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Windows Weekly (Video) episodes

  • WW 890: Nub Muscles - Checkpoint cumulative updates, Cheeky Controller, CISPE

    This episode features Paul, Richard, and Leo discussing Microsoft's new "checkpoint cumulative updates" and HP's announcement of its AMD-based AI PC. Afterward, Paul goes over his review of the Yoga Slim 7x laptop, which features a 14.5-inch OLED display. Other topics include the hiring of Inflection staff, Microsoft's settlement with the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, Leo's ZDTV hat, .NET 9 Preview 6, OS/2 Warp, the Xbox Game Pass mess, Amazon Prime Day, and a controller designed by Deadpool!

    Windows

  • Windows 11 version 24H2 introduces a new way to update Windows because WTF Microsoft
  • HP announces an AMD-based AI PC that is/is not a Copilot+ PC - lots going on here
  • AMD comes clean on the new chips, which ship at the end of July
  • With a Snapdragon X-based ThinkPad on the way, Paul reviews the Yoga Slim 7xp
  • Windows 11 Photos app now integrates with Microsoft Designer
  • Dev (last week): Testing/deployment of new features resumes after long pause
  • Beta (last week): More changes to the home page in File Explorer
  • Release Preview (last week): Duplicate a File Explorer tab, drag and drop to pin from Start to Taskbar, more. Also a Windows 10 build (hooray?)

    • AI/Antitrust

  • UK CMA investigates Microsoft for its Inflection AI hirings
  • Microsoft settles with (most of) CISPE on cloud licensing in EU
  • iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia public betas arrive, but with no Apple Intelligence features
  • Opera beta on iPhone and iPad has new UI, some AI

    • Dev

  • .NET 9 Preview 6 arrives
  • Paul makes massive progress on Windows 11 port of .NETpad with the updated WPF. Plus a neat third-party add-on that might put this project over the top
  • Google is bringing Android Studio to the web

    • Xbox

  • Xbox controversy of the month, but this one is real: Microsoft ensh*ttifies Xbox Game Pass - more info now that the dust has settled, but still no announcement from Microsoft
  • Microsoft, you HAVE to announce what's going on with AB and Game Pass
  • Now that Microsoft owns Call of Duty, Xbox gamers are getting next beta on day one - well, Game Pass members anyway
  • Microsoft offers a cheap Xbox streaming bundle on Amazon
  • The Deadpool Xbox wireless controller is priceless
  • Microsoft announces three day-one titles for Game Pass, none from AB

    • Tips and picks

  • Tip of the week: Amazon Prime Day is here
  • App pick of the week: Proton Pass
  • RunAs Radio this week: The Power of Data in the Cloud with Arun Ulag
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Crown Royal Blender's Mash

    • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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      • 2 hr 40 min
    • WW 889: Works Best With Netscape - OneDrive calms down, Surface firmware, Field Guide resize

      In this episode, Paul seems to be sitting in a familiar room! Could this be a sign that a game-changing enhancement to Notepad is rolling out? That's not all, as OneDrive seems to be undergoing some behavioral changes in a positive direction. After 3 weeks since the Copilot+ PC launch (2 weeks since Paul got his 1st model), the future of Intel and x86 may not be as dire as some think. Plus, Affinity announced that its award-winning Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps are now free for 6 months with no obligation to buy!

      The Morning After

    • The end of Intel and the x86 era? You guys are cute
    • Comparing the HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft entries: A few differentiators, but these things are very, very similar. There's a reason why
    • IDC throws cold water on the AI PC/Copilot+ PC parade
    • We still need official Windows 11 on Arm ISOs, Microsoft. Until then, there are workarounds.

      • Windows 11

    • GAME CHANGER: Notepad FINALLY supports spell-checking and auto-correct!
    • ACTUAL GAME CHANGER: Microsoft is apparently stepping back some of the OneDrive terribleness in Windows 11 version 24H2
    • Patch Tuesday: BIG deal for Windows 11 22H2, 23H2 with 24H2 features
    • Nothing to speak of for 24H2, as predicted - just security updates
    • It's nice when things happen as expected for a change
    • Canary: Lock screen widget changes
    • Paul put the Windows 11 Field Guide on a diet - and then the other books too
    • PDF went from 377 MB to 107 MB, EPUB went from 344 MB to just 86 MB (!)
    • Similar gains for Windows Everywhere, Windows 10 Field Guide
    • Updated the Win10 add-in that comes with the Windows 11 Field Guide too

      • Surface

    • Surface Laptop 7 and Pro 11 get second firmware updates

      • AI

    • The OpenAI drama consumes Microsoft
    • Opera brings Aria AI features to its GX gaming browser too

      • Xbox

    • Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gets a price hike
    • Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on newer Fire TV Sticks. Also, free Fortnite!

      • Tips and Tricks

    • Tip of the week: Get all three Affinity apps on all three platforms for free for six months!
    • App pick of the week: Firefox 128 and Vivaldi 6.8
    • RunAs Radio this week: The Hardware of Azure with Rani Borkar
    • Brown liquor pick of the week: Raasay Single Malt

      • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

      Guest: Mary Jo Foley

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        • 2 hr 36 min
      • WW 888: Find the Blue Penguin - Handwriting recognition, more Copilot+ PCs tests, Brave BYOM

        It's only been one week, but it's really been 14 years, and Paul is calling: Microsoft and Qualcomm have finally made Windows 11 on Arm both viable and desirable. Nothing is perfect, but this platform is pretty incredible. Some notes from the past week:

        Mission Accomplished

      • As a reminder, Paul finally got the Yoga Slim 7x last week and updated on app compatibility, hardware compatibility, gaming, and in-box AI experiences in time for WW - only found one non-working app, Google Drive. Then...
      • More app and game compatibility testing. Since then, played a lot more DOOM (2016), ran into one issue that's surely WOA-related (note beta graphics driver, though)
      • Video encoding performance: Snapdragon X vs Snapdragon X vs Core Ultra 9 H-series vs MacBook Air M3
      • Initial thoughts on battery life and then More thoughts on battery life. The Yoga Slim 9x and Surface Laptop both get about 10 hours of real-world battery life (so far), compared to 15 hours for the MacBook Air 15-inch M3.
      • Hardware compatibility update: Only one of my devices doesn't work, the Focusrite.
      • Surface Laptop 7 first impressions and second impressions
      • HP Elitebook Ultra first impressions

        • Windows 11

      • After skipping Week D last Tuesday, Microsoft belatedly delivers a Week D preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2
      • No new features, so next Patch Tuesday will be light for 24H2
      • 22H2 and 23H2 got a big Week D update last Tuesday, so Patch Tuesday will be meaningful
      • As of July's Patch Tuesday, 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 will all provide the same basic feature set
      • Canary, Dev, Beta (last Friday): nothing exciting, a few small features or changes

        • AI & Microsoft 365

      • European Commission "shifts" investigation of Microsoft/OpenAI partnership. Is Ken Starr in charge of this thing?
      • Microsoft highlights new Copilot features coming to Microsoft 365 in July
      • Copilot in OneNote can now recognize handwritten text. It's 2002 all over again!
      • Pixel 9 family will promote unique "Google AI" features
      • Brave introduces a BYOM plan for its web browser
      • Thanks to AI, Google Translate now supports 110 new languages

        • Xbox

      • Xbox Cloud Gaming Fire Sticks it to Amazon
      • Another two weeks of Xbox Game Pass
      • Forza Horizon 4 (from 2018) to be delisted December 15. Why?

        • Tips and Picks

      • Tip of the week: Get $10 off Tony Redmond's Office 365 for IT Pros 11th Edition
      • App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive
      • RunAs Radio this week: NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam
      • Brown liquor pick of the week: Jack Daniels Old No. 7

        • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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        The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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          • 2 hr 37 min
        • WW 887: You're Drinking Wood! - Copilot+ PC impressions, Windows Hello ESS, Teams vs EU

          We're one week into the Copilot+ PC, and the feedback is positive with caution! Key takeaways so far: Much improved performance and reliability, AI features mostly stink, but there is still uncertainty each time you install/do anything.

          Windows 11

        • Week D arrives with preview updates for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 only
        • The second Patch Tuesday in a row with no 24H2 update (on the day)
        • This preview update adds 24H2 features to 22H2/23H2 as predicted
        • Beta channel (last week): Bizarre Start menu extension for Phone Link users
        • Release preview channel (last week): The 22H2/23H2 builds and features that shipped to stable as a preview update on Tuesday
        • Canary channel (last week): After pausing the previous build (hint: Recall code), new build arrives with drag-and-drop address bar in File Explorer, notification tweaks

          • Copilot+ PC

        • Paul finally got a Copilot+ PC to test, a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14"
        • App compatibility scorecard: Excellent, but with familiar Arm uncertainties
        • Hardware compatibility: Excellent, but with the same person-by-person caveat
        • Gaming: Lots of fiddling, but if you can find a compatible game, some great perf and visual quality. Still better than the Mac, and better than any x64 Ultrabook. But not a gaming PC. No Xbox Game Pass support?? COME ON
        • In-box AI capabilities: With Recall out, there's almost nothing to see here
        • Plus, Intel and AMD are gunning for Qualcomm
        • iFixit reports that Surface Laptop 7/Pro 11 repairability is "astonishingly" good. Granted, the bar was low
        • Microsoft brings Surface Flex Keyboard to Surface Pro 8, 9, and 11
        • Microsoft releases recovery images for Surface Pro 11/Laptop 7
        • Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-In Security (ESS) is one of several Copilot+ PC protections that rendered those security researcher complaints about Recall moot. But Paul now has two PCs that use this feature, and it's even more impressive than you think
        • The Windows 11 decoder ring

          • Antitrust

        • As expected, the European Commission announced preliminary charges against Microsoft for Office/Teams bundling
        • This is antitrust, not DMA (like Apple)
        • The EU has not explained WHAT Microsoft can do to fix this (unlike with Apple)
        • This is based on a complaint from Slack, which was created 7 years after Microsoft first offered this type of app/service

          • Xbox

          -Hot off a terrific Xbox Games Showcase event, Xbox promises its "biggest-ever" booth at Gamescom 2024 (which is now the biggest trade show in Europe, apparently)
          -Microsoft details how Auto SR and Prism work in WOA11 to make gaming both possible and decent
          -Steam Deck LCD models are on sale

          Tips and Picks

          -App pick of the week #1: New browser upgrades
          -App pick of the week: Proton Drive
          -RunAs Radio this week: The Hard Part of Machine Learning with Lynn Langit
          -Brown liquor pick of the week: Cragganmore 12

          Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent

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          The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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            • 2 hr 18 min
          • WW 884: Sentient Meat - Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15

            Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15

            Attack of the Copilot+ PCs

          • Nvidia: GeForce RTX AI PCs will get Copilot+ PC status ... some day
          • AMD: Ryzen AI 300 series (laptops) and AMD Ryzen 9000 series (desktops) have 50 TOPS NPUs and an on-stage apology, er, admission, from Microsoft
          • Intel: Lunar Lake delivers 48 TOPS NPU, new GPU
          • Qualcomm - Don't forget us! We're going to go after every PC form factor there is
          • Thinking about AI, NPUs, and local workloads - Is an orchestrator in our future?
          • Microsoft needs to address the Recall controversies
          • Framework Laptop 13 is coming with Intel Core Ultra chips
          • HP earnings - PC business up 3 percent in Q
          • Dell earnings - PC business is flat

            • Windows 11

          • Microsoft delivers its Week D preview update a day late
          • If you're on 24H2 like I recommended last week, you get ... wait for it ... Copilot as an app
          • Canary: Copilot as an app, Emoji 15.1 support
          • Dev: Copilot as an app
          • Microsoft adds a Windows 10 Insider Preview Beta channel to test new features

            • Microsoft

          • Bing is 15 years old. What can we possibly celebrate?
          • More Microsoft layoffs, this time in Mixed Reality and Azure

            • AI

          • Apple reportedly partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft reportedly pissed about Apple partnering with OpenAI
          • Google is fixing its AI overviews in Search
          • And if anyone still trusts Google AI for some reason, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are now GA
          • Amazon brings AI search, and to Fire TV for some reason
          • When Raspberry Pi 5 can do AI is AI just everywhere now?

            • Xbox

          • Asus announces ROG Ally X gaming handheld - are these to gaming what 8.1-inch tablets were to Windows 8.1?
          • PlayStation VR2 adapter for PC is $60

            • Tips & Picks

          • App pick of the week: Opera
          • RunAs Radio this week: Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: Nikka "From the Barrel"

            • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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              • 2 hr 30 min
            • WW 883: It's So Convulated - Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth

              Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth

              Windows 11

            • A quick look back at the Copilot+ PC launch
            • Paul did end up making a video of each MacBook Air reference during last week's launch
            • The Copilot+ PC event was also notable for its many references to the past: Paul counted at least 7 in the first 7 minutes alone
            • After some soul-searching, Paul went all-in on Surface Laptop by canceling the first preorder and bulking it up with more RAM and storage
            • Release Preview (last week): 24H2 comes to RP, suggesting it hits stable on Tuesday, June 11 (in preview), one week before the first Copilot+ PCs arrive with this build preinstalled
            • Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course)
            • Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a "WebUI 2.0" initiative
            • Lenovo earnings up 9 percent in quarter, down 8 percent for the year. The future? AI PCs, duh

              • AI

            • There was a massive Bing outage late last week. Press hold on all the obvious jokes, this impacted Copilot everywhere, DuckDuckGo, other services
            • Cue the Chicken Little "this is why I'll never use AI" crowd, which used to be the "this is why I'll never use the cloud" crowd
            • Copilot comes to Telegram for some reason
            • Google goes live with AI overviews in Search and the world grinds to a halt
            • Google adds Gemini to Chromebook Plus, gives one free year of Google One AI Premium to new device buyers
            • WWDC is coming soon and we're seeing hints of how Apple will add more AI to its products
            • Opera partners with Google Cloud on Gemini in Aria AI and image understanding/image generation in browser
            • And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser
            • NVIDIA revenues were a record in Q1, up 262 percent YOY

              • Dev

            • Last week, we learned that WPF is making a comeback. This week, Paul revived his .NETpad project and is going to modernize it using the new features

              • Xbox

            • We finally have some news about Activision Blizzard games and Game Pass!!! But it's only one game, and it doesn't happen until November
            • Atari buys the Intellivision brand. I wish we knew more about this

              • Tips & Picks

            • Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns
            • App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2
            • RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler
            • Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's Reserve

              • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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                • 2 hr 2 min
              • WW 882: The Hall & Oates Story - Copilot+ PCs, Recall snapshots, Khan Academy

                Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

              • Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses
              • Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
              • What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
              • Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
              • The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
              • Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern
              • Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features
              • Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome
              • Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

                • Inside baseball

              • Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event
              • Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
              • Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"
              • PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase

                • Microsoft 365

              • Microsoft Announces Team Copilot
              • Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams
              • Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature

                • AI

              • Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs
              • Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform
              • Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training

                • Dev

              • Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime
              • Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!
              • Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot
              • Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release
              • Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers

                • Tips & Picks

              • Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report
              • RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott
              • Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10

                • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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                  • 2 hr 14 min
                • WW 881: Big Boy Teams - Snipping Tool and Word updates, Snapdragon X Leak

                  Windows 11

                • Patch Tuesday
                • Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
                • Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
                • Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
                • New Dev and Beta builds
                • Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
                • Microsoft 365
                • Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

                  • AI

                • OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
                • Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote

                  • Xbox

                • Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
                • Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
                • Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
                • We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again
                • Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
                • Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
                • Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
                • Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
                  • time

                  Tips and picks

                • Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
                • App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
                • RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
                • Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

                  • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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                    • 2 hr 47 min

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