Paul Thurrott

Following a similar update on iOS, Opera 85 is here for Android with AI-based image understanding, no sign-in Aria, and other new features.

The Windows Clipboard allows you to share information stored in one app--the source app--with a second app--the destination app--using well-understood copy, cut, and paste operations. It has evolved over the years to include rich text formats including those supported by Microsoft Office applications and multiple graphics formats. And File Explorer uses Clipboard-based copy, cut, and paste operations for copying and moving files between different locations in the file system.

Google’s parent company announced that it earned a net income of $26.3 billion on revenues of $88.3 billion in the quarter ending September 30. Those figures represent gains of 33.6 percent and 15 percent year-over-year (YOY), respectively, and Google easily beat all estimates for the quarter.

Chipmaker AMD reported a net income of $771 million on revenues of $6.8 billion in the quarter ending September 28. Those figures represent gains of 191 percent and 17 percent, year-over-year (YOY), and its revenues were a corporate record.

Proton VPN is now available natively on Apple TV, giving privacy and security minded customers a way to watch content anywhere. It’s compatible with Apple’s Vision Pro headset too.

The latest version of Chrome is here, and Google is letting users personalize how the web browser handles performance and memory usage.

This week, Apple took the long-awaited step of acknowledging reality and making 16 GB of RAM the minimum for all new Macs. The PC market will follow begrudgingly, and perhaps slowly, given the companies involved in their inability to pull themselves out of the bargain-basement and the mentality that's been undercutting them for years. But it will happen. It's inevitable.

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss a 24H2 preview update, Microsoft 365, AI, dev, Google and AMD earnings, Xbox, and more.

Does it make sense to use Windows 11 with a local account and a perpetual, non-subscription version of Microsoft Office?

Google revealed that starting with Android 16 it will no longer ship a major annual OS upgrade in the third quarter each year.