Tag: windows
Windows 11 speech recognition feature gets ditched in September 2024 – but only because there’s something better
Windows 11’s voice functionality is being fully switched over to the new Voice Access feature later this year, and we now have a date for when the old system – Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) – will be officially ditched from the OS. The date for the replacement of WSR by…
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Fed up with OneDrive in Windows 11? Microsoft clarifies that you can easily remove the cloud storage app
Windows 11 users can uninstall OneDrive – in case you weren’t aware of that – and Microsoft has made this clearer with a change to a support document. Neowin picked up on this alteration Microsoft made to its guide on how to ‘Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive’ which is…
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Windows 11 could soon deliver updates that don’t need a reboot
Windows 11 could soon run updates without rebooting, if the rumor mill is right – and there’s already evidence this is the path Microsoft is taking in a preview build. This comes from a regular source of Microsoft-related leaks, namely Zac Bowden of Windows Central, who first of all spotted…
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Microsoft finally teaches Copilot AI some new tricks – but is this enough to stop Windows 11 users getting impatient?
Windows 11 just received improvements in testing to make its Copilot AI more useful with implementing changes in the actual OS environment – in other words, the features that we’re all waiting for. Copilot has a pretty limited repertoire in terms of what the AI can do for manipulating Windows…
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Windows 11 could finally make color management easier, and that’s great news for artists and gamers
Microsoft might be planning to release a new color management panel that’ll make picking the perfect color profile for your PC much easier. The perfect color settings make games pop out of the display more vividly, and if you’re a digital artist or photographer, the right color profile could make…
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A new, much more convenient way to join Wi-Fi networks may be coming to Windows 11 and I can’t wait
Microsoft could be releasing a new feature for Windows 11 that would make connecting to Wi-Fi networks so much quicker and easier. Users may soon be able to join new networks by scanning a QR code with the camera app, eliminating the need to muck about searching for (or remembering)…
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