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
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