It's go time: The biggest Patch Tuesday of 2025 sets the stage for 2025! Microsoft has finally revealed whether it will further extend Windows 10 support past October (it won't). Also, Microsoft designed notifications in Windows 11 to be annoying and pointless, so Paul has some advice. Plus, Proton Drive gets a long awaited albums feature, and more on the way.

Windows 11

• Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) come to stable for the first time
• Let's give Microsoft a bit of credit for this one non-reported behavior
• Also: Improvements to Settings, Narrator, Start, Phone Link, Widgets, File Explorer
• You knew this was coming: Microsoft now testing a "Hey, Copilot" feature
• It's opt-in and an alternative to holding down Alt + Spacebar for two seconds
• Microsoft discusses the new Start design and it's not a s#$t show like it was three years ago
• No builds for the second Friday in a row
• Improvements to Settings AI agent, intelligent text actions in Click to Do, a few small changes come to 24H2 in Dev and Beta channels
• Copilot Vision gets Highlights and 2-App Support across all channels
• Google's big Android reveal includes Material Expressive, big Wear OS update. Android, like Windows 11 (and iOS) is just being updated all the time now

Windows 10

• Extended support program
• Will support Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 through October 2028
• Those time frames are identical
• So what about those Surface PCs that can't upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft has an answer (for all unsupported PCs) and it's not as cynical as you think
• Microsoft quietly discontinued entry-level 13.8-inch Surface Laptop and 13-inch Surface Pro when it introduced those smaller new models last week

Layoffs

• Microsoft just made $70 billion, so naturally it's laying off employees. How to explain this?
• The FTC's losing streak against Microsoft continues
• A proposal for solving the "Mozilla problem" in U.S. v. Google
• Fortnite could return to the iPhone App Store as soon as today

AI

• OH MY GOD IS THERE NO AI NEWS FOR ONCE. OK, three small items
• OpenAI brings OneDrive and SharePoint integration with ChatGPT for paid business customers
• "AI mode" could replace "I'm feeling lucky" on the Google home page
• Spotify's AI DJ keeps improving

Dev

• Build is next week in Seattle, a few thoughts
• .NET 10 Preview 4 is out

Xbox & Games

• Today's the day: DOOM: The Dark Ages goes live at 8:00 ET tonight!
• Xbox Insiders can now play cloud-enabled games with mouse and keyboard
• Paul reviews the Backbone Pro controller
• Nintendo revenues slide big ahead of Switch 2 - 15m consoles expected in first year
• Sony sold 18.5 million PS5s in the most recent fiscal year, down 11 percent YOY

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Windows 11 notifications make iOS look sophisticated
• App pick of the week: Proton Drive
• RunAs Radio this week: Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Limeburners Albany Tawny Cask

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Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.

Windows 11

• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week
• Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev
• Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025
• A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it
• Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2

Antitrust

• Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple
• Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax
• The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech
• US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well

AI

• Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?
• Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI
• GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users

Xbox & gaming

• FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
• Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks
• Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.
• New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month
• Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August
• Minecraft drops VR/MR support
• GTA VI delayed until 2026
• Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Go passwordless
• App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator
• RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10

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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

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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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Paul, Leo, and Richard get into new Windows features (thanks to the Feature Tracker), hardware shifts for Microsoft/Intel/Apple, AI moves from OpenAI/Apple/Adobe, Notion Mail, a Hawaiian drink, the National Recording Registry, rice cookers, and electronic timer tunes!

Windows 11

• Feature Tracker. Since we last talked, Microsoft has announced the following new features for Windows 11:
• Semantic search can now search for Windows settings using natural language - Dev and Beta (24H2) channels, no clear stable date but guessing June
• Narrator can more accurately describe images by detailing the people, objects, colours, text, and numbers in them, Snapdragon X only, same builds as above
• Snipping Tool with "Text extraction" in the capture bar - This in Canary now, but it was in at least Dev previously, this could ship in stable at any time, it's an app
• Recall (preview) and Click to Do (preview) head to the Release Preview channel (24H2) - Expect this in May Patch Tuesday
• Narrator speech recap, Phone Link/Start integration, File Explorer Home updates, Windows Share with Edit all head to Release Preview (23H2) - Expect these in May Patch Tuesday - They were added to Beta channel (23H2) a few days earlier
• Plus, Microsoft Edge is up to 9 percent faster at web rendering and we're having a fiesta
• Also, the Windows 95 startup/logout chime has been inducted into the National Recording Registry

Hardware

• Surface Hub OG hits EOL this year just like Windows 10
• First major change under new Intel CEO
• What's a computer? The iPad, supposedly, but we'll see
• Everything's fine, but Google laid off hundreds in Pixel/Android group

AI

• Apple is making big changes so that Apple Intelligence will actually be intelligent
• Adobe is going agentic too
• OpenAI is creating its own social network because the world needs another social network
• OpenAI announces three GPT-4.1 models - may retire GPT-4 soon - plus now o3 and o4-mini models
• ChapGPT gets an image library and a memory
• Claude gets Research and Google Workspace integration
• Meta will start training its AI models with EU data, wink wink

Xbox and games

• Xbox app on mobile will soon let you buy games (!) and add-on content, join Game Pass, and redeem perks. Did Microsoft get a concession from Apple/Google??
• COD: Modern Warfare II (OG) and more are coming to Game Pass in the next few weeks
• Xbox announces Doom: The Dark Ages limited edition accessories
• Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net
• Sony forced to raise the price of PS5 in three locales

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Think like an individual, not an enterprise
• App pick of the week: Notion Mail
• RunAs Radio this week: How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes
• Brown liquor pick of the week: 12th Hawaii Distiller's Reserve

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Introducing the Windows 11 Feature Tracker
"From the 'I should have done this two years ago' files, the 'I have wasted my life' files, and the, 'great, I needed more work to do' files ... There is a need for this. So I made one. But it will evolve. Maybe into a web app/wiki/something else... like a Notion website?" - Paul

• Patch Tuesday brings a metric ton of new features - And what the tracker showed clearly
• Two seconds after posting the tracker, Microsoft changed the Copilot app yet again - proving the need for the tracker - And demonstrating why the Insider Program is so screwed up
• A hidden new Start menu in recent builds presents an interesting conundrum: How to handle something Microsoft has not announced?

More Windows 11

• Beta build for 23H2: File new tab/new window changes, Explorer context menu regression may be permanent
• Dev and Beta (24H2): Taskbar icon scaling is a blast from the past we all need desperately
• Intel is killing Unison app and service

Like winter, Build is coming

• Build session catalog is live - mostly AI as expected. Paul and Richard are going
• Overview of the Windows Copilot Runtime (one year after it was announced), Windows Actions, standard Kayla Cinnamon talk on Windows productivity, using your own model with WCR, native app experiences(!), Arm64 app perf, etc.

AI

• Final thoughts on Microsoft's 50th: Biggest accomplishment wasn't any tech, it was changing with the times.
• What it's best at: Democratizing tech for the commoners, an expansion on Jack Tramiel/Commodore's "computers for the masses, not the classes" schtick. And that is exactly what it is doing with AI right now
• Microsoft hosts a consumer AI event and announces a metric ton of new Copilot features
• We need a Copilot feature tracker. Copilot = every single feature other AIs have - Copilot Actions on the web, memory and personalization, Copilot Vision on mobile and Windows, AI-generated podcasts and Microsoft releases Copilot Search in Bing
• Is AI turning us all into Charly from Flowers for Algernon?
• AI is making us stupider! There are studies!!
• This is the argument against every single tech advance from the steam train to the ballpoint pen to this
• Microsoft's AI demo of vibe-coded Quake II highlights the problem nicely
• Sometimes it's the little things: AI recaps for book series in Kindle
• GitHub Copilot updated with Agent Mode, Cursor-style code overviews, more

Xbox & gaming

• Microsoft announces new Xbox Games Showcase for June
• Edge Game Assist gets new features, support for new games
• GTA V and enhanced version for PC coming to Game Pass on April 15 - In addition to the previous Game Pass titles we discussed last week
• Good: Nintendo Switch 2 supports ray tracing and DLSS
• Bad: Nintendo delays Switch 2 to figure out the tariffs mess

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Programmers at Work
• App pick of the week: Apple Music
• RunAs Radio this week: Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr
• Brown liquor pick of the week: The Heart Cut #02

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Bill Gates celebrates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with the release of the source code for Altair BASIC 1.0. Plus, Paul celebrates with 99 cent books: The Windows 10 Field Guide, Windows 11 Field Guide, and Windows Everywhere are all 99 cents for 24 hours! Also available: Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City in preview!

Windows

• The plot thickens. Paul writes epic take on future of Windows 11, describes Dev channel-only features and when/if they were ever released - in other words, an extensive but partial Windows 11 feature roadmap for 2025
• Two days later, Microsoft announces a Windows 11 feature road map - one that is woefully incomplete, pathetic, and sad
• Microsoft announces when (sort of) new on-device AI features will come to all Copilot+ PCs, meaning Intel and AMD, too - "not a glimpse at the future of the PC, but the future of the PC."
• Live captions with live language translations, Cocreator in Paint, Restyle image and Image creator in Photos, plus Voice access with flexible natural language (Snapdragon X only)
• But not Recall or Click to Do in preview, go figure
• As expected, March 2024 Preview update for 24H2 arrives, a few days late - with AI-powered search experience enabled
• Dev and Beta builds - Friday - Quick Machine Recovery (Beta only?), Speech recap in Narrator, Blue screen to get less blue, WinKey + C shortcut for Copilot returns, Spanish and French Text actions in Click to Do, Edit images in Share, AI-powered search (Dev only?)
• Then, Microsoft more fully describes Windows Quick Recovery
• Beta (23H2) - Monday - A lot of familiar 24H2 features - Narrator improvements, Copilot WinKey + C, Share with Image edit, plus System -- About FAQ for some freaking reason
• Proton Drive is now native on Windows 11 on Arm, everyone gets new features
• Proton VPN is now built into Vivaldi desktop browser
• Intel's new CEO appears in public, vows to spin off non-core businesses. Everything but x86 chip design and Foundry, then

Microsoft 365

• Windows 365 Link is now available
• The Office apps on Windows already launch instantaneously but apparently that's not invasive enough - we need fewer auto-start items, not more of them
• Microsoft Excel to call out rich data cells with value tokens

AI & Dev

• NYT copyright infringement lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft can move forward, judge rules
• And now Tim O'Reilly says Open AI stole his company's paywalled book content too. Book piracy is sadly the easiest thing in the world
• Open AI raised more money than any private firm in history, now worth $300B
• ChatGPT releases awesome new image generation feature for ChatGPT
• And now it's available for free to everyone
• Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 is now available to everyone too
• Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access, US only
• Some thoughts about vibe coding, which isn't what you think it is
• AMD pays $4.9 billion to take on Nvidia in cloud AI
• Apple Intelligence + Apple Health is the future of something something

Xbox & Games

• Nintendo announces Switch 2. Looks awesome, coming earlier than expected. But that price! And no Xbox/COD news at the launch??
• Luna's not dead! Amazon announces multi-year EA partnership, expands Luna to more EU countries
• Microsoft announces a new Xbox Backbone controller for smartphones
• New titles for Xbox Game Pass across PC,

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What's next? Windows 12? Windows 11 25H2? You're not going to believe what happens next! A look back at everything Microsoft tested in just the Dev channel and then did or did not release to stable, and when. The list of unreleased features is unexpectedly long - most of this must be the next Windows version. Plus, If you have a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription, there are more benefits now and they're easier to find.

Windows 11 in 2025

• Dev channel moves to a new build sequence
• Microsoft issues Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 23H2 (But not 24H2)
• Release Preview (24H2) - AI-powered Windows Search experience is barreling towards stable
• Beta (23H2) and now Canary - Mostly just fixes
• New AI features in Notepad, Paint, and Snipping tool head to all Insiders
• Photos app update to all Insiders, adds Copilot integration, more

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft 365 Copilot gets two reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst
• AI - Agents - Reasoning AI --- Reasoning Agents? You got your reasoning in my agent!
• Microsoft to launch Security Copilots in April
• Microsoft releases first two Microsoft 365 companion apps for Windows 11, threatens to make more
• Here comes Copilot in OneDrive, to consumer Microsoft 365 account holders
• Anonymous document sharing for Word, Excel, PowerPoint comes to iPhone/iPad (is on web already)
• OneNote for Windows 10 RIP in October after years of malaise

AI

• Browsers to change in the agentic AI era - are they still browsers? Will we still browse?
• "In Russia, the browser browses for you!"
• Sam Altman pulls a Bill Gates in executive shift
• ChatGPT gets image generation with GPT-4o
• Google brings AI search to Gmail - Hopefully, it's better than AI search in Photos
• Google releases first Gemini 2.5 model, all will be reasoning (thinking) models going forward
• Amazon is testing AI-powered Interests feature in the U.S.
• After it's success with conversational Siri, Apple to bring AI to Apple Watch, AirPods
• Speaking of which, Apple sued for advertising Apple Intelligence - maybe it's time for a level set here
• Exec reshuffle to fix Siri woes - maybe it's time to Ol' Yeller this
• WWDC is on for June 9 - [waves hands] Look, it's iOS 19!
• Opera upgrades three of its web browsers (really, four) with new Aria AI features

Xbox

• Microsoft wants to make Xbox app in Windows the central hub for all stores
• Microsoft testing new Game Hub on Xbox
• Microsoft to release Vibrant Visuals upgrade for Minecraft this year
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 on April 17
• New Assassin's Creed game (Shadows) gets off to a great start, with 2 million players in first 2 days, better than Origins and Odyssey. Most played game on Steam over the weekend, second-highest day-one sales revenue in the franchise's history (behind Valhalla), best ever day-one launch on the PlayStation Store. 27 percent of players are on PC

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Take advantages of Game Pass in-game benefits
• App pick of the week: Google Drive for Windows
• RunAs Radio this week: Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Kempisch Vuur
  

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Did Copilot uninstall from your computer recently? You're not alone. At least Microsoft is working on a fix. Plus, Satya Nadella has created a new Office of Strategy and Transformation to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the AI era. Discord finally has a Social SDK now, Copilot for Gaming is preparing for mobile testing, and a Call of Duty franchise sale that brings savings up to 67 percent off. Lastly, Paul's app pick is a free, open source, third-party File Explorer replacement that is beautiful and highly customizable. And it never badgers you to backup to OneDrive.

Windows

• March security update hilariously removes Copilot app from Windows 11
• New Canary build today
• Release Preview (today): 24H2 ahead of Week D
• Release Preview: 23H2 and Windows 10 ahead of Week D
• Dev, Beta, Beta (23H3) - Voice access suggestions, File Explorer fix
• Paint is getting new Cocreator features
• New Notepad and Snipping Tool features for all

Microsoft

• Microsoft announces vague transformation that could be important
• FTC to move forward with Microsoft antitrust probe
• Microsoft no longer includes power supply with Surface PCs sold in Europe

AI/Dev

• Gemini adds Canvas and Audio Overview features
• Plus, Gemini is replacing Assistant in Android (and Chromebook)
• Zoom AI Companion is going agentic
• Meta claims one billion downloads of Llama AI models
• Microsoft ships .NET 10 Preview 2

Xbox

• Microsoft is bringing Copilot to Xbox
• Xbox Adaptive Joystick is now available for $29.99
• Here are the new games heading to Game Pass in second half of March
• Epic Games and Qualcomm partner on bringing games to WOA
• Discord has an SDK now
• Google Play Games for PC is adding native games

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Call of Duty titles are on sale in the Microsoft Store
• App pick of the week: Files
• RunAs Radio this week: Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Toki Suntory Whisky
  

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Your Patch Tuesday is showing. Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte go over the latest features for Windows 11 with the KB5053598 update. Also, the hosts discuss Press to Talk for Insiders, the Windows app replacing Remote Desktop, the agentic future of browsers, Copilot integration in GroupMe, Gemma 3, issues with Xbox Wireless Controller 5.23.5.0 firmware, Pocket Casts Web Player, and the "vibe coding" era. Plus, Fences 6 is now in Beta, on sale!

Woody Leonhard, RIP

• Like Jerry Pournelle, a major influence on Paul's career and writing style
• He had a mysterious life in latter years, not clear what happened

Windows 11

• Windows 11 gets all the features we've discussed recently
• Are we heading towards something bigger this year? Or just more of the same?
• New Canary and Beta (23H2) builds
• New Dev and Beta (24H2) builds
• Copilot in Windows 11 is getting Press to Talk
• Microsoft follows through on threat, kills Remote Desktop App - our latest outrage
• Arc crashed and burned but we can still evolve web browsers
• What about sidebar apps as a UX baby step forward?
• Does Edge need to restart every three days now to install updates?

Microsoft 365

• Google promotes ChromeOS/Chromebooks as the right client ... for Microsoft 365

Dev

• Build 2025 registration is now open

AI

• It's Microsoft's 50th anniversary, so it's going to announce AI something something
• Paul has agreed to attend this, from Mexico
• Also, report that Microsoft's in-house models now rival OpenAI is a hint
• Microsoft improves Think Deeper in Copilot using OpenAI o3-mini
• Google secretly owns 14-15 percent of Anthropic
• WTF is going on with Big Tech and regulatory evasion?
• On that note, CMA clears Microsoft + OpenAI specifically because of change to partnership
• Also, Google launches Gemma 3
• The Siripocalypse - AI is a hard computer science problem and Siri is the dumb blond in this space
• Amazon will use AI to dub movies and TV series because obviously

Xbox

• Rumor: Third-party portable Xbox gaming handheld this year, console resets in two years
• You could have cobbled this together solely based on what Microsoft has said publicly
• Xbox controller firmware, we have a problem

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Code with AI
• App pick of the week: Fences
• RunAs Radio this week: Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Ardbeg 10

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