WW 929: The Blue Screen of Soup - Agent Store, Oblivion Remastered, Ubuntu 25.04
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It's Week D, do you know where your preview update is? 23H2 is out - 24H2, not so much! No surprises in the new features list, but are more new features on the way?

Windows

• New text actions in Click to Do - Practice in Reading Coach and Read with Immersive Reader - in Dev and Beta (24H2)

• Find cloud-based (OneDrive-based) photos using Semantic search - Comes to EEA, Snapdragon X only for now, Dev and Beta

• Voice access improvements - add words to custom dictionary - Dev and Beta

• Updated green screen UI - latest Canary build, from today

• Minor update to the Beta/23H2 channel, no new features

• Ubuntu 25.04 is out and there's a native Arm64 ISO (!) and BitLocker support

• Hands-on with WSL (which is stuck at 24.xx) and in Hyper-V on a Copilot+ PC

• Is dual-boot even possible on Arm? (Yet)

• Friday night update to identity caused accounts to be marked as leaked for 50,000 partner accounts

AI

• We're in a new wave: Microsoft 365 Copilot updated, new Agent Store and more on the way

• Copilot Vision is now free for everyone in Microsoft Edge

• Google is giving Gemini Advanced/Google One AI Premium away for free to US college students

• Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs (Erin Woo/The Information)

• Perplexity is coming to Samsung and Motorola phones - and Microsoft is apparently coming to Motorola too

Antitrust

• It's getting real - 20 years after US v. Microsoft, Big Tech is finally getting a reckoning

• Google has now lost two major US antitrust cases in less than a year

• US v. Google (search): DOJ wants Judge to break up Google

• US v. Google (ads): Google found to have another illegal monopoly

• What's the "right" outcome for Chrome and Google's ad businesses?

• OpenAI says it would be happy to buy Chrome from Google- hilarious

• Google just killed Privacy Sandbox, cites regulatory climate

• Apple, Meta fined by EU for not conforming to the DMA

• Apple Intelligence is no longer "available now" (Siri: Is it raining?)

Xbox/gaming

• Elder Scrolls IV Remastered lands on Xbox, PC, PS5 and Game Pass

• Xbox app arrives on LG smart TVs

• It's (back) on: Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders rescheduled to April 24 with no price change

• And the demand is higher than expected, Nintendo says

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: It's time to look at Google Fi again

• HARDWARE pick of the week: Microsoft keyboards and mice are back, baby

• RunAs Radio this week: Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner

• Brown liquor pick of the week: Dark Harmony No. 3 Black IPA Cask

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