WW 945: Vermont? Seriously? - GitHub CEO resigns as CoreAI takes over

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

Patch Tuesday was yesterday, so find out what's new! Plus, two of the best-ever Doom engine games are now available in remastered form (4K/120 FPS, new episodes, cross-play, multiplayer, more) on Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC (Windows), PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam, GOG, and various cloud streaming services. It's a free update if you already own either game. Also, if you have a local library, you should use it. If only for Libby by Overdrive free audiobooks and free access to periodicals. But then be surprised by all the services they offer!

Windows 11

Copilot+ PCs: Recall comes to the EU, Recall Reset, Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings
All: Quick Machine Recovery, black screen of death, Snap layouts improvements, Gamepad layout for Windows Touch Keyboard
Blender is now native on Windows 11 on Arm
Search settings consolidation in Canary
Mobile device companion sidebar for Start gets a new layout in Dev
More Control Panel settings move to Settings app in Dev and Beta

Windows 10

Consumer ESU licenses will support up to 10 PCs
Microsoft will support Edge on Windows 10 through October 2028 (as expected)

OpenAI releases GPT-5 but not everyone loves it
Quickly brought back GPT-4o
And now the model picker is back, for now
Microsoft is adding it everywhere, of course, and Apple says it will add to Apple Intelligence - And Bing just added support for GPT-4o image creation
Perplexity makes unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome
Comet - New tab page with Chat, can choose a Google Search as you type, Assistant in a sidebar, Summarize webpage/document, voice dictation, voice mode, big feature is website interactivity
Microsoft Edge in Copilot Mode - most evolutionary update, new New Tab page, Quick assist with Copilot button location change, Simple task handoff (which needs work), Voice navigation
But some bigger UI changes are on the way
Dia (Mac only for now) - Also, there's a Pro subscription - New Tab page with chat and an attempt at orchestration, @mentions for tabs, Skills (built-in, can edit, can make you're own), and personalization
Next up: Opera Neon - And what is Google doing with Chrome?
Copilot 3D can turn images into 3D models - It's a "Creators Update"!
Microsoft is EOLing the Lens app - use Microsoft Copilot 365 app instead

Microsoft/Surface

GitHub CEO is leaving, Microsoft is rolling GitHub into its Core AI organization
Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 get firmware update to add battery charging modes

Xbox and games

Sony sold 2.5 million PS5s in quarter, now over 80 million cumulatively
Microsoft rumored to have sold only 21 to 29 million Xbox Series X|S consoles
Big Windows 11 on Arm updates!
Game downloading is coming to Xbox app on Windows 11 on Arm
Epic Games and Qualcomm bring Easy Anti-Cheat to Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X
Apple and Google have illegal mobile app store monopolies in Australia, so Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone there via Epic Games Store
Microsoft is updating Xbox Dashboard and app to show game trials and demos in "Free with Xbox" section
Microsoft has paused the production of Contraband
Steam for Chromebooks Beta will never leave beta, discontinuing in January instead

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Go to the library
App pick of the week: Heretic and Hexen

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0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrat is here. Richard Campbell. Of course, we're going to talk about
0:04.1	Patch Tuesday. It was yesterday. Windows 10 gets a little bit more life in it. And a lot of AI,
0:11.3	including a bunch of AI browsers. Microsoft will not be left behind in this one either. All of that.
0:18.3	And a return of two of the best games of all time coming up next on Windows
0:22.0	Weekly.
0:25.3	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit.
0:36.7	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therot and Richard Campbell, episode 945, recorded Wednesday, August 13th, 2025.
0:46.0	Vermont? Seriously? It's time for Windows Weekly. Hello, winners. Hello, dozers. Wake up. Paul
0:53.8	Therot and Richard Campbell are here to entertain you. Hello, dozers. Wake up. Paul Therot and Richard Campbell are here to entertain you.
0:58.1	Hello, Mr. Paul Therot from Therot.com and LeanPub.com. How the heck are you today? Pretty good.
1:04.5	Nice to hear. And you, you, Mr. Richard Campbell, how are you today, sir? I am doing very well.
1:11.1	I am in Kansas City.
1:12.5	KC.
1:13.3	What are you doing in KC?
1:14.9	The Kansas City Developers Conference is this week sees.
1:18.3	It's the workshop day today.
1:19.5	So I'm in my hotel room, carefully positioned to not show you the bed, you know, as I do.
1:25.6	But I was able to tour today's whiskey distillery
1:29.5	this morning. Oh. So, so fresh off the still. Fish off the stills having great conversation
1:36.5	with a couple of the folks there. We had a good time and I'll be, I'm excited to talk about it. It's great
1:41.3	product. It's a great product. Nice to see you. Somebody was asking in the chat room
1:46.5	if my kitty returned, of course, later that day last week.
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