Microsoft Loop preview FINALLY arrives

• Microsoft Loop web app launches in public preview for MSA and work/school accounts - Yeah, it's a Notion rip-off. Alarmingly so.

Windows 11

• Now, Microsoft is testing Windows 11 features first in Release Preview
• New Dev channel build: Seconds in the system tray is a game changer! /s
• Minor changes coming to default apps
• Based on a single hardware review, it appears that 13th Gen Intel Core processors have the same problem with docks and hubs as do 12th Gen processors.

AI all the things

• Bill Gates describes AI as the biggest technology transformation since the GUI.
• Bing Chatbot can now generate images from text
• GitHub launches ChatGPT-4 powered Copilot X
• Adobe launches responsible/ethical generative AI tools
• Google launches Bard in early access
• Mozilla.ai startup goes live
• Opera adds AI prompts, sidebar ChatGPT

Xbox

• Microsoft's AB acquisition is all about mobile, not COD
• Microsoft announces it will launch mobile apps store on iPhone and Android as soon as regulators make it possible
• FOSS patents: We've moved into the acceptance phase, and this acquisition is on track
• Netflix is expanding its mobile games library dramatically
• Microsoft releases a third set of Game Pass titles for March
• Get a Steam Deck for 10 percent off to celebrate its first birthday

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Inbox Zero
• App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code
• RunAs Radio this week: SMB over QUIC File Servers with Ned Pyle
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Ben Nevis 10

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