WW 902: Nothing to Declare - Passkey providers, Halo Studios, "commodity"
Windows Weekly (Audio)
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Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio.
Windows 11
24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time
22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)
24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same
Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live
Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline
New Canary build today as well
Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.
Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say
Antitrust
Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking.
DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better
Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list
Microsoft 365/AI/Dev
Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive
Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification?
.NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features
RIP, Surface Duo
Xbox
Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans
Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC
Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29
Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read
App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)
RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke
Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge
Hosts: Leo Laporte), Paul Thurrott), and Richard Campbell)
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