WW 887: You're Drinking Wood! - Copilot+ PC impressions, Windows Hello ESS, Teams vs EU
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
We're one week into the Copilot+ PC, and the feedback is positive with caution! Key takeaways so far: Much improved performance and reliability, AI features mostly stink, but there is still uncertainty each time you install/do anything.
Windows 11
- Week D arrives with preview updates for Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 only
- The second Patch Tuesday in a row with no 24H2 update (on the day)
- This preview update adds 24H2 features to 22H2/23H2 as predicted
- Beta channel (last week): Bizarre Start menu extension for Phone Link users
- Release preview channel (last week): The 22H2/23H2 builds and features that shipped to stable as a preview update on Tuesday
- Canary channel (last week): After pausing the previous build (hint: Recall code), new build arrives with drag-and-drop address bar in File Explorer, notification tweaks
Copilot+ PC
- Paul finally got a Copilot+ PC to test, a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 14"
- App compatibility scorecard: Excellent, but with familiar Arm uncertainties
- Hardware compatibility: Excellent, but with the same person-by-person caveat
- Gaming: Lots of fiddling, but if you can find a compatible game, some great perf and visual quality. Still better than the Mac, and better than any x64 Ultrabook. But not a gaming PC. No Xbox Game Pass support?? COME ON
- In-box AI capabilities: With Recall out, there's almost nothing to see here
- Plus, Intel and AMD are gunning for Qualcomm
- iFixit reports that Surface Laptop 7/Pro 11 repairability is "astonishingly" good. Granted, the bar was low
- Microsoft brings Surface Flex Keyboard to Surface Pro 8, 9, and 11
- Microsoft releases recovery images for Surface Pro 11/Laptop 7
- Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-In Security (ESS) is one of several Copilot+ PC protections that rendered those security researcher complaints about Recall moot. But Paul now has two PCs that use this feature, and it's even more impressive than you think
- The Windows 11 decoder ring
Antitrust
- As expected, the European Commission announced preliminary charges against Microsoft for Office/Teams bundling
- This is antitrust, not DMA (like Apple)
- The EU has not explained WHAT Microsoft can do to fix this (unlike with Apple)
- This is based on a complaint from Slack, which was created 7 years after Microsoft first offered this type of app/service
Xbox
-Hot off a terrific Xbox Games Showcase event, Xbox promises its "biggest-ever" booth at Gamescom 2024 (which is now the biggest trade show in Europe, apparently)
-Microsoft details how Auto SR and Prism work in WOA11 to make gaming both possible and decent
-Steam Deck LCD models are on sale
Tips and Picks
-App pick of the week #1: New browser upgrades
-App pick of the week: Proton Drive
-RunAs Radio this week: The Hard Part of Machine Learning with Lynn Langit
-Brown liquor pick of the week: Cragganmore 12
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Windows Weekly, I Micah Sergeant am subbing in for Leo |
| 0:03.8 | report this week and we kick things off talking about Windows 11. Yes, there are some |
| 0:08.9 | new updates including what you can expect from Patch Tuesday, but also hope Paul talks about phone link and how |
| 0:16.5 | the experience is not so great. |
| 0:20.1 | Afterward, it's time to talk about the co-pilot plus PC. |
| 0:24.0 | Paul was able to try it out and has a lot of thoughts on the experience, |
| 0:29.0 | including using it. |
| 0:30.0 | We have a moment where we see Paul in sort of take on me aha style animation. |
| 0:38.0 | It's really interesting, but more importantly, there's a lot to get through when it comes to what's new with |
| 0:44.4 | these co-pilot plus PCs and what you can expect in terms of the versions of |
| 0:49.8 | Windows that will be running on them. Afterwards, it's Microsoft's favorite topic, Antitrust, |
| 0:56.0 | and how Slack made a complaint regarding teams, |
| 1:00.0 | and it results in a little bit of a rant, |
| 1:02.0 | I think from everyone on the panel about what makes sense in antitrust and what does not |
| 1:07.6 | Xbox Corner and the tips and picks of the week follow all of that coming up on Windows Weekly. |
| 1:14.8 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:20.8 | This is Twit. |
| 1:27.0 | This is |
| 1:31.0 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Thirat, Richard Campbell, and this week me, Micah Sergeant, |
| 1:37.8 | episode 887, recorded Wednesday, June 26, 2024. |
| 1:45.0 | You're drinking wood. |
| 1:47.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly, |
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