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<ul> 
<li>Fun aside: Google could have announced Gemini 3 at any time, but they chose the opening day of Ignite. Who's dancing now?</li> 
<li>No Satya and suddenly the keynote is watchable again</li> 
<li>Microsoft brings Anthropic models to Foundry along with Nvidia architecture</li> 
<li>MCP comes to Windows 11 in public preview for developers</li> 
<li>New Microsoft 365 Copilot agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint</li> 
<li>Agent 365 is the obvious name of an AI agent management service</li> 
<li>Windows 11 is getting agents on the Taskbar because it isn't annoying enough already</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>Two new Release Preview builds, a new Canary build, and the first release of Copilot Actions</li> 
<li>The RP builds are a preview of Patch Tuesday in December, it's bigger than expected</li> 
<li>Dev/Beta build with experimental AI agent capabilities, more</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.1 and it's like no one noticed</li> 
<li>Mozilla announces AI window for Firefox, with immediate backlash</li></ul> 
Xbox and gaming<ul> 
<li>Qualcomm JUST announced a new control panel for Snapdragon X gaming</li> 
<li>Hands-on with the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11</li> 
<li>FSE Transforms a gaming handheld PC into a device-like experience</li> 
<li>Frame rates see a dramatic jump in FSE Call of Duty, which was surprising</li> 
<li>Fortnite is coming to the Xbox app in Windows, adding Xbox Play Anywhere support</li> 
<li>Xbox announces a new set of titles coming to Game Pass across platforms</li> 
<li>Xbox Partner Preview event is set for November 20</li> 
<li>As predicted, Steam Machine is the "Xbox Microsoft wanted to make." Yes, it's a good idea now that someone else is doing it</li></ul> 
Tips and picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Tiny11 Builder, again</li> 
<li>Hardware pick of the week: Lenovo Legion Go 2</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007</li></ul> 
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