WW 915: Magic Tricks for Cats - GitHub Copilot's magic, KB5050009, 16GB Pi 5
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
The first Patch Tuesday of 2025 brings temporary but sweet relief. There were no preview updates last month, so this month is just security/bug fixes. Plus, will Microsoft back down from its Windows 10 EOL line in the sand? It appears not. Finally, got New Year's resolutions? Paul's got a better idea. Maybe...
Windows
- New Canary build with nothing in it
- Microsoft will not support Office on Windows 10 after October EOL date
- Microsoft is auto-installing the new Outlook in Windows 10 too - Don't let the door hit you on the way out
- Parallels Desktop for Mac now supports running x86 Windows VMs. Very slowly
AI, Microsoft 365
- New business models for AI emerge in 2025. Pay as you go vs. pay or no pay
- Microsoft has shifted its business model strategy over two years
- 15 months of Copilot in Windows: Madness
- Microsoft announces pay-as-you-go AI agents
- Google has a different (better) take with "the best of Google AI" in Workspace
- What to expect: Price hikes on subscription services to pay for this AI
- Massive reorg of Microsoft's engineering groups is all about AI - There are PM-level layoffs happening now all over Microsoft
- OpenAI adds tasks in beta to ChatGPT
- Microsoft Excel in Windows will soon support dark mode. Wait, what?
Hardware
- Surface teases a big announcement on January 30
- AMD surges on incredible new x86 chips and Intel's epic fail
- Former Surface design lead Ralf Groene joins Panos at Amazon. Why?
- Arm Holdings plans massive licensing price hikes. Everyone needs to settle the F down
- There's a 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 now. But at this price, a low-end NUC is the better choice for most
Dev
- .NET 9.0.1 arrives - and with it, the fix for the app-crashing WPF/Windows 11 theming bug
- Paul tried GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. It is MAGIC
Xbox
- Microsoft is clearly planning something big for gaming handhelds. Windows or Xbox? Or both?
- Happy New Year, Xbox fans! Microsoft to bring more Xbox exclusives to PS, Switch
- Xbox to host a Developer Direct event next week
- Microsoft introduces new Xbox repair options
- The Nintendo Switch 2 is leaking all over the place, and there were prototypes at CES
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Think about making micro changes each month or quarter instead of huge, sweeping changes once a year
- App pick of the week: Start11 v2.5
- RunAs Radio this week: DevOpsDocs with Mattias Karlsson
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Buchanan's Deluxe 12
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therot is in McCungy. |
| 0:03.7 | Richard Campbell's in Porta Viarda, but we're going to do a show. Yes, we are. |
| 0:08.4 | The first patch Tuesday was yesterday the biggest patch Tuesday, the most patches, since 2017, |
| 0:15.7 | including some pretty serious flaws. I don't know why I'm laughing. It's better than crying, I guess. |
| 0:23.0 | We'll also do a lot of conversation about Microsoft's AI models in Microsoft 365 and |
| 0:29.6 | co-pilot. It's all kind of crazy. In fact, it's so crazy, Microsoft's doing a reorg all |
| 0:35.2 | around AI, plus new surface hardware and more. |
| 0:38.5 | It's all coming up next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:44.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:46.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:48.7 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:56.0 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therot and Richard Campbell, episode 915, recorded Wednesday, January 15th, 2025. |
| 1:06.7 | Magic Tricks for Cats. |
| 1:08.8 | It's time for Windows Weekly, the show where we covered the latest Microsoft News with my good pals. |
| 1:16.3 | To my right, Mr. Paul Therat, Surrott.com, Leanpub.com. |
| 1:22.3 | He is in McCungy, PA. |
| 1:24.6 | To my further right, Richard Campbell. |
| 1:31.0 | He is, of course, of Runa's radio fame and Dotnet Rocks, and he is in, you're in Porta Vajara. Nice. I assume it's 75 degrees and beautiful. |
| 1:37.1 | I can never quit Windows Weekly. What can you do? Oh, well, thank you. I'm sorry the curtains are |
| 1:42.6 | closed, though. Don't we want to see a beautiful? |
| 1:44.3 | I would be absolutely blinding out there. Oh, okay. Yeah, it is sunny, I'm sure. It's a contrast thing. |
| 1:49.0 | I really was trying to make this work on the patio, but it's quite noisy out there. Yeah. |
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