WW 975: A Bubble of Knowledge - Microsoft Reorgs, OpenAI Drama, & Xbox's Next Move

About this episode

The episode discusses Microsoft's reorganization, updates to Windows and PowerToys, and the current state of the PC market and AI developments.

There's an ongoing narrative that Windows is worse than ever today and people are leaving in droves. Paul does not see that, and will simply point to Windows 8 and remind folks that it can be (and was) worse. Also, PowerToys 0.98 adds a major new feature to Command Palette, big changes to Keyboard Manager and CursorWrap, and about 100 other updates. This is a big one. Plus, Mozilla Firefox is staging a comeback and may be worth another look. Windows Rajesh Jha is retiring and Microsoft is reorging its Experiences + Devices team Release Preview: A peek at next week's Week D update (and April's Patch Tuesday) shows we're getting improvements to Narrator, Settings, Smart App Control, Pen settings, Display, File Explorer, and the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE). The trend continues! New Canary, Dev, and Beta builds - Nothing new in Canary. Dev/Beta: Drag Tray is being renamed to Drop Tray, you can change the user folder name during Setup, Restore points are getting a modern update finally Intel goes nuts with new "Arrow Lake refresh" processors; these are not Copilot+ PC capable and it's unclear what the Panther Lake comparison looks like IDC now expects 11.3 percent decline in PC…

People in this episode

Host: Paul

Topics covered

• Microsoft reorganization
• OpenAI drama
• Windows updates
• PowerToys features
• AI developments
• PC market trends
• Mozilla Firefox comeback

Keywords

• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Windows
• PowerToys
• AI
• PC market
• Mozilla Firefox
• Arrow Lake
• Patch Tuesday

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Mozilla, Snap, IDC

Products: PowerToys 0.98, Windows, Narrator, Settings, Smart App Control, Pen settings, Display, File Explorer, Windows Recovery Environment (WRE), Arrow Lake refresh

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