Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte

May 22nd 2024

Windows Weekly 882

The Hall & Oates Story

Copilot+ PCs, Recall snapshots, Khan Academy

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Category: News

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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