WW 909: Shaved Toasted and Charred - Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)

Windows

• Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters
• Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice
• Look at how facile the complaints are now
• This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues
• Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features
• Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?
• HP and Dell earnings
• The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025
• Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?

Microsoft 365

• Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week

AI, antitrust, corporate

• Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI
• This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS
• Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI
• Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results
• DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US
• Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs
• Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested

Xbox

• Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes
• Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar
• Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now
• Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it
• Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation
• App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133
• RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

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