• Windows Live Mail (formerly named Windows Live Mail Desktop, code-named Elroy) is a discontinued freeware email client from Microsoft. It was the successor...
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  • Windows Search (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a content index and desktop search platform by Microsoft...
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  • Mail (later Microsoft Outlook) was an email client developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. It is available...
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  • Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It...
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  • premium subscription. Another alternative for users is to use the Windows Live Mail desktop client, which had built-in support for Hotmail. Post Office Protocol...
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    different desktop environments have become popular among users. A window manager controls the placement and appearance of application windows. This may...
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    and a panel with a windows list at the bottom of the screen that lets users quickly minimize and restore open windows, a "Show Desktop" button in the bottom...
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  • The Windows shell is the graphical user interface for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its readily identifiable elements consist of the desktop, the...
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  • improvements, Windows 8.1 was still criticized for not addressing all issues of Windows 8 (such as poor integration between Metro-style apps and the desktop interface)...
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  • the desktop in place of the regular static wallpaper. A leaked build had version number 4.10.999 (in comparison to Windows 95's 4.00.950, Windows 95 OSR2's...
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  • Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available...
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  • New features of Windows Vista include a graphical user interface and visual style referred to as Windows Aero; a content index and desktop search platform...
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    advantage over the use of a desktop email client is the ability to send and receive email anywhere from a web browser. The first Web Mail implementation was developed...
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  • Pass. In April 2024, Proton Mail launched a desktop app for Windows and macOS. A version for Linux is in beta. The desktop client is only available for...
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  • successors, which were Windows 98 and Windows 2000, respectively. The Windows Desktop Update included features such as Active Desktop and tight IE4 integration...
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  • desktop wallpaper and single window navigation in Windows Explorer. In 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98, which also included the Windows Desktop Update...
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  • the desktop environment. A fundamental part of a DE is the window manager or WM. A window manager creates a certain way for application windows to present...
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  • Apple's iOS has 28%. For desktop computers and laptops, Microsoft Windows has 73%, followed by Apple's macOS at 15%, desktop Linux at 4.5%, then Google's...
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  • Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...
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  • the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system...
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  • taskbar and desktop. The application was renamed from "Windows Explorer" to "File Explorer" in Windows 8; however, the old name of "Windows Explorer" can...
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    workspaces for grouping windows, desktop icons, wallpaper, an ability to keep select windows in foreground, the ability to "roll up" windows to show only their...
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  • currently not the case. The gadgets and the Windows desktop Sidebar were a hallmark feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7 editions of the operating system. Subsequently...
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  • Windows SideShow (codenamed Auxiliary Display) was a feature by Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista to supply information such as e-mail, instant messages...
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    Sticky Notes is a desktop notes application included in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. The app loads quickly and enables...
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    including web browser history, e-mail archives, text documents, sound files, images, and video. A variety of desktop search programs are now available;...
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    mainly for windowing systems based on X11 and Wayland, it works on other platforms, including Microsoft Windows (interfaced with the Windows API), and...
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  • newsreaders "Opera 12 and Opera Mail security update". 2016-02-16. Opera Desktop Team – Opera Mail Opera 10 Beta 1 for Windows Changelog, published on July...
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    DeskSet productivity tools, including mail and calendar clients, from its OpenWindows environment. USL provided desktop manager components and scalable systems...
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  • Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became...
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