Windows Weekly 923: The Bouche is Amused

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Woody Leonhard, Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Build 2025 registration, Xbox, and much more.

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Woody Leonhard, RIP

I’m still trying to piece this together, but Woody Leonhard has passed away

• Like Jerry Pournelle, a major influence on my (Paul’s) career and writing style
• Mysterious life in latter years, not clear what happened

Windows 11

Your Patch Tuesday is showing

• Windows 11 gets all the features we’ve discussed recently
• Are we heading towards something bigger this year? Or just more of the same?

Windows Insider

• New Canary and Beta (23H2) builds
• New Dev and Beta (24H2) builds

Copilot in Windows 11 is getting Press to Talk

• That’s not all: A list of other new features coming soon

Microsoft follows through on threat, kills Remote Desktop App – our latest outrage

Arc crashed and burned but we can still evolve web browsers

• Future is agentic
• What about sidebar apps as a UX baby step forward?
• And is it just me or does Edge need to restart every three days now to install updates?

Microsoft 365

Google promotes ChromeOS/Chromebooks as the right client … for Microsoft 365

Microsoft killed Skype … but it still supports (and updates!) GroupMe??

Dev

Build 2025 registration is now open

AI

It’s Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, so it’s going to announce AI something something

• Paul has agreed to attend this, from Mexico
• Also, report that Microsoft’s in-house models now rival OpenAI is a hint
• Microsoft improves Think Deeper in Copilot using OpenAI o3-mini

Google secretly owns 14-15 percent of Anthropic

• WFT is going on with Big Tech and regulatory evasion?
• On that note, CMA clears Microsoft + OpenAI specifically because of change to partnership
• Also, Google launches Gemma 3

The Siripocalypse – AI is a hard computer science problem and Siri is the dumb blond in this space

Amazon will use AI to dub movies and TV series because obviously

Xbox

Rumor: Third-party portable Xbox gaming handheld this year, console resets in two years

• You could have cobbled this together solely based on what Microsoft has said publicly

Xbox controller firmware, we have a problem

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Code with AI

AI for coding: A few (more) thoughts

• Welcome to the “vibe coding” era

App pick of the week: Fences

Fences 6 is now in Beta, on sale

Plus: Pocket Casts is now free on Windows, Mac, and Web

RunAs Radio this week: Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/975

Brown liquor pick of the week: Ardbeg 10

https://www.ardbeg.com/Ardbeg Ten Years Old-1076744.html