Week D production-quality updates, revamped widgets board, Microsoft Teams redesign Windows 11 Microsoft debuts new Windows 11 features in Preview. And now we have a new updating schedule! Coming via Canary: another Widgets UX update Surface Hub 2S is still a thing and will be upgradeable to Teams Rooms OS soon You can hide the Bing button in Edge 111.x now Microsoft 365 As expected, Microsoft announces Teams 2.0 with Apple-like improvement claims AI o' the week OpenAI announces ChatGTP plug-ins capability - Now it's a platform! Next stop: sentience Microsoft brings AI-based copilot capabilities to security pros Xbox UK CMA: Just kidding on Microsoft's AB acquisition issues, will likely approve it Japan FTC approves Microsoft's AB acquisition without conditions Activision CEO disappointed in his best partner, Sony Microsoft announces red and blue (get it?) Elite Series 2 Core Controllers No more $1 intro offer on Xbox Game Pass Now even Xbox developers can help your console use less power Steam will drop support for Windows 7/8.x in 2024 Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Still on Windows 7/8.x? Switch to Firefox App pick of the week: Oofhours.com Media Creation tool This week on RunAs Radio: When does Multi-Cloud Make Sense with Phoummala Schmitt Brown liquor pick of the week: Dalmore 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: lookout.com kolide.com/ww GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

Microsoft Loop preview FINALLY arrives Microsoft Loop web app launches in public preview for MSA and work/school accounts - Yeah, it's a Notion rip-off. Alarmingly so. Windows 11 Now, Microsoft is testing Windows 11 features first in Release Preview New Dev channel build: Seconds in the system tray is a game changer! /s Minor changes coming to default apps Based on a single hardware review, it appears that 13th Gen Intel Core processors have the same problem with docks and hubs as do 12th Gen processors. AI all the things Bill Gates describes AI as the biggest technology transformation since the GUI. Bing Chatbot can now generate images from text GitHub launches ChatGPT-4 powered Copilot X Adobe launches responsible/ethical generative AI tools Google launches Bard in early access Mozilla.ai startup goes live Opera adds AI prompts, sidebar ChatGPT Xbox Microsoft's AB acquisition is all about mobile, not COD Microsoft announces it will launch mobile apps store on iPhone and Android as soon as regulators make it possible FOSS patents: We've moved into the acceptance phase, and this acquisition is on track Netflix is expanding its mobile games library dramatically Microsoft releases a third set of Game Pass titles for March Get a Steam Deck for 10 percent off to celebrate its first birthday Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Inbox Zero App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code RunAs Radio this week: SMB over QUIC File Servers with Ned Pyle Brown liquor pick of the week: Ben Nevis 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast kolide.com/ww cachefly.com

OpenAI's GPT-4 released, KB5023706 update, YouTube Music Windows 11 Moment 2 is official; mostly a solid update The ensh*ttification of Windows/Microsoft 365 continues: Microsoft Word, Paint, Teams, and Edge AI all the things One wonders, if everything is AI, is anything AI? OpenAI releases ChatGPT 4 Microsoft "reveals" it was using an early version all along, duh BING CHATBOT IS OPEN TO EVERYONE Bing will move Chatbot responses to the top of search results Microsoft's LinkedIn is adding GPT AI to improve the writing of profiles and job postings Grammarly adds more AI Google Workspace is getting generative AI features, obviously... and it's raising prices (coincidentally!) Duolingo adds two new AI features at great cost Microsoft 365 Microsoft Word is getting two keyboard shortcuts it should have always had: "Paste as Text" & Zoom Dev Microsoft Build 2023 is May 23-25, live and remote GitHub starts rolling out its 2FA requirement for contributors Xbox Microsoft announces two 10-year cloud gaming deals with companies not named Sony: Boosteroid & Ubitus Epic Games takes a page from the Microsoft Store and will allow self-publishing Tips and Picks Tip of the week: YouTube Premium member? Play some games App pick of the week: YouTube Music This week on RunAs: Incident Management with Hila Fish Brown liquor pick of the week: Springbank 10 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: drata.com/twit kolide.com/ww

Microsoft adds Windows 12 to the Insider Program Last week's feature release shows you how these Insider channels map to the next release, which is sometimes a Moment now and not just a formal Feature Update. Don't worry. They didn't tell anyone that. Canary - big changes that need lots of incubation time (e.g. kernel changes), no release target Dev - changes that need incubation, no release target Beta- testing changes targeting the next release Release preview - testing changes that are slated to ship imminently in the next release barring any major explosions (e.g. printers) Stable - nothing works First Canary build today: Access keys and File Recommendations in File Explorer, LSA Protection Enablement on upgrade. Dev channel: This channel is "rebooted" to 23000 series now, per above. This build has live captions in more languages, access keys in the File Explorer context menus (another Win11 regression), Recommendations in File Explorer, and other changes. Dev channel (last week): Microsoft is working on a new volume mixer. Windows 11 Microsoft is bringing "video super resolution" to Microsoft Edge We're still not done with PC maker results: Dell goes down in Q4 too AI Satya Nadella, marketing AI, now says that Cortana was "dumb as a rock." Come on. Microsoft to talk up AI in work next week Microsoft talks up AI in Microsoft 365 - this will never end now Microsoft brings more AI to devs at Azure Open Source Day Brave Search adds an AI-powered Summarizer DuckDuckGo adds a similar Answer feature Microsoft 365 Microsoft Outlook is now free on the Mac Xbox EU likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Told you so? Halo Infinite Season 3 is live. Can it save this game? Halo players have created over one million maps with Forge Beta Microsoft announces new titles for Xbox Game Pass Starfield arrives in September Tips and picks Tip of the week: Don't be a statistic App pick of the week: Start11 RunAs this Week: FIDO2 and Passwordless with Kyle Kotowick Brown liquor pick of the week: Craigellachie Bas Armagnac Cask Finish 13 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: kolide.com/ww CDW.com/LenovoClient

New features in KB5022913 update, Microsoft's defense of Activision Blizzard bid Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/818 Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Microsoft FINALLY brings Windows 11 on Arm support to Apple Silicon Macs A new Release Preview build shows us what the next Moment update will look like New Beta channe builds are a bit less interesting More PC maker fallout with Lenovo revenues down 24 percent in Q4 Bing AI Bing AI is a lying liar who lies. Questions about Microsoft releasing it in this state continue After many Bing AI freakouts, Microsoft limits the length of chats... and then it bumps up the length a bit just a few days later. Microsoft brings Bing AI to Bing, Edge, and Skype mobile apps Microsoft 365 Microsoft IS releasing Teams 2.0 in March. Dev Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2022 17.5, and it's a big update Microsoft releases .NET 8 Preview 1 Visual Studio gets an integrated .NET Upgrade Assistant... previously only a command line tool Paul examines WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK. Microsoft is moving File Explorer from XAML Islands to Windows App SDK. Xbox Microsoft defends the Activision Blizzard acquisition in court. Microsoft inks 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo Microsoft's PC games are coming to NVIDIA GeForce Now Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family Plan comes to 6 new countries, none of which are your country As suspected, we're getting a third Xbox Game Pass title drop this month Tips & Picks Tip of the week: 2FA all the things App pick of the week: Craiyon RunAs Radio this week: Migrating to Windows 11 with Michael Niehaus Brown liquor pick of the week: The Macallan Estate Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

The AI morning after A week after the irrational exuberance, reality sets in. It's still Bing. And it's still competing against Google Microsoft shares an update on Bing AI rollout Google employees were not amused at botched Bard announcement Microsoft to add AI to Office in March Everyone is doing AI now. Including Opera and Notion Windows 11 New Windows 11 Dev build adds more live captions IE was disabled in Windows 11 on Patch Tuesday. It's dead, Jim 2FA is coming to Windows 11. It's all in the toast Microsoft 365 Looks like Skype revenue has plummeted over the past decade And full of "meet your new girlfriend" messages if you don't lock down from defaults Microsoft finally retired the Yammer brand. And you're never going to believe what happened next Corporate GitHub lays off 10 percent of staff, going fully remote More jobs cuts announced in Surface, HoloLens, Xbox Xbox Just kidding: Activision to release a major Call of Duty title this year Xbox February update is now available with Google Home app integration Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Get started with the new Bing AI. Bing AI apparently has some "creator prompts" that will jumpstart certain types of tasks: -Letter (Write a letter) -Code (Write code) -Movie (Write a script) -Story (Write a story) -Poem (Write a poem) -Summary (Write a summary) -Tweet (Write a tweet) -Blog post (Write a blog post) -Quiz (Write a quiz) -Joke (Write a joke) App pick of the week: DALL-E This Week on RunAs: Strengthening Security with Jess Dodson Brown liquor pick of the week: Kvint Divin Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: cachefly.com

WORLD WAR AI OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus Google responds to ChatGPT with Bard Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge. Google hosted its own AI event and it announced multi-search, Maps improvements, and Translate improvements, and discussed how AI can make life better Semi-related: Paul was let into the Notion AI beta Windows Paul has some thoughts about Windows 12 and what an AI-based Windows could look like Ads are coming to the Microsoft Store. FINALLY New Insider build for the Beta channel. No new features, but a new policy that lets IT admins customize how Search looks on the Windows 11 Taskbar Microsoft is integrating Adobe Acrobat PDF with Microsoft Edge, but only on Windows 10 and 11 for now Microsoft 365 Native Apple Silicon version of Skype is 3X faster. What took so long? Hardware Microsoft says it's still committed to HoloLens 2 and MR, tries not to laugh Samsung is working on XR hardware with Qualcomm and Google. Dev Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy. Nothing has changed, other than they way they document their .NET language strategy More Big Tech Earnings Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta earnings Zoom just showed us the way to handle layoffs Xbox Sony is fighting Microsoft subpoena in AB case. It's fighting the FTC subpoena, too UK CMA says AB deal is "anti-competitive" but would accept some concessions New Game Pass titles announced for the middle of February Sony says the PS5 is immune to the downturn Nintendo says Switch is not immune to the downturn, but it's still dominating Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Protect your privacy in Windows 11 App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Dev Brown Liquor of the week: Mackmyra Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: CDW.com/LenovoClient Miro.com/podcast

Halo engine switch, Intel Q4 2022 revenues, Ground News Windows 11 Skipping the Windows 11 upgrade? Microsoft will force-feed it to you soon Related: Microsoft is using dark patterns to get people to upgrade to 11 Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25290 heads to Dev channel with new Spotify and Phone Link widgets, new Start menu "exploration" Screen recording in Snipping Tool rolls out to users in Windows Insider Beta channel More earnings Since Microsoft's mixed earnings last week, a few more relevant firms have checked in on Q4 2022 Intel earnings fall off a cliff: Cutting pay 5% rather than layoffs, VPs 10%, leadership 15%, CEO 25% AMD - not bad thanks to datacenter, but this quarter will be down 10 percent And it's not just the PC: IDC says smartphone sales declined 18.3 percent in Q4 Dev A quick look at .NET MAUI desktop app capabilities .NET MAUI gets a cross-platform media player control GitHub says it has over 100 million developers on the service. From what Google indicates, there are only ~27 million developers in the world Xbox After layoffs at 343, a smaller team will start over with Unreal Engine Why not just disband the whole disaster and let Halo fly free? Microsoft announces Xbox Games with Gold for February... and new Game Pass titles for first half of February Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition comes to Xbox consoles Xbox Series X|S get a price hike in Japan Did Sony really halve PS VR2 production? VR is not having a good time right now... probably this whole year. Rumor: Microsoft will skip E3 along with Nintendo and Sony Tips & Picks Tip of the week: Complete your password manager switch Plus: Quick update on the new book App pick of the week: https://ground.news/ Brown alcohol pick of the week: Crown Royal Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast Melissa.com/twit drata.com/twit

F23Q2 analysis, the subscription future, Microsoft 365 Insider program Microsoft announced a net income of $16.4 billion on revenues of $52.7 billion for the quarter ending December 31. Net income decreased by 12 percent year-over-year (YOY) in the time period while revenue was up just 2 percent. It was a mixed quarter, at best, and below expectations. Intelligent Cloud delivered $21.5 billion in revenues in the quarter, up 18 percent YOY. Productivity and Business Processes was Microsoft's second-biggest business in the quarter, with $17 billion in revenues, up 7 percent. More Personal Computing was again the laggard with $14.2 billion in revenues, down an astonishing 19 percent YOY. The cloud saved the quarter Windows tanked Windows won't get better any time soon Surface tanked even worse than Windows Surface also won't get better any time soon thanks to "execution challenges" Xbox tanked, but was at least inline with expectations Teams has over 280 million users Microsoft 365 to evolve into an AI-first platform Office did OK overall, big shift away from one-off product sales to subscriptions Windows It's time to suck it up: the future of Windows is all advertising and subscriptions Microsoft is working on yet another File Explorer redesign Microsoft also starts testing tabs in Notepad Microsoft is also testing a side-by-side view for web pages in Edge And now a new Insider build for the Dev channel with a new (Facebook) Messenger widget Microsoft kills Altspace VR as part of an AR/MR house-cleaning move Microsoft may be walking away from AR/MR, but Apple's coming headset will allegedly switch between the two modes Microsoft 365 Office Insider Program renamed to Microsoft 365 Insider Program This rebranding crusade is a mistake and is reminiscent of the .NET branding mistake Antitrust EU to announce antitrust case against Microsoft Teams DOJ announces antitrust case against Google for advertising and Google responds Google lays off 12,000. Nothing from Apple? Dev Github now has over 100 million developers Google announces what's next for Flutter An examination of .NET MAUI reveals what it's good for on the Windows desktop Xbox N64 classic GoldenEye is coming to Xbox, Game Pass January 27 Sony pushes forward with VR2 plans Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Paul is working on a new book and needs your help Tip of the week #2: Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 downloads Brown alcohol pick of the week: Nomad Outland Whisky Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT