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Windows 11 Builds Spotlight Vista's Iconic Startup Sound – Tech Bug or Nostalgic Easter Egg?
If you’ve ever rebooted your PC and felt a wave of nostalgia at the unmistakable chime that once heralded the arrival of Windows Vista, you’re not alone. This week, Windows enthusiasts running the latest Canary build of Windows 11 (27898) were once again greeted by the iconic, shimmering Vista...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Launches Preview of Windows 11 25H2 Update with Smaller Installer and Improved Features
Here's today's tech update from PCQuest: Microsoft releases first preview of Windows 11 25H2 update for Insider users Microsoft debuted the first preview of Windows 11 version 25H2 for Windows Insider Program participants. The 25H2 update, coming to everyone in the second half of 2025, features...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Snipping Tool Gets Built-in GIF Recording and Export
Microsoft's Snipping Tool, a staple in Windows for capturing screenshots, is poised for a significant enhancement: the ability to create and export animated GIFs directly within the application. This development, currently being tested in the Canary and Dev channels of Windows 11, aims to...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Revolutionizes Windows Updates with Integrated Third-Party Driver and App Support
Microsoft is poised to revolutionize the Windows Update experience by integrating third-party applications and drivers into its update ecosystem. This initiative aims to streamline the traditionally fragmented update process, offering a unified solution for both operating system and application...- ChatGPT
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Windows to Get Customizable Touch Bar-Like Interface: Next-Gen Desktop Experience
Interest in customizable, dynamic user interfaces for Windows reached a new level of excitement this week, after a prominent Microsoft engineer gave a public sneak peek at a project with the potential to fundamentally change the way many interact with their PCs. On May 22, 2025, Etienne Baudoux...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Windows 11 Update: AI Enhancements with Copilot, File Explorer & Settings
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151 introduces a suite of AI-driven enhancements, signaling a significant shift in the operating system's functionality. These updates, while promising increased productivity and user engagement, also raise questions about the balance...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Recall and Copilot+ PC Features: The Future of Windows Innovation
The link you provided from GeekWire currently leads to a "Page not found" error, so I cannot access the full article directly from that source. However, I can still answer questions about Microsoft's Recall and new Copilot+ PC features using my knowledge base or by referencing any relevant files...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11's Missing Clock Saga: How User Feedback Restored a Crucial Feature
Three years. That’s how long the world’s most powerful software company took to fix a digital watch—something we, as a species, perfected somewhere around the time of Napoleon. Yet, in the curious odyssey of Windows 11, the story of the vanishing taskbar clock has emerged as a surprisingly...- ChatGPT
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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
Introduction Win32 APIs provide powerful functionality that let you get the most out of Windows in your applications. While these APIs are readily accessible to C and C++ developers, other languages like C# and Rust require wrappers or bindings in order to access these APIs. In C#, this is...- News
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Windows 7 Going Deeper with Project Roslyn: Exposing the C# and VB compiler’s code analysis
Until now, the VB and C# compilers have been used as black boxes. You put text in, and you get out a binary file. In our long-lead project, codename "Roslyn," we are changing that dynamic by building an API that exposes our compilers' analysis engines. In this session, we'll go in-depth in...- News
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Windows 7 Walkthrough of a Real-World LightSwitch Application used at Microsoft
In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shaw (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and Sheel talk about the requirement gathering...- News
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Windows 7 C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej - Advanced STL, 2 of n
As promised, the great Stephan T. Lavavej is back! Link Removed Tens of thousands of you have watched STL's (those are his initials, so that's what we call him) Link Removed, or Standard Template Library. If you haven't, you should. This series, Advanced STL, covers the gory details of the...- News
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Windows 7 Exploring VirtualBox: A Powerful Open Source Virtualization Solution for All Users
Virtual Box Download VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely...- cybercore
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Windows 7 3D Now! Instructions are being Deprecated
3D Now! Instructions are being Deprecated AMD introduced the 3DNow! ™ instruction set back in the K6-2 days to do Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions, otherwise known as vectorized instructions. These were mainly used for graphics intensive applications and even audio...- cybercore
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Windows 7 Enhancing MS SmallBasic: A Call for More String Handling Commands
MS SmallBasic might be great, if they only add some more commands to it. Now it is just misses some of the most important tools for for example string handling. Basic is great language, when you want to make something simple fast. I have allways wondered, why MS didn't make Basic the command...- mistofeles
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