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10 Windows 11 AI features you can use today

Computerworld Vertical IT

Word is that Microsoft is working on a next-generation version of Windows with an AI-powered desktop interface. But AI is already here on Windows 11 in a variety of forms. Many of these AI features were announced long ago and have slowly trickled out to Windows PCs. This is just the start, of course.

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Microsoft Will Take the Wraps Off Windows 11 Hardware On Sept. 22

Gizmodo

We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. 5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more. 22 at 8 a.m.

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Of Course You Can Run Windows 11 on an Old Windows Phone

Gizmodo

It hasn’t even been a whole week, and Windows 11 has already been successfully ported over to a smartphone. A very committed student of engineering, Gustave Monce , published a video to YouTube showing the latest developer preview of Windows 11 running on an old Windows Phone. Read more.

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Windows 11 now has its first beta release

The Verge

Microsoft has released the first beta of Windows 11 , available to those enrolled in its Windows Insider Program. Until today, getting access to Windows 11 meant installing the Dev preview , which Microsoft says is for “highly technical users” as it has “rough edges.” They are still betas.

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Why 16 is the new 8 for Windows 10

Computerworld Vertical IT

The other day, the topic of RAM — and what’s the minimum amount needed now for a Windows 10 computer — came up in a Facebook IT consultant-based group I’m part of. Not long ago, for a nicely functioning Windows 10 machine, 4GB of RAM was fine. That means you may need to do some tweaking to get it to behave on lower-RAM machines.

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Nreal Light review: Hardware is only half the battle

The Verge

My review unit came preinstalled with a smattering of full mixed reality apps alongside a variety of apps (like Wikipedia, YouTube, and some Chinese video portals) you could pin as mixed reality windows. This involves some tradeoffs, of course. Bad software can be fixed after release, unlike bad hardware.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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