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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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

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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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