Windows Weekly 895: I’m Done Transitioning

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss the return of Recall, HP vs. Meteor Lake, new Teams and Loop, AI, antitrust, a ton of Xbox, and much more.

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Windows 11

Recall will ship with Windows 11 24H2 in preview in October

• Otherwise, slow news week for Windows. Week D is next week

Windows Insider Preview

• 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

Related: 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. There’s no way this support is stable, usable, or full-featured by November. This is half-assed now and it’s not been updated once since May

Xbox

Xbox Insiders can test Game Pass Standard for $1

Gamescom

• Microsoft shows off lots of Xbox games … and one PS5 game
• 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: Then and Now

I’ve started a new series on the history of Windows on Arm. The first part covers the RT era and the compromises that sunk it.

App pick of the week: Start11

Version 2.1 is here with native Arm support, more

Also: Apple Podcasts comes to the web

RunAs Radio this week: Threat Modeling in the Cloud with Romina Druta & Daniela Cruzes

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/946

Brown liquor pick of the week: Armorik Sherry Cask

https://armorik.bzh/en/our-single-malts/