Windows Weekly (Audio) WW 942: A World of Wonder - The weakness of Copilot's branding
Microsoft finally kills Movies & TV show service in the Microsoft Store. This was the final vestigial minder of Zune that remained. There was Groove Video and Xbox Video, too. Microsoft previously killed eBook (2019) and music (2017) sales. At this point, you would have to be insane to buy content from Microsoft, sorry... but you can get to some of your content on other services via Movies Anywhere - and use the Movies & TV app for now in Windows, which is no longer bundled.
Windows 11
- It's Week D and you can't tell your Copilot+ PC features from your Windows 11 features without a scorecard
- A peek at next month's Patch Tuesday - Also, preview updates for 23H2, Windows 10
- Copilot+ PCs only: Settings agent, Click to Do improvements, Photo relight in Photos app, Sticker generator and Object select in Paint
- Everyone: Copilot Vision (U.S. only) in Copilot, Edge Game Assist, Quick Machine Recovery
- Microsoft explains how PC transfer feature will work in Windows Backup later this year
- Describe image action for Click to Do (for AMD/Intel), image descriptions in Narrator (AMD/Intel), performance log improvements (!), Click to Do search bar test, Lock screen improvements, privacy improvements head to Dev and Beta channels
- Bug fixes in Canary, back to the usual waste of time
- Brave will automatically block Recall
- WhatsApp is going PWA, killing UWP app
- Focusrite finally releases drivers for Windows 11 on Arm/Snapdragon X, removing the final major compatibility issue on that platform
- Linux (sort of) crosses the 5 percent usage milestone
Surface/Copilot+ PC
- Copilot+ PC is a failure as a brand because Microsoft focused on negligible on-device AI features
- It should have pushed reliability, performance, efficiency and battery life
- All Copilot+ PC features should come to at least those with GPUs, but really all customers
- Microsoft failed at AI, and failed with consumers, and so now it's going to tell us what consumers want from AI - a comedy
- Microsoft announces Surface Laptop for Business with 5G but the real "with" is Intel Inside
- Intel layoffs are even worse than expected and more are coming
- Microsoft has a problem and it starts with "C" and ends with "opilot"
- Microsoft SharePoint has a notably bad security flaw
- DuckDuckGo adds some neat customization features to Duck.ai and DuckDuckGo lets you hide all AI from search
Xbox and gaming
- The Xbox platform unification continues: Xbox now testing cross-device play history - Not just console games on console, PC games on PC
- Just kidding! The Outer Worlds will cost $69.99, not $79.99
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: You hate Big Tech, but who can you trust?
- App pick of the week: Proton Lumo
- RunAs Radio this week: Copilot Studio with April Dunnam
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Benromach 10
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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