It’s only been one week, but it’s really been 14 years, and Paul is calling: Microsoft and Qualcomm have finally made Windows 11 on Arm both viable and desirable. Nothing is perfect, but this platform is pretty incredible. Some notes from the past week:

Mission Accomplished
• As a reminder, Paul finally got the Yoga Slim 7x last week and updated on app compatibility, hardware compatibility, gaming, and inbox AI experiences in time for WW only found one nonworking app, Google Drive. Then...
• More app and game compatibility testing. Since then, played a lot more DOOM (2016), ran into one issue that’s surely WOArelated (note beta graphics driver, though)
• Video encoding performance: Snapdragon X vs Snapdragon X vs Core Ultra 9 Hseries vs MacBook Air M3
• Initial thoughts on battery life and then More thoughts on battery life. The Yoga Slim 9x and Surface Laptop both get about 10 hours of realworld battery life (so far), compared to 15 hours for the MacBook Air 15inch M3.
• Hardware compatibility update: Only one of my devices doesn’t work, the Focusrite.
• Surface Laptop 7 first impressions and second impressions
• HP Elitebook Ultra first impressions

Windows 11
• After skipping Week D last Tuesday, Microsoft belatedly delivers a Week D preview update for Windows 11 version 24H2
• No new features, so next Patch Tuesday will be light for 24H2
• 22H2 and 23H2 got a big Week D update last Tuesday, so Patch Tuesday will be meaningful
• As of July’s Patch Tuesday, 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 will all provide the same basic feature set
• Canary, Dev, Beta (last Friday): nothing exciting, a few small features or changes

AI & Microsoft 365
• European Commission “shifts” investigation of Microsoft/OpenAI partnership. Is Ken Starr in charge of this thing?
• Microsoft highlights new Copilot features coming to Microsoft 365 in July
• Copilot in OneNote can now recognize handwritten text. It’s 2002 all over again!
• Pixel 9 family will promote unique “Google AI” features
• Brave introduces a BYOM plan for its web browser
• Thanks to AI, Google Translate now supports 110 new languages

Xbox
• Xbox Cloud Gaming Fire Sticks it to Amazon
• Another two weeks of Xbox Game Pass
• Forza Horizon 4 (from 2018) to be delisted December 15. Why?

Tips and Picks
• Tip of the week: Get $10 off Tony Redmond’s Office 365 for IT Pros 11th Edition
• App pick of the week: Docs in Proton Drive
• RunAs Radio this week: NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Jack Daniels Old No. 7

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