Windows 11
• The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 arrives
• Copilot now opens on the display where you click its Taskbar icon (or it will, thanks to CFR)
• Copilot now appears in Alt Tab (but not in Task view/WINKEY Tab), oddly (Same deal)
• Account notifications in Start and Settings (disable this nonsense in Settings – Privacy & security – General)
• For Windows 10 users, Copilot is now available to everyone in preview with the Patch Tuesday update (CFR, need to manually download it). No Windows integration settings yet. A few other changes on Windows 10 too
• Canary/Dev (Thursday): Copilot undocked mode, Widgets changes, Windows 365 Boot and Switch changes, Windows Share improvements (WhatsApp integration, curious), character count in Notepad (how cute)
• Beta channel (Friday): Windows Share and Windows Store improvements
• Dev channel (today): Transitioning Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) to voice access because WSR is being deprecated
• Also Canary: New Windows Protected Print Mode
• Clipchamp quietly added four new features recently, and you’re never going to believe what happens next
• AMD unveils Ryzen 8040 series mobile CPUs with a new NPU on select models
• Intel’s Meteor Lake is coming in hot
Antitrust
• UK CMA and US FTC are both investigating Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI
• After failing to reach a settlement, Google loses Epic antitrust trial
• Why it has so far done much better against Google than it has against Apple?
• Apple to be punished for App Store business practices in the EU
• Apple likely to open up NFC chipset in iPhone in response to EU concerns
AI
• Microsoft reaches agreement with AFL/CIO on AI
• Google Releases Gemini Pro to enterprises and developers
• Google releases Gemini-powered NotebookLM in the U.S. Keep on steroids, basically
Xbox
• An ad-supported Xbox Game Pass offering is likely on the way
• Xbox Cloud Gaming is now on Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro
• Balder’s Gate 3 lands on Xbox Series XS
• Microsoft reveals two new games at The Game Awards
• E3, which has been dead for years, is now officially dead
• The next Digital Eclipse interactive documentary looks about as amazing as the first
Tips and Picks
• Tip of the week: Get your Xbox Year in Review
• App pick of the week: Fences 5
• RunAs Radio this week: SysAdmin Gifts with Joey Snow & Rick Claus
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Balvenie Double Wood 12
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