<p>Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)</p> <p>Windows</p><ul> <li>Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters</li> <li>Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice</li> <li>Look at how facile the complaints are now</li> <li>This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues</li> <li>Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features</li> <li>Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?</li> <li>HP and Dell earnings</li> <li>The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025</li> <li>Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?</li></ul> <p>Microsoft 365</p><ul> <li>Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week</li></ul> <p>AI, antitrust, corporate</p><ul> <li>Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI</li> <li>This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS</li> <li>Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI</li> <li>Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results</li> <li>DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US</li> <li>Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs</li> <li>Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested</li></ul> <p>Xbox</p><ul> <li>Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes</li> <li>Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar</li> <li>Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now</li> <li>Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it</li> <li>Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away</li></ul> <p>Tips and Picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation</li> <li>App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133</li> <li>RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique</li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/richard-campbell">Richard Campbell</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to <em>Windows Weekly</em> at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a></p> <p>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p> <p>The <em>Windows Weekly</em> theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://uscloud.com" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">uscloud.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://e-e.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">e-e.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://flashpoint.io" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">flashpoint.io</a></li> </ul></p>

Windows Weekly (Video)

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

NOV 27, 2024159 MIN
Windows Weekly (Video)

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

NOV 27, 2024159 MIN

Description

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

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