Laurent Giret

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Google losing its US antitrust case over its search monopoly, and how the company’s search deals with Apple and Mozilla may have made it impossible for Microsoft and other companies to create better search engines.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY24 Q4 earnings, which also wrap up Microsoft’s first full fiscal year of the AI era.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look back at the impact of the massive CloudStrike outage that affected millions of Windows PCs. They also discuss Microsoft not taking the blame after being forced by the European Commission to open up Windows to third-party security companies.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the botched CloudStrike update that triggered a massive worldwide outage impacting Microsoft’s infrastructure and many other organizations.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Paul Thurrott discusses his experience using the Qualcomm-powered Surface Laptop 7 and how this first generation of Copilot+ PCs is making Windows on ARM exciting again.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the various ARM-powered Copilot+ PCs on the market and how their exclusive AI features aren’t really making a difference as of today.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the first Copilot+ PCs being off to a good start and Apple remaining very competitive thanks to vertical integration.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s decision to delay the release of Recall, the company’s flagship new AI feature that was set to launch on new Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs next week.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the impact of a possible Apple/OpenAI partnership on Microsoft, which invested billions of dollars into the ChatGPT maker and obtained an exclusive license on GPT-4 and all other OpenAI models. Apple starting to use OpenAI technology on its products could also have big implications for Azure, which is now OpenAI’s main cloud provider.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discussed the most interesting announcements from Microsoft this week as the company’s annual Build developer conference was coming to a close.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s upcoming Build developer conference starting next week, as well as the various Windows on ARM announcements from Microsoft and other PC manufacturers that are expected on Monday.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the persisting feature gap between the new Outlook for Windows and the classic app, as well as Apple’s new iPad lineup.