Windows Weekly 882: The Hall & Oates Story

Paul and Richard are in Seattle for Build 2024 this week and we join Leo to talk about all the news: Copilot+ PCs, Windows, AI, dev, and much more.

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Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses

• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
• What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
• Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
• A few photos from the showcase
• The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
• Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern

Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features

Related: Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome

And … Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

Inside baseball

Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday’s event

• Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions) – Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
• Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word “Snapdragon”
• PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase
• NVIDIA

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Announces Team Copilot

Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature

AI

Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs

Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform

Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training

Dev

Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it’s not a runtime

• Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!

Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot – Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release – Plus I was so excited about Visual Studio I wrote about it twice

Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers

Tips

Windows 11 Security Book

Surface Laptop report

RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/933

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