Windows 11’s best alternative apps are 25% OFF: “It’s like getting the next version of Windows today.”

Windows 11 has been available for two years and change, but its global market share still struggles. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons Microsoft has been using “aggressive” tactics, including full-screen multipage popup ads designed to encourage Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11.  Despite Windows 10’s imminent end of support slated for […]

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A new update for Windows 11’s best Start menu alternative lets you pin your favorite websites

What you need to know Stardock recently shipped a new update to its Start11 V2 app, bumping it to version 2.05. The update ships with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. It also includes a new enhancement that will let users pin websites on the Start menu. Stardock just shipped a new update to its Start11 […]

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Windows 11’s Snipping Tool is gaining a new feature that will make illustrations for How-to guides a breeze

What you need to know Windows 11’s Snipping Tool will let you add shapes to your screenshots soon. The feature was spotted in a recently released Windows 11 preview build, though it’s not available for everyone since  it appears to be in A/B testing. It is likely to roll out to Windows Insiders via a […]

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Microsoft is bringing Windows 11’s excellent ‘Dev Home’ app to Windows 10 users

What you need to know Microsoft is bringing its developer focused hub app to Windows 10. The app first debuted on Windows 11 last year, titled “Dev Home.” The app lets you streamline setting up a dev box with tools and repositories. Last year, Microsoft launched a new app for developers on Windows 11 dubbed […]

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Windows 11’s best File Explorer alternative was just updated with even more usability improvements and fixes

What you need to know The third-party file manager app “Files” just received a significant update, bumping it to version 3.1. The new update ships with many new features, including a System Tray Icon, Smart archive extract, Improved sorting, and more.   It also ships with a fix for the bug that caused the app […]

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Windows 11’s lightweight version (Tiny11) gets even smaller and gains Windows Copilot via a new update

What you need to know A new update recently shipped to Tiny11, bringing it to version Tiny11 2311. The update adds Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2) features and patches the previous version’s bugs, including the issue affecting the Windows update functionality. Users will now get cumulative updates, thus making it a tad more secure and […]

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Windows 11’s best Start menu alternative gets support for nine languages alongside quality-of-life improvements and fixes

What you need to know Stardock recently shipped a new update to its Start11 alternative to the stock Windows 11 Start menu. The update adds no new features but ships with improvements and fixes. Additional support for nine languages, including German, Spanish, French, and more, is included in the v2.03 update. At the beginning of […]

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Windows 10 could get Windows 11’s biggest AI feature soon

According to a new report from Windows Central, Microsoft could soon add Copilot to Windows 10 with a system update. Microsoft Copilot is a virtual assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The company unveiled Copilot in March of this year and added it to Windows 11 with the 23H2 update which was rolled out […]

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A new update to Start11 brings rounded corners to Windows 11’s taskbar, making your OS look like the ‘next version of Windows’

What you need to know Stardock recently shipped a new update to Start11, adding more than two dozen new features, including rounded corners to the taskbar. Start11 v2 is also getting an updated search experience with native integration with the Everything search engine. The update will allow users to backup and restore their settings from […]

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OnePlus 12 to rectify the OnePlus 11’s shortcomings, new leak claims

The OnePlus 12 is coming soon – depending on which rumor you go by, it will be announced either in December or January (though it’s unclear if there will be one global announcement only, or a separate one for China initially, like last year). If you have looked at the OnePlus 11 but felt it […]

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Windows 11’s improved casting experienced put on pause for Insiders

What you need to know Microsoft released Windows 11 Preview Build 22635.2486 to Insiders in the Beta Channel today. The update does not include any new features, but it does have a few changes that are rolling out to Insiders slowly. Even those changes are relatively small, such as Xbox Game Bar now showing up […]

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Windows 11’s new AI Copilot is too slow to be useful

Microsoft’s new AI Copilot for Windows 11 is now rolling out, but it’s still too slow to be something that people are actually going to want to use. I highlighted this issue when the Windows Copilot first launched in preview back in June; the AI model takes too long to process your commands or queries, […]

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Microsoft is bringing ‘OCR’ text recognition to Windows 11’s Snipping Tool

What you need to know Microsoft has unveiled new updates to the Snipping Tool and Phone Link. Snipping Tool is getting the ability to recognize and copy text from screenshots. Phone Link will now let you jump into editing your most recent photo quicker.  Microsoft has announced new updates for the Snipping Tool and Phone […]

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This neat feature could fix the worst part of Windows 11’s Start menu

What you need to know Users might soon be able to preview files in Windows 11’s Start menu Recommended section. The hidden feature was discovered in Builds 23506 and 23493. Aside from letting you preview the content hidden in the file, the feature will also let you know when the file was last edited and […]

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Windows 11’s next big update is rolling out to everyone

What you need to know July’s Patch Tuesday update ships with Windows 11’s Moment 3 features. The security update for Windows 11 patches 132 flaws. The update doesn’t fix one of the RCE flaws that attackers have been exploiting. Microsoft recently released July’s Patch Tuesday update (KB5028185), finally availing the Moment 3 features on Windows […]

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Windows 11’s new AI Copilot is now available to try out in preview

What you need to know Windows Copilot is now available to try out in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. The new AI assistant is powered by Microsoft Edge and Bing Chat. Users can access the Windows Copilot directly from the Taskbar, and the UI will dock to one side of the screen. Want […]

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Windows 11’s new AI Copilot is now available to try out in preview

What you need to know Windows Copilot is now available to try out in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build. The new AI assistant is powered by Microsoft Edge and Bing Chat. Users can access the Windows Copilot directly from the Taskbar, and the UI will dock to one side of the screen. Want […]

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iQOO 11S will have a regular SD 8 Gen 2 chipset but paired with a an improved dedicated display processor

The iQOO 11S is arriving on July 4, and the phone was benchmarked on Geekbench today. The listing usually reveals the CPU used in the tested devices, and here we learned the primary core will be clocked at 3.19 GHz – this is exactly the same frequency as the Cortex-X3 at the helm of the […]

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iQOO 11S will have a regular SD 8 Gen 2 chipset but paired with an improved dedicated display processor

The iQOO 11S is arriving on July 4, and the phone was benchmarked on Geekbench today. The listing usually reveals the CPU used in the tested devices, and here we learned the primary core will be clocked at 3.19 GHz – this is exactly the same frequency as the Cortex-X3 at the helm of the […]

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