WW 882: The Hall & Oates Story - Copilot+ PCs, Recall snapshots, Khan Academy

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

• Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses
• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
• What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
• Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
• The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
• Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern
• Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features
• Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome
• Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

Inside baseball

• Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event
• Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
• Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"
• PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Announces Team Copilot
• Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature

AI

• Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs
• Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform
• Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training

Dev

• Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime
• Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!
• Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot
• Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release
• Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report
• RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott
• Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10
  

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