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

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrots here. Richard Campbell has the week off. We're going to talk about 24H2. The quality issues continue, as Paul says, like a parade with no end. A new trick Microsoft Edge has for getting your Chrome data. And Yarm earns about a tenth what Qualcomm does.
0:21.9	Don't even get me started on Apple.
0:23.7	All of that and a lot more coming up next on Windows Weekly.
0:29.6	Podcasts you love.
0:31.4	From people you trust.
0:33.9	This is Twitter.
0:40.8	They This is Twitter. This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therad and Richard Campbell.
0:44.8	Episode 907, recorded Wednesday, November 13th, 2020.
0:50.5	It's interesting being me.
0:53.5	It's time for Windows Weekly, the show we cover the latest news from Microsoft.
0:59.0	Normally, you winners and dozers.
1:01.6	We have three of us in the studio, but Rich Campbell is not feeling too good after all those
1:07.0	travels.
1:08.2	He brought back the Tunisian flu or something. So it's just me and you, Paul.
1:14.0	I'm surprised this doesn't happen to him more often. He travels to a degree I don't even understand.
1:18.9	Yeah. You know, and I travel a lot or I used to. But man, he's on the road a lot. Yeah. Yeah. That's,
1:26.4	it's pretty his job, isn isn't it is a public speaker
1:29.4	yeah right yeah have podium will travel kind of yes yeah yeah no I mean good for him I'm
1:35.9	amazed he can do it at all it's great it's awesome yeah but that's okay because this is the way
1:41.0	Windows Weekly was for the first four or five hundred shows. And so we can do it.
1:45.2	We can do it.
1:46.2	Yeah.
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