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The community has made it clear that they do not want AI in Windows and Microsoft has ignored them. So they have taken the law into their own hands

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Microsoft’s obsession with putting AI in every corner of Windows is logical at the current time (after all, it’s what everyone is doing). The problem is that the community has been very clear about this: they don’t want to. Microsoft has continued with its plan flood Windows 11 with AIbut we already have a way to avoid it. Winslop. The name comes from the play on words between Windows and Slop, which is the term used to refer to ‘AI garbage’, that is, very poor quality content. This is a free tool whose purpose is to eliminate all traces of AI from the system. Its creator makes it clear that he is not anti-Windows, in fact he states that he likes the platform, what he doesn’t like is the direction it is taking. CleanIA Windows. Winslop is totally free and you can download it from Github. The interface looks like old versions of Windows and consists of a list with all the changes that we can apply. There is an option that inspects the system and proposes the changes to be made, or we can check the boxes we want, depending on the level of cleaning we want. The list is quite long and is divided into categories, these are some of the functions we found: System: shows details if there is a blue screen instead of a sad face, optimizes system sensitivity, speeds up shutdown time… Microsoft Edge– makes it not the default browser, disables the Copilot icon, removes the shopping assistant, does not show sponsored links when opening a tab… Interface: Turn off transparency effects, hide taskbar search, turn off Bing search… gaming: Disables DVR recording, power throttling and visual effects. Privacy: disables activity history and location tracking Advertisements– Remove ads system-wide. AI– Hides Copilot from the taskbar and disables Windows Recall. Bloatware. There is more. Winslop is divided into three tabs: Windows 11, applications and extensions. From the apps section we can eliminate pre-installed applications such as Bing News, Bing Weather, WindowsCamera and many more. As in the other section, pressing the ‘Inspect System’ button gives us a list of suggestions to eliminate and we mark the ones we want. It’s not the first. Recently we told you about a tool that was born with the same objective (although with a name with less punch), RemoveWindowsAI. Like Winslop, it also disables all AI functions, but beyond its functions, the important thing is that its simple existence was already a symptom of community fatigue. The fact that another app has come out only confirms it. The PC IA. The obsession with turning Windows into an agentic system has collided head-on with what the community is asking for, to the point that Microsoft is losing favor with users. A year ago PCs with AI promised to be a revolutionbut they have come face to face with reality and even historical brands like Dell are changing their discourse. Microsoft is left alone. Image | Winslop In Xataka | There’s a reason AI PCs aren’t hurting Apple: Nobody asked for AI PCs

It has Windows, it is light and it already comes with a mouse

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HP has presented at CES 2026 in Las Vegas a product that tells us a lot about the trend toward miniaturization in technology. The product in question is the EliteBoard G1a, a computer that is integrated into a keyboard. Best of all, we are not talking about a futuristic concept or a prototype, but rather a functional device that the company will launch on the market in March of this year. A complete PC in keyboard format The EliteBoard G1a looks like a conventional office keyboard, but inside it houses all the components necessary to function as a personal computer: processor AMD Ryzen AI of the 300 series, RAM memory, storage, fan, stereo speakers and connection ports. Simply connect it to a monitor using USB-Cturn on the included and factory-paired Bluetooth mouse, and the device is ready to go. The idea of ​​integrating a computer into a keyboard it’s not completely new. He Commodore 64 popularized this format in the 80s, and more recently Raspberry Pi has marketed models such as the Pi 400 and the Pi 500although the latter are aimed at a more technical audience and work with Linux operating systems. The main difference of the EliteBoard compared to these alternatives is that HP is committed to Windows 11 Pro for business and more powerful x86 processorsmaking it a more accessible and familiar option for professional environments that do not require advanced technical knowledge. Configuration and specifications HP will offer the EliteBoard G1a in two versions: one with a fixed USB-C cable and another with a detachable cable. The first includes an additional USB4 port as compensation. Furthermore, both variants can power up to four 4K monitors at 60 Hz. In terms of processor options, users will be able to choose between models ranging from the Ryzen AI 5 350 to the Ryzen AI 7 370 Pro. The integrated NPU reaches up to 50 TOPS, which classifies the device as Copilot+ PC within the Microsoft program. The device supports configurations with up to 64 GB of DDR5 RAM in two SODIMM slots and up to 2TB of M.2 NVMe storage. Additionally, HP includes a 35 Wh internal battery as an option, which the company says provides around 3.5 hours of battery life. A fingerprint reader can also be added to expand login options. Design designed for mobility With a thickness of just 12 mm and a weight that ranges between 726 and 750 grams Depending on configuration, the EliteBoard G1a is significantly lighter and more compact than a traditional laptop. The keys have 2mm of travel, and HP claims the typing experience is “tuned for desktop space.” According to the company, the keyboard is spill-resistant and its modular design allows you to replace the top part in a few minutes. The bottom panel is removable for easy access to the cooling fan and other internal components. Who is it intended for? HP presents this product as a solution for hybrid work environments and shared spaces where employees do not have a fixed position assigned. The idea is to offer an ultra-portable device that can be quickly set up anywhere. “Work is being redesigned in real time: where it happens, how it happens, and what tools employees need to stay productive,” affirms Guayente Sanmartin, senior vice president of Business Systems and Display Solutions at HP. The company also argues that many workers use their laptops with the lid closed connected to external monitors. If you are a user who is going to have an external screen permanently connected, the truth is that it is a more than convenient solution in the use cases described. Price and availability The HP EliteBoard G1a will be launched in March 2026although the company has not yet confirmed the official price. We will have to wait to find out more information about it. Images | H.P. In Xataka | The computers of the future have found an unexpected ally to store information: fungi

It’s not underground, it’s in the recycling of your old windows

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Galicia has strived to demonstrate that the future of the industry is not found underground, extracting finite resources, but in the ability to rescue what we have already used. In a global context obsessed with decarbonization, the town of Coirós, in A Coruña, has hit the table to position itself as an “eternal” aluminum power. The great industrial milestone. According to the company itselfCortizo has invested 38 million euros in a new recycling plant designed to absorb aluminum waste and return it to the market as new material. It is not a typical storage warehouse; It is an area of ​​29,000 square meters where teams of operators, protected with aluminized suits to withstand radiant heat, supervise state-of-the-art smelting furnaces and crushing systems. After a period of testing this summer, the plant has officially started its activity and is now ready to reach its full operational capacity. It is the Galician response to the challenge of the scarcity of raw materials: stop depending on mining to trust in the efficiency of recycling. A vision with history. But to understand this movement it is necessary to look back. The general director of the firm, Raquel Cortizo, insists that this commitment to circularity is not a passing fad. According to the specialized media Retemathe company was already a pioneer in the 90s by launching its foundry in Padrón. At that time, when the concept of “circular economy” was barely mentioned, Cortizo already became the first company in Spain to close the complete production cycle. However, the current leap is on a different scale. The new facilities have the capacity to produce 100,000 tons of recycled aluminum billet per year. The environmental impact La Voz de Galicia summarizes it: This production volume will avoid emitting more than one and a half million tons of CO2 per year. To put it in perspective, the company estimates that it is equivalent to stop emitting the gases generated for a year by all tourism in the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra together. The choreography of recycling. The plant works with what is technically known as “post-consumer scrap”: from old windows and facades to bicycle wheels or tent structures that have ended their useful life. The process is divided into two critical phases: Precision classification: Each element is mechanically crushed and separated until pure aluminum is obtained. Smelting and rebirth: The metal is melted to become the billet Infinity. This product comes in cylinders seven meters long. The most astonishing thing is its environmental footprint: its manufacturing consumes 95% less energy than obtaining primary aluminum. It is, in essence, a material that saves energy while being manufactured. Strengthening the Galician muscle The Coirós plant is the spearhead of a larger strategy. The company has invested 228 million euros in the community in the last five years alone. Projects like the Technological Campus wave expansion of its factories in Padrón They are now consolidated with this new center. The relevance of this “Galician aluminum” is already noticeable in homes throughout the country. The company points out, in one of his press releasesthe alliance with the developer Metrovacesa, which already installs these 100% recycled solutions in 14 housing developments in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Seville. It is the perfect cycle: the aluminum that is recovered from a renovation or scrapping returns to Coirós to end up supporting the windows of the new homes in the country. Towards an infinite industry? Galicia has found in aluminum a way to lead the ecological transition without giving up its manufacturing identity. The Coirós plant is proof that the industry can be clean, efficient and, above all, infinite. The message that comes out of these facilities is clear: in a throwaway world, Galicia has decided that nothing is lost and everything is transformed. Image | Cortizo Xataka | Europe is looking for where to put its first nuclear fusion reactor. And Spain is one of the best candidates

Windows is destroying even the cleanest and most minimalist thing it had because of AI: Notepad

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For a long time, Windows Notepad was a program frozen in time. It received specific adjustments, such as font compatibility, status bar, zoom or new encoding options, but deep down it was still the same as always, the one that many of us return to precisely because of what it doesn’t have. A type of software that stands out more for its simplicity than for everything it could offer. After all, when you need something more complete, there are always alternatives, free or paid. However, for some reason, Microsoft has decided that the time has come to transform Notepad into something much more ambitious. And for some of its users, this leap forward is experienced more as a renunciation of its essence than as a real improvement. AI integrated into Notepad. It is not entirely clear why it would make sense to incorporate artificial intelligence functions in this program. If we are going to write an email, it is normal to do so in its corresponding application or web service. And if we want to write a text with a little more depth, within the Microsoft ecosystem the usual thing is to open Word. Still, Microsoft recently announced that Notepad would have three integrated AI tools. Write, to generate text. Rewrite, to rewrite existing content. And Summarize, to summarize texts. To these is now added a new feature called Streaming results for AI text features. No, it has nothing to do with streaming platforms. This is an experimental feature that sends chunks of information continuously, rather than waiting for the entire response to be ready. Something similar to watching live content instead of downloading it completely before starting. Until now, when we used Notepad’s AI functions, such as Write, Rewrite or Summarize, the system processed the request and displayed the final result in one go. With this change, content begins to be generated and displayed on the screen immediately after clicking, making the first fragments of text appear almost instantly. The tables also arrive. Again, if the idea is to work with tables, we will most likely use an application designed specifically for this. But Microsoft believes that Notepad should also cover that ground, and that is why it is already testing this function among users of the Windows Insider program. “Now you can easily insert tables into your document to structure your notes,” the company explains. AI everywhere. What happens with Notepad is not an isolated case, but a fairly clear reflection of Microsoft’s strategy with artificial intelligence, which involves integrating it into practically everything. Your productivity applications already incorporate AI across the board, from Word and Excel to PowerPoint and OneNote, within Microsoft 365. The same is true for your business software, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365. And the list continues to grow. AI is also present in Windows 11, in Microsoft Edge and, of course, in Microsoft Bing. What path should you follow? The underlying question is which path Microsoft should follow from here. The expansion of Copilot It fully fits into its strategy at a time when artificial intelligence has become the great axis of technological discourse. There will be users who celebrate these new features and others who receive them with much less enthusiasm. Images | Microsoft In Xataka | Gemini 3 Flash has surpassed GPT-5.2 Extra High in several benchmarks: Google has just changed the rules of the lightweight model

People are so, so fed up with AI in Windows 11 that a developer has created an app to eliminate it

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A GitHub user named zoicware ended up so fed up with the presence of AI tools in Windows 11 that he ended up making a decision: eradicate them from the operating system. And since doing it by hand was hell, he came up with something that made his life easier and that can also make it easier for those who are in that situation: create an app called RemoveWindowsAI to remove all those functions. Enough with AI, Microsoft. The Redmond company wants Windows 11 to be full of AI, and for some time it has been adding more and more functions that allow you to take advantage of this technology natively both in the operating system and in some applications. We begin to see it with the controversial Windows Recallbut later that obsession was transferred to the native Copilot app, to Copilot integrated into Edge or to the Creator option of the legendary Paint application. Nobody asked for this. Pavan Davuluri, current president of the Windows division, published in X a message in which he explained that “Windows is evolving towards an agentic operating system.” Microsoft’s intention is clear, but the reception of the message was just the opposite of what the company would have expected: people simply You don’t want those AI options because you didn’t ask for them.. An app to leave Windows 11 without AI. A few months ago a GitHub user named zoicware published a unique project there called RemoveWindowsAI. In the tooltip this developer explains how “The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include more and more AI features and components. This script is aimed at removing ALL of those features to improve the user experience, as well as privacy and security.” What RemoveWindowsAI does. The script, which can be downloaded and then run as administrator from a PowerShell console, is responsible for removing the following components and functions: Disable Copilot Disable Recall Disable Input Insights and typed data collection Disable Copilot in Edge Disable Image Creator in Paint Remove AI Fabric Service Disable AI Actions Disable AI in Paint Disable Voice Access Disable AI Voice Effects Disable AI in Settings Search But there is still more. In addition to those actions, the script disables the reinstallation of packages related to AI features so that they are not offered again, hides those components in Windows 11 Settings, and also disables other features such as the new AI rewrite option in notepad. There are some AI features that cannot be removed with the script, but its creator also indicates how to get rid of them manually. Even a video of use. This developer also wanted to facilitate access to this tool adding documentation written and posting an 11 minute video in which he reviews the objective of the project and explains how to use it. bad signal. The criticism of Microsoft’s intention to turn Windows 11 into an operating system full of AI is clear, and this script is the latest demonstration of this. It does not seem that the company is going to reverse this trend. Mustafa Suleyman, head of the AI ​​division at Microsoft, explained in X I was amazed that people weren’t impressed by being able to talk to their PC calmly thanks to AI. “I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone!” he explained. Curiously, Elon Musk replied indicating that his argument seemed good to him. In Xataka | There’s a reason AI PCs aren’t hurting Apple: Nobody asked for AI PCs

Microsoft needs 500 million PCs to jump to Windows 11. Its new list of compatible CPUs does just the opposite

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Microsoft has a calendar problem and a communication problem. It’s been almost two months since Windows 10 lost official support, leaving millions of users in security limbo. Although Windows 11 has managed recently surpassed its predecessorthe reality is that adoption is still a pending subject for those from Redmond. In this scenario, where clarity is vital for laggards, the company has updated its hardware documentation in the least intuitive way possible. It has wreaked havoc on those trying to figure out if their old PC is valid for upgrading. A labyrinth of compatibility. Until recently, Microsoft’s documentation was explicit: you looked for your exact model and left no doubt. Now, as reported specialized mediathat specificity has disappeared for the list of compatible chips. The new list groups the processors by generic families and redirects to the manufacturer’s website. This forces the user to investigate on their own and also generates certain absurd situations: complete series such as the “Celeron 3000” appear listed as compatible without being so. This family, which was launched a decade ago, only considers one chip as compatible (the Celeron 3867U). Erasing the chosen ones. The confusion now also punishes Microsoft’s own customers. Processors that are compatible have disappeared from the official list, as is the case of the Core i7-7820HQ that the Surface Studio 2 has. This chip was an exception that the firm made for its own hardware (being a Kaby Lake chip it should not fit), but by eliminating the reference, the implicit message for anyone who owns this premium device is that it is no longer suitable. Curiously, the lists dedicated to AMD and Qualcomm (ARM) processors maintain model-by-model detail. The user resists. This change, which given the context should be more intuitive, comes when the market is stubborn. There are an estimated 500 million PCs technically capable of running Windows 11 whose users simply have chosen not to update. The barriers were already high at its launch: from the technical demands of the TPM 2.0 to Microsoft’s obsession with force the online account and its services during installation. Obscuring the basic hardware requirements now only adds more friction to a user base that was already reluctant to abandon the stability of Windows 10. A lifesaver with small print. For those still trapped in the old system, security comes at a price. Microsoft has activated the extended security update program For first-time home users: grants an extra year of patches. Although in Europe regulatory pressure has made this additional year free, It’s just a temporary patch. Those who do not update are already using a vulnerable operating system, exposing themselves to security risks. PCs with Windows 11 are changing from the inside. In the photo, the Surface Pro 12 with Qualcomm ARM chip. Image: Javier Penalva for Xataka ARM is another option. It is certainly paradoxical that, while Microsoft neglects clarity in its traditional platform (x86 chips), it continues to pour resources into its ARM revolution with the Snapdragon X to compete with Apple. The company seeks to energize the sales of computers with Windows 11 relying on AI and Copilot+. But if compatibility management on today’s millions of computers becomes a labyrinth, user confidence in jumping to Windows 11 is eroded. For the more technical, third party tools like Flyoobe They continue to be the escape route to update without restrictions. The exit from the maze. Beyond the information chaos, the roadmap for the user who remains on Windows 10 is clear: the ideal solution is to make the leap to Windows 11, a process that it’s still free. If the hardware resists the official requirements, it is always the “tricks” option to install the system on non-compatible computers. It also opens a new window for Linux: distributions have greatly simplified their use and installation, and thanks to compatibility layers such as Steam Protoneven the old excuse of the lack of video games is no longer a real impediment. In Xataka | The amazing history of ARM, the architecture that triumphs in mobile phones and that was born more than 30 years ago at Acorn Computer

There are 500 million users who could perfectly upgrade to Windows 11. The problem is that they don’t want to

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If you are reading this and still using Windows 10you are at risk. Microsoft a month and a half ago ended the official support period for this operating system that was launched in 2015. The curious thing is that what should be happening is not happening. Dell as an example of what is happening in the world. Dell COO Jeff Clarke recently participated in an interview at The Motley Fool and they asked him for his vision on how the end of Windows 10 would affect the migration of users to Windows 11. That’s when he confessed that all his expectations came crashing down. The end of Windows 10 pointed to the growth of Windows 11. In fact, Clarke explained that before it happened he was very confident that this end of the cycle would lead people to buy a new PC or install Windows 11 on their computers. However, the executive indicated that they have realized that the adoption of Windows 11 is between 10 and 12 points below what happened with previous generations: people are not updating to this operating system as they expected. 500 million users simply skip updating. Clarke’s estimate is that there are about 1.5 billion devices (PCs and laptops) running Windows, and that’s where he made the most disturbing statement: “There are about 500 million PCs capable of running Windows 11 that have not been updated. And we have another 500 million that are four years old and cannot run Windows 11. All of them pose a huge opportunity to upgrade to Windows 11.” And yet, they don’t do it, or what is the same: A third of global Windows users do not have a PC officially compatible with Windows 11 and cannot directly upgrade Another third have a PC compatible with Windows 11 but users simply They have chosen not to do so. If it works, don’t touch it? For many users, including business users, the unwritten rule is often precisely “if it works, don’t touch it.” This is especially delicate in companies, because they may depend on legacy systems and if they update to new versions, conflicts may arise that affect the operations of the business itself. And still… A colossal security hole. Once again, what is really worrying about this is that although these PCs and laptops are working correctly, if they are based on Windows 10 or previous versions of Windows, they are absolutely exposed to all kinds of security flaws. At any time, these PCs could become victims of malware that turns them into members of a botnet, or of ransomware that prevents us from accessing our data unless we pay a ransom. This is already bad for individual users, but for companies the risk is enormous. A ray of hope. Here we just have to wait for users to realize that updating their equipment is important and relatively easy. In fact, on officially compatible devices this is basically a matter of clicking the “Next” button when running the update wizard. If your device is not compatible, there is a trick. On computers that theoretically do not meet the conditions—such as, for example, that do not have native support for TPN 2.0—there are not excessive problems either, because it is possible to “trick” Windows with a command or even with the use of a modified version of Windows 11. Come on, although it seems that you cannot update to Windows 11, the most normal thing is that in reality yes you can. And of course, there is Linux. If for some reason what users don’t want is to upgrade to Windows 11 because they don’t like it, the options are there in the form of Linux distributions. It seems that this path is being chosen by an already notable number of users, and this is demonstrated by the fact that, for example, Zorin OS—a fork of Ubuntu—has seen its distribution Zorin OS 18which arrived just at the time when Windows 10 was no longer officially supported, has been downloaded more than a million times in the last few days. In Xataka | If you have an old PC, there is an effective alternative to Windows 11 requirements and bloatware: this is how Flyoobe works

The hundreds of black dots on train and car windows are not a whim: they are a shield called ‘frits’

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Traveling by car or train means looking around the windows. You probably don’t just look at the landscape, but at all the vehicle interior elementsthe closest being the edge of those windows. A common element on the train and on the car window is a black border with a curious pattern of dots that become smaller as the rows increase. It is not paint or an aesthetic element, but something that fulfills a crucial technical function to protect the integrity of the glass. They are called ‘frit band‘ either ‘frits‘, and it is one of the most important passive safety elements that these vehicles have. The Science of Car Window Blackheads Although it seems like it, these dots are not paint: they are ceramics baked at very high temperatures, which fuses with glass during manufacturing of the same. He process It is most curious, since first the still hot black ceramic paste is applied to the edges of the glass, and then it is baked together with the glass in the tempering and bending process. In Xataka In 2001, Renault launched a car ahead of its time: it was a miserable failure that now has another chance It is a structural element of glass and this process involves a permanent bond that does not wear over time. The dot pattern motif, known as “gradient matrix”it is not a whim either, but a solution to something that could spontaneously break the car window. Black glass absorbs much more heat than clear glass, and this is something you can easily check on a sunny day: the black band will be hotter than the rest of the glass. When the temperature is extreme, and on trips where the moon can being hit by small stonesif there were an abrupt temperature transition between the black border and the transparent area, stress points would be created that could cause cracks. That’s why they pulled out that gradient that works like a processor heatsink: creates a thermal transition zone which distributes heat more evenly. It is something that provides protection to the glass, but they serve something else: to help the bond between the chassis and the glass. On the perimeter of the crystals there is glue that joins the elements, and the ‘frits’ have a rougher texture that allows a better adhesion from glass to chassis. Also, being black, they protect the glue against ultraviolet rays, maximizing its durability and the security of the union of the components. A detail from Jeep, which introduced an Easter egg in these frits In the end, what might seem like a simple aesthetic element fulfills an important safety function. In the train, this adhesion and thermal dissipation, and in the car, added to the above, greater resistance of the moon to shocks. In some cars it has been used to place a nod, and the fact that they are circles and not another geometric element has an aesthetic part, but also functional because it makes us overlook them while driving. It is one more example of all that everyday technology that surrounds us and that perhaps we always wonder if it would have some function, but once that initial curiosity passes, we forget to look. Images | Jeep, Abil Saputra In Xataka |Cars have become gigantic. The problem is that our parking spaces do not (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The hundreds of black dots on train and car windows are not a whim: they are a shield called ‘frits’ was originally published in Xataka by Alejandro Alcolea .

At Microsoft they are clear that Windows will end up being an agentic operating system. Users have jumped on him

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Microsoft has big plans for Windows and, how could it be otherwise in these times, artificial intelligence is in those plans. The president of Windows has boasted about the next evolution of Windows to an agentic system, but the response from the community has been clear: no. what has happened. They tell it in Windows Central. Pavan Davuluri, current president of the Windows division, has made a post on X in which it states that “Windows is evolving into an agentic operating system, connecting devices, the cloud and AI to drive intelligent productivity and ensure secure work from anywhere.” The news will be announced on November 19, when the Microsoft Ignite event will be held. The answer. “Enough of this nonsense. Nobody wants this. You live in a Twitter bubble where AI will create a ton of wealth and you will die unless you adopt it now,” he says the answer with the most likes. It is not the only one, the majority of users agree that they do not want an agentic system, some ironize that the evolution of Windows is to make users go to Linux and Mac. The positive comments are in the minority, it seems clear that the majority does not want an authentic operating system. Talk to your PC. Recently Microsoft released “Hey Copilot”; Not only is it integrating AI, they also want us to use voice. The problem with this is that experience tells us that We don’t feel like talking to our PC. The figures make clear that we are more accustomed to doing voice searches on mobile phones than on PCs, with 77% compared to 38% of users who speak with PCs. One reason for this is that we use the PC in places where there are more people and we cannot take it to a corner to do the search, but everyone can listen to us. General discontent. The effort to integrate AI into the operating system is not the only reason for rejection by the community. One of the most criticized points recently is that Microsoft forces that you can only use Windows 11 with an online account. The reason is obvious: trying to sell us services like OneDrive and Microsoft 365. Users also reproach Microsoft for first solving the problems. stability issues and constant updates. Decline. Windows continues to dominate the desktop operating system market, but Statcounter data They say there has been a decline. In September Windows had a 70.81% market share and in October the figure fell to 66.25%. We know where those users have gone: the drop coincides with a rebound in MacOS, which went from 8.33% in September to 14.07% in October. There have been other months with similar changes and it is not a very large variation, but perhaps those who talk about migrating to other systems are not so misguided. Image |Windows in Unsplash In Xataka | The unexpected return of Windows 7: it reaches almost 10% of the market when Microsoft prepares to retire Windows 10

Samsung already has its “Safari moment.” The launch of your browser on Windows is the key to having your Apple-like ecosystem

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For years, Galaxy mobile users have had a somewhat fractured experience when it comes to synchronized web browsing between devices. opt for google chrome is the best option for this, although the South Korean’s own browser is considered one of the best alternatives for those who want to escape the clutches of Google. Upon reaching the PC, that history, passwords and bookmarks were trapped on the mobile. Despite has not stopped improving in recent times, more with the arrival of One UI 7, so far it has not landed on Windows. Samsung Internet comes to computers. Samsung officially announced the launch of “Samsung Internet” for PC. At the moment, it is a beta version compatible with Windows 10 (version 1809 or higher) and any build of Windows 11. The company has already made a failed attempt in 2023but this time the launch is final. The key. Let’s be clear: Samsung’s goal is not to steal your gigantic market share to Chrome. Rather, Samsung’s move seeks to replicate the strategy of other Big Tech like Apple with Safari: strengthen its own ecosystem with services out of the box. The goal is for the experience between a Galaxy and a laptop (like a Galaxy Book) to be seamless and frictionless. This is how it works. Synchronization with Samsung Android phones is its crown jewel. When you open it for the first time, it suggests logging in with your personal Samsung account, and so the PC browser automatically syncs: history, bookmarks, passwords saved in Samsung Pass… Until now, this required installing a dodgy Chrome extension, but that’s gone: it’s now a native feature that works without a hitch. Packed with features. Samsung hasn’t skimped on features when moving its browser to Microsoft’s operating system. Much of what makes the smartphone version popular matters: Galaxy AI – Includes navigation assistant to summarize and translate web pages. Privacy: Maintains “Smart Anti-Tracking” and “Privacy Panel”. Secret mode: its own version of incognito mode, which on Android allows you to lock yourself with a fingerprint, is present. Split View: Allows you to view two web pages side by side in the same tab. Does not break the monopoly. As expected, the South Korean has been based on the most predominant engine on the market: Chromium. This is a fundamental advantage for two reasons: compatibility with all websites and, of course, with all extensions in the Chrome Web Store. We have tried it. After downloading the installer, the process is very fast. The first startup asks to sign in with your Samsung account, offers to import bookmarks from other installed browsers, and asks if you want to activate the ad blocker. In less than a minute, the bookmarks from my phone were already on the PC. I was looking for an alternative outside of Google and this Samsung Internet is going to stay on my Galaxy for a while. Galaxy AI on Samsung Internet for PC allows you to translate and summarize web pages After a few hours of use, I have positive feelings. The interface is clean, minimalist and respects One UI design elementsSamsung’s customization layer on Android. Consistency in the design is not broken, and that is not so simple when talking about different operating systems. It feels light and fast, without the burden of extra services that others like Microsoft add to their solutions. And unlike Chrome, synchronization of open tabs between your mobile and PC is almost instantaneous. How to install it. Here comes the important part. Officially, the beta is only available to users in the United States and Korea. However, there is a direct link to the executable file, which they have shared from SamMobile. We have tested it from Spain and it works perfectly, although we have to apply a small fix for it to start: change the language and region of Windows to “English (United States)” and “United States.” Soon, when it arrives globally, it will be executed without major impediments. Cover image | Pepu Ricca for Xataka In Xataka | Change Chrome for a European alternative: step to follow and what you should take into account

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