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December 01, 2021WW 753: Buy Now, Pay Later - Edgegate, Loop for Teams, Listener Q&A
Edgegate, Loop for Teams, Listener Q&A
Microsoft Continues to Bog Down Edge with Unnecessary Bloat
Users Push Back Against Bloatware in Microsoft Edge
Cyber Monday: The Rise of Buy Now, Pay Later | BizTech Magazine

Microsoft 365
Microsoft creates new standalone Teams Essentials edition for SMBs
This new Microsoft Teams feature could save you from project overload

Windows
Microsoft makes Start menu customizations possible in new Windows 11 test build
Windows 11 is Now on Almost 9 Percent of PCs
Windows Insiders Can Test a Minor Paint App Update

Xbox
Microsoft Announces First Game Pass Titles for December
Clarity Boost is Coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming on Microsoft Edge

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: It's time to consider other browser options
App pick of the week: Xbox Game Pass
Shareholder picks of this week: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sells half his Microsoft stock, Microsoft holds an annual shareholder meeting
Codename pick of the week: Project Nucleus
Beer pick of the week: KBS Cinnamon-Vanilla-Cocoa

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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2 hr 13 min
November 24, 2021WW 752: Smushed! - Windows on ARM, WOA mini-PC, Xbox Black Friday
Windows on ARM, WOA mini-PC, Xbox Black Friday
Does Windows on Arm have a future?
About Microsoft's Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm
Hands-On with the Snapdragon WOA Mini PC
Dell, HP Beat Earnings Expectations

Xbox
Xbox Launches Its Black Friday Sale
Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition is Now Available
Microsoft Launches an Xbox Series S Fortnite and Rocket League Bundle
Microsoft Announces Games with Gold for December

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Watch the Xbox Alumni roundtable
App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android
Enterprise pick of the week: SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
Codename pick of the week: Super Duper Secure Mode in Edge
Cocktail pick of the week: Cider-Cranberry Thanksgiving Cocktail

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
Guest: Stephanie Thurrott
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1 hr 41 min
November 17, 2021WW 751: Halle Berry Infinite - Windows 10 21H2, Edge bloat, Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta
Windows 10 21H2, Edge bloat, Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta
With the rollout of 21H2, Microsoft moves Windows 10 to annual updates
Windows 11
Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22504
New Windows 11 Media Player App Appears for Insiders

Windows on ARM
Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM
You Can Now Buy the Snapdragon WOA Mini PC

Microsoft Edge
Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds
Microsoft Continues to Bog Down Edge with Unnecessary Bloat

Developer
Microsoft's Windows App SDK 1.0 is available. Will it undo Microsoft's past mistakes?
Xbox
Surprise! Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta is for Everyone, Available Now
Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One
Microsoft Adds Over 70 Games to Xbox Backward Compatibility
Microsoft Announces More Game Pass Titles for November
Microsoft Store on Xbox Now Highlights Game Accessibility Features
Xbox Design Lab Adds New Customization Options
Microsoft Releases November Xbox Update

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Watch our Microsoft Ignite recap with Stephen Rose
App pick of the week: Firefox Relay
App pick of the week: 1Password
Enterprise pick of the week: Big Microsoft cloud reorg today
Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Managed Desktop Plan 1
Beer pick of the week: Founders KBS Espresso

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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2 hr 3 min
November 10, 2021WW 750: The Cadillac Cimarron of PCs - Windows 11 SE, Surface Laptop SE, .NET 6
Windows 11 SE, Surface Laptop SE, .NET 6
Microsoft introduces Windows 11 SE, new $250 Surface Laptop SE for the education market
Microsoft Announces $249 Surface Laptop SE for Education

Windows + Microsoft 365
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22499 | Windows Insider Blog
Another Brick in the Wall (Premium)
Microsoft to Kill OneDrive for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 in Early 2022
Apple Finally Targets Small Businesses

Developer
Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 generally available
Microsoft is folding Channel 9 into its Learn portal

Xbox
Microsoft Announces Xbox 20th Anniversary Event
Forza Horizon 5 is Now Available
Forza Horizon 5 is Biggest-Ever Xbox Game Studios Release

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Black Friday
App pick of the week: Mozilla Firefox
Enterprise pick of the week: Teams and Workplace (by Meta) team up
Codename pick of the week: Hailey and Vivian
Beer pick of the week: Talea Overnight Oats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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1 hr 56 min
November 03, 2021WW 749: A Demi-Skosh of Windows News - Microsoft Ignite - Mesh, Loop, and more!
Microsoft Ignite - Mesh, Loop, and more!
Microsoft to extend its 'enterprise metaverse' strategy with Mesh for Teams
Microsoft Ignite: The Fluid Framework Gets Loopy
Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft introduces Loop: A new collaboration tool built on Fluid Framework
Microsoft Ignite: The Fluid Framework Gets Loopy
Microsoft Ignite: More News from the Show
Microsoft is adding more AI smarts and other new tools to Office
Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux is now available for all users
Microsoft to release 'Defender for Business' platform
Microsoft Ignite Book of News
Windows 11
Windows 11 is Already on 5 Percent of PCs
New Windows 11 Build Previews MSA Settings Interface
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22494 | Windows Insider Blog
Surface
Microsoft Surface Pro 8 Review
Xbox
Microsoft Highlights First Xbox Game Pass Titles for November
Microsoft Announces Games with Gold for November
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Make a DIY Edgebrook (ChrEdgebook?)
App pick of the week: Start11
Enterprise pick of the week: SQL Server 2022, Power Apps Connector for Microsoft Access (preview)
Developer pick of the week: VS 2022, .NET 6 launches next week
Beer pick of the week: Finback Red Velvet (barrel aged)

Hosts: Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, and Mikah Sargent
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The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.
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1 hr 53 min
October 27, 2021WW 748: The Good Kind of Asterisk - Microsoft Q1 Earnings, Android on Windows 11, .NET 6
Microsoft Earnings
Microsoft Q1 powered by cloud as most units, product lines shine
Microsoft Earnings Soar 22 Percent to $45.3 Billion
Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market - GeekWire
Intel Reports Small Drop in PC Revenues
Google Revenues Grew 41 Percent to $65 Billion
Android Apps on Windows 11
Hands-On with Android on Windows 11: Not as Seamless as Promised
Windows 11
AMD, Microsoft Deliver Windows 11 Performance Fixes
Microsoft to try again to reach the K-12 market with a new low-cost Surface laptop: Report
Windows 10
Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to prepare for the November 21H2 update
Windows 10 users get PC Health Check app for diagnostics and troubleshooting
Developers
Microsoft Backs Down From Open-Source Mistake
Adobe Photoshop is Coming to the Web
Xbox
Microsoft Delivers the October Update for Xbox
Microsoft Teases the Halo: Infinite Campaign
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Don't be like Paul Thurrott: Remember your travel tech — particularly your power adapters.
App pick of the week: Stardock Fences 4
Enterprise pick of the week: Clear Software
Codename pick of the week: Project Zerix
Beer pick of the week: Citizen Cider Wit's Up

Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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2 hr 4 min
October 20, 2021WW 747: We Need More October - Windows Subsystem for Android & the Army's AR Headset
Windows Subsystem for Android & the Army's AR Headset
Microsoft releases the first preview of its Windows Subsystem for Android
Microsoft Publishes Windows Subsystem for Android Guidelines for Devs
First Android Apps Preview Comes to ... the Beta Channel?
Microsoft starts testing 'Update Stack Packages' to help streamline the Windows updating process
Microsoft fixes AMD CPU performance issue with new Windows 11 test build
Windows 11 known issues and notifications | Microsoft Docs
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19043.1319 (21H1) to Release Preview Channel | Windows Insider Blog
Releasing Windows 10 Build 19044.1319 (21H2) to Release Preview Channel | Windows Insider Blog
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22483 | Windows Insider Blog

The U.S. Army's AR Headset
U.S. Army postpones its $22 billion Microsoft augmented-reality headset deliverables to late 2022
Developers
Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web
Learn to build great Progressive Web Apps - Microsoft Edge Blog

Xbox
Microsoft to Celebrate Xbox 20th Anniversary with Back-to-Back Game Launches
Microsoft Announces More Game Pass Titles for October
Minecraft is Coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC
Microsoft Releases Final Seasonal Update for Halo: MCC
Microsoft's Xbox Mini Fridge Arrives
Xbox Hosts a Retro Indie Game Sale

Tips and picks
Hardware pick of the week: Luna Display
App pick of the week: Parallels Desktop 17.1
Enterprise pick of the week: SysInternals is in the Microsoft Store
Enterprise pick of the week: Azure Stack HCI 21H2 is out
Beer pick of the week: Fifth Hammer Scary Spice

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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1 hr 49 min
October 13, 2021WW 746: Token Woof - Global Azure Outage, Ally.io Acquisition, Visual Studio 2022
Global Azure Outage, Ally.io Acquisition, Visual Studio 2022
Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too
AMD-Based PCs Suffer a 3-15 Percent Performance Hit with Windows 11
Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store
It's Official: The PC Market Stalled in Q3

Azure & Cloud
Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services
Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Blames Russia for Most Nation-State Cyberattacks

Microsoft 365
EU regulators asking Teams rivals about Microsoft's bundling practices, per Slack's 2020 complaint
Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva
Smooth Scrolling is Coming to Excel for Windows
Amazon Embraces Hybrid Work

Developer
Microsoft delivers near-final VS 2022 Release Candidate and designates November 8 as GA date
Microsoft to Launch Visual Studio 2022 on November 8

Xbox
Microsoft Embraces Right to Repair
Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary Xbox Hardware
Quake Gets a Big Update for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5

Tips and picks
App pick of the week: Start11 RC
App pick of the week: Vivaldi 4.3
Enterprise pick of the week: Ignite sessions are live now
Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard
Beer pick of the week: Allagash Ghoulschip

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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1 hr 58 min
October 06, 2021WW 745: Bloomberry Compote Swirls - Windows 11 is here, as is Mary Jo's Bloomberry ice cream.
Windows 11 is here, as is Mary Jo's Bloomberry ice cream.
Windows 11 is Generally Available
Windows 11 Review: Fresh, Familiar, Incomplete
Microsoft's Windows 11: How to get it now (or later)
Windows 11's Broken Promises
Let's Fix Windows 11
Mozilla Firefox is Coming to the Microsoft Store

A new generation of Surface PCs and devices arrives
Microsoft Surface Pro 8 First Impressions
Hands-On with the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard
Hands-On with the Surface Slim Pen 2
Hands-On with the Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse
Mary Jo Foley tries Windows 11 Bloomberry ice cream

Microsoft 365
Microsoft's new non-subscription Office 2021 starts at $150 and arrives on October 5
Microsoft to add new education-focused M365 A1 per-device subscription plan
Microsoft's Cloud for Financial Services to be generally available November 1

Xbox
Xbox Console Shortage to Last Into 2022
Microsoft Announces First Game Pass Titles for October
Xbox Cloud Gaming Expands to New Countries
Microsoft Reveals Forza Horizon 5 PC Requirements
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Members with EA Play Can Join the Battlefield 2042 Open Beta Starting Today - Xbox Wire
Twitch Suffers from Massive Leak

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Turn off installed apps in Start's Recommended section in Windows 11
App pick of the week: Start11 gets a big update
Enterprise pick of the week: Windows 11 Security Baseline is now available
Codename pick of the week: Project Beluga
Beer pick of the week: Transmitter S1X Wild Blueberry Saison

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
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2 hr 17 min
September 29, 2021WW 744: Candy Bar Cereal - Windows 11 Eve
Windows 11 launches soon
Redesigned Microsoft Paint Heads to Public Testing
Microsoft Whiteboard is Getting a Big Update
Microsoft Leaks New Media App for Windows 11

More Windows News
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22468
Windows 11 Heads to Release Preview
Epic Games is Coming to the Microsoft Store in Windows 11
Opera, Yandex browsers and the Amazon and Epic storefronts are coming to the new Microsoft Store
Windows 10 Version 21H1 Jumps to 38 Percent Usage

Microsoft 365
Microsoft Announces Coming Skype Features
Microsoft Brings New Phone Features to Teams

Xbox
Microsoft Brings Dolby Vision to Xbox Series X|S
New Microsoft Edge Lands on Xbox
Microsoft Reveals Games with Gold for October
Minecraft Dungeons is Available on Steam

Tips and picks
Tip of the week: You can upgrade to Windows 11 right now
Tip of the week: New Docking/Undocking Experience
Enterprise pick of the week: SysInternals virtual conference with MarkR
Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft's administrator portals at your fingertips
Codename picks of the week: Zeus, Nabu, Kahuku, Caspar, Luca, Moro
Cocktail pick of the week: Oh Rickey, You're So Lime

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly
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1 hr 40 min

About Windows Weekly (Video)

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A weekly look at all things Microsoft, including Windows, Office, Xbox, and more, from two of the foremost Windows watchers in the world, Paul Thurrott of Thurrott.com and Mary Jo Foley of All About Microsoft.