For a long time, Windows looked like Windows. Version numbers and features changed, but the basic structure of the computer did not change. With Windows 8, Microsoft tried to change things completely… and we know how it turned out. So Windows, by and large, remained Windows. And people were mostly grateful for it.
However, now the entire platform is once again up in the air. To hear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, you probably won’t even be able to use your computer for long! Microsoft believes the future is agents. And so it’s deploying agents in every corner of Windows, starting with the taskbar.
on this issue of The VergecastNilay and David try to find out what Microsoft is doing, and how big the effort towards making your computer an agent really could be. They also talk about the launch of the Gemini 3, Google’s best model to date, and whether Google is starting to take the lead on the rest of the industry.
After that, the hosts discuss the end of the Meta antitrust trial, in which Judge Boasberg found that Meta was not a monopoly. Boasberg’s opinion is a smart and somewhat biting take on the current state of the web — and it involves some Greek philosophy that we can’t avoid talking about. This issue is certainly not over, but it’s looking good so far for the meta.
Finally, in the lightning round, it’s time for a jam-packed episode of Brendan Carr Is a Dummy, followed by talk about Matter 1.5, the MS Now rebrand, and the screen of the Boox Palma 2 Pro.
If you want to learn more about everything we discussed in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first on Microsoft and Google:
And in Meta Monopoly news:
And in the era of electricity: