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  • WW 810: Call of Duty-Free - Notepad tabs, Stack Overflow 2022 developer survey, LastPass alternatives

    Notepad tabs, Stack Overflow 2022 developer survey, LastPass alternatives

    Windows

  • Microsoft's next Moment for Windows 11 is on the way
  • Microsoft is testing tabs in Notepad internally
  • This is what we're reduced to with the Windows 11 team, a 25-year old debate about MDI and SDI
  • Google is changing the Chrome release schedule again... no word from the Edge team

    • Services

  • Bing is reportedly going to get a ChatGPT upgrade to take on Google Search

    • CES

  • Intel announces 13th Gen Core chipsets for mobile
  • New PCs from Acer, HP, etc.
  • Matter Devices
  • Masonite Smart Door
  • Shiftall Mutalk
  • Surface Laptop 2 is no longer supported. It's four years old

    • Dev

  • Stack Overflow releases its 2022 survey. Lots of interesting data in there

    • Xbox

  • Ahead of Tuesday's pre-trial hearing, Microsoft responds to FTC complaint... and everyone focuses on the exact wrong thing, again
  • Microsoft's strategy for the FTC: Be the nice guy
  • Alone in Big Tech, Microsoft embraces unions
  • Here are the Games with Gold for January
  • Epic Games settles with FTC, will pay $520 million fine

    • Tips & Picks

  • Tip of the week: Dump LastPass?
  • App pick of the week: Xbox Live Gold
  • Bourbon pick of the week: Fable & Folly by Orphan Barrel

    • Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

    Guest: Richard Campbell

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    The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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      • 2 hr 59 min
    • WW 809: A Look Back at the Year - A look back at Windows Weekly's best moments in 2022

      Looking back on the year in Microsoft, from Paul's rants to Mary Jo's beer! The world of Windows has had one wild 2022!

    • Activision Blizzard acquisition begins
    • Autocorrect/autocomplete baffles Mary Jo!
    • Experimenting with Ads in File Explorer!? Uh oh!
    • Farewell to Clippy/Gottfried
    • DuckDuckGo's controversial Microsoft problem
    • Interrupted by a crisis in Leo's office!
    • Zac Bowden & Rich Woods discuss the new Windows update schedule
    • Live widget notifications are annoying!
    • Outlook? More like Look-Out... for advertisements
    • Multiple Apple integrations announced
    • Mary Jo Foley's final beer pick of the week: Sororicide
    • Revolver's 2022 mix is an incredible musical achievement

      • Host: Leo Laporte

      Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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      The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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        • 2 hr 46 min
      • WW 808: Nuclear Conservation - Wrapping Up Microsoft's 2022, Carmack quits Meta, Overwhelm Freeze

        Microsoft in 2022: the good, the bad, the meh

      • Activision Blizzard. It's the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, Brazil OKed the deal. COME ON
      • Microsoft Teams turned 5. Is it unstoppable? (Stack is asking for a friend)
      • Games in Teams?
      • Just one feature update per year? Just kidding! Microsoft released Windows 10 version 22H2 in October. Since then, we've seen the unexpected, largely (or completely) untested rollout of three new features: Search "pill," Task Manager access from the Taskbar, and now a new OneDrive. Each has inconsistently rolled out to different PCs. One has a regression. One was actually tested with the Insider Program. And one wasn't tested at all.
      • Don't like Windows 11? Please, let the designers explain it
      • One Outlook (Project Monarch) arrives, sort of, changes nothing
      • Loop doesn't arrive, changes nothing
      • .NET MAUI lands. Is it the future? Or just "a" future?
      • Project Voltera looks cool, but Arm is still down the road
      • DuckDuckGo colluded with Microsoft, then didn't
      • Alex Kipman was just trying to be like Bill Gates!
      • GitHub CoPilot: friend or foe?
      • PC sales fell off a cliff. That cliff is about to get higher. Deeper. Whatever
      • Joe B leaves. Like Mad Men, he might have stuck around too long
      • The year the Insider Program broke - there is no way out of Dev, Beta, or WOA builds

        • Windows 11

      • Microsoft brings Android 13 to WSA in preview

        • Hardware

      • Microsoft touts HoloLens 2 "momentum," says that an HL3 will need to be "meaningful"
      • Lenovo is pre-gaming CES with major PC announcements. Isn't this how E3 started to fall apart?
      • Google Android/Nest and Amazon both go live with early Matter implementations.

        • Microsoft 365

      • Microsoft will let all EU cloud customers store their data locally.
      • Microsoft teams with AWS, Meta, and TomTom to take on Google Maps
      • Microsoft, Teams has failed with consumers. Just bring back Skype already
      • In its second announcement all year, Skype adds real-time translation that imitates your voice
      • Amazon settles EU antitrust case. Did it learn anything from Microsoft?

        • Xbox

      • Microsoft launches a massive sale on Xbox games
      • Amazon expands in gaming, will publish next Tomb Raider title
      • John Carmack leaves Meta, has a lot to say. Little of it good
      • Ubisoft is giving Stadia customers the PC versions of the games they bought

        • Tips & Picks

      • Tip of the week: Make Mastodon less sleepy
      • Apps of the year: Brave, Notion, ImageGlass, Modern Warfare II
      • Term of the Week: Overwhelm Freeze

        • Holiday cocktail pick of the season: Winter Warmer

      • Mix equal parts apple whiskey and cranberry juice with a few good shakes of ginger bitters.
      • Warm gently on the stovetop or in the microwave--to a little above room temperature, not hot like tea or coffee.
      • Serve with a cinnamon stick or dried apple slice.
      • You can make a batch for a party and keep it warm on the stove or in a crock-pot, just keep in on low or the alcohol will evaporate.

        • Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

        Guest: Richard Campbell

        Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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        The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

        Sponsor:

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          • 2 hr 57 min
        • WW 807: You're a Contronym! - Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, 12th-Gen Intel dock problems, text suggestions

          FTC sues to block Activision Blizzard acquisition

        • FTC goes after Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
        • The FTC's action against Microsoft is ridiculous given the real-world abuses by Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta
        • Did the FTC lie about Microsoft? And what does this say about its case?
        • Spencer: Sony wants to make PlayStation bigger by making Xbox smaller
        • Microsoft offered to bring Call of Duty to PlayStation Plus
        • Microsoft offered the FTC a legally-binding consent decree to address their needs.

          • 12th-Gen Intel update

        • There are problems with 12th-Gen Intel Core-based PCs from all major PC makers using USB-C, Thunderbolt 3, and Thunderbolt 4 docks.
        • It appears that Dell has released a flurry of firmware updates that may have fixed the issue. This hints at how the issue will be fixed: by PC makers.

          • Windows 11

        • Dev channel: latest build has more Search experiment, final Dev channel build of 2022
        • Dev channel: New build last week removed sign-in requirement for Widgets
        • Dev channel: everyone is getting an update Snipping Tool with screen recording and an updated Media Player with who cares
        • Stable: Microsoft quietly updated OneDrive, never tested it with the public first
        • Microsoft Edge 110 will drop support for Windows 7/8.1 in January 2023

          • Microsoft 365

        • OneNote for Windows is getting vertical tabs because that's what's wrong with OneNote
        • Microsoft Authenticator drops support for Apple Watch. The reason is... curious

          • Microsoft

        • Microsoft buys 4 percent of the London Stock Market

          • Surface

        • Surface Duo 2 December Update addresses calling issues. Remember, it's not a phone

          • Xbox

        • Riot games come to Xbox Game Pass
        • Microsoft gives Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers 3 months of Calm
        • It's been a good year for the Xbox app on Windows. Sure, but what about accessing your console screenshots and recorded clips?

          • Tips & Picks

        • Tip of the week: Enable text suggestions in Windows 11
        • App pick of the week: Typora
        • Apple pick of the week #2: Firefox
        • Word of the week: Contronym

          • Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

          Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

          Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

          Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

          The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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          • Code Comments

            • 2 hr
          • WW 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

            Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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            Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

            The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

            Sponsors:

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            • rocketmoney.com/WINDOWS
            • Melissa.com/twit

              • 2 hr 11 min
            • WW 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

              Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

              Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

              Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

              The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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                • 2 hr 44 min
              • WW 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

                Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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                The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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                • Code Comments
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                  • 2 hr 37 min
                • WW 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

                  Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

                  Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

                  Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

                  The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

                  Sponsors:

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                    • 2 hr 45 min
                  • WW 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

                    Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

                    Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

                    Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

                    The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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                    • CDW.com/LenovoClient

                      • 2 hr 23 min
                    • WW 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

                      Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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                      The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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                        • 2 hr 18 min

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