WW 959: Thurrott Syndrome - Microsoft Faces AI Backlash as Windows 11 Evolves

Ahead of Microsoft Ignite 2025, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri tweeted an innocuous post about nothing, and all hell broke loose. We are broken as a community and it's time to cull the herd.

Ignite 2025

• Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now? • No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again • Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture • MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers • New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service • Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already

Windows 11

• Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions • The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected • Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more

AI

• OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed • Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash

Xbox and gaming

• Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming • Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 • FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience • Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, • which was surprising Fortnite • is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support • Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms • Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20 • As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again • Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2 • RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati • Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007

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