Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On May 20, Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PC in what appears to be the conference suite at a midrange hotel, but apparently was Microsoft’s Redmond campus. I mean, Apple wins before we start just by having the Steve Jobs theatre, but the Microsoft team at least showed up in person, lead by Satya Nadella, and they even offered live signing of the event too, so you know what? Kudos for that.
And Microsoft basically billed this as the birth of computers that understand you - AI computing. Computers that remember what you were just doing, with the new Recall feature… which DEFINITELY doesn’t have some MASSIVE security issues that we’ll come to a little later on. But Satya is charismatic. Probably closer to Steve Jobs than we’ve seen since his passing. But he’s here to introduce Distributed Ai across the cloud, with Coppilot+PC. Which sounds awfully like it all still happens in the cloud, but let’s see.
He mentioned how “the web was born on Windows,” which honestly I’m not sure how he thinks is true as the world’s first web server was actually this NeXT Computer, used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN running NeXTStep, which was acquired by Apple to bring Steve Jobs back to the company… but you know… Details.
I guess this event is basically their Apple Silicon moment as Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft’s answer to Phil Schiller said this is all about a completely new class of PCs, so presumably old PCs can’t do any of the stuff they’re covering in the event.
They went on to say they’re the most powerful Windows PC’s ever built, basically the same line Apple uses when they say these are the best iPhones we’ve ever made. Well, you’d hope that they’re better than last year, the last thing we need is regression. They went on to mention the brand new NPU, which Apple has included for a long time. They quoted that these are 58% faster than an M3 MacBook Air, but not what they’re faster at. And they said “all day battery” so we’ll see what that means in the real world soon, I’m sure.
They also did another Apple Classic. OpenAI’s Chat GPT 4o will SOON be available in Copilot. So… one day. Don’t hold your breath I guess. But when it is, you’ll be able to ask it how to play Minecraft, so I guess that’s a thing.
So, onto Recall. Basically, Windows will now record your screen, so it can find stuff you used recently. They’ve also decided computers using something like file explorer with nested folders is bad because it’s not how we remember things. It make it as easy to find your own things on your computer as it is to find stuff online. But here’s the thing. Microsoft of course won’t allow Recall to store anything with DRM content, they have to protect copyright, obviously.
But it doesn’t perform “content moderation” which means, it will not hide your passwords, financial information like banking numbers or logins, so, you know, that sounds nice and secure. But it can find a nice dress for you, so that’s good.
We got Pat Gelsinger from Intel giving his super excited views, Lisa Su from AMD and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon all hyping what they’re working on without really saying anything at all, just that they’re doing new things. The three of them being together in the same video though, did feel a bit like they were worried about Apple. All Copilot PCs get a minimum of 16gb of ram which is pretty good, perhaps Apple will follow suit eventually. Of course the Snapdragon X Elite got a shout out, with Microsoft rebuilding Windows 11 to be natively Arm based. They also introduced Prism, their version of Rosetta 2 which they also called out by name.
Then, onto hardware, with the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, which looks a bit like if you’d asked AI to show you a colourful, but fatter MacBook Air. Oh, and if you ever disliked the MacBook having a notch, you get to see how it would have looked without. A big fat bezel at the top and skinny ones down the side. Honestly, it may be referred to The Hague as a crime against humanity. The animations looked almost identical to Apple’s from a few years back, but that makes sense because its also when Apple revealed their own silicon too.
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On May 20, Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PC in what appears to be the conference suite at a midrange hotel, but apparently was Microsoft’s Redmond campus. I mean, Apple wins before we start just by having the Steve Jobs theatre, but the Microsoft team at least showed up in person, lead by Satya Nadella, and they even offered live signing of the event too, so you know what? Kudos for that.
And Microsoft basically billed this as the birth of computers that understand you - AI computing. Computers that remember what you were just doing, with the new Recall feature… which DEFINITELY doesn’t have some MASSIVE security issues that we’ll come to a little later on. But Satya is charismatic. Probably closer to Steve Jobs than we’ve seen since his passing. But he’s here to introduce Distributed Ai across the cloud, with Coppilot+PC. Which sounds awfully like it all still happens in the cloud, but let’s see.
He mentioned how “the web was born on Windows,” which honestly I’m not sure how he thinks is true as the world’s first web server was actually this NeXT Computer, used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN running NeXTStep, which was acquired by Apple to bring Steve Jobs back to the company… but you know… Details.
I guess this event is basically their Apple Silicon moment as Yusef Mehdi, Microsoft’s answer to Phil Schiller said this is all about a completely new class of PCs, so presumably old PCs can’t do any of the stuff they’re covering in the event.
They went on to say they’re the most powerful Windows PC’s ever built, basically the same line Apple uses when they say these are the best iPhones we’ve ever made. Well, you’d hope that they’re better than last year, the last thing we need is regression. They went on to mention the brand new NPU, which Apple has included for a long time. They quoted that these are 58% faster than an M3 MacBook Air, but not what they’re faster at. And they said “all day battery” so we’ll see what that means in the real world soon, I’m sure.
They also did another Apple Classic. OpenAI’s Chat GPT 4o will SOON be available in Copilot. So… one day. Don’t hold your breath I guess. But when it is, you’ll be able to ask it how to play Minecraft, so I guess that’s a thing.
So, onto Recall. Basically, Windows will now record your screen, so it can find stuff you used recently. They’ve also decided computers using something like file explorer with nested folders is bad because it’s not how we remember things. It make it as easy to find your own things on your computer as it is to find stuff online. But here’s the thing. Microsoft of course won’t allow Recall to store anything with DRM content, they have to protect copyright, obviously.
But it doesn’t perform “content moderation” which means, it will not hide your passwords, financial information like banking numbers or logins, so, you know, that sounds nice and secure. But it can find a nice dress for you, so that’s good.
We got Pat Gelsinger from Intel giving his super excited views, Lisa Su from AMD and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon all hyping what they’re working on without really saying anything at all, just that they’re doing new things. The three of them being together in the same video though, did feel a bit like they were worried about Apple. All Copilot PCs get a minimum of 16gb of ram which is pretty good, perhaps Apple will follow suit eventually. Of course the Snapdragon X Elite got a shout out, with Microsoft rebuilding Windows 11 to be natively Arm based. They also introduced Prism, their version of Rosetta 2 which they also called out by name.
Then, onto hardware, with the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, which looks a bit like if you’d asked AI to show you a colourful, but fatter MacBook Air. Oh, and if you ever disliked the MacBook having a notch, you get to see how it would have looked without. A big fat bezel at the top and skinny ones down the side. Honestly, it may be referred to The Hague as a crime against humanity. The animations looked almost identical to Apple’s from a few years back, but that makes sense because its also when Apple revealed their own silicon too.
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