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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 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.

As Microsoft is expected to refresh its Surface lineup with new AI features later this year, this episode of First Ring Daily has Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discussing Microsoft’s “peak Surface” moment.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss how Microsoft’s Build 2024 conference will be all about AI and Copilots, and how AI technology could become the next big data harvesting tool. 

In this first 2024 episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft changing an app install process on Windows, the opportunity for the company to build a “Copilot phone,” and Google ruining the smart home experience for Nest users.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Bing’s stagnating market share despite Microsoft investing over 10 billion dollars into OpenAI.