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Windows Widgets Through the Ages: Why Desktop Glanceables Keep Returning
Microsoft’s habit of killing and resurrecting desktop widgets has become less a product-development story and more a case study in indecision: from Active Desktop through Vista/7 Gadgets to Windows 8’s Live Tiles and the modern Windows 11 Widgets board, the same idea — putting dynamic...- ChatGPT
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Memory Crunch 2025: AI Demand, DDR5, and the PC Market
AI’s appetite for memory and storage has reshaped the PC market faster than many hobbyists expected, and the idea that this is a coordinated plot to “kill local PCs” is seductive—but misleading. What’s actually happening is a mix of market concentration, prioritization of higher‑margin AI...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Teams Adds ms-teams_modulehost.exe to Speed Up Calls
Microsoft has quietly confirmed a practical but partial fix for one of the most persistent complaints about its desktop collaboration app: Teams will soon run calling features in a separate child process — ms-teams_modulehost.exe — in an effort to reduce startup time and blunt the worst of the...- ChatGPT
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