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December 07, 2022WW 806: Clippy in Prison - Brad Smith's acquisition argument, Communities, Paul's top podcasts of 2022
There have been major moves in the Activision Blizzard drama this week
Brad Smith publicly lays out Microsoft's argument for the acquisition

Smith compares Sony to Blockbuster

He complains about Apple and Google app stores, but this deal won't help

He confirms that Microsoft offer Sony a 10-year Call of Duty contract

Microsoft comes to 10-year Call of Duty agreement with Nintendo, Steam... and then heads to Washington D.C. to explain to the FTC how Sony never even responded to this offer

Conclusions? Everyone is obsessed with Call of Duty but this is more about mobile than it is about COD. And Microsoft is remaining true to its vision for making games available wherever the gamers are. They did this with Minecraft, Flight Simulator, and more. And they will do this with AB's titles
Windows 11
Beta channel: Builds 22623.1028 and 22621.1028 finally address long-standing game performance issues in Windows 11. Right, they supposedly fixed this in stable already.

Microsoft is spamming Windows 10 users with ads for Windows 11... in the product, of course. Because slippery slope. There's even an ad in the OOBE no

Microsoft Edge version 108 is here with no new features for end users
Microsoft 365
Microsoft announces a free, Discord-like feature for Teams, starting on mobile. It's called Communities
Xbox
Microsoft announces that new AAA first-party games will be $70 starting next year

Microsoft Flight Simulator hits a big milestone

Here are the first Game Pass titles for December

Amazon Luna customers can now stream PC-based Ubisoft games for free
Tips and picks
Thurrott's Top Podcasts of the Year

Thurrott's Top Audiobooks of the Year

Thurrott's Top Music of the Year

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 11 min
November 30, 2022WW 805: Week E is a Lie - New Microsoft 365 additions, Reset this PC, Revolver: Special Edition
New Microsoft 365 additions, Reset this PC, Revolver: Special Edition
Windows 11
A quick look at "moments" and what it means for the future of Windows. The October/November update was a moment. There will be big moments and little moments. Also, moments is a terrible name for this.

Microsoft issues its last Preview Update for Windows 10/11 of 2022

Windows Insider: New Dev channel build adds VPN status, search design tests
Microsoft 365
Games for Work in Teams

Schedule send in Teams

Sign language in Teams - update on the conversation from last week

Microsoft Create launched - Microsoft's template site for creators
Surface
Surface Duo might be getting its own Insider Program
Troubleshooting
New phone, message and phone call weirdness

Brother-in-law's laptop

Daughter's laptop

An update on 12th-Gen Intel suspicions.

Some Mastodon questions: US English? Notification sounds?
Revolver
We need to discuss the 2022 remix of The Beatles' Revolver album
Xbox
Microsoft ready to make concessions on Activision Blizzard

Games with Gold titles for December
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Don't be a afraid of Reset this PC

App pick of the week: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 44 min
November 23, 2022WW 804: Still Slippery After All These Years - Ads in Win11, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Qualcomm Oryon ARM-based CPU
Slippery slope
Ten years of advertising in Windows, and it's about to get even worse

Windows 11

Dev channel: Windows 11 build 25247

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now generally available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11

Qualcomm reveals new 'Oryon' CPU to be used in Windows on ARM PCs
PC sales11
HP announces financial results, with PC business falling off a cliff and layoffs looming

AMD CEO comments on industry issues to CNBC
Windows 10
Windows 10 version 22H2 is ready for broad deployment
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Teams add sign language view for meetings

New One Outlook app adds multiple account support

Surprise! Microsoft brings SwiftKey for iPhone back from the dead, promises new features
Xbox
Microsoft offered Sony a 10-year deal on Call of Duty

Hyperkin is selling an Xbox 360 controller for the new Xbox consoles
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week #1: Get an Xbox Series S on sale and other Black Friday deals

Tip of the week #2: Download your Twitter archives

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 36 min
November 16, 2022WW 803: D++ - Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition, Xbox Transparency Report, Task Manager Improvements
Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition, Xbox Transparency Report, Task Manager Improvements Windows 11
Beta channel: Microsoft starts testing Task Manager improvements

Photos app integration with iCloud is now available
Windows App SDK 1.2 is here
Microsoft
Independent report faults Microsoft on employee discrimination and harassment, it will do better
Microsoft 365
The Office mobile app is losing two sharing features as it transitions to Microsoft 365

Games are coming to Microsoft Teams for some reason

NVIDIA partners with Microsoft on massive cloud AI computer

When it comes to Microsoft 365, there is the past (Office) and then this other stuff
Flashback: maybe let's look at that Google One VPN for Windows thing one last time
Hardware
Microsoft announces a Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition that, no, is not USA! USA! USA!
Qualcomm announces its next flagship smartphone chipset. Assume a PC chipset announcement is imminent
Xbox
Spencer: Seriously, Call of Duty is staying on PlayStation

Xbox releases its first-ever transparency report, will do so regularly going forward

Xbox Game Pass in the second half of November

A new Xbox Series S bundle adds digital perks

Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition adds helicopters, gliders, and more oh my

Xbox November Update is here

A few more thoughts about the CliffyB book
IT'S HERE! CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE II SEASON 01!!!
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Twitter is dead, long live Mastodon

App pick of the week: Descript

App pick of the week #2: DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 45 min
November 09, 2022WW 802: Tiny Cricket Hammer - "Hey, Github!" voice coding, KB5019980 update, Control Freak
"Hey, Github!" voice coding, KB5019980 update, Control Freak Windows 11
Why Windows 11 usage is down so low and what Microsoft could do to fix that

Microsoft ships the "November update for Windows 11 22H2

A different Search button on the Taskbar
New Beta channel build adds* three new features
Microsoft 365
Zoom launches Mail and Calendar beta to take on Google Workspaces and M365

Microsoft moves to kill custom domains in Outlook.com ... again

Microsoft brings certificate-based authentication for AAD to mobile
Google One VPN arrives on Windows and Mac
Still more earnings
Lenovo reports first drop in revenues in 2.5 years
Qualcomm misses expectations too ... and promises that 2024 will be the year for WOA
Dev
Microsoft issues .NET 7
GitHub announces new features for devs and the enterprise
Xbox
Winter has come for Halo Infinite

EU to take a longer look a Activision Blizzard acquisition

Microsoft may make your Xbox more efficient

Nintendo lowers Switch sales forecast, but it's still doing great

Steam comes to more Chromebooks in beta
Netflix is working on a Gears of War movie and animated TV series
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: A new industry book to read

App pick of the week: Keepa

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 23 min
November 02, 2022WW 801: Whisky and Egg Rice - New Dev & Beta builds, Phone Link update, Joe Belfiore, Modern Warfare II
New Dev & Beta builds, Phone Link update, Joe Belfiore, Modern Warfare II
Windows 11
New Dev build today: Build 25236 feature a minor change to the Windows 11 search experience and a Store UX update

Dev Build 25231 adds the tablet-optimized taskbar for all Insiders, and the ability to rearrange icons in the (new) System tray

Beta Build 22623.875 also adds the tablet-optimized taskbar for all Insiders (who are getting new features), plus Taskbar-based access to Task Manager

Big Phone Link app update for owners of select Samsung Galaxy devices lets them instantly access their phone's hotspot from Quick settings on their PC. (Requires a Samsung device with One UI 4.1.1+ and a PC with Windows 11 build 22621 or higher)
Microsoft 365
Here's what Microsoft added to Teams in October. Some of the biggest updates: Assign seats in Together mode, shared content in a separate window, Live Translated Captions (Teams Premium), some new certified hardware, and suggested replies in group chats

Edge hits 107 but doesn't look a day over 95 - Let's talk about Edge

The new unified OneNote app is in the Microsoft Store...sort of
Microsoft
Joe B is retiring - it's not clear what he was doing for the past three years, but we go way back and he's been around since Windows 95
More Earnings
Intel continues to struggle

Apple comes on strong, but Mac & iPad were low points

Samsung's smartphone business grew

Amazon kills it, but may be lucky to break even in holiday quarter
Xbox
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is here. Some thoughts.

Xbox loses money on each console

Spencer: Seriously, we are not taking COD off of PlayStation. Think Minecraft

Spencer takes on Meta's metaverse and once again reveals himself to be the single greatest leader in Big Tech

Xbox price increases? Probably, but not in 2022

Microsoft reveals the first Xbox Game Pass titles for November, with a nice surprise

Games with Gold, meanwhile, is looking a bit sad

Twitch partners with Xbox for free PC Game Pass subscriptions when you buy Twitch subscriptions

Sony reports decent earnings, but PlayStation is stumbling

PS VR2 coming Feb 22 for $550

Google's Play Games on PC comes to US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: It's finally here! The Windows 11 Field Guide eBook

Tip of the week #2: Using Edge? You need to configure it correctly

Tip of the week #3: The big asterisk on the Windows Dev Kit 202

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 17 min
October 26, 2022WW 800: Goodbye Heart - Q1 FY23 Earnings, Q2 pessimism, Sinofsky reflects on Windows 8
Q1 FY23 Earnings, Q2 pessimism, Sinofsky reflects on Windows 8
Microsoft reported that it earned a net income of $17.1 billion on revenues of $50.1 billion, a year-over-year gain of 16 percent, in the quarter ending September 30

Intelligent Cloud up 20 percent YOY to revenues of $20.3 billion thanks to strong growth for both Azure (up 35 percent) and Server. But stock tanked due to Azure missing expected growth number and low expectations for Q2 23

Productivity and Business Processes delivered $16.5 billion in revenues, with growth of just 9 percent. Growth was driven by Office 365, with Office commercial products and cloud services seeing revenue growth of 7 percent. Office 365 commercial revenue was up 11 percent, and Office commercial products revenue fell 28 percent as Microsoft's customers continued their migration to subscription services. Office consumer was up 7 percent, with the subscriber base growing 13 percent to 61.3 million.

More Personal Computing, the home of Windows, Xbox, and Surface, saw revenues decline slightly to $13.3 billion. Windows revenues from PC makers was worse than expected, with a drop of 15 percent. Windows commercial products and clouds services revenues grew 15 percent, but declines in Windows were enough to drag down the entire business unit, with Microsoft citing "continued deteriorations in the PC market."

Xbox content and services revenues fell 3 percent YOY, though gaming revenue overall was up slightly. Xbox hardware revenue was up 13 percent.

Surface and other devices revenue was up 2 percent, but only because of HoloLens; Surface was down by double digits. Revenues had experienced double-digit growth in the prior two quarters.

GitHub hits $1 billion in ARR for the first time

Microsoft's financial outlook for Q2 and beyond isn't rosy
Other Earnings
Google hits a wall

Spotify MAUs up, profits down
Windows/Microsoft 365
Windows Subsystem for Android is getting Android 13 and more

Google to finally stop supporting Chrome on Windows 7 (and 8.1)

Microsoft shows off that coming Microsoft 365 app

Surface Duo gets Android 12L and is moving towards a Windows 11-like UX

10 years ago today, Microsoft started selling Windows 8 and Surface RT
Dev
Windows Dev Kit 2023 is now available, and it looks great
Xbox
Over 20 million people have at least tried Xbox Cloud Gaming

Age of Empires II and IV are coming to Xbox consoles in 2023

Microsoft talks up third-party Xbox controllers for smartphones, tablets
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: The simplified ribbon comes to Office, sort of

App pick of the week: Microsoft PC Manager

Enterprise pick of the week: UUP

Codename pick of the week: Surface 'Project AH'

Beer pick of the week: Nightmare Brewing Sororicide

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 35 min
October 19, 2022WW 799: Would You Like Salsa With That? - Windows 11 adds tabbed File Explorer, floating Taskbar UI teased, Microsoft Office now 365?
Windows 11
Microsoft rolls out optional October update for Windows 11 22H2, adding tabbed File Explorer

New to the Dev channel: Some stack orchestrator and other minor updates

New to the Beta channel: System tray updates

Microsoft showed off a new Windows 11 UI with a floating taskbar at Ignite

Paul is (temporarily) using Microsoft Edge again and has some thoughts

Paul's review of the Snapdragon-based ThinkPad X13s
Windows 10
Windows 10 22H2 is here
Microsoft 365 and cloud
Is Microsoft 365 taking over the Office brand? Not really

Microsoft 365 Apps are coming to Windows Server 2022 after all

Mary Jo interviews Microsoft Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie

Dark Mode finally comes to Word for the web
Microsoft
Microsoft lays off almost 1000 employees

Q2 FY23 earnings are happening next Tuesday, Oct. 25
Xbox
A Plague Tale: Requiem, Persona 5 Royal come to Game Pass in October

Xbox October Update is out now
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Customize an Elite Series 2 Controller on Xbox Design Labs

App pick of the week: PC Game Pass

Enterprise pick of the week: Windows 365 app is now in public preview

Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Intune - rebranding and new add-ons, plans coming

Beer pick of the week: Fall | Maine Beer Company

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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2 hr 5 min
October 12, 2022WW 798: Queued for Unenrollment - Apple integrations, Surface Laptop 5, Microsoft Designer
Apple integrations, Surface Laptop 5, Microsoft Designer
Microsoft Ignite 2022
Loop components news!

Teams Premium Add-on, Mesh avatars in preview, more new features

New/rebranded Microsoft 365 app for Windows, mobile devices, and the web

Microsoft Places: A new app for coordinating hybrid work

Microsoft Edge is getting a workspaces feature

Dev Box in preview

New Outlook features for hybrid work

Microsoft Editor gets some AI updates
Surface Event
Surface Laptop 5, Surface Pro 9, Surface Studio 2+ announced - all of it leaked already.

Oddly, the new peripherals are more interesting. OK, not oddly...

What exactly is Microsoft trying to accomplish with Surface?

Microsoft: iCloud Photos, Apple TV and Apple Music are coming to Windows 11

Microsoft Designer steals the show (and will be up next on "Killed by Microsoft")
Windows 11
Let's talk 22H2, October update, and new features — there is some confusion

New Dev build adds support for third-party widgets
More Microsoft
Microsoft partners with Meta on the Metaverse ... productivity and games
Xbox
Brazil OK's Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

Enthusiasts spy device on Phil Spencer's shelf, it's just an old prototype

You can launch Xbox Cloud Gaming titles from Bing search results for some reason
Tips and picks
Microsoft has a tip: disable security features to improve gaming on Windows 11!

App pick of the week: Oracle VirtualBox 7.0

Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Syntex

Codename pick of the week: Haven

Beer pick of the week: Southern Tier Pumking

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2 hr 37 min
October 05, 2022WW 797: Fish and Ferraris - Windows 11 2022 Update issues, Industry Clouds, Stadia's best feature
Windows 11 2022 Update issues, Industry Clouds, Stadia's best feature
Windows 11 22H2 Deployment Drama
Microsoft says that it is speeding up the delivery of 22H2

But why can't you get 22H2 yet? One reason: printers

One year ago today: Windows 11 started rolling out to mainstream users

Task Manager is coming back to the Taskbar!

October update features head to Release Preview channel

Microsoft investigating slow copy speeds in 22H2
Microsoft 365/cloud
Microsoft pushes industry specific clouds

Microsoft Edge 106 is now available
Xbox
EU to decide on Activision Blizzard acquisition by November 8

Google kills Stadia, and what Xbox can learn

Flight Simulator flies to Canada

A Plague Tale, more come to Xbox Game Pass

Only TWO games in Games for Gold this month

Halo rumored to adopt a new rendering engine

Microsoft is looking at letting users disable Quick Resume on console
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Ignite session catalog is now live

App pick of the week: HDR Calibration

Enterprise pick of the week Defender for Individuals gets Identity theft monitoring

Enterprise pick 2: From the M365 Admin dashboard

Throwback pick of the week: We miss you, Steve!

Beer pick of the week: Other Half Anchovy Testarossa

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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1 hr 56 min

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