WW 922: There's Never a "Not OK" Button - End of Skype, MWC25, Rust-inovich

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Skype to EOL in May, replaced by the consumer Teams client, which is surprisingly good now. There are three possible responses to this:

"They still make Skype?"
The 13 people who rely on Skype for calling landlines come out of the woodwork.
"Come on, Microsoft telegraphed this two years ago"

Plus, Opera previews what an AI agent in a browser can be used for. Firefox 136 now comes with vertical tabs (again), updated sidebar, AI chatbots, and more. And a Google-related tip that lets one see what it's like to live in the EU, minus the universal health care and other social safety nets.

Windows

Microsoft FINALLY updates the Copilot app in Windows 11 for the 127th time - What Microsoft didn't tell anyone. Arrives just after the release of a native Mac client
Three months of Recall, and it IS controversial, just not for the reasons you think
Dev and Beta (last week): lock screen widget customizing (finally), Windows Share updates (again), Task Manager CPU usage calculation change (seriously), more
It may be controversial at Linux, but not at Microsoft, which is all-in on Rust
Intel delays Ohio fabs until after the earth careens into the sun
Dell up 7 percent to $23.9 billion ($11.9 billion from PCs)
HP up 2.4 percent to $13.5 billion ($9.2 billion from PCs)
Intel brings Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" chips to commercial market

Microsoft 365

Microsoft finally puts Skype out of its misery
A look back at 22 years of Skype
Outlook Mobile gets delivery and read receipts

USA! USA! USA! Microsoft makes AI export changes easy to understand for our stupid government
OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its final non-reasoning model
Microsoft brings new local distilled DeepSeek models to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X - a little hands-on
Microsoft announces Dragon Copilot for clinical workflow
Stability AI + Arm Holdings = generative AI audio, more to come
Scam Detection in Messages for Pixel and Android
Gemini improvements including upcoming features
Apple's struggles with AI are real. Just ask Siri. Kidding, no one asks Siri anything

Xbox

New Game Pass titles for first half of March
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 coming to all platforms including Game Pass on July 11
Sony slashes prices on VR2 months after it stopped building it

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Remove yourself from Google Search results
App pick of the week: Mo' browsers!
RunAs Radio this week: Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette
Brown liquor pick of the week: Knappogue Castle 16

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