WW 933: Live from Build - Protestors, AI agents, Edit, Doom: The Dark Ages
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Agentic AI is the theme of the show this year, and this time its multi-agent with orchestration! But first, we need to discuss the protestors. Paul and Richard have stories. So many stories!
Build 2025
- New Microsoft 365 Copilot features are rolling out now because it's a day that ends in y
- Tuning is the unexpected Build Bingo center square term - rolling out to agents
- GitHub Copilot is open source in VS Code, more
- Win32 app support improvements, no more fees in Microsoft Store
- A shift in making Windows 11 the best place for developers - some things said, some left unsaid
- Edge gets new AI features too of course
- New native app capabilities in Windows App SDK, React Native
- And, pre-Build, 50 million Visual Studio users
- Copilot for consumers does image generation now. Fun tip: You can Minecraft-ize photos
- OpenAI has a coding agent too, obviously
- And OpenAI is buying Jony Ive!
Windows
- Administrator Protection is coming soon - And not just for businesses. This feels very much like the firewall in XP SP2, it's going to be disruptive
- New 24H2 features in Release Preview: New text actions in Click to Do, a lot more
- New 24H2 features in Dev and Beta: AI actions in File Explorer, Advanced Settings, Search improvements, more
- New 23H2 features, Windows 10 features in Release Preview
- Surface Laptop Studio RIP
- Calendar companion app for Windows 11/M365
- Microsoft may finally put the Teams antitrust issue in the EU behind
Xbox
- Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store
- Apple blocked it first, Epic complained to judge
- And Microsoft files a legal motion against Apple and for Epic Games
- Qualcomm job listing confirms Xbox plans to some degree
- What happens when you combine Qualcomm NPU with Nvidia GPU?
- Xbox May Update arrives and it's a big one
- Retro Classic Games for Xbox Game Pass
- Game Bar updates, Edge Game Assist, GeForce now etc. on PC
- Custom Xbox gift cards
- More streaming of your own games
- Hellblade II is coming from Xbox to PS5
- Many more games coming to Xbox Game Pass across platforms
Tips and Picks
- App pick of the week: You can try Microsoft's command line editor now
- Game pick of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages
- RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Tamnavulin Sherry Cask
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's time for Windows Weekly and a special show today. Richard and Paul are both in Seattle for Microsoft's Developers Conference Build. And they will talk, of course, about the keynote, which we streamed live on Monday, but a lot of big announcements. Agenic AI, the theme of the show. We also have Windows News, Xbox News. It's a jam-packed Windows Weekly coming up next. |
| 0:24.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:35.6 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, episode 933, recorded Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. |
| 0:45.5 | Live from Build. |
| 0:47.5 | It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 0:49.4 | The show we cover the latest news for Microsoft, my friends, there is news from Microsoft. |
| 0:54.0 | At the build conference in |
| 0:56.0 | beautiful Seattle Washington I bring you Paul Therot from Therot.com Richard Campbell from |
| 1:01.9 | Runners Radio they're sitting side by side yes put your phone down Paul we've got a podcast to do |
| 1:08.3 | oh isn't see it's not AI this time. |
| 1:11.4 | No, it's real. |
| 1:12.3 | It's not reached across the screen. |
| 1:14.8 | It's a real thing. |
| 1:16.4 | I have to say, I really enjoyed Monday's keynote. |
| 1:18.8 | If you haven't seen it, and it is on the Twitter plus feed for club members, not |
| 1:24.2 | public, but it is on the Twitter plus feed. |
| 1:25.8 | I should mention we did the Google |
| 1:28.8 | keynote yesterday from I oh we did the build keynote for Microsoft on Monday we |
| 1:32.6 | were doing the Apple keynote in a few weeks all of that will though will only |
| 1:37.0 | be club members not because we want to but because of take down fears Apple has |
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