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Apr 30
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Windows Weekly 930: Flocculation & Sapon...

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YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.

Windows

  • Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
  • Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
  • Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
  • Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
  • Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
  • That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting

Corporate

  • Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
  • Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
  • Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
  • Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales

Dev

  • Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
  • Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
  • What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC

AI

  • Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
  • Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
  • Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
  • Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
  • OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
  • ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
  • Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
  • YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
  • Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
  • DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
  • Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want

Xbox

  • Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass

Tips and Picks

  • Tip of the week: Be prepared
  • App pick of the week: Firefox 138
  • RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
  • Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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