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Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15

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"


Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Bing outage, NVIDIA's record Q1 FY25, WPF's rebirth

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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

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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Windows 11

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 is promising to put security first, again. Three features have been added to Windows 11 Canary build 26212. Microsoft shuts down some game developer studios under its Xbox Games Studios, including a popular one that published Hi-Fi RUSH. And Playstation recinds PSN account requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC.

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.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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FY24 Q3 Earnings, AI Explorer, Github Copilot Workspace

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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