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Laurent Giret

Editorial Manager

Laurent was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022-2023. He's also the Senior News Editor of Thurrott.com.

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First Ring Daily Thanksgiving Edition: Full of AI

In this special Thanksgiving edition of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss everything that happened at OpenAI this week, why Nvidia remains a key player in the current AI boom, and they also imagine a world where Apple would sell its M-Series chips to PC manufacturers.

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Windows 11 Fall Update Copilot

First Ring Daily: Copilot on Windows 10?

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss a recent report claiming Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is headed to Windows 10, as well as Microsoft forcing some OneDrive users on Windows to fill out a survey on why they decided to close the sync client.

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First Ring Daily: Microsoft’s FY2024 Q1 Earnings

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look at Microsoft’s first quarter earnings for its fiscal year 2024, as well as a long interview of Satya Nadella looking back at his biggest regrets as the CEO of Microsoft.

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First Ring Daily: Bing Gets Bargained

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s attempt to sell Bing to Apple, and Google’s recent hardware announcements ahead of the company’s event next week.

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Windows 11 Fall Update Copilot

Microsoft Releases Big Windows 11 Fall Update With Copilot in Preview

Microsoft released yesterday a big update for Windows 11 version 22H2 with over 200 new features. The company announced this update during its special event last week, and one of the main highlights is the new Copilot assistant that can be pinned right on the desktop.  Copilot provides access to the same Bing Chat experience…

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First Ring Daily: The Biggest Week in Microsoft’s History

Last Update: Sep 26, 2023

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the unexpected departure of Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer Panos Panay, the company’s special event about AI and Surface yesterday, and the UK’s CMA provisionally approving Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition.

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Windows Copilot

Microsoft Announces Windows 11 Fall Update With Copilot in Windows and New Cloud PC Features

Microsoft held a special event in New York yesterday where the company detailed new features coming to Windows on September 26. The highlight of this Windows 11 Fall update is Windows Copilot, which has been available in preview for Insiders since June. This update will also introduce new Cloud PC experiences with Windows 365 Boot…

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Microsoft Teams

First Ring Daily: The EU is Not Happy

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the EU Commission reportedly preparing a formal complaint against Microsoft despite the company’s plan to unbundle Teams from its Microsoft 365/Office 365 commercial subscriptions in Europe next month.

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Windows 11 2022 Update

Microsoft Releases September 2023 Patch Tuesday Updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10

Microsoft released the September 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 yesterday. The monthly updates were quite easy to miss yesterday as Apple’s iPhone 15 event pretty much dominated the news cycle, but there’s actually quite a lot to discuss this month. This month, Microsoft fixed a total of 65 vulnerabilities in…

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Microsoft Ignite 2023

Microsoft Opens Registrations for its Ignite Conference on November 14-17

Microsoft has now opened registrations for its Ignite 2023 conference, which will be held in Seattle on November 14-17. This year, the theme of the conference for IT pros is “AI transformation,” so you can expect Microsoft to continue its streak of AI announcements that started with GitHub Copilot two years ago.  While the full…

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