It's Week D. Do you know where your preview updates are?

Windows 11

• Windows 11 version 22H2/23H2 get the same update


• Windows 11 version 24H2 gets a different update, but at least it's on time


• Beta: Media controls on the Lock screen, more


• Windows security update borks small number of Linux bootloaders, is perfect example of misplaced and faux outrage


• Right-click doesn't work correctly with Windows and a touchpad. It's not you

M$FT

• Microsoft took Paul's advice. Instead of just blaming the EU, it's holding a security summit with CrowdStrike and other partners to solve the problems highlighted by the botched update outage. (Which it said it would do back in July.)


• Microsoft shuffles the decks below its three primary business units


• Microsoft: It's all about transparency!


• Paul: Nope

Hardware

• Lenovo ThinkPad T14s is the best business-class Snapdragon X Copilot+ PC yet


• ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 2 is the last gasp of the Surface Pro-alikes


• Paul got a Pixel 9 Pro XL - Eerily iPhone Pro-like design, crazy AI features - The combination of hardware and software here is nuts


• Pixel 9 series is shipping with Android 14. Google planned to ship Android 14 earlier than ever before this year. Users with Pixel 9 series phones can enroll in Android 15 Beta now. But Android 15 was quietly delayed to October, the normal release time frame


• Mark Gurman leaks all the iPhone 16 things


• Apple announces launch event


• Some navel-gazing about Apple's place in our lives

Magic of Software

• Microsoft announces Loop 2.0 on Twitter, no one has it yet


• LibreOffice is now native on Windows on Arm!


• Google Essentials app will be bundled with some new PCs, starting with HP


• Proton Drive for Business now available standalone, and with sale pricing (and more storage)


• Brave gets major privacy updates on desktop and mobile


• Apple makes further DMA concessions, will let iPhone users change default apps for phone, messaging, more


• Threads is testing posts that are as ephemeral as your facts


• Paid version of Alexa will allegedly launch in October


• Google Meet gets auto PIP for all and AI meeting notes for some

Xbox

• Xbox August Update starts rolling out with those new Discord features


• Raven labor union files complaint against Microsoft


• Microsoft brings Xbox Cloud Gaming to more Fire TV devices

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can still upgrade to 24H2 right now


• App pick of the week: Win11Debloat


• RunAs Radio this week: The Security Risks of AI with Steve Poole


• Brown liquor pick of the week: Mosgaard Moscatel Single Malt
  
  

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