WW 959: Thurrott Syndrome - Microsoft Faces AI Backlash as Windows 11 Evolves
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Leo, Paul, and Richard open the episode, announce Ignite coverage and today's AI-heavy lineup.
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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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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