WW 967: 2nd-Generation Bonobos - Windows 11 Gets Emergency OOB Update!
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
This week, the hosts go deep on out-of-band updates, unwanted "innovations," and the uneasy cost of tech's latest gold rush. Plus, securing a Microsoft account is not as hard as some think, and neither are passkeys once you get past the jargon. And for developers, AI Dev Gallery offers a fascinating glimpse at what you can do for free with AI used against a CPU, GPU, or NPU.
Windows 11
- Microsoft issues an emergency fix for a borked Windows Update. Right. A fix for a fix.
- Hell freezes over, if only slightly: Microsoft quietly made some positive changes to forced OneDrive Folder Backup. Donʼt worry, itʼs still forced (and appears to be opt-in, but isnʼt). But you can back out more elegantly. So itʼs opt-out, not opt-in, but a step forward. Plus, a new behavior
- Windows 11 on Arm PCs can now download games from the Xbox app (previously only through the Insider program)
- Over 85 percent of Xbox games on PC work in WOA now
- Prism emulator now supports AVX and AVX2 and Epic Anti-Cheat, and there is a new Windows Performance Fit feature offering guidance on which titles should play well.
- Beta: New 25H2 build with account dialog modernization, Click to Do and desktop background improvements. Not for Dev, suggesting itʼs about to move to 26H1
- Notepad and Paint get more features yet again. Notably, these updates are for Dev and Canary only, suggesting these might be 26Hx features (then again, versions don't matter, right?)
AI
- Just say no: To AI, to Copilot, and to Satya Nadella
- Our national nightmare is over: You can now (easily) hide Copilot in Microsoft Edge
- ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide, ads are on the way because of course
- Wikipedia partners with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, more on AI
Xbox & gaming
- January Xbox Update brings Game Sync Indicator, more
- Solid second half of January for Xbox Game Pass
- Microsoft will likely introduce a free, ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier because of course
Tips & picks
- Tip of the week: Secure your Microsoft account
- App pick of the week: AI Dev Gallery
- RunAs Radio this week: Ideation to Implementation with Amber Vandenburg
- Liquor pick of the week: Estancia Raicilla
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therot is here. Richard Campbell's here by the skin of his teeth. |
| 0:04.8 | Richard's got a very interesting liquor pick, but that's not till the very end. Before that, |
| 0:09.7 | we're going to talk about Microsoft's out-of-band patch for Windows. And maybe you had some little |
| 0:17.1 | issues. You'll find out what happened and Richard's theory about why. |
| 0:22.1 | We'll also talk about Satchana Zella's desire to bring AI to everything and everybody, despite the, the feelings of some of its users. |
| 0:32.8 | And a big Xbox game pass January. |
| 0:36.3 | All of that coming up next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:41.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:43.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:45.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:53.0 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therat and Richard Campbell, episode 967, recorded Wednesday, January 21st, 2026, Second Generation Bonobos. |
| 1:07.9 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Hello, you winners. |
| 1:12.0 | And you dozers too. |
| 1:13.4 | Wake up, wake up, wake up. |
| 1:14.5 | Look who's here. |
| 1:17.9 | Paul Therot from Therot.com. |
| 1:20.6 | Formerly, the super site for Windows. |
| 1:24.6 | Now in old, sunny old Mexico City. |
| 1:25.4 | Hello, Paul. |
| 1:26.4 | Hello, Leo. |
| 1:46.4 | And from the Boathouse in beautiful British Columbia. That would be a good name for a pub or something. Yeah, the boat house? Yeah, the boat house. Yeah. Where are you going, honey? I'm going down to the boat house. Okay. A lot of nautical themed items on the walls. Well, you remember that, remember we were having that small renovation done in the big house that was going to be finished by Christmas? |
| 1:48.1 | No. |
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