WW 959: Thurrott Syndrome - Microsoft Faces AI Backlash as Windows 11 Evolves

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.

Ignite 2025

Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?
No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again
Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture
MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers
New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service
Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already

Windows 11

Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions
The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected
Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more

OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed
Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash

Xbox and gaming

Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming
Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11
FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience
Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising
Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support
Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms
Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20
As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again
Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2
RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therot and Richard Campbell are here. We'll talk about the uproar over a Microsoft executive's tweet, announcing that Windows is going to be agentic AI everywhere. Paul Therat debunks that one. We've got lots of information about the new Steam Machine, the pros and cons, plus Paul's review of the Rogue ally.
0:24.7	And then we'll talk about Windows 365 co-pilot.
0:28.4	Yes, it's an AI-rich show next on Windows Weekly.
0:32.5	Podcasts you love.
0:34.1	From people you trust.
0:36.9	This is Twitter.
0:48.0	This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, episode 959,
0:51.5	recorded Wednesday, November 19th, 2025.
0:53.3	Therat Syndrome.
0:56.9	It's time for Windows Weekly. Good morning, you winners.
0:58.8	Good evening, you dozers.
1:06.0	This is the show where you cover the latest from Microsoft with Paul Therot in beautiful Roma Norte, Mexico City.
1:09.2	Mm-hmm.
1:10.2	Hello.
1:28.2	Hello. Hello. And Mr. Richard Campbell, who is today in Sidney? Is that what you have to pronounce that? Sidney. Rosie, Ozzy, Ozzy. Oxy. Oye, Oye. It's my favorite thing to do when in Australia, just to randomly shout. Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzie. Yeah, it's like when people go to France and they wear berets yeah it doesn't nobody thinks that's weird
1:32.9	nobody in France where's completely normal but I did buy a French beret in France so I'd be
1:40.5	in with the people hello everybody this is actually I shouldn't be fooling around because this is a big day for Microsoft.
1:49.0	This is Ignite Day.
1:52.4	Now, I asked you, you may remember last week, if we should cover the Ignite keynote.
1:57.3	Yeah, and it was so boring.
1:59.1	I didn't even think to email you.
2:00.3	I'm so sorry. Good. Although I and it was so boring. I didn't even think to email you. I'm so sorry.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leo Laporte, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Leo Laporte and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.