Windows Weekly 925 It’s the Shirt

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss what will happen to Windows 11 in 2025, Microsoft 365, a big week for AI, Xbox and games, and more.

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Windows 11 in 2025

What’s next? Windows 12? Windows 11 25H2? You’re not going to believe what happens next

• Dev channel moves to a new build sequence
• A look back at everything Microsoft tested in just the Dev channel and then did or did not release to stable, and when
• The list of unreleased features is unexpectedly long – most of this must be the next Windows version

Patch Tuesday

• Microsoft issues Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 23H3 (But not 24H2)

More Windows Insider

• Release Preview (24H2) – AI-powered Windows Search experience is barreling towards stable
• Beta (23H2) and now Canary – Mostly just fixes
• New AI features in Notepad, Paint, and Snipping tool head to all Insiders
• Photos app update to all Insiders, adds Copilot integration, more

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Copilot gets two reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst

• AI > Agents > Reasoning AI >>> Reasoning Agents? You got your reasoning in my agent!

Microsoft to launch Security Copilots in April

Microsoft releases first two Microsoft 365 companion apps for Windows 11, threatens to make more

Here comes Copilot in OneDrive, to consumer Microsoft 365 account holders

Anonymous document sharing for Word, Excel, PowerPoint comes to iPhone/iPad (is on web already)

Related: OneNote for Windows 10 RIP in October after years of malaise

Another big week for AI

Browsers to change in the agentic AI era – are they still browsers? Will we still browse?

• “In Russia, the browser browses for you!”

Sam Altman pulls a Bill Gates in executive shift

ChatGPT gets image generation with GPT-4o

Google brings AI search to Gmail – Hopefully, it’s better than AI search in Photos

Google releases first Gemini 2.5 model, all will be reasoning (thinking) models going forward

Amazon is testing AI-powered Interests feature in the U.S.

After it’s success with conversational Siri, Apple to bring AI to Apple Watch, AirPods

• Speaking of which, Apple sued for advertising Apple Intelligence – maybe it’s time for a level set here
• Exec reshuffle to fix Siri woes – maybe it’s time to Ol’ Yeller this

Semi-related: WWDC is on for June 9 – [waves hands] Look, it’s iOS 19!

Opera upgrades three of its web browsers (really, four) with new Aria AI features

Xbox/games

Microsoft wants to make Xbox app in Windows the central hub for all stores

Late breaking updates for Xbox Cloud Gaming

Microsoft testing new Game Hub on Xbox

Microsoft to release Brilliant Visuals upgrade for Minecraft this year

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 on April 17

Related: New Assassin’s Creed game (Shadows) gets off to a great start, with 2 million players in first 2 days, better than Origins and Odyssey. Most played game on Steam over the weekend, second-highest day-one sales revenue in the franchise’s history (behind Valhalla), best ever day-one launch on the PlayStation Store. 27 percent of players are on PC.

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Take advantages of Game Pass in-game benefits

If you have a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription, there are more of them now and they’re easier to find.

• Plus, the Amazon Spring Sale is ongoing.

App pick of the week: Google Drive for Windows

The Arm version is now generally available, but it always worked great during the beta

• Plus, Cursor, the AI editor

RunAs Radio this week: Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/977

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kempisch Vuur

https://www.brouwerijpirlot.be/ons-verhaal/services/