Windows Weekly (Audio)

WW 930: Flocculation & Saponification - Profanity filter, EU digital commitments, FY25 Q3

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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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