Windows Weekly 921: Regret as a Service

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Week D, more Copilot+ PC features, Microsoft 365, putting AI to work, dev, Xbox, and much more.

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Windows

Week D – If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen

• 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.

Windows Insider

• Dev and Beta – Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
• Beta (23H2) – Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views

Hardware

• Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
• Semi-related: Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop

Apps

• Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows

Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more

• Unrelated – Amazon kills Appstore for Android

Related: Online accounts

• Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
• Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

Putting AI to work

• Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot

Alexa enters the AI era

OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users

Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it’s not done spending billions on AI

Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist

What is going on with AI for free? Isn’t this stuff expensive?

• Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
• ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
• OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers

Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 – Math is hard, but AI is even harder

Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks

Nvidia partners to bring free ASL training to everyone

.NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with … The promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox/gaming

Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it’s a big one

Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix

Assuming you can read PDP-11 assembly language, that is. The history here is amazing.

App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone

Is now available for those with a paid PS plan, and it’s surprisingly solid

RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/973

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

https://www.theglenrothes.com/en/the-15