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Are you ready for Windows 11 to get even better? Have you ever felt like being a PC user meant certain…compromises? You see ads for seemingly magical features from the likes of Apple or Google — things like pulling text straight out of images, or searching for objects in pictures — and feel left out in the cold? We’ve got good news: Microsoft keeps improving Windows 11, and the company’s latest updates to the operating system are worth catching up on. Admittedly, most of these new features are already available on flagship smartphones. But gaining access to them on work PCs and personal laptops is a pretty big deal. Snipping Tool Gets a Whole Lot Smarter First up is the Snipping Tool. With this tool, which has been a part of the last few generations of Windows, you can easily take a screenshot of your entire screen, or just select a smaller portion of the screen and “snip” it into a static image. Microsoft has implemented some AI-powered and machine learning tech to make those static i...

And breathe… the “file too large to send” problem is over It’s 2023. And yet many of us are still running into 1990s-era email problems. And there’s one incredibly frustrating issue that Microsoft hasn’t helped us all that much across Outlook or Microsoft 365 — yet. We’re talking about that obnoxious error you run into some of the time when you try to send an email with an attachment. It’s the dreaded “file too large to send” message. A Problem That’s Been Around a While It’s a little hard to believe how long this has been an unsolved issue. Sure, email providers have gradually raised the attachment file size limit. But it’s still far too low to account for every use case. Somehow we’re living in an age of streaming everything and cloud dominance — even Microsoft is pushing us all to the cloud with Microsoft 365 and OneDrive. But our email systems still can’t even handle a measly PDF if there are too many pictures in it. Frankly, it’s a ridiculous problem. And thankfully, Microsoft ag...