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

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