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Windows Weekly is about more than Windows. Veteran Microsoft insiders Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell join Leo for a deep dive into the most valuable company in the world. From consumer to enterprise, AI to Xbox, Windows Weekly is the only Microsoft podcast you'll ever need.
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
Windows Weekly is about more than Windows. Veteran Microsoft insiders Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell join Leo for a deep dive into the most valuable company in the world. From consumer to enterprise, AI to Xbox, Windows Weekly is the only Microsoft podcast you'll ever need.
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
WW 941: K... and Q - The AI factor in those Microsoft layoffs
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Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it.
Windows 11
Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels
Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)
Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now
Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it
PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat
Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android
ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart
Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over
Microsoft 365, AI
Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI
Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose
Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion
All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf
Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory
OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world
It's working on a web browser
It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts
Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools
Xbox and Gaming
Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality
Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished
App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop
RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:38:21
WW 940: The Donkey Always Wins - Windows 11 usage surpasses Windows 10
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It's been a big year for Windows 11 updates. This month is at least semi-manageable! Also, a few more bits from the layoffs. Plus, Amiga Forever 11 and C64 11 Forever help you live in the past!
Patch Tuesday
Copilot+ PC only: Ask Copilot action for Click to Do
24H2 only: Show smaller Taskbar icons. Screen curtain feature in Narrator. Settings home page for commercial customer
23H2 and 24H2: Windows Share shows preview when sharing web content. Beginning of PC migration feature in Windows Backup. More changes for EU users to meet DMA requirements, mostly Edge related
Windows 10: EU/DMA updates as above
More Windows 11
WE DID IT! Windows 11 is now in use on more PCs than Windows 10. It's time for Windows 12!
No new Insider features but some bug fixes in Canary
Microsoft Edge keeps getting more responsive
Microsoft 365 and AI
Teams gets threading in Channels about three years later than needed
Google brought its Veo 3 video generation model to all AI Pro subscribers last week, and now it's bringing that and two other big AI features to Pixel
Perplexity just launched its AI web browser
Xbox and gaming
No, Phil Spencer is not retiring
Romero Games forced to cancel Xbox shooter, lay off 100 employees
Warcraft Rumble Mobile won't get any more updates
Xbox angst in the wake of last week's layoffs is mostly undeserved
Xbox fans keep finding new ways to complain - Most of the game/studio closures we know about were well-deserved. If anything, Microsoft let these things continue for too long with no viable deliverables
But what is Xbox? Looking at the platform and what Microsoft has done under Phil Spencer paints a very different picture than all the moaning we see on social media
Game Pass was key to getting Satya Nadella to keep Xbox going, but after the Activision acquisition, the day and date promise was unworkable. After the changes and price hikes, it's possible that Game Pass has peaked.
Microsoft uploaded an out of date version of Call of Duty: WWII to the Store and hilarity ensues
Sony to publish a game for Xbox for the first time
Epic Games quietly settled with Samsung ahead of today's Unpacked event - but not with Google
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Office 365 for IT Pros 2026 Edition is now available
App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge
RunAs Radio this week: Building Real Software using PowerApps with Luise Freese
Brown liquor pick of the week: Bolster Road Maple Rye Whiskey
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02:42:32
WW 939: The House Hippo - Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 While Worth $3.7 Trillion
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Microsoft's latest round of layoffs hits Xbox Gaming hard as the company cuts approximately 9,000 jobs despite record profits. This week, Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell discuss the impact of these layoffs, Windows 11's new version naming, Microsoft Copilot coming to Mac, and dive deep into passkey security.
LAYOFFS
As expected, Microsoft began a massive round of layoffs across Xbox/Microsoft Gaming on Wednesday.
The fiscal year started on Tuesday.
These were originally going to happen a week or two earlier.
9,000 employees impacted across Microsoft - about 4 percent of workforce, Xbox/MSGaming was NOT hit hardest, Microsoft now says (on top of 6,000 in May).
10 percent of King being laid off.
Carefully worded email from Phil Spencer requires some parsing.
It's Finally Official: 25H2 Is Next!
Microsoft finally admits that the Dev channel is testing Windows 11 version 25H2, which will arrive, as expected, around October
This news came as part of another set of commingled Dev and Beta channel builds.
25H2 will be delivered as an enablement package, so it's a minor release technically.
Dev and Beta are linked because 25H2 and 24H2 are linked: Each will get the same features, as started with 22H2/23H2 in late 2023.
Windows 11
Last week was Week D, but we didn't get preview updates per usual before WW
That finally happened last Thursday - new preview updates for 24H2 and 23H2/22H2
24H2: Click to Do improvements, start of PC migration in Windows Backup, small icons in Taskbar, more.
Windows Insider Preview: Those Dev/Beta builds noted above have the first implementation of third-party passkey. Microsoft Edge 138 is a pretty big update, with AI-enhanced history search and Copilot integration into the search box and new tab page.
AI
Microsoft 365 Copilot is available on the Mac.
Apple may cave and adopt Anthropic Claude and/or OpenAI ChatGPT for Apple Intelligence.
After Coda's acquisition and $1 billion in funding, Grammarly acquires Superhuman to build an "AI-native" productivity suite that will take on Big Tech (Microsoft, Google) and Little Tech (Notion, Proton) alike.
Xbox and Gaming
Xbox 360 dashboard is getting its first update in years.
Halo Studios teases an October tease of the next Halo from the studio.
New Game Pass titles for the first half of July - plus, COD: WWII turns up in Game Pass for the first time.
Cursor sort of comes to the web and mobile - like Adobe Firefly on mobile, but for devs when "the mood strikes".
Tips and Picks
Tip/App picks of the week: Cure Mac envy.
The Mac is about to get even prettier. But Windows 11 can rise to this challenge.
The PC matters: Paul recommends Surface Laptop 7 as a MacBook Air alternative.
Software? It's all free.
Full screen apps: Hide the Taskbar and touchpad gestures - also, use DS Clock if you need to see the time.
Transparent system menu? You can make the Taskbar transparent too.
Want Spotlight? No problem, we have Command Palette (an updated, more extensible PowerToys Run) in PowerToys.
Bonus app pick: Inoreader for RSS feeds (and read later if you want).
RunAs Radio This Week: More Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich
Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Alberta Distillers 23 Year Old Rare Batch No. 1
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02:34:18
WW 938: When Will Then Be Now? - Copilot's struggles against ChatGPT
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Windows 10 EOL update
Microsoft confirms that Windows 10 EOL is a go for October. But...
Consumers can now get a free year of extra security updates instead of paying(!)
Businesses can now enroll in extended security updates program
Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10 to get security updates through October 2028
Windows 11
A few new features via the Insider Program
Recall gets a new home page and some nice updates to hardware indicators in Dev and Beta
We know there's a Settings AI agent coming to Windows 11. Apparently, it needs its own local AI model. And why this might be problematic
Canary gets features we've seen elsewhere, plus an ISO - plus a new 24H2 build in Release Preview with features we can expect on June 8, Patch Tuesday
Microsoft launches AI-powered learning app for Copilot+ PCs
First Arm-based Chromebook Plus arrives with 50+ TOPS NPU, local AI features - using the chip that would make for a nice Copilot+ PC. But what's going on with Chrome OS?
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Ignite registration is open
Android users can now open shared Office documents without a Microsoft account
AI
Copilot is struggling against ChatGPT, even in the enterprise
Alexa+ is now available to over one million testers in the U.S. - but have you met even one of them?
Android Studio gets Gemini-based Agent Mode in preview
Xbox and games
First, the bad news: Yes, there are massive layoffs coming to Xbox next week - this is in addition to the sales org-related layoffs that are also coming, and probably more
It's happening! Microsoft begins testing Steam integration with the Xbox app on Windows 11
AMD expands a bit on the news that it's working with Microsoft on next-gen Xbox silicon
June Xbox update arrives with more home screen customization, more mouse and keyboard support for more games, more "Stream your own games" titles (over 200 now)
There's a limited edition Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition - move quick if you want one
Hellblade II: Senua's Saga Enhanced arrives on PlayStation on August 12 - but there's more going on here, including "Xbox on PC" language
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Don't pay for Windows 10 extended security
App pick of the week: Discord for Windows 11 on Arm
RunAs Radio this week: Getting More from GitHub with April Yoho
Brown liquor pick of the week: Drayman's Highveld
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:34:50
WW 937: Vexed by Perturbations - What just happened to Windows Hello!?
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No, it's not you. Windows Hello doesn't work in the dark anymore. For reasons. Say "Hello" to the Windows Hello controversy of the month!
Windows
AI agent in Settings and Recall export experience in Dev/Beta channels - plus the old clock is back, baby
July Patch Tuesday preview: App defaults (EEA only), Share images with visual preview, and some fixes for Windows 11 (The first one is coming to Windows 10 too - tied to the DMA news from last week.)
Commentary: What Apple gets right in macOS 26 (and otherwise)
Surface
One year with Surface Laptop 7
Microsoft issues its first firmware updates for Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 in several months, sort of
Microsoft 365
BBB complains about how Microsoft promotes Microsoft 365; Microsoft disagrees but will change the way it communicates about these features
AI
OpenAI, Microsoft, and... the nuclear option??
The Open AI Files provides an insider view of the company and finds it lacking
Copilot Vision is GA in the United States - It's also free to try on mobile
The Browser Company starts explaining Dia, finally
Xbox and Games
Microsoft announces (extends?) partnership with AMD on future Xbox hardware - a one minute video with plenty to parse
Next-gen hardware
Multi-year partnership with AMD on Xbox consoles and gaming handhelds
Compatibility with existing game libraries
Working closely with the Windows team, ensure Windows is the number one games platform
Microsoft shares Xbox Ally details with devs, a hint at the coming Windows-based Xbox platform requirements?
More Game Pass titles for June, including an old favorite
Minecraft gets three great updates
Steam will run natively on Apple Silicon soon. Unlike all the games.
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Don't give in
App pick of the week: Camtasia online
RunAs Radio this week: SQL Server 2025 with Bob Ward
Brown liquor pick of the week: The Macallan 18 Sherry Oak Cask
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:43:30
WW 936: Liquid Aero - Microsoft Build ditches Seattle, Washington
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Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. Plus, the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to no longer host its Build conference in Seattle. Don't miss the discussion on the evolving role of the iPad as a potential threat to Surface devices due to recent software enhancements!
Windows 11
June Patch Tuesday is here! Big changes for Windows 11 versions 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2
New Start menu finally debuts in Dev and Beta - synchronized again for some reason
Copilot+ PCs get Relight feature and natural language search in the Photos app
The Microsoft Store gets a major update in the Beta channel
And Canary is still a thing, no one knows why
Developer conference season draws to a close
Build: Protests, problems, and more problems
Microsoft pulls out of Seattle permanently
Google I/O: Stunning array of AI announcements. But Android 16 is on a weird slow boil after a truncated development cycle
Apple WWDC: Apple Intelligence? Look, Liquid Glass! Also, some actual advances across its newly unified platforms
Look out Surface: The iPad is a real computer now - And it only took 15 years
Microsoft, Google, and Apple all played to their strengths
Between Windows 11 2xH2, Android 16, and iOS whatever - do the platform makers even know how to ship software anymore?
Xbox
Microsoft unveils the first Xbox-branded third-party gaming handheld as part of its Xbox Games Showcase 2025 event - a few interesting things there as well - COD: BO7, Gears remake, Gears v.next delayed to 2026
This heavily modified/optimized version of Windows 11 is coming to more gaming handhelds
Looking to the future: What if this is literally the model for future Xbox console hardware? What if the next Xbox was a NUC?
More Game Pass titles across platforms for the second half of June
You can add 4 TB of storage to your Xbox, but it will cost you dearly
Apple loses again in Epic v. Apple, Fortnite can stay in the App Store and developers can stop getting robbed by Apple
The Nintendo Switch 2 launched this past week and is apparently the best-selling console of all time at launch
PS5 controllers to support multiple Bluetooth connections
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Share Feature, image crunching
App pick of the week: Dia Browser
RunAs Radio this week: The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones
Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenlossie 26
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:28:46
WW 935: Don't Spritz Yourself - The Great Notepad Controversy of 2025!
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Richard Campbell is out this week! Microsoft continues to make changes to Notepad as it tests 'lightweight text formatting' in Notepad. 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 got preview updates. And Microsoft has reportedly delayed its first-party Xbox / Windows gaming handheld.
WindowsTHE GREAT NOTEPAD CONTROVERSY OF 2025
Microsoft announced it was testing "lightweight text formatting" in Notepad.
This is one of MANY changes its made to Notepad in recent years.
The community has collectively lost its s#$t - most thought this was RTF support - it's not.
Everyone is wrong. In defense of Notepad.
24H2
Last Tuesday, 22H2/23H2 got a preview update in Week D, but 24H2 did not.
The 24H2 update appeared later, with a ton of new features as expected - it's possible an out-of-band update requirement is responsible for the delay.
Now we know for sure what's coming on Patch Tuesday next week.
Windows Insider updates
Today, in Canary: Energy saver in Intune, re-rollout of Phone companion, more.
Dev and Beta (24H2): Quick machine recovery, Phone Link improvements - Plus, more just in Dev.
Canary: Voice access and some bug fixes.
Microsoft makes more DMA changes to Windows 11/Edge
We all need these changes.
Apple needs to pay attention.
Also, hilarious: Apple copies what Microsoft did in the 1990s. Twice.
Earnings:
HP
Dell
Nvidia
Microsoft 365/AI
Microsoft announces (internally) its third major AI reorg in 15 months - Too ... slow?
Microsoft is killing password management/autofill in the Microsoft Authenticator app (announced previously, but now a warning is showing up in the app).
Good, you should use a third-party password manager anyway. Also, it's really an identity manager. Also, wake up.
When/why to use Microsoft Authenticator.
And why you should also use Google Authenticator.
June 2025 update for the new Outlook adds tons of new features.
Research and Analyst AI agents are now GA in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
You can experiment with short, phone videos on your phone with Bing Video Creator.
FU, OpenAI! NYT licenses its content to Amazon.
Samsung may drop Gemini for Perplexity.
Xbox/Gaming
Microsoft has reportedly delayed its first-party Xbox/Windows gaming handheld.
Xbox continues to be in a holding pattern on hardware - Theories include an Arm revolution in waiting and Amy Hood getting serious about trying to make this business profitable.
Are handheld gaming PCs the next Netbook or mini-tablet ... or this is market real, sustainable, and big enough to matter?
SteamDeck/Linux could be a problem here - related to this, Nvidia news.
Microsoft reaches its first-ever agreement with a game studio union.
Semi-related: J Allard is one of about 100 former Microsoft execs at Amazon now, and we have an update.
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: You can replace OneDrive/Google Drive with a NAS.
My Synology NAS is better than expected as a Little Tech replacement for OneDrive and Google Drive. This changes everything
App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge 137
Edge 137 has quietly emerged as the biggest release of this browser since its inception.
Edge 137 adds PIP and business improvements, removes Wallet Hub and some truly pointless features.
It adds Windows 11 App action support to PWAs.
It brings Game Assist for Game Bar to everyone.
Photoshop for Android is here and it's free
Pa
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02:37:56
WW 934: OK, JK - Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Get AI Upgrades
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Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom.
Windows 11
It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar
Windows Insider Program
Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks
Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup
New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.)
Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too. Thoughts? Many misunderstand this to negatively impact the Microsoft Store.
As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store
Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app
Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially?
Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units
AI and Web Browsers, Oh My
Browsers go agentic
The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia
Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser
Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company
Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model)
Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode
Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile
Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule?
Xbox and Games
Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta
FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2
Tips and Picks
Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle'
App Pick of the Week: Instapaper
Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11
RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young
Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:27:14
WW 933: Live from Build - Protestors, AI agents, Edit, Doom: The Dark Ages
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Agentic AI is the theme of the show this year, and this time its multi-agent with orchestration! But first, we need to discuss the protestors. Paul and Richard have stories. So many stories!
Build 2025
New Microsoft 365 Copilot features are rolling out now because it's a day that ends in y
Tuning is the unexpected Build Bingo center square term - rolling out to agents
GitHub Copilot is open source in VS Code, more
Win32 app support improvements, no more fees in Microsoft Store
A shift in making Windows 11 the best place for developers - some things said, some left unsaid
Edge gets new AI features too of course
New native app capabilities in Windows App SDK, React Native
And, pre-Build, 50 million Visual Studio users
Copilot for consumers does image generation now. Fun tip: You can Minecraft-ize photos
OpenAI has a coding agent too, obviously
And OpenAI is buying Jony Ive!
Windows
Administrator Protection is coming soon - And not just for businesses. This feels very much like the firewall in XP SP2, it's going to be disruptive
New 24H2 features in Release Preview: New text actions in Click to Do, a lot more
New 24H2 features in Dev and Beta: AI actions in File Explorer, Advanced Settings, Search improvements, more
New 23H2 features, Windows 10 features in Release Preview
Surface Laptop Studio RIP
Calendar companion app for Windows 11/M365
Microsoft may finally put the Teams antitrust issue in the EU behind
Xbox
Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store
Apple blocked it first, Epic complained to judge
And Microsoft files a legal motion against Apple and for Epic Games
Qualcomm job listing confirms Xbox plans to some degree
What happens when you combine Qualcomm NPU with Nvidia GPU?
Xbox May Update arrives and it's a big one
Retro Classic Games for Xbox Game Pass
Game Bar updates, Edge Game Assist, GeForce now etc. on PC
Custom Xbox gift cards
More streaming of your own games
Hellblade II is coming from Xbox to PS5
Many more games coming to Xbox Game Pass across platforms
Tips and Picks
App pick of the week: You can try Microsoft's command line editor now
Game pick of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages
RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick
Brown liquor pick of the week: Tamnavulin Sherry Cask
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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02:09:02
WW 932: The Last Australian - Microsoft lays off 3%, Windows 10 ESU, "Hey Copilot"
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It's go time: The biggest Patch Tuesday of 2025 sets the stage for 2025! Microsoft has finally revealed whether it will further extend Windows 10 support past October (it won't). Also, Microsoft designed notifications in Windows 11 to be annoying and pointless, so Paul has some advice. Plus, Proton Drive gets a long awaited albums feature, and more on the way.Windows 11
Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) come to stable for the first time
Let's give Microsoft a bit of credit for this one non-reported behavior
Also: Improvements to Settings, Narrator, Start, Phone Link, Widgets, File Explorer
You knew this was coming: Microsoft now testing a "Hey, Copilot" feature
It's opt-in and an alternative to holding down Alt + Spacebar for two seconds
Microsoft discusses the new Start design and it's not a s#$t show like it was three years ago
No builds for the second Friday in a row
Improvements to Settings AI agent, intelligent text actions in Click to Do, a few small changes come to 24H2 in Dev and Beta channels
Copilot Vision gets Highlights and 2-App Support across all channels
Google's big Android reveal includes Material Expressive, big Wear OS update. Android, like Windows 11 (and iOS) is just being updated all the time now
Windows 10
Extended support program
Will support Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 through October 2028
Those time frames are identical
So what about those Surface PCs that can't upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft has an answer (for all unsupported PCs) and it's not as cynical as you think
Microsoft quietly discontinued entry-level 13.8-inch Surface Laptop and 13-inch Surface Pro when it introduced those smaller new models last week
Layoffs
Microsoft just made $70 billion, so naturally it's laying off employees. How to explain this?
The FTC's losing streak against Microsoft continues
A proposal for solving the "Mozilla problem" in U.S. v. Google
Fortnite could return to the iPhone App Store as soon as today
AI
OH MY GOD IS THERE NO AI NEWS FOR ONCE. OK, three small items
OpenAI brings OneDrive and SharePoint integration with ChatGPT for paid business customers
"AI mode" could replace "I'm feeling lucky" on the Google home page
Spotify's AI DJ keeps improving
Dev
Build is next week in Seattle, a few thoughts
.NET 10 Preview 4 is out
Xbox & Games
Today's the day: DOOM: The Dark Ages goes live at 8:00 ET tonight!
Xbox Insiders can now play cloud-enabled games with mouse and keyboard
Paul reviews the Backbone Pro controller
Nintendo revenues slide big ahead of Switch 2 - 15m consoles expected in first year
Sony sold 18.5 million PS5s in the most recent fiscal year, down 11 percent YOY
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Windows 11 notifications make iOS look sophisticated
App pick of the week: Proton Drive
RunAs Radio this week: Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch
Brown liquor pick of the week: Limeburners Albany Tawny Cask
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02:28:12
WW 931: The Eaglet Has Landed - New Surface Copilot+ PCs, Xbox raises prices
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Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.
Windows 11
Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week
Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev
Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025
A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it
Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2
Antitrust
Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple
Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax
The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech
US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well
AI
Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?
Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI
GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users
Xbox & gaming
FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks
Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.
New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month
Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August
Minecraft drops VR/MR support
GTA VI delayed until 2026
Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Go passwordless
App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator
RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes
Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10
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02:48:29
WW 930: Flocculation & Saponification - Profanity filter, EU digital commitments, FY25 Q3
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YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.
Windows
Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting
Corporate
Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales
Dev
Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC
AI
Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want
Xbox
Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Be prepared
App pick of the week: Firefox 138
RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024
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02:42:01
WW 929: The Blue Screen of Soup - Agent Store, Oblivion Remastered, Ubuntu 25.04
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It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?
Windows
New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)
Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta
Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta
Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today
Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features
Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support
Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC
Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)
Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts
AI
We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way
Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge
Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students
Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)
Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too
Antitrust
It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning
Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year
US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google
US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly
What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?
OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious
Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate
Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA
Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)
Xbox/gaming
Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass
Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs
It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change
And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again
HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby
RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner
Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask
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02:19:50
WW 928: The Rice is Done - Edge 134's speed, Reboot Chime, Altera
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Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!
Windows 11
Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:
Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June
Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above
Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app
Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday
Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier
Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta
Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry
Hardware
Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10
First major change under new Intel CEO
What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see
Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group
AI
Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent
Adobe is going agentic too
OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network
OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models
ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory
Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration
Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink
Xbox and games
Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google??
COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks
Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories
Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net
Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise
App pick of the week: Notion Mail
RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes
Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve
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02:19:54
WW 927: Up to Stuff - Intel Unison, Quake II WHAMM demo, Minecraft movie
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Introducing the Windows 11 Feature Tracker
"From the 'I should have done this two years ago' files, the 'I have wasted my life' files, and the, 'great, I needed more work to do' files ... There is a need for this. So I made one. But it will evolve. Maybe into a web app/wiki/something else... like a Notion website?" - Paul
Patch Tuesday brings a metric ton of new features - And what the tracker showed clearly
Two seconds after posting the tracker, Microsoft changed the Copilot app yet again - proving the need for the tracker - And demonstrating why the Insider Program is so screwed up
A hidden new Start menu in recent builds presents an interesting conundrum: How to handle something Microsoft has not announced?
More Windows 11
Beta build for 23H2: File new tab/new window changes, Explorer context menu regression may be permanent
Dev and Beta (24H2): Taskbar icon scaling is a blast from the past we all need desperately
Intel is killing Unison app and service
Like winter, Build is coming
Build session catalog is live - mostly AI as expected. Paul and Richard are going
Overview of the Windows Copilot Runtime (one year after it was announced), Windows Actions, standard Kayla Cinnamon talk on Windows productivity, using your own model with WCR, native app experiences(!), Arm64 app perf, etc.
AI
Final thoughts on Microsoft's 50th: Biggest accomplishment wasn't any tech, it was changing with the times.
What it's best at: Democratizing tech for the commoners, an expansion on Jack Tramiel/Commodore's "computers for the masses, not the classes" schtick. And that is exactly what it is doing with AI right now
Microsoft hosts a consumer AI event and announces a metric ton of new Copilot features
We need a Copilot feature tracker. Copilot = every single feature other AIs have - Copilot Actions on the web, memory and personalization, Copilot Vision on mobile and Windows, AI-generated podcasts and Microsoft releases Copilot Search in Bing
Is AI turning us all into Charly from Flowers for Algernon?
AI is making us stupider! There are studies!!
This is the argument against every single tech advance from the steam train to the ballpoint pen to this
Microsoft's AI demo of vibe-coded Quake II highlights the problem nicely
Sometimes it's the little things: AI recaps for book series in Kindle
GitHub Copilot updated with Agent Mode, Cursor-style code overviews, more
Xbox & gaming
Microsoft announces new Xbox Games Showcase for June
Edge Game Assist gets new features, support for new games
GTA V and enhanced version for PC coming to Game Pass on April 15 - In addition to the previous Game Pass titles we discussed last week
Good: Nintendo Switch 2 supports ray tracing and DLSS
Bad: Nintendo delays Switch 2 to figure out the tariffs mess
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Programmers at Work
App pick of the week: Apple Music
RunAs Radio this week: Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr
Brown liquor pick of the week: The Heart Cut #02
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02:19:18
WW 926: You're Ugly When You Cry - Altair BASIC, Switch 2's pricing, Wintoys
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Bill Gates celebrates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with the release of the source code for Altair BASIC 1.0. Plus, Paul celebrates with 99 cent books: The Windows 10 Field Guide, Windows 11 Field Guide, and Windows Everywhere are all 99 cents for 24 hours! Also available: Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City in preview!Windows
The plot thickens. Paul writes epic take on future of Windows 11, describes Dev channel-only features and when/if they were ever released - in other words, an extensive but partial Windows 11 feature roadmap for 2025
Two days later, Microsoft announces a Windows 11 feature road map - one that is woefully incomplete, pathetic, and sad
Microsoft announces when (sort of) new on-device AI features will come to all Copilot+ PCs, meaning Intel and AMD, too - "not a glimpse at the future of the PC, but the future of the PC."
Live captions with live language translations, Cocreator in Paint, Restyle image and Image creator in Photos, plus Voice access with flexible natural language (Snapdragon X only)
But not Recall or Click to Do in preview, go figure
As expected, March 2024 Preview update for 24H2 arrives, a few days late - with AI-powered search experience enabled
Dev and Beta builds - Friday - Quick Machine Recovery (Beta only?), Speech recap in Narrator, Blue screen to get less blue, WinKey + C shortcut for Copilot returns, Spanish and French Text actions in Click to Do, Edit images in Share, AI-powered search (Dev only?)
Then, Microsoft more fully describes Windows Quick Recovery
Beta (23H2) - Monday - A lot of familiar 24H2 features - Narrator improvements, Copilot WinKey + C, Share with Image edit, plus System > About FAQ for some freaking reason
Proton Drive is now native on Windows 11 on Arm, everyone gets new features
Proton VPN is now built into Vivaldi desktop browser
Intel's new CEO appears in public, vows to spin off non-core businesses. Everything but x86 chip design and Foundry, then
Microsoft 365
Windows 365 Link is now available
The Office apps on Windows already launch instantaneously but apparently that's not invasive enough - we need fewer auto-start items, not more of them
Microsoft Excel to call out rich data cells with value tokens
AI & Dev
NYT copyright infringement lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft can move forward, judge rules
And now Tim O'Reilly says Open AI stole his company's paywalled book content too. Book piracy is sadly the easiest thing in the world
Open AI raised more money than any private firm in history, now worth $300B
ChatGPT releases awesome new image generation feature for ChatGPT
And now it's available for free to everyone
Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 is now available to everyone too
Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access, US only
Some thoughts about vibe coding, which isn't what you think it is
AMD pays $4.9 billion to take on Nvidia in cloud AI
Apple Intelligence + Apple Health is the future of something something
Xbox & Games
Nintendo announces Switch 2. Looks awesome, coming earlier than expected. But that price! And no Xbox/COD news at the launch??
Luna's not dead! Amazon announces multi-year EA partnership, expands Luna to more EU countries
Microsoft announces a new Xbox Backbone controller for smartphones
New titles for Xbox Game Pass across PC,
Tip
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02:26:12
WW 925: It's the Shirt - Security Copilot agents, Cursor, AC Shadows
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Security Copilot agents, Cursor, AC Shadows
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02:04:55
Ww 924: no one wants to be plumbing - copilot for gaming, files, .net preview 2
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Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive.
Windows
March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11
New Canary build today
Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D
Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D
Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix
Paint is getting new Cocreator features
New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all
Microsoft
Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important
FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe
Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe
AI/Dev
Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features
Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook)
Zoom AI Companion is going agentic
Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models
Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2
Xbox
Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox
Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99
Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March
Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA
Discord has an SDK now
Google Play Games for PC is adding native games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store
App pick of the week: Files
RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff
Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky
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02:19:39
WW 923: The Bouche is Amused - Remote Desktop outrage, GroupMe, RIP Woody
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Your Patch Tuesday is showing. Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte go over the latest features for Windows 11 with the KB5053598 update. Also, the hosts discuss Press to Talk for Insiders, the Windows app replacing Remote Desktop, the agentic future of browsers, Copilot integration in GroupMe, Gemma 3, issues with Xbox Wireless Controller 5.23.5.0 firmware, Pocket Casts Web Player, and the "vibe coding" era. Plus, Fences 6 is now in Beta, on sale!
Woody Leonhard, RIP
Like Jerry Pournelle, a major influence on Paul's career and writing style
He had a mysterious life in latter years, not clear what happened
Windows 11
Windows 11 gets all the features we've discussed recently
Are we heading towards something bigger this year? Or just more of the same?
New Canary and Beta (23H2) builds
New Dev and Beta (24H2) builds
Copilot in Windows 11 is getting Press to Talk
Microsoft follows through on threat, kills Remote Desktop App - our latest outrage
Arc crashed and burned but we can still evolve web browsers
What about sidebar apps as a UX baby step forward?
Does Edge need to restart every three days now to install updates?
Microsoft 365
Google promotes ChromeOS/Chromebooks as the right client ... for Microsoft 365
Dev
Build 2025 registration is now open
AI
It's Microsoft's 50th anniversary, so it's going to announce AI something something
Paul has agreed to attend this, from Mexico
Also, report that Microsoft's in-house models now rival OpenAI is a hint
Microsoft improves Think Deeper in Copilot using OpenAI o3-mini
Google secretly owns 14-15 percent of Anthropic
WTF is going on with Big Tech and regulatory evasion?
On that note, CMA clears Microsoft + OpenAI specifically because of change to partnership
Also, Google launches Gemma 3
The Siripocalypse - AI is a hard computer science problem and Siri is the dumb blond in this space
Amazon will use AI to dub movies and TV series because obviously
Xbox
Rumor: Third-party portable Xbox gaming handheld this year, console resets in two years
You could have cobbled this together solely based on what Microsoft has said publicly
Xbox controller firmware, we have a problem
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Code with AI
App pick of the week: Fences
RunAs Radio this week: Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks
Brown liquor pick of the week: Ardbeg 10
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02:37:59
WW 922: There's Never a 'Not OK' Button - End of Skype, MWC25, Rust-inovich
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Skype to EOL in May, replaced by the consumer Teams client, which is surprisingly good now. There are three possible responses to this:
- "They still make Skype?"
- The 13 people who rely on Skype for calling landlines come out of the woodwork.
- "Come on, Microsoft telegraphed this two years ago"
Plus, Opera previews what an AI agent in a browser can be used for. Firefox 136 now comes with vertical tabs (again), updated sidebar, AI chatbots, and more. And a Google-related tip that lets one see what it's like to live in the EU, minus the universal health care and other social safety nets.
Windows
Microsoft FINALLY updates the Copilot app in Windows 11 for the 127th time - What Microsoft didn't tell anyone. Arrives just after the release of a native Mac client
Three months of Recall, and it IS controversial, just not for the reasons you think
Dev and Beta (last week): lock screen widget customizing (finally), Windows Share updates (again), Task Manager CPU usage calculation change (seriously), more
It may be controversial at Linux, but not at Microsoft, which is all-in on Rust
Intel delays Ohio fabs until after the earth careens into the sun
Dell up 7 percent to $23.9 billion ($11.9 billion from PCs)
HP up 2.4 percent to $13.5 billion ($9.2 billion from PCs)
Intel brings Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" chips to commercial market
Microsoft 365
Microsoft finally puts Skype out of its misery
A look back at 22 years of Skype
Outlook Mobile gets delivery and read receipts
AI
USA! USA! USA! Microsoft makes AI export changes easy to understand for our stupid government
OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its final non-reasoning model
Microsoft brings new local distilled DeepSeek models to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X - a little hands-on
Microsoft announces Dragon Copilot for clinical workflow
Stability AI + Arm Holdings = generative AI audio, more to come
Scam Detection in Messages for Pixel and Android
Gemini improvements including upcoming features
Apple's struggles with AI are real. Just ask Siri. Kidding, no one asks Siri anything
Xbox
New Game Pass titles for first half of March
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 coming to all platforms including Game Pass on July 11
Sony slashes prices on VR2 months after it stopped building it
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Remove yourself from Google Search results
App pick of the week: Mo' browsers!
RunAs Radio this week: Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette
Brown liquor pick of the week: Knappogue Castle 16
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Este podcast pretende ser un lugar en el que reflexionar sobre la creciente dimensión de nuestra vida virtual.
Para nadie es un secreto que cada vez estamos más pendientes de las pantallas. La cantidad de tiempo y energía que empleamos en entornos digitales no deja de crecer y de forma acelerada en los últimos años.
Nuestra cultura y forma de entender el mundo y la vida está muy condicionada por cómo usamos los entornos virtuales en todas las facetas de nuestra vida, laboral, educativa, de ocio, emocional, burocrática, etc.
Esa vida que crece más en su componente simbólico, virtual, digital, en red, nos aporta muchas cosas buenas, pero a la vez otros problemas.
En estos momentos convivimos generaciones que apenas usan estos entornos, que han pasado a usarlos por obligación, los que las han adoptado con entusiasmo y las que no conocen otra forma de estar en el mundo. Entre todas ellas surgen brechas, incomprensiones y formas diferentes de vivir la vida.
Lo simbólico, lo virtual, ha guiado nuestros pasos desde que la humanidad adopta ese nombre, pero el crecimiento de esta faceta de recrear mundos inmateriales se ha elevado de forma exponencial con la creación de la informática y su expansión con las telecomunicaciones.
Aquí, hablaremos de todo ello con expertos en diferentes facetas y actividades en la que lo digital ha transformado la esencia de las actividades. Intentaremos comprender mejor lo que sucede y hacia dónde vamos.
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