Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss a nothingburger Windows 11 complaint, AI in Windows, Microsoft 365, Surface, AI everywhere, Xbox, and more.
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You’re killing me, people
We didn’t write about this on Thurrott.com, but Microsoft has issued two Release Preview builds—one for Windows 11 and one for Windows 10—recently that demonstrate what we can expect in stable (sorry, the General Availability channel) next. It’s not much, thankfully:
AI PCs – Paul had his first AI PC experience in late 2023, but now he’s gone hands-on with the Copilot key and you won’t believe what happened next
Surface lead designer Ralf Groene retires from Microsoft. You probably have no idea how important this guy is/was.
Microsoft will retire Office 2016 and Office 2019 alongside Windows 10 in October 2025. Is it trying to shorten the support lifecycle of perpetual Office versions?
Report: Microsoft/OpenAI partnership doesn’t warrant a formal probe
Commentary: Microsoft’s three-phase strategy (”AI beside, AI inside, AI outside”) for bringing AI to the world is curiously similar to the “embrace and extend” strategy of the 1990s. Which is itself still misunderstood.
The UK CMA offers a compelling case for regulating AI – a fascinating comeback from its ridiculous arguments against Microsoft + Activision.
Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in a controversial UAE-based AI company. The US government says it’s all good.
Yes, Adobe is working on generative AI video capabilities, of course it is – Plus, AI in Acrobat because seriously we’re this dumb
Brave adds Answer with AI to Brave Search for free
Google Photos’ AI editing tools will be free for everyone
Amazon adds an AI playlist generator to Amazon Music
Apple’s M4 chipsets will pile on the AI. Of course they will.
All three of Anthropic’s Claude 3 LLMs are now available on Amazon Bedrock. Related: Amazon approaches AI differently than Google and Microsoft, and this is a proven formula that probably does make sense.
AMD introduces new AI CPUs for commercial AI PCs
We have another set of titles for Xbox Game Pass. But seriously, Where the F are the Activision Blizzard games??
Grounded comes to PS4/5 and Nintendo Switch. This is the third of the four games Microsoft said would come cross-platform.
Epic Games wants the courts to require Google to open up Android and the Play Store further. To explain how that would work, it wrote some fan fiction.
Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution by Steven Sinofsky is a must-read. No, really.
Also: I put up a 5 minute AI/Copilot 101 video that’s related to some Hands-On Windows work
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