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WW 907: It's Interesting Being Me - Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9

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Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9, and more!

Windows 11

  • The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end.
  • Patch Tuesday arrives
  • Windows team says no Preview update in December... but what about November?
  • Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator improvements. WHERE ARE THE ARM ISOs???
  • Most recent episode of Run as Radio is worth discussing again here
  • Dev and Beta: Nice new "run as admin" shortcut in Dev, minor changes in Beta
  • Canary: Mostly bug fixes
  • Microsoft Edge is using a new trick to steal Chrome data
  • It's dead, Jim: Microsoft reminds world that Outlook will replace Mail, Calendar, People
  • If you pay for Copilot (dummy) you can make custom Outlook themes now for some reason
  • Quick laptop update: AMD Zen 5 vs. Intel Lunar Lake vs. Snapdragon X

    • Still more earnings

    • Arm: $844 million, but disappointing. Also, Qualcomm legal battle looms
    • Qualcomm: $10.24 billion in revenues, up 19 percent
    • AMD to lay off 4 percent of (26,000 employee) workforce globally, focus on AI

      • Dev

      • Microsoft releases .NET 9
      • That means WPF support for Windows 11 theming is live
      • But there's a surprise: Microsoft added one of the features we need
      • .NET Conf is happening as we speak - Thursday is third-party day, and I am curious about Avalon and Uno announcements
      • Qualcomm has a webinar tomorrow for AI developers and Snapdragon X

        • Xbox

        • Surprise! Death Stranding comes to Xbox three years later to the day
        • Phil Spencer talks PS5, mobile devices, more in a new interview
        • MAJOR NEW ACTIVISION RELEASE ON GAME PASS
        • Just kidding, it's some stupid purple dragon
        • Friend requests now available (again) to all Xbox users
        • Paying GeForce Now customers get monthly usage caps
        • NVIDIA app replaces GeForce Experience, no need to sign in anymore
        • Sony has sold 65 million PS5 consoles ... it needs 20+ million more to surpass PS3

          • Tips and Picks

          • Tip of the week: Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update
          • App pick of the week: Stardock DesktopGPT
          • App pick of the week #2: Quick Share
          • Cocktail of the week: Salmoncito

            • Ingredients

            • 1 oz. tonic water, plus more for topping
            • 1½ oz. London dry gin
            • ¼ oz. Campari
            • ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice
            • Grapefruit twist and grapefruit supreme (for serving)

              • Preparation

              • Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 1 oz. tonic water, then pour in 1½ oz. London dry gin, ¼ oz. Campari, and ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice. Top off with more tonic water and stir gently with a bar spoon. Express oil of a grapefruit twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with a grapefruit supreme.

                • Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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