May 29, 2024

Windows Weekly 883: It's So Convulated

2 hours 1 minute

Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth

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, duh

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 YOY

Dev

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 features

Xbox

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 this

Tips & 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 Reserve

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