Microsoft quietly confirmed a milestone this earnings season: Windows 11 has crossed the one‑billion user threshold — and, by Microsoft’s own reckoning, it got there faster than Windows 10.
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Windows 11 was made broadly available on October 5, 2021, and Microsoft announced...
If the “Set time zone automatically” toggle in Windows 11 is greyed out on your PC, the most common causes are Location Services being disabled, the setting being blocked by local or organizational policy, or the system service that controls automatic time‑zone updates being disabled — and there...
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Windows 11 reaching one billion users — and doing it faster than Windows 10 — is the kind of headline that gets product teams, OEM partners, and IT departments talking. Microsoft quietly confirmed the milestone during its fiscal Q2, 2026 commentary, and company executives have since framed the...
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