Laurent Giret

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.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY24 Q3 earnings beating all expectations as the company’s huge bet on Copilot and generative AI continues to pay off.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft accidentaly pushing Copilot on Windows on Windows Server builds, how Microsoft could make Copilot more useful for IT admins and security experts, and wonder if they could really trust AI to make changes for them.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott reflect on Intel’s recent talks about new AI, discuss why ARM continues to be the hope, and wonder if neural processing units (NPUs) really matter.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss what Paul learned from a recent briefing with Qualcomm about the company’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, which will power a new wave of ARM-based AI PCs coming later this year.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look back at yesterday’s Surface and AI event yesterday from Microsoft and discuss why the company needs to do a better job at convincing organizations that its Copilot assistant is about to change how we work forever.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s unified Teams client that just entered public testing with Windows Insiders, and the consequences of Microsoft not completely killing the Windows 10 taskbar in Windows 11.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s decision to drop support for the Windows Subsystem for Android and the Amazon App Store on Windows 11 in March 2025.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the first big update for Windows 11 in 2024, which brings new Copilot features and accessibility improvements.