Windows Weekly (Audio)

WW 922: There's Never a "Not OK" Button - End of Skype, MWC25, Rust-inovich

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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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