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January 14WW 966: You Can't Spell Gmail Without AI - Is Microsoft's AI Strategy Doomed to Burst?
Satya Nadella gave up much of his CEO duties in 2025. Are we on the cusp of a new CEO? And does some money manager/political duo like Amy Hood and Brad Smith actually make more sense in this role than an engineer-type for the modern Microsoft?
Microsoft is trying to win our hearts and minds on AI
After spending three years trying to jam AI down our collective throats, Microsoft has only met resistance. Now, the real marketing begins

Governments and regulators: Microsoft will build out its AI infrastructure by actually paying for it and respecting the communities in which this happens

Customers: Satya Nadella is blogging, and he wants us to stop complaining about AI. He's the wrong messenger
Windows 11
First Patch Tuesday of 2026 brings security and bug fixes but no new features

First update of 2026 brings Copilot-powered image descriptions in Narrator, new IT policies for Copilot, other changes to Dev & Beta

Dev is about to switch to 26H1

IDC says that PC sales rose 8.1 percent in 2025, warns again about 2026

The good & bad of Paul's Panther Lake laptop

Dell doesn't sell any PCs to consumers so it obviously has opinions about why consumers don't buy PCs for AI

Microsoft will soon retire its Lens mobile app
AI
Apple predictably partners with Google to bring Gemini to Siri

Samsung correctly points out we're all using AI already so there's no reason to complain about it

We can't trust AI, so Microsoft is letting Copilot go shopping with our credit cards

We can't trust AI, so OpenAI is giving ChatGPT access to our private health data

Gmail is getting more AI because email is the low-hanging fruit of data collection
Xbox and gaming
Developer Direct returns on January 22 with Fable and Forza 6 gameplay

Microsoft to bring Avowed to PS5 in February
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Kick off 2026 with a security checkup

App pick of the week: Microsoft Local Foundry

RunAs Radio this week: Azure in 2026 with Jeremy Winter

Brown liquor pick of the week: Don Julio 70

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 29 min
January 07WW 965: Almost Meat - CES 2026 Laptops, Processors, AI, & Robots!
PC makers are shaking up CES with wild designs and next-gen chips, but the real story is Microsoft's bold software moves, AI's hardware hunger, and a candid debate over whether any tech company still puts users first. Come for the Windows updates, stay for the whisky warnings and robot bathroom assistants.
CES 2026 is here with the 4K hummingbird feeder of your dreams
New PCs and more from HP consumers/commercial, HP gamers, Lenovo, others

The first official Copilot+ PC desktops

Snapdragon X2 Plus joins X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme

Intel Panther Lake has meaningful CPU and graphics performance gains, but predictable reliability issues

AMD Ryzen AI 400 series is a minor bump
Windows
Paul was the first to report that Microsoft is refactoring it all with Rust

A Microsoft distinguished engineer wrote about his desire to refactor all C/C++ code in the company with Rust by 2030

Some mistook this to mean "rewriting Windows with Rust,ˮ so he had to issue a clarification. But I never wrote that.

Heads-up: That will happen, but this is really about Azure first and the core underlying code in Microsoftʼs most important platforms

Microsoft released hardware-accelerated BitLocker in late 2025 and never told anyone. It requires the latest PC CPUs

Copilot app update that adds text editing actions to Copilot Vision across channels

Dev and Beta got first previews of AI agents on the Taskbar, starting with the Researcher agent, plus underlying Agent Launchers experience

IDC says the global memory shortage (thanks, AI!) could screw up PC and smartphone growth this year
AI
ChatGPT now has an app store, but it has a ways to go

Mozilla Firefox will have a "killswitchˮ for AI

Our national nightmare will soon be over, LG will let users remove Copilot app from their smart TVs
Xbox and gaming
First Xbox Game Pass releases of 2026 include Resident Evil Village and Star Wars Outlaws

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Hisense smart TVs and to the latest Fire TV smart TVs

GOG goes independent, will continue DRM-free push

"Have a blastˮ and other FPS throwbacks from the 1990s

Valve quietly killed the LCD Steam Deck model
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Itʼs time to give Little AI a look

App pick of the week: Bonjourr

RunAs Radio this week: What AI can do for SysAdmins in 2026 with Cecilia Wiren

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Singleton of Dufftown 12

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2 hr 27 min
December 28, 2025 WW 964: Happy New Year! - Paul & Richard Get Toasty by the Fire
This isn't your usual Windows Weekly. Pour a glass and settle in as Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell ditch the headlines for whisky-soaked tech stories, behind-the-scenes Microsoft confessions, and the unexpected joys (and disasters) of vintage hardware. These are the tales you only hear when the mics are (almost) off.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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1 hr 29 min
December 17, 2025WW 963: I've Got an Apple Guy - Windows 11's Best Updates of 2025!
We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.
Windows 11
Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order...

Dark mode improvements to File Explorer

Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed

Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller

Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only)

External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS

-External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only)
Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel

Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement

Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones

AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool

Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well)

Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls

Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always

Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs
AI
An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected

Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it

GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3

ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro

Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google

Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month

AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now

Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes

Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products

Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation

Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud
Mobile
Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice

Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight
Xbox and gaming
Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones

There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January

Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while
Tips & picks
Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11

App pick of the year: Fortnite

RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante

Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963

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2 hr 37 min
December 10, 2025WW 962: Peak Bloat - The Last Patch Tuesday of 2025
December 2025's Patch Tuesday brought major shifts, but the real action is in Microsoft's pricing, privacy battles, and the arms race to control AI-enabled browsers. Plus, Paul recommends Tiny11 Builder for a clean install, or Win11Debloat for an existing install. Then, Rufus to create installation media without the forced Microsoft account (MSA) sign-in or hardware requirement checks. Use MSEdgeDirect to use the default web browser for stories from Widgets, web-based search results, etc. And ExplorerPatcher can fix the performance and reliability issues in File Explorer.
It's the final Patch Tuesday of 2025
Major dark mode updates (with a fix for the "flashbang" problem)

AI Agent in Settings, Click to Do, Windows Studio Effects, and Search improvements for Copilot+ PCs

Many other improvements: FSE, Share, Settings, Widgets, more
More Windows 11
New 25H2 preview build on Beta/Dev adds MCP public preview, Quick Machine Recovery auto-enabled, Unified Update Orchestration Platform, Windows MIDI services
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is getting a lot more expensive in mid-2026. You didn't think all those free AI updates were free, did you?
AI
Paul has been talking about "programmatic" apps and services because he wasn't sure of a term for this type of interaction. But there is a term for this: Semantic. As in semantic web. And there you go

Microsoft one of 1,000 companies partnering on Agentic AI Foundation because you're getting agents whether they work or not

Gartner says NO to AI web browsers

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for all the obvious reasons

After a big win in the legal battle with OpenAI

Opera for Android gets a big AI update

Google Workspace Studio brings code-free agent creation to business users - automation is a solid AI use case
Xbox
Xbox Series X|S notably absent during Black Friday sales

Call of Duty won't repeat the mistakes of the past anymore since it didn't work out twice now

MS Flight Simulator 2024 is now available on PS5

Red Dead Redemption comes to mobile for the first time, free with a Netflix account
Tips & Picks
Tip and app(s) of the week: De-enshittify Windows 11

RunAs Radio this week: Incident Management and the Crowdstrike Event with Liam Westley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Old Farm Pennsylvania Straight Rye Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 44 min
December 03, 2025WW 961: Petroleum Exchange Expert - AI Resistance, Reality, & the Rise of Slop
Can the AI boom survive its own hype? This episode takes on the future of OpenAI, tech's subscription fatigue, and why "Made with AI" labels might be the new scarlet letter. Plus, Microsoft's ugly sweaters are back for some reason.
Windows 11
Week D comes a week late and in the wrong month, but it's a big one, and a preview of what to expect next week in Patch Tuesday

More pervasive dark mode

Copilot+ PC exclusives: Improvements to Click to Do, Windows Search, Windows Studio Effects, Agent in Settings

Expansion of FSE availability

Improvements across Settings, Share, File Explorer, Desktop Spotlight, more

Aluminium OS is the name of the ChromeOS/Android Frankenstein that will take on Windows

Android 16 QPR2 is here with about 1,000 new features and maybe a saner approach to OS updating than what we see on Windows
AI
AI slop is no enshittification: Human error is still a much bigger issue

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is right: The "Made with AI" label is silly and needs to go

OpenAI declares a "code red" after Google finally figured out AI

Opera quietly does an about-face on AI in its browsers

Opera Neon gets one-minute deep research, Gemini 3, and Nano Banana
Xbox and gaming
Mortal Kombat 1, more coming to Game Pass in first half of December

Valve is quietly bringing SteamOS, Windows games to Arm
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Time to cull

Tip of the week #2: Time to look back

RunAs Radio this week: The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple

Brown liquor pick of the week: Stumbras Starka

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 25 min
November 26, 2025WW 960: Snow & Claus - Windows 11 & Agentic AI
Pavan Davuluri only spoke at one Ignite 2025 session, and it did not deserve the hate he got. But what did he really say?
Copilot is a front-end for apps and cloud AI services, agents are background processes.

Apps in Windows need to become programmatic so AI and agents can control them.

You are in control. You being IT and the user. These experiences are off by default, opt-in, and optional. This is the end of whatever BS argument anyone has about this stuff.
Copilot Voice because AI is better when you babble and is often more natural than typing
Key concept: Apps, CLIs, etc. expect exact commands, AI is all about intent, just do what I want, not exactly what I say. This is why, yes, people WILL want to talk to their PCs (and other devices)
UIs for these new features will look/feel natural in Windows
Search box in Taskbar is getting updated to orchestrate between local/web search and Copilot capabilities, including agents

Agents will appear as app icons in Taskbar when fired, can be check in on, can post notifications for you to attend to

Integration of M365 Copilot capabilities with Windows - Better together story, with things like Writing Assistance for every text box

Accessibility updates thanks to AI - Fluid Dictation, which is what makes Copilot Voice make so much sense

All the security, privacy, and IT management the audience expects
Windows Insider Program
Dev and Beta builds include Full Screen Experience on all PCs, new Notepad app, more
Hardware - Earnings
Lenovo PC business up 12 percent to $15.1 billion, 25.6 percent unit share

HP up 4 percent to $14.6 billion, but job cuts for AI are coming

Dell PC business up 3 percent to $1.41 billion
AI and Stuff
Microsoft releases local Fara-7B agentic model for computer use

ChatGPT's new coding model is optimized for Windows

Dear God, you must see Nano Banana Pro to understand Google's lead

Google is bringing AirDrop to Android, starting with Pixel. This is what happens when regulators "force design changes on OS makers."
Xbox and Gaming
Xbox Cloud Gaming usage is up 45 percent YOY. Sure. What's 45 percent of 3 people?

Xbox Cloud Gaming is adding per-game resolution settings, to 1440p for Game Pass Ultimate customers

ROG Xbox Ally is getting default game profiles, in preview for 40 titles now

Microsoft open sources the source code for Zork, Zork II, and Zork III

New Chromebook buyers get one year of Nvidia GeForce NOW with Fast Pass
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Finding experts is more important than ever

We live in the age of stupid. Find the smart and never let go

Also, Xbox is having a good Black Friday sale

App pick of the week: Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge

Also: Perplexity Comet on Android
RunAs Radio this week: Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus
https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1012
Brown liquor pick of the week: Sidetrack Stone Whisky
https://www.huskdistillers.com/shop/sidetrack-stone-whisky

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/960

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2 hr 26 min
November 19, 2025WW 959: Thurrott Syndrome - Microsoft Faces AI Backlash as Windows 11 Evolves
Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.
Ignite 2025
Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?

No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again

Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture

MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers

New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service

Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already
Windows 11
Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions

The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected

Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more
AI
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed

Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash
Xbox and gaming
Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming

Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11

FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience

Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising

Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support

Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms

Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20

As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again

Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2

RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

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2 hr 30 min
November 12, 2025WW 958: Personal Turkey - Will Valve's Steam Machine Make a Splash?
Windows 11 just got its most noticeable Start menu revamp in a while, but is it a productivity boost or just more Microsoft meddling? The team digs into Patch Tuesday's big surprises and whether generative tools are transformative essentials or just a passing fad.
Windows 11
Patch Tuesday was yesterday, your new Start menu is right where Microsoft left it

Copilot+ PCs: Improvements to Click to Do, File Explorer, Voice access, and Windows Search

All PCs, eventually: Taskbar improvements, Administrator Protection (off by default), Quality updates

Heading into Ignite next week, Microsoft cites recent security wins in Windows 11 and Surface

First 26H1 build comes to Canary to prove that there will be nothing new in it, ever

Qualcomm takes a one-time $5.7 billion hit thanks to Big Stupid Bill but still nails it in quarterly earnings
Microsoft
WSJ continues its Microsoft financial accountability criticisms

Also reports that internal documents state OpenAI expects to lose $74 billion in 2028, the year Anthropic will break even

If Paul starts a business and it loses money for three years in a row, it becomes a hobby. So WTF is OpenAI exactly?
AI
Microsoft AI creates a Superintelligence team as a sort-of alternative to AGI

Microsoft launched .NET 10 at .NET Conf on Tuesday - Plus, Visual Studio 2026 with a new monthly release schedule and Insider versions going forward

Double-digit performance improvements again, somehow

Uno announced Uno Platform Studio 2.0 with a fun surprise for Paul: They upgraded the original WPF version of .NETpad into a cross platform app in 3 minutes! There will be a demo on Thursday

.NETpad is transitioning to WinUIpad with the Windows App SDK rewrite. It is going poorly because Windows App SDK is terrible, cannot be open sourced quickly enough
Xbox
Steam announces a new videogame console, the Steam Machine!

Backbone Pro Xbox Edition is now available

Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition is here with with Xbox Play Anywhere support, Creations

Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming, so Halo: Infinite becomes a lot more finite

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 player on PC? Hope you enjoyed that 180 GB "update" you had to install before playing a year-old game (also got a 6.7 GB update Wednesday. For the love of God)

GTA VI has been delayed yet again as it edges into Duke Nukem Forever territory

Sony has now sold over 84 million PS5 consoles, meaning it has outsold every Xbox generation ever made

Sony is selling a 27-inch gaming display in the U.S. and Japan
Tips & picks
Tip of the week: Solving the problem over identifying the problem

App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder

RunAs Radio this week: Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kyoto Whisky Kuro-Obi Black Belt Blended

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 32 min
November 05, 2025WW 957: Selectively Transparent - Windows 11 26H1 Aims For Snapdragon X2 PCs
We've heard that Microsoft will go off script this year with a 26H1 release of Windows 11 specifically aimed at Snapdragon X2-based PCs, as it did with the early release of 24H2 last year for the first-generation Snapdragon X. Also, Microsoft's latest earnings call left analysts baffled as execs dodged questions about multibillion-dollar AI losses and the real story behind OpenAI's ballooning deficit.
26H1!
Now confirmed by the release notes of a Windows Update

And the Dev channel will soon switch over to 26H1 testing, with Beta moving to 25H2 (from 24H2)

Expectations? All three versions will be functionally identical except for some Copilot+ PC-specific features that may be briefly only on Snapdragon X2. And then there will be a 26H2 for everyone
More Windows 11
Microsoft (over) simplifies its Windows Update naming scheme, and then has to backtrack a bit because of admin/IT backlash

October Preview Update screwed up Task Manager a little bit

Dev/Beta update noted above included a new build with Ask Copilot in the Taskbar, Full-screen experience for Xbox gaming handhelds, Shared audio over Bluetooth LE in preview, and improvements to the WOA Prism emulator (which partially explains the expectations bit above)

Microsoft Edge password manager can now save and sync passkeys, but you should still use a third-party password/identity manager

Microsoft Store gets a bulk installer but only on the web
Earnings learnings
Microsoft earnings: Revenues up 18 percent to $77.7 billion but cost of AI is spiraling out of control and will only get bigger this FY

Productivity and Business Processes revenues up 17 percent YOY to $33 billion

Intelligent Cloud revenues of $30.9 billion, a gain of 28 percent YOY

More Personal Computing delivered $13.8 billion in revenues, up 4 percent YOY.

CapEx/AI infrastructure build-out costs are $34.9 billion (vs. $20 billion one year ago), plus a $4.1 billion loss attributed to OpenAI that was mentioned in a 10-Q (SEC) filing but not in its earnings reports

Paul's analysis sticks mostly to Wall Street complicity in Microsoft's earnings non-transparency shenanigans. This is getting weird, given the amounts of money we're now talking about

This isn't a first, but Spotify's earnings announcements includes a few BS sleights of hand too

AMD: 36 percent revenue growth isn't enough for Wall Street

Alphabet/Google: Up 16 percent to $102.3 billion, ads are 72.5 percent of revenues

Amazon: Up 13 percent to $180 billion in revenues, $30 from AWS

Apple: Up 8 percent to $102.5 billion, this quarter will be its best ever
AI, antitrust, & dev
Epic Games and Google announce settlement in Epic v. Google, a dramatic common-sense move that Apple should (but won't) emulate

Regulatory filings tied to Microsoft earnings suggest OpenAI lost $12 billion in most recent quarter

Freed from Microsoft, OpenAI immediately signs $38 billion infrastructure deal with AWS

.NET 10 to launch next week at .NET Conf 2025
Xbox & games
Xbox Game Pass getting Call of Duty Black Ops 7, five more Day One games in coming days (with an *)

Xbox October Update rolls out with game shader preloading on Xbox Ally, new modules in Game Hubs on console, more games to stream on Xbox Cloud Gaming, more

Nintendo Switch 2 is off to a blockbuster first year with

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2 hr 48 min

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