WW 832: Saturated by Fake Girlfriends - Cortana's Windows death, 3 months with no Xbox, thoughts on WWDC23

Cortana's Windows death, 3 months with no Xbox, thoughts on WWDC23

Developer Story

As the developer conference season winds down with WWDC, a look at how Apple, Google, and Microsoft are both similar to and different from each other
Hololens flashbacks anyone?

Windows

She's dead, Jim: Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows 10, 11 - this is all about marketing
Teams for Windows (consumer) gets new features that no one will notice either
Windows Insider Preview: Microsoft Paint gets Dark mode support (FINALLY) and more in Canary and Dev
Canary: New build brings SMB signing requirement (Enterprise ed only), camera app troubleshooting (plus new build today)
Dev (new): redesigned Home view for File Explorer, modernized address bar and search box, Dynamic Lighting settings
Dev: File Explorer tabs and gallery view improvements, Add Phone Photos button for setting up OneDrive camera roll
Beta: WPA3 support in Phone Link, fixes
Microsoft Edge arrives with Workspaces (but not the new UI)
Brave finally gets vertical tabs
One week after HP, Dell posts 20 percent revenue fall

Xbox

Well, Paul finally did it: 3 months without Xbox
WD Xbox Series X|S expansion cards start at just $80
Minecraft comes to chromebooks
Microsoft was fined $20 million by the FTC for collecting kids' data (Amazon was fined $25 million)
Report explains why Redfall failed. (It sucks)
Apple brings Windows games to macOS using Wine-based toolkit

Amazon kills Luna app on Windows and Mac, focuses on web. Are we facing a Stadia moment now?

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Passkeys come to Google Workspace accounts too
Tip of the week #2: Get the updated Windows 11 22H2 ISO
RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft Sentinel with Sarah Young
Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban 14

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Sponsors:

AWS Insiders - WW
meraki.cisco.com/twit
Melissa.com/twit