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May 23 Since Microsoft moved the Edge browser to the Chromium kernel, there have been more and more similarities between the Edge browser and the Google Chrome browser.

According to the foreign media Windows Latest report, in the Chromium submission, Microsoft has confirmed that it will bring further integration with Win10 audio for the two browsers .

Anyone who knows a little about Windows knows that there is a volume synthesizer function in the system. When the user turns it on, the volume of an application can be adjusted individually. Microsoft has promised to support volume synthesizers for every tab of the Edge browser and Chrome browser . In other words, if the user plays multiple audios in the browser, they will be able to control the volume of each tab individually, rather than simply mute it.

Many people may find it useless. After all, people generally don't play two audios at the same time on the browser. However, Microsoft and Google in the promotion PWA application, their intentions may want to make use PWA to get more experience similar to native applications .

Microsoft has confirmed that they won't release Windows 10X in 2021 and may never come.

John Cable, Microsoft's head of Windows distribution and services, confirmed Tuesday that Windows 10X won't launch in 2021. Cable instead shared plans that Microsoft will combine features functionality from one operating system to other parts of Windows.

"Instead of bringing a product called Windows 10X to market in 2021 as originally intended, we are taking the lessons from our journey to date and accelerating the integration of 10X's technology." into other parts of Windows and products at the company," Cable wrote.

Cable said that Windows "realized that Windows 10X's technology could be useful in more ways and serve more customers than we initially imagined." Therefore, Microsoft has decided not to limit the technology to only a small group of customers.

Microsoft announced the Windows 10X operating system in 2019 alongside dual-screen devices like the Surface Neo. It is considered an evolution of the iconic operating system with simplified design and features.

The new update to the Windows 10 operating system focuses on quality instead of adding features. From May 18, Microsoft started sending Windows 10 updates to users. This time, it does not bring many new features but focuses on improving quality.

The company maintains a more conservative approach to Windows, which contributes about 14% of revenue. With more than 1.3 billion devices running Windows 10, it remained the world's most popular desktop operating system in April, with a 59% market share, according to NetMarketShare data. After the introduction of Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft spent the last few years adding new tools such as 3D image sketches, filters, etc. There are two upgrades each year, while Apple's MacOS and Google Android only have one .

Microsoft slowed down development in 2019 when it released a normal update in the first half of this year and the next version in the second half of the year focusing on performance. In 2020, when it officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Microsoft repeated this strategy. The May Update (21H1) is also quality-centric.

According to Product Manager Panos Panay, in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic forcing people to work and study remotely, the time using Windows 10 per month increased by 75% compared to 2019. Microsoft also recorded growth. unusual in sales of Windows 10 for personal computers in the last 4 quarters.

Some of the changes in 21H1 include: when computers with more than one camera can use the Windows Hello feature to log in with facial recognition, Windows will set the external camera as default; Edge browser only has a Chromium-based version and removes the original version.

Windows 10 users can check if an update is available by going to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Check for Updates.

The idea will be released this year to confront Chrome OS and Chromebook, but new reports show that Microsoft has stopped developing Windows 10X. For the past 10 years, Microsoft has been trying to build a lighter version of Windows, but all of it has failed. And their latest attempt, Windows 10X - supposed to go head-to-head with Chrome OS - seems to be slipping again, rather than rolling out as expected.

According to a new report from Petri, the Windows 10X operating system won't launch this year and may never even appear in its current form. Earlier many rumors said, Windows 10X, a shortened version of Windows 10, will be intended for dual-screen devices like the Surface Neo. But when the pandemic struck, Microsoft decided to prioritize the platform for single-screen laptops.

Microsoft appears to have shifted its focus to modernizing Windows 10, with many of the graphical elements intended to be used for Windows 10X, the report says. It is expected that these changes will appear later this year through the Sun Valley update of Windows 10.

Introduced in 2019, Windows 10X is seen as Microsoft's answer to Chrome OS and Chromebooks devices. This is a cloud operating system, compactly designed around the OneDrive app - almost similar to Chrome OS. This platform allows Microsoft to enter the low-cost laptop market, where Chromebooks dominate. However, the pandemic changed everything. Despite global chip shortages, the PC market has remained its strongest growth in recent years as demand for regular laptops has skyrocketed. Windows licensing revenue from PC manufacturers increased by 10%, while on the consumer side by 44%, and there are 1.3 billion Windows 10 computers currently active.

That led Microsoft to decide to focus on improving the Windows core rather than shipping a new version. The company is planning to overhaul the entire Windows 10 interface with new and redesigned icons.

It's not clear if this is the complete end of Microsoft's decade-long effort to simplify Windows. Since 2012, Windows RT was introduced for hybrid computers, and then Windows 10 S appeared in 2017. Both failed to simplify Windows. While Windows 10X appears to be the version closest to this goal, it seems to have been dead since it was barely released.

Microsoft is about to refresh all the icons that date back to its Windows 95 era. Since Windows 10, the software giant has been slowly improving the icons they use, as part of a "comprehensive visual rejuvenation" plan rolling out later this year.

Since March, a number of new icons in the system have also appeared in the File Explorer software, folders, Recycle Bin, drive icons and many other applications. Now Microsoft also wants to completely replace the old icons from the Windows 95 era, sometimes you still see in Windows 10.

The Windows Latest page recently discovered new icons for hibernation, network connections, memory, floppy drives and many more that are part of shell32.dll files in Windows 10 versions. before. DLLs are an important part of the Windows Shell, used to display icons in various dialogs across the operating system.

It's also a key reason why Windows icons have been inconsistent over the years. Usually Microsoft will modernize other parts of the operating system, while Windows 95-era icons are thrown into a dialog box accessible via shell32.dll. Hopefully this doesn't mean that one day Microsoft will ask you to use a floppy drive to boot Windows 10. The era of Windows associated with these ancient icons is over a decade ago.

Improving consistency in Windows is also part of an effort to completely revamp the design of Windows 10 with the Sun Valley edition. These display changes are expected to appear in Windows 10 21H2 update coming October of this year. Microsoft has not officially announced this process in its Sun Valley update, but a recruitment post earlier this year revealed a "full visual rejuvenation of Windows."

Chances are during Microsoft's Developer Build Conference later this month, we'll get to know more about these changes.

4-year-old Pakistani Arish Fatima makes history by becoming the youngest person to win the Microsoft Certified Professional (Microsoft Certified Professional) - a certification for IT professionals and developers to authenticate professionally. their technical subjects.

The Pakistani government announced this on its Twitter page last Friday. Arish achieved this astonishing feat with a score of 831 on the Microsoft Certified Professional exam, while the minimum score to pass the exam is 700.



With this achievement, Arish Fatima broke the world record for becoming the youngest person to receive this certification from Microsoft.

Notably, Mr. Osama, Arish's father is also an IT expert and also passed this exam at a very young age. He said that while working from home during the Covid pandemic blockade, Osama discovered that his daughter was very interested in IT and helped her with this test.

Her parents believe that her daughter is very talented and has special abilities.