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Windows Weekly 900: The 8 Poles of Inaccessibility

Published: Sept. 25, 2024, 7:37 p.m.

Windows 11

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  • 24H2 is following a now-familiar trajectory to release. Right, it's chaos
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  • Microsoft issues last-second updates to 22H2/23H2 and 24H2 in the Release Preview on Monday. Paul predicted these would turn into our Week D updates later in the week and that we'd get nothing on Tuesday
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  • Dev and Beta channels got some interesting updates recently as well
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  • The Windows App is now available on Windows, Mac, and iOS
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  • HP announces two new flagship AI PCs, one AMD and one Intel. Plus a lower-cost 8-core Snapdragon model. This is officially a trend.
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  • A week after providing details about the September 2024 firmware update for Surface Laptop 7, Microsoft confirmed it shipped the same update to Surface Pro 11. This has had a major negative effect on the device's instant-on capabilities
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Microsoft 365, cloud, AI

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  • Microsoft is reviving Three Mile Island and other headlines I never thought I'd write
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  • Google formally complains about alleged Microsoft antitrust abuses in the EU
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  • LinkedIn is training AI with your data. You can turn it off because Microsoft loves opt-out
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  • Microsoft issues a SFI progress report and they are doing GREAT, thank you very much
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  • Gemini comes to Workspace
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  • Apple Intelligence will hoover 4GB of drive space on iPhones to start, more later as more features are added
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More!

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  • Qualcomm makes another offer to acquire Intel
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  • Investment firm offers Intel a $5 billion lifeline
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  • Arc just experienced its first major security incident and handled it really well
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  • Raspberry Pi reports its first-ever earnings
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  • Paul has finished updating .NETpad for Windows 11 theming support in .NET 9, will put code up in GitHub after .NET ships in stable
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\nXbox

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  • A new tell-all about Blizzard, Activision, and Xbox arrives October 8
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  • Game Pass features are coming to Xbox mobile app where they belong
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  • Also, Game Bar Compact mode as part of September Xbox Update
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  • New Indie Selects titles
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  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is available for preorder and it will look a lot better and take up a lot less disk space
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  • Xbox Ambassador's Program is dead, Jim
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  • Xbox spends $1 billion per year to acquire Game Pass titles
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  • Xbox figured out how to reduce its carbon emissions. You know, besides selling fewer consoles
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  • Sony announces 30th anniversary PS5 collection
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Tips and Picks

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  • Tip of the week: Stop paying so much for everything
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  • App pick of the week: A week of browser-adjacent updates
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  • RunAs Radio this week: Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas
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  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Hatozaki Small Batch
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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