Leo, Paul, and Richard discuss Microsoft's latest earnings report, Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chip, Windows on Arm's future, passkey support for Amazon accounts, Dave Cutler's awesomeness, Stardock's 30th anniversary, Photoshop/Premiere Elements 2024, and more!

Microsoft earnings

• Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $22.3 billion on revenues of $56.5 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2023. Those figures are up 27 percent and 13 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
• Analysis: Activision Blizzard, Windows, Surface, Xbox and gaming, Office and Microsoft 365, and the evolving impact of AI
• Google earnings: net income of $19.7 billion on revenues of $76.7 billion, ads are 71 percent of total revenues, Google Cloud disappoints

Windows on Arm

• Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Elite X for Windows on Arm PCs
• Promises, promises, but if this fails again, it's over... for Qualcomm
• Qualcomm's WOA deal expires next year and NVIDIA and AMD are on the way

Windows

• Dave Cutler sat down for a THREE HOUR interview. This is a must watch. Some key points here
• Beta build last week with three changes (gradual rollout): system components in All apps display a System badge, Xbox Game Bar is just Game Bar now, the improved casting experience
• New Canary build today adds Copilot??
• Windows 11 Field Guide: the 23H2 update has begun with 9 chapters done so far
• OneDrive: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cloud storage
• Windows 7/8.x products key don't work in Windows 10 either, sorry
• Celebrate Stardock's 30 years of making Windows better - by buying some of its products
• Satya Nadella said he regretted killing Windows Phone? Not exactly

Xbox

• Microsoft revives the "Power Your Dreams" ad campaign for the holidays

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Add passkeys to your Amazon account right now
• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024 and Premiere Elements 2024
• RunAs Radio this week: Choosing Azure Data Storage Solutions with Nicole Stevens
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Burgas 63 Barrel
  

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