<p>PC makers are shaking up CES with wild designs and next-gen chips, but the real story is Microsoft's bold software moves, AI's hardware hunger, and a candid debate over whether any tech company still puts users first. Come for the Windows updates, stay for the whisky warnings and robot bathroom assistants.</p> <p>CES 2026 is here with the 4K hummingbird feeder of your dreams</p><ul> <li>New PCs and more from HP consumers/commercial, HP gamers, Lenovo, others</li> <li>The first official Copilot+ PC desktops</li> <li>Snapdragon X2 Plus joins X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme</li> <li>Intel Panther Lake has meaningful CPU and graphics performance gains, but predictable reliability issues</li> <li>AMD Ryzen AI 400 series is a minor bump</li></ul> <p>Windows</p><ul> <li>Paul was the first to report that Microsoft is refactoring it all with Rust</li> <li>A Microsoft distinguished engineer wrote about his desire to refactor all C/C++ code in the company with Rust by 2030</li> <li>Some mistook this to mean "rewriting Windows with Rust,ˮ so he had to issue a clarification. But I never wrote that.</li> <li>Heads-up: That will happen, but this is really about Azure first and the core underlying code in Microsoftʼs most important platforms</li> <li>Microsoft released hardware-accelerated BitLocker in late 2025 and never told anyone. It requires the latest PC CPUs</li> <li>Copilot app update that adds text editing actions to Copilot Vision across channels</li> <li>Dev and Beta got first previews of AI agents on the Taskbar, starting with the Researcher agent, plus underlying Agent Launchers experience</li> <li>IDC says the global memory shortage (thanks, AI!) could screw up PC and smartphone growth this year</li></ul> <p>AI</p><ul> <li>ChatGPT now has an app store, but it has a ways to go</li> <li>Mozilla Firefox will have a "killswitchˮ for AI</li> <li>Our national nightmare will soon be over, LG will let users remove Copilot app from their smart TVs</li></ul> <p>Xbox and gaming</p><ul> <li>First Xbox Game Pass releases of 2026 include <em>Resident Evil Village </em>and <em>Star Wars Outlaws</em></li> <li>Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Hisense smart TVs and to the latest Fire TV smart TVs</li> <li>GOG goes independent, will continue DRM-free push</li> <li>"Have a blastˮ and other FPS throwbacks from the 1990s</li> <li>Valve quietly killed the LCD Steam Deck model</li></ul> <p>Tips and picks</p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Itʼs time to give Little AI a look</li> <li>App pick of the week: Bonjourr</li> <li>RunAs Radio this week: What AI can do for SysAdmins in 2026 with Cecilia Wiren</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: The Singleton of Dufftown 12</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 <em>Windows Weekly</em> at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</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://bsky.app/profile/carlfranklin.bsky.social" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!</strong><br /> Support what you love and get ad-free audio <em>and</em> video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://threatlocker.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">threatlocker.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://cachefly.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">cachefly.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2026-01-07 11:35:45