Just make Clippy, it's what the people want.
Introducing Copilot+ PCs
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I think you meant Azure Windows Surface Copilot for Workgroups 360.Net. Everything at Microsoft is Azure now.
Apparently Azure is now going out fashion, as they’ve renamed Azure AD to Entra ID.
That was the one rebranding they ever did that made actual sense. AAD was confusing.
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To add to this, I have always found the Xbox naming conventions to be confusing, personally. "Xbox One" is the third one, not the original "Xbox" and the two newest models are named almost identically; "Xbox Series X" vs "Xbox Series S".
Rumour has it (not sure if this was ever confirmed) that one of the big reasons the second Xbox was called the Xbox 360 was to avoid unfavourable number comparisons with Sony. The Xbox launched vs the PS2, which meant the "Xbox 2" would compete against the PS3. As 3 is bigger than 2, it would make the second Xbox look bad. Hence, Xbox 360. Both have a 3, no number issues. For what it's worth, Robbie Bach (former Chie…
And then they painted themselves in the corner because 2x 360 is 720 and 720p was just becoming uncool when the xbone came out.
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Let's not forget Azure AD is now Microsoft Entra.
"Office 365" / "Microsoft 365", too... >sigh<
They're actually still separate products. They don't want to sell office 365 but it still exists.
M365 = office 365 plus windows as a service licensing. If you buy your licenses as lifetime with your laptops it is much cheaper to simply subscribe to O365. Thus Microsoft is gating more and more things behind M365 to get companies to pay for the expensive windows subscription.
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You can use secure boot on select distros. Coincidentally, they're the better ones as well (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, etc...)
You should also be able to enroll your own keys to boot any distro under secure boot
Yeah but then you need to resign every update, if the distro doesn't do it for you.
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#517> We set out to solve one of the most frustrating problems we encounter daily – finding something we know we have seen before on our PC. Today, we must remember what file folder it was stored in, what website it was on, or scroll through hundreds of emails trying to find it. It is indeed frustrating that one still cannot search effectively a local device, but it doesn't need AI to solve. It needs a proper search engi…
They had a perfectly working search box in Windows 7, then gutted it and made it search the web whenever you wanted to launch Notepad.
It worked ok for finding apps, not so much for random files or especially content within files.
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Even if it is run locally, does it sync between your devices? Considering we seem to be putting safety largely out the window, I can see someone saying "yeah I want to be able to ask my other computer what I did on a different computer" or whatever. Thats valuable! Ignoring the risks that involves. Also, even if it is run locally that likely means that some sort of additional logging (possibly screenshots given the m…
Windows 11, if one has OneDrive turned on backs _everything_ up in terms of data/files. I bought a second computer recently which was the same as my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- after setting up Windows I found that it had downloaded _all_ of my files onto the new computer, but the wallpaper wasn't the same --- went to my old one, figured out where the file was and copied it to the desktop. While I was trying to…
Well to be fair it's a setting you can choose in the OneDrive app. You don't have to do this.
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#520But is it a normal Windows PC that supports normal Windows software or the weird abomination they had last time that supported a few specific apps and nothing else?
It's normal Windows, just on ARM. Windows on ARM already supports x32 and x64 emulation. Pretty much the only stuff that doesn't work is hardware drivers (to be expected) and games with kernel level anti-cheat (also expected). They've also announced a new 20% faster x64 emulation layer. Recently there's been a big push of apps getting native ARM ports too, Chrome for example.
The Chrome one was interesting as Chromium and as conequence VSCode and Edge had arm versions for years