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Five things that need improving in Windows 11 - New Surface gear - Nvidia unlaunches RTX 4080 12GB

Sunday, Oct 16. Hello everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! This week saw Microsoft Ignite and the launch of new Surface gear. NVIDIA also launched the RTX 4000 series, and we've posted some guides, I hope you check them out. Have a good one! —Steve

In this Specs Appeal article, we look at the difference in specifications between the RTX 4000 Series (4090 and 4080) and their predecessors from the RTX 3000 and the RTX 2000 line-ups.

Let's forget for a moment about the crippled taskbar in Windows 11 and talk about the five changes I think Microsoft needs to implement to make Windows 11's UI better and more consistent.

Software updates

Have you ever wanted to use something like private browsing, but you also want access to your history and your cookies? Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to find out how?

This was a very busy week in the world of Microsoft due to not one, but two events taking place. We have lots to unpack including announcements about Ignite, Surface and some Patch Tuesday goodness.

It's a quiet week in rocket launches this week, but one interesting note is that OneWeb is going to be orbiting its satellites with the help of an Indian company instead of using Russian rockets.

From the Forums

Click the link to view all our articles surrounding the event that took place between October 12 - 14 earlier this week. We have all the details including how Microsoft abandoned the Office branding in favor of rebranding the suite which includes Word, Excel and Outlook to Microsoft 365.

Click the link to view all our coverage on the new Surface devices that were announced, as well as a bunch of accessories, including assistive devices. There's also a new Surface Studio 2.5, which we suspect is not called 3 thanks to heavy use of previous generation technologies.

We've seen the popular game Doom running on calculators, pregnancy tests, and even Doom itself. A YouTuber is adding one more to the list by porting a working version of Doom to Notepad.

This week on Neowin deals

Bonus (unpublished) Deals

This weekend's PC game deals include a fighting games bundle, a collection with Double Fine titles, another two free events to try out, more giveaways from the Epic Games Store, and more.

NVIDIA threw somewhat of a curveball on Friday, telling fans it now plans to unlaunch the RTX 4080 12GB edition, because of confusing naming, but this left manufacturers with useless packaging.

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