WW 919: The Supermodel of Apps - Windows MIDI Services, OCR, IVAS program
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Patch Tuesday has arrived and Windows 11 23H2/24H2 gets those preview updates we talked about two weeks ago: Taskbar preview improvements, Windows Studio Effects on taskbar, File Explorer improvements, Mouse improvements, Time Zone changes without admin privileges, OneDrive continuity (23H2 only), Windows Share improvements (23H2 only), new keyboard shortcut for Magnifier. While Windows 10 gets the new Outlook, you lucky dogs!
Windows
- Beta (yesterday) - Beta/Dev window is open, Beta will move to 24H2 soon, this new build was for 23H2, new Paint app
- MIDI IS BACK BABY! MIDI Services 2.0 now in public preview
- Photos app OCR capabilities are back - feature was in testing but disabled in November, supports 160 languages
- HoloLens is finally dead: Microsoft partners with tech bro to offload US Army contract
AI/Dev
- Microsoft schedules Build 2025 for May 19-22. And then Google schedules I/O 2025 for May 20-21
- Elon Musk and investors supposedly make bid for OpenAI - hilarity ensues
- OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is
- OpenAI is working on its own AI chip because everyone else is
- You don't have to sign in to OpenAI to use ChatGPT Search now
- Google Gemini 2.0 family is now (mostly) generally available
- GitHub Copilot is getting agentic features this year
- Remember the so-called Windows Copilot Runtime? It's finally happening. Paul noticed that the Windows App SDK 1.7 Experimental 3 release finally had WCR bits, was quietly released last week
- Coding hands-on: Building text rewrite and summarize requires just a few lines of code
More Earnings/Corporate
- Qualcomm - $11.7 billion in revenues, up 17 percent
- It's over! Arm Holdings drops Qualcomm complaint, will not terminate license
- Amazon: $188 billion in revenues, up 9.5 percent - AWS was $29 billion in revenues, up 16 percent. Amazon to spend $75 billion this fiscal year on AI infrastructure build-out, similar to MSFT, that figure was $28 billion in the previous quarter
- Here comes Conversational Alexa - Amazon devices and services event February 26
- Sonos continues its downward spiral - Before earnings, restructuring and layoffs
Xbox
- Good news/bad news on Xbox console sales - Better than expected, honestly
- Candy Crush Solitaire is first new King game under Xbox - Perfect King/Microsoft mashup
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: A few steps forward (and back) for the 2025 online accounts push
- Tip of the week #2: Get the Bill Gates book Source Code
- App pick of the week: Notion is nearly perfect
- RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 with Robert Smit
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Mackmyra Brukswhisky
Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Windows Weekly, Micah Sgton here, subbing in for Leo Laporte, |
| 0:04.8 | Faltharot and Richard Campbell kickoff the show talking about Patch Tuesday and the introduction |
| 0:10.2 | of Outlook to Windows 10. Yes, you've got the new Outlook. Are you happy about it? Probably not. |
| 0:16.0 | But we talk about, is it change or is it something else? Then we move into the AI discussion about that bid for OpenAI that may or may not have actually been a real thing. |
| 0:27.9 | Earnings, you know, we've got a Qualcomm talking about how it's doing, Amazon talking about how it's doing, |
| 0:33.1 | and Sonos continuing on its downward spiral. |
| 0:36.3 | Before we round things out with Xbox Corners, I like to call it, and the tips and picks |
| 0:41.1 | of the week. |
| 0:42.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:45.4 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:47.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:49.7 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:57.0 | This is W. This is Windows Weekly, episode 919, with Richard Campbell, Paul Therot, and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the supermodel of apps. |
| 1:12.1 | It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 1:14.5 | I am Micah Sargent, subbing in for Leo Leport this week, who is off chasing crystals for their energy healing properties. |
| 1:23.1 | As always, we speak to two of the foremost Windows and Microsoft knowers. |
| 1:32.5 | That word, I don't think that's a word. |
| 1:33.9 | I keep moving forward. |
| 1:35.2 | That's good. |
| 1:35.8 | Just keep going. |
| 1:36.1 | Just keep rolling with it, right? |
| 1:37.1 | We are joined as we usually are by Paul Therot. |
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