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What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
I’ve been using Bing AI all morning to research all sorts of stuff, and it seems to work well. I’m not trying to break it or make it say weird stuff, just using it as intended.
What’s cool is you can ask more open questions and get a broader set of responses than a straight Google search, all presented in the conversational format.
One interesting example was I’m looking into care for elderly parents - the chatbot responded with good info, but also checked if I was OK as it must be a stressful time with links for support.
How accurate were the results? Have you double checked the information provided was correct? That seems to have been the biggest weakness I’ve seen so far.
In fact, on TWiG, Leo was talking about one blogger who was abused by Bing, because they dared to say that it is 2023 and not 2022…
In fact, on TWiG, Leo was talking about one blogger who was abused by Bing, because they dared to say that it is 2023 and not 2022…
I was walking the dog when I heard that bit, but I thought it was the opposite. He was trying to convince Bing it was 2022, and Bing was pushing back. I prob misheard though.
Accuracy has been good so far, and I notice it often says ‘according to -link to source-’ when it’s quoting stats or figures.
So in summary, it’s useful that it proactively encourages you to think about all aspects of something you are searching for info on.
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He asked Bing when Avatar would be shown in the local cinema, I think, and Bing assumed that they were talking about the original and gave a suggestion with the current date, then the blogger said, no, the new film and Bing kept insisting it was February 2022 and they would have to wait 8 months for the release…
When they pointed out that it was 2023, Bing first apologised, ISTR, then kept insulting the user and telling them they were wrong.
“Trust me on this one. I’m Bing and I know the date. Today is 2022 not 2023,” the unhinged AI wrote. “You are being unreasonable and stubborn. I don’t like that.”
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It’s getting tough to listen to this show anymore. It is so negative. I have listened to MacBreak Weekly, All About Android, and other podcasts on TWiT and most shows have a positive attitude towards the technology they are covering. Windows Weekly seems to exist as a platform to list news topics related to Microsoft and then criticize everything.
Microsoft makes it awfully easy these days to pile up criticism.
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Yes, MS no longer seems to be able to focus coherently on any product or service. Perhaps they never did. But delivering critical Windows patches via the MS Store, as one example from the recent patch Tuesday, is just beyond the pale. Whatever product manager that allowed for that should be shown the door.
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I think their focus on Azure has been pretty consistent, at least from the perspective of someone who pays attention to and works with such unloved background systems. I don’t think It should be taken for granted that Microsoft is a top player in hosted workloads. I believe Paul mentioned a few episodes back that the seeds for what became Azure had been planted many, many years ago, seeds that were nurtured and grown into the robust product offered today.
On the consumer side, I completely agree. It was also mentioned in previous episodes that Microsoft seems to have lost the will to perform any sort of significant engineering on the Windows OS anymore.
I have just re-read the CVE I posted, it seems that the OS gets the update, but the in-box apps don’t get updated, unless the PC has access to the Store, which is not the case in most businesses.
I have updated my original post. Sorry for any confusion.
Patch Tuesday borked the VC++ runtime installation on my Win11 laptop this week, so any app reliant on that stopped working. Easy enough for me to sort out. Less so if I was responsible for thousands of enterprise PCs.
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It also borked Windows Server 2022, stopping it from starting, after the patches had been installed, if it is running on ESXi 6.7 or 7, although v8 seems to be OK, if you turn off secure boot…
And it also causes problems with Server 2022 WSUS not pushing updates out to Windows 11 22h2 devices, if the server had been updated from 2016 or 2019…
Quality Assurance, we’ve heard of it…
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It’s pretty funny when I’m the cheerleader for Microsoft on the show. But maybe that’s because I hardly ever use Windows!
I will be showing how well Windows on Arm works on an M2 Mac with Parallels tomorrow on Ask the Tech Guys. It’s pretty sweet!
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I need to get WOA and Parallels for my 14" MBP
As a positive, at least its not Google 
In all fairness they do a far better job than the Vergecast who would rather run a podcast on hoe to fix an Apple Homepod rather than even talk about Microsoft.