About this episode

The episode discusses new features and updates in Windows for Insiders, including context menu changes and various tech news.

For years, the checkbox to get a PC out of the Insider Program when that Windows version shipped in stable did absolutely nothing. That's no longer the case. Windows A new context menu for File Explorer heads out to Insiders along with five new preview builds There are lots of other like UX changes happening with little communication. Will Microsoft really touch (and update) all the ancient UIs in Windows 11? New Release Preview builds point at next Week D and Patch Tuesday updates: New Taskbar, New Start, new Windows Search, many minor changes throughout Hardware Now we know more about Snapdragon C ahead of IFA, where we may see the first laptops Google is holding a PixelBook reviewers event in mid-September You know that Commodore is back, but now the Amiga is back too! Lenovo surges on AI spending, but it's now engaged in financial shenanigans too. More like Spotify than Big Tech, but still bad AI Big Tech spending on AI is finally getting more scrutiny from financial/business publications It's happening: Microsoft "pulls a Teams" and will consolidate its Copilot (consumer) and Microsoft 365 Copilot (business apps) into a single app, evolve it in a "super app" OpenAI's new…

Topics covered

• Windows Insider Program
• File Explorer
• UI changes
• AI spending
• Microsoft updates
• Gaming news

Keywords

• Windows 11
• context menu
• Insider Program
• AI
• Microsoft updates
• Lenovo
• Google PixelBook
• Game Pass

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Lenovo, Google, Commodore, Amiga, OpenAI, Mozilla

Products: PixelBook, FireTV, XBOX, Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Smart Window, Alexa+, Game Pass, A Plague Tale

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