Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.
Windows 11
- Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week
- Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev
- Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025
- A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it
- Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2
Antitrust
- Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple
- Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax
- The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech
- US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well
AI
- Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?
- Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI
- GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users
Xbox & gaming
- FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks
- Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.
- New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month
- Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August
- Minecraft drops VR/MR support
- GTA VI delayed until 2026
- Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Go passwordless
- App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator
- RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10
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