Windows Weekly 884: Sentient Meat

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Recall and other Copilot+ PC questions and controversies, Windows 11, Microsoft, AI, Xbox, and more.

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Attack of the Copilot+ PCs … or is it the AI PCs? Or RTX AI PCs?

Computex has brought us some dueling chipsets and more complexity to consider

• Nvidia: GeForce RTX AI PCs will get Copilot+ PC status … some day
• AMD: Ryzen AI 300 series (laptops) and AMD Ryzen 9000 series (desktops) have 50 TOPS NPUs and an on-stage apology, er, admission, from Microsoft
• Intel: Lunar Lake delivers 48 TOPS NPU, new GPU
• Qualcomm – Don’t forget us! We’re going to go after every PC form factor there is

Thinking about AI, NPUs, and local workloads – Is an orchestrator in our future?

Microsoft needs to address the Recall controversies

Other PC stuff

• Framework Laptop 13 is coming with Intel Core Ultra chips
• HP earnings – PC business up 3 percent in Q
• Dell earnings – PC business is flat

Windows 11

Microsoft delivers its Week D preview update a day late

• If you’re on 24H2 like I recommended last week, you get … wait for it … Copilot as an app

Windows Insider

• Canary: Copilot as an app, Emoji 15.1 support
• Dev: Copilot as an app
• Microsoft adds a Windows 10 Insider Preview Beta channel to test new features

Microsoft

Bing is 15 years old. What can we possibly celebrate?

More Microsoft layoffs, this time in Mixed Reality and Azure

AI

Apple reportedly partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft reportedly pissed about Apple partnering with OpenAI

Google is fixing its AI overviews in Search. “We’ll get to it as soon as we figure out image generation in Gemini!”

• And if anyone still trusts Google AI for some reason, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are now GA

Amazon brings AI search … to Fire TV for some reason

When Raspberry Pi 5 can do AI is AI just everywhere now?

Xbox

Asus announces ROG Ally X gaming handheld – are these to gaming what 8.1-inch tablets were to Windows 8.1?

PlayStation VR2 adapter for PC is $60

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Listen to RunAs with Paul!

App pick of the week: Opera

The Opera web browser is easier to get used to after you’ve used Arc. And now it has emoji tab decorations, which isn’t as lame as it sounds

RunAs Radio this week: Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/935

Brown liquor pick of the week: Nikka “From the Barrel”

https://www.nikka.com/eng/brands/fromthebarrel/