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The "e" in email stands for. Pinned app buttons they're larger than icons but smaller than Windows 10's tiles are at the top of its panel. Recent and frequent apps and documents are in a section below them. Another quibble I have with the new Start menu is that it's harder to get to the All Apps view than in Windows With that version of Windows, you can see all installed apps as soon as you open the Start menu; they're in a list on the left while tiles for your pinned apps are on the right.

The New button at the top left works for new folders or documents supported by your apps, and the same viewing options list, details, differently sized icons for files are available. The overflow menu offers file compression, selection, and Properties options, as well as the old Folder Options dialog. The right-click context menus, which have grown longer and longer over the years, get shorter, smarter, and clearer in Windows They now show only the most often-needed options.

Windows 11 has a new Widget panel, which shows you tiles for news, weather, stock quotes, sports scores, and more. To see the same info in Windows 11, you have to click on the Widgets icon in the Taskbar. Touch screen users can easily swipe in from the left to open them and you can full-screen the widget panel if you want a bigger view. An Entertainment widget surfaces new movies and TV shows, and the Family widget is good for those who use Microsoft Family Safety parental controls tools.

For more, read How to Use Widgets in Windows Microsoft has split the Windows 10 Action Center into two separate panels and tap targets. I appreciate the circled number—similar to those on some mobile app icons—that shows how many notifications you have.

Touch users can swipe in from the right to display the Notifications panel. The Quick Settings panel opens when you click on or tap the Wi-Fi, speaker, or battery icon. By default, it shows buttons for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, Battery Saver, Focus Assist, and Accessibility, along with sliders for audio volume and screen brightness.

You can still hover over each of the three icons in the Taskbar to see their status, but I prefer to have just sound settings pop up when I hit the speaker and just Wi-Fi options to appear when I hit the Wi-Fi icon.

One of the more irksome things about Windows 10 is its inconsistent settings windows and dialogs. Sometimes you uninstall a program in the new Settings app, sometimes in the antiquated Control Panel. That inconsistency goes away in Windows 11— almost entirely. For some detailed controls, such as sound devices, you still see the content in the old style, though the window uses the new design.

Dark mode can now hold its head up proudly when compared with that of macOS. You can still change system sounds in Settings, but the new Windows 11 default set of sounds is slick, quick, and modern.

You get to this tool by hovering the cursor over the maximize button at the top right of any window—this seems a bit hidden to me, and I hope and expect Microsoft surfaces the capability more somehow. When you do hover over the maximize button, you see a choice of layouts—two windows side-by-side, three with one large and two small, and so on as shown below.

Snap Layouts appear as options in the Taskbar, so that you can either open the group of apps or the single app. You also see layouts preserved when you open a group of apps on an external monitor multiple times. Windows still offers multiple virtual desktops, something I find incredibly useful for separating work apps and websites from personal ones. With Windows 11, you can now use a four-finger swipe to move back and forth, something Mac users have long enjoyed, though only via trackpad rather than right on the screen.

Also new is the ability to set different desktop backgrounds aka wallpapers for each desktop. This move makes sense in some ways: With the increasing importance of virtual meetings, maybe Microsoft can grab some of that videoconferencing market.

Teams grew phenomenally during the COVID pandemic, from 20 million to million active users, but it remains unclear as to if it can become as ubiquitous as Microsoft would like. Skype remains an excellent, highly capable communication tool, nevertheless. But maybe once Window 11 becomes the dominant version, the operating system's ubiquity will accelerate Teams chat's adoption.

To get started, click the chat icon. A welcome experience prompts you to grant the app access to your Microsoft account and its contacts. When you subsequently tap the icon after this initial setup, you see a list of all your contacts. Click on one to start a chat. Your contacts are likely not using Teams chat yet, so the app sends along an invite to join Teams it's free for personal use along with that first message.

One strange thing about the interface is that, once you're in a video chat, you see a second Taskbar icon for Teams along with the centered chat icon; this seems like an unnecessary duplication to me. A killer feature of Windows 11's Teams app , though, is that it lets you converse from your PC with anyone with a cellphone via SMS—for free!

With a press of the Windows Key-Shift-S keyboard shortcut, it let you select an area either rectangular or free-form , a window, or the entire screen and snap a screenshot that you could paste from the clipboard or open in an image editor. Windows 11 instead has a new Snipping Tool. It's named after an earlier, less functional screenshot tool that had been a fan favorite among Windows enthusiasts.

The Snipping Tool adds an optional timer delay before it takes a screenshot. There remain other ways to take screenshots in Windows 11, including using the tried-and-true PrtSc key, the Game Bar, third-party screenshot utilities, and so forth. Read my article How to Take Screenshots in Windows 11 for all the details. Windows 11, unfortunately, ditches a couple of its best tablet- and touch-friendly features. Plus, AR is gonna be huge.

Windows isn't for the gamer or the casual surfer, but if you have a yen for speed, stability, and some serious server tools, this business-class OS will do you right. With lots of new features, the LG Watch Sport and Style are the first to use the new software -- and it's promising. Android 9. Here's what you can expect when it comes to yours. Nokia sure tried hard to give us something new, but its mashup of Android, Windows Phone, and Asha gives its Nokia X phone limited powers and a nagging identity crisis.

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