WW 973: Bob's Rumor Store - ASUS & Dell Unveil Windows 365 Cloud PC Devices
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Can Microsoft's push for cloud PCs and AI-powered agents redefine where and how we work? If you keep to the defaults, Windows 11 is secure. Copilot+ PC is even more secure. But you can take additional steps to secure it either way, and you should. Plus, Paul's been trying to play different types of games, and Resident Evil Requiem is better (in his opinion) than Silent Hill f and Silent Hill 2 remake... if you want a horror game. Also, there's a cheaper new Audible plan thanks to Spotify!
Windows 11
- Shenanigans? If you use a third-party AI client in Edge Canary... you will not be amused.
- Bitwarden (TWiT sponsor) is (possibly the 1st?) third-party password manager to support passkey sign-ins on Windows 11
- New Canary, Dev, and Beta builds last Friday- Canary is more of the same, Dev/Beta get shared audio improvements, narrator improvements, new IT policies
- ASUS and Dell will soon sell Windows 365 Cloud PCs
- Google is moving Chrome to a two-week dev schedule. Should we assume Microsoft will follow suit with Edge?
- Dell is up 39 percent, but because of AI servers not PCs
- NVIDIA revenues up 73 percent to $68.1 billion
AI/dev
- OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round as the AI circle jerk continues
- Microsoft brings Copilot Tasks to consumer Copilot
- Google introduces AppFunctions for Android, it's way to make mobile apps work like MCP (be semantic), similar to what Microsoft is doing in Windows
- Windows App Development CLI updated to 0.02 with Store CLI integration and .NET project support
- Build 2026 is in San Francisco, as expected, but in June - overlap with WWDC?
Xbox and gaming
- Here come the first Game Pass titles of March
- Microsoft highlights some indie games to consider
- Xbox ROG Ally gets AI-based game recaps
- Legion Go Fold is the star of the new PCs at MWC
- Sony might be backtracking on its PC games plans
- Developing: Epic/Google settlement was approved
Tips & picks
- App pick of the week: Resident Evil Requiem
- Tip of the week: Secure your Windows 11 PC
- RunAs Radio this week: Hiring in 2026 with Suzi Edwards-Alexander
- Brown liquor pick of the week: St. Augustine Florida Straight Bourbon
Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Windows Weekly, I, Micah Sargent, am subbing in for Leo Leport, who's in Florida at the moment. |
| 0:05.3 | I join Richard, Campbell, and Paul Therot, and we kick off the show with the latest updates to the Windows Insider Program, |
| 0:11.2 | and ASUS and Dell selling Windows 365 cloud PCs. |
| 0:15.2 | Then in AI, we talk about co-pilot tasks and Google making app functions for Android. |
| 0:20.4 | As for you, devs, build 2026 happening in San Francisco in June. |
| 0:24.8 | Wait, June? Will it overlap with WWDC? |
| 0:27.4 | Afterward, Paul tells us about his time playing Resident Evil Requiem |
| 0:30.6 | and tells you how to better secure your PC. |
| 0:33.4 | All of that and more coming up on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:38.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:40.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:42.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:48.3 | This is Windows Weekly, episode 973, with Richard Campbell, Paul Therott, and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Wednesday, March 4th, 2026. |
| 1:03.0 | Bob's Rumor Store. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello and welcome to Windows Weekly. The voice you're hearing is not Leo Lipports because it is instead Micah Sargent. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, I am subbing in for Leo, who is in the ever so humid Florida. |
| 1:17.1 | I don't know if it's humid right now, but we'll find out. |
| 1:19.5 | This, of course, is Windows Weekly, the show where we talk about Windows and so much more. |
| 1:25.8 | Joining us from Mexico City currently? |
| 1:28.8 | Correct. |
| 1:29.7 | Paul Therot. |
| 1:30.6 | Hello, Paul. |
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