Windows Weekly 852: Carnival Barker Lifestyle

Leo, Paul, and Richard discuss Microsoft's latest earnings report, Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chip, Windows on Arm's future, passkey support for Amazon accounts, Dave Cutler's awesomeness, Stardock's 30th anniversary, Photoshop/Premiere Elements 2024, and more!

Microsoft earnings

Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $22.3 billion on revenues of $56.5 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2023. Those figures are up 27 percent and 13 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
Analysis: Activision Blizzard, Windows, Surface, Xbox and gaming, Office and Microsoft 365, and the evolving impact of AI
Google earnings: net income of $19.7 billion on revenues of $76.7 billion, ads are 71 percent of total revenues, Google Cloud disappoints

Windows on Arm

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Elite X for Windows on Arm PCs
Promises, promises, but if this fails again, it's over... for Qualcomm
Qualcomm's WOA deal expires next year and NVIDIA and AMD are on the way

Windows

Dave Cutler sat down for a THREE HOUR interview. This is a must watch. Some key points here
Beta build last week with three changes (gradual rollout): system components in All apps display a System badge, Xbox Game Bar is just Game Bar now, the improved casting experience
New Canary build today adds Copilot??
Windows 11 Field Guide: the 23H2 update has begun with 9 chapters done so far
OneDrive: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cloud storage
Windows 7/8.x products key don't work in Windows 10 either, sorry
Celebrate Stardock's 30 years of making Windows better - by buying some of its products
Satya Nadella said he regretted killing Windows Phone? Not exactly

Xbox

Microsoft revives the "Power Your Dreams" ad campaign for the holidays

Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: Add passkeys to your Amazon account right now
App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024 and Premiere Elements 2024
RunAs Radio this week: Choosing Azure Data Storage Solutions with Nicole Stevens
Brown liquor pick of the week: Burgas 63 Barrel

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