Edge's data trick, Outlook's AI Themes, .NET 9, and more!
Windows 11
- The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end.
- Patch Tuesday arrives
- Windows team says no Preview update in December... but what about November?
- Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator improvements. WHERE ARE THE ARM ISOs???
- Most recent episode of Run as Radio is worth discussing again here
- Dev and Beta: Nice new "run as admin" shortcut in Dev, minor changes in Beta
- Canary: Mostly bug fixes
- Microsoft Edge is using a new trick to steal Chrome data
- It's dead, Jim: Microsoft reminds world that Outlook will replace Mail, Calendar, People
- If you pay for Copilot (dummy) you can make custom Outlook themes now for some reason
- Quick laptop update: AMD Zen 5 vs. Intel Lunar Lake vs. Snapdragon X
Still more earnings
- Arm: $844 million, but disappointing. Also, Qualcomm legal battle looms
- Qualcomm: $10.24 billion in revenues, up 19 percent
- AMD to lay off 4 percent of (26,000 employee) workforce globally, focus on AI
Dev
- Microsoft releases .NET 9
- That means WPF support for Windows 11 theming is live
- But there's a surprise: Microsoft added one of the features we need
- .NET Conf is happening as we speak - Thursday is third-party day, and I am curious about Avalon and Uno announcements
- Qualcomm has a webinar tomorrow for AI developers and Snapdragon X
Xbox
- Surprise! Death Stranding comes to Xbox three years later to the day
- Phil Spencer talks PS5, mobile devices, more in a new interview
- MAJOR NEW ACTIVISION RELEASE ON GAME PASS
- Just kidding, it's some stupid purple dragon
- Friend requests now available (again) to all Xbox users
- Paying GeForce Now customers get monthly usage caps
- NVIDIA app replaces GeForce Experience, no need to sign in anymore
- Sony has sold 65 million PS5 consoles ... it needs 20+ million more to surpass PS3
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update
- App pick of the week: Stardock DesktopGPT
- App pick of the week #2: Quick Share
- Cocktail of the week: Salmoncito
Ingredients
- 1 oz. tonic water, plus more for topping
- 1½ oz. London dry gin
- ¼ oz. Campari
- ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice
- Grapefruit twist and grapefruit supreme (for serving)
Preparation
- Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 1 oz. tonic water, then pour in 1½ oz. London dry gin, ¼ oz. Campari, and ¼ oz. fresh grapefruit juice. Top off with more tonic water and stir gently with a bar spoon. Express oil of a grapefruit twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with a grapefruit supreme.
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