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Windows 11 Launched: Brings brand new user interface and a new set features
On June 24, 2021, Microsoft announced a brand new version of the Windows operating system, Windows 11. This major software upgrade brings a brand new user interface and lots of new additions.
So, without further ado, let’s explore the new feature of Windows 11.
Start Menu in Center:
Windows 11 comes with a redesigned and rebuilt start menu and puts it in the middle of the task by default. there are also quick access app icons and more available in the bottom row.
New layouts for Multi-Tasking:
With the new Snap Layout, Snap Groups, and Desktops, users can multitask and stay on top of their desired tasks. these features designed to help you organize your Windows and optimize the on-screen experience.
You can also create separate Desktops for different use cases and customize them such as – Desktop for work, gaming, or school.
Connect with ease and on a blink:
You can now use the new Chat app from Microsft Teams directly from the taskbar, it allows you to text, chat, voice, or video with all of your personal contacts, anywhere, no matter the platform or device they’re on, across Windows, Android or iOS.
This new feature also works son devices that don’t even have the Teams app and can connect via two-way SMS.
Gaming With Performance:
With Windows 11, you can take the gaming performance to the next level, the Windows platform currently hosts hundreds of millions of people around the world and it would be better if gamers get more convenient while accessing new games.
Windows 11 unlocks the full potential of your system’s hardware, this comes with the inclusion of gaming technologies such as DirectX 12 Ultimate, which can enable breathtaking, immersive graphics at high frame rates; DirectStorage for faster load times and more detailed game worlds; and Auto HDR for a wider, more vivid range of colors for a truly captivating visual experience.
The Xbox Game Pass for PC or Ultimate, gamers get access to over 100 high-quality PC games with new games added all the time.
Widgets:
The new Widgets system in Windows 11 brings personalized feed powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Microsoft Edge browser. The new widget allows you to access regular feeds including news, weather, and notifications from the side panel.
Once you open your personalized feed it slides across your screen similar to a sheet of glass so it doesn’t interrupt your current task.
Windows Store:
Hm… in the past version, Windows Store has been one of the major disappointing moments of the Windows operating system, but the company has redesigned it in Windows 11.
The new Microsoft Store is your single trusted location for apps and content to watch, create, play, work, and learn. it’s been rebuilt for speed and with an all-new design that is beautiful and simple to use.
The new Windows Store brings you more apps than ever before, making content including – apps, games, shows, movies easier to search for and discover with curated stories and collections.
The platform will soon be joined by first and third-party apps including Microsoft Teams, Visual Studio, Disney+ Adobe Creative Cloud, Zoom, and Canva to the Microsoft Store – all offering new experiences for the consumers.
Furthermore, Microsoft also announced to bring Android apps to Windows for the first time. Starting later this year, people will be able to discover Android apps in the Microsoft Store and download them through the Amazon Appstore including different applications right away from your PC.
Windows Upgrade and Availability:
Upgrade to Windows 11 will be like taking a Windows 10 update. The familiar management experiences you have in place – like Microsoft Endpoint Manager, cloud configuration, Windows Update for Business, and Autopilot.
Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs beginning this holiday. To check if your current Windows 10 PC is eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 11, visit Windows.com to download the PC Health Check app.
The free upgrade will begin to roll out to eligible Windows 10 PCs this holiday and continuing into 2022. And next week, we’ll begin to share an early build of Windows 11 to the Windows Insider Program.
Windows 11 Trailer:
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
