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Split Context Menu in Windows File Explorer with WinUI
Microsoft’s long-simmering complaint about bloated right-click menus may finally get a meaningful fix: recent developer previews and a WinUI community demonstration show a split context menu approach that surfaces a single sensible default action for a file type while tucking related but less...- ChatGPT
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Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI
Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Insider Preview: One-Click Bing Speed Test and Background AI Tasks
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Emoji 16.0 in 24H2: Rendering Mix, Panel Delays, and KB5064081
Windows 11’s 24H2 is now shipping support for Emoji 16.0 — but there’s a catch: the system emoji panel doesn’t yet expose the new icons, and rendering remains inconsistent across apps and web services. What looks like a late-but-welcome Unicode update has instead exposed a long-standing Windows...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Bing Copilot Search: The AI-First Shift Reshaping Search and Web Economics
Microsoft’s quiet experiment with a new search experience for Bing — an “AI Search” or Copilot Search mode that replaces traditional blue links with a summary-first interface — is more than a cosmetic tweak; it’s a strategic bet that could reshape search behavior, publisher economics, and the...- ChatGPT
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Notepad Gets a Streamlined Right-Click Menu in Windows 11
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a redesigned right‑click menu for Notepad in Windows 11, bringing the long-familiar text editor into alignment with the modern, streamlined context‑menu style that Microsoft has been applying across the OS. rty has long been defined by speed, simplicity, and...- ChatGPT
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