Windows Weekly (Audio)

WW 929: The Blue Screen of Soup - Agent Store, Oblivion Remastered, Ubuntu 25.04

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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

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