Windows Weekly 992: Gassy Jack

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Windows Insiders, AI, Xbox and gaming, and more.

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Patch Tuesday is here!

  • Point in Time Restore, quieter Widgets, Windows Update improvements, Screen tint, and more
  • The biggest Patch Tuesday in history, by far: a record 570 fixes for security flaws, and a huge 3X increase from the then-record flaws fixed last month. (Some say the number is 622. Math is hard.) And this is on top of 468 Microsoft Edge/Chromium flaws that were fixed by Google this month too. Yikes.

Related: Microsoft discusses how it’s improving Windows security with AI

Windows Insider Program

Hardware

AI

Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secrets

Related: OpenAI just announced the rumored super app, which is a combination of ChatGPT, Work, Codex, and an in-app web browser, which replaces the standalone Atlas web browser. Also, GPT-5.6.

  • In keeping with recent history, Anthropic announced its in-app web browser for Claude less than 24 hours later
  • Reminder that Microsoft acknowledged that it, too, is working on an AI super app at Build

Related: Apple releases public betas of its OS 27 releases and, shocker, Siri is really good

Now Spotify has an AI chatbot so I can tell it how much I hate Spotify

Xbox and gaming

Obsidian is working on a new Fallout game. I mean, duh.

A quiet time after last week’s terribleness

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Microsoft 365 for IT Pros (2027 edition) is here!

Tony Redmond’s epic book has a new name (was Office 365 for IT Pros) and is now a bundle of four books. And Windows Weekly listeners can get it at 20 percent off!

https://o365itpros.gumroad.com/l/O365IT/WindowsWeekly27

App pick of the week: MusicBee

I’ve been working on a series about adding friction to my interactions with technology and have focused on removing subscriptions and seeing what that looks like for reading, music, movies and TV shows, and more. In this music front, this is an interesting choice for those with a local MP3 collection that want perfect meta-data. Because you do.

Also: Vivaldi 8.1

RunAs Radio this week: Finding Security Vulnerabilities using AI with Sami Laiho

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1045

Brown liquor pick of the week: Sanctuary Single Malt Whisky Reserve Edition

https://sanctuarywhisky.com/whisky/reserve-edition/

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