This week on MSFT Unboxed, Kareem and David try to figure out whether Xbox just reinvented TV commercials inside your games.
Ad-supported game streaming is being tested, and the reactions range from raised eyebrows to full Jim Halpert camera stares.
They also break down this week’s Free Play Days, which arrive with enough extensions and variety to make your backlog feel judged. Then it is over to Copilot, where Deep Research is being quietly escorted out of the building like it caused a scene at the holiday party.
From there, the duo dives into the global PC shipment slump, where rising memory prices have turned Q2 2026 into a sad chart with one lonely winner. Microsoft also hints at more Surface surprises, including the eternal question of whether a Surface Studio monitor will ever exist without requiring wishful thinking.
Finally, LG gets caught installing McAfee adware through its monitors, and Microsoft steps in like a parent telling a kid to stop drawing on the walls.
It is tech news with better jokes and fewer pop-ups.
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EP.113 – Xbox For Sale, Clipping Hawking Crypto, WSL Updates – MSFT Unboxed
- EP.113 – Xbox For Sale, Clipping Hawking Crypto, WSL Updates
- EP.112 – Big Copilot Pivot, Xbox Glass Cliff, Pixelbook vs Chromebook
- EP.111 – Your New Copilot Coworker, More Windows Headaches, Time To Slow AI
- EP.110 – The Foldable debate heats up, and other Microsoft News
- EP.109 – Hourly based Xbox gameplay, Apple and Pixel phone updates, Tim Cook = Bad CEO
