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

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