Windows Weekly 920: Celebrity Condiments

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 11, Rust, Outlook mobile, the end of AI denying, .NET 10, Xbox and gaming, and much more.

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Windows

Windows Insider Program

• Dev channel – “Important” update because of coming change to Recall soon, so here’s an update that will wipe out all your data – One guess about what that means – plus, a nice change to the Recall pop-up
• Release Preview (24H2): A preview of the preview that we’ll preview next time
• Release Preview (23H2): Basically the same features as above, keeping the two aligned

Microsoft deprecates location history in Windows 11 – depreciation junction, what’s your function?

Microsoft Edge gets more WebUI 2-based performance improvements

Clipchamp just keeps getting better

Microsoft 365

Microsoft: Just kidding about that MSA and Entra ID sign-in experience change

Outlook mobile is getting a new font picker, a recall email feature (finally), and a minimize email message feature.

Related: ExpressVPN rewrote its VPN protocol in Rust – Interesting timing given the Rust bit below

AI, more

Microsoft announces a Quantum computing breakthrough, first quantum processor

It’s time to stop the AI denying

• Flareup in Linux kernel management maps directly to what we see with AI – Two extremes but a clear middle ground
• Long story short, AI is all about saving you time – this is the “many small things, not one big thing” argument

Copilot gets new voice capabilities

In case you were worried, OpenAI formally rejects buyout offer

• Will also simplify its model offerings

Google Gemini now remembers what you said, unlike your husband

• Plus Circle to Search is coming to Chrome and Google app on iOS (and Gemini is going away from Google app on iOS)

xAI launches Grok3 model but only for X Premium subscribers

Random: Shouldn’t Microsoft have announced .NET 10 by now?

• .NET 9 Preview 1 was Feb 13 2024
• .NET 8 Preview 1 was Feb 21 2023
• Mentions on Twitter of .NET 10 Preview 1 being released “soon”’
• GitHub has lots of issues and milestones around .NET 10 Preview 1

Xbox

Xbox consoles now support bigger external hard drives

Avowed launches, with many other Game Pass titles coming through end of February

Microsoft announced a generative AI model for video games

Sony just had its best-ever PS5 sales quarter

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Find your AI “ah-ha” moment

You’re not going to cure cancer, but maybe you can save some time on tasks you’re not an expert on, or aren’t how you want to spend time.

App pick of the week: Notion is nearly perfect

So I’m obviously screwing with it tied t the first tip above – Why: Offline, files-based, Markdown

Also: iA Writer 2 for Windows is here, if you were waiting. It’s still not as good as on the Mac

RunAs Radio this week: Managed DevOps Pools with Eliza Tarasila

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/972

Brown liquor pick of the week: Signal Hill

https://www.signalhillwhisky.com/