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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