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WW 929: The Blue Screen of Soup - Agent Store, Oblivion Remastered, Ubuntu 25.04

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Paul Thurrott, News, Xbox, Richard Campbell, Technology, Windows, Microsoft, Tech News, Twit, Leo Laporte

4.4928 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?

Windows

  • New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)
  • Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta
  • Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta
  • Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today
  • Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features
  • Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support
  • Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC
  • Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)
  • Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts

AI

  • We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way
  • Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge
  • Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students
  • Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)
  • Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too

Antitrust

  • It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning
  • Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year
  • US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google
  • US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly
  • What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?
  • OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious
  • Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate
  • Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA
  • Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)

Xbox/gaming

  • Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass
  • Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs
  • It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change
  • And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again
  • HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby
  • RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Windows Weekly, Paul's in Mexico City, Richards in Sydney, Australia.

0:05.6

But that doesn't matter.

0:07.0

We're going to gather together and talk about Week D.

0:10.6

23H2 is at least as last we checked the first out, not 24H2.

0:16.6

We'll talk about some features you might want to look for.

0:19.9

We also want to talk about a big breach that Richard Campbell was party to.

0:27.4

Not a good one on Friday night.

0:29.3

And a little bit of AI, antitrust news, and then some Xbox gaming.

0:34.2

A big show all ahead.

0:36.1

Next on Windows Weekly.

0:39.8

Podcasts you love.

0:41.8

From people you trust.

0:44.3

This is Twitter.

0:51.6

This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therata and Richard Campbell.

0:55.8

Episode 929 recorded Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025.

1:01.3

The Blue Screen of Soup.

1:03.5

Hey, boys and girls, winners and dozers.

1:08.8

I didn't mean to scare you.

1:10.1

When did we stop trying?

1:12.0

Do you remember?

1:13.5

When, when did this happen to us?

1:15.9

It's Windows Weekly Time with Eeyore Paul Therot.

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