WW 908: Twenty-Six Boxes of Napoli - Microsoft Ignite 2024, Half-Life 2 turns 20, "Agentic"

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 211 minutes

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Summary

It's Microsoft Ignite and we are totally not there

One word summary: Agentic
A wave two for Copilot, essentially
Agents that work on your behalf autonomously
The Snapdragon Dev Box was such a success that Microsoft is offering more hardware
Copilot+ PCs are getting new AI capabilities. Eventually
Copilot Actions brings, um, actions to Microsoft 365

Windows 11

Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 on Arm ISO - Here's some advice
When you think about Windows, we're guessing security and resiliency aren't what comes to mind. So why is Microsoft pushing this so hard at Ignite??
Google Drive is now available in Beta for Windows 11 on Arm. Paul's national nightmare is over!
Here's what's coming to Windows 11 SOON - a new Release Preview channel build shows that 24H2 was just the start of this coming year's updates
Canary: Mostly bug fixes, no clear vision for this channel we can see - new Canary build today with the new Hello experience, new Taskbar thumbnail previews
Beta: Jump list sharing and other features no one has ever, ever, ever asked for
Microsoft is shutting down Beta channel for Windows 10, just months after it revived it
Lenovo revenues surge, PC sales only up slightly but it sees big growth in the coming quarters

AI, antitrust, more

DOJ reportedly wants Google to sell off Chrome - How does this compare to the previous Microsoft breakup attempt?
Some thoughts about Uno Platform Studio and a re-do of last week's .NET news now that Richard is back
A WPF on .NET 9 update

Xbox

Phil Spencer speaks: Portable Xbox hardware, mobile store, more
Microsoft's new Xbox ad triggers PTSD or celebration, depending on your views
You can now play (50) games you own on Xbox Cloud Gaming!
It's been a while, but this is a killer month for Game Pass
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available
Avowed is an Xbox console exclusive and it's coming in February
Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters arrive alongside Warcraft 3: Reforged 2.0 - celebrating the 20th anniversary
Valve celebrates the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2!
The OG Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free, and they run on modern PCs too
Sony PlayStation Portal can now stream some PS Plus games

Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: Get 1 TB of additional Xbox storage for just $99
App pick of the week: ChatGPT for Windows and Mac
RunAs Radio this week: Testing Databases with Dan Mallott
Brown liquor pick of the week: Haavaldsen Sledgehammer 2024

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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrott's here. Richard Campbell's here. You know where they're not, Microsoft Ignite. We get the explanations and what's going on at Ignite. It looks like AI is a big push. What a surprise. They call it agentic AI. We'll also talk about a big Xbox segment coming up. Some great new games coming to Xbox GamePass,
0:22.6	and a couple of really old games coming back from the dead.
0:27.0	It's all next on Windows Weekly.
0:32.0	Podcasts you love.
0:33.8	From people you trust.
0:36.3	This is Twitter.
0:43.2	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, episode 908,
0:48.5	recorded November 20th, 2024, 26 boxes of Nopoli.
0:54.5	It's time for Windows Weekly, the show we talk about everything Microsoft.
0:59.6	And the entire crew is back and it couldn't make me happier.
1:04.3	Oh, hello.
1:05.1	Hello, Richard, Cam.
1:06.2	We missed you.
1:07.0	Richard was gone for a couple of weeks.
1:08.6	Who is this third man?
1:10.7	First in Tunisia where there was no
1:12.5	internet and then you didn't, you fell ill in Lithuania. Yes. I was getting nervous. You would not have
1:18.8	wanted that show. It was grim. Yeah, I bet. Anyway, we're glad you're feeling better. Yeah.
1:24.0	And you're back in Maduro Park, B.C. Yep, in the storm. Just in time for the bomb cyclone. Yeah. And you're back in Madera Park, BC. Yep, in the storm.
1:29.5	Just in time for the bomb cyclone.
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:32.0	Which it's interesting.
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