WW 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred - Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Windows

Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters
Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice
Look at how facile the complaints are now
This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues
Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features
Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
HP and Dell earnings
The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025
Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?

Microsoft 365

Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week

AI, antitrust, corporate

Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI
This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS
Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI
Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results
DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US
Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs
Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested

Xbox

Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes
Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar
Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now
Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it
Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away

Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation
App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133
RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls
Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therot and Richard Campbell are here. They're both home for the holidays.
0:05.6	And with lots to talk about, Paul is a little upset about the world worrying about Microsoft AI.
0:14.5	He's going to correct a misapprehension that even Steve Gibson got wrong yesterday.
0:19.0	We'll also talk about unreliability problems in 24H2.
0:23.8	What a shock.
0:25.0	And flight simulator 2024 is a cluster.
0:30.9	We'll let you finish the sentence.
0:32.7	Next on Windows Weekly.
0:36.3	Podcasts you love.
0:38.2	From people you trust.
0:40.7	This is Twit.
0:48.0	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Theran and Richard Campbell, episode 909, recorded Wednesday, November 27th,
0:56.1	2024, shaved, toasted, and charred.
1:00.6	It's time for Windows Weekly, the show we gather together and worship at the feet of Microsoft.
1:06.9	No.
1:07.8	Let me, let me, let me, let me help him.
1:13.2	That's Paul Therott.
1:15.5	He is more of a ranter than a worshipper.
1:20.4	Like the, like that general that used to appear on TV during the first Iraq war.
1:21.6	And he's like, everything's fine.
1:22.4	We're doing great.
1:24.6	We're beating back the American imperialists.
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