Taste the Darkness! - 2023's final Patch Tuesday, E3 officially dies, the future of NPUs
Description
Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more!
Windows 11
The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives
Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR)
Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal)
Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings > Privacy & security > General)
For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too
Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute)
Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements
Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated
Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode
Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next
AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models
Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot
Antitrust
UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI
After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial
Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple?
Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU
Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns
AI
Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI
Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers
Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically
Xbox
An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro
Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S
Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards
E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead
The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review
App pick of the week: Fences 5
RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus
Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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Windows 11
The 24H2 quality issues continue, like a parade with no end.
Patch Tuesday arrives
Windows team says no Preview update in December... but what about November?
Reminder of the Canary build last week with Prism emulator...
Published 11/13/24
On Halloween, the last day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was supposed to preview in October, this is the third delay. No clear reason why. December now, supposedly. Plus, Paul gives an earnings recap that he didn't get to dive into much last week.
Windows
New 24H2 bug
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Published 11/06/24