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Live Tiles were first introduced in Windows 8. They do what their name implies, and display “live” information, such as weather and so forth.
[8] [9] [10] In Windows 11, Edge is the only browser available from Microsoft. First made available only for Android and iOS in 2017, [11] [12] in late 2018, Microsoft announced it would completely rebuild Edge as a Chromium-based [13] [14] browser with Blink and V8 engines, which allowed the browser to be ported from Windows 10 to macOS. [15]
Touch Keyboard: Windows 11 introduces thirteen new themes to customize the touch keyboard, including 3 hardware-matching themes that match the Surface keyboard colors. It also adds a new theme engine that allows the user to create a custom theme using background images. In addition, Windows 11 adds the ability to resize the touch keyboard.
Microsoft first introduced the EdgeHTML rendering engine as part of Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows Technical Preview build 9879 on November 12, 2014. [8] Microsoft planned to use EdgeHTML both in Internet Explorer and Project Spartan; in Internet Explorer it would exist alongside the Trident 7 engine from Internet Explorer 11, the latter being used for compatibility purposes.
A distinctive feature of the engine is that it JIT compiles scripts on a separate CPU core, parallel to the web browser. [1] [2] Though Microsoft has in the past pointed out that other elements, such as rendering and marshalling, are just as important for a browser's overall performance, [3] their improvements to the engine were in response to evolving competing browsers, compared to which IE8 ...
As of November 2024, Windows 11, accounting for 35% of Windows installations worldwide, [181] is the second most popular Windows version in use, with its predecessor Windows 10 still being the most used version in virtually all countries (with Guyana being an exception, where Windows 11 is the most used [182]), having over 2 times the market ...
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
In Windows NT family of operating systems, a Windows service is a dedicated background process. [5] A Windows service must conform to the interface rules and protocols of the Service Control Manager, the component responsible for managing Windows services. [6] Windows services can be configured to start when the operating system starts, and to ...