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May 07, 2025WW 931: The Eaglet Has Landed - New Surface Copilot+ PCs, Xbox raises prices
Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.
Windows 11
Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week

Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev

Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025

A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it

Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2
Antitrust
Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple

Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax

The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech

US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well
AI
Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?

Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI

GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users
Xbox & gaming
FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks

Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.

New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month

Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August

Minecraft drops VR/MR support

GTA VI delayed until 2026

Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Go passwordless

App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator

RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes

Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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April 30, 2025WW 930: Flocculation & Saponification - Profanity filter, EU digital commitments, FY25 Q3
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
AI
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

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April 23, 2025WW 929: The Blue Screen of Soup - Agent Store, Oblivion Remastered, Ubuntu 25.04
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
AI
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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2h 18min
April 16, 2025WW 928: The Rice is Done - Edge 134's speed, Reboot Chime, Altera
Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!
Windows 11
Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:

Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June

Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above

Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app

Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday

Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier

Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta

Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry
Hardware
Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10

First major change under new Intel CEO

What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see

Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group
AI
Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent

Adobe is going agentic too

OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network

OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models

ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory

Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration

Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink
Xbox and games
Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google??

COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks

Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories

Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net

Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise

App pick of the week: Notion Mail

RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes

Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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April 09, 2025WW 927: Up to Stuff - Intel Unison, Quake II WHAMM demo, Minecraft movie
Introducing the Windows 11 Feature Tracker
"From the 'I should have done this two years ago' files, the 'I have wasted my life' files, and the, 'great, I needed more work to do' files ... There is a need for this. So I made one. But it will evolve. Maybe into a web app/wiki/something else... like a Notion website?" - Paul
Patch Tuesday brings a metric ton of new features - And what the tracker showed clearly

Two seconds after posting the tracker, Microsoft changed the Copilot app yet again - proving the need for the tracker - And demonstrating why the Insider Program is so screwed up

A hidden new Start menu in recent builds presents an interesting conundrum: How to handle something Microsoft has not announced?
More Windows 11
Beta build for 23H2: File new tab/new window changes, Explorer context menu regression may be permanent

Dev and Beta (24H2): Taskbar icon scaling is a blast from the past we all need desperately

Intel is killing Unison app and service
Like winter, Build is coming
Build session catalog is live - mostly AI as expected. Paul and Richard are going

Overview of the Windows Copilot Runtime (one year after it was announced), Windows Actions, standard Kayla Cinnamon talk on Windows productivity, using your own model with WCR, native app experiences(!), Arm64 app perf, etc.
AI
Final thoughts on Microsoft's 50th: Biggest accomplishment wasn't any tech, it was changing with the times.

What it's best at: Democratizing tech for the commoners, an expansion on Jack Tramiel/Commodore's "computers for the masses, not the classes" schtick. And that is exactly what it is doing with AI right now

Microsoft hosts a consumer AI event and announces a metric ton of new Copilot features

We need a Copilot feature tracker. Copilot = every single feature other AIs have - Copilot Actions on the web, memory and personalization, Copilot Vision on mobile and Windows, AI-generated podcasts and Microsoft releases Copilot Search in Bing

Is AI turning us all into Charly from Flowers for Algernon?

AI is making us stupider! There are studies!!

This is the argument against every single tech advance from the steam train to the ballpoint pen to this

Microsoft's AI demo of vibe-coded Quake II highlights the problem nicely

Sometimes it's the little things: AI recaps for book series in Kindle

GitHub Copilot updated with Agent Mode, Cursor-style code overviews, more
Xbox & gaming
Microsoft announces new Xbox Games Showcase for June

Edge Game Assist gets new features, support for new games

GTA V and enhanced version for PC coming to Game Pass on April 15 - In addition to the previous Game Pass titles we discussed last week

Good: Nintendo Switch 2 supports ray tracing and DLSS

Bad: Nintendo delays Switch 2 to figure out the tariffs mess
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Programmers at Work

App pick of the week: Apple Music

RunAs Radio this week: Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr

Brown liquor pick of the week: The Heart Cut #02

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2h 18min
April 02, 2025WW 926: You're Ugly When You Cry - Altair BASIC, Switch 2's pricing, Wintoys
Bill Gates celebrates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with the release of the source code for Altair BASIC 1.0. Plus, Paul celebrates with 99 cent books: The Windows 10 Field Guide, Windows 11 Field Guide, and Windows Everywhere are all 99 cents for 24 hours! Also available: Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City in preview!
Windows
The plot thickens. Paul writes epic take on future of Windows 11, describes Dev channel-only features and when/if they were ever released - in other words, an extensive but partial Windows 11 feature roadmap for 2025

Two days later, Microsoft announces a Windows 11 feature road map - one that is woefully incomplete, pathetic, and sad

Microsoft announces when (sort of) new on-device AI features will come to all Copilot+ PCs, meaning Intel and AMD, too - "not a glimpse at the future of the PC, but the future of the PC."

Live captions with live language translations, Cocreator in Paint, Restyle image and Image creator in Photos, plus Voice access with flexible natural language (Snapdragon X only)

But not Recall or Click to Do in preview, go figure

As expected, March 2024 Preview update for 24H2 arrives, a few days late - with AI-powered search experience enabled

Dev and Beta builds - Friday - Quick Machine Recovery (Beta only?), Speech recap in Narrator, Blue screen to get less blue, WinKey + C shortcut for Copilot returns, Spanish and French Text actions in Click to Do, Edit images in Share, AI-powered search (Dev only?)

Then, Microsoft more fully describes Windows Quick Recovery

Beta (23H2) - Monday - A lot of familiar 24H2 features - Narrator improvements, Copilot WinKey + C, Share with Image edit, plus System -- About FAQ for some freaking reason

Proton Drive is now native on Windows 11 on Arm, everyone gets new features

Proton VPN is now built into Vivaldi desktop browser

Intel's new CEO appears in public, vows to spin off non-core businesses. Everything but x86 chip design and Foundry, then
Microsoft 365
Windows 365 Link is now available

The Office apps on Windows already launch instantaneously but apparently that's not invasive enough - we need fewer auto-start items, not more of them

Microsoft Excel to call out rich data cells with value tokens
AI & Dev
NYT copyright infringement lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft can move forward, judge rules

And now Tim O'Reilly says Open AI stole his company's paywalled book content too. Book piracy is sadly the easiest thing in the world

Open AI raised more money than any private firm in history, now worth $300B

ChatGPT releases awesome new image generation feature for ChatGPT

And now it's available for free to everyone

Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 is now available to everyone too

Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access, US only

Some thoughts about vibe coding, which isn't what you think it is

AMD pays $4.9 billion to take on Nvidia in cloud AI

Apple Intelligence + Apple Health is the future of something something
Xbox & Games
Nintendo announces Switch 2. Looks awesome, coming earlier than expected. But that price! And no Xbox/COD news at the launch??

Luna's not dead! Amazon announces multi-year EA partnership, expands Luna to more EU countries

Microsoft announces a new Xbox Backbone controller for smartphones

New titles for Xbox Game Pass across PC,

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2h 24min
March 26, 2025WW 925: It's the Shirt - Security Copilot agents, Cursor, AC Shadows
What's next? Windows 12? Windows 11 25H2? You're not going to believe what happens next! A look back at everything Microsoft tested in just the Dev channel and then did or did not release to stable, and when. The list of unreleased features is unexpectedly long - most of this must be the next Windows version. Plus, If you have a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription, there are more benefits now and they're easier to find.
Windows 11 in 2025
Dev channel moves to a new build sequence

Microsoft issues Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 23H2 (But not 24H2)

Release Preview (24H2) - AI-powered Windows Search experience is barreling towards stable

Beta (23H2) and now Canary - Mostly just fixes

New AI features in Notepad, Paint, and Snipping tool head to all Insiders

Photos app update to all Insiders, adds Copilot integration, more
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets two reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst

AI - Agents - Reasoning AI --- Reasoning Agents? You got your reasoning in my agent!

Microsoft to launch Security Copilots in April

Microsoft releases first two Microsoft 365 companion apps for Windows 11, threatens to make more

Here comes Copilot in OneDrive, to consumer Microsoft 365 account holders

Anonymous document sharing for Word, Excel, PowerPoint comes to iPhone/iPad (is on web already)

OneNote for Windows 10 RIP in October after years of malaise
AI
Browsers to change in the agentic AI era - are they still browsers? Will we still browse?

"In Russia, the browser browses for you!"

Sam Altman pulls a Bill Gates in executive shift

ChatGPT gets image generation with GPT-4o

Google brings AI search to Gmail - Hopefully, it's better than AI search in Photos

Google releases first Gemini 2.5 model, all will be reasoning (thinking) models going forward

Amazon is testing AI-powered Interests feature in the U.S.

After it's success with conversational Siri, Apple to bring AI to Apple Watch, AirPods

Speaking of which, Apple sued for advertising Apple Intelligence - maybe it's time for a level set here

Exec reshuffle to fix Siri woes - maybe it's time to Ol' Yeller this

WWDC is on for June 9 - [waves hands] Look, it's iOS 19!

Opera upgrades three of its web browsers (really, four) with new Aria AI features
Xbox
Microsoft wants to make Xbox app in Windows the central hub for all stores

Microsoft testing new Game Hub on Xbox

Microsoft to release Vibrant Visuals upgrade for Minecraft this year

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 on April 17

New Assassin's Creed game (Shadows) gets off to a great start, with 2 million players in first 2 days, better than Origins and Odyssey. Most played game on Steam over the weekend, second-highest day-one sales revenue in the franchise's history (behind Valhalla), best ever day-one launch on the PlayStation Store. 27 percent of players are on PC
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Take advantages of Game Pass in-game benefits

App pick of the week: Google Drive for Windows

RunAs Radio this week: Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kempisch Vuur

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2h 4min
March 19, 2025WW 924: No One Wants To Be Plumbing - Copilot for Gaming, Files, .NET Preview 2
Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive.
Windows
March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11

New Canary build today

Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D

Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D

Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix

Paint is getting new Cocreator features

New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all
Microsoft
Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important

FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe

Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe
AI/Dev
Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features

Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook)

Zoom AI Companion is going agentic

Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models

Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2
Xbox
Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox

Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99

Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March

Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA

Discord has an SDK now

Google Play Games for PC is adding native games
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store

App pick of the week: Files

RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff

Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 20min
March 12, 2025WW 923: The Bouche is Amused - Remote Desktop outrage, GroupMe, RIP Woody
Your Patch Tuesday is showing. Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte go over the latest features for Windows 11 with the KB5053598 update. Also, the hosts discuss Press to Talk for Insiders, the Windows app replacing Remote Desktop, the agentic future of browsers, Copilot integration in GroupMe, Gemma 3, issues with Xbox Wireless Controller 5.23.5.0 firmware, Pocket Casts Web Player, and the "vibe coding" era. Plus, Fences 6 is now in Beta, on sale!
Woody Leonhard, RIP
Like Jerry Pournelle, a major influence on Paul's career and writing style

He had a mysterious life in latter years, not clear what happened
Windows 11
Windows 11 gets all the features we've discussed recently

Are we heading towards something bigger this year? Or just more of the same?

New Canary and Beta (23H2) builds

New Dev and Beta (24H2) builds

Copilot in Windows 11 is getting Press to Talk

Microsoft follows through on threat, kills Remote Desktop App - our latest outrage

Arc crashed and burned but we can still evolve web browsers

What about sidebar apps as a UX baby step forward?

Does Edge need to restart every three days now to install updates?
Microsoft 365
Google promotes ChromeOS/Chromebooks as the right client ... for Microsoft 365
Dev
Build 2025 registration is now open
AI
It's Microsoft's 50th anniversary, so it's going to announce AI something something

Paul has agreed to attend this, from Mexico

Also, report that Microsoft's in-house models now rival OpenAI is a hint

Microsoft improves Think Deeper in Copilot using OpenAI o3-mini

Google secretly owns 14-15 percent of Anthropic

WTF is going on with Big Tech and regulatory evasion?

On that note, CMA clears Microsoft + OpenAI specifically because of change to partnership

Also, Google launches Gemma 3

The Siripocalypse - AI is a hard computer science problem and Siri is the dumb blond in this space

Amazon will use AI to dub movies and TV series because obviously
Xbox
Rumor: Third-party portable Xbox gaming handheld this year, console resets in two years

You could have cobbled this together solely based on what Microsoft has said publicly

Xbox controller firmware, we have a problem
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Code with AI

App pick of the week: Fences

RunAs Radio this week: Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks

Brown liquor pick of the week: Ardbeg 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2h 37min
March 05, 2025WW 922: There's Never a "Not OK" Button - End of Skype, MWC25, Rust-inovich
Skype to EOL in May, replaced by the consumer Teams client, which is surprisingly good now. There are three possible responses to this:
"They still make Skype?"

The 13 people who rely on Skype for calling landlines come out of the woodwork.

"Come on, Microsoft telegraphed this two years ago"

Plus, Opera previews what an AI agent in a browser can be used for. Firefox 136 now comes with vertical tabs (again), updated sidebar, AI chatbots, and more. And a Google-related tip that lets one see what it's like to live in the EU, minus the universal health care and other social safety nets.
Windows
Microsoft FINALLY updates the Copilot app in Windows 11 for the 127th time - What Microsoft didn't tell anyone. Arrives just after the release of a native Mac client

Three months of Recall, and it IS controversial, just not for the reasons you think

Dev and Beta (last week): lock screen widget customizing (finally), Windows Share updates (again), Task Manager CPU usage calculation change (seriously), more

It may be controversial at Linux, but not at Microsoft, which is all-in on Rust

Intel delays Ohio fabs until after the earth careens into the sun

Dell up 7 percent to $23.9 billion ($11.9 billion from PCs)

HP up 2.4 percent to $13.5 billion ($9.2 billion from PCs)

Intel brings Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" chips to commercial market
Microsoft 365
Microsoft finally puts Skype out of its misery

A look back at 22 years of Skype

Outlook Mobile gets delivery and read receipts
AI
USA! USA! USA! Microsoft makes AI export changes easy to understand for our stupid government

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its final non-reasoning model

Microsoft brings new local distilled DeepSeek models to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X - a little hands-on

Microsoft announces Dragon Copilot for clinical workflow

Stability AI + Arm Holdings = generative AI audio, more to come

Scam Detection in Messages for Pixel and Android

Gemini improvements including upcoming features

Apple's struggles with AI are real. Just ask Siri. Kidding, no one asks Siri anything
Xbox
New Game Pass titles for first half of March

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 coming to all platforms including Game Pass on July 11

Sony slashes prices on VR2 months after it stopped building it
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Remove yourself from Google Search results

App pick of the week: Mo' browsers!

RunAs Radio this week: Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette

Brown liquor pick of the week: Knappogue Castle 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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