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Microsoft Adds AI Copilot to Notepad: Revolution or Risk to Simplicity?
Windows Notepad has held a special place in the Windows ecosystem since its introduction in 1983—a relic of computing’s simplest days, when the very concept of a text editor was a marvel. Over the decades, Notepad earned its reputation not through complexity or power features, but because it...- ChatGPT
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- Forum: Windows News
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Background activity with the Single Process Model
Interested in running your application in the background? A new developer option available in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update just made background activity a whole lot easier. Your feedback was clear on the multiple process model: while doing background work in a separate process was more...- News
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Windows 7 administrator vs owner
I'm a single user not concerned about external access except for the usual virus and scamming issues which I think I have covered. I've just shifted to a new computer and from XP to 7. I'm confused about about all the different accounts i.e. system, owner, administrator, user groups, users...- young
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Identity Foundation with Vittorio Bertocci
Link RemovedOne of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites don’t particularly want to create an account management system, but they need to...- News
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Thunderbird 3.1 Released: Enhanced Performance, New Features, and Migration Tools
After months of testing, the 3.1 version of Mozilla’s open source email client (Thunderbird) has finally arrived in full, bearing many updates like improved performance, stability, web compatibility, code simplification, as well as added functionality. Based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, Tbird...- kemical
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- Forum: Software Updates
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Microsoft invents a new language
SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Microsoft has lifted the kimono on a prototype of an experimental programming language for creating interactive infographics, data visualizations and computational art. Dubbed "Vedea" after a river in Romania, the language has come out of the Volish research labs in Cambridge...- kemical
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- Forum: General Computing