Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte

Feb 26th 2025

Windows Weekly 921

Regret as a Service

Hosted by Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell

Drag tray, 3 new Framework PCs, Free Office test?

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Category: News

Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn’t this stuff expensive?

Windows

  • 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.
  • Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
  • Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views
  • Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
  • Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop
  • Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows
  • Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more
  • Amazon kills Appstore for Android
  • Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
  • Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

  • Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot
  • Alexa enters the AI era
  • OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users
  • Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it’s not done spending billions on AI
  • Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist
  • Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
  • ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
  • OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers
  • Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder
  • Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks
  • NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone
  • .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox

  • Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it’s a big one
  • Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix
  • App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
  • RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

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