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November 22, 2023WW 856: Sunglasses For Your Whiskey - Altman returns to OpenAI, Windows Hello vulnerabilities, Half-Life turns 25
On this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo, Paul, and Richard dive deep into the latest OpenAI/Microsoft partnership drama involving Sam Altman's position. They also discuss upcoming EU regulations and their impact on Microsoft products, evaluate NVIDIA's record-breaking Q3 earnings, and reminisce about the classic PC FPS Half-Life.
And you thought AI was already controversial...
On Friday, OpenAI's board suddenly and unexpectedly fired CEO Sam Altman, kicking off several days of unprecedented high drama

OpenAI president and board chairman Greg Brockman announced that he was quitting in protest

Microsoft announced it had hired Altman and Brockman over the weekend

95 percent of OpenAI employees threatened to quit if Altman did not come back

Altman began negotiating his return to OpenAI (and major governance changes)

Altman is once again CEO of OpenAI

Key takeaway: No matter what happens, Microsoft wins

Wrong takeaway: Nothing changed
Windows
Windows 11 is about to get awesome in the EEA

WHY IS WINDOWS 11 ONLY GOING TO BE AWESOME IN THE EEA???

Microsoft confirms that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 too. "No new features, my ass!"

Copilot begins rolling out to Windows 10 in Insider Program

Release Preview: Copilot in Alt + Tab and on other displays, limited Copilot with local account, DMA compliance, Windows Spotlight changes

Canary: Disable Phone Link in the Bluetooth settings, display Teams contacts in the Windows share window when signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID

Dev: Narrator improvements, File Explorer fixes (wait for it)

Redmond, we have a problem. With Windows Hello
Earnings learning
NVIDIA continues to soar on AI (Winner)

Zoom has settled back down to reality

HP stumbles through its fourth quarter and FY2023: AI PCS FTW in late 2024!

Lenovo stumbles too, but explicitly predicts industry recovery
Antitrust
Apple, ByteDance, and Meta contest their DMA gatekeeper designations
Xbox
Half-Life turned 25 last weekend and Valve finally remembered it exists

Nvidia's GeForce Now adds Microsoft Store, PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft+ integration - over 1700 games now

Amazon Luna comes to France, Italy, and Spain

Next Call of Duty leaks!
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Ignite's over, but the videos are forever

App pick of the week: Half-Lif

RunAs Radio this week: Azure Operator Nexus with Jennelle Crothers

Brown liquor pick of the week: Willett Wheated 8 Year Bourbon

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 31 min
November 15, 2023WW 855: Live From Ignite! - Microsoft is copiloting all the things! Big news from the show
Paul and Richard are at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and just watched the keynote! Leo Laporte chats with them to discuss the clarified rebranding of Copilot, some new AI features in Windows 365, Microsoft Loop's availability, the release of .NET 8, two decades of Patch Tuesday, a neat Xbox Series bundle discount for Black Friday, and more!
Microsoft Ignite
(Final) Copilot rebranding clarifies the naming changes announced in September

Copilot for Microsoft 365 adds plug-in support, more

Windows 11: Windows AI Studio announced, Dev Home and WSL are updated

New AI capabilities in Windows 365

Microsoft Loop is now available

New Teams now GA, 320 million users - Mesh in Jan 2024

Clipchamp and Microsoft Designer come to Microsoft 365 commercial

Microsoft announces its first custom AI chipsets for the Azure datacenter
Dev: .NET Conf
Microsoft releases .NET 8 with .NET Aspire
Windows 11
Microsoft releases 23H2 for the fourth time?

One tiny bit of OneDrive de-ensh*ttification does not address the bigger issues

Patch Tuesday turns 20, Microsoft couldn't care less

The new Outlook: People, we have a roadmap!

Microsoft Store now lets you decide where to install games

Copilot in Microsoft Shopping, AI review summaries come to Bing and Edge
Microsoft, more AI
Microsoft will not challenge its gatekeeper designation in the EU

Google brings generative AI search to 120+ new countries

Google will ID AI-based videos in YouTube

Google Photos gets some cool AI organizational features
Xbox
Xbox Series X|S are discounted by $50 for Black Friday

Halo Infinite goes retro too, adds Halo 3 playlist

Here are more titles coming to Xbox Game Pass

Here comes the OLED Steam Deck

PS5 "Slim" is now available in the US - Sony unlikely to hit PS5 sales targets

Amazon lays off gaming staff, will refine Prime Gaming perks
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Google's Black Friday sale looks solid

App pick of the week: Microsoft Loop

RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge with Richard Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Makers Mark Cellar Aged

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 14 min
November 08, 2023WW 854: Dated, Insecure, and Unreliable - Copilot headed to Windows 10, Parallels Desktop on M3 Max, SFI
Copilot headed to Windows 10, Parallels Desktop on M3 Max, SFI
Windows 11
Microsoft to bring Copilot to Windows 10 too. As predicted, actually.

Last week was hell trying to figure out how/where people could get 23H2. Turns out, there's a reason. Microsoft is terrible.

A Microsoft employee notably—offered some clarity on the 23H2 rollout. 23H2 is available via the ISO download or Installation Assistant, as Paul noted last week. 23H2 is NOT available via the Media Creation Tool, as Paul also observed — delayed two weeks.

Canary build today: SMB changes (Server Message Block, not small business).

Microsoft deprecated some features in Windows 11 version 23H2 but didn't remove any (yet?).

The Windows Tips app was just deprecated too.

Microsoft to remove two in-box apps from clean installs in the future.

The HP Spectre Folding PC is a compelling argument for the hybrid PCs of the future.
More Revenues
Apple: Flat with last year, still all iPhone.

Qualcomm: Terrible, but also sees a rebound looming.
Surface
Microsoft extended Surface support for firmware/drivers from 4 years to 6 for newer models.
Microsoft 365/AI
Microsoft Authenticator quietly rolled out "MFA Fatigue" relief. You will have noticed this.

Microsoft launches Trustworthy Computing 2.0: The Cloudening.

A look at the M365 competition: Google Workspace good (especially Drive), Slack bad. REALLY bad.

Microsoft Edge 119 arrives with a few UI changes.

OpenAI had a little show and is offering custom ChatGPT clients.

Because we all need more Elon Musk in our lives, here's Grok.

Microsoft partners with Inworld on generative AI game development.
Xbox
Call of Duty MWIII multiplayer/full game arrive Friday.

Nintendo revenues up nicely. EA is in great shape.

Epic is in court vs. Google, this time could be different.

Google paid Activision Blizzard $360 million in 2020 to keep its games in the Play Store.

Sony is killing Twitter integration on PS4/5.
Tips and Picks
App pick of the week: Brave

App pick of the week #2: Start 11 v2... again

RunAs Radio this week: Large Language Models in Business with Ulrika Hedlund

Brown liquor pick of the week: Aberlour A'bunadh Alba

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 41 min
November 01, 2023WW 853: Ten Outta Ten for the 404! - Windows 11 2023 Update, Surface replacement components, marketing leadership change
On this episode, Leo, Paul, and Richard discuss the big release of Windows 11 23H2, productivity in Macs vs PCs, Microsoft 365 Copilot arriving, changes in the Xbox and marketing divisions, iFixit support for Surface repair, and American rye whiskeys.
23H2
Surprise! Microsoft delivers the Windows 11 23H2 Update, which upgrades your Windows 11 version 22H2-based PC to version 23H2, much sooner than expected.

Technically, Microsoft NEVER delivered the so-called "Fall Update," since it was only made available in preview form (twice, for some reason). So 23H2 is actually the first public release of those 150+ new features.

The Windows 11 Media Creation Tool still installs 22H2. Because Microsoft. Workaround: Use the Windows 11 Installation Assistant. Which hilariously requires you to install the PC Health Check app.

We need to discuss Microsoft Teams in Windows 11. And then literally never discuss it again.

Microsoft is killing the Windows Insider MVP program. What exactly did it even mean to be an "MVP" in the Insider program?

Dev: From last Friday, adds one new feature, a "Recently added" folder (for apps) in Start (in Recommended)

Beta, from last Thursday: Two new features (gradual rollout): System components in Settings, Game Bar rebranding. Plus fixes.

Windows 11 now has 26 percent usage share vs. 69 percent for Windows 10.
Whatever happened to Windows 12?
There have been overt clues about Windows 12 literally all year, including as recently as last week. But Microsoft has never, not once, uttered this phrase. What's happening?
Microsoft 365/AI
Today's the day: Microsoft 365 Copilot arrives for commercial customers on E3 or higher.

OG Teams is retiring in March.

Microsoft Word turned 40 last week.

This was the gateway drug that lured Paul into the Microsoft ecosystem. But it's showing it's age. If Microsoft can't get spell- and grammar-checking right in Word, why will AI work?
Earnings Learnings
Did Azure just make more money than AWS??

Intel stumbles but finally sees an end to the PC sales slide.
Surface
iFixit now sells Surface replacement parts. And it is fascinating to see how much more you can replace/repair in newer models compared to the first "repairable" Surface, Surface Pro 7.
Xbox
Microsoft reorgs Xbox in the wake of Activision Blizzard acquisition.

Chris Capossela is Leaving Microsoft.

Paul has a very mysterious announcement to make for our holiday show this year!

Xbox October Update arrives with keyboard mapping for Elite Series 2 and Adaptive controllers.

There are a lot more titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in early November.

Microsoft will now block unofficial controllers on Xbox consoles.

Atari acquires Digital Eclipse, the retro game company behind that amazing Karateka interactive documentary.
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide gets its first 23H2 update

App pick of the week: Start11 v2 is here to chase your Start menu nightmares away

RunAs Radio this week: Green IT with Mike Halsey

-Brown liquor pick of the week: Leopold Bros Maryland Rye 100 Proof
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2 hr 47 min
October 25, 2023WW 852: Carnival Barker Lifestyle - Snapdragon X Elite announced, FY24 Q1 earnings, Amazon passkeys
Leo, Paul, and Richard discuss Microsoft's latest earnings report, Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chip, Windows on Arm's future, passkey support for Amazon accounts, Dave Cutler's awesomeness, Stardock's 30th anniversary, Photoshop/Premiere Elements 2024, and more!
Microsoft earnings
Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $22.3 billion on revenues of $56.5 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2023. Those figures are up 27 percent and 13 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)

Analysis: Activision Blizzard, Windows, Surface, Xbox and gaming, Office and Microsoft 365, and the evolving impact of AI

Google earnings: net income of $19.7 billion on revenues of $76.7 billion, ads are 71 percent of total revenues, Google Cloud disappoints
Windows on Arm
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Elite X for Windows on Arm PCs

Promises, promises, but if this fails again, it's over... for Qualcomm

Qualcomm's WOA deal expires next year and NVIDIA and AMD are on the way
Windows
Dave Cutler sat down for a THREE HOUR interview. This is a must watch. Some key points here

Beta build last week with three changes (gradual rollout): system components in All apps display a System badge, Xbox Game Bar is just Game Bar now, the improved casting experience

New Canary build today adds Copilot??

Windows 11 Field Guide: the 23H2 update has begun with 9 chapters done so far

OneDrive: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cloud storage

Windows 7/8.x products key don't work in Windows 10 either, sorry

Celebrate Stardock's 30 years of making Windows better - by buying some of its products

Satya Nadella said he regretted killing Windows Phone? Not exactly
Xbox
Microsoft revives the "Power Your Dreams" ad campaign for the holidays
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Add passkeys to your Amazon account right now

App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024 and Premiere Elements 2024

RunAs Radio this week: Choosing Azure Data Storage Solutions with Nicole Stevens

Brown liquor pick of the week: Burgas 63 Barrel

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2 hr 29 min
October 18, 2023WW 851: Between 2 Ferns - Activision Blizzard acquired, Windows 11 active devices, Jibarito
In this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss the successful acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the questionable success of Windows 11 adoption, new Windows Insider program builds, and updates on AI integration in Microsoft/Google products.
Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard
This came in the wake of the UK CMA accepting the Microsoft concessions

The FTC is still being a sore loser despite facts and logic

No AB titles on Game Pass until 2024, Phil Spencer says

Bethesda's Pete Hines is leaving the company
Windows 11
Microsoft leak reveals that there are 400 million PCs running Windows 11

This tells us a few things. That there are 1 billion PCs still running Windows 10

What did Windows 10 adoption look like at 2 years? What different factors impact both adoption rates? What will happen when Microsoft retires Windows 10 in two years? Why was Microsoft so transparent about Windows 10 adoption and so non-transparent about Windows 11 adoption?

New Beta build landed last Friday with some more interesting news for Europe

Back on October 12, a new Release Preview channel build arrived with a quiet change we never noticed or discussed. There is a new System Components section in Settings > System

New Dev build today: Copilot support for multimon, more File Explorer relability fixes

New Canary build today: Mail and Calendar no longer installed on clean install, Bluetooth LE support for hearing aids, new location functionality

It's official: Windows 7/8 keys can no longer activate Windows 11

There are THREE new Dave Cutler interviews on YouTube!
Microsoft
Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes
AI
Google releases new smartphones and all the mainstream press can talk about is faux nonsense worries about photo editing altering reality. Let's be more sophisticated here, please

Microsoft Edge 118 adds an AI-powered Find on Page feature

Google will also indemnify users for AI

Google Search Generative Experience can now generate images
Xbox
More Game Pass titles for October

Microsoft announces new accessibility features for Xbox

Xbox Series S starter bundle is just Xbox Series S + 3 mos of Game Pass
Tips & Picks
App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo browser

App pick of the week: AllDup

RunAs Radio this week: Large Language Models for IT Pros with Seth Juarez

Brown liquor pick of the week: Quinta do Portal 20 year Tawny Port

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2 hr 31 min
October 11, 2023WW 850: Emotional Support Whiskey - Snapdragon X, Windows 23H2, Microsoft & Activision, Microsoft Back Taxes
Leo, Paul, and Richard discuss Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X — could we see a huge improvement to Windows on Arm? Then, the dynamic trio break down Patch Tuesday and Windows 11 Insider. Paul discusses Google's Passkey support and reminds listeners Microsoft has been doing passwordless logins for years. The team discusses GitHub Copilot losses, HP AI features, Adobe's Firefly updates, and Dropbox AI. Then, Paul briefly covers C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code. During Paul's Xbox Corner, a breaking news story hits; Leo shares news that Microsoft is contesting an IRS claim that the company owes $28.9 billion in back taxes. Leo, Paul, and Richard round things out with the tips and picks of the week.
Windows 11
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X Series for the PC

Microsoft Releases October 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates

October 10, 2023—KB5031354 (OS Build 22621.2428) - Microsoft Support

Windows 11 Insider Preview Beta Channel Moves to a Single Build

Windows 11 Canary Build 25967 Brings New Scrollable View of Quick Settings

Microsoft 365
UK is Investigating Microsoft and Amazon's Cloud Practices

Google Makes Passkeys the Default Login Option for Personal Accounts

Microsoft Will No Longer Make Changes to OneDrive Photo Storage

Microsoft Redesigns the Microsoft Store Web App

AI
Report: GitHub Copilot Loses an Average of $20 Per User Per Month

HP: AI Will Transform the PC Into a Personal Companion

Can AI Save the PC Industry? (Premium)

Adobe Announces Major Advances for Firefly Generative AI

Dropbox Launches Redesigned Web App and Expands Access to New AI Features

Dev
C# Dev Kit is Now Available

Xbox
Activision Blizzard Says No Call of Duty or Diablo IV on Game Pass This Year

Microsoft Reportedly Aims to Close its Activision Blizzard Acquisition on October 13

Diablo IV is Coming to Steam on October 17

Forza Motorsport is Now Available on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass

Sony Announces Smaller PS5 With and Attachable Disc Drive

PS5 Cloud Streaming is Launching Later This Month

Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Deal with OneDrive's forced folder backup push

App pick of the week: Microsoft Teams (New)

RunAs Radio this week: Security Chaos Engineering with Kelly Shortridge

Brown liquor pick of the week: Pappy Van Winkle

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2 hr 59 min
October 04, 2023WW 849: Back to Dumb - Bing's future, Windows Backup app, Chromebook Plus
Leo, Paul, and Richard talk about the end of free Windows 7/8 to Windows 10/11 upgrades using retail product keys. They also examine Chromebook Plus, Google's new premium Chromebooks aimed at gaming via cloud streaming services. This highlights issues with Google's disjointed strategies after killing Stadia. Plus, insights from the Google antitrust lawsuit, including testimony from Microsoft and Apple executives on partnerships and search dominance. This sparks debate on whether a Bing improvement could ever rival Google. The episode explores concerns around growing subscription costs, ecosystem lock-in, and how technology often complicates rather than eases life today.
Windows 11
Microsoft is killing free upgrades from Windows 7 and 8.x

And yes, that means those product keys will stop working

Windows 11 Insider Preview: Copilot comes to Alt + Tab, more File Explorer fixes

Windows 11 Field Guide is getting free updates for 23H2, of course

Join the Release Preview channel, you'll (probably) be upgraded to 23H2 and/or (most) new features

Windows Backup is already here. But what is it? And what might it become?

OneDrive is among the things getting worse in this release. And it's a problem

Google announces Chromebook Plus, New Material You design is available now to all
AI/Microsoft 365
Satya Nadella admits under oath that AI-powered Bing has not improved its usage share in the slightest

Also, Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple

Apple never seriously considered switching to, let alone buying, Bing

Microsoft announces the next generation OneDrive across businesses and consumers

Microsoft Lists for consumers comes to mobile, finally

Bing Image Creator gets a big DALL-E 3 update. And it is amazing
Surface
Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Laptop Go 3 are now available
Xbox
Here are the first Xbox Game Pass titles for October

Sony PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan is retiring

Layoffs at Epic
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: The great ensh*ttification reset

App pick of the week: ScanSpeeder

RunAs Radio this week: Episode 900!

Brown liquor pick of the week: Upshot

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 53 min
September 27, 2023WW 848: The Era of a Grinning Paul - Microsoft September Event, Meteor Lake, Windows 11 2023 Update
In this episode of Windows Weekly, Mikah Sargent is joined by Paul and Richard to discuss the latest Microsoft updates, news, and products. Paul chimes in on his experience at Microsoft's recent AI event, changes to Windows 11's confusing updates, last week's Xbox leaks, antitrust lawsuits against tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon, and more!
Microsoft Special Event: Blockbuster... or blockluster?
Paul went to his first in-person Microsoft event in almost four years. You're not going to believe what happened next!

Ahead of the event, everyone was calling this a "Surface event" and some still are. But it was an AI event, period. Were our expectations met?

Copilot "rebrand" was in many ways the biggest news

Microsoft 365 Commercial arrives November 1 - And Microsoft 365 consumer is a thing

Microsoft announced two Surface PCs at event, one with an NPU. And then two other Surface PCs/devices. Most of these do not matter
WTF is happening with Windows 11 23H2?
We had a confusing several days, the perfect end-cap to a confusing year when it comes to Windows updating. But now we have the answers.

At special event, Microsoft reveals it will ship "next major Windows 11 update" September 26. It's 23H2! It's not 23H2!

One day after the event, Release Preview gets Fall Update

Paul attempted to achieve some clarity ahead of John Cable's post

Microsoft releases the Fall Update (in preview form)

Is Windows 11 finally where it needed to be when Microsoft shipped v1 two years ago?
Follow-ups to last week's blockbuster news
Panos Panay will succeed Dave Limp at Amazon

Further examination of the leaked Xbox documents

Microsoft's reaction to the PS5 specs reveal is sort of clueless in retrospect

Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo. No, really. And it considered lots of companies
Antitrust
UK CMA provisionally approves of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

So of course the FTC revives its lost battle against Microsoft/AB. You can't make this stuff

FTC sues Amazon for monopoly abuse. Paul has questions. Lots of questions
Dev and AI
Intel announced its Meteor Lake chipset BEFORE Microsoft event.

Amazon buys Anthropic for $4 billion

Amazon announces generative AI features for Alexa at its hardware event

Google Studio Bot expands worldwide in preview

Microsoft is moving Windows device driver development to Rust

Unity: JUST KIDDING GUYS SERIOUSLY

GitHub Passkeys are GA
Xbox
Cuphead anniversary update is on the way, Xbox only

Microsoft tweaks how Xbox/OneDrive integration works in a "bonus Xbox update for September"
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Install the update, check the store

App pick of the week: Amazon adBlocker

RunAs Radio this week: SharePoint Online Features On-Prem with Sandy Ussia

Brown liquor pick of the week: Pokeno Whisky

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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2 hr 41 min
September 20, 2023WW 847: JUSHED! - Panos Panay's abrupt departure, leaked Xbox documents, AI event preview
It's a BIG news episode this week, as Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott discuss the sudden departure of Panos Panay from Microsoft to Amazon. Did he jump or get pushed out of the company? Leo and Paul also dive into a massive leaked memo about Microsoft's Xbox roadmap and plans over the next 10 years. Other topics include Microsoft's upcoming event focused on AI integration across products like Windows, Office 365, and Surface, as well as online account consolidation and Google's Takeout service.
We're down a Panay
After his curiously off-kilter performance at Build 2023 this past May, Microsoft reveals that it is parting ways with Panos Panay. Are these things related?

He's landing at Amazon devices, which makes sense given David Limp is retiring

Multiple Microsoft executives and employees have reached out privately about this

Comparisons to Terry Myerson's exit
Blockbuster Xbox leak
Major Xbox leak reveals Xbox Series X|S mid-season upgrades, next-gen console, new controller, and more

This is one of the top three Microsoft leaks that's happened in Paul's nearly 30 years of covering this company

An analysis of just one of the documents in this leak reveals an incredible amount of strategy information for the next 10 years

And one about the reaction to the PS5 reveal
Microsoft's upcoming AI event
Expectations for this event, the kick-off for Microsoft's full-on client AI push

Sub-analysis: This could be Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott's "Ray Ozzie moment." There's a profile of this mostly unknown in the WSJ

Intel announces NPU-powered Core Ultra CPUs - off schedule? Related to the MSFT event?

Bing Chat gains two new mobile integrations

Paint keeps getting AI features. Remember when Paint was the laughing stock of Windows 11 apps?
Windows
No new builds (of substance, there was an RP build).

Windows Photos, Snipping Tool, and Phone Link are all getting new features in Insider. Is Microsoft finally taking its in-box apps seriously (again)?

Google extends the support lifecycle for ChromeOS, solving the single biggest criticism of this platform. This is problematic for Microsoft
Microsoft 365
EU will reject Microsoft's offer to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365
Surface
Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Laptop Go 3 leak. They will likely be announced at the special event
Xbox
Microsoft announces more Xbox Game Pass titles for September

Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls VI will be an Xbox exclusive.
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Consolidate and organize your online accounts

App pick of the week: Google Takeout

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 25 min

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