April 30, 2025

Windows Weekly 930: Flocculation & Saponification

2 hours 40 minutes

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

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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

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April 30, 2025

Windows Weekly 930: Flocculation & Saponification

2 hours 40 minutes

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

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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!

Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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