Mission Accomplished

• As a reminder, Paul finally got the Yoga Slim 7x last week and updated on app compatibility, hardware compatibility, gaming, and in-box AI experiences in time for WW - only found one non-working app, Google Drive. Then...
• More app and game compatibility testing. Since then, played a lot more DOOM (2016), ran into one issue that's surely WOA-related (note beta graphics driver, though)
• Video encoding performance: Snapdragon X vs Snapdragon X vs Core Ultra 9 H-series vs MacBook Air M3
• Initial thoughts on battery life and then More thoughts on battery life. The Yoga Slim 9x and Surface Laptop both get about 10 hours of real-world battery life (so far), compared to 15 hours for the MacBook Air 15-inch M3.
• Hardware compatibility update: Only one of my devices doesn't work, the Focusrite.
• Surface Laptop 7 first impressions and second impressions
• HP Elitebook Ultra first impressions

Windows 11

• After skipping Week D last Tuesday, Microsoft belatedly delivers a Week D preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2
• No new features, so next Patch Tuesday will be light for 24H2
• 22H2 and 23H2 got a big Week D update last Tuesday, so Patch Tuesday will be meaningful
• As of July's Patch Tuesday, 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 will all provide the same basic feature set
• Canary, Dev, Beta (last Friday): nothing exciting, a few small features or changes

AI & Microsoft 365

• European Commission "shifts" investigation of Microsoft/OpenAI partnership. Is Ken Starr in charge of this thing?
• Microsoft highlights new Copilot features coming to Microsoft 365 in July
• Copilot in OneNote can now recognize handwritten text. It's 2002 all over again!
• Pixel 9 family will promote unique "Google AI" features
• Brave introduces a BYOM plan for its web browser
• Thanks to AI, Google Translate now supports 110 new languages

Xbox

• Xbox Cloud Gaming Fire Sticks it to Amazon
• Another two weeks of Xbox Game Pass
• Forza Horizon 4 (from 2018) to be delisted December 15. Why?

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Get $10 off Tony Redmond's Office 365 for IT Pros 11th Edition
• App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive
• RunAs Radio this week: NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jack Daniels Old No. 7

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Windows 11

• Week D arrives with preview updates for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 only
• The second Patch Tuesday in a row with no 24H2 update (on the day)
• This preview update adds 24H2 features to 22H2/23H2 as predicted
• Beta channel (last week): Bizarre Start menu extension for Phone Link users
• Release preview channel (last week): The 22H2/23H2 builds and features that shipped to stable as a preview update on Tuesday
• Canary channel (last week): After pausing the previous build (hint: Recall code), new build arrives with drag-and-drop address bar in File Explorer, notification tweaks

Copilot+ PC

• Paul finally got a Copilot+ PC to test, a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14"
• App compatibility scorecard: Excellent, but with familiar Arm uncertainties
• Hardware compatibility: Excellent, but with the same person-by-person caveat
• Gaming: Lots of fiddling, but if you can find a compatible game, some great perf and visual quality. Still better than the Mac, and better than any x64 Ultrabook. But not a gaming PC. No Xbox Game Pass support?? COME ON
• In-box AI capabilities: With Recall out, there's almost nothing to see here
• Plus, Intel and AMD are gunning for Qualcomm
• iFixit reports that Surface Laptop 7/Pro 11 repairability is "astonishingly" good. Granted, the bar was low
• Microsoft brings Surface Flex Keyboard to Surface Pro 8, 9, and 11
• Microsoft releases recovery images for Surface Pro 11/Laptop 7
• Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-In Security (ESS) is one of several Copilot+ PC protections that rendered those security researcher complaints about Recall moot. But Paul now has two PCs that use this feature, and it's even more impressive than you think
• The Windows 11 decoder ring

Antitrust

• As expected, the European Commission announced preliminary charges against Microsoft for Office/Teams bundling
• This is antitrust, not DMA (like Apple)
• The EU has not explained WHAT Microsoft can do to fix this (unlike with Apple)
• This is based on a complaint from Slack, which was created 7 years after Microsoft first offered this type of app/service

Xbox
-Hot off a terrific Xbox Games Showcase event, Xbox promises its "biggest-ever" booth at Gamescom 2024 (which is now the biggest trade show in Europe, apparently)
-Microsoft details how Auto SR and Prism work in WOA11 to make gaming both possible and decent
-Steam Deck LCD models are on sale

Tips and Picks
-App pick of the week #1: New browser upgrades
-App pick of the week: Proton Drive
-RunAs Radio this week: The Hard Part of Machine Learning with Lynn Langit
-Brown liquor pick of the week: Cragganmore 12

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Attack of the Copilot+ PCs

• Nvidia: GeForce RTX AI PCs will get Copilot+ PC status ... some day
• AMD: Ryzen AI 300 series (laptops) and AMD Ryzen 9000 series (desktops) have 50 TOPS NPUs and an on-stage apology, er, admission, from Microsoft
• Intel: Lunar Lake delivers 48 TOPS NPU, new GPU
• Qualcomm - Don't forget us! We're going to go after every PC form factor there is
• Thinking about AI, NPUs, and local workloads - Is an orchestrator in our future?
• Microsoft needs to address the Recall controversies
• Framework Laptop 13 is coming with Intel Core Ultra chips
• HP earnings - PC business up 3 percent in Q
• Dell earnings - PC business is flat

Windows 11

• Microsoft delivers its Week D preview update a day late
• If you're on 24H2 like I recommended last week, you get ... wait for it ... Copilot as an app
• Canary: Copilot as an app, Emoji 15.1 support
• Dev: Copilot as an app
• Microsoft adds a Windows 10 Insider Preview Beta channel to test new features

Microsoft

• Bing is 15 years old. What can we possibly celebrate?
• More Microsoft layoffs, this time in Mixed Reality and Azure

AI

• Apple reportedly partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft reportedly pissed about Apple partnering with OpenAI
• Google is fixing its AI overviews in Search
• And if anyone still trusts Google AI for some reason, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are now GA
• Amazon brings AI search, and to Fire TV for some reason
• When Raspberry Pi 5 can do AI is AI just everywhere now?

Xbox

• Asus announces ROG Ally X gaming handheld - are these to gaming what 8.1-inch tablets were to Windows 8.1?
• PlayStation VR2 adapter for PC is $60

Tips & Picks

• App pick of the week: Opera
• RunAs Radio this week: Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Nikka "From the Barrel"
  

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Windows 11

• A quick look back at the Copilot+ PC launch
• Paul did end up making a video of each MacBook Air reference during last week's launch
• The Copilot+ PC event was also notable for its many references to the past: Paul counted at least 7 in the first 7 minutes alone
• After some soul-searching, Paul went all-in on Surface Laptop by canceling the first preorder and bulking it up with more RAM and storage
• Release Preview (last week): 24H2 comes to RP, suggesting it hits stable on Tuesday, June 11 (in preview), one week before the first Copilot+ PCs arrive with this build preinstalled
• Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course)
• Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a "WebUI 2.0" initiative
• Lenovo earnings up 9 percent in quarter, down 8 percent for the year. The future? AI PCs, duh

AI

• There was a massive Bing outage late last week. Press hold on all the obvious jokes, this impacted Copilot everywhere, DuckDuckGo, other services
• Cue the Chicken Little "this is why I'll never use AI" crowd, which used to be the "this is why I'll never use the cloud" crowd
• Copilot comes to Telegram for some reason
• Google goes live with AI overviews in Search and the world grinds to a halt
• Google adds Gemini to Chromebook Plus, gives one free year of Google One AI Premium to new device buyers
• WWDC is coming soon and we're seeing hints of how Apple will add more AI to its products
• Opera partners with Google Cloud on Gemini in Aria AI and image understanding/image generation in browser
• And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser
• NVIDIA revenues were a record in Q1, up 262 percent YOY

Dev

• Last week, we learned that WPF is making a comeback. This week, Paul revived his .NETpad project and is going to modernize it using the new features

Xbox

• We finally have some news about Activision Blizzard games and Game Pass!!! But it's only one game, and it doesn't happen until November
• Atari buys the Intellivision brand. I wish we knew more about this

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns
• App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2
• RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's Reserve

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• Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses
• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
• What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
• Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
• The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
• Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern
• Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features
• Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome
• Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

Inside baseball

• Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event
• Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
• Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"
• PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Announces Team Copilot
• Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature

AI

• Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs
• Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform
• Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training

Dev

• Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime
• Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!
• Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot
• Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release
• Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report
• RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott
• Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10
  

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• Patch Tuesday
• Windows 11 gets those stupid lock screen widgets
• Snipping Tool is being updated with emojis and QR code scanning
• Microsoft is testing widgets in the Windows 11 Start menu
• New Dev and Beta builds
• Dell PCs based on Snapdragon X leak
• Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Word gets a long-overdue overhaul to default paste

AI

• OpenAI kicks off the week with its Spring Update
• Google I/O follows up with a Microsoft-style keynote

Xbox

• Microsoft to launch Xbox mobile games store in July
• Xbox consoles will support game update pre-loads, finally
• Microsoft discounts Xbox 360 titles ahead of Store closure
• We have another round of Game Pass titles and you're never going to believe what we didn't get, again
• Starfield May Update is here with 60 fps support on Series X
• Xbox Cloud Gaming supports keyboard and mouse with 26 games
• Xbox app gets more improvements tied to handheld gaming PCs
• Sony has now sold almost 60 million PS5s, roughly even with PS4 at this point in
  time

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Remote Desktop is another feature semi-broken by MSA sign-ins
• App pick of the week: VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are free
• RunAs Radio this week: MLOps + DevOps + Kubernetes with Annie Talvasto
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Lagavulin 16

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Microsoft & Security

• Microsoft promises to put security first. Again.
• Microsoft adds passkey support to Microsoft accounts.

Windows 11

• Windows 11 Canary build 26212 adds three features from the beta channel.
• Microsoft starts controlled feature rollouts (CFRs) on Windows Insider dev channel.
• Microsoft acknowledges VPN connection issues on Windows 11 and Windows 10.
• More improvements to Tiny11 Builder.
• Arc for Windows shipped last week.

Armed and Ready

• Apple announces M4 along with new iPad Pros.
• Qualcomm earnings flat, but big promises for current quarter.

AI

• Better prompt writing is coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• OpenAI is allegedly testing its replacement for Google Search.
• Microsoft allegedly testing LLM that challenges OpenAI.

Xbox

• Microsoft shuts down more Xbox studios, triggering a new round of angst.
• Starfield is getting the 60 FPS support it should have had at launch on Xbox Series X.
• Nintendo has now sold over 141 million Switch consoles, promises Switch 2.
• Just kidding on the PSN account requirement for PC Helldivers 2.

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Build Blogger Bash
• App pick of the week: DesktopGPT
• Plus: Proton Pass gets much-needed account protection features.
• RunAs Radio this week: Identity Governance with Jef Kazimer.
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Shelter Point Cask Strength Single Malt.

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