May 24th 2023
Windows Weekly 830
Windows Is My Copilot
Build 2023 key(note) takeaways, Neeva shuts down, Leo updates to Moment 3
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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 up Moment 3
- Microsoft Edge gets a major UI revamp, a business experience, and more
- Avatars are coming to Teams this week
- Microsoft 365 Co-pilot is getting plug-in support
- Bing becomes the default search engine for ChatGPT
- Microsoft’s tsunami of AI for customers and developers
- ChatGPT comes to the iPhone
- Neeva shuts down its paid search service to focus on AI
- Chris Cap is unfairly raked over the coals for his comments to employees about getting raises
Xbox
- China is the “37th country” to OK Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Microsoft snags a legal victory in ridiculous “gamers’ lawsuit”
- Microsoft brings its first PC games to NVIDIA GeForce Now
- Sony sold 600,000 PSVR2 headsets in 6 weeks somehow
Tips & Picks
- Tip of the week: Grateful Geek
- App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Beta
- RunAs Radio this week: Incident Response Readiness with Paula Januszkiewicz
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Woodinville Straight Rye
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Links
- Build 2023: Windows Copilot for Windows 11 is Coming in June
- Build 2023: Microsoft Again Makes the Case for Windows to Developers
- Build 2023: Qualcomm Pushes a Hybrid AI Approach
- Build 2023: Microsoft Brings AI Features to the Microsoft Store
- If you have Home or Pro consumer devices or non-managed business devices that run Windows 11, version 22H2, you can get some of the new enhancements announced yesterday.
- Build 2023: Microsoft Edge to Add New Business Experience, More
- Still Feeling a Little Edgy (Premium)
- Build 2023: Avatars for Microsoft Teams Meetings Are Coming This Week
- Build 2023: Microsoft 365 Copilot to Get Plugins Support
- Build 2023: Microsoft Announces Bing Search Integration Into ChatGPT
- Build 2023: Microsoft Unleashes an AI Tsunami for Developers, Customers
- Microsoft, AI, and Ethics (Premium)
- OpenAI Releases ChatGPT App for iOS
- Neeva Shut Downs its Search Engine
- In Defense of Chris Capossela (Premium)
- China is 37th Country to OK Activision Blizzard Acquisition
- Microsoft Wins Legal Victory in So-Called Gamers’ Lawsuit
- Microsoft Brings its First PC Games to Nvidia GeForce Now
- Sony’s PlayStation VR2 Headset Sold 600,000 Units in Six Weeks
- Grateful Geek (affiliate)
- Privacy Badger
- Adblock Plus - free ad blocker
- Incident Response Readiness with Paula Januszkiewicz
- Woodinville Straight Rye
- Windows 11 Insider Build 23466 Brings New Dev Drive and Windows Backup App