WW 881: Big Boy Teams - Snipping Tool and Word updates, Snapdragon X Leak

05/15/24 • 166 min

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Windows Weekly (Audio)

Windows 11

Patch Tuesday
Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
New Dev and Beta builds
Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote

Xbox

Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again
Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
time

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Windows 11

Patch Tuesday
Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
New Dev and Beta builds
Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote

Xbox

Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again
Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
time

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

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

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Previous Episode

WW 880: B.C. in a Bottle - Passkeys, Xbox Studios, Democracy Prevails!

Microsoft is promising to put security first, again. Three features have been added to Windows 11 Canary build 26212. Microsoft shuts down some game developer studios under its Xbox Games Studios, including a popular one that published Hi-Fi RUSH. And Playstation recinds PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC.

Microsoft & Security

Microsoft promises to put security first. Again.
Microsoft adds passkey support to Microsoft accounts.

Windows 11

Windows 11 Canary build 26212 adds three features from the beta channel.
Microsoft starts controlled feature rollouts (CFRs) on Windows Insider dev channel.
Microsoft acknowledges VPN connection issues on Windows 11 and Windows 10.
More improvements to Tiny11 Builder.
Arc for Windows shipped last week.

Armed and Ready

Apple announces M4 along with new iPad Pros.
Qualcomm earnings flat, but big promises for current quarter.

Better prompt writing is coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
OpenAI is allegedly testing its replacement for Google Search.
Microsoft allegedly testing LLM that challenges OpenAI.

Xbox

Microsoft shuts down more Xbox studios, triggering a new round of angst.
Starfield is getting the 60 FPS support it should have had at launch on Xbox Series X.
Nintendo has now sold over 141 million Switch consoles, promises Switch 2.
Just kidding on the PSN account requirement for PC Helldivers 2.

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Build Blogger Bash
App pick of the week: DesktopGPT
Plus: Proton Pass gets much-needed account protection features.
RunAs Radio this week: Identity Governance with Jef Kazimer.
Brown liquor pick of the week: Shelter Point Cask Strength Single Malt.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Next Episode

WW 882: The Hall & Oates Story - Copilot+ PCs, Recall snapshots, Khan Academy

Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses
Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern
Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features
Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome
Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

Inside baseball

Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event
Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"
PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase

Microsoft 365