This week Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell discuss Microsoft’s major shifts, including Windows Insider Program restructuring and the rebranding of Microsoft Gaming to Xbox with new leadership messaging. The show covers significant AI developments across Microsoft 365 and Copilot, plus the revised OpenAI partnership amid Microsoft’s surprise AWS deal. Additional highlights include early MS-DOS source code releases, Snapdragon X2 gaming performance benchmarks, GitHub Copilot’s move to usage-based billing, Intel’s $3.7 billion loss, and AI assistant expansions from Adobe and Anthropic.
Before building a new PC, my last PC had the issue (I think) Paul is talking about. Where I’d hit update and it would just always say update failed. I was stuck on 23H2.
When I was in school, we learned how to make games in ActionScript 3 / Flash. That was a lot of fun.
I love playing with the PICO-8, which is a fantasy retro computer with it’s own programming language and interface which is awesome
I’d gladly pay more money for Leo to implement Lisa’s idea and get the whiskey segment OUT of this podcast. I listen to this podcast for work, to learn about Microsoft. I didn’t understand why there was a beer segment when Mary Jo was a cohost, and I don’t understand the whiskey one now.
PLEASE put it in a different feed. The shows are long enough already (let’s be honest, they’re some of the longest podcasts out there, even without this), and I’d like to be able to know exactly how long I really have to schedule for it.
And please don’t give me the “nothing happens after it” - there’s often newsy stuff discussed at the end, so we have to try to find the sweet spot to get past the whiskey stuff to actual podcast-relevant content.
You can just stop listening when you hear “it’s time for the back of the book”. I rarely hear anything after that. They’re pretty good about not putting news at the end.
Unless it’s literally breaking news, in which case they will probably also cover it again later next week. Like earnings calls happening near the end of the show.
For the record: I also don’t really care about the whiskey segment. It just doesn’t bother me to stop listening when it’s time
Just don’t watch the END of the podcast where the brown liquor segment resides - I listen to it because its really interesting and Richard knows a lot about it
If only net/pod/casting had evolved to include chapter markers… without also evolving some proprietary BS to go along with such an obvious and simple feature.
You sound like a guy I used to know! I think you knew him too
(I’m teasing, of course. your post isn’t nearly as long as his were)
I would actually love timestamps, and outside of Spotify… it’s fairly easy to have chapters in MP3s and YouTube. For youtube you can just do plaintext in the description, and it’s a bit more tedious for MP3 it can be done Forecast: Podcast MP3 Chapter Encoder — Overcast (just an example which has been on my mind for a few weeks). It’s just more work than not doing it. Because someone has to be listening to take notes as they go. I wouldn’t want my job to be making timestamps for a podcast.
As for timestamps on a video, well that’s definitely harder and I wouldn’t know where to start (outside of youtube)
I know I can stop listening. Leo can also just make it a different podcast that’s ABOUT drinking. I’ve never understood how the beer/whiskey segment was relevant here - and those who enjoy it could just easily subscribe to a separate podcast about it.
We already get plenty of discussion on non-Microsoft stuff mixed in when Paul or Leo go off on rants. That satisfies the “personality” part of the podcast that many people enjoy. A 20+ minutes segment on an irrelevant topic could easily just be its own thing.
That’s interesting to learn! I’ll have to check out the pre-show sometime. I used to occasionally with TWiET, but that’s because it aired around the time I was off work. Not so much here.
In general, I don’t really like to watch podcasts regardless, but that’s purely a personal preference thing. It’s clear my preference is not the way the major podcast platforms are going!
Even though it seems that way, I feel like all podcasters (that I hear talking about it) still report that have a higher listener count compared to video viewers.
I don’t always “watch” the podcast, but I do usually play podcasts on YouTube as it’s my preferred platform for keeping things in sync. There are some podcasts I listen to on Apple Podcasts mostly because I have no choice, but sometimes even when I have a choice I pick that.
I wish all podcasts would be on YouTube, even if they’re audio only. I listen to ATP via YouTube even though it’s just a static image on the screen. I wish John Gruber’s The Talk Show would be on YT.
Before I had YouTube Premium, I’d watch the replay of TWIET. TWIET was always an hour or less, with 2 or 3 TWiT ad breaks. Now, I have no issue with the TWiT ads. But the ads from YouTube made watching this podcast pretty much a disaster with the number of breaks it would insert.
I just switched to Apple Podcasts and the video feed, from Pocket Casts and Watch some on my Mac in the morning, then transitioning to my phone and audio for the journey to work.
The main reason for the switch was recent versions of Pocket Casts, which have regularly corrupted the downloads and the playback suddenly stops, or it continues playing without sound. Annoying when I am driving on a long journey.
My record is 5 hours of ads for a 10 minute video! It was some ad for a charity, which was nearly an hour long and it was shown 5 times in 10 minutes of video, luckily they were skippable after 30 seconds.
