WW 902: Nothing to Declare - Passkey providers, Halo Studios, "commodity"

Windows Weekly (Video)

Join Leo, Paul, and Richard on a potentially Spanish-adjacent episode! Patch Tuesday arrives and Microsoft finally admits that 24H2 is a thing. Plus, a discussion on Satya Nadella recently describing the LLMs behind Copilot and other AIs as a "commodity." In Xbox news, Microsoft finally reveals it's moving Halo to Unreal Engine, and it's renaming the tarnished 343 Industries after laying off much of that studio.

Windows 11

• 24H2 appears on the Microsoft Support site for the first time
• 22H2 gets its final cumulative update (same update as 23H2)
• 24H2 new features: Share local files from search results, Sign out moved to where it belongs, media controls on lock screen, Copilot Plus management in Settings > Account, etc. - 22H2/23H3 mostly the same
• Paul is updating the Windows 11 Field Guide for 24H2 this month - the first several chapter updates are live
• Dev and Beta: New builds right after 24H2 ships? Why not? And there are some interesting new features in the pipeline
• New Canary build today as well
• Passkeys are a joke in Windows 11 ... someday, they'll be less of a joke, but today is not that day.
• Paul finally has a Lunar Lake laptop in-house. Or in-casa, one could say

Antitrust

• Google is ordered to open up Android apps and the Google Play Store- Breathtaking.
• DOJ is open to breaking up Google - even better
• Web browser makers you've never heard of want the EU to add Microsoft Edge to the DMA list

Microsoft 365/AI/Dev

• Microsoft announces major new features for OneDrive
• Colored folders, yay, but will it fix the ensh*ttification?
• .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 lands on schedule, no new features
• RIP, Surface Duo

Xbox

• Finally, Microsoft makes a good decision for Halo fans
• Flight Sim 2024 will get a technical alpha on PC
• Red Dead Redemption is coming to the PC on October 29
• Diablo IV to be first Microsoft game enhanced for PS5 Pro

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Something for videogame fans to watch and read
• App pick of the week: Multiplicity 4 (Beta 1 for now)
• RunAs Radio this week: OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Talisker 45-Year-Old Glacial Edge

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