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Windows 11
A quick look back at the Copilot+ PC launch Paul did end up making a video of each MacBook Air reference during last week's launch The Copilot+ PC event was also notable for its many references to the past: Paul counted at least 7 in the first 7 minutes alone After some soul-searching, Paul went all-in on Surface Laptop by canceling the first preorder and bulking it up with more RAM and storage Release Preview (last week): 24H2 comes to RP, suggesting it hits stable on Tuesday, June 11 (in preview), one week before the first Copilot+ PCs arrive with this build preinstalled Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course) Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a "WebUI 2.0" initiative Lenovo earnings up 9 percent in quarter, down 8 percent for the year. The future? AI PCs, duhAI
There was a massive Bing outage late last week. Press hold on all the obvious jokes, this impacted Copilot everywhere, DuckDuckGo, other services Cue the Chicken Little "this is why I'll never use AI" crowd, which used to be the "this is why I'll never use the cloud" crowd Copilot comes to Telegram for some reason Google goes live with AI overviews in Search and the world grinds to a halt Google adds Gemini to Chromebook Plus, gives one free year of Google One AI Premium to new device buyers WWDC is coming soon and we're seeing hints of how Apple will add more AI to its products Opera partners with Google Cloud on Gemini in Aria AI and image understanding/image generation in browser And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser NVIDIA revenues were a record in Q1, up 262 percent YOYDev
Last week, we learned that WPF is making a comeback. This week, Paul revived his .NETpad project and is going to modernize it using the new featuresXbox
We finally have some news about Activision Blizzard games and Game Pass!!! But it's only one game, and it doesn't happen until November Atari buys the Intellivision brand. I wish we knew more about thisTips & Picks
Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2 RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's ReserveHosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC
Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why? Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem? Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channelInside baseball
Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon" PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcaseMicrosoft 365
Microsoft Announces Team Copilot Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation featureAI
Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI trainingDev
Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too! Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developersTips & Picks
Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10
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Windows 11
Patch Tuesday Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu New Dev and Beta builds Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak Microsoft 365 Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default pasteAI
OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynoteXbox
Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
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Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Microsoft is promising to put security first, again. Three features have been added to Windows 11 Canary build 26212. Microsoft shuts down some game developer studios under its Xbox Games Studios, including a popular one that published Hi-Fi RUSH. And Playstation recinds PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC.
Microsoft & Security
Microsoft promises to put security first. Again. Microsoft adds passkey support to Microsoft accounts.Windows 11
Windows 11 Canary build 26212 adds three features from the beta channel. Microsoft starts controlled feature rollouts (CFRs) on Windows Insider dev channel. Microsoft acknowledges VPN connection issues on Windows 11 and Windows 10. More improvements to Tiny11 Builder. Arc for Windows shipped last week.Armed and Ready
Apple announces M4 along with new iPad Pros. Qualcomm earnings flat, but big promises for current quarter.AI
Better prompt writing is coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot. OpenAI is allegedly testing its replacement for Google Search. Microsoft allegedly testing LLM that challenges OpenAI.Xbox
Microsoft shuts down more Xbox studios, triggering a new round of angst. Starfield is getting the 60 FPS support it should have had at launch on Xbox Series X. Nintendo has now sold over 141 million Switch consoles, promises Switch 2. Just kidding on the PSN account requirement for PC Helldivers 2.Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Build Blogger Bash App pick of the week: DesktopGPT Plus: Proton Pass gets much-needed account protection features. RunAs Radio this week: Identity Governance with Jef Kazimer. Brown liquor pick of the week: Shelter Point Cask Strength Single Malt.Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Leo, Paul, and Richard steer towards the performance race as they speculate about how Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus PCs will compare to Apple Silicon MacBooks. What makes a laptop truly user-friendly? System reliability, UI consistency, battery life? Plus, the recent Fallout TV series, the practicality of using winget for browser installations, and how the ARM chipset switch is revving up the PC market.
ARMed & ready
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X Plus and confirms Paul's report that the Snapdragon X Elite will have three SKUs (product editions) All four SKUs outperform Apple M3, Intel Core Ultra 7/9, AMD Ryzen 9 7940/8945HS on most benchmarks Why? PC makers asked Qualcomm for familiar choices Previously, an X Plus-based Surface Pro 10 and an X Elite-based ThinkPad T40s leaked. Paul can now confirm from a source that Surface Laptop 6 (13 and 15-inch) and Surface Pro will all be on X (something} Vivaldi is bringing its browser to Windows on Arm tooWindows 11
The April 2024 Week D preview update is here: Recommended apps and frequently used apps in Start, Widgets icon updates, Lock screen widgets improvements Canary: Moves off 24H2 train to build 26200, no more switch to Dev, minor changes to the Widgets board and Taskbar (no new build for Dev) Beta: New Widgets design with navigation bar, new account manager in Start, Gmail in Share, MSA recovery advertisement, and new Game Pass recommendation card in Settings Microsoft Store app downloads from the web get simpler, more sophisticated After yet another Quest 2 Headset price cut, and mounting problems for Apple's Vision Pro, Meta opens up Horizon OS, Microsoft is sort-of on boardMicrosoft 365/Dev
Office LTSC 2024 commercial is now available in preview Classic Teams rides off into the sunset on July 1 Dropbox offers deeper Microsoft 365 integration GitHub sees success in 2FA pushAI
The European Commission will not formally investigate Microsoft/OpenAI partnership Microsoft released a new SLM Microsoft gives a sneak peek of VASA-1, a crazy and scary "talking faces" AI tool Google copies Microsoft again, announces massive AI reorg - that has Pixel fans worried Adobe's generative AI image capabilities are predictably fantasticXbox
Get an Xbox Mastercard in the US, if you're a tool Microsoft announces IGN x ID@Xbox digital showcase - indie gamesTips & Picks
Tip of the week: Have you heard the one joke about the one time you need to use Edge? App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.4 with Sydney Smith Brown liquor pick of the week: GlenKinchie 12Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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On this episode, Paul shares his thoughts on the Snapdragon X Elite chip with Leo and Richard. Windows 11 24H2, AI, NPUs, and SoCs from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are all on the way this year. But a schedule is finally starting to emerge. And it looks like we'll soon have answers to the questions about how or why AI will matter on PCs.
Windows, AI, and the future
Windows 11 version 24H2 - staggered release schedule as discussed last week Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-based PCs in May/June - nothing but good news to date, but Paul went hands-on last week. It's the real deal. Intel's first-gen Core Ultra chipsets are lackluster, but now we have big promises for Arrow Lake in late 2024 Microsoft Build 2024 is in mid-May, and now we have a session list with some nice clues. For example, Introducing the Next Generation of Windows on Arm Microsoft is expected to unveil 24H2 and new X Elite-based Surface PCs at Build Computex and other milestones, and then back-to-school and holiday selling periodsWindows 11
Moment 5 arrives in stable with yesterday's Patch Tuesday (which is now called the General Availability channel, by the way). Of course, we still don't have all the features. In particular, waiting on Android phone as a webcam. IDC says PC market grew by 1.5 percent in Q1 and acts like it's the turnaround of the century Microsoft is manually blocking certain registry keys related to default browsers now: Apple-like non-EU belligerence or pragmatic protection of user choice? Why can't it be both? Beta channel (last week) - Copilot actions improvements New Store app update improvements performance dramatically The Windows 11 de-ensh*ttification experiments continue Does Windows 11 Enterprise solve the problem? No. So it's time to move onHardware
TSMC gets some of that sweet, sweet CHIPS Act money to expand its US operationsAI
Three AIs comparison Blockbuster report claims OpenAI/Microsoft, Google, and Meta stole content at scale to train AI Microsoft opens a new AI hub in London Google mulls charging for generative AI in Search Spotify lets user create AI playlists using text prompts now Brave brings Leo to iOS, so it's on all supported platforms now. And it added Leo to Brave Talk Premium too Google rebrands Studio Bot to Gemini in Android Studio, still in preview. This is their GitHub CopilotXbox
Microsoft rolls out April updates for Xbox consoles, Xbox app on PC Xbox reorgs, Kareem Choudhry leaves Microsoft A rumored game preservation team is too obvious not to be trueTips and Picks
Tip of the week: Microsoft Store hosts its annual Spring Sale App picks of the week: Standard Notes & Beeper RunAs Radio this week: Securing AI with Sarah Young Brown liquor pick of the week: Dalwhinnie 15
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Windows 11 version 24H2 is coming and you're not going to believe what happens next... and then again 6 months later
Microsoft reveals Windows 10 Extended Security Updates pricing Paul reinstalled Windows 10 after three years on Windows 11. There's some good and some bad Multiple sources have revealed a staggered release schedule for Windows 11 version 24H2Insider Builds
Canary/Dev - Widgets improvements head out to more people Canary/Dev (today) - New build today with minor changes, bug fixes (24H2 RTM-ish?). Canary/Dev switch is ending soon Microsoft is moving Photos app to Windows App SDK (from UWP, presumably). Paul has theories Microsoft will move the Widgets button in Windows 11 if you put the Start button on the left Dropbox comes to the Microsoft Store in Windows 11. It only took 12 yearsAI
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is getting many new features by the end of April Copilot for Microsoft 365 picks up priority ChatGPT-4 Turbo and no more conversation limits You can use ChatGPT without an account now, asterisk, asterisk Amazon concludes its $4 billion investment in Anthropic Opera is bringing local LLMs to Opera One web browser Google: Just kidding, non-Pro Pixel 8 will get Gemini Nano too, and you can suck on the performance issues Is Intel circling the drain?Antitrust
The EU is predictably investigating Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon—for not complying with the DMA. Notably absent from that list? Microsoft. Which is unique among Big Tech in that it is being reasonable with DMA compliance and antitrust in general Microsoft debundles Teams from Office. Too little too late?Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Basic picks up some new features A random Microsoft engineer found a backdoor lurking in a Linux utility and might have saved the world LinkedIn isn't just getting games, it's getting TikTok-style videos too .NET 7 EOL is coming. Is the .NET support schedule too aggressive?Xbox
A MASSIVE LIST OF ACTIVISION GAMES ARE COMING TO GAME PASS! Just kidding, you're getting Shadow of the Tomb Raider, jerks Xbox is getting an AI-powered support agent. Huh. Kind of like a personal assistant then. If only they had a name for this thing Phil Spencer says he's open to rival games stores on Xbox Take-Two is buying (most of) Gearbox for $460 million. A Grand Theft Auto and Duke Nukem cross-over is inevitable Rumored white Xbox Series X emerges. White and discless? YOU'RE white and discless!Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: You can still access legacy File Explorers in Windows 11 App pick of the week: Two for two RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft Copilot for Security with George Coldham Brown liquor pick of the week: Clonakilty Irish WhiskeyHosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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On Windows Weekly, Moment 5 has arrived as a Preview Update, Windows 10 gets a preview update, and Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 10 & Surface Laptop 6 for Business at a digital event. Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. Would Microsoft develop a Windows-based gaming handheld device? And Canva acquires Affinity.
Windows
Moment 5 arrives as a Preview Update right on schedule - it's Week D, etc. Microsoft previously described this schedule in its DMA compliance documentation, and noted that it would be fully deployed in stable by the end of April. Quick raise of hands: Did you think this was already available? You're not alone. But ... you know. Microsoft. Oh, and there's a preview update for Windows 10 too. Because come on Microsoft. Don't worry, that lock screen nonsense in Windows 10 is coming to Windows 11 too. Qualcomm claims that most Windows games will "just work" on its X Elite processor. How? Chromium accepts Microsoft commit that will improve Chrome/Chromium text rendering on Windows. Google Chrome comes to Windows on Arm, instantly legitimatizing the platform.Surface
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6. For businesses, only - Intel Core Ultra-based. Consumer versions based on X Elite to follow in May, according to reliable rumors. It's first "AI PCs," supposedly. But now we know why they are using that terminology, and it's stupid. (Related, Intel has its own definitions for what makes a PC an AI PC.) This was billed as an AI event, "the new era of work," but there was NO news for Windows or Copilot. None. Why is that? One word: Momentum.AI
In the wake of Microsoft AI reorg (a NeXT-style takeover), a key Microsoft exec says no and steps aside, will likely leave the company Microsoft Teams is gaining new AI capabilities because, duh, of course it is Designer and Copilot are coming to the Microsoft 365 mobile app - Two more checkmarks for that grid of Copilot capabilities Our developer show schedule is complete: Apple to host WWDC 2024 in June, following Google I/O and Build in May Samsung spreads Galaxy A1 to more devices starting tomorrow in the USXbox
It's finally happening: Diablo IV will be the first Activision Blizzard game on Xbox Game Pass when it goes live tomorrow. Phil Spencer says Windows is wrong for gaming handhelds, thinks an Xbox would be better. Xbox is testing mouse and keyboard support for Cloud Gaming.Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Arc browser just became more viable on Windows. App pick of the week: Affinity Photo 2 Also: Proton Pass now supports (portable) passkeys. And it's free. RunAs Radio this week: GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards. Brown liquor pick of the week: Stauning Kaos Danish Whisky.Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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