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

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