Paul and Richard are at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and just watched the keynote! Leo Laporte chats with them to discuss the clarified rebranding of Copilot, some new AI features in Windows 365, Microsoft Loop's availability, the release of .NET 8, two decades of Patch Tuesday, a neat Xbox Series bundle discount for Black Friday, and more! 
Microsoft Ignite<ul> 
<li>(Final) Copilot rebranding clarifies the naming changes announced in September</li> 
<li>Copilot for Microsoft 365 adds plug-in support, more</li> 
<li>Windows 11: Windows AI Studio announced, Dev Home and WSL are updated</li> 
<li>New AI capabilities in Windows 365</li> 
<li>Microsoft Loop is now available</li> 
<li>New Teams now GA, 320 million users - Mesh in Jan 2024</li> 
<li>Clipchamp and Microsoft Designer come to Microsoft 365 commercial</li> 
<li>Microsoft announces its first custom AI chipsets for the Azure datacenter</li></ul> 
Dev: .NET Conf<ul> 
<li>Microsoft releases .NET 8 with .NET Aspire</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>Microsoft releases 23H2 for the fourth time?</li> 
<li>One tiny bit of OneDrive de-ensh*ttification does not address the bigger issues</li> 
<li>Patch Tuesday turns 20, Microsoft couldn't care less</li> 
<li>The new Outlook: People, we have a roadmap!</li> 
<li>Microsoft Store now lets you decide where to install games</li> 
<li>Copilot in Microsoft Shopping, AI review summaries come to Bing and Edge</li></ul> 
Microsoft, more AI<ul> 
<li>Microsoft will not challenge its gatekeeper designation in the EU</li> 
<li>Google brings generative AI search to 120+ new countries</li> 
<li>Google will ID AI-based videos in YouTube</li> 
<li>Google Photos gets some cool AI organizational features</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Xbox Series X|S are discounted by $50 for Black Friday</li> 
<li>Halo Infinite goes retro too, adds Halo 3 playlist</li> 
<li>Here are more titles coming to Xbox Game Pass</li> 
<li>Here comes the OLED Steam Deck</li> 
<li>PS5 "Slim" is now available in the US - Sony unlikely to hit PS5 sales targets</li> 
<li>Amazon lays off gaming staff, will refine Prime Gaming perks</li></ul> 
Tips &amp; Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Google's Black Friday sale looks solid</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: Microsoft Loop</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge with Richard Hicks</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Makers Mark Cellar Aged</li></ul> 
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WW 855: Live From Ignite! - Microsoft is copiloting all the things! Big news from the show

On this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo, Paul, and Richard dive deep into the latest OpenAI/Microsoft partnership drama involving Sam Altman's position. They also discuss upcoming EU regulations and their impact on Microsoft products, evaluate NVIDIA's record-breaking Q3 earnings, and reminisce about the classic PC FPS Half-Life. 
 
And you thought AI was already controversial...<ul> 
<li>On Friday, OpenAI's board suddenly and unexpectedly fired CEO Sam Altman, kicking off several days of unprecedented high drama</li> 
<li>OpenAI president and board chairman Greg Brockman announced that he was quitting in protest</li> 
<li>Microsoft announced it had hired Altman and Brockman over the weekend</li> 
<li>95 percent of OpenAI employees threatened to quit if Altman did not come back</li> 
<li>Altman began negotiating his return to OpenAI (and major governance changes)</li> 
<li>Altman is once again CEO of OpenAI</li> 
<li>Key takeaway: No matter what happens, Microsoft wins</li> 
<li>Wrong takeaway: Nothing changed</li></ul> 
Windows<ul> 
<li>Windows 11 is about to get awesome in the EEA</li> 
<li>WHY IS WINDOWS 11 ONLY GOING TO BE AWESOME IN THE EEA???</li> 
<li>Microsoft confirms that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 too. "No new features, my ass!"</li> 
<li>Copilot begins rolling out to Windows 10 in Insider Program</li> 
<li>Release Preview: Copilot in Alt + Tab and on other displays, limited Copilot with local account, DMA compliance, Windows Spotlight changes</li> 
<li>Canary: Disable Phone Link in the Bluetooth settings, display Teams contacts in the Windows share window when signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID</li> 
<li>Dev: Narrator improvements, File Explorer fixes (wait for it)</li> 
<li>Redmond, we have a problem. With Windows Hello</li></ul> 
Earnings learning<ul> 
<li>NVIDIA continues to soar on AI (Winner)</li> 
<li>Zoom has settled back down to reality</li> 
<li>HP stumbles through its fourth quarter and FY2023: AI PCS FTW in late 2024!</li> 
<li>Lenovo stumbles too, but explicitly predicts industry recovery</li></ul> 
Antitrust<ul> 
<li>Apple, ByteDance, and Meta contest their DMA gatekeeper designations</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Half-Life turned 25 last weekend and Valve finally remembered it exists</li> 
<li>Nvidia's GeForce Now adds Microsoft Store, PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft+ integration - over 1700 games now</li> 
<li>Amazon Luna comes to France, Italy, and Spain</li> 
<li>Next Call of Duty leaks!</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Ignite's over, but the videos are forever</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: Half-Lif</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Azure Operator Nexus with Jennelle Crothers</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Willett Wheated 8 Year Bourbon</li></ul> 
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WW 856: Sunglasses For Your Whiskey - Altman returns to OpenAI, Windows Hello vulnerabilities, Half-Life turns 25

Windows<ul> 
<li>Tiny11 2311 arrives, is even tinier and even 23H2er ... or something</li> 
<li>Beta channel: Teams integration with Share (Entra ID only), new language support for Ink Anywhere</li> 
<li>Dev: Copilot icon moves (!), more Copilot, Share, Ink, Android in Nearby Sharing (!)</li> 
<li>Canary: Energy Saver (new feature), more</li> 
<li>Samsung brings its browser to the Microsoft Store</li></ul> 
AI/Microsoft<ul> 
<li>Microsoft and Meta reportedly receiving 3x as many NVIDIA GPUs for AI as Amazon</li> 
<li>Amazon introduces it's own AI chatbot for the enterprise, and it does have one useful and unique feature</li> 
<li>Microsoft is retiring its Microsoft 365 browser extension</li> 
<li>Evernote is still a thing and now it wants to charge everyone</li> 
<li>Amazon takes a Fire TV Cube and turns it into a remote desktop thin client</li></ul> 
Antitrust<ul> 
<li>UK CMA provisionally rules against Adobe acquisition of Figma</li> 
<li>EU formally objects to Amazon acquisition of iRobot because the robot vacuum cleaner market is so important</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Xbox Series X and S are still on sale. Just saying</li> 
<li>The November Update for Xbox is here with rewards redemption, Xbox app gets compact mode</li> 
<li>Microsoft is reportedly deprecating the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox</li> 
<li>Netflix is bringing GTA trilogy to the service</li> 
<li>The current Call of Duty is awash in bad reviews, so let's talk about the next Call of Duty!</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Microsoft's new ugly Christmas sweater is here</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: DuckDuckGo</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust Adoption Guidance with Nicolas Blank</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Pendleton Rye 12 Year 
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WW 857: SharePoint All the Way Down - Energy Saver, tiny11 2311, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client

In this week's Windows Weekly, Paul, Leo, and Richard discuss the extension of Windows 10 support for 3 more years after 2025 for consumers and enterprises, updates on the AI features of Copilot, Google's new AI model Gemini, potential features coming in a future Windows release next year, and the cleanliness of ImageGlass 9. 
Windows 10<ul> 
<li>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!</li> 
<li>Consumers are going to have the chance to pay annually for the ESU as well. Let the complaints begin</li> 
<li>Copilot expands to more Windows 10 users</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>Report sees a major Windows release in 2024</li> 
<li>The November 2023 Preview Update for Windows 11 shipped on a Monday in December because Microsoft, adding new Copilot features, last preview CU for 2023</li> 
<li>Dell earnings - revenues fall 10 percent YOY because the PC market is still horrible</li> 
<li>Richard bought a computer. Can you guess which one?</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>Microsoft to get non-voting board representation at OpenAI</li> 
<li>Copilot is now GA. Unless you're using Windows 11, apparently. Everyone gets free commercial data protection</li> 
<li>Copilot gets GPT-4 Turbo, new DALLE-3 model, and more</li> 
<li>Google goes live with Gemini, including a Nano version for Pixel 8 Pro</li></ul> 
Microsoft 365/Cloud<ul> 
<li>Microsoft finally releases Seeing AI on Android</li> 
<li>Evernote restricts free users to 1 notebook, 50 notes - time to switch!</li></ul> 
Antitrust<ul> 
<li>Federal judge orders Google and Epic to try and settle the case before the jury renders its verdict</li> 
<li>30 more venture capital firms tell the FTC to stop harassing Microsoft for Activision Blizzard</li> 
<li>Google and Amazon have both weighed in on Microsoft's cloud licensing with the UK CMA</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Microsoft is betting on the DMA, will create mobile video game store with unnamed partners</li> 
<li>The first Game Pass titles for December</li> 
<li>Microsoft explains licensing pop-ups on console</li> 
<li>Rockstar issues first GTA VI trailer</li> 
<li>PlayStation reminds the world that no one owns the digital content they purchased</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Stuck on 22H2? You can still upgrade to 23H2</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: ImageGlass 9 (Microsoft Store)</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Modernizing using M365 with Sharon Weaver</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfiddich 12</li></ul> 
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WW 858: Quaff and Nosh - Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, Richard's new PC, KB5032288

Grab your favorite whisky and join Paul, Richard, and Leo as they meander through a delightfully geeky/tipsy conversation spanning Windows updates, AI advancements, Big Tech antitrust issues, and more! 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives</li> 
<li>Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR)</li> 
<li>Copilot now appears in Alt + Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY + Tab), oddly (Same deal)</li> 
<li>Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings &gt; Privacy &amp; security &gt; General)</li> 
<li>For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too</li> 
<li>Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute)</li> 
<li>Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements</li> 
<li>Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated</li> 
<li>Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode</li> 
<li>Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you're never going to believe what happens next</li> 
<li>AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models</li> 
<li>Intel's Meteor Lake is coming in hot</li></ul> 
Antitrust<ul> 
<li>UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI</li> 
<li>After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial</li> 
<li>Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple?</li> 
<li>Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU</li> 
<li>Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI</li> 
<li>Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers</li> 
<li>Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way</li> 
<li>Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro</li> 
<li>Balder's Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series X|S</li> 
<li>Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards</li> 
<li>E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead</li> 
<li>The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: Fences 5</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow &amp; Rick Claus</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12 
</li></ul> 
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WW 859: Taste the Darkness! - 2023's final Patch Tuesday, E3 officially dies, the future of NPUs

On the last episode of 2023, Richard Campbell, Paul Thurrott, and Leo Laporte are joined by a lovely guest to look back (and look ahead) on Microsoft's progress and accomplishments. Between a Teams milestone, Meteor Lake chipset's release, AI music creation in Copilot, Bobby Kotick's upcoming exit, and Microsoft's Countdown Sale, there's plenty of news left to digest at the end of this eventful year! Happy holidays, dozers!  
Windows 11/Microsoft 365<ul> 
<li>Microsoft will FINALLY fix the dumbest File Explorer bug of all - no, not that File Explorer bug</li> 
<li>Microsoft is suddenly deprecating tons of Windows features</li> 
<li>Windows Insider: Windows 11 Beta build 22635.2915 is the last Insider build of 2023. Nothing major: Voice access supports multiple displays, Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch from last week's Dev build, Notepad update with Notepad an "Edit with Notepad" item in the File Explorer context menu, and a character count display</li> 
<li>Microsoft Teams now has 320 million users, 2,000 apps in the Teams store, and over 145,000 custom line-of-business (LOB) apps built by enterprises</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>Microsoft partners with Suno to bring music creation to Copilot - OH AND THERE ARE PLUG-INS THERE NOW TOO</li> 
<li>A few insider notes about this generation of Intel chips</li> 
<li>Intel's Core Ultra chipset is coming to Chromebooks too</li></ul> 
Look back/Look Ahead<ul> 
<li>What's left to say Copilots? There are lots (at least announced) and even more are coming</li> 
<li>Is 2024 going to be the year of the AI PC? Or is this just another fad/bubble</li> 
<li>"Windows 12" or whatever the vNext is called: Huzzah!</li> 
<li>Ready or not, the new Outlook for Windows and new Teams are coming</li> 
<li>How will Activision Blizzard impact Xbox?</li></ul> 
Antitrust<ul> 
<li>Activision Blizzard settles 2021 class action lawsuit that triggered the acquisition by Microsoft</li> 
<li>Bobby Kotick on the outs Dec 29</li> 
<li>In wake of antitrust loss, Google also settles Play Store suit, will pay $700 million to victims</li> 
<li>Adobe bails on Figma. Just kidding!</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Leak shows that Sony is very worried about Xbox now</li> 
<li>Sony has sold 50 million PS5s, has outsold Xbox 3-to-1 in 2023</li> 
<li>Google extends Stadia controller conversion timeline</li></ul> 
Tips and picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Microsoft's Countdown sale brings big discounts to Xbox, Surface, more</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: MediaSorter</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Azure Arc Guest Configuration with Jodi Boone</li> 
<li>Enterprise pick of the week: Directions on Microsoft's got some (free) resources worth checking out</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: The Spirit of Scotland 46 &amp; Monkey Shoulder</li> 
<li>Beer pick of the week: Back Home Beer Yalda Queen 
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WW 860: An Unexpected Visitor - Suno's AI music, Bobby Kotick's departure, predictions for Microsoft's 2024

Looking back at Windows Weekly's best moments from 2023<ul> 
<li>Welcoming Richard aboard, and setting the table for an AI-filled year</li> 
<li>"I have been a good Bing" and other chatbot awkwardness</li> 
<li>Leo's Parallels 18 for Mac demonstration</li> 
<li>UK CMA blocks the Activision Blizzard deal, and it makes no sense</li> 
<li>Build 2023 was a great showing for Steven Pathiche, but a strange showing for Panos Panay</li> 
<li>Microsoft beats the Federal Trade Commission in court, inching a step closer to their acquisition</li> 
<li>Discord chat with Sean, a sign language interpreter and CODA!</li> 
<li>Panos Pany leaves Microsoft, but did he jump or get pushed?</li> 
<li>Giant Xbox leak reveals new console refreshes, a controller, and a roadmap for the future</li> 
<li>Impressions from the AI September event, including the sweeping Copilot rebrand.</li> 
<li>Activision Blizzard is finally acquired after much struggle</li> 
<li>A token Thurrant about OneDrive and its near-endless push to back up Paul's folders</li> 
<li>A classic beer pick from the one and only Mary Jo Foley!</li></ul> 
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WW 861: Our Best of 2023 - An eventful year in Microsoft news

Microsoft finally kills Windows Mixed Reality<ul> 
<li>Just in time for Christmas, Microsoft revealed that its long-dead WMR platform is now officially dead</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>Moment 5 is allegedly coming in February</li> 
<li>Microsoft quietly reissues Windows 11 version 23H2 installation media</li> 
<li>Microsoft kills install from web capabilities in Windows App Installer (MSIX)</li> 
<li>Dev (today): Richer weather experience on Lock, more Voice access improvements</li> 
<li>Canary (today): Same Voice access changes, no more WordPad or People in a clean install, Steps Recorder deprecated, new Energy Saver icon in the system tray, Nearby Sharing can name your PC</li></ul> 
Surface<ul> 
<li>New Surface Pro 6 and Laptop 6 are expected in Spring 2024 with Intel and Qualcomm chipsets.</li> 
<li>Microsoft's first "real" AI PCs. FU, Surface Laptop Studio 2 buyers!</li></ul> 
Microsoft 365<ul> 
<li>Something to consider for 2024: Have Microsoft's core platforms gotten too complex? And when/if this will drive away customers?</li> 
<li>Standalone Copilot app launches on Android ... and then, days later, on iPhone and iPad - And it offers a ChatGPT4 mode, interestingly</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for massive copyright infringement</li> 
<li>GitHub Copilot Chat is now GA. Requires $10/month GitHub Copilot sub, but it may be the single best example of how AI can improve our lives so far</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>New Xbox Game Pass titles for early January: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Resident Evil 2 remake, more</li> 
<li>Does something smell better around here? Bobby Kotick has left the building</li> 
<li>PlayStation: Just kidding, you can keep your stupid Discovery shows</li> 
<li>Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut</li> 
<li>Steam no longer supports Windows 7 or 8.1</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Properly secure your Microsoft account</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: MSEdgeRedirect</li> 
<li>Bonus pick: MediaSorter</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Doing More with Less in 2024 with Erin Chapple</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Elijah Craig Small Batch 
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WW 862: One Click to Malware - Windows Mixed Reality deprecated, NY Times sues Microsoft & OpenAI, malicious MSIX packages

It's CES, so let's observe a moment of silence for all the stupid #*$% our colleagues are covering right now! But there is some wheat in the chaff, of course<ul> 
<li>Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn't Meteor Lake was mobile only?</li> 
<li>PC makers announce a lot of Meteor Lake PCs: Acer, Acer again, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, more, plus the MSI Claw mobile gaming handheld and the first ASUS NUC!</li> 
<li>Paul's been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what's the AI stuff really like?</li> 
<li>It's not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs</li> 
<li>Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share</li> 
<li>Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft?</li> 
<li>Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone</li> 
<li>Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday</li> 
<li>Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version</li> 
<li>Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason</li></ul> 
Microsoft 365<ul> 
<li>Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase</li> 
<li>Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client</li> 
<li>Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date</li></ul> 
AI<ul> 
<li>OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed</li> 
<li>Has met with "dozens" of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential</li> 
<li>Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut</li> 
<li>Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content</li> 
<li>Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it's telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI</li> 
<li>Interesting details about negotiations between the two</li> 
<li>Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf</li> 
<li>EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA</li> 
<li>Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise</li> 
<li>OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users</li> 
<li>Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board</li> 
<li>Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation</li> 
<li>Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18</li> 
<li>Minecraft Legends, RIP</li> 
<li>Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more</li> 
<li>Layoffs at Twitch</li> 
<li>After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce</li></ul> 
Tips and Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak</li></ul> 
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WW 863: Full of Corn - CES 2024 announcements, Incase Designed by Microsoft, passkey support

Outlook, privacy, and the terribleness of Big Tech<ul> 
<li>New Outlook Decried as a "Surveillance Tool for Targeted Advertising</li> 
<li>One perspective: How terrible are other companies like Google and Meta?</li> 
<li>But also, how terrible are Windows 11, Teams, Microsoft Edge, etc?</li> 
<li>Supreme Court refuses to hear Epic v. Apple appeals</li> 
<li>So, Epic wins on one important count, being able to communicate to their own customers</li> 
<li>But Apple is still being terrible because it can be. Will the EU finally take care of this?</li> 
<li>Google unlinking its services in the EU, Apple removing pulse ox from Watch in the US, Google comes clean on Incognito, and Microsoft Cloud lets EU customers keep data locally, it just keeps coming</li></ul> 
Copilot all the things<ul> 
<li>Richard correctly predicted that 2024 would be the year that Microsoft stopped talking about AI and started implementing AI. But who could have predicted THIS in the first two weeks (!) of the year?</li> 
<li>Copilot Pro for consumers, Copilot for Microsoft 365 for all commercial customers with no baseline, Copilot on mobile, Copilot in Microsoft 365 mobile, Copilot GPT Builder on the way</li> 
<li>But there's a real vulnerability for Microsoft and its AI aims here - Too soon, too little may be a mistake</li> 
<li>Microsoft and Vodafone, sitting in a tree</li> 
<li>Plus: No Copilot AI (SLM) on the Galaxy S24 family? Interesting. Is Google trying to undermine that partnership and bring Samsung back into the fold?</li></ul> 
Windows 11<ul> 
<li>PC sales for 2023: Good news, bad news. OK, it's just bad news</li> 
<li>They're doing it again: After almost literally no testing, Microsoft launches new Weather experience on the lock screen and makes it the default</li> 
<li>Store app install notifications are in stable now too</li> 
<li>Dev: USB 80 Gbps support, auto-start Copilot on 27-inch+ displays, Windows Share (as below) improvements, fixes</li> 
<li>Beta: More Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp, Gmail, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn URL sharing), Weather experience on Lock, Microsoft Store with instant arcade games and app install notifications</li> 
<li>Release Preview: New KB update gives us our second near-final peek at Moment 5, with more "Ink Everywhere," eye control system support, 7-ZIP support improvements, other fixes</li> 
<li>Microsoft will reportedly bring back the Windows Insider Program's Beta Channel for Windows 10 because they were just kidding about that whole "no new features" thing</li> 
<li>Dev Home comes to Windows 10</li></ul> 
Xbox<ul> 
<li>January's Game Pass titles, still no Activision Blizzard</li> 
<li>Xbox fixes Baldur's Gate save bug</li> 
<li>Ubisoft mixes up its Ubisoft+ subscriptions</li></ul> 
Tips &amp; Picks<ul> 
<li>Tip of the week: Maybe this is the year of NextDNS</li> 
<li>App pick of the week: Brave</li> 
<li>RunAs Radio this week: Copilots for Power Platform with April Dunnam</li> 
<li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Writer's Tears 
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WW 864: Word Doesn't Respect Me - Outlook & advertising, Copilot Pro announced, Galaxy S24 + Google's AI

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