Microsoft announces big changes to Windows 11: New Start menu, Phone Companion on Start, AI actions in File Explorer, Notepad and other updates. Plus, new Copilot+ PC features: Click to Do actions, AI agent in Search for some reason, new Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool features, and more.

Windows 11

• Microsoft announces new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models after teasing the announcement last week


• Recall improvements, Taskbar improvements, HDR improvements, more come to Beta and Dev


• Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 to start on hotpatching, same schedule as Windows Server 2025


• A moment of silence for Skype, we didn't know what we had until you ensh*ttified and then killed it


• Google is secretly working on two major changes for Android 16+ - We need something like this for 25H2

Antitrust

• Apple is slapped down hard by Judge in Epic v. Apple


• Spotify, Amazon, Proton and many other change apps to avoid Apple Tax


• The walls are finally tumbling down for Big Tech


• US v. Google (ads) has a remedy hearing set for September, that should go well

AI

• Open AI: just kidding about that for-profit thing. Did Microsoft squelch this plan?


• Google's Little Language Lessons looks like a neat use of AI


• GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users

Xbox & gaming

• FTC may have suffered its final defeat in trying to end Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard


• Xbox/ASUS portable gaming device leaks


• Good news! Xbox consoles are more expensive now! Wait.


• New DOOM game and more are coming to Game Pass this month


• Gears of War Remastered coming to Xbox, PS5, PC, Game Pass in August


• Minecraft drops VR/MR support


• GTA VI delayed until 2026


• Backbone Pro works with phones directly but also tablets, PCs, and more wirelessly

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Go passwordless


• App pick of the week: Microsoft Authenticator


• RunAs Radio this week: Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes


• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jura 10

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