WW 973: Bob's Rumor Store - ASUS & Dell Unveil Windows 365 Cloud PC Devices

March 4, 2026·1 hr 52 min·5 clips

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Micah has the chair. Leo is away in Florida, so Micah Sargent, Richard Campbell, and Paul Theriot settle into the Windows Weekly rhythm without much ceremony. The news list is packed. Windows Insider updates come first, then ASUS and Dell selling Windows 365 cloud PC devices, which keeps the show in practical Microsoft hardware territory. AI arrives because of course it does. Copilot tasks sit next to Google making app functions for Android, and the comparison stays grounded in what software can actually do instead of launch-day theater. Build 2026 is hanging over the calendar. San Francisco in June raises the obvious question of whether Microsoft is drifting into WWDC territory, because even conference timing apparently needs a debugger. Developers get time, too. The Windows app development CLI turns into a larger conversation about interfaces, automation, and whether Microsoft is preparing for AI-assisted admin work in a serious way. Then PowerShell takes over. Remote access PowerShell sounds annoying enough that some people still refuse to give up RDP, and that is not nostalgia. It is how work gets done. At scale, the pipeline still matters, because sending a command to a hundred machines through RDP is the kind of chore that can eat a day. The personal example is the one that sticks. One host has a desktop icon that remotely mutes his wife's computer when music is left playing. It is ridiculous, useful, and somehow a perfect Windows administration case study. It also took real effort. The joke works because remote execution without a domain controller is not simple, and because spending hours automating ten seconds of exercise is painfully recognizable. The larger point stays practical. PowerShell remains a core skill, RDP remains stubbornly necessary, and any AI-assisted admin layer has to respect both instead of pretending one made the other disappear. There is some gaming as well. Paul talks about playing Resident Evil Requiem, and the show also touches the more sober business of better securing a PC. The ending is housekeeping: Micah thanks the panel, notes Leo's return next week, says he may be back near the end of the month, and points listeners toward more TWiT network programming.

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A Windows-focused episode where cloud PCs, PowerShell habits, and AI-assisted admin work begin to overlap.

Windows Weekly 973 is most useful when it gets practical about the uneasy overlap between Windows management, cloud PCs, and AI. Micah Sargent fills in for Leo Laporte, with Richard Campbell and Paul moving through Windows Insider updates, ASUS and Dell's Windows 365 Cloud PC…

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ASUS and Dell just made Windows 365 a physical product, and the hosts have opinions.

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