<p>It's only been one week, but it's really been 14 years, and Paul is calling: Microsoft and Qualcomm have finally made Windows 11 on Arm both viable and desirable. Nothing is perfect, but this platform is pretty incredible. Some notes from the past week:</p> <p><strong>Mission Accomplished</strong></p><ul> <li>As a reminder, Paul finally got the Yoga Slim 7x last week and updated on app compatibility, hardware compatibility, gaming, and in-box AI experiences in time for WW - only found one non-working app, Google Drive. Then...</li> <li>More app and game compatibility testing. Since then, played a lot more DOOM (2016), ran into one issue that's surely WOA-related (note beta graphics driver, though)</li> <li>Video encoding performance: Snapdragon X vs Snapdragon X vs Core Ultra 9 H-series vs MacBook Air M3</li> <li>Initial thoughts on battery life and then More thoughts on battery life. The Yoga Slim 9x and Surface Laptop both get about 10 hours of real-world battery life (so far), compared to 15 hours for the MacBook Air 15-inch M3.</li> <li>Hardware compatibility update: Only one of my devices doesn't work, the Focusrite.</li> <li>Surface Laptop 7 first impressions and second impressions</li> <li>HP Elitebook Ultra first impressions</li></ul> <p><strong>Windows 11</strong></p><ul> <li>After skipping Week D last Tuesday, Microsoft belatedly delivers a Week D preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2</li> <li>No new features, so next Patch Tuesday will be light for 24H2</li> <li>22H2 and 23H2 got a big Week D update last Tuesday, so Patch Tuesday will be meaningful</li> <li>As of July's Patch Tuesday, 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 will all provide the same basic feature set</li> <li>Canary, Dev, Beta (last Friday): nothing exciting, a few small features or changes</li></ul> <p><strong>AI & Microsoft 365</strong></p><ul> <li>European Commission "shifts" investigation of Microsoft/OpenAI partnership. Is Ken Starr in charge of this thing?</li> <li>Microsoft highlights new Copilot features coming to Microsoft 365 in July</li> <li>Copilot in OneNote can now recognize handwritten text. It's 2002 all over again!</li> <li>Pixel 9 family will promote unique "Google AI" features</li> <li>Brave introduces a BYOM plan for its web browser</li> <li>Thanks to AI, Google Translate now supports 110 new languages</li></ul> <p><strong>Xbox</strong></p><ul> <li>Xbox Cloud Gaming Fire Sticks it to Amazon</li> <li>Another two weeks of Xbox Game Pass</li> <li>Forza Horizon 4 (from 2018) to be delisted December 15. Why?</li></ul> <p><strong>Tips and Picks</strong></p><ul> <li>Tip of the week: Get $10 off Tony Redmond's Office 365 for IT Pros 11th Edition</li> <li>App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive</li> <li>RunAs Radio this week: NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam</li> <li>Brown liquor pick of the week: Jack Daniels Old No. 7</li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott">Paul Thurrott</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/richard-campbell">Richard Campbell</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly</a></p> <p>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p> <p>The <em>Windows Weekly</em> theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://canary.tools/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="https://cachefly.com/twit" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">cachefly.com/twit</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2024-07-03 11:35:10