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Windows Weekly 921: Regret as a Service

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Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive?

Windows

  • 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.
  • Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
  • Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views
  • Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
  • Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop
  • Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

    • Microsoft 365

    • Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows
    • Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more
    • Amazon kills Appstore for Android
    • Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
    • Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

      • AI/Dev

      • Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot
      • Alexa enters the AI era
      • OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users
      • Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI
      • Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist
      • Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
      • ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
      • OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers
      • Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder
      • Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks
      • NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone
      • .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

        • Xbox

        • Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one
        • Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

          • Tips and Picks

          • Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix
          • App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
          • RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

            • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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