Windows Weekly 838: Dabbling with Farclas

It's happening! Microsoft will absolutely acquire Activision Blizzard An amazing (ahem) blizzard of activity on the acquisition front leaves Microsoft on the verge of consummating this deal. It's amazing how much has happened since last week. FTC appealed its court loss and was immediately defeated again UK CMA extends deadline for its review of Microsoft's new concessions Microsoft and Sony agree to a Call of Duty deal (!) - not clear if it's for 10 years UK court formally pauses CMA block of AB acquisition so the two sides can negotiate Microsoft and Activision agreed to extend the acquisition deadline to October 18 to accommodate the CMA Windows Windows 11 23H2 will be deployed as an enablement package, virtually providing our theories that 23H2 = Moment 4. Tied to this, Microsoft finally explains how it updates Windows now, literally 8 years after the release of Windows 10. It's easy to be cynical, but a Microsoft whitepaper offers a lot of overdue transparency about updating Insider Program: New Dev build today. Passwordless for Windows Hello Business, local file sharing improvements, Outlook now an inbox app Insider Program: New Beta and Release Preview builds out last week. Beta is 23H2. Galley view in Explorer, new Paint app Release Preview is 22H2, just fixes The NUC lives! Microsoft has a new font An AI told you so Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing (for commercial) and it is exactly as expensive as we warned Bing Chat adds visual search support Bill Gates dismisses the dangers of AI. "We've done this before." FTC is investigating OpenAI Xbox Xbox Game Pass Core to replace Xbox Live Gold in September The next Game Pass titles for July Game Pass Friends and Family Preview is ending in August More fun retro gaming as Anstream Arcade is coming to Xbox on July 21 Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Enable passkeys in GitHub Book of the week: John Romero wrote a book RunAs this week: Securing Sprawling Services with Karinne Bessette Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfarclas 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: meraki.cisco.com/twit kolide.com/ww