On this episode, Leo Laporte shows off his new Snapdragon Dev Kit to Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell. He also tries setting it up, and the process is TOTALLY "seamless." AMD has revealed the Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series alongside Intel's launch of the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. The FIDO Alliance has published new credential exchange specifications. Sarah Bond announces that Xbox games will be purchasable on Android. And Paul unveils his new "get rich" scheme... as he looks for some feedback.

x86's Last Stand?

• Intel and AMD announce partnership that is clearly aimed at taking on Arm.
• Intel was already working on simplifying the x86 architecture by removing older, unused bits
• Don't worry, Intel and AMD will still compete. And AMD just released new AI processors, with Intel also announcing first Core Ultra chips for Desktop
• Which raises a question: Why do the desktop chips not meet the Copilot+ PC spec?

Windows

• Redmond, we have a quality problem: 24H2 is besieged by a curious number of issues despite several months of gestation and a shared feature set with 23H2.
• Dev and Beta: Beta is minor, but Dev has some Taskbar updates
• Release Preview: New builds for 23H2 and 24H2 hint at this month's Week D preview updates - since this announcement, some features have been delayed

Microsoft 365/Surfac

• Google Workspace is adding a OneDrive (for Business) data migration capability
• Is there some new cloud interoperability thing going on? We're seeing this in the consumer space too. Wondering if this is related to regulatory attention
• A Lunar Lake Surface Laptop? Probably not

Passkeys Get Real

• As expected, FIDO Alliance will standardize passkey portability
• Two sides to this: Portability between devices but also import/export between password managers
• Amazon has 175 million customers using passkeys - one year after initial unveil

Xbox

• With Google antitrust loss, Microsoft vaguely reveals that Xbox games are coming to Android
• Long-forgotten ability to stream games you purchased over Cloud Gaming is now coming soon
• Microsoft settles BS "Gamers' lawsuit" for what we hope was a pittance
• The only gamers with a case to sue Microsoft are Xbox fans - one year this week
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more are headed to Game Pass if anyone still cares
• Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S mid-season replacements are here, and they come with a fun surprise
• New Xbox wireless headset is incoming
• Microsoft to host Xbox Partner Preview tomorrow, October 17
• Steam forced to communicate that you don't own anything you buy

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Check out the Thurrott swag
• App pick of the week: Arc browser, now native on Windows 11 on Arm!
• RunAs Radio this week: Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Irish Whiskey
  

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Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio.

Windows 11

• 24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time
• 22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)
• 24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same
• Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live
• Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline
• New Canary build today as well
• Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.
• Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say

Antitrust

• Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking.
• DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better
• Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list

Microsoft 365/AI/Dev

• Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive
• Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification?
• .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features
• RIP, Surface Duo

Xbox

• Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans
• Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC
• Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29
• Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read
• App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)
• RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge

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After a flurry of last-second pre-release activity, Microsoft shipped 24H2 a week earlier than expected! Copilot also gets a major update for individuals too, and Copilot+ PCs get more features.

24H2 is here!

• Last week's Week D updates did finally go out, first to 22H2/23H2 and then to 24H2
• That 22H2/23H2 preview update was apparently a hot mess Now Microsoft has issued a fix
• Windows 11 version 24H2 is fully available. Arm64 ISOs are coming soon
• The first LTSC version(s) of Windows 11 is now available - Windows 11 Enterprise Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) 24H2 + Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024)
• New Dev and Beta builds, not much new, but new Snipping Tools spreads further
• Canary build today

Copilot

• Copilot morphs into an AI companion or something
• Copilot+ PCs are getting new features, including one with a serious Recall vibe
• Microsoft is trying a different tact with the new AI features - explaining why they can be trusted. Can they be trusted?
• Microsoft belatedly explains why you can trust Recall
• As expected, Microsoft does a song and dance on changes to Recall, but notably never thanks the feedback it got from the security community. Good. But this is still a win-win, if just for opt-in and, now, uninstall
• Google pushes Gemini more in ChromeOS

Microsoft 365, More

• Microsoft finally kills HoloLens 2
• Germany has a plan for regulating all of Microsoft, not just the products that fall under the DMA
• Office 2024 is here for individuals too
• Intel rejects buyout offer... from Arm?

Xbox

• Xbox announces new games at Tokyo Game Show
• First Game Pass titles of October reveal a bonanza of Activision titles, is what I wish we could discuss
• Starfield expansion arrives on Xbox, PC
• J Allard joins Amazon for some reason

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Get the 24H2, refresh your recovery drivers/setup media
• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2025 are here
• RunAs Radio this week: Data Security and Governance with Nikki Chapple
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Russell's Reserve 10

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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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On this episode, Paul Thurrott gets a bit better at unmuting! Mikah is back once again while Leo is away, and Richard features a classic single malt scotch. Wave 2 of Microsoft 365 Copilot kicks off, including an agent builder! Lenovo's got an everything-in-one ThinkBook, HP's got a Ryzen AI 300-based Copilot+ PC, and Netflix has a new series with Bill Gates.

Windows 11

• Microsoft comes clean on the schedule for Windows 11 version 24H2
• First AMD Zen 5-based Copilot+ PC in here (if here means "Paul's house")
• A few thoughts on where we're at with Copilot+ PCs, AI, etc
• Microsoft deprecates legacy DRM in Windows
• Google is bringing desktop windowing capabilities to Android

Microsoft 365 + AI/Dev

• Microsoft announces "Copilot Wave 2" with new Agent Builder, Pages experience, more
• Slack: Look at me, look at me! I have agents too!!
• Office LTSC 2024 is now available for businesses - consumer versions in "the coming weeks"
• Microsoft held its security summit with CrowdStrike, etc. There were no reports of a tarp on the floor
• Apple releases annual upgrades for all its hardware platforms and not an iota of AI in sight
• This is the end of an era. An era we will think back on as "the good old days"
• Microsoft issues .NET 9 RC1 ahead of November release. Clear to Paul that the WPF support in this release will never be updated again, which sucks

Hardware

• Intel finally has some good news: Foundry subsidiary spin-off, AWS expanded partnership, more CHIPS money
• Intel also has some bad news: It lost out on the PS6 contract to AMD, which made previous gen PS chips
• A Windows 11 2-in-1 (like Surface Book) in which the detachable display is a powerful, standalone Android tablet

Xbox

• Microsoft lays off 650 more Gaming division employees
• Microsoft realizes that some Xbox members do have friends, is bringing back Friends Requests
• Microsoft concludes September with three more Game Pass titles
• Bonus points: How many of these are Activision Blizzard titles?
• Bonus tip: If you play Overwatch 2 on Xbox, there are now some bonus perks for Game Pass members: Six hero skins, 30 Mythic prisms to spend on Mythic unlocks, a stackable XP boost, and access to Overwatch 2 Shop cosmetics from prior seasons
• Unity: Just kidding about that runtime fee, please stop harassing us now

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: How to spend your time and your money
• App pick of the week: ExplorerPatcher
• RunAs Radio this week: Asymmetric Encryption with Eli Holderness
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 10

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Paul is back from Berlin! Mikah Sargent subs in for Leo, while Richard brings a glass of Einar's whisky to the show! They talk about the latest from IFA 2024, including the state of Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. Later, tune in for intriguing updates about Parallels Desktop, Windows 10's Photos app, and Apple's lineup of (currently) AI-less devices.

IFA Part Deux

• More perspective from industry insiders on where Intel, AMD and Qualcomm are at now
• Why did Qualcomm launch lower-end Snapdragon X chips now?
• Intel bails on 20A manufacturing process to focus on 18A - making lemonade
• Intel lands a punch with Lunar Lake. Is it enough for a comeback?
• Qualcomm has reportedly been trying to buy Intel's chip design business for months
• Lenovo launches new PCs with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips - Photo gallery
• Copilot+ PC-class PCs with AMD and Intel chips come with 24H2e

Windows

• Patch Tuesday arrives - 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 all get updates - same as last month's preview updates, of course
• Microsoft still doesn't list 24H2 in Windows 11 Update History on the Support sit
• Parallels Desktop 20 will benefit from Microsoft's Prism emulator too
• Microsoft is updating Photos app in Windows 10 too
• It's not just macOS Sequoia, ChromeOS is copying Windows's Snap feature too

Apple launches new devices but AI is not ready

• Apple launches iPhone 16 series without AI, plus new Apple Watch and AirPods 4 also without AI... and confirms next software updates, also without AI - AI is for later, sometimes much later
• This was a lackluster launch by any measure. But AI might make things more interesting in time
• Dashlane recommends skipping out on Apple Passwords

Microsoft 365, AI, more

• Microsoft opens up Ignite 2024 registration
• Windows App set to replace various RDP apps

Xbox

• Sony tips PS5 Pro for a November 7 launch at $699
• Xbox Game Pass Standard launches
• Netflix allegedly saw 210 million game downloads

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Lose the bookmarks, gain a (free) New tab page
• Tip of the week #2: Amazon Prime Games has free games too
• RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft 365 and PowerShell with Tony Redmond
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Einar's Great Skua Single Malt

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In this week's episode, Paul is in Germany in preparation for IFA 2024. Some of the big PC players have made timely hardware announcements, including Intel launching their Core Ultra 200V series processors, Qualcomm revealing an 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chip, and Dell listing a new XPS 13 laptop for preorder. Plus, does the Wall Street Journal have something for Intel? A suspiciously-timed gaming article might suggest so. Tune in for more news on all the related companies, from HP and NVIDIA to Proton and Google!

IFA begins (just kidding)

• Microsoft comes clean on Copilot+ PC features on non-Snapdragon X PCs: Next-gen AMD and Intel systems will get Copilot+ PC features in November, but will not be called Copilot+ PCs
• Intel formally launches Lunar Lake as Core Ultra processor Series 2
• Dell announces Lunar Lake-based XPS 13, pre-order now
• Qualcomm launches 8-core Snapdragon X Plus processor
• Google Drive is going native on Arm - And ExpressVPN and NordVPN are live on Arm now!
• Richard got an email from Arrow Electronics about his Snapdragon Dev Kit (and what happens next will shock you!)
• Surface Pro 11, Surface Pro 7 for Business - plus 5G coming to Surface Pro 10 for Business
• Is the recent WSJ piece an Intel hit job?

Windows

• Windows 11 version 24H2 - Some clarity? Come on!
• Everyone announces that you'll be able to remove Recall from Windows 11. You won't
• New Canary and Beta builds (last week) - lots of things in both, for a change
• Vivaldi is fully optimized for Windows 11 on Arm
• HP earnings: Slim growth, thanks to PCs

AI

• Copilot Wave 2 event is coming soon. The great rebrandening?
• UK CMA OK's Microsoft "acqui-hire" of Inflection. Oh, and it's a merger
• ChatGPT now has 200 million active users
• Firefox 130 offers third-party AI chatbots
• More Apple Intelligence in latest betas
• Proton Scribe is available to consumers now too

Antitrust

• Microsoft complains to UK CMA about Apple App Store fees, licensing
• Plus, Apple keeps getting passive aggressive with those that complain about its business practices
• Yelp finally sues Google
• Intel is considering breaking itself up to survive - will likely take baby steps first
• NVIDIA seems to be OK, but next year will be interesting. Oh wait, the stock just cratered

Xbox

• Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Early access is here
• More Game Pass titles appear, none from Activision Blizzard
• PlayStation 5 Pro design leaks
• Sony has its Redfall moment, launches and then kills Concord

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Looking for a cheap gaming laptop?
• App pick of the week: Windows App
• RunAs Radio this week: Evolving Generative AI with Alison Cossette
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Cley Whisky Palo Cortado

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It's Week D. Do you know where your preview updates are?

Windows 11

• Windows 11 version 22H2/23H2 get the same update
• Windows 11 version 24H2 gets a different update, but at least it's on time
• Beta: Media controls on the Lock screen, more
• Windows security update borks small number of Linux bootloaders, is perfect example of misplaced and faux outrage
• Right-click doesn't work correctly with Windows and a touchpad. It's not you

M$FT

• Microsoft took Paul's advice. Instead of just blaming the EU, it's holding a security summit with CrowdStrike and other partners to solve the problems highlighted by the botched update outage. (Which it said it would do back in July.)
• Microsoft shuffles the decks below its three primary business units
• Microsoft: It's all about transparency!
• Paul: Nope

Hardware

• Lenovo ThinkPad T14s is the best business-class Snapdragon X Copilot+ PC yet
• ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 2 is the last gasp of the Surface Pro-alikes
• Paul got a Pixel 9 Pro XL - Eerily iPhone Pro-like design, crazy AI features - The combination of hardware and software here is nuts
• Pixel 9 series is shipping with Android 14. Google planned to ship Android 14 earlier than ever before this year. Users with Pixel 9 series phones can enroll in Android 15 Beta now. But Android 15 was quietly delayed to October, the normal release time frame
• Mark Gurman leaks all the iPhone 16 things
• Apple announces launch event
• Some navel-gazing about Apple's place in our lives

Magic of Software

• Microsoft announces Loop 2.0 on Twitter, no one has it yet
• LibreOffice is now native on Windows on Arm!
• Google Essentials app will be bundled with some new PCs, starting with HP
• Proton Drive for Business now available standalone, and with sale pricing (and more storage)
• Brave gets major privacy updates on desktop and mobile
• Apple makes further DMA concessions, will let iPhone users change default apps for phone, messaging, more
• Threads is testing posts that are as ephemeral as your facts
• Paid version of Alexa will allegedly launch in October
• Google Meet gets auto PIP for all and AI meeting notes for some

Xbox

• Xbox August Update starts rolling out with those new Discord features
• Raven labor union files complaint against Microsoft
• Microsoft brings Xbox Cloud Gaming to more Fire TV devices

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can still upgrade to 24H2 right now
• App pick of the week: Win11Debloat
• RunAs Radio this week: The Security Risks of AI with Steve Poole
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Mosgaard Moscatel Single Malt
  

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This episode of Windows Weekly has Paul, Richard, and Leo chatting about everything from Microsoft Recall's upcoming availability to AMD's move to acquire ZT Systems. Paul reviews a new Meteor Lake-equipped laptop from HP, and Leo shows off his Diablo skills on iPad. The group also takes a look at gamescom news, including a trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (which has a release date!) and an awesome Xbox Adaptive Joystick for accessibility.

Windows 11

• Recall will ship with Windows 11 24H2 in preview in October
• Canary (last week) - New Sandbox, FAT32 improvements, more
• Dev and Beta - One new feature, one removed feature
• Lenovo revenues point to ongoing PC market rebound
• HP's efforts to overcome Meteor Lake problems are about as successful as they can be

Microsoft 365

• Unified Teams client is now available
• Supposedly Loop 2.0 is out and/or coming soon as well
• Proton shifts ownership to non-profit foundation

AI/Hardware

• Paul: I will not pay for AI
• AMD tries to acquire its way into being an Nvidia competitor
• There's a cheaper new Raspberry 5

Antitrust

• Judge in Epic v. Google: Oh, Google is going to pay

Dev

• Quick follow-up to last week's VS 2022 releases
• Microsoft didn't document an important change to how Windows 11 theming works in .NET 9 Preview, all hell broke loose
• Continued work on WPF app modernization—dialogs, custom title bar area—and a long chat with Rafael uncovers the serious problems remaining here

Xbox

• Xbox Insiders can test Game Pass Standard for $1
• Microsoft shows off lots of Xbox games and one PS5 game at gamescom
• Phil Spencer defends this strategy at the show
• Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S refreshes are available for preorder, ship in October
• Microsoft announces new Xbox accessibility accessories
• New Game Pass titles to include early access to COD: Black Ops 6
• Nvidia GeForce Now adds auto sign in to Xbox
• Epic Games Store launches on Android and iOS
• It's not just regular laptops that are getting better at gaming: AAA mobile gaming is real
• New Atari 7800

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Windows on Arm - Then and Now
• App pick of the week: Start11
• RunAs Radio this week: Threat Modeling in the Cloud with Romina Druta & Daniela Cruzes
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Armorik Sherry Cask

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Windows 11

• Synchronicity achieved! Patch Tuesday updates put 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 on the same page, as expected
• Dev and Beta channels (last week) - simplified system tray is back, new jump list behavior is optional
• Clipchamp is getting two new AI features soon, for free

AI/Developer

• Security researcher (and ex-Microsoftie) demonstrates several Copilot flaws. He at least did the right thing and disclosed them to Microsoft first
• Intel delays Innovation event to 2025. And innovation to 2028, presumably. But we kid
• Google's Pixel event was really about Gemini AI. But it was also really about Pixel
• Paul bought a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Yes, he may have a problem. But it kind of pays for itself, too
• iPhone 16 series to be minor update. All phones are minor updates now
• UK CMA investigating Amazon + Anthropic partnership
• Visual Studio something something
• VS 2022 17.11 is here
• VS 2022 17.12 is in preview, will be the release with .NET 9
• .NET 9 preview 7 is here, no WPF improvements

Antitrust

• U.S. government is weighing a Google breakup - This isn't as out there as it may seem
• After changing App Store rules that violate the DMA to new rules that also violate the DMA, Apple finally lets Spotify communicate with its own customers!
• Apple sets a date for opening up NFC, and it will be worldwide

Xbox

• There's a BIG QuakeCon sale on Bethesda games you need to check out - and a "new" OG DOOM/DOOM II bundle
• Microsoft starts testing a Compact Mode for Game Bar
• Next Flight Simulator will let gamers walk around the world as well
• Microsoft might be working on a new mixed reality something for some reason

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Proton offers a Duo plan
• App pick of the week: More web browsers
• RunAs Radio this week: Implementing Passkeys with Tarek Dawoud
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Bowmore 15

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