Windows Weekly (Audio)

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Windows 11

  • 24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos
  • Microsoft issues last-second updates to 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 in the Release Preview on Monday. Paul predicted these would turn into our Week D updates later in the week and that we'd get nothing on Tuesday
  • Dev and Beta channels got some interesting updates recently as well
  • The Windows App is now available on Windows, Mac, and iOS
  • HP announces two new flagship AI PCs, one AMD and one Intel. Plus a lower-cost 8-core Snapdragon model. This is officially a trend.
  • A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirmed it shipped the same update to Surface Pro 11. This has had a major negative effect on the device's instant-on capabilities

    • Microsoft 365, cloud, AI

    • Microsoft is reviving Three Mile Island and other headlines I never thought I'd write
    • Google formally complains about alleged Microsoft antitrust abuses in the EU
    • LinkedIn is training AI with your data. You can turn it off because Microsoft loves opt-out
    • Microsoft issues a SFI progress report and they are doing GREAT, thank you very much
    • Gemini comes to Workspace
    • Apple Intelligence will hoover 4GB of drive space on iPhones to start, more later as more features are added

      • More!

      • Qualcomm makes another offer to acquire Intel
      • Investment firm offers Intel a $5 billion lifeline
      • Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well
      • Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings
      • Paul has finished updating .NETpad for Windows 11 theming support in .NET 9, will put code up in GitHub after .NET ships in stable


        • Xbox

        • A new tell-all about Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox arrives October 8
        • Game Pass features are coming to Xbox mobile app where they belong
        • Also, Game Bar Compact mode as part of September Xbox Update
        • New Indie Selects titles
        • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is available for preorder and it will look a lot better and take up a lot less disk space
        • Xbox Ambassador's Program is dead, Jim
        • Xbox spends $1 billion per year to acquire Game Pass titles
        • Xbox figured out how to reduce its carbon emissions. You know, besides selling fewer consoles
        • Sony announces 30th anniversary PS5 collection

          • Tips and Picks

          • Tip of the week: Stop paying so much for everything
          • App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates
          • RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch

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