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Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. We celebrate our 900th episode with Paul and Richard.
0:05.8	We'll talk about Windows 11 24H2 is coming soon and of course Paul is upset.
0:11.6	Are you surprised?
0:14.0	HPS really nice new flagship AI PCs.
0:17.0	But what does it mean when the co-pilot button is the last button you want to hit?
0:22.0	And we're going to talk about some big Xbox news,
0:26.0	Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox, a brand new book
0:30.2	coming out October 8th that tells all.
0:32.3	Paul has the details and a whole lot more coming up next on Windows Weekly.
0:36.0	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:42.0	This is Twit.
0:47.0	This is Twit.
0:51.0	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Thorat and Richard Campbell episode 900.
0:57.0	Woe recorded Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
1:01.0	The Eight Polls of inaccessibility.
1:05.0	It's time for Windows Weekly, the show we get together,
1:08.0	talk about Microsoft with these two cats right here
1:18.8	from McConungi Pennsylvania in the blue trunks Paul Thorat. Thorat.com. Hello welcome back Leo. Yes thank you by the way to Micah for filling in for me Hello, I'm,
1:23.0	thank you, by the way, to Micah for filling in for me
1:25.0	the last couple of weeks.
1:27.0	Also with this, Richard Campbell,
1:29.0	with Dura Park, British being home.
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