Paul Thurrott (8:43)
Yeah, well, I fly close to the sun than that. Usually I have, you know, like the dev channel is on at least three computers back home, but I haven't noticed any differences. And I think it might be tied to that enablement package thing. I think the thing that I got was the. I think you think about how Microsoft deploys things now with Windows. You know, it's essentially malware, right. So they put this stuff on your computer. It doesn't do anything. It's just sitting there in the background waiting for the, you know, the payload to drop or whatever. And then in the case of Windows, you know, the patch Tuesday will show up and the thing you download is just a. Flips a switch and it turns, starts turning features on. So it's likely that what I just got was a. That thing that doesn't actually expose any new features quite yet or something. Or maybe it's on some timer or whatever it is. I mean it's random in many cases. Right? We know they do that. So yeah, these two, it's, you know, both of them, it's, it's okay. It doesn't have the new start menu. It doesn't have administrator protection. It doesn't, you know, you go down the whole list. It's like, where is this stuff? You know, I thought I was, thought I was getting on the train there, but I guess the train was going to reverse or something. I don't know what the metaphor is, but yeah, anyway, so. But this indicates that this thing is going to be on schedule. Right. And so the normal, I would say September slash October release time frame where they'll probably have a preview update in September and then the, the public, you know that everyone gets it version in October, which is typically how it goes. Not always, but typically. So yeah, but so nothing to speak of there. There are a set of builds that one that went out to dev and one that went out to beta, I noticed that the, the minor part of the build numbers were identical, which had never been the case or wasn't the case for much of the past year or two. And I went back to check because they must have changed that at some point. Right. And so even though they're on different build streams or whatever you want to call that, where the dev channels on the 26th, 220 build stream, if you will, and 23H2 or the beta channel is on 26120. The part that was after the, you know, the, the decimal point there was the number that was there. It was always different in the past, but now they're the same. So you know, to my like kind of ADHD brain, I was like oh nice, you know, But I was like when did they start this? And it was two or three builds ago. So I don't believe they even said anything. I think they just did it. Yeah, now they're lined up, you know. And I'm sure many someones, internal and external Microsoft were like, how come these can't be the same minor bill number? Like they're the same features. Why don't you just make it. Let's make it easy to figure out what's what, you know. So they finally did it. So that to me was semi notable. I don't know. But that's the type of thing I care about. So nothing major, but some interesting minor updates. In both of those Builds There are two new text actions, both semi related to Microsoft 365 or directly related. One is the ability to recognize something on screen that is a table and you'll be able to convert it into a table for Excel, which is kind of interesting. Right. So that could be a hand drawn thing, it could be whatever's on screen. If it looks like a table, you can, you know, hold down the Windows key, click screen, does the AI pink and purple thing and then convert that. That's kind of cool. And then there's this notion of a Persona card which is, I think, I believe it's from Microsoft 365. But the idea there is that you have contacts and there's a contact, I would call it a contact card, but this is a Persona card for some reason. But obviously it's a picture of the person, name, phone number, email address, whatever information you have associated with them. And so same thing when you're using click to do with the screen and it recognizes things on the screen that tie into a contact you have through Microsoft 365 it will actually Display what they're calling a Persona card as an option here. You have to go click it. Click through it. But that's kind of interesting, right? So I suppose we've all done this, right? So your phone rings. It's from some number you don't recognize in. You know, these days. You don't even think about it. You don't even answer that thing.
