Microsoft just made a major change to the Windows 11 install media, and you're not going to believe what happens next! Plus, the AI spelling and grammar checking app/service that Paul relies on. And yes, he does pay for it.
Windows 11
- Copilot Vision gets full Desktop support, Voice integration across all Insider channels
- Click to Do gets a "Describe image" action, Administrator protection, App permission dialog changes in Dev (25H2) and Beta (24H2)
- Canary finally gets the features everyone else has had for a while now
- Also, Microsoft quietly killed the simplified date/time in the Windows 11 Taskbar because no one liked it
- PC sales grew 5 percent in Q2 but there is a BIG caveat
- Semi-related: Google is "combining" ChromeOS and Android
- ChromeOS will build on Android going forward, smart
- Even less related: HMD quietly pulls Nokia out of the U.S. market, the dream is over
Microsoft 365, AI
- Microsoft layoffs directly attributed to AI
- Microsoft scuttled OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf and all hell broke loose
- Google snapped up key execs and engineers and licensed Windsurf for $2.4 billion
- All's well that ends well: Cognition acquires Windsurf
- Microsoft keeps changing the terms of the deal: Microsoft 365 apps will be updated on Windows 10 only through August 2026
- Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting a Memory
- OpenAI is going to war with Microsoft and the world
- It's working on a web browser
- It's also working on an office productivity suite of sorts
- Google NotebookLM gets curated featured notebooks. This is emerging as one of the more useful AI tools
Xbox and Gaming
- Xbox app for Windows 11 gets "Stream your own game" functionality
- Grounded 2, more coming to Game Pass in second half of July
- Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the Mac for some reason
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: Save big on PCs, go refurbished
- App pick of the week: LanguageTool for Desktop
- RunAs Radio this week: Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Slane Triple Casked Blend
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