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In Microsoft Corporation: Windows evolution: XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (and 8, 9, 10, and 11)
In 2012 the company released Windows 8, which offered a start screen with applications appearing as tiles on a grid. Windows 10, released in 2015, featured Cortana, a digital personal assistant capable of responding to voice commands (as did the iPhone’s Siri), and a new Web browser, Microsoft Edge, which…
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Windows 8 in 2012 offered a start screen with applications appearing as tiles on a grid and the ability to synchronize settings so users could log on to another Windows 8 machine and use their preferred settings. In 2015 Microsoft released Windows 10, which came…
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