WW 931: The Eaglet Has Landed - New Surface Copilot+ PCs, Xbox raises prices
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.
Windows 11
- Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week
- Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev
- Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025
- A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it
- Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2
Antitrust
- Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple
- Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax
- The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech
- US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well
AI
- Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?
- Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI
- GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users
Xbox & gaming
- FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks
- Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.
- New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month
- Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August
- Minecraft drops VR/MR support
- GTA VI delayed until 2026
- Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Go passwordless
- App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator
- RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrots here. Richard Campbell is still in New Zealand, but he's heading out right after the show. |
| 0:06.4 | To come back home, we will talk about big changes in Windows 11, a new start menu, believe it or not. |
| 0:12.6 | We'll also have a little to say about Apple's spanking earlier this week from the judge in the Apple Epic case. |
| 0:21.4 | And yes, maybe our long nightmare is over. |
| 0:24.9 | Activision, Blizzard, Microsoft. |
| 0:28.4 | I think the FTC has received the final nail in the coffin. |
| 0:32.1 | All that and more coming up next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:37.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:41.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:49.3 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, Episode 931, recorded Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. |
| 0:58.7 | The Eaglet has landed. |
| 1:01.3 | It's time. |
| 1:05.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:11.3 | He's doing a Dudley Do Right, Laugh. |
| 1:12.7 | I got to stop taking so many drugs. |
| 1:15.0 | Go on. |
| 1:16.1 | Guys are all heavily medicated. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:19.2 | You know how I avoid allergies? |
| 1:20.7 | I go to the other hemisphere. |
| 1:21.9 | It works like a hot day out. |
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