More PC maker fallout with Lenovo revenues down 24 percent in Q4
Bing AI
Bing AI is a lying liar who lies. Questions about Microsoft releasing it in this state continue

After many Bing AI freakouts, Microsoft limits the length of chats... and then it bumps up the length a bit just a few days later.

Microsoft brings Bing AI to Bing, Edge, and Skype mobile apps
Microsoft 365
Microsoft IS releasing Teams 2.0 in March.
Dev
Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2022 17.5, and it's a big update

Microsoft releases .NET 8 Preview 1

Visual Studio gets an integrated .NET Upgrade Assistant... previously only a command line tool

Paul examines WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK.

Microsoft is moving File Explorer from XAML Islands to Windows App SDK.
Xbox
Microsoft defends the Activision Blizzard acquisition in court.

Microsoft inks 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo

Microsoft's PC games are coming to NVIDIA GeForce Now

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family Plan comes to 6 new countries, none of which are your country

As suspected, we're getting a third Xbox Game Pass title drop this month
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: 2FA all the things

App pick of the week: Craiyon

RunAs Radio this week: Migrating to Windows 11 with Michael Niehaus

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Macallan Estate

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 54min
February 15, 2023WW 816: I Have Been a Good Bing - Skype's annual revenue drop, Github layoffs, Viva Engage
The AI morning after
A week after the irrational exuberance, reality sets in. It's still Bing. And it's still competing against Google

Microsoft shares an update on Bing AI rollout

Google employees were not amused at botched Bard announcement

Microsoft to add AI to Office in March

Everyone is doing AI now. Including Opera and Notion
Windows 11
New Windows 11 Dev build adds more live captions

IE was disabled in Windows 11 on Patch Tuesday. It's dead, Jim

2FA is coming to Windows 11. It's all in the toast
Microsoft 365
Looks like Skype revenue has plummeted over the past decade

And full of "meet your new girlfriend" messages if you don't lock down from defaults

Microsoft finally retired the Yammer brand. And you're never going to believe what happened next
Corporate
GitHub lays off 10 percent of staff, going fully remote

More jobs cuts announced in Surface, HoloLens, Xbox
Xbox
Just kidding: Activision to release a major Call of Duty title this year

Xbox February update is now available with Google Home app integration
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Get started with the new Bing AI. Bing AI apparently has some "creator prompts" that will jumpstart certain types of tasks:

-Letter (Write a letter)

-Code (Write code)

-Movie (Write a script)

-Story (Write a story)

-Poem (Write a poem)

-Summary (Write a summary)

-Tweet (Write a tweet)

-Blog post (Write a blog post)

-Quiz (Write a quiz)
-Joke (Write a joke)
App pick of the week: DALL-E

This Week on RunAs: Strengthening Security with Jess Dodson

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kvint Divin

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 50min
February 08, 2023WW 815: It's Your Foot! - AI riskiness, Zoom layoffs, HBO's The Last of Us, Skype on Apple Silicon
WORLD WAR AI
OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus

Google responds to ChatGPT with Bard

Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge.

Google hosted its own AI event and it announced multi-search, Maps improvements, and Translate improvements, and discussed how AI can make life better

Semi-related: Paul was let into the Notion AI beta
Windows
Paul has some thoughts about Windows 12 and what an AI-based Windows could look like

Ads are coming to the Microsoft Store. FINALLY

New Insider build for the Beta channel. No new features, but a new policy that lets IT admins customize how Search looks on the Windows 11 Taskbar

Microsoft is integrating Adobe Acrobat PDF with Microsoft Edge, but only on Windows 10 and 11 for now
Microsoft 365
Native Apple Silicon version of Skype is 3X faster. What took so long?
Hardware
Microsoft says it's still committed to HoloLens 2 and MR, tries not to laugh

Samsung is working on XR hardware with Qualcomm and Google.
Dev
Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy. Nothing has changed, other than they way they document their .NET language strategy
More Big Tech Earnings
Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta earnings

Zoom just showed us the way to handle layoffs
Xbox
Sony is fighting Microsoft subpoena in AB case. It's fighting the FTC subpoena, too

UK CMA says AB deal is "anti-competitive" but would accept some concessions

New Game Pass titles announced for the middle of February

Sony says the PS5 is immune to the downturn

Nintendo says Switch is not immune to the downturn, but it's still dominating
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Protect your privacy in Windows 11

App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Dev

Brown Liquor of the week: Mackmyra

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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3h 2min
February 01, 2023WW 814: Dump Truck Fade - Halo engine switch, Intel Q4 2022 revenues, Ground News
Halo engine switch, Intel Q4 2022 revenues, Ground News
Windows 11
Skipping the Windows 11 upgrade? Microsoft will force-feed it to you soon

Related: Microsoft is using dark patterns to get people to upgrade to 11

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25290 heads to Dev channel with new Spotify and Phone Link widgets, new Start menu "exploration"

Screen recording in Snipping Tool rolls out to users in Windows Insider Beta channel
More earnings
Since Microsoft's mixed earnings last week, a few more relevant firms have checked in on Q4 2022

Intel earnings fall off a cliff: Cutting pay 5% rather than layoffs, VPs 10%, leadership 15%, CEO 25%

AMD - not bad thanks to datacenter, but this quarter will be down 10 percent

And it's not just the PC: IDC says smartphone sales declined 18.3 percent in Q4
Dev
A quick look at .NET MAUI desktop app capabilities

.NET MAUI gets a cross-platform media player control

GitHub says it has over 100 million developers on the service. From what Google indicates, there are only ~27 million developers in the world
Xbox
After layoffs at 343, a smaller team will start over with Unreal Engine

Why not just disband the whole disaster and let Halo fly free?

Microsoft announces Xbox Games with Gold for February... and new Game Pass titles for first half of February

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition comes to Xbox consoles

Xbox Series X|S get a price hike in Japan

Did Sony really halve PS VR2 production?

VR is not having a good time right now... probably this whole year.

Rumor: Microsoft will skip E3 along with Nintendo and Sony
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Complete your password manager switch

Plus: Quick update on the new book

App pick of the week: https://ground.news/

Brown alcohol pick of the week: Crown Royal

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 27min

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