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Microsoft Tests Hidden Windows XP Feature in Windows 11: What to Know

A familiar Windows XP feature could be making a comeback in Windows 11, giving users another way to navigate multiple open windows.

A newly discovered Windows 11 setting offers a compact list of window titles as an alternative to taskbar thumbnail previews, resembling functionality found in Microsoft’s decades-old operating system. The same experimental builds also contain controls that could let users locate or manage their Android phones directly from Windows.

Both features remain hidden in experimental Windows 11 builds, and Microsoft has not announced a public release. The discoveries nevertheless offer a glimpse of how the company could simplify everyday PC tasks.

Windows 11 tests a taskbar feature similar to Windows XP

According to an Oct. 7 report from Windows Latest, the publication tested a setting called “Show taskbar previews as” in experimental builds of Windows 11.

The setting offers two display options:

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Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions

Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind. Vesta has

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Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water

Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The company announced it on Thursday as a long-term

micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents

AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through micro1’s Company Data Partnerships programme. The company uses de-identified

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Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science

Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya Nadella got the National Medal of Technology and

Windows 11 tests a taskbar feature similar to Windows XP

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Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions

Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water

micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents

Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science