Spreading light, MSFS 2024 issues, Recall (Preview)
Windows
Recall and Click to Do arrive in Preview and the world doesn't implode. Sorry, haters Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs only - and dear God, please follow Paul's advice Look at how facile the complaints are now This week in 24H2, unreliability problems. Certain Ubisoft games are causing issues Beta: New taskbar-based continuity features Microsoft is getting rid of ONE OneDrive folder backup nag. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? HP and Dell earnings The PC refresh cycle keeps getting delayed, now to second half of 2025 Google will reportedly merge Chrome OS into Android. Complexity won. Is this a good idea?
Microsoft 365
Big outage kept customers off Microsoft 365 for better part of a day this week
AI, antitrust, corporate
Microsoft debunks reports that it is using customer data in Microsoft 365 to train AI This kind of thing keeps happening. There were reports a month ago about Microsoft secretly enabling Recall on PCs that was complete BS Amazon expands Anthropic investment to $8 billion, or 73 percent of MSFT/OpenAI Brave Search adds a chat mode to ask follow-ups to AI results DOJ, Google make final arguments in Google ad monopoly case in US Google testing changes to search to meet DMA needs Intel secures $7.6 billion in CHIPS funding. Qualcomm is apparently no longer interested
Xbox
Flight Simulator 2024 is a cluster$%^@ so Xbox is issuing fixes Microsoft is adding a mini Edge browser to Game Bar Xbox gamers can make private Discord calls now Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Avatar Editor because no one uses it Like Microsoft, PlayStation is looking at mobile gaming hardware again, still years away
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: We live in a new era of misinformation App pick of the week: Opera GX is almost all-new, Firefox goes to 133 RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response with Mandi Walls Brown liquor pick of the week: Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique
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