April 23, 2025

Windows Weekly 929: The Blue Screen of Soup

2 hours 17 minutes

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

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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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