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WW 954: We're Just Getting Started - Windows 10's Last Day of Support (But Not Really)

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Forget the doomsday headlines about Windows 10's end of life. Paul, Richard, and Leo break down why most users can relax, what Microsoft really has planned, and why the supposed landfill crisis around old PCs is mostly exaggeration. Also, Microsoft said OneDrive's new app was coming next year, but your file system says otherwise.

Windows 11

  • October Patch Tuesday arrives, 1st for 25H2
  • Copilot+ PCs: Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings, File Explorer improvements
  • 24H2/25H2: Desktop improvements, File Explorer improvements, Keyboard shortcuts for en and em dashes, Administrator Protection (off by default), Passkey improvements, Game Bar improvements
  • Windows 10 (didn't) reach EOL and the world didn't end
  • Zorin OS and ChromeOS Flex seize the moment
  • Windows Insider: Copilot on Windows gets Connectors, Document creation and export. Copilot on Windows gets Settings support. Dev and Beta get AI agent in Settings improvements (Copilot+ PC), Setting search improvements (ditto), Drag Tray, Click to Do improvements, Dark mode improvements
  • Dashlane partners with Yubico to make security keys primary vault access
  • Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q QC is a Snapdragon X-based SFF PC
  • HP OmniBook 5 16-inch shows why even the cheapest Snapdragon X chip is a winner
  • Hope springs eternal: Intel Panther Lake is the efficiency of Lunar Lake plus the performance of Arrow Lake. Hopefully, it's not the reliability of either
  • IDC: PC sales jumped 9.4 percent in Q3, just not where you live

AI

  • AI is the end of apps
  • Microsoft reveals its first image generation model
  • Opera Neon adds Nano Banana (image gen) and Sora (video gen) capabilities

Xbox and gaming

  • Target and Walmart will keep selling Xbox consoles unlike those losers at Costco
  • A veteran of Halo Studios leaves, warns everyone
  • Sorry, but there will be a sequel to the Minecraft movie
  • Game Pass member? Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is free to play for one more day
  • Sony and AMD trickle out some PS6 news in a bizarre way - oh, and we're just getting started

Tips and picks

  • Tip of the week: Yes, Virginia, you can still sign in to Windows 11 25H2 with a local account
  • App pick of the week: The new OneDrive app
  • RunAs Radio this week: The End of NTML with Steve Syfuhs
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Holladay Soft Red Wheat Bourbon

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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0:00.0

It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul and Richard are here. The End of Life for Windows 10 was yesterday. Paul says, no big. We'll talk about the Windows Insider updates. Yes, I called it Windows. And is AI the end of apps? All that more coming up next on Windows Weekly.

0:20.4

Podcasts you love.

0:22.3

From people you trust.

0:24.8

This is Twit.

0:32.1

This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therat and Richard Campbell, episode 954, recorded Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.

0:41.8

We're just getting started.

0:44.2

Hello, all you winners, and you dozers, it's time for Windows Weekly, the show where we get together with Paul Therot and Richard Campbell and talk about the latest news from Microsoft.

0:56.9

Paul is in his getaway flat. It's where he goes when the fed, when the heat is hot. He goes to

1:06.0

say in Mexico City. Hello, Mr. Therotte. Hello, Leo.

1:17.4

And in beautiful Lisbon, I'm laughing because we called it Libson for a while, but no, he's not in Libson.

1:18.7

He's in Lisbon.

1:22.4

Mr. Richard Campbell, running his radio fame.

1:24.1

It's sunset in Lisbon, or is it sunrise?

1:25.7

No, it's sunset.

1:27.1

We're just losing the light now.

2:00.9

It's getting dark. It's a pretty day. I love Lisbon. Stay away from the finicular, however, because that's... I don't think we'd get on it now if you had to. We did the finicular when we were there because there's... Lisbon is a sea level, but then there's kind of bluffs and cliffs. It's like San Francisco. There's a lot of up and down. Yeah. And so they have finuculars. Well, they have a couple of things. One, they have these weird little towers. Like the mirador's. Yeah, where you can go up. Yeah. And for the view. And so those, they have elevators on most of those, funiculars and some, and then they have these cable, little cable cars that just go like a block. Yeah. It's like straight up. Like 45 degree angle almost or whatever, but yeah. And that's the only way you can get to the, easily get to the bluffs. I mean, I guess you could walk it, but it's tough. And they had a terrible, horrible wreck.

2:18.6

A couple of times out. Discord mashed potato says there's no fun and it and finicular, but there is an

2:23.3

ick. You know? Actually, there is fun and finicular. I enjoy the finicular. It's all graffitied and

2:31.1

kind of fun and funky. But it's just, you know, those beautiful little cable cars throughout Lisbon, right?

2:36.1

And it's that kind of car, but it's at a whatever angle, 45-degree. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not a tourist thing. I mean, everybody rides it. It's the, it's right. That's right. Yeah. So it's kind of cool. Anyway, we have cable cars in Mexico City that people used to commute to work.

2:50.3

Like, it's the type of thing you take at a ski chalet, but you're going above the city or whatever.

2:54.6

Wow. We have cable cars in Mexico City that people used to commute to work. Like it's the type of thing you take at a ski chalet, but you're going above the city or whatever.

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