Windows Central Podcast 238: Windows 11, Fall Surface hardware, and more

By Zac Bowden
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On this episode of the Windows Central Podcast: New Windows 11 apps, upcoming Surface hardware rumors, and more!

Windows 11 Notification Action
Windows 11 Notification Action (Image credit: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central)

We're back with another exciting episode of the Windows Central Podcast, and this week, Zac and Dan cover the latest beta of Windows 11 and some updated apps designed to leverage new features of the OS. They also talk about the global chip shortage, what we know about upcoming Surface devices, new foldables from Samsung, and the next-generation of haptic feedback trackpads.

This episode of the Windows Central Podcast was recorded on August 13th 2021.

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Zac Bowden
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Zac Bowden is a Senior Editor at Windows Central. Bringing you exclusive coverage into the world of Windows on PCs, tablets, phones, and more. Also an avid collector of rare Microsoft prototype devices! Keep in touch on Twitter: @zacbowden.

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  • In your excellent podcast you contend that others learn from the Surface line.
     
    Perhaps – but in certain obvious areas it would not seem that Microsoft itself does.
     
    The example that I have in mind is that the Surface has a camera. OK, it might not be the best camera in the world, but for many uses it is more than good enough. Yet, in Outlook Desktop, Windows 10 Mail or, even worse, OneNote desktop, where is the option to insert directly from the camera? That document you want to snap and put on a page in OneNote. That photo you want to put inline in an email.
     
    I find it infuriating to have to open the camera app, snap, find the file (eventually) and then manually insert it as an attachment. Rather than in line. Or if I want to put something inline in an email to find that the easiest solution is to take a snip from the photo and paste it in.
     
    Yet in the same apps on Android and iOS there is an option to use the camera on the device.
     
    It is hard to think that there might be a security justification as I have just outlined how one can get around the restriction where the camera is operational.
     
    Time for a bit of joined up thinking? Time for Microsoft to consider whether it is acceptable that some of its own apps work better on an iPad or Android phone than on the devices it is meant to be showcasing?
     
    BTW your email address as posted on your site bounces back.