Windows Weekly 902: Nothing to Declare

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Patch Tuesday, Field Guide updates, antitrust, LLMs as commodities, .NET 9 RC2, Xbox, and much more.

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Windows 11

Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing

• 24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time
• 22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)
• 24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. – 22H2/23H3 mostly the same
• Related: Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month – the first several chapter updates are live

Windows Insider Preview

• Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline
• New Canary build today as well

Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 … someday, they’ll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.

**Semi-related: Paul** finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, I guess

Antitrust

Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store– Breathtaking.

DOJ is open to breaking up Google – even better

Web browser makers you’ve never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list

Microsoft 365/AI/Dev

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a “commodity.” Discuss

Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive

• Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the enshittification?

.NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features

RIP, Surface Duo

Xbox

Microsoft finally admits its moving Halo to Unreal Engine – And it’s renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio

• Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans

Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC

Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29

Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS 5 Pro

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Something for video game fans to watch and read

STALKER 2 documentary is AWESOME

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment is here, and you should read it

App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)

Stardock is issuing a major rev of its software KVM and it has my name written all over it

RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/953

Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45 Year Old Glacial Edge

https://www.diageorareandexceptional.com/ww/rare-spirits/rare-whisky/talisker-xpedition-oak-43-year-old-single-malt-scotch-whisky