Laurent Giret

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Google’s upcoming antitrust battle in the US, as well as the EU designating Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as the six “gatekeepers” following the adoption of the Digital Markets Act.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s upcoming special event on September 21, why AI could be a big part of it, and they also look back at an app that didn’t ship.

After the European Commission started investigating Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 commercial subscriptions last month, Microsoft is ready to address the concerns of EU regulators. This morning, the company announced that will start unbundling Teams from its Microsoft 365/Office 365 commercial suites in the EU and Switzerland on October…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Nvidia doubling its revenue in Q2 thanks to high demand for AI chips, and Microsoft not planning to cut prices for Xbox hardware.

Microsoft is giving IT pros more control over the optional updates available on commercial devices running Windows 11 version 22H2. That also includes what Microsoft calls “Controlled Feature Rollouts” (CFRs), which some organizations may want to keep disabled by default to maintain some stability.  These CFRs are the new Windows 11 features that Microsoft releases…

Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac is now available on macOS Mojave or newer, and it introduces more ways to manage Windows virtual machines (VMs) on Macs. Parallels Desktop for Mac is now an officially supported solution for running Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs (in addition to Windows 365 Cloud PCs), and for organizations interested…