Agentic AI: The Second Wave

Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.

Ignite 2025

• Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?
• No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again
• Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture
• MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers
• New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service
• Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already

Windows 11

• Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions
• The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected
• Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more

AI

• OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed
• Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash

Xbox and gaming

• Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming
• Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11
• FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience
• Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising
• Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support
• Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms
• Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20
• As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again
• Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2
• RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

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