Jun 5th 2024
Windows Weekly 884
Sentient Meat
Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15
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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”
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Links
- Nvidia GeForce RTX AI PCs to Get Copilot+ PC Capabilities
- AMD Announces Copilot+ PC Capable Chips for Laptops and Desktop PCs
- Intel Lunar Lake Processors to Deliver 48 TOPS NPU, All-New GPU
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series Chips Are Coming to “All PC Form Factors”
- Orchestration (Premium)
- Microsoft, Please Address the Recall Concerns Immediately (Premium)
- You Can Pre-Order Framework Laptop 13 with an Intel Core Ultra Processor
- HP’s PC Business Grew 3 Percent in Quarter
- Dell Revenues Up 6 Percent, But PC Business is Flat
- Windows 11 Monthly Preview Update Brings Copilot as an App
- Windows 11 Monthly Preview Update Brings Copilot as an App
- Windows 11 Canary Build 26227 Adds New Copilot App and Emoji 15.1 Support
- Microsoft Starts Rolling Out New Copilot App to Dev Channel Testers
- Windows Insider Program Adds New Beta Channel for Windows 10 Users
- Microsoft Celebrates 15 Years of Bing
- Microsoft is Laying Off Around 1,000 Employees Across its Mixed Reality Group
- Report: Apple Partnering With OpenAI is Raising Concerns at Microsoft
- Google is Fixing its AI Overviews
- Raspberry Pi Brings AI to the Raspberry Pi 5
- Asus Announces New ROG Ally X Gaming Handheld
- Sony Announces $59.99 PlayStation VR2 Adapter for PC
- Opera Brings Emoji Decorations to Tabs
- Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping
- Nikka From The Barre