Windows Weekly 907: It’s Interesting Being Me

Richard is out, but Leo and Paul discuss Patch Tuesday, more 24H2 quality issues, an Edge trick, .NET 9 and WPF, Xbox, and much more.

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Windows 11

The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end.

Patch Tuesday arrives

• Have you disabled your Copilot key yet? Settings > Personalization > Text input >
• Related: Windows team says no Preview update in December … but what about November?

Windows Insider

• Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator improvements (!) – Can’t even think about this until Arm ISOs are available. WHERE ARE THE ARM ISOs???
  • Most recent episode of Run as Radio is worth discussing again here
• Dev and Beta: Nice new “run as admin” shortcut in Dev, minor changes in Beta
• Canary (today): Mostly bug fixes

Microsoft Edge is using a new trick to steal Chrome data

• Hint: It’s not a new trick

It’s dead, Jim: Microsoft reminds world that Outlook will replace Mail, Calendar, People

• I have thoughts
• Related: If you pay for Copilot (dummy) you can make custom Outlook themes now for some reason

Quick laptop update: AMD Zen 5 vs. Intel Lunar Lake vs. Snapdragon X

Still more earnings

Arm: $844 million, but disappointing – Also, Qualcomm legal battle looms

Qualcomm: $10.24 billion in revenues, up 19 percent

Related: AMD to lay off 4 percent of (26,000 employee) workforce globally, focus on AI

Dev

Microsoft releases .NET 9

• That means WPF support for Windows 11 theming is live
• But there’s a surprise: Microsoft added one of the features we need
• .NET Conf is happening as we speak – Thursday is third-party day, and I am curious about Avalon and Uno announcements

Qualcomm has a webinar tomorrow for AI developers and Snapdragon X

Xbox

Surprise! Death Stranding comes to Xbox three years later to the day

Phil Spencer talks PS5, mobile devices, more in a new interview

MAJOR NEW ACTIVISION RELEASE ON GAME PASS

• Just kidding, it’s some stupid purple dragon

Friend requests now available (again) to all Xbox users

Paying GeForce Now customers get monthly usage caps

Nvidia app replaces GeForce Experience, no need to sign in anymore

Sony has sold 65 million PS5 consoles … it needs 20+ million more to surpass PS3

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update

I’ve updated 28 chapters (!) for 24H2 since we arrived in Mexico. There’s more to do, but there’s a lot of new content.

App pick of the week: Stardock DesktopGPT

It’s out of beta and available as part of Object Desktop.

App pick of the week #2: Quick Share

Google’s Quick Share for Windows now works on Arm (assume it will be native). Also, where’s Drive??

Cocktail of the week: Salmoncito

Ingredients

• 1 oz. tonic water, plus more for topping
• 1½ oz. London dry gin
• ¼ oz. Campari
• ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice
• Grapefruit twist and grapefruit supreme (for serving)

Preparation

Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 1 oz. tonic water, then pour in 1½ oz. London dry gin, ¼ oz. Campari, and ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice. Top off with more tonic water and stir gently with a bar spoon. Express oil of a grapefruit twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with a grapefruit supreme.