WW 981: Semi-Sophisticated - Microsoft Releases Source Code For 86-DOS 1.00
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
This episode dives into early MS-DOS/PC-DOS source code, Snapdragon X2 gaming, and the "We are Xbox" messaging. Plus, Paul details 2 big changes in the Windows Insider Program. The latest PowerToys adds 2 useful new utilities and many improvements. And a TWiT listener asked about buying Windows 11 on Arm to virtualize it on a Mac. You're not going to believe what happened next.
Windows
- Microsoft announces big changes to Windows Update
- Microsoft announces Windows Insider Program changes, with Experimental channel
- Hands-on with both predictably shows some nice improvements
- Hands-on with Snapdragon X2 gaming - more wins, but still some losses
- Microsoft open sources some of the earliest MS-DOS source code and related materials
- Intel loses $3.7 billion and Wall Street could not be happier. WTF is happening - Paul has a theory and its called collusion
AI
- Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership again and wait for it...
- OpenAI immediately signs on with AWS
- Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers get Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agentic AI features
- Copilot in Outlook can manage your inbox and calendar, but seriously stop using Outloook
- GitHub Copilot's switch to usage-based billing starts June 1
- OpenAI is reportedly working on a phone because of course it is
- Adobe Firefly AI Assistant is now available in preview
- And then Anthropic goes deeper into the creator market
Xbox and gaming
- Microsoft Gaming is being (re)rebranded to Xbox!
- New Xbox leadership can't stop explaining its plans and it's glorious
- Microsoft still plans a mobile game store, waiting on Apple to stop being so f'ing terrible
- Valve's Steam Controller will cost $99 and launches next week
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Windows licenses, $, and you
- App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.99
- RunAs Radio this week: M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Reifel Rye
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul and Richard are here. There's some big changes to Windows Update. Paul will have the details plus gaming on the new Snapchat and X2 and earnings learnings. Microsoft earnings comes out at the end of the show, but we already learned how much money Intel lost this quarter. And we're trying to figure out why did the stock market go up? Insight coming up next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:24.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:26.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:36.2 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therot and Richard Campbell, episode 981, |
| 0:41.6 | recorded Wednesday, April 29th, 2026, semi-sophisticated. |
| 0:46.8 | It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 0:48.6 | Get ready, everybody. |
| 0:49.4 | It's time to talk Microsoft with our dynamic duo of Microsoft journalism, Mr. Paul Therot from Therot.com. |
| 0:58.5 | Looking very dynamic today. |
| 1:00.0 | It's very dynamic. |
| 1:01.8 | His range is... |
| 1:02.7 | More like diuretic. |
| 1:05.2 | But... |
| 1:05.8 | Hello, Leo. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, Paul. |
| 1:08.7 | And Richard Campbell of Runaz Radio. Richard is back home in British Columbia. For the minute, yeah. For the minute. Beautiful sunny day out there. The ocean's being perfect. Look at that. Tell us again, that is, that is not a lake. That's the ocean. That's the sailor sea. What do you call it? Like an inlet? Look at this guy go by and his speed. |
| 1:28.1 | That guy whizz by. Yeah. And that's Texada Island in the distance there. What a view. And a perfect day. Let me tell you. That is a postcard we're looking at. Nice. I'm just going to sit on that for the rest of the show. How about? Nice. |
| 1:42.4 | We just do that. |
| 1:43.4 | We don't need to see us. |
| 1:44.3 | We don't need to see us. |
| 1:46.5 | Just the show. How about nice? We don't need to see us. Better looking than us guys. We don't need to see us. Just the beautiful lake or lotion or whatever the hell. It's ocean. I don't meet anyone. Every once in a while you meet someone who like watches this podcast and I always, I always start off the same way. I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. |
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