Windows Weekly (Video)

Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive?

Windows

• 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.


• Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)


• Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views


• Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent


• Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop


• Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows


• Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more


• Amazon kills Appstore for Android


• Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes


• Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

• Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot


• Alexa enters the AI era


• OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users


• Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI


• Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist


• Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!


• ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions


• OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers


• Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder


• Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks


• NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone


• .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox

• Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one


• Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix


• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone


• RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij


• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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