Windows 11 and the Copilot+ PC

• Microsoft announces Copilot+ PC and our world collapses
• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13/15 as expected
• What the heck is this new bifurcation of features in Windows? Why?
• Paul ordered a Surface Laptop 15 the second Yusuf Mehdi said he could
• The other shoe finally drops: Every Copilot+ Pro PC has a fan. Is this a problem?
• Sorry, Chicken Little, Microsoft Recall is not a privacy concern
• Windows 11 is getting a lot of new security features
• Qualcomm is offering a $899 Copilot+ PC Mini and it looks awesome
• Windows 11 24H2 just entered the Release Preview channel

Inside baseball

• Everyone is mad at Microsoft about Monday's event
• Intel had people on-site to attend and present, Microsoft took their badges away and asked them to leave (AMD seemingly placated by Build keynote mentions). Intel countered with its own pissy announcement
• Qualcomm, the darling of the event, would like to know why it took Microsoft 40 minutes to say the word "Snapdragon"
• PC makers were told they would get equal billing with Surface, but they were afterthoughts during the event and at the showcase

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft Announces Team Copilot
• Microsoft adds new features to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Edge is getting a real-time translation feature

AI

• Microsoft adds a multimodal model to its Phi family of on-device SLMs
• Microsoft brings Copilots to developers, updates Power Platform
• Microsoft partners with Khan Academy on AI training

Dev

• Microsoft announces Windows Copilot runtime, but it's not a runtime
• Also, WTFF WPF is BACK with WinUI support too!
• Visual Studio 2022 17.10 adds integrated GitHub Copilot
• Plus some .NET 9 updates in pre-release
• Windows 11 24H2 is getting a bunch of new features for developers

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the Week: Windows 11 Security Book & Surface Laptop Report
• RunAs Radio This Week: The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott
• Brown Liquor: Eagle Rare 10
  

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Microsoft unveiled its new Copilot+ PCs to compete with Apple's MacBook Air. Apple released an update to iOS that fixes the issue of deleted photos reappearing, or as most articles are fixated on, deleted NSFW photos. And could new Mac Studio and Mac Pros be released in 2025?

• Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her.
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• I tried Microsoft's new AI-Focused PCs. Windows is exciting again.
• iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing pictures that were deleted years ago.
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• Mac Studio, Mac Pro will be released in 2025.
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• The forged Apple employee badge.

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