WW 881: Big Boy Teams - Snipping Tool and Word updates, Snapdragon X Leak

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Paul Thurrott, News, Xbox, Richard Campbell, Technology, Windows, Microsoft, Tech News, Twit, Leo Laporte

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

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

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

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0:00.0	This week on Windows Weekly, Paul Thorod and Richard Campbell talk about the widgets.
0:04.0	Oh boy, the new lock screen widgets in Windows 11.
0:07.0	The snipping tool is updated.
0:10.0	Dell PCs based on the Snap Dragon X leak anything anybody Buehler how about
0:19.2	Microsoft Word it gets a long overdue overhaul to default based
0:26.0	Really there's some great stuff actually we're to talk about open ayes event on Monday
0:30.9	Google I.O's event on Tuesday, Apple's possible response next month, and what
0:36.3	Microsoft's up to, plus a bunch of Xbox news.
0:38.9	It's all coming up next on Windows Weekly. Podcasts you love.
0:45.0	From people you trust.
0:47.0	This is Twit.
0:50.0	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Thorod and Richard Campbell.
0:57.0	Episode 881 recorded Wednesday, May 15, 2024, Big Boy Teams.
1:05.0	It's time for Windows Weekly, the show we cover the latest news from Microsoft
1:11.0	with Mr. Paul Thorat from Thorat.com, THU-R-O-Double Good.
1:16.3	Hello, Polly.
1:18.6	Hello.
1:19.6	And I believe he's still in Madeira Park.
1:23.7	Still at home.
1:25.0	Mr. Richard Campbell of Runas Radio.
1:28.4	Hello, you two.
1:29.8	Winters, how's it going? Good to be at home. It's going to end next week right? Oh
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