Leo, Paul, and Richard break down Google's Pixel 10 launch spectacle, poking fun at celebrity overkill and asking whether anyone actually cares about new phones anymore. Plus, they dig into Lenovo's record-breaking quarter, surprising shifts in the PC market, and the ongoing struggle between innovation and copycatting in the AI arms race. Also, Notion has finally added basic offline support, which should make it stickier than ever.

You got your AI in my Windows

• Pavan Davuluri discusses how AI will impact the Windows user experience
• Not the same video series as the previous "vision" video
• Davuluri leads Windows and Surface, so his words matter
• Changing: Interactions, business models, experiences
• Multimodal - in this case, meaning adding natural language interactions and vision to keyboard, mouse, touch, pen, etc. - "experience diversity"
• Powerful AI models running on-device are "transformational"
• Predictably, the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on.

Windows 11

• Semantic search and new Copilot home page for all Insiders
• Click to Do selection modes, minor improvements in Beta and Dev
• Recall and other Copilot+ PC features FINALLY come to Canary
• A few minor additions to Canary, nothing new to everyone else
• Notepad is getting an updated context menu and the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on!
• Lenovo earnings up 22 percent, best PC market share ever, number one in AI PCs too

AI

• Google Chrome takes the subtle approach
• Brave found a major security vulnerability in Comet
• Like my wife, Gemini remembers everything I ever said now
• Duck.ai gets GPT-5 Mini access, web search results
• Grammarly announces CODA-based editor, several AI agents

Xbox and games

• Another stunning Windows on Arm development
• The Xbox app actually works now on Windows 11 on Arm, meaning not just game streaming but also downloads. Except, of course, that it mostly doesn't work
• Heretic/Hexen installs and runs great
• Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to launch on October 16
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with four-player co-op campaign
• Indiana Jones coming to the Switch 2
• Gears of War: Reloaded, more coming to Game Pass in late August
• To help Xbox, Sony raises prices on the PS5
• GeForce Now gets more powerful cloud GPUs

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide, 25H2 Edition is on the way
• App pick of the week: Notion
• RunAs Radio this week: Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain Whisky

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Patch Tuesday was yesterday, so find out what's new! Plus, two of the best-ever Doom engine games are now available in remastered form (4K/120 FPS, new episodes, cross-play, multiplayer, more) on Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC (Windows), PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam, GOG, and various cloud streaming services. It's a free update if you already own either game. Also, if you have a local library, you should use it. If only for Libby by Overdrive free audiobooks and free access to periodicals. But then be surprised by all the services they offer!

Windows 11

• Copilot+ PCs: Recall comes to the EU, Recall Reset, Click to Do improvements, AI agent in Settings
• All: Quick Machine Recovery, black screen of death, Snap layouts improvements, Gamepad layout for Windows Touch Keyboard
• Blender is now native on Windows 11 on Arm
• Search settings consolidation in Canary
• Mobile device companion sidebar for Start gets a new layout in Dev
• More Control Panel settings move to Settings app in Dev and Beta

Windows 10

• Consumer ESU licenses will support up to 10 PCs
• Microsoft will support Edge on Windows 10 through October 2028 (as expected)

AI

• OpenAI releases GPT-5 but not everyone loves it
• Quickly brought back GPT-4o
• And now the model picker is back, for now
• Microsoft is adding it everywhere, of course, and Apple says it will add to Apple Intelligence - And Bing just added support for GPT-4o image creation
• Perplexity makes unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google Chrome
• Comet - New tab page with Chat, can choose a Google Search as you type, Assistant in a sidebar, Summarize webpage/document, voice dictation, voice mode, big feature is website interactivity
• Microsoft Edge in Copilot Mode - most evolutionary update, new New Tab page, Quick assist with Copilot button location change, Simple task handoff (which needs work), Voice navigation
• But some bigger UI changes are on the way
• Dia (Mac only for now) - Also, there's a Pro subscription - New Tab page with chat and an attempt at orchestration, @mentions for tabs, Skills (built-in, can edit, can make you're own), and personalization
• Next up: Opera Neon - And what is Google doing with Chrome?
• Copilot 3D can turn images into 3D models - It's a "Creators Update"!
• Microsoft is EOLing the Lens app - use Microsoft Copilot 365 app instead

Microsoft/Surface

• GitHub CEO is leaving, Microsoft is rolling GitHub into its Core AI organization
• Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 get firmware update to add battery charging modes

Xbox and games

• Sony sold 2.5 million PS5s in quarter, now over 80 million cumulatively
• Microsoft rumored to have sold only 21 to 29 million Xbox Series X|S consoles
• Big Windows 11 on Arm updates!
• Game downloading is coming to Xbox app on Windows 11 on Arm
• Epic Games and Qualcomm bring Easy Anti-Cheat to Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X
• Apple and Google have illegal mobile app store monopolies in Australia, so Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone there via Epic Games Store
• Microsoft is updating Xbox Dashboard and app to show game trials and demos in "Free with Xbox" section
• Microsoft has paused the production of Contraband
• Steam for Chromebooks Beta will never leave beta, discontinuing in January instead

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Go to the library
• App pick of the week: Heretic and Hexen

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Microsoft's fiscal year ended on a high note, assuming you didn't just get laid off. WinSAT's formal assessment will give you some interesting PC performance information, similar to the old WEI score from Windows Vista. And Proton finally makes a standalone authenticator app; How to transition from whatever you're currently using and why you'll need to keep using Microsoft Authenticator too.

Microsoft Earning

• Quarterly: net income of $27.2 billion on revenues of $76.4 billion. Those figures represent gains of 24 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
• Annual: a net income of $101.8 billion (up 16 percent YOY) on revenues of $281.7 billion (up 15 percent)
• Another look at layoffs, which are nothing new under Satya Nadella - Over 17,000 in CY 2025 so far, despite over $100 billion in profits in FY
• Headcount "unchanged" YOY
• Big announcements below were likely made to avoid Qs about layoffs and it almost worked
• AI spending in FY was about $85 billion, higher than promised
• AI spending in this quarter will jump to $30 billion (!!!!)
• Azure earned $75 billion in revenues in FY, its first-ever disclosure of this number - Fun with math, that means $56 billion in revenues in previous FY. How far back can we go?
• Microsoft's market cap exceeded $4 trillion after earnings release
• "Copilot" has over 100 million MAUs, really M365 Copilot, which even Nadella thinks is a new M365 tier
• GitHub Copilot has over 20 million MAUs, probably most are free
• HUGE gains in Microsoft Gaming/Xbox, discussed below

Windows 11

• But first, something completely different: Microsoft's "vision" for Windows in 2030
• David Weston a curious choice for this video, first in a series - he's in security
• Daily work life changes thanks to AI - less toil work, less eyes and more talking, multimodal interactions
• Security - customers want appliance-level security, "it just works" security -
• Degenerates into a general security discussion
• Back to AI, reclaiming our lives
• Windows 11 SE, RIP - We hardly knew you. Literally.
• Insider: Changes to Home view in File Explorer for Work and School sign-ins, Settings app changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)

More earnings

• AMD - HUGE gains in its PC businesses!
• Qualcomm up 10%
• Apple up 9.6%
• Amazon up 13%

AI & dev

• OpenAI releases its first open-weight reasoning models and Microsoft gives them away for free
• Apple is trying to Sherlock ChatGPT
• Of course Alexa+ will get ads
• Dev: Microsoft has a native app problem on Windows
• Microsoft says it will fix Windows App SDK
• Paul just switched .NETpad to the Windows App SDK and can confirm it's a nightmare
• WPF is half-assed... and last year, it took Microsoft over 9 months to deliver the first Windows Copilot Runtime capabilities to devs, but you still can't use this in production. Also, it's not called that anymore

Xbox & games

• Microsoft Gaming has over 500 million MAUs - More fun with math
• COD has 50 million MAUs
• Microsoft has nearly 40 games in development
• Xbox Game Pass has $5 billion in revenues in FY, over 500 million hours played in FY
• Gaming Copilot (Beta) is available on Game Bar for Windows PC for Xbox Insiders enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview
• Assassin's Creed Mirage and more coming to Game Pass this month
• OG Switch models now cost more thanks to tariffs

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week:

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