BLOCKBUSTER NEWS FROM INTEL

• Intel announces Arc B-series GPUs!!!
• CEO Pat Gelsinger "retires," but was really forced out by the board of directors
• Why? Theories include too-slow progress, major partner bailing on foundry, disagreements over keeping x86 design and foundry, etc.

Windows

• All Quiet on the Windows Front
• No Insider builds last week. Thanks Thanksgiving! Today, a new Canary build with Win32 app updating in the Store
• Patch Tuesday is next week - this will be a big one
• The rest of December will be quiet too
• Microsoft: TPM 2.0 is "non-negotiable" in Windows
• And now, a long-threatened change: Watermark on the desktop of unsupported PCs
• PC sales slid 1.5 percent in Q3 after two quarters of "growth"/flat sales
• Samsung is killing DeX
• Phone Link is the new Dex. Interesting, given the partnership with Microsoft
• Plus, Google is FINALL