WW 934: OK, JK - Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Get AI Upgrades

Windows Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Paul Thurrott, News, Xbox, Richard Campbell, Technology, Windows, Microsoft, Tech News, Twit, Leo Laporte

4.4 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft shakes up Windows Update with third-party app integration while AI features flood into Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool. Plus, the browser wars heat up as Arc pivots to agentic AI and Opera launches Neon, while Richard calls in from Cape Town with whiskey wisdom.

Windows 11

It's Week D! Microsoft issues preview updates for 23H2/22H2 - Windows Key + C for Copilot, Drag tray, FAQs in Settings, Lock screen widget customization, IT admin controls for Taskbar
Windows Insider Program
- Canary - Microsoft adds support for asymmetrical key encryption that won't be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks
- Beta (24H2) - New Microsoft 365 text actions in Click to Do, Lock screen widget customization, multiple dashboards in Widgets, App recommendations in Open with dialog, PC to PC migration experience in Windows Backup
- New Paint, Notepad, and Snipping Tool features in Canary and Dev - Paint sticker generator and Object select tool, Snipping Tool perfect screenshot and color picker, Notepad writing tools (draft from prompt, rewrite text, etc.)
- Now Windows Update is going to update third-party apps too. Thoughts? Many misunderstand this to negatively impact the Microsoft Store.
- As promised last week, Notion is now available in the Microsoft Store
- Signal will explicitly prevent Recall from screenshotting the app
- Related: Why is Lenovo doing so well financially?
  - Also related: IDC predicts 4.1 percent growth in PC market this year to 274 million units

AI and Web Browsers, Oh My

Browsers go agentic
- The Browser Company says it will no longer offer functional updates to Arc as it focuses on Dia
- Opera announces Neon, its agentic AI web browser
Hand-wringing as OpenAI buys Jony Ive's newish company
Duck.ai if you ask it nicely (and use the right model)
Yes, Google is going to put ads in Search AI Mode
Vivaldi 7.4 arrives for desktop and for mobile
Firefox 139 is a minor update - maybe it's time to move to a 6 week schedule?

Xbox and Games

Xbox's Copilot for Gaming Launches on iOS and Android in Beta
FTC drops its bid to unwind Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Sony discounts PS5 and peripherals temporary to undercut Switch 2

Tips and Picks

Tip of the Week: 'Fear and Loathing in Seattle' and 'More Fear and Loathing in Seattle'
App Pick of the Week: Instapaper
- Plus: Fences 6 is GA on Windows 11
RunAs Radio This Week: How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young
Brown Liquor Pick of the Week: Aerstone 10 Sea Cask

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0:00.0	Time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrots here. Richard Campbell is here. We're going to have a little post-mortem for the Microsoft Build Conference last week. We'll talk about Week D. Windows 11 updates, including some new features for paint, notepad, and the snipping tool. Also, Windows Update is going to start including third-party apps.
0:22.5	We'll talk about that and some great browser picks too.
0:24.9	It's all in all another fabulous Windows weekly.
0:28.1	Next.
0:31.3	Podcasts you love.
0:32.9	From people you trust.
0:35.5	This is Twitter.
0:42.3	Okay. people you trust. This is Twit. This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, episode 934, recorded Wednesday, May 28th, 2025.
0:52.4	Okay, JK.
0:56.0	Yo-ho-ho. Hello, everybody. Time for Windows Weekly.
1:01.0	Hello, you winners. Oh, no.
1:03.0	Hello, you dozers. And hello to our hosts, Mr. Paul Therot of Therot.com. He's in
1:09.8	McCungee, Pennsylvania. And coming to us from beautiful
1:13.0	Cape Town, South Africa, wow, Richard Campbell, who has flown 22 hours in the last 24 or something like
1:19.8	I've slept 22 hours in past 20. It was a couple of days ago. So you're adjusted? I don't know
1:25.7	about it adjusted. Dude, I've been jet lagged for a decade.
1:27.8	What do I know?
1:29.9	And what brings you to beautiful Cape Town?
1:32.3	It was an airplane.
1:33.1	It was too far to walk.
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	I keynoteed a couple of conferences.
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