With Richard offline due to journey, Leo and Paul focus on Recall, Prism, new generative AI options for Home windows 11 apps, AMD Zen 5 vs Lunar Lake, Xbox, and far more.
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On Halloween, the final day of October, Microsoft delayed Recall again. It was presupposed to preview in October, that is the third delay. No clear cause why. December now, supposedly
In any other case, a quiet week for Home windows 11 aside from this new 24H2 bug
Home windows Insider Program
Associated: Proton VPN is native on Windows 11 on Arm
Associated: Windows Server 2025 is GA (and a few are being mistakenly force-upgraded. That is what you get while you share a codebase with Home windows 11, apparently)
Semi-related: Google shifts Android development cycle – Main replace every Q2, minor replace every This autumn, month-to-month function/high quality updates
A story of two chips
Paul reviewed the AMD Zen 5-based HP OmniBook Ultra, it’s awesome. Paul can also be reviewing an Intel Lunar Lake laptop computer, and it’s not superior.
- Early glee round Lunar Lake was misplaced
- Laptop computer reviewers all report what Paul is seeing (for as soon as), that the efficiency is horrific. It is advisable to swap to “Finest efficiency” energy administration mode for cheap efficiency, however this hasn’t solved all the problems
- COD: Black Ops 6. Common FPS underneath Zen 5 is 90 to 120 at native decision/medium graphics, single and multi-player. Lunar Lake? 40 FPS with all graphics settings on low/very low – it’s not less than playable
- Intel now says Lunar Lake is a one-off too (Meteor Lake was likewise a one-off, architecturally). It can not bundle RAM with processors due to margins. Lunar Lake rushed to market was key contributor to current monetary points.
- Intel mentioned that tidbit as part of its worst-ever financial loss in history
Extra earnings learnings
Amazon: $159 billion in revenues, $27.5 billion for AWS
Apple: $95 billion in revenues, small uptick in iPhone revenues
Microsoft 365/AI
Some curious/confusing moves with Microsoft 365 for consumers: subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand are getting Copilot Professional credit with base subscription (Phrase, Excel, and so on.), Designer, … and the long-overdue and dreaded value enhance. This should be a check for the U.S. and western Europe. Feels inevitable. (Additionally: “The credit may also apply to apps like Paint, Images, and Notepad on Home windows.” What? (See above)) (Additionally: There’ll allegedly be a M365 Basic possibility for many who don’t need AI.)
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search. This isn’t the Google Search substitute you’re in search of
Xbox + videogames
It’s November, so right here’s the unimaginable record of Activision Blizzard video games now coming to Recreation Cross!
Microsoft introduced an AI-powered support virtual agent to Xbox as a result of one thing one thing AI
Sony launches the PS5 Professional to meh
Ideas and picks
Tip of the week: Home windows 11 minus the MSA
Rethinking the advice for normal users – Register to Home windows with a neighborhood account, connect with MSA and OneDrive as wanted, perhaps get a perpetual Workplace license, do all the correct issues to safe it … is it secure? Is it … de-enshittified?
App decide of the week: Docs in Proton Drive
It’s like Google Docs however with out the Google. And with the end-to-end-encryption. And like everything else Proton makes, it keeps getting better.
RunAs Radio this week:
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