Windows Weekly 858: Quaff and Nosh

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss Windows 10 extended support, a major Windows release for 2024, new Copilot features, and so much more.

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Windows 10

Yep! They’re going to support Windows 10 for 3 more years with extended security update (ESU) program. But this time there’s a twist!

• Consumers are going to have the chance to pay annually for the ESU as well
• Let the complaints begin

Copilot expands to more Windows 10 users

Windows 11

Report sees a major Windows release in 2024

The November 2003 Preview Update for Windows 11 shipped on a Monday in December because Microsoft – it adds new Coplot features, last preview CU for 2023

Related: Dell earnings – revenues fall 10 percent YOY because the PC market is still horrible

Richard bought a computer. Can you guess which one?

AI

Microsoft to get non-voting board representation at OpenAI

Copilot is now GA. Unless you’re using Windows 11, apparently – everyone gets free commercial data protection

Copilot gets GPT-4 Turbo, new DALLE-3 model, and more

Google goes live with Gemini, including a Nano version for Pixel 8 Pro

Microsoft 365/Cloud

Microsoft finally releases Seeing AI on Android

Evernote restricts free users to 1 notebook, 50 notes – time to switch!

Antitrust

Federal judge orders Google and Epic to try and settle the case before the jury renders its verdict

30 more venture capital firms tell the FTC to stop harassing Microsoft for Activision Blizzard

Google and Amazon have both weighed in on Microsoft’s cloud licensing with the UK CMA

Xbox

Microsoft is betting on the DMA, will create mobile video game store with unnamed partners

Here are the first Game Pass titles for December

Microsoft explains licensing pop-ups on console

Rockstar issues first GTA VI trailer

PlayStation reminds the world that no one owns the digital content they purchased

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Stuck on 22H2? You can still upgrade to 23H2

Here’s how: Installation Assistant, Installation Media, ISO, or … the eKB enablement package, which is the only method that works on Arm (including the Mac).

App pick of the week: ImageGlass 9 (Microsoft Store)

ImageGlass 9 is my favorite image viewer by far and it was high time I paid for it.

**Bonus pick: **Artifact – personalized news feed on Android/iPhone/iPad – I may have found my news reader

RunAs Radio this week: Modernizing using M365 with Sharon Weaver

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/909

Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfiddich 12

https://www.glenfiddich.com/en-us/12-year-old/