Windows Weekly 883: It’s So Convulated

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss last week’s Copilot+ PC event, Windows 11, more earnings, AI, WPF, Xbox, and much more.

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Windows 11

Memories, I have a few. 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.

Windows Insider

• 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. Or not, because schedules
• Beta (last week): 23H2 build with no new features (arriving after 24H2 in Release Preview, of course)
• Today, new Sticky Notes experience for Windows 10/11 in OneNote in preview

Microsoft Edge is getting more responsive thanks to a “WebUI 2.0” initiative

Related: 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 the browser

• And it now plans to make 2000 SLMs available in the browser

Related: 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 – I am fascinated that WPF is a first-class citizen for Windows app development again.

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 and picks

Tip of the week: Beware the dark patterns

Using deceptive language—dark patterns—is a key strategy for Big Tech firms enshittifying their products and services. I often use Edge as the perfect example of this in the Microsoft space, but here’s another example.

App pick of the week: Windows 11 version 24H2

You can upgrade right now, it’s not painful, easy, and probably OK. Here’s how.

RunAs Radio this week: PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/934

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glen Garioch 1797 Founder’s Reserve

https://www.glengarioch.com/whiskies/core-range/founders-reserve