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Richard Campbell is out this week! Microsoft continues to make changes to Notepad as it tests 'lightweight text formatting' in Notepad. 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 got preview updates. And Microsoft has reportedly delayed its first-party Xbox / Windows gaming handheld.

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THE GREAT NOTEPAD CONTROVERSY OF 2025

Microsoft announced it was testing "lightweight text formatting" in Notepad.
This is one of MANY changes its made to Notepad in recent years.
The community has collectively lost its s#$t - most thought this was RTF support - it's not.
Everyone is wrong. In defense of Notepad.

24H2

Last Tuesday, 22H2/23H2 got a preview update in Week D, but 24H2 did not.
The 24H2 update appeared later, with a ton of new features as expected - it's possible an out-of-band update requirement is responsible for the delay.
Now we know for sure what's coming on Patch Tuesday next week.
Windows Insider updates
Today, in Canary: Energy saver in Intune, re-rollout of Phone companion, more.
Dev and Beta (24H2): Quick machine recovery, Phone Link improvements - Plus, more just in Dev.
Canary: Voice access and some bug fixes.
Microsoft makes more DMA changes to Windows 11/Edge
We all need these changes.
Apple needs to pay attention.
Also, hilarious: Apple copies what Microsoft did in the 1990s. Twice.
Earnings:
HP
Dell
Nvidia

Microsoft 365/AI

Microsoft announces (internally) its third major AI reorg in 15 months - Too ... slow?
Microsoft is killing password management/autofill in the Microsoft Authenticator app (announced previously, but now a warning is showing up in the app).
Good, you should use a third-party password manager anyway. Also, it's really an identity manager. Also, wake up.
When/why to use Microsoft Authenticator.
And why you should also use Google Authenticator.
June 2025 update for the new Outlook adds tons of new features.
Research and Analyst AI agents are now GA in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
You can experiment with short, phone videos on your phone with Bing Video Creator.
FU, OpenAI! NYT licenses its content to Amazon.
Samsung may drop Gemini for Perplexity.

Xbox/Gaming

Microsoft has reportedly delayed its first-party Xbox/Windows gaming handheld.
Xbox continues to be in a holding pattern on hardware - Theories include an Arm revolution in waiting and Amy Hood getting serious about trying to make this business profitable.
Are handheld gaming PCs the next Netbook or mini-tablet ... or this is market real, sustainable, and big enough to matter?
SteamDeck/Linux could be a problem here - related to this, Nvidia news.
Microsoft reaches its first-ever agreement with a game studio union.
Semi-related: J Allard is one of about 100 former Microsoft execs at Amazon now, and we have an update.

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: You can replace OneDrive/Google Drive with a NAS.
My Synology NAS is better than expected as a Little Tech replacement for OneDrive and Google Drive. This changes everything
App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge 137
Edge 137 has quietly emerged as the biggest release of this browser since its inception.
Edge 137 adds PIP and business improvements, removes Wallet Hub and some truly pointless features.
It adds Windows 11 App action support to PWAs.
It brings Game Assist for Game Bar to everyone.
Photoshop for Android is here and it's free

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Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom.

Windows 11

It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar
Windows Insider Program
Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks
Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup
New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.)
Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too
As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store
Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app
Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially?
Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units

AI and Web Browsers, Oh My

Browsers go agentic
The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia
Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser
Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company
Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model)
Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode
Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile
Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule?

Xbox and Games

Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta
FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2

Tips and Picks

Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle'
App Pick of the Week: Instapaper
Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11
RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young
Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask

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Agentic AI is the theme of the show this year, and this time its multi-agent with orchestration! But first, we need to discuss the protestors. Paul and Richard have stories. So many stories!

Build 2025

New Microsoft 365 Copilot features are rolling out now because it's a day that ends in y
Tuning is the unexpected Build Bingo center square term - rolling out to agents
GitHub Copilot is open source in VS Code, more
Win32 app support improvements, no more fees in Microsoft Store
A shift in making Windows 11 the best place for developers - some things said, some left unsaid
Edge gets new AI features too of course
New native app capabilities in Windows App SDK, React Native
And, pre-Build, 50 million Visual Studio users
Copilot for consumers does image generation now. Fun tip: You can Minecraft-ize photos
OpenAI has a coding agent too, obviously
And OpenAI is buying Jony Ive!

Windows

Administrator Protection is coming soon - And not just for businesses. This feels very much like the firewall in XP SP2, it's going to be disruptive
New 24H2 features in Release Preview: New text actions in Click to Do, a lot more
New 24H2 features in Dev and Beta: AI actions in File Explorer, Advanced Settings, Search improvements, more
New 23H2 features, Windows 10 features in Release Preview
Surface Laptop Studio RIP
Calendar companion app for Windows 11/M365
Microsoft may finally put the Teams antitrust issue in the EU behind

Xbox

Fortnite returns to the Apple App Store
Apple blocked it first, Epic complained to judge
And Microsoft files a legal motion against Apple and for Epic Games
Qualcomm job listing confirms Xbox plans to some degree
What happens when you combine Qualcomm NPU with Nvidia GPU?
Xbox May Update arrives and it's a big one
Retro Classic Games for Xbox Game Pass
Game Bar updates, Edge Game Assist, GeForce now etc. on PC
Custom Xbox gift cards
More streaming of your own games
Hellblade II is coming from Xbox to PS5
Many more games coming to Xbox Game Pass across platforms

Tips and Picks

App pick of the week: You can try Microsoft's command line editor now
Game pick of the week: Doom: The Dark Ages
RunAs Radio this week: PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick
Brown liquor pick of the week: Tamnavulin Sherry Cask

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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,

Ti

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