Windows 11
- A quick look back at the Copilot+ PC launch
- Paul did end up making a video of each MacBook Air reference during last week's launch
- The Copilot+ PC event was also notable for its many references to the past: Paul counted at least 7 in the first 7 minutes alone
- After some soul-searching, Paul went all-in on Surface Laptop by canceling the first preorder and bulking it up with more RAM and storage
- Release Preview (last week): 24H2 comes to RP, suggesting it hits stable on Tuesday, June 11 (in preview), one week before the first Copilot+ PCs arrive with this build preinstalled
- Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course)
- Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a "WebUI 2.0" initiative
- Lenovo earnings up 9 percent in quarter, down 8 percent for the year. The future? AI PCs, duh
AI
- There was a massive Bing outage late last week. Press hold on all the obvious jokes, this impacted Copilot everywhere, DuckDuckGo, other services
- Cue the Chicken Little "this is why I'll never use AI" crowd, which used to be the "this is why I'll never use the cloud" crowd
- Copilot comes to Telegram for some reason
- Google goes live with AI overviews in Search and the world grinds to a halt
- Google adds Gemini to Chromebook Plus, gives one free year of Google One AI Premium to new device buyers
- WWDC is coming soon and we're seeing hints of how Apple will add more AI to its products
- Opera partners with Google Cloud on Gemini in Aria AI and image understanding/image generation in browser
- And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser
- NVIDIA revenues were a record in Q1, up 262 percent YOY
Dev
- Last week, we learned that WPF is making a comeback. This week, Paul revived his .NETpad project and is going to modernize it using the new features
Xbox
- We finally have some news about Activision Blizzard games and Game Pass!!! But it's only one game, and it doesn't happen until November
- Atari buys the Intellivision brand. I wish we knew more about this
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns
- App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2
- RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder's Reserve
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