WW 974: DIY Crocs - Project Helix Details From GDC 2026
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 167 minutes
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Summary
From bug-busting AI that's transforming Firefox to personal coding breakthroughs, the team breaks down how practical applications are cutting through skepticism and reshaping developer workflows. Plus, hear why lighter Patch Tuesdays are refreshing from time to time!
Windows 11
- Patch Tuesday's familiar list of updates: Network speed test, Camera tilt and pan controls, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP support for desktop wallpaper, Emoji 16.0, etc.
- It's been a light year so far for Patch Tuesday features - that's a good thing
- New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta late last week. Canary is nothing, Dev/Beta get Administrator Protection, Drag Tray refinements, File Explorer improvements, and fixes
- Android 16 QPR3 brings Desktop Mode to Android devices - and a hands-on with Pixel phones and tablets shows the way forward for Android-based laptops later this year
- Intel has new gaming processors for creators and gamers and they look excellent and are inexpensive
AI and dev
- Copilot Cowork is literally Claude Cowork in Microsoft 365 - "Wave 3" for Microsoft 365 Copilot begins with a lot of agentic features, in private preview at first
- Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive get big Gemini updates for consumers and Workspace customers
- Mozilla partners with Anthropic to use AI to find bugs, and it's paying off nicely
- Visual Studio Code moves to a weekly update schedule
- The .NET 11 Preview 2 is here
Xbox and gaming
- Microsoft starts talking up next Xbox console! It's called Project Helix and, yes, it will run Windows games
- New Xbox Mode is on the way
- Project Helix dev kits to game makers in 2027
- Satya Nadella explains why he/Microsoft are "long" on gaming
- Gaming is a core identity for Microsoft alongside platforms, developers, and knowledge workers
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Nostalgia with a purpose
- App pick of the week: Stardock Clairvoyance
- RunAs Radio this week: SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Canadian Centennial Rye Whisky
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrott's here. Richard Campbell's here. We're going to take a trip down memory lane, talk about their first computers, also a big patch Tuesday, actually not so big. And Paul likes it that way. Plus, you're doing development with AI. There have been a lot of developments, if you will, and Paul will talk about that too. |
| 0:21.5 | Next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:25.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:27.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:29.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therot and Richard Campbell, episode 974, recorded Wednesday, March 11th, 2026. |
| 0:46.4 | Do It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello, you winners. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello, you dozers. |
| 0:52.3 | Look, who's here back in their native environs we |
| 0:57.1 | we give you paul therat in the duck blind hello paul no head the duck blind yeah i don't know |
| 1:05.6 | nice he's in mexico city he's in MX, CDN or whatever. |
| 1:11.6 | CDMX. CDMX. |
| 1:13.7 | CDMX. The D-F. |
| 1:14.4 | Cudad to Mexico, Mexico. |
| 1:19.6 | Hi, Paul. We missed you. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. I mean, I wanted to go to Florida so bad. |
| 1:26.1 | But you really did. |
| 1:28.3 | But I was here. |
| 1:29.3 | We saw Gators. |
| 1:30.3 | That's, by the way, the guy who did go, as you know, he did the show from beautiful |
| 1:36.3 | Orlando at zero trust world, Mr. Richard. |
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