WW 941: K... and Q - The AI factor in those Microsoft layoffs

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it.

Windows 11

Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels
Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)
Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now
Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it
PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat
Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android
ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart
Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over

Microsoft 365, AI

Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI
Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose
Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion
All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf
Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory
OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world
It's working on a web browser
It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts
Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools

Xbox and Gaming

Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality
Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished
App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop
RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend

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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Thorod and Richard Campbell are here.
0:04.3	There are a lot of new features in the latest Windows insider version of Windows.
0:09.0	Paul will list them all.
0:11.2	Every one of them.
0:12.5	We'll talk about why Microsoft laid off all those people.
0:16.3	Is it really AI?
0:17.9	Or maybe it's not the acquisition of windsurf and which didn't happen and
0:24.5	cyberpunk coming to the Mac all five years late all that more coming up next on Windows
0:32.4	weekly podcasts you love From people you trust.
0:39.9	This is Twitter.
0:47.0	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therat and Richard Campbell.
0:51.2	Episode 941 recorded July 16th, 2025, K and Q.
0:59.4	It's time for Windows Weekly. Hello, all you winners. It's Paul Therat there, Mr. Therat from
1:05.9	now Mexico City of Therat.com and leanpub.com over to, oh, I'm supposed to do the switching,
1:13.8	aren't I?
1:16.1	Paul's saying, yeah, I'm here. What about, what about you?
1:20.2	Am I looking at it? I don't know. I forgot. I'm the button pusher. I'm the captain now.
1:26.4	Also, to Paul's left is Mr. Richard Campbell there of
1:30.1	RenasRadio.com. He is in British Columbia. So it's a North American show today. Yes.
1:37.0	Three countries. All three countries united in brothership and high tariffs. It's exactly
1:43.5	exactly what we're looking for.
1:46.6	Oh, boy.
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