<p>Patch Tuesday was yesterday, so find out what's new! Plus, two of the best-ever <em>Doom </em>engine games are now available in remastered form (4K/120 FPS, new episodes, cross-play, multiplayer, more) on Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC (Windows), PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam, GOG, and various cloud streaming services. It's a free update if you already own either game. Also, if you have a local library, you should use it. If only for Libby by Overdrive free audiobooks and free access to periodicals. But then be surprised by all the services they offer!<p>Windows 11</p><ul> <li>Copilot+ PCs: Recall comes to the EU, Recall Reset, Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings</li> <li>All: Quick Machine Recovery, black screen of death, Snap layouts improvements, Gamepad layout for Windows Touch Keyboard</li> <li>Blender is now native on Windows 11 on Arm</li> <li>Search settings consolidation in Canary</li> <li>Mobile device companion sidebar for Start gets a new layout in Dev</li> <li>More Control Panel settings move to Settings app in Dev and Beta</li></ul> <p>Windows 10</p><ul> <li>Consumer ESU licenses will support up to 10 PCs</li> <li>Microsoft will support Edge on Windows 10 through October 2028 (as expected)</li></ul> <p>AI</p><ul> <li>OpenAI releases GPT-5 but not everyone loves it</li> <li>Quickly brought back GPT-4o</li> <li>And now the model picker is back, for now</li> <li>Microsoft is adding it everywhere, of course, and Apple says it will add to Apple Intelligence - And Bing just added support for GPT-4o image creation</li> <li>Perplexity makes unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome</li> <li>Comet - New tab page with Chat, can choose a Google Search as you type, Assistant in a sidebar, Summarize webpage/document, voice dictation, voice mode, big feature is website interactivity</li> <li>Microsoft Edge in Copilot Mode - most evolutionary update, new New Tab page, Quick assist with Copilot button location change, Simple task handoff (which needs work), Voice navigation</li> <li>But some bigger UI changes are on the way</li> <li>Dia (Mac only for now) - Also, there's a Pro subscription - New Tab page with chat and an attempt at orchestration, @mentions for tabs, Skills (built-in, can edit, can make you're own), and personalization</li> <li>Next up: Opera Neon - And what is Google doing with Chrome?</li> <li>Copilot 3D can turn images into 3D models - It's a "Creators Update"!</li> <li>Microsoft is EOLing the Lens app - use Microsoft Copilot 365 app instead</li></ul> <p>Microsoft/Surface</p><ul> <li>GitHub CEO is leaving, Microsoft is rolling GitHub into its Core AI organization</li> <li>Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 get firmware update to add battery charging modes</li></ul> <p>Xbox and games</p><ul> <li>Sony sold 2.5 million PS5s in quarter, now over 80 million cumulatively</li> <li>Microsoft rumored to have sold only 21 to 29 million Xbox Series X|S consoles</li> <li>Big Windows 11 on Arm updates!</li> <li>Game downloading is coming to Xbox app on Windows 11 on Arm</li> <li>Epic Games and Qualcomm bring Easy Anti-Cheat to Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X</li> <li>Apple and Google have illegal mobile app store monopolies in Australia, so <em>Fortnite </em>is coming back to the iPhone there via Epic Games Store</li> <li>Microsoft is updating Xbox Dashboard and app to show game trials and demos in "Free with Xbox" section</li> <li>Microsoft has paused the production of <em>Contraband</em></li> <li>Steam for Chromebooks Beta will never leave beta, discontinuing in January instead</li></ul> <p>Tips & Picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Go to the library</li> <li>App pick of the week: Heretic and Hexen</li></ul></p> <p>These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/945">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/945</a></p> <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><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://bitwarden.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">bitwarden.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://helixsleep.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">helixsleep.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://threatlocker.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">threatlocker.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2025-08-13 12:28:50