Windows Weekly 961: Petroleum Exchange Expert

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss a belated Week D release, Android 16, AI slop vs. human slop, Game Pass, Valve and Arm, and much more.

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Windows 11

Week D comes a week late and in the wrong month, but it’s a big one, and a preview of what to expect next week in Patch Tuesday

• More pervasive dark mode
• Copilot+ PC exclusives: Improvements to Click to Do, Windows Search, Windows Studio Effects, Agent in Settings
• Expansion of FSE availability
• Improvements across Settings, Share, File Explorer, Desktop Spotlight, more

Related: Android, the next Windows?

• Aluminium OS is the name of the ChromeOS/Android Frankenstein that will take on Windows
  • Android 16 QPR2 is here with about 1,000 new features and maybe a saner approach to OS updating than what we see on Windows

AI

AI slop is no enshittification: Human error is still a much bigger issue

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is right: The “Made with AI” label is silly and needs to go

OpenAI declares a “code red” after Google finally figured out AI

Opera quietly does an about-face on AI in its browsers

• Related: Opera Neon gets one-minute deep research, Gemini 3, and Nano Banana

Xbox and gaming

Mortal Kombat 1, more coming to Game Pass in first half of December

Valve is quietly bringing SteamOS, Windows games to Arm

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Time to cull

We’re getting close to that time of the year when we rethink things. We should rethink our relationship with things we pay for every single month and never own

• Software, like everything Adobe makes, that you can’t just buy, own, and keep using
• Streaming services, like Netflix, which keeps raising prices and lowering value

Tip of the week #2: Time to look back

Multiple services like YouTube and Apple Music, and now Spotify, are posting their end of year recaps. But there are some new/different entries in there, too, including YouTube and Google Photos.

PLUS: Microsoft’s ugly sweaters are back for some reason

RunAs Radio this week: The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1013

Brown liquor pick of the week: Stumbras Starka

https://www.stumbras.lt/en/drink/stumbras-starka/