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Live Tiles, introduced in Windows Phone 7 (2010), are UI elements acting both as app shortcuts & dynamic information feeds. Part of Microsoft’s Metro UI, they were later added to desktop Windows in Windows 8 (2012). Kept in Windows 10, they were deprecated in Windows 11 (2021). #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsPhone7 #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10 #Windows11 #LiveTiles #Metro
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Windows 98 build 1400, from February 1997, introduced a Show Desktop button in the bottom right of the desktop. Removed shortly after, it would be tested again in early builds of Windows 2000. However, it didn’t make a final release of Windows until Windows 7 in 2009. 🤯 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows2000 #WindowsCE #Windows7
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Windows 98 build 1400, from February 1997, introduced a Show Desktop button in the bottom right of the desktop. Removed shortly after, it would be tested again in early builds of Windows 2000. However, it didn’t make a final release of Windows until Windows 7 in 2009. 🤯 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows2000 #WindowsCE #Windows7
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Windows 98 build 1400, from February 1997, introduced a Show Desktop button in the bottom right of the desktop. Removed shortly after, it would be tested again in early builds of Windows 2000. However, it didn’t make a final release of Windows until Windows 7 in 2009. 🤯 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows2000 #WindowsCE #Windows7
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Windows 98 build 1400, from February 1997, introduced a Show Desktop button in the bottom right of the desktop. Removed shortly after, it would be tested again in early builds of Windows 2000. However, it didn’t make a final release of Windows until Windows 7 in 2009. 🤯 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows2000 #WindowsCE #Windows7
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Windows 98 build 1400, from February 1997, introduced a Show Desktop button in the bottom right of the desktop. Removed shortly after, it would be tested again in early builds of Windows 2000. However, it didn’t make a final release of Windows until Windows 7 in 2009. 🤯 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows2000 #WindowsCE #Windows7
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The original release of Windows 10 (2015) had a hidden surprise for fans of Windows 8’s (2012) Start screen. With seemingly no-one on the Windows 10 dev team tasked with removing the underlying code, a simple hack allowed it to be reactivated in (almost) all its former glory. 😎 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10
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The original release of Windows 10 (2015) had a hidden surprise for fans of Windows 8’s (2012) Start screen. With seemingly no-one on the Windows 10 dev team tasked with removing the underlying code, a simple hack allowed it to be reactivated in (almost) all its former glory. 😎 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10
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The original release of Windows 10 (2015) had a hidden surprise for fans of Windows 8’s (2012) Start screen. With seemingly no-one on the Windows 10 dev team tasked with removing the underlying code, a simple hack allowed it to be reactivated in (almost) all its former glory. 😎 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10
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The original release of Windows 10 (2015) had a hidden surprise for fans of Windows 8’s (2012) Start screen. With seemingly no-one on the Windows 10 dev team tasked with removing the underlying code, a simple hack allowed it to be reactivated in (almost) all its former glory. 😎 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10
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The original release of Windows 10 (2015) had a hidden surprise for fans of Windows 8’s (2012) Start screen. With seemingly no-one on the Windows 10 dev team tasked with removing the underlying code, a simple hack allowed it to be reactivated in (almost) all its former glory. 😎 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10
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Windows Vista (2006) added a search box to the Start menu. This let users type to search instantly on opening the menu. Previously, users needed to click a Search option within Start to launch the Search UI first. Typing to search in Start still exists as of Windows 11 (2021). #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsVista
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BREAKING: I lasted 5 months without the Start menu in Windows 8. 💪 Thanks, Facebook memories! 🤣 #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81
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Windows 8 (2012) introduced accent colours - colour schemes that could be applied to its new, touch-optimised UI, such as the Start screen. Accent colours would return in Windows 10 (2015), where they were applied to the desktop. This remains the case in Windows 11 (2021). 🎨🖌️ #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81 #Windows10 #Windows11
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Here, Windows 8 tutorial, I fixed it for you: #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8 #Windows81
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Plug & Play, introduced in Windows 95 (1995), was a standard that allowed the automatic detection & installation of drivers for the system’s hardware on boot, or for peripherals when connected by the user. This negated the need for users to do so manually, saving time & know-how. #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows95 #PlugAndPlay
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With Windows 3.1 (1992) came a new Windows logo. Commissioned by Microsoft Senior Vice President & Product Manager for Windows at the time, @[email protected] - who described it as “a window with cool motion effects” - it was designed by Jeff Boettcher, Jonathan Cowles & Julie Wong. #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows31
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“Your name is Windows. Why are you using a flag?” That’s what graphic designer Paula Scher asked when Microsoft approached her to design a new Windows logo. Paula took the logo back to its roots, with clean lines, shapes & one colour. It launched with Windows 8 in 2012. #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows8
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Windows 3.1 build 43e, from 27th August 1991, features a unique, early variant of the Windows logo that would eventually be introduced in the final release of 3.1 (1992). This variant would be replaced with the final version of the logo by build 60, from 4th December 1991. 🪟 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows31
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Windows Vista build 5001, from September 2004, was one of the 1st Vista builds compiled after its infamous “development reset”. Identifying itself as Windows LH, it reuses XP’s Bliss wallpaper, with a Longhorn bull (badly) edited in - a reference to Vista’s codename, Longhorn. 🐂 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsXP #WindowsVista #WindowsLonghorn #Longhorn
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Something’s missing… 🧐 #Microsoft #Windows #Windows98 #Windows98SE
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If Windows ever had an identity crisis, it was Windows NT 3.1 build 196. Compiled in September 1991, the CD for this build featured 3 different logos, & the build itself identifies in various places as either NT 1, NT 32-bit Windows, NT-386, NT Windows or Windows NT Version 3. 😵💫 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsNT #WindowsNT31
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If Windows ever had an identity crisis, it was Windows NT 3.1 build 196. Compiled in September 1991, the CD for this build featured 3 different logos, & the build itself identifies in various places as either NT 1, NT 32-bit Windows, NT-386, NT Windows or Windows NT Version 3. 😵💫 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsNT #WindowsNT31
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If Windows ever had an identity crisis, it was Windows NT 3.1 build 196. Compiled in September 1991, the CD for this build featured 3 different logos, & the build itself identifies in various places as either NT 1, NT 32-bit Windows, NT-386, NT Windows or Windows NT Version 3. 😵💫 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsNT #WindowsNT31
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If Windows ever had an identity crisis, it was Windows NT 3.1 build 196. Compiled in September 1991, the CD for this build featured 3 different logos, & the build itself identifies in various places as either NT 1, NT 32-bit Windows, NT-386, NT Windows or Windows NT Version 3. 😵💫 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsNT #WindowsNT31
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If Windows ever had an identity crisis, it was Windows NT 3.1 build 196. Compiled in September 1991, the CD for this build featured 3 different logos, & the build itself identifies in various places as either NT 1, NT 32-bit Windows, NT-386, NT Windows or Windows NT Version 3. 😵💫 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsNT #WindowsNT31
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🔴 Reminders ON - this month’s live stream will be on Friday 27th January @ 9pm GMT! I’ll be attempting to play some XP/Vista-era games on Vista (Codename ‘Longhorn’) build 4074 - probably the most famous development build of Vista. 🎮 See you then! 😎👉 https://youtu.be/I5qW5wD7Vpw #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsVista #WindowsLonghorn #Longhorn
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On 15th February 1999, fans of Linux - & other non-Windows OSes - gathered at Microsoft HQ in Washington to demonstrate against the company’s monopoly in the OS market, seeking refunds for the Windows licenses they’d acquired with new PCs. It became known as Windows Refund Day. #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #WindowsRefundDay
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Windows 95 (1995) introduced a new Windows UI, retroactively known as Windows Classic. It was inspired by the UI of NeXT’s NeXTSTEP operating system. Similarly to Windows 3.1 (1992), it came with a selection of colour schemes (27 in total). Which is/was your favourite? 👀 #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows95
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Starting in March 1995, users in the UK or US could join the Windows 95 Preview Program. For £/$19.95, they received news & info on the OS, plus a set of 3.5" floppy disks containing Windows 95 Beta 3 (build 347). The beta expired 3 months after 95's August 1995 release. #DailyWindowsFact #Microsoft #Windows #Windows95