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Your Microsoft Weekly recap, relive Windows 95 on Windows 11, Notepad with tabs leaks online

Sunday, Dec 25. Happy Christmas, or Happy Holidays to all! We hope you are having a fun time, meanwhile here's a recap of our most recent news, as well as the Microsoft Weekly, we hope you take a look!

I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year, see you in 2023! Have a good one! Cheers, Steve.

The latest Stardock WindowBlinds 11 update is here and it allows users to customize Windows 10 and Windows 11 in the style of the classic Windows 95. This is thanks to an all-new skin.

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers a quieter week where we learned about a couple more Windows bugs along with a few patches, a fine on Microsoft Bing, and some Teams and Excel updates.

When prompted to allow notifications, sometimes you accidentally click yes! Now you have notifications popping up! Join us in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to see how to block those pesky sites!

Software updates

In this part of the "Top 10 changes and features people want" series, we take a closer look at the gaming-related things people want Microsoft to address in its operating systems.

One of the recent cumulative updates for Windows 11 introduced a redesigned pill-shaped Search button on the taskbar. Not everyone is a fan of this change, so here is how to restore the old variant.

Here is your chance to upgrade your Windows 10 and 11 setups with a bunch of must-have utilities. Start11, Groupy, Multiplicity, and other popular software from Stardock are now up to 50% off.

From the Forums

This weekend's PC game deals include the ongoing daily freebies as well as the beginning of the winter deals that have blown in from all over, discounting almost every game you could think of.

The Epic Games Store's free game for Christmas has turned out to be a copy of Death Stranding Director's Cut, the Kojima Productions-developed post-apocalyptic exploration-focused action game.

For Christmas 2022, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 14TB, 16TB, 18TB, 20TB, CMR hard disk drives (HDDs) from Seagate and WD are selling for the cheapest prices ever. These are great for NAS and Plex usage.

This week's deals

Unpublished deals

We have a number of launches this week. Most notably, SpaceX will be launching the first batch of Starlink Block v2 satellites. They are larger and more capable than their predecessors.

Despite Microsoft's warning, a Microsoft employee recently leaked a new version of Notepad on Twitter. Thankfully, we managed to get to know about the upcoming capability before it was deleted.

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