<p>It's happening! Microsoft will absolutely acquire Activision Blizzard</p><ul> <li>An amazing (ahem) blizzard of activity on the acquisition front leaves Microsoft on the verge of consummating this deal. It's amazing how much has happened since last week.</li> <li>FTC appealed its court loss and was immediately defeated again</li> <li>UK CMA extends deadline for its review of Microsoft's new concessions</li> <li>Microsoft and Sony agree to a Call of Duty deal (!) - not clear if it's for 10 years</li> <li>UK court formally pauses CMA block of AB acquisition so the two sides can negotiate</li> <li>Microsoft and Activision agreed to extend the acquisition deadline to October 18 to accommodate the CMA</li></ul> <p>Windows</p><ul> <li>Windows 11 23H2 will be deployed as an enablement package, virtually providing our theories that 23H2 = Moment 4.</li> <li>Tied to this, Microsoft finally explains how it updates Windows now, literally 8 years after the release of Windows 10. It's easy to be cynical, but a Microsoft whitepaper offers a lot of overdue transparency about updating</li> <li>Insider Program: New Dev build today. Passwordless for Windows Hello Business, local file sharing improvements, Outlook now an inbox app</li> <li>Insider Program: New Beta and Release Preview builds out last week.</li> <li>Beta is 23H2. Galley view in Explorer, new Paint app</li> <li>Release Preview is 22H2, just fixes</li> <li>The NUC lives!</li> <li>Microsoft has a new font</li></ul> <p>An AI told you so</p><ul> <li>Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing (for commercial) and it is exactly as expensive as we warned</li> <li>Bing Chat adds visual search support</li> <li>Bill Gates dismisses the dangers of AI. "We've done this before."</li> <li>FTC is investigating OpenAI</li></ul> <p>Xbox</p><ul> <li>Xbox Game Pass Core to replace Xbox Live Gold in September</li> <li>The next Game Pass titles for July</li> <li>Game Pass Friends and Family Preview is ending in August</li> <li>More fun retro gaming as Anstream Arcade is coming to Xbox on July 21</li></ul> <p>Tips and Picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Enable passkeys in GitHub</li> <li>Book of the week: John Romero wrote a book</li> <li>RunAs this week: Securing Sprawling Services with Karinne Bessette</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfarclas 12<br /> </li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/richard-campbell">Richard Campbell</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a></p> <p>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p> <p>The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://meraki.cisco.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">meraki.cisco.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://kolide.com/ww" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">kolide.com/ww</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2023-07-19 13:41:14