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Windows Weekly 941: K... and Q

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Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it.

Windows 11

  • Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels
  • Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)
  • Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now
  • Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it
  • PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat
  • Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android
  • ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart
  • Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over

    • Microsoft 365, AI

    • Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI
    • Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose
    • Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion
    • All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf
    • Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026
    • Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory
    • OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world
    • It's working on a web browser
    • It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts
    • Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools

      • Xbox and Gaming

      • Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality
      • Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July
      • Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason

        • Tips & Picks

        • Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished
        • App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop
        • RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
        • Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend

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

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