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January 31, 2024WW 866: Squishmallows With Guns - FY24 Q2 earnings, Teams worldwide outage, 1st-run experience redesign
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it earned a net income of $21.9 billion on revenues of $62 billion in the quarter ending December 31, 2023. Those figures are up 33 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
Intelligent Cloud: Azure, AI
Microsoft's biggest business unit delivered $25.9 billion in revenue, up 20 percent YOY and driven primarily by its Azure cloud platform

Azure revenues were up 30 percent in the quarter, 6 points of which Microsoft attributed to "AI services"
Productivity and Business Processes: Microsoft 365
$19.2 billion in revenues, with growth of 13 percent YOY

Office Commercial revenues were up 15 percent
More Personal Computing: Xbox, Windows
Revenues of $16.9 billion, up 19 percent YOY

Gaming revenues surged 49 percent (44 points from Activision Blizzard)

Xbox hardware revenues inched up by 3 percent

Windows revenues from PC makers grew 11 percent in the quarter
Windows
Canary: Voice Clarity comes to more PCs, and Microsoft previews new/old Windows Setup first-run experience

Dev: Minor bug fixes only

Beta: Snap Layout suggestions, new settings in Widgets, and you can now revert to stable (!!)
Microsoft 365
Teams goes down for the count
AI
Microsoft adds deepfake guardrails to Designer AI. So, this wasn't there before now?

FTC is investigating Microsoft/OpenAI and other Big Tech AI partnerships
Xbox
Microsoft can finally bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to the iPhone (and Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone in the EU)

1900 layoffs at Activision Blizzard, Zenimax, and Xbox
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Upgrade to passkeys

App pick of the week: Insync

RunAs Radio this week: Software Licensing with Mary Jo Foley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Dailuaine 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 13 min
January 24, 2024WW 865: You Don't Drink the Bottle! - Midnight Blizzard, $3 trillion market cap, AI in Reading Coach
In this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo, Paul, and Richard cover Microsoft's recent hack, new Windows Insider updates, Copilot Pro's image creativity, various browsers, education's compatibility with generative AI, Halo Infinite's slowdown, Notion's calendar service, and Japanese whisky.
Microsoft was hacked
A Russia-backed hacker group infiltrated a legacy system and gained access to executive emails

This is triggering an escalation in Microsoft's security makeover either way
Windows 11
Beta channel: USB 80 Gbps/USB4 v2 support, bug fixes

Dev channel: Teams (commercial) meeting integration in Start, new mobile device management interface

New Surface event rumored for March. Possibly two waves of Pro and Laptop releases

Microsoft Bing and Edge are obviously not dominant platforms, and will not be subject to EU DMA

Microsoft Mesh is here for all your legless meeting needs
AI
Microsoft hits $3 trillion market cap on the strength of its AI moves

Paul used Copilot Pro and you're never going to believe what happened next

Microsoft is bringing more AI to education. And so is Google

Would you pay for an AI-infused Alexa?
Web browsers, oh my
Chrome is updated with new AI features

Firefox version 122 is out

Brave will simplify fingerprint protection. What is fingerprint protection?

Opera will pay a brand ambassador $10,000 to spend a month on a deserted Icelandic island
Xbox
Microsoft reveals several new games for 2024, key among them an Indiana Jones title

343 slows down Halo Infinite updates dramatically. Is this just about Halo or a hint at a looming new trend?
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Is it even possible to prevent online tracking?

App pick of the week: Arc browser

RunAs Radio this week: AI for IT with Gil Pekelman

Brown liquor pick of the week: Hibiki Harmony

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 37 min
January 17, 2024WW 864: Word Doesn't Respect Me - Outlook & advertising, Copilot Pro announced, Galaxy S24 + Google's AI
Outlook, privacy, and the terribleness of Big Tech
New Outlook Decried as a "Surveillance Tool for Targeted Advertising

One perspective: How terrible are other companies like Google and Meta?

But also, how terrible are Windows 11, Teams, Microsoft Edge, etc?

Supreme Court refuses to hear Epic v. Apple appeals

So, Epic wins on one important count, being able to communicate to their own customers

But Apple is still being terrible because it can be. Will the EU finally take care of this?

Google unlinking its services in the EU, Apple removing pulse ox from Watch in the US, Google comes clean on Incognito, and Microsoft Cloud lets EU customers keep data locally, it just keeps coming
Copilot all the things
Richard correctly predicted that 2024 would be the year that Microsoft stopped talking about AI and started implementing AI. But who could have predicted THIS in the first two weeks (!) of the year?

Copilot Pro for consumers, Copilot for Microsoft 365 for all commercial customers with no baseline, Copilot on mobile, Copilot in Microsoft 365 mobile, Copilot GPT Builder on the way

But there's a real vulnerability for Microsoft and its AI aims here - Too soon, too little may be a mistake

Microsoft and Vodafone, sitting in a tree

Plus: No Copilot AI (SLM) on the Galaxy S24 family? Interesting. Is Google trying to undermine that partnership and bring Samsung back into the fold?
Windows 11
PC sales for 2023: Good news, bad news. OK, it's just bad news

They're doing it again: After almost literally no testing, Microsoft launches new Weather experience on the lock screen and makes it the default

Store app install notifications are in stable now too

Dev: USB 80 Gbps support, auto-start Copilot on 27-inch+ displays, Windows Share (as below) improvements, fixes

Beta: More Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp, Gmail, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn URL sharing), Weather experience on Lock, Microsoft Store with instant arcade games and app install notifications

Release Preview: New KB update gives us our second near-final peek at Moment 5, with more "Ink Everywhere," eye control system support, 7-ZIP support improvements, other fixes

Microsoft will reportedly bring back the Windows Insider Program's Beta Channel for Windows 10 because they were just kidding about that whole "no new features" thing

Dev Home comes to Windows 10
Xbox
January's Game Pass titles, still no Activision Blizzard

Xbox fixes Baldur's Gate save bug

Ubisoft mixes up its Ubisoft+ subscriptions
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Maybe this is the year of NextDNS

App pick of the week: Brave

RunAs Radio this week: Copilots for Power Platform with April Dunnam

Brown liquor pick of the week: Writer's Tears

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 23 min
January 10, 2024WW 863: Full of Corn - CES 2024 announcements, Incase Designed by Microsoft, passkey support
It's CES, so let's observe a moment of silence for all the stupid #*$% our colleagues are covering right now! But there is some wheat in the chaff, of course
Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn't Meteor Lake was mobile only?

PC makers announce a lot of Meteor Lake PCs: Acer, Acer again, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, more, plus the MSI Claw mobile gaming handheld and the first ASUS NUC!

Paul's been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what's the AI stuff really like?

It's not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs

Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share

Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?

Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter
Windows 11
Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone

Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday

Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version

Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason
Microsoft 365
Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase

Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client

Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date
AI
OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed

Has met with "dozens" of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential

Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut

Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content

Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it's telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI

Interesting details about negotiations between the two

Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf

EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA

Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise

OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users

Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board

Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good
Xbox
Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation

Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18

Minecraft Legends, RIP

Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more

Layoffs at Twitch

After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers

App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers

RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore

Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 55 min
January 03, 2024WW 862: One Click to Malware - Windows Mixed Reality deprecated, NY Times sues Microsoft & OpenAI, malicious MSIX packages
Microsoft finally kills Windows Mixed Reality
Just in time for Christmas, Microsoft revealed that its long-dead WMR platform is now officially dead
Windows 11
Moment 5 is allegedly coming in February

Microsoft quietly reissues Windows 11 version 23H2 installation media

Microsoft kills install from web capabilities in Windows App Installer (MSIX)

Dev (today): Richer weather experience on Lock, more Voice access improvements

Canary (today): Same Voice access changes, no more WordPad or People in a clean install, Steps Recorder deprecated, new Energy Saver icon in the system tray, Nearby Sharing can name your PC
Surface
New Surface Pro 6 and Laptop 6 are expected in Spring 2024 with Intel and Qualcomm chipsets.

Microsoft's first "real" AI PCs. FU, Surface Laptop Studio 2 buyers!
Microsoft 365
Something to consider for 2024: Have Microsoft's core platforms gotten too complex? And when/if this will drive away customers?

Standalone Copilot app launches on Android ... and then, days later, on iPhone and iPad - And it offers a ChatGPT4 mode, interestingly
AI
New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for massive copyright infringement

GitHub Copilot Chat is now GA. Requires $10/month GitHub Copilot sub, but it may be the single best example of how AI can improve our lives so far
Xbox
New Xbox Game Pass titles for early January: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Resident Evil 2 remake, more

Does something smell better around here? Bobby Kotick has left the building

PlayStation: Just kidding, you can keep your stupid Discovery shows

Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut

Steam no longer supports Windows 7 or 8.1
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Properly secure your Microsoft account

App pick of the week: MSEdgeRedirect

Bonus pick: MediaSorter

RunAs Radio this week: Doing More with Less in 2024 with Erin Chapple

Brown liquor pick of the week: Elijah Craig Small Batch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 33 min
December 26, 2023WW 861: Our Best of 2023 - An eventful year in Microsoft news
Looking back at Windows Weekly's best moments from 2023
Welcoming Richard aboard, and setting the table for an AI-filled year

"I have been a good Bing" and other chatbot awkwardness

Leo's Parallels 18 for Mac demonstration

UK CMA blocks the Activision Blizzard deal, and it makes no sense

Build 2023 was a great showing for Steven Pathiche, but a strange showing for Panos Panay

Microsoft beats the Federal Trade Commission in court, inching a step closer to their acquisition

Discord chat with Sean, a sign language interpreter and CODA!

Panos Pany leaves Microsoft, but did he jump or get pushed?

Giant Xbox leak reveals new console refreshes, a controller, and a roadmap for the future

Impressions from the AI September event, including the sweeping Copilot rebrand.

Activision Blizzard is finally acquired after much struggle

A token Thurrant about OneDrive and its near-endless push to back up Paul's folders

A classic beer pick from the one and only Mary Jo Foley!

Host: Leo Laporte

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3 hr 16 min
December 20, 2023WW 860: An Unexpected Visitor - Suno's AI music, Bobby Kotick's departure, predictions for Microsoft's 2024
On the last episode of 2023, Richard Campbell, Paul Thurrott, and Leo Laporte are joined by a lovely guest to look back (and look ahead) on Microsoft's progress and accomplishments. Between a Teams milestone, Meteor Lake chipset's release, AI music creation in Copilot, Bobby Kotick's upcoming exit, and Microsoft's Countdown Sale, there's plenty of news left to digest at the end of this eventful year! Happy holidays, dozers!
Windows 11/Microsoft 365
Microsoft will FINALLY fix the dumbest File Explorer bug of all - no, not that File Explorer bug

Microsoft is suddenly deprecating tons of Windows features

Windows Insider: Windows 11 Beta build 22635.2915 is the last Insider build of 2023. Nothing major: Voice access supports multiple displays, Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch from last week's Dev build, Notepad update with Notepad an "Edit with Notepad" item in the File Explorer context menu, and a character count display

Microsoft Teams now has 320 million users, 2,000 apps in the Teams store, and over 145,000 custom line-of-business (LOB) apps built by enterprises
AI
Microsoft partners with Suno to bring music creation to Copilot - OH AND THERE ARE PLUG-INS THERE NOW TOO

A few insider notes about this generation of Intel chips

Intel's Core Ultra chipset is coming to Chromebooks too
Look back/Look Ahead
What's left to say Copilots? There are lots (at least announced) and even more are coming

Is 2024 going to be the year of the AI PC? Or is this just another fad/bubble

"Windows 12" or whatever the vNext is called: Huzzah!

Ready or not, the new Outlook for Windows and new Teams are coming

How will Activision Blizzard impact Xbox?
Antitrust
Activision Blizzard settles 2021 class action lawsuit that triggered the acquisition by Microsoft

Bobby Kotick on the outs Dec 29

In wake of antitrust loss, Google also settles Play Store suit, will pay $700 million to victims

Adobe bails on Figma. Just kidding!
Xbox
Leak shows that Sony is very worried about Xbox now

Sony has sold 50 million PS5s, has outsold Xbox 3-to-1 in 2023

Google extends Stadia controller conversion timeline
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Microsoft's Countdown sale brings big discounts to Xbox, Surface, more

App pick of the week: MediaSorter

RunAs Radio this week: Azure Arc Guest Configuration with Jodi Boone

Enterprise pick of the week: Directions on Microsoft's got some (free) resources worth checking out

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Spirit of Scotland 46 & Monkey Shoulder

Beer pick of the week: Back Home Beer Yalda Queen

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Guest: Mary Jo Foley

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2 hr 42 min
December 13, 2023WW 859: Taste the Darkness! - 2023's final Patch Tuesday, E3 officially dies, the future of NPUs
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more!
Windows 11
The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives

Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR)

Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal)

Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General)

For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too

Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute)

Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements

Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated

Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode

Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next

AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models

Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot
Antitrust
UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI

After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial

Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple?

Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU

Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns
AI
Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI

Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers

Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically
Xbox
An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro

Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S

Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards

E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead

The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review

App pick of the week: Fences 5

RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus

Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 35 min
December 06, 2023WW 858: Quaff and Nosh - Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, Richard's new PC, KB5032288
In this week's Windows Weekly, Paul, Leo, and Richard discuss the extension of Windows 10 support for 3 more years after 2025 for consumers and enterprises, updates on the AI features of Copilot, Google's new AI model Gemini, potential features coming in a future Windows release next year, and the cleanliness of ImageGlass 9.
Windows 10
Yep! They're going to support Windows 10 for 3 more years with extended security update (ESU) program. But this time there's a twist!

Consumers are going to have the chance to pay annually for the ESU as well. Let the complaints begin

Copilot expands to more Windows 10 users
Windows 11
Report sees a major Windows release in 2024

The November 2023 Preview Update for Windows 11 shipped on a Monday in December because Microsoft, adding new Copilot features, last preview CU for 2023

Dell earnings - revenues fall 10 percent YOY because the PC market is still horrible

Richard bought a computer. Can you guess which one?
AI
Microsoft to get non-voting board representation at OpenAI

Copilot is now GA. Unless you're using Windows 11, apparently. Everyone gets free commercial data protection

Copilot gets GPT-4 Turbo, new DALLE-3 model, and more

Google goes live with Gemini, including a Nano version for Pixel 8 Pro
Microsoft 365/Cloud
Microsoft finally releases Seeing AI on Android

Evernote restricts free users to 1 notebook, 50 notes - time to switch!
Antitrust
Federal judge orders Google and Epic to try and settle the case before the jury renders its verdict

30 more venture capital firms tell the FTC to stop harassing Microsoft for Activision Blizzard

Google and Amazon have both weighed in on Microsoft's cloud licensing with the UK CMA
Xbox
Microsoft is betting on the DMA, will create mobile video game store with unnamed partners

The first Game Pass titles for December

Microsoft explains licensing pop-ups on console

Rockstar issues first GTA VI trailer

PlayStation reminds the world that no one owns the digital content they purchased
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Stuck on 22H2? You can still upgrade to 23H2

App pick of the week: ImageGlass 9 (Microsoft Store)

RunAs Radio this week: Modernizing using M365 with Sharon Weaver

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfiddich 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 10 min
November 29, 2023WW 857: SharePoint All the Way Down - Energy Saver, tiny11 2311, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client
On this episode, Mikah, Paul, and Richard discuss the lean tiny11 2311 project, Windows 11 updates like the new Energy Saver feature, Amazon's AI chatbot for enterprises, and Netflix's gaming service additions like GTA. Other topics covered include Xbox console deals, DuckDuckGo vs Google Search, and European antitrust issues.
Windows
Tiny11 2311 arrives, is even tinier and even 23H2er ... or something

Beta channel: Teams integration with Share (Entra ID only), new language support for Ink Anywhere

Dev: Copilot icon moves (!), more Copilot, Share, Ink, Android in Nearby Sharing (!)

Canary: Energy Saver (new feature), more

Samsung brings its browser to the Microsoft Store
AI/Microsoft
Microsoft and Meta reportedly receiving 3x as many NVIDIA GPUs for AI as Amazon

Amazon introduces it's own AI chatbot for the enterprise, and it does have one useful and unique feature

Microsoft is retiring its Microsoft 365 browser extension

Evernote is still a thing and now it wants to charge everyone

Amazon takes a Fire TV Cube and turns it into a remote desktop thin client
Antitrust
UK CMA provisionally rules against Adobe acquisition of Figma

EU formally objects to Amazon acquisition of iRobot because the robot vacuum cleaner market is so important
Xbox
Xbox Series X and S are still on sale. Just saying

The November Update for Xbox is here with rewards redemption, Xbox app gets compact mode

Microsoft is reportedly deprecating the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox

Netflix is bringing GTA trilogy to the service

The current Call of Duty is awash in bad reviews, so let's talk about the next Call of Duty!
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Microsoft's new ugly Christmas sweater is here

App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo

RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust Adoption Guidance with Nicolas Blank

Brown liquor pick of the week: Pendleton Rye 12 Year

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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