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Curious about what’s in your photos, Windows 11 users? Soon you’ll be able to investigate with Bing reverse image search right from the Photos app
Microsoft’s Photos app in Windows 11 is getting a “Visual Search with Bing” feature, which will enable you to search for images similar to whatever pictures you’re viewing. The updated version of the Photos app also brings improved navigation for your photo gallery, quick access to image editing capabilities, and…
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Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10 – at least in the world of PC gaming
Windows 11 has finally done it and managed to overtake Windows 10 when it comes to market share with PC gamers. As you might have guessed, this is the Steam Hardware Survey which is conducted every month and is a snapshot of the configurations of the various gaming PCs used…
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Microsoft improves Windows 11 Start menu, with no new ads in sight – and there’s a bonus for the lock screen in latest preview
Windows 11 has a new preview build, and it comes with a few notable changes to the interface – for the better, thankfully, with no new adverts or promos anywhere to be seen. Microsoft just introduced Windows 11 build 22635 (KB5041876) in the Beta channel, and the most interesting change…
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Turns out the ‘death’ of the Control Panel in Windows 11 has been greatly exaggerated, as Microsoft issues a clarification
Windows 11 and Windows 10 aren’t on the brink of seeing the Control Panel shuffling off into the sunset, Microsoft has clarified. As Ars Technica reports, this follows a string of articles last week that popped up around the Control Panel – which is nearly 40-years-old and plays host to…
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Windows 11 could get updates that install without a reboot, as a Microsoft blunder hints these are coming with version 24H2
We’ve heard before that Windows 11 could be getting a ‘hot-patching’ feature with version 24H2, arriving later this year, whereby (some) future cumulative updates won’t require a reboot – and we’ve just been treated to another clue that this might come to fruition. Windows Latest reports that PhantomOfEarth on X…
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Windows 10 looks to be getting one of the worst features recently added to Windows 11’s Start menu
Windows 10 might get an unpopular change to the Start menu which Microsoft recently implemented in Windows 11, going by a new leak. This is the addition of an account manager section, and that piece of extra clutter in the Start menu could well be coming to Windows 10, as…
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