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The Full Windows 95 Launch Event Video Is Finally Online: Here Are the Best and Worst Moments

Gizmodo

I want to thank whatever stars aligned that surfaced this video of the Windows 95 launch event in my algorithm. While clips from the presentation have floated around online for decades, the full 90-minute keynote has been harder to track down. Uploaded this week by the angels over at the Blue OS Museum YouTube account … Read more.

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Microsoft Teases Its Windows 11 Event With 11-Minute Video of Startup Sounds

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As we wait to hear more about the next big update for Windows, Microsoft just teased the upcoming launch event with a medley of various startup sounds. The melodies for Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows 7 have all been slowed down and linked together to form an 11-minute “slo-fi” experience.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer users may be surprised when they get redirected to Edge next month

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Microsoft has been slowly weaning users off its legacy Internet Explorer browser for a very long time , recently going so far as to use a forced Windows update to install its new Chromium Edge browser on your Windows PC.

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

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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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How to watch videos with friends online

The Verge

These extensions work on top of your existing subscription to sync the videos with your friends — they don’t provide non-subscribers with a free viewing. Open up Netflix and start playing a video. A window will pop up instructing you to “Create a Netflix Party.” Another window will pop up with a link. Netflix Party.

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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more

The Verge

You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Microsoft didn’t kill Skype, but Windows 11 is shoving it out of sight

The Verge

Today’s Windows 11 news is all about where Microsoft sees computing going over the next few years, but it’s just as much the story of how Skype has flourished and ebbed since its $8.5 Instead, Microsoft Teams gets a highlight spot in the new center-aligned taskbar and deep integration into Windows. Windows 11 taskbar - Teams.

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