WW 838: Dabbling with Farclas - FTC double-defeated, ASUS saves the NUC, Gates on AI concerns
Windows Weekly (Video)
English - July 19, 2023 20:41 - 2 hours - 2 GB Video - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTech News News Technology twit technology paul thurrott richard campbell leo laporte windows microsoft xbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's happening! Microsoft will absolutely acquire Activision Blizzard
An amazing (ahem) blizzard of activity on the acquisition front leaves Microsoft on the verge of consummating this deal. It's amazing how much has happened since last week.
FTC appealed its court loss and was immediately defeated again
UK CMA extends deadline for its review of Microsoft's new concessions
Microsoft and Sony agree to a Call of Duty deal (!) - not clear if it's for 10 years
UK court formally pauses CMA block of AB acquisition so the two sides can negotiate
Microsoft and Activision agreed to extend the acquisition deadline to October 18 to accommodate the CMA
Windows
Windows 11 23H2 will be deployed as an enablement package, virtually providing our theories that 23H2 = Moment 4.
Tied to this, Microsoft finally explains how it updates Windows now, literally 8 years after the release of Windows 10. It's easy to be cynical, but a Microsoft whitepaper offers a lot of overdue transparency about updating
Insider Program: New Dev build today. Passwordless for Windows Hello Business, local file sharing improvements, Outlook now an inbox app
Insider Program: New Beta and Release Preview builds out last week.
Beta is 23H2. Galley view in Explorer, new Paint app
Release Preview is 22H2, just fixes
The NUC lives!
Microsoft has a new font
An AI told you so
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing (for commercial) and it is exactly as expensive as we warned
Bing Chat adds visual search support
Bill Gates dismisses the dangers of AI. "We've done this before."
FTC is investigating OpenAI
Xbox
Xbox Game Pass Core to replace Xbox Live Gold in September
The next Game Pass titles for July
Game Pass Friends and Family Preview is ending in August
More fun retro gaming as Anstream Arcade is coming to Xbox on July 21
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Enable passkeys in GitHub
Book of the week: John Romero wrote a book
RunAs this week: Securing Sprawling Services with Karinne Bessette
Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfarclas 12
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