Windows Weekly 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11 24H2, new HP AI PCs, Three Mile Island, Microsoft SFI, AI, Qualcomm and Intel, Xbox, and much more.

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Windows 11

24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it’s chaos

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.

Related: A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirms 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

This week in the Intel drama

Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well

Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings

Quick note: I’ve 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

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

Report: 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

The NY Times is a disaster. So I was going to leave and they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. We should all be doing this kind of thing more often.

App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates

Chrome will sync passkeys now

Bonjourr + Pocket: You don’t need bookmarks. You need a clean New Tab page and a way to read things now or later without distractions. Those things are Bonjourr and Pocket.

AdGuard figured out Manifest V3 and has been transparent about this work for years.

RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/951

Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch

https://www.marussiabeveragesusa.com/hatozaki/

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