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Microsoft’s Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi published a story yesterday on the Windows Experience Blog in which he revealed what Microsoft believes is going to happen in regards to Windows 11 in 2025. For Microsoft, it is the year that hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users will upgrade their devices to Windows 11,…
When you upgrade a Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 or run an in-place upgrade on a Windows 11 PC to upgrade to a newer version, you get to “choose what to keep”. Windows Setup offers three options: The first option, keep personal files and apps, may be unavailable under certain circumstances. Most of the…
One of the first things that I disable on Windows 11 PCs is the integrated web search. Microsoft merged local and web search in Windows some years ago mostly for its own benefit. Web search results generate clicks and revenue for Microsoft. For users, they serve little purpose. Often, they tend to get in the…
Microsoft introduced the new dedicated Copilot-key for Windows keyboards less than a year ago. Now, the company suggests to remap the key to another function, but only on managed PCs. Here is a quick refresher: Microsoft announced the Copilot key in January to “kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs”. The company even went…
Remember suggested actions? Microsoft introduced the feature in mid-2022 in Insider builds of Windows 11 and rolled it out to stable systems later on. The core idea behind the feature was simple: highlight certain text in Windows and the operating system suggests actions based on the highlighted string. Highlight a phone number and you get…
Microsoft released a new build to the Canary insider channel that gives testers on Copilot+ PCs the option to test the AI feature Recall again. You may remember that Microsoft announced it with some fanfare earlier this year only to be overwhelmed by the negative response that it received. It got pulled quickly by Microsoft…
Windows 11 PCs with certain Ubisoft games installed won’t receive the upgrade offer to Windows 11, version 24H2 anymore at the time of writing. Related content: Microsoft confirmed the new issue and has put a compatibility hold in place that prevent Windows Update from offering the upgrade on affected machines. Here is the list of…
Microsoft has announced Administrator protection for Windows 11. The new security feature aims to improve security on Windows 11 devices by changing certain actions that require elevation are carried out and handled. For users, it means that they need to authorize elevated actions using Windows Hello. Depending on how that is set up, it may…
Windows supports hundreds of different keyboard shortcuts. Some of them basic, like pressing the Windows-key to open the Start menu. Others more advanced, like pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the Task Manager. Not all shortcuts are equally useful. While usefulness depends somewhat on how you use Windows, some shortcuts are certainly more useful than others. The…
Microsoft introduced a new File Explorer context menu in Windows 11. This streamlined menu replaced the classic menu by default, but users can still open it from the new context menu or by holding down the Shift-key before they right-click. Windows 11 has been around for a few years now, and some Windows 11 users…