Windows Weekly 954: We’re Just Getting Started

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss the first Patch Tuesday for 25H2, Windows Insider Previews, hardware, AI is the end of apps, Xbox, and more.

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Windows 11

October Patch Tuesday arrives

• First for 25H2
• Copilot+ PCs: Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings, File Explorer improvements
• 24H2/25H2: Desktop improvements, File Explorer improvements, Keyboard shortcuts for en and em dashes, Administrator Protection (off by default), Passkey improvements, Game Bar improvements

Windows 10 (didn’t) reach EOL and the world didn’t end

• Zorin OS and ChromeOS Flex seize the moment

Windows Insider Preview

• Copilot on Windows gets Connectors, Document creation and export
• Copilot on Windows gets Settings support
• Dev and Beta get AI agent in Settings improvements (Copilot+ PC), Setting search improvements (ditto), Drag Tray, Click to Do improvements, Dark mode improvements

Dashlane partners with Yubico to make security keys primary vault access

Hardware

• Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q QC is a Snapdragon X-based SFF PC
• HP OmniBook 5 16-inch shows why even the cheapest Snapdragon X chip is a winner
• Hope springs eternal: Intel Panther Lake is the efficiency of Lunar Lake plus the performance of Arrow Lake. Hopefully, it’s not the reliability of either.
• IDC: PC sales jumped 9.4 percent in Q3, just not where you live

AI

AI is the end of apps

Microsoft reveals its first image generation model

Opera Neon adds Nano Banana (image gen) and Sora (video gen) capabilities

Xbox and gaming

Target and Walmart will keep selling Xbox consoles unlike those losers at Costco

A veteran of Halo Studios leaves, warns everyone

Sorry, but there will be a sequel to the Minecraft movie

Game Pass member? Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is free to play for one more day

Sony and AMD trickle out some PS6 news in a bizarre way – oh, and we’re just getting started

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Yes, Virginia, you can still sign in to Windows 11 25H2 with a local account

Stabbing the latest controversy right in the heart is my reason to live

App pick of the week: The new OneDrive app

Microsoft said it was coming next year, but your file system says otherwise

And this won’t help Windows users, but Dia is available to all but only if all means on the Mac

RunAs Radio this week: The End of NTLM with Steve Syfuhs

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1006

Brown liquor pick of the week: Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bourbon

https://holladaybourbon.com/holladay-soft-red-wheat-bourbon/