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Susan Ettlinger
The PC gave us computing power at home, the Internet connected us, and mobile let us do it pretty much anywhere. Now, generative AI lets us communicate with technology in our own language, using our own senses. But figuring it all out when you're living through it is a totally different story. Welcome to Leading the Shift, a new podcast from Microsoft Azure. I'm your host, Susan Ettlinger. In each episode, leaders will share what they're learning to help you navigate all this change with confidence. Please join us, listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Riley
Apple has renamed, as predicted, all of their operating systems after the year 2026, meaning iOS is gonna jump from iOS 18 to iOS 26. So please a moment of silence for iOS 19 through 25. It just sucks cause I knew 23 was gonna be good. But the rebranding, announced during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote this morning, represents some of the most substantial changes to Apple software in years. IOS, iPadOs,macOS, WatchOS, TVOs and Vision OS will share a new unified design language called Liquid Glass, which brings back some skeuomorphism UI elements Warp and Refract light. Apple says they behave just like glass in the real world. For instance, menu bars can be shattered and used as improvised weapons in an emergency. Apple also highlighted more dynamic controls, which will appear when the system thinks you need them and and disappear when it thinks you don't, an approach that has caused frustration in the past. But we have AI now, so but we'll talk AI later because what Apple called the biggest IPadOS release ever involves finally giving iPads a new window management system that works pretty much like Mac OS or Windows. Unlike Stage Manager, which is still a thing and separate from this apparently multiple windows can be resized with what Apple calls a grab handle and repositioned anywhere or flicked to snap to the side. But there's more tiling options under each window's controls for minimize, maximize, and close. Like Mac os, which you can click with the new mouse pointer that looks like a fricking mouse pointer. What is there's even a menu bar with dropdowns for file edit, et cetera at the top and folder stacks in the dock document. Just like Mac OS. I keep saying it. 2019 Riley, reviewing iPads online as tech tips, is losing his the Mac OS ening doesn't stop there. The ipados Files app gets more detail, and an open with default app option Background Tasks allows, say, a video render to complete without the app. Auto closing and preview is finally on iPad with the annotation auto filling and other stuff you can do to PDFs. Don't tell me about it. I don't wanna know you if there's also improvements to audio, video and screen recording that seem cool, but I gotta be honest, I'd rather move on to Mac OS 26 and the upgraded Spotlight Search, which continues to seem like a glorious angel from heaven compared to the wart covered troll under the bridge that is Windows Search. I don't know what that is, but I could ask bing perhaps Mac OS 26 lets you describe actions and take them directly from Spotlight. Or like sending an email that says a certain thing to a certain person with a certain subject line and lets you assign quick keys for certain actions like just typing AR for add reminder. Spotlight can search for in app menu items and activate them and it can access your clipboard history which previously required third party apps, which means some developers just got Sherlocked. I'm sorry it had to be today, but one of the coolest things is the integration with Shortcuts, which now supports adding Apple's own AI models or ChatGPT into an automation workflow which can be summoned in any app. With Spotlight, macOS will soon have more customization for icons, folder colors and control center options. The phone app is on macOS now. Very cool and there's even an in game overlay. All this will be available to any Apple, Silicon Mac and the four remaining intel powered Macs that that are still supported. They are just holding on for dear life long after they should have let go. Early in the iOS 26 section of the keynote, Craig Federighi said many of you missed using tabs in the Photos app. Photos now features separate tabs for library and collections, which I think is the first time Apple has directly acknowledged complaints about one of their changes. Is losing all of those App Store court battles finally getting to them? If so, we should keep breaking their spirit. This is good stuff. Visual Intelligence can now search and take action across multiple apps based on your iPhone screen, extract the date, time and location from event posters and add it to Calendar and ask ChatGPT questions about images. And Apple's new Foundation models feature lets third party apps use Apple's on device AI models because somebody might as well use them while the new AI Powered series still in her trailer memorizing her lines. Other cool AI stuff includes live translation integrated into messages, FaceTime phone calls and kind of into Apple music which now has lyrics, translation and pronunciation guides so you can stop mumbling the Korean part. I genuinely think Auto Mix is cool which will use AI to mix songs into each other like a human DJ does, but with less head bobbing. I know you're waiting to hear about that rumored games app though. Well, yeah, it aggregates your games and Apple Arcade, but it also has a Play Together tab to see what your friends are playing and compete with them in challenges which can turn single player games into social experiences. Yuck. Very cool. And there's actually quite a few more iOS changes including call screening and hold assist in the phone app, custom backgrounds and group polls in Messages, what's up WhatsApp? And realistic ChatGPT image generation in Image Playground. So your mom can make deep fakes now too, but we don't have time to consider the ramifications of that. Watchos is getting Workout Buddy, the perfect AI non person to hack your brain with the audio equivalent of an encouraging cat poster. Vision OS supports accessories now like the Logitech muse pen and PlayStation VR 2 controllers, and TVOS has a new API that should make signing in suck less. And there was a new trailer for a bunch of Apple TV originals which are statistically pretty good. And I guess Apple is happy to continue losing money on those and I'm totally fine with that. I also wouldn't be bothered if you checked out our sponsor Odoo. They're in the business of helping businesses do business and you might think, well Riley, that's pretty broad. What do they help with specifically? But that's just it. They can help with everything. Sales, inventory, accounting, invoicing, human resources, project management, procurement, point of sale. These are all things that I'm told businesses have to worry more about if they don't use Odoo's full suite of integrated, user friendly and customizable apps. They even have an app to help you create your own app with a drag and drop interface and no programming skills required. Just Vibes. And you can share those vibes with your customers by using Odoo's forum building and email marketing tools. But hey, if you don't need those ones, that's fine. In fact, if you only need to use one Odoo app, it's free. Use our link for a free 15 day trial with no credit card required or book a demo with their expert team to learn how Odoo can help your business. You know, iOS got to skip 19 to 25 and frankly, I'm jealous. I would have loved to skip those years too. Microsoft and Asus have revealed their rumored handheld collaboration, the Rog Xbox Ally X okay, this is an Xbox, they say. And this is an Xbox if you're poor, that's the Rog Xbox Ally Non X also being announced with with weaker specs, but both of them apparently benefit from Microsoft allowing the Xbox team to modify Windows itself. On these handhelds, they'll skip loading Windows elements like the desktop, freeing up performance and rapidly booting straight into the Xbox app, which will feature an aggregated library with games from Xbox, Steam and other stores. Okay, the devs behind Xbox and Windows have wanted to make this special Xbox Windows Handheld experience happen for a while.
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Susan Ettlinger
But.
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Riley
But as one exec told the Verge, this is really the device that galvanized those teams and got everybody marching and working towards a moment that we're just really excited to put into the hands of players. Xbox execs have a gift for hyping up gamers with language you'd use in financial reports. Very cool. But one thing they said that is hype. This full screen Xbox experience will roll out to other Windows handhelds next year after the two Xbox X allies launch at the end of 2025. It's just too bad that everybody will be gaming on some form of Linux by that time already. Oh well. This week was chock full of game announcements between Sony's PS5 state of play, the kickoff of Summer Games Fest, and yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase, where we learned there's gonna be a Black Ops 7. But don't worry, it stars original Black Ops character Alex Mason, who will finally tell us what the numbers mean. And an Amazon customer has reported receiving an Aorus RTX 5090 package, only to find it filled with macaroni rice and some kind of dusty old GPU. The incident comes after at least 32 Zotac 5090 boxes were discovered at a micro center stuffed full of crossbody backpacks. I Sincerely hope these 5090 switcheroos don't become a trend. Although at least these scammers were nice enough to include some carbs. You know, throw some chicken bones in there and baby, you got a stew going. I'm currently stewing over the fact that there was far too much tech news today. So let's all take a one day recess and meet back here on Wednesday, okay? It'll give me some time to work through whether I like Apple now. It's very confusing. I guess Apple is ha. Okay, that's just like hello, thank you. Rude.