Windows Weekly 1001: Corporate Surveillance With Watercolors

Microsoft's record-breaking Patch Tuesday unleashed nearly a thousand fixes, but the bonus story is in the chaos that followed as out-of-band updates and AI-driven bug hunts left admins scrambling to keep up.

Windows

• Patch Tuesday was so buggy Microsoft had to release an emergency fix to address all the issues
• New Release Preview builds for 24H2/25H2 - I guess we're moving past the features that are also in the initial 26H2 release - New Copilot key remapping feature, they will get it right eventually
• Five builds across Experimental and Beta channels - All over the map as you'd expect
• Google releases the Gemini app for Windows
• Adobe released Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2027
• AnyType is a top-tier Notion alternative and it's about to get very interesting
• Microsoft previews an October Windows + Surface event that's clearly all about Nvidia - but is this also tied to 26H2 release?
• HP announces a new Ryzen-based portable workstation with an interesting detail about unified memory
• Apple announced iPhone 18 Pros, iPhone Duo, Watch 12 + Ultra 4, AirPods 5, and then released its '27 OS updates - And sure whatever

AI

• AI fear-mongering reaches new heights (or new lows): Is this just PR from Big AI to keep the money rolling?
• Bill Gates says Gates Foundation will donate $1+ billion to solve AI inequality
• Big AI could solve the PR problems by actually doing something positive for mankind. Just a thought
• Copilot Work and Copilot Studio get app building capabilities
• Google will bring MCP to Google Home, in early preview now
• Mozilla and Mistral partner on Firefox Smart Window AI

XBOX and gaming

• Gears of War: E-Day and more is coming to Game Pass in the second half of September
• XBOX is going to the Tokyo Game Show and a nice surprise for Kojima fans
• Valve opens up Steam Frame preorders and it's only $1060!
• Amazon Prime Gaming and Luna are having a pretty g26ood September
• Apple is reportedly making an iPhone game controller for some reason

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: There's a new MSA bypass for Windows 11 Setup
• App pick of the week: Google Dreambeans
• RunAs Radio this week: Patching in 2026 with Susan Bradley
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Art of the Spirits Honored to Serve

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