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  • WW 820: Mustard Can Solve Any Problem - OpenAI's GPT-4 released, KB5023706 update, YouTube Music

    OpenAI's GPT-4 released, KB5023706 update, YouTube Music

    Windows 11

  • Moment 2 is official; mostly a solid update
  • The ensh*ttification of Windows/Microsoft 365 continues: Microsoft Word, Paint, Teams, and Edge

    • AI all the things

  • One wonders, if everything is AI, is anything AI?
  • OpenAI releases ChatGPT 4
  • Microsoft "reveals" it was using an early version all along, duh
  • BING CHATBOT IS OPEN TO EVERYONE
  • Bing will move Chatbot responses to the top of search results
  • Microsoft's LinkedIn is adding GPT AI to improve the writing of profiles and job postings
  • Grammarly adds more AI
  • Google Workspace is getting generative AI features, obviously... and it's raising prices (coincidentally!)
  • Duolingo adds two new AI features at great cost

    • Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Word is getting two keyboard shortcuts it should have always had: "Paste as Text" & Zoom

    • Dev

  • Microsoft Build 2023 is May 23-25, live and remote
  • GitHub starts rolling out its 2FA requirement for contributors

    • Xbox

  • Microsoft announces two 10-year cloud gaming deals with companies not named Sony: Boosteroid & Ubitus
  • Epic Games takes a page from the Microsoft Store and will allow self-publishing

    • Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: YouTube Premium member? Play some games
  • App pick of the week: YouTube Music
  • This week on RunAs: Incident Management with Hila Fish
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Springbank 10

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

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      • 2 hr 21 min
    • WW 819: Sixty-four Threads but None for You - Windows Insider Canary Channel, video super resolution, Outlook for Mac goes free

      Microsoft adds Windows 12 to the Insider Program

    • Last week's feature release shows you how these Insider channels map to the next release, which is sometimes a Moment now and not just a formal Feature Update. Don't worry. They didn't tell anyone that.
    • Canary - big changes that need lots of incubation time (e.g. kernel changes), no release target
    • Dev - changes that need incubation, no release target
    • Beta- testing changes targeting the next release
    • Release preview - testing changes that are slated to ship imminently in the next release barring any major explosions (e.g. printers)
    • Stable - nothing works
    • First Canary build today: Access keys and File Recommendations in File Explorer, LSA Protection Enablement on upgrade.
    • Dev channel: This channel is "rebooted" to 23000 series now, per above. This build has live captions in more languages, access keys in the File Explorer context menus (another Win11 regression),  Recommendations in File Explorer, and other changes.
    • Dev channel (last week): Microsoft is working on a new volume mixer.


      • Windows 11

    • Microsoft is bringing "video super resolution" to Microsoft Edge
    • We're still not done with PC maker results: Dell goes down in Q4 too

      • AI

    • Satya Nadella, marketing AI, now says that Cortana was "dumb as a rock." Come on.
    • Microsoft to talk up AI in work next week
    • Microsoft talks up AI in Microsoft 365 - this will never end now
    • Microsoft brings more AI to devs at Azure Open Source Day
    • Brave Search adds an AI-powered Summarizer
    • DuckDuckGo adds a similar Answer feature

      • Microsoft 365

    • Microsoft Outlook is now free on the Mac

      • Xbox

    • EU likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Told you so?
    • Halo Infinite Season 3 is live. Can it save this game?
    • Halo players have created over one million maps with Forge Beta
    • Microsoft announces new titles for Xbox Game Pass
    • Starfield arrives in September


      • Tips and picks

    • Tip of the week: Don't be a statistic
    • App pick of the week: Start11
    • RunAs this Week: FIDO2 and Passwordless with Kyle Kotowick
    • Brown liquor pick of the week: Craigellachie Bas Armagnac Cask Finish 13

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

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        • 2 hr 27 min
      • WW 817: The Moment of Confusion - Parallels Desktop 18 for Mac, AI anthropomorphism, WinUI 3 & WinAppSDK

        Microsoft FINALLY brings Windows 11 on Arm support to Apple Silicon Macs

      • A new Release Preview build shows us what the next Moment update will look like
      • New Beta channe builds are a bit less interesting
      • More PC maker fallout with Lenovo revenues down 24 percent in Q4

        • Bing AI

      • Bing AI is a lying liar who lies. Questions about Microsoft releasing it in this state continue
      • After many Bing AI freakouts, Microsoft limits the length of chats... and then it bumps up the length a bit just a few days later.
      • Microsoft brings Bing AI to Bing, Edge, and Skype mobile apps

        • Microsoft 365

      • Microsoft IS releasing Teams 2.0 in March.

        • Dev

      • Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2022 17.5, and it's a big update
      • Microsoft releases .NET 8 Preview 1
      • Visual Studio gets an integrated .NET Upgrade Assistant... previously only a command line tool
      • Paul examines WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK.
      • Microsoft is moving File Explorer from XAML Islands to Windows App SDK.

        • Xbox

      • Microsoft defends the Activision Blizzard acquisition in court.
      • Microsoft inks 10-year deal to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo
      • Microsoft's PC games are coming to NVIDIA GeForce Now
      • Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family Plan comes to 6 new countries, none of which are your country
      • As suspected, we're getting a third Xbox Game Pass title drop this month

        • Tips & Picks

      • Tip of the week: 2FA all the things
      • App pick of the week: Craiyon
      • RunAs Radio this week: Migrating to Windows 11 with Michael Niehaus
      • Brown liquor pick of the week: The Macallan Estate

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

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          • 2 hr 54 min
        • WW 816: I Have Been a Good Bing - Skype's annual revenue drop, Github layoffs, Viva Engage

          The AI morning after

        • A week after the irrational exuberance, reality sets in. It's still Bing. And it's still competing against Google
        • Microsoft shares an update on Bing AI rollout
        • Google employees were not amused at botched Bard announcement
        • Microsoft to add AI to Office in March
        • Everyone is doing AI now. Including Opera and Notion

          • Windows 11

        • New Windows 11 Dev build adds more live captions
        • IE was disabled in Windows 11 on Patch Tuesday. It's dead, Jim
        • 2FA is coming to Windows 11. It's all in the toast

          • Microsoft 365

        • Looks like Skype revenue has plummeted over the past decade
        • And full of "meet your new girlfriend" messages if you don't lock down from defaults
        • Microsoft finally retired the Yammer brand. And you're never going to believe what happened next

          • Corporate

        • GitHub lays off 10 percent of staff, going fully remote
        • More jobs cuts announced in Surface, HoloLens, Xbox

          • Xbox

        • Just kidding: Activision to release a major Call of Duty title this year
        • Xbox February update is now available with Google Home app integration

          • Tips & Picks

        • Tip of the week: Get started with the new Bing AI. Bing AI apparently has some "creator prompts" that will jumpstart certain types of tasks:

          • -Letter (Write a letter)

          -Code (Write code)
          -Movie (Write a script)
          -Story (Write a story)
          -Poem (Write a poem)
          -Summary (Write a summary)
          -Tweet (Write a tweet)
          -Blog post (Write a blog post)
          -Quiz (Write a quiz)
          -Joke (Write a joke)

        • App pick of the week: DALL-E
        • This Week on RunAs: Strengthening Security with Jess Dodson
        • Brown liquor pick of the week: Kvint Divin

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

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            • 2 hr 51 min
          • WW 815: It's Your Foot! - AI riskiness, Zoom layoffs, HBO's The Last of Us, Skype on Apple Silicon

             WORLD WAR AI

          • OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus
          • Google responds to ChatGPT with Bard
          • Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge.
          • Google hosted its own AI event and it announced multi-search, Maps improvements, and Translate improvements, and discussed how AI can make life better
          • Semi-related: Paul was let into the Notion AI beta

            • Windows

          • Paul has some thoughts about Windows 12 and what an AI-based Windows could look like
          • Ads are coming to the Microsoft Store. FINALLY
          • New Insider build for the Beta channel. No new features, but a new policy that lets IT admins customize how Search looks on the Windows 11 Taskbar
          • Microsoft is integrating Adobe Acrobat PDF with Microsoft Edge, but only on Windows 10 and 11 for now

            • Microsoft 365

          • Native Apple Silicon version of Skype is 3X faster. What took so long?

            • Hardware

          • Microsoft says it's still committed to HoloLens 2 and MR, tries not to laugh
          • Samsung is working on XR hardware with Qualcomm and Google.

            • Dev

          • Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy. Nothing has changed, other than they way they document their .NET language strategy

            • More Big Tech Earnings

          • Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta earnings
          • Zoom just showed us the way to handle layoffs

            • Xbox

          • Sony is fighting Microsoft subpoena in AB case. It's fighting the FTC subpoena, too
          • UK CMA says AB deal is "anti-competitive" but would accept some concessions
          • New Game Pass titles announced for the middle of February
          • Sony says the PS5 is immune to the downturn
          • Nintendo says Switch is not immune to the downturn, but it's still dominating

            • Tips & Picks

          • Tip of the week: Protect your privacy in Windows 11
          • App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Dev
          • Brown Liquor of the week: Mackmyra

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

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              • 3 hr 3 min
            • WW 814: Dump Truck Fade - Halo engine switch, Intel Q4 2022 revenues, Ground News

              Halo engine switch, Intel Q4 2022 revenues, Ground News

              Windows 11

            • Skipping the Windows 11 upgrade? Microsoft will force-feed it to you soon
            • Related: Microsoft is using dark patterns to get people to upgrade to 11
            • Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25290 heads to Dev channel with new Spotify and Phone Link widgets, new Start menu "exploration"
            • Screen recording in Snipping Tool rolls out to users in Windows Insider Beta channel

              • More earnings

            • Since Microsoft's mixed earnings last week, a few more relevant firms have checked in on Q4 2022
            • Intel earnings fall off a cliff: Cutting pay 5% rather than layoffs, VPs 10%, leadership 15%, CEO 25%
            • AMD - not bad thanks to datacenter, but this quarter will be down 10 percent
            • And it's not just the PC: IDC says smartphone sales declined 18.3 percent in Q4

              • Dev

            • A quick look at .NET MAUI desktop app capabilities
            • .NET MAUI gets a cross-platform media player control
            • GitHub says it has over 100 million developers on the service. From what Google indicates, there are only ~27 million developers in the world

              • Xbox

            • After layoffs at 343, a smaller team will start over with Unreal Engine
            • Why not just disband the whole disaster and let Halo fly free?
            • Microsoft announces Xbox Games with Gold for February... and new Game Pass titles for first half of February
            • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition comes to Xbox consoles
            • Xbox Series X|S get a price hike in Japan
            • Did Sony really halve PS VR2 production?
            • VR is not having a good time right now... probably this whole year.
            • Rumor: Microsoft will skip E3 along with Nintendo and Sony

              • Tips & Picks

            • Tip of the week: Complete your password manager switch
            • Plus: Quick update on the new book
            • App pick of the week: https://ground.news/
            • Brown alcohol pick of the week: Crown Royal

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

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                • 2 hr 28 min
              • WW 813: Usage Intensity - F23Q2 analysis, the subscription future, Microsoft 365 Insider program

                F23Q2 analysis, the subscription future, Microsoft 365 Insider program

              • Microsoft announced a net income of $16.4 billion on revenues of $52.7 billion for the quarter ending December 31. Net income decreased by 12 percent year-over-year (YOY) in the time period while revenue was up just 2 percent. It was a mixed quarter, at best, and below expectations.
              • Intelligent Cloud delivered $21.5 billion in revenues in the quarter, up 18 percent YOY.
              • Productivity and Business Processes was Microsoft's second-biggest business in the quarter, with $17 billion in revenues, up 7 percent.
              • More Personal Computing was again the laggard with $14.2 billion in revenues, down an astonishing 19 percent YOY.
              • The cloud saved the quarter
              • Windows tanked
              • Windows won't get better any time soon
              • Surface tanked even worse than Windows
              • Surface also won't get better any time soon thanks to "execution challenges"
              • Xbox tanked, but was at least inline with expectations
              • Teams has over 280 million users
              • Microsoft 365 to evolve into an AI-first platform
              • Office did OK overall, big shift away from one-off product sales to subscriptions

                • Windows

              • It's time to suck it up: the future of Windows is all advertising and subscriptions
              • Microsoft is working on yet another File Explorer redesign
              • Microsoft also starts testing tabs in Notepad
              • Microsoft is also testing a side-by-side view for web pages in Edge
              • And now a new Insider build for the Dev channel with a new (Facebook) Messenger widget
              • Microsoft kills Altspace VR as part of an AR/MR house-cleaning move
              • Microsoft may be walking away from AR/MR, but Apple's coming headset will allegedly switch between the two modes

                • Microsoft 365

              • Office Insider Program renamed to Microsoft 365 Insider Program
              • This rebranding crusade is a mistake and is reminiscent of the .NET branding mistake

                • Antitrust

              • EU to announce antitrust case against Microsoft Teams
              • DOJ announces antitrust case against Google for advertising and Google responds
              • Google lays off 12,000. Nothing from Apple?

                • Dev

              • Github now has over 100 million developers
              • Google announces what's next for Flutter
              • An examination of .NET MAUI reveals what it's good for on the Windows desktop

                • Xbox

              • N64 classic GoldenEye is coming to Xbox, Game Pass January 27
              • Sony pushes forward with VR2 plans

                • Tips and Picks

              • Tip of the week: Paul is working on a new book and needs your help
              • Tip of the week #2: Microsoft will stop selling Windows 10 downloads
              • Brown alcohol pick of the week: Nomad Outland Whisky

                • Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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                  • 2 hr 35 min
                • WW 812: Pessimism Pays - AI for the consumer client, HoloLens request rejected, Azure DevOps

                  AI for the consumer client side, HoloLens request rejected, Azure DevOps

                  Layoffs

                • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella informs employees of 10,000 layoffs
                • Is Surface on the cutting block?
                • Amazon to layoff 18,000

                  • Welcome to the AI era

                • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirms Microsoft's AI moves: Azure Open AI service, ChatGPT APIs, and infusing AI across the entire Microsoft stack
                • This is a much bigger deal than Microsoft's pivot to the cloud 20 years ago because it infuses everything that it does. When Wall Street latched onto Azure and cloud computing and made Microsoft the second biggest company in the world, the software giant effectively ignored personal computing because no one wanted to hear about legacy. That era is over.

                  • Windows 11

                • New Insider Preview build for the Dev channel adds a developer feature, OneDrive storage quote display
                • New Insider Preview build comes to the ... Release Preview channel? This one is interesting.
                • Now we know the full story of the bloodbath that was PC sales in Q4 2022: a 28.3 percent drop in unit sales YOY. Yikes
                • Intel ships its first 6 GHz CPU, reminding us again that this—and not efficiency—is what Intel is good at
                • 12 years after Windows 8 and Surface, Apple is adding touchscreens to the Mac.

                  • Devices

                • US Congress nixes Army purchase of more HoloLens units

                  • Xbox

                • Google and NVIDIA voice concerns about Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
                • EU likely to issue warning on Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
                • Public support for the acquisition is strong. Even about PlayStation users!
                • Google turns the Stadia controller into a normal Bluetooth controller

                  • Tips & Picks

                • Tip of the week: The OneDrive storage upgrades you didn't know about
                • App pick of the week: MSEdgeRedirect
                • Enterprise pick of the week: Azure DevOps
                • Whisky pick of the week: Glenlivet Nadurra

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

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                    • 2 hr 42 min
                  • WW 811: The Angle of the Dangle - Fungible, rounded corners, Xbox Oreos, the AI wave

                    Fungible, rounded corners, Xbox Oreos, the AI wave

                  • Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019
                  • Surface Pro X, also from 2019, featured the first-ever NPU in a Surface product
                  • Eye contact announced in 2020 - requires NPU
                  • Windows Studio Effects announced at hybrid work event in April 2021 - adds Voice clarity, Voice focus, Automatic framing, Portrait blur, and Background blur to Eye contact
                  • Windows Dev Kit 2023 (Volterra) arrives in late 2022 with NPU
                  • Did Microsoft just soft announce Windows 12? Panos Panay awkwardly joins Lisa Su at AMD announcement at CES. Still, this is potentially huge
                  • Let's not forget VALL-E
                  • Now, Microsoft is reportedly seeking to expand its OpenAI partnership with $10 billion investment, could lead to 49 percent ownership stake

                    • Windows 7 + Windows 8.1 are on a farm chasing rabbits

                  • Microsoft issues the final Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 7 and 8.1. They're dead, Jim. And ... oddly, Microsoft added Secure Boot to Windows 7 at the last second
                  • Windows 7 was beloved, Windows 8 was reviled, both were horribly misunderstood

                    • More Windows

                  • First Windows Insider builds of 2023 reveal more UI tinkering
                  • Android 13 comes to WSA in the Insider Program
                  • Preliminary results (from IDC) confirm what we knew about the PC industry in 2022

                    • Surface + devices

                  • After claiming that Surface Duo remained important, rumors of major Surface Duo developments, um, surface - Microsoft to move to folding display design, could add standalone phone
                  • And let's not forget this little patent from 2017!
                  • Microsoft launches shared device mode for frontline workers

                    • Microsoft

                  • Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Basic - what used to be called OneDrive 100 GB Standalone plan
                  • Microsoft acquires Fungible for $190 million (estimated)
                  • There's a Microsoft education event coming in February

                    • Tips and picks

                  • Tip of the week: Install Windows Subsystem for Android correctly
                  • App pick of the week: BitWarden
                  • Enterprise pick of the week: Local Administrator Password Solution V2
                  • Bourbon pick of the week: Angel's Envy

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

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                      • 3 hr 3 min

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