May 15th 2024
Windows Weekly 881
Big Boy Teams
Snipping Tool and Word updates, Snapdragon X Leak
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
Windows 11
- Patch Tuesday
- Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
- Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
- Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
- New Dev and Beta builds
- Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste
AI
- OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
- Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote
Xbox
- Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
- Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
- Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
- We have another round of Game Pass titles and you’re never going to believe what we didn’t get, again
- Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
- Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
- Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
- Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
time
Tips and picks
- Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
- App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
- RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16
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