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June 19, 2024WW 886: The Old Banana in the Tailpipe - Copilot+ PC Launch Chaos, Recall Delay, Windows 11 Updates
Copilot+ PC Launch Chaos, Recall Delay, Windows 11 Updates

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 32 min
June 12, 2024WW 885: Open the Kokomo! - Recall to be opt-in, Auto SR, new Xbox Series models
Recall to be opt-in, Auto SR, new Xbox Series models

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 56 min
June 05, 2024WW 884: Sentient Meat - Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15
Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15
Attack of the Copilot+ PCs
Nvidia: GeForce RTX AI PCs will get Copilot+ PC status ... some day

AMD: Ryzen AI 300 series (laptops) and AMD Ryzen 9000 series (desktops) have 50 TOPS NPUs and an on-stage apology, er, admission, from Microsoft

Intel: Lunar Lake delivers 48 TOPS NPU, new GPU

Qualcomm - Don't forget us! We're going to go after every PC form factor there is

Thinking about AI, NPUs, and local workloads - Is an orchestrator in our future?

Microsoft needs to address the Recall controversies

Framework Laptop 13 is coming with Intel Core Ultra chips

HP earnings - PC business up 3 percent in Q

Dell earnings - PC business is flat
Windows 11
Microsoft delivers its Week D preview update a day late

If you're on 24H2 like I recommended last week, you get ... wait for it ... Copilot as an app

Canary: Copilot as an app, Emoji 15.1 support

Dev: Copilot as an app

Microsoft adds a Windows 10 Insider Preview Beta channel to test new features
Microsoft
Bing is 15 years old. What can we possibly celebrate?

More Microsoft layoffs, this time in Mixed Reality and Azure
AI
Apple reportedly partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft reportedly pissed about Apple partnering with OpenAI

Google is fixing its AI overviews in Search

And if anyone still trusts Google AI for some reason, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are now GA

Amazon brings AI search, and to Fire TV for some reason

When Raspberry Pi 5 can do AI is AI just everywhere now?
Xbox
Asus announces ROG Ally X gaming handheld - are these to gaming what 8.1-inch tablets were to Windows 8.1?

PlayStation VR2 adapter for PC is $60
Tips & Picks
App pick of the week: Opera

RunAs Radio this week: Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping

Brown liquor pick of the week: Nikka "From the Barrel"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 30 min
May 29, 2024WW 883: It's So Convulated - Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth
Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth
Windows 11
A quick look back at the Copilot+ PC launch

Paul did end up making a video of each MacBook Air reference during last week's launch

The Copilot+ PC event was also notable for its many references to the past: Paul counted at least 7 in the first 7 minutes alone

After some soul-searching, Paul went all-in on Surface Laptop by canceling the first preorder and bulking it up with more RAM and storage

Release Preview (last week): 24H2 comes to RP, suggesting it hits stable on Tuesday, June 11 (in preview), one week before the first Copilot+ PCs arrive with this build preinstalled

Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course)

Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a "WebUI 2.0" initiative

Lenovo earnings up 9 percent in quarter, down 8 percent for the year. The future? AI PCs, duh
AI
There was a massive Bing outage late last week. Press hold on all the obvious jokes, this impacted Copilot everywhere, DuckDuckGo, other services

Cue the Chicken Little "this is why I'll never use AI" crowd, which used to be the "this is why I'll never use the cloud" crowd

Copilot comes to Telegram for some reason

Google goes live with AI overviews in Search and the world grinds to a halt

Google adds Gemini to Chromebook Plus, gives one free year of Google One AI Premium to new device buyers

WWDC is coming soon and we're seeing hints of how Apple will add more AI to its products

Opera partners with Google Cloud on Gemini in Aria AI and image understanding/image generation in browser

And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser

NVIDIA revenues were a record in Q1, up 262 percent YOY
Dev
Last week, we learned that WPF is making a comeback. This week, Paul revived his .NETpad project and is going to modernize it using the new features
Xbox
We finally have some news about Activision Blizzard games and Game Pass!!! But it's only one game, and it doesn't happen until November

Atari buys the Intellivision brand. I wish we knew more about this
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns

App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2

RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's Reserve

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 2 min
May 22, 2024WW 882: The Hall & Oates Story - Copilot+ PCs, Recall snapshots, Khan Academy
Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC
Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses

Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected

What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?

Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could

The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?

Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern

Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features

Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome

Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel
Inside baseball
Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event

Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement

Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"

PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Announces Team Copilot

Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature
AI
Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs

Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform

Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training
Dev
Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime

Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!

Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot

Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release

Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers
Tips & Picks
Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report

RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott

Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 14 min
May 15, 2024WW 881: Big Boy Teams - Snipping Tool and Word updates, Snapdragon X Leak
Windows 11
Patch Tuesday

Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets

Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning

Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu

New Dev and Beta builds

Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste
AI
OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update

Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote
Xbox
Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July

Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally

Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure

We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again

Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X

Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games

Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs

Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in

time
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins

App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free

RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto

Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 47 min
May 08, 2024WW 880: B.C. in a Bottle - Passkeys, Xbox Studios, Democracy Prevails!
Microsoft is promising to put security first, again. Three features have been added to Windows 11 Canary build 26212. Microsoft shuts down some game developer studios under its Xbox Games Studios, including a popular one that published Hi-Fi RUSH. And Playstation recinds PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC.
Microsoft & Security
Microsoft promises to put security first. Again.

Microsoft adds passkey support to Microsoft accounts.
Windows 11
Windows 11 Canary build 26212 adds three features from the beta channel.

Microsoft starts controlled feature rollouts (CFRs) on Windows Insider dev channel.

Microsoft acknowledges VPN connection issues on Windows 11 and Windows 10.

More improvements to Tiny11 Builder.

Arc for Windows shipped last week.
Armed and Ready
Apple announces M4 along with new iPad Pros.

Qualcomm earnings flat, but big promises for current quarter.
AI
Better prompt writing is coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

OpenAI is allegedly testing its replacement for Google Search.

Microsoft allegedly testing LLM that challenges OpenAI.
Xbox
Microsoft shuts down more Xbox studios, triggering a new round of angst.

Starfield is getting the 60 FPS support it should have had at launch on Xbox Series X.

Nintendo has now sold over 141 million Switch consoles, promises Switch 2.

Just kidding on the PSN account requirement for PC Helldivers 2.
Tips and picks
Tip of the week: Build Blogger Bash

App pick of the week: DesktopGPT

Plus: Proton Pass gets much-needed account protection features.

RunAs Radio this week: Identity Governance with Jef Kazimer.

Brown liquor pick of the week: Shelter Point Cask Strength Single Malt.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 11 min
May 01, 2024WW 879: The Cockroach of CPUs - FY24 Q3 Earnings, AI Explorer, Github Copilot Workspace
FY24 Q3 Earnings, AI Explorer, Github Copilot Workspace

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 23 min
April 24, 2024WW 878: If You Build It, You Are Dumb - Snapdragon X Series SKUs, Phi-3-mini, Fallout
Leo, Paul, and Richard steer towards the performance race as they speculate about how Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus PCs will compare to Apple Silicon MacBooks. What makes a laptop truly user-friendly? System reliability, UI consistency, battery life? Plus, the recent Fallout TV series, the practicality of using winget for browser installations, and how the ARM chipset switch is revving up the PC market.
ARMed & ready
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X Plus and confirms Paul's report that the Snapdragon X Elite will have three SKUs (product editions)

All four SKUs outperform Apple M3, Intel Core Ultra 7/9, AMD Ryzen 9 7940/8945HS on most benchmarks

Why? PC makers asked Qualcomm for familiar choices

Previously, an X Plus-based Surface Pro 10 and an X Elite-based ThinkPad T40s leaked. Paul can now confirm from a source that Surface Laptop 6 (13 and 15-inch) and Surface Pro will all be on X (something}

Vivaldi is bringing its browser to Windows on Arm too
Windows 11
The April 2024 Week D preview update is here: Recommended apps and frequently used apps in Start, Widgets icon updates, Lock screen widgets improvements

Canary: Moves off 24H2 train to build 26200, no more switch to Dev, minor changes to the Widgets board and Taskbar (no new build for Dev)

Beta: New Widgets design with navigation bar, new account manager in Start, Gmail in Share, MSA recovery advertisement, and new Game Pass recommendation card in Settings

Microsoft Store app downloads from the web get simpler, more sophisticated

After yet another Quest 2 Headset price cut, and mounting problems for Apple's Vision Pro, Meta opens up Horizon OS, Microsoft is sort-of on board
Microsoft 365/Dev
Office LTSC 2024 commercial is now available in preview

Classic Teams rides off into the sunset on July 1

Dropbox offers deeper Microsoft 365 integration

GitHub sees success in 2FA push
AI
The European Commission will not formally investigate Microsoft/OpenAI partnership

Microsoft released a new SLM

Microsoft gives a sneak peek of VASA-1, a crazy and scary "talking faces" AI tool

Google copies Microsoft again, announces massive AI reorg - that has Pixel fans worried

Adobe's generative AI image capabilities are predictably fantastic
Xbox
Get an Xbox Mastercard in the US, if you're a tool

Microsoft announces IGN x ID@Xbox digital showcase - indie games
Tips & Picks
Tip of the week: Have you heard the one joke about the one time you need to use Edge?

App pick of the week: Tiny11 Builder

RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.4 with Sydney Smith

Brown liquor pick of the week: GlenKinchie 12

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 33 min
April 17, 2024WW 877: The Tiger in the Grass - Backlash against tech criticism, Ralf Groene retires, Hardcore Software
Backlash against tech criticism, Ralf Groene retires, Hardcore Software

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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2 hr 17 min

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