Starting in Edge 111, the stable version of the browser sports a new Bing button in the sidebar. In pre-release versions of Edge it appears in the toolbar instead of the sidebar, and replaces the menu button by shifting to the left, so even if you hide the sidebar, it remains visible! As of now, Edge stable doesn't offer any option to get rid of the bing icon, but this will change in May.
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
The Bing chatbot is actually based on the GPT-4 language model
Recently, OpenAI revealed a new language model GPT-4, which is superior to GPT-3.5 in many ways. It can solve complex tasks thanks to more careful training. Duolingo, Stripe, Khan Academy and other companies are working on integrating GPT-4 into their products. Microsoft has also confirmed that their Bing chatbot is based on the GPT-4 model.
Microsoft Build 2023 will be held from May 23 to 25
Microsoft has announced the Build 2023 annual developer conference that will be held May 23-25 in Seattle, Washington. This year, everyone can join the event in person by paying $1,525 for an entrance ticket. Participation in the pre-seminars on May 22 requires an additional $225.
OpenAI announces GPT-4 language model
OpenAI has announced a new GPT-4 language model that the company says is more creative and collaborative than ever before. It can solve complex problems with greater accuracy due to greater knowledge and problem-solving abilities.
Microsoft has released March 2023 cumulative updates for Windows 11 and 10
Microsoft has released monthly cumulative updates for all supported operating systems. Traditionally, the updates are intended to fix bugs, and ship general improvements to the end user.
Microsoft Edge 111 Stable Released
Microsoft is now rolling out a new stable version of Microsoft Edge 111.0.1661.41. Edge 111 comes with a new sidebar with the Discover feature, Microsoft Feed integration on the new tab page, security improvements, and a browsing data deletion policy for IE mode.
Firefox 111 is out with email input mask support in Firefox Relay
Firefox 111 stable is out with several improvements. It is a minor release so it doesn’t bring with it drastic changes. On Desktop, you will find input mask support for temporary email addresses in Firefox Relay. On Android, Firefox 111 includes a built-in PDF viewer. There are also plenty of changes for developers. Besides, it includes fixes for 20 vulnerabilities, with 14 of them having high impact.
The new ChatGPT-4 model will be introduced this week
Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun announced during the AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff event that the latest GPT-4 language model will be unveiled this week. It will not only be more powerful than the current version of GPT-3.5 used in ChatGPT, but will also receive a number of new features, including the ability to generate video. It will have "multimodal models" that allow for more types of content generation.
The ability to install Windows on ReFS may become exclusive to Windows 12
As you may remember, Microsoft has added a hidden option to install Windows 11 on ReFS. The OS installer could support formatting new partitions to ReFS and use such a partition to boot from. It was a feature of the Dev channel builds. However, after rebooting the Insider program, everything has been scrapped from the Dev channel and moved to Canary builds.
Windows 11 to receive a dedicated USB4 page in the Settings app
One more hidden feature is in the first Canary release of Windows 11. Build 25314 seems to include a new USB 4 device viewer on the USB Settings page. While it is hidden, you can make it appear with ViVeTool.
