WW 913: The Best of 2024 - Windows Weekly's 2024 Highlights

Real-time translation, AI steak video, The Great Circle Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/912 Sponsors: uscloud.com cachefly.com/twit

Recall impressions, Copilot Vision preview, x86's future Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/911 Sponsors: threatlocker.com uscloud.com

BLOCKBUSTER NEWS FROM INTEL Intel announces Arc B-series GPUs!!! CEO Pat Gelsinger "retires," but was really forced out by the board of directors Why? Theories include too-slow progress, major partner bailing on foundry, disagreements over keeping x86 design and foundry, etc. Windows All Quiet on the Windows Front No Insider builds last week. Thanks Thanksgiving! Today, a new Canary build with Win32 app updating in the Store Patch Tuesday is next week - this will be a big one The rest of December will be quiet too Microsoft: TPM 2.0 is "non-negotiable" in Windows And now, a long-threatened change: Watermark on the desktop of unsupported PCs PC sales slid 1.5 percent in Q3 after two quarters of "growth"/flat sales Samsung is killing DeX Phone Link is the new Dex. Interesting, given the partnership with Microsoft Plus, Google is FINALLY adding desktop capabilities to Android. This should have always come from the platform maker AI, Cloud FTC is investigating Microsoft for cloud licensing too - And about 16 other things apparently Microsoft: SHE HIT ME FIRST! Spotify Wrapped 2024 uses Notebook LM to create a personalized podcast for each customer OpenAI is solving the biggest problem with AI... its lack of advertising! The Browser Company's next browser is called Dia and it's all about AI. Does it have a chance? Xbox Xbox Year in Review is live Indiana Jones and more is coming to Game Pass in the first half of December Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is getting big reliability updates. Hopefully, Boeing is helping out here For some reason, Sony announces that it sold 160 million PlayStation 2 consoles Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Get out of the basement App pick of the week: Google Drive RunAs Radio this week: A SysAdmin Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow Brown liquor pick of the week: Dewar's 8 Year Old Caribbean Smooth Rum Cask Finish Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: 1password.com/windowsweekly Melissa.com/twit veeam.com uscloud.com

Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview) 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 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: uscloud.com e-e.com/twit flashpoint.io

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 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: threatlocker.com uscloud.com cachefly.com/twit