Windows Weekly

One more look back at Build  Microsoft talked a lot about what's coming to Windows, was vague on the timing. Speaking of vague, Microsoft gave the impression that there were "1 billion" Windows 11 users. There are not. Paul can confirm that Panos Panay was purposefully sidelined. Dev Drive: excellent. Dev Home: Eh. Windows Copilot, Winget config: maybe A theory about 23H2 = Moment 4 Windows 11 New Insider Preview builds. Canary: Microsoft Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies on Windows on ARM. Dev: Dev Drive, Windows Backup, never combine in Taskbar. Beta: Minor changes. Don't forget that Moment 3 arrives...

Build 2023 key(note) takeaways, Neeva shutting down, Leo updates to Moment 3 Microsoft Build 2023 Microsoft's keynotes are a combination of marketing and developer talk and that stands in sharp contrast to how Google and Apple handle their developer shows. It's good and bad, but Microsoft's keynotes must be mostly boring and/or pointless to mainstream users. Microsoft announces Windows Co-pilot, with yet another Taskbar button and a new sidebar Dev Home is a dashboard for developers with ReFS and winget configuration Qualcomm makes its case for local and hybrid AI AI is coming to the Microsoft Store Microsoft also talked...

Windows 11: We're having another moment! After hitting Release Preview last week, Moment 3 will arrive in preview form next week (Week D) or the following week and then head to stable on June 13 (Patch Tuesday). Now we have a better understanding of Microsoft's update schedule for Windows 11 Feature Updates - one per year in H2, deployed logically using best-known configurations first Moments - once per quarter Controlled Feature Releases (CFRs) - almost every month, deployed randomly App updates - can happen anytime based on readiness\ Continuous innovation isn't just for Windows. In fact, we can assume that...

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday: Windows 11 gets that one new feature that Microsoft was awfully quiet about. New builds last week across Canary, Dev, and Beta - Nothing in Canary, lots in Dev, two changes to Beta. Beta channel: Photos app gets new slideshow and spot fixing tool. Beta channel: No features for consumers, one feature for IT pros, a Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) fix. Widgets might be coming to the desktop because it's 2009 again. Related: Qualcomm revenues cough up a lung too. Microsoft 365 Bing chatbot is available to all, Edge is about to get a...

Windows 11 LTSC, PC peripheral consolidation, CFRs WE GOT ROADMAPS Microsoft updated the Windows roadmap. And there are two takeaways Windows 11 LTSC will finally arrive in the second half of 2024 Windows 10 version 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10, and it will be supported with only security updates until October 14, 2025 Windows 11 Last week, we talked about Week D monthly preview updates. This week, we need to talk about Controlled Feature Rollouts (CFRs). This is what happened with that Search "pill" late last year, not that Microsoft ever announced that, and it's all about...

CMA blocks Activision Blizzard deal, FY23 Q3 earnings, Mad Dogs Hot Dogs Microsoft earnings Microsoft announced that it earned a net income of $18.3 billion on revenues of $52.9 billion for the quarter ending March 31. Those figures represent gains of 9 and 7 percent, respectively, year-over-year. Intelligent Cloud, the home of Azure and Server, was once again the software giant's biggest business, with $22.1 billion in revenues, up 16 percent YOY. Productivity and Business Processes, which houses Office, delivered $17.5 billion in revenues, up 11 percent YOY. Windows, Xbox, and Surface once again tripped over themselves, with $13.3 billion...

Gallery in File Explorer, Bing in SwiftKey, Ubisoft+ Multi Access Bing/AI Samsung allegedly is considering replacing Google Search with Bing. Can they even do that? Bing chatbot comes to Swiftkey and Microsoft Start. And now you can remove the Bing button from Swiftkey. Sound familiar? Microsoft is all-in on AI hardware Microsoft brings more AI to developers ahead of Build Amazon announces Bedrock generative AI tool for developers. Speaking of which, where's Apple in all this? Windows 11 New Dev channel build: remove time/date from the system tray, "new" hover behavior on search New Beta channel build: Content Adaptive Brightness...

KB5025239, Build 2023 session catalog, Xbox April update Microsoft brings more new features to Windows 11 on Patch Tuesday. It's a mini moment! Windows 11 is coming to HoloLens 2! The platform is saved! (Oops) IDC says that PC shipments tanked 29 percent in Q1. Don't worry, the Mac did even worse. And you won't believe how the Apple community is rationalizing THAT bit of news Windows 365 gets a Frontline worker option and a smart TV app Microsoft Build is coming Microsoft has posted the session catalog! Anything stand out? Yep. Windows: How we integrated WinUI 3 into File...

File Explorer access keys, Edge Workspaces public preview, Xbox Remix Special Edition Controller  Happy birthday, Microsoft Microsoft turned 48 this week (April 4). It took a wrong left turn in Albuquerque Windows 11 New Beta channel build adds Access Keys to File Explorer, Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC), and, yes, a new Bing button on the Taskbar Microsoft Edge Workspaces now in limited public preview Microsoft 365 Oh you didn't think the new Bing was free, did you? (New) Outlook for Windows Preview gains Gmail support, finally Right before the new Bing launch, Microsoft fixed a major security vulnerability that...

Week D production-quality updates, revamped widgets board, Microsoft Teams redesign Windows 11 Microsoft debuts new Windows 11 features in Preview. And now we have a new updating schedule! Coming via Canary: another Widgets UX update Surface Hub 2S is still a thing and will be upgradeable to Teams Rooms OS soon You can hide the Bing button in Edge 111.x now Microsoft 365 As expected, Microsoft announces Teams 2.0 with Apple-like improvement claims AI o' the week OpenAI announces ChatGTP plug-ins capability - Now it's a platform! Next stop: sentience Microsoft brings AI-based copilot capabilities to security pros Xbox UK CDMA:...