It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?
Windows
- New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)
- Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta
- Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta
- Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today
- Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features
- Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support
- Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC
- Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)
- Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts
AI
- We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way
- Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge
- Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students
- Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)
- Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too
Antitrust
- It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning
- Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year
- US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google
- US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly
- What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?
- OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious
- Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate
- Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA
- Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)
Xbox/gaming
- Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass
- Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs
- It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change
- And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again
- HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby
- RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask
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