<p>Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more!</p> <p>Windows 11</p><ul> <li>The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives</li> <li>Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR)</li> <li>Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal)</li> <li>Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General)</li> <li>For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too</li> <li>Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute)</li> <li>Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements</li> <li>Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated</li> <li>Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode</li> <li>Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next</li> <li>AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models</li> <li>Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot</li></ul> <p>Antitrust</p><ul> <li>UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI</li> <li>After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial</li> <li>Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple?</li> <li>Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU</li> <li>Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns</li></ul> <p>AI</p><ul> <li>Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI</li> <li>Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers</li> <li>Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically</li></ul> <p>Xbox</p><ul> <li>An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way</li> <li>Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro</li> <li>Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S</li> <li>Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards</li> <li>E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead</li> <li>The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first</li></ul> <p>Tips and Picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review</li> <li>App pick of the week: Fences 5</li> <li>RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 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 <em>Windows Weekly</em> 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://canary.tools/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">wix.com/studio?utm_campaign=pa_podcast_studio_10/ 23_TWiT%5Esponsors_cta</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2023-12-13 11:55:06