Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss the CrowdStrike outage (and outrage), Windows 11, AI, antitrust, quarterly earnings, Xbox, and a lot more.
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Well, it’s been quite the week. How did you spend your weekend?
Windows 11 version 23H2 is fully available!!! Wait. What?
Surface Laptop 7 review: Big, heavy, no presence sensing or fingerprint reader. Right, I love it.
Related: Intel cops to mistake in Core Gen 13/14 processors, will issue fix. Why this is unprecedented. And also precedented. Also, why precedented should be a word.
Windows Insider Program
Just in: Bing now has generative search, like Google
Meta is making a surprising—and surprisingly strong—case for AI as open-source
Proton adds an AI writing assistant to its Drive-based Docs
Amazon lost an alleged $25 billion on Alexa devices over four years, so it’s all in on AI-based devices now! (Panos Panay is the perfect fit for this business if the goal is to be unprofitable)
Google effectively kills Privacy Sandbox in a victory for regulation
Microsoft probably cleared the final hurdle to avoid EU antitrust action on cloud licensing. Hey, it worked with security companies and the Windows kernel!
Alphabet/Google: Double-digit revenue gains YOY, but how much of this is AI?
Subscription services (Netflix, Spotify, not so much Game Pass) are KILLING it, but they’re also in full-on enshirtification mode – how do we fix this? Can we fix this?
FTC complains about Xbox Game changes. They’re not wrong. But they’re not right either.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare III lands on Game Pass today – what the what
Halo TV series canceled. It’s the worst thing that’s happened with Xbox this entire year
With Copilot switching from a pane to an app, there’s an unintended benefit that comes into play when you use an AI PC with a Copilot key on it. You’re never going to believe what happens next.
Microsoft Designer exited preview last week and there’s at least one secret benefit to using it: Unlike Copilot, you can create wide and portrait images (and not just square) without paying. This is why I pay for Copilot Pro. (You do need to sign in with an MSA, however.)
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