Windows Weekly 908: 26 Boxes of Napoli

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Microsoft Ignite, Windows 11 on Arm on ISO, Windows 11, AI, antitrust, Xbox, and a lot more.

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It’s Microsoft Ignite and we are totally not there

One word summary: Agentic

• A wave two for Copilot, essentially
• Agents that work on your behalf autonomously

The Snapdragon Dev Box was such a success that Microsoft is offering more hardware

Copilot+ PCs are getting new AI capabilities. Eventually.

Copilot Actions brings, um, actions to Microsoft 365

Windows 11

Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 on Arm ISO – Here’s some advice

When you think about Windows, we’re guessing security and resiliency aren’t what comes to mind. So why is Microsoft pushing this so hard at Ignite??

Google Drive is now available in Beta for Windows 11 on Arm. Paul’s national nightmare is over!

Windows Insider Preview

• Here’s what’s coming to Windows 11 SOON – a new Release Preview channel build shows that 24H2 was just the start of this coming year’s updates
• Canary – Mostly bug fixes, no clear vision for this channel we can see – new Canary build today with the new Hello experience, new Taskbar thumbnail previews
• Beta – Jump list sharing and other features no one has ever, ever, ever asked for
• Microsoft is shutting down Beta channel for Windows 10, just months after it revived it

Related: Lenovo revenues surge, PC sales only up slightly but it sees big growth in the coming quarters

AI, antitrust, more

DOJ reportedly wants Google to sell off Chrome – How does this compare to the previous Microsoft breakup attempt?++

Dev – Some thoughts about Uno Platform Studio and a re-do of last week’s .NET news now that Richard is back

• A WPF on .NET 9 update

Xbox

Phil Spencer speaks: Portable Xbox hardware, mobile store, more

Microsoft’s new Xbox ad triggers PTSD or celebration, depending on your views

You can now play (50) games you own on Xbox Cloud Gaming!

It’s been a while, but this is a killer month for Game Pass

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is now available

Avowed is an Xbox console exclusive and it’s coming in February

Warcraft 1 and 2 Remasters arrive alongside Warcraft 3: Reforged 2.0 – celebrating the 20th anniversary. Speaking of which …

Valve celebrates the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2!

The OG Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free, and they run on modern PCs too

Sony PlayStation Portal can now stream some PS Plus games

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Get 1 TB of additional Xbox store for just $99

Xbox storage has always been too expensive. This ain’t bad.

Plus: Microsoft’s Black Friday deals are here

App pick of the week: ChatGPT for Windows and Mac

OK, Copilot is a joke, but ChatGPT is starting to get interesting – Or, check out Stardock DesktopGPT 1.0

Plus: Arc Search comes to Android

RunAs Radio this week: Testing Databases with Dan Mallott

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/959

Brown liquor pick of the week: Haavaldsen Sledgehammer 2024

https://www.haavaldsendistillery.no/products/#whisky

Future of Energy in Norway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71xDI8S3LM