WW 859: Taste the Darkness! - 2023's final Patch Tuesday, E3 officially dies, the future of NPUs
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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