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2024 – An early peek on the prime tales of the yr

Intel’s downfall follows years of errors and anticompetitive conduct – Associated: AMD focuses on datacenter, the PC rebound that wasn’t
They did it: Microsoft and Qualcomm lastly ship the Home windows on Arm we at all times needed
Antitrust lastly takes on Massive Tech and scores some good wins – It’s important to suppose Microsoft enjoys being a part of the dialog once more
AI due to course however … what was the actual impression? And why it already looks different than it did in January. Associated: AI is costing Microsoft rather a lot, when do shareholders push again? Additionally, the totally different approaches taken by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon
Recall is recalled again and again in controversy after which launches to yawns
Microsoft acquires Activision for $89 billion after which does nearly nothing with it – Everyone seems to hate the new strategy – Not less than we had layoffs and subscription price increases! Game Pass is a hard pass for many
Windows 11 makes chaos look calm, 24H2 is somehow even worse than usual
Sonos shits the bed, may never come back from it
Microsoft gets serious about security. Once more. No, actually. This time they’re critical. – Associated, the Microsoft hack it by no means talks about, Crowdstrike (”the incident”)
Passkeys get moveable – 2025 will likely be even higher

Oddly, my prime article of 2024 was apparently my Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely overview, intently adopted by my Pixel 8 Professional overview.

Home windows

BLOCKBUSTER: Microsoft deprecates a Windows 11 feature nobody is aware of about it and also you’re not going to consider what occurs subsequent. OK, perhaps it’s plausible.

Home windows Insider Program

Arm v. Qualcomm is in the courtroom in front of a jury as we speak – How did we get right here? And what do we predict will occur?

iA Writer 2.0 will supposedly address the performance issues with the original Mac app port. However … not a lot

Associated: ChromeOS adds a non-destructive Safety Reset feature. However Home windows has had one thing like this for years, and there’s an excellent much less damaging new software in 24H2 too.

Associated: Imaginative and prescient Professional manufacturing was halted, Home windows Blended Actuality and Hololens are useless or on life assist, so naturally Google goes for it with Android XR

Microsoft 365

Extra loopy machinations with Copilot, this time impacting companies

AI

Grammarly acquires Coda to make a Notion killer

Google moves quickly with Veo 2, Imagen 3 updates, Whisk

Broadcom is now worth $1 trillion thanks to AI

DEV: GitHub Copilot is now free in Visual Studio Code!

Xbox

Microsoft Store countdown sale brings massive discounts on PC and Xbox games

Microsoft brings more PC games to the Xbox app on Windows

Suggestions and picks

Tip of the week: Extra wrap-ups

App choose of the week: Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle

The latest Xbox blockbuster title is humongous—111 GB on PC!—and it has heady system necessities. It’s definitely worth the effort. It’s on Xbox Sequence X}S, PC (Xbox and Steam), PC Recreation Cross, Xbox Recreation Cross Final, and Cloud Gaming.