Mar 22nd 2023
Windows Weekly 821
Windows Everywhere
Microsoft Loop public preview, GibHub Copilot X, Adobe Firefly
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
Microsoft Loop preview FINALLY arrives
- Microsoft Loop web app launches in public preview for MSA and work/school accounts - Yeah, it’s a Notion rip-off. Alarmingly so.
Windows 11
- Now, Microsoft is testing Windows 11 features first in Release Preview
- New Dev channel build: Seconds in the system tray is a game changer! /s
- Minor changes coming to default apps
- Based on a single hardware review, it appears that 13th Gen Intel Core processors have the same problem with docks and hubs as do 12th Gen processors.
AI all the things
- Bill Gates describes AI as the biggest technology transformation since the GUI.
- Bing Chatbot can now generate images from text
- GitHub launches ChatGPT-4 powered Copilot X
- Adobe launches responsible/ethical generative AI tools
- Google launches Bard in early access
- Mozilla.ai startup goes live
- Opera adds AI prompts, sidebar ChatGPT
Xbox
- Microsoft’s AB acquisition is all about mobile, not COD
- Microsoft announces it will launch mobile apps store on iPhone and Android as soon as regulators make it possible
- FOSS patents: We’ve moved into the acceptance phase, and this acquisition is on track
- Netflix is expanding its mobile games library dramatically
- Microsoft releases a third set of Game Pass titles for March
- Get a Steam Deck for 10 percent off to celebrate its first birthday
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Inbox Zero
- App pick of the week: Visual Studio Code
- RunAs Radio this week: SMB over QUIC File Servers with Ned Pyle
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Ben Nevis 10
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Links
- Microsoft Loop App Launches in Public Preview Today
- Microsoft Tests New Windows 11 Features in the Release Preview Channel
- Microsoft Tests Option to Show Seconds in the Windows 11 System Tray Clock
- Microsoft to Make Minor Changes to App Defaults in Windows 11
- Bill Gates Chimes in on AI
- Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Bing Image Creator in its Bing Chatbot and Edge
- GitHub Announces Copilot X
- Adobe Offers More Responsible Generative AI
- Google’s Bard AI Launches in Early Access Today
- Mozilla Launches New Mozilla.ai Startup
- Opera Brings More AI to its Web Browsers
- Do You Get It Now? (Premium)
- Microsoft Aims to Launch its Mobile Games Store Next Year
- Focus of Activision Blizzard merger debate shifts from concerns to constructive solutions
- Netflix to Release 40 Mobile Games This Year as Work on Cloud Gaming Tech Continues
- MLB The Show 23 is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on March 28
- Deal: Valve’s Steam Deck is 10% Off for its First Anniversary
- Windows Everywhere - book by Paul Thurrott
- SMB over QUIC File Servers with Ned Pyle
- Ben Nevis distillery
- Ben Nevis 10 Year Old
- Microsoft says 10 years is ‘sufficient for Sony to develop Call of Duty alternatives’