WW 971: Texas English - Where Does Xbox Go Next?
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft might finally give power users what they've been demanding: the ability to move the Windows 11 taskbar wherever they want. Plus, 3 major new chapters in Paul's next book, and a strange pick that solves his big issue with Windows Spotlight.
Windows 11
- Potentially good news for the 13 people who want to move the Taskbar to a different screen side
- Beta (but not Dev) with one new "feature"
- Release Preview for 24H2/25H2 with emoji 16.0, QMR improvements, network speed test, pan and tilt controls for compatible cameras, widgets improvements, more
- Lenovo revenues up 18% to $22.2 billion
AI/Dev
- Google announces 30-second audio generation
- Google sets a date for I/O 2026, but where in the Carmen Diego is Build 2026?
- Android 17 Beta is here with an even shorter runway
- With '26.3 out, Apple releases '26.4 Beta 1s
Xbox and gaming
- Phil Spencer is always in the spotlight, but he's been on the down-low for months
- Some hints for the future coming GDC 2026
- Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Witcher 3, more coming to Xbox Game Pass
- Avowed comes to the PlayStation 5 along with the Anniversary Update
- Microsoft is retiring user-created Xbox social clubs
- NVIDIA GeForce Now comes to Amazon Fire TV 4K Sticks
Tips & picks
- Tip of the week: Major progress on De-Enshittify Windows 11, the book
- App pick of the week: Bing Wallpaper
- RunAs Radio this week: Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Lot 40 100% Pot Still Rye
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 Windows Task Bar is on the move. |
| 0:05.5 | Google's making music in 30 seconds. And Xbox is quietly setting up its next act. Windows Weekly is next. |
| 0:15.7 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:20.1 | This is Twitter. love from people you trust this is twit this is windows weekly with paul thurad and |
| 0:30.0 | richard campbell episode nine hundred seventy one recorded wednesday february 18th twenty |
| 0:36.0 | six texas english it's time for windows weekly hello you winners Wednesday, February 18th, 2026. Texas English. |
| 0:39.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Hello, you winners. |
| 0:41.8 | Hello, you dozers. |
| 0:42.8 | This is the show where we cover the latest from Microsoft, not macro hard. |
| 0:48.3 | Don't get confused. |
| 0:50.6 | That's Paul. |
| 0:51.5 | 1970s. |
| 0:52.6 | I know. |
| 0:53.3 | That's Paul Therat, Therot.com. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, Mr. T. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, Leo. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, Pauli. |
| 1:00.0 | And to his left is, your right, is Mr. Richard Campbell, Mr. C. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, Mr. C. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello, friend. |
| 1:09.0 | They asked me some time, probably not on the show, about the Azure Dancers. |
| 1:14.1 | And I'll give you a different version of the Microsoft name. |
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