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Microsoft Trivia! What year did Microsoft unveil Windows?
Without looking it up, can you guess what year Microsoft unveiled Windows? a. 1980 b. 1983 c. 1985 d. 1990

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What's your favorite Windows 10 keyboard shortcut?
What's your favorite or your go-to Windows 10 keyboard shortcut?

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Are there any features you wish Windows had?
One thing I saw someone had in another OS was that their file explorer equivalent had tabs. My jaw was floored.

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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026282

Get more done with multitasking in Windows 10. Content provided by Microsoft. Applies to: Windows 10. Play Video. Learn three different ways to multitask and use multiple desktops in Windows 10. Select the Task View button, or press Alt-Tab on your keyboard to see or switch between apps.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/multitasking

A multitasking operating system divides the available processor time among the processes or threads that need it. The system is designed for preemptive multitasking; it allocates a processor time slice to each thread it executes. The currently executing thread is suspended when its time slice elapses, allowing another thread to run.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/when-to-use-multitasking

When to Use Multitasking. 05/31/2018; 2 minutes to read; In this article. There are two ways to implement multitasking: as a single process with multiple threads or as multiple processes, each with one or more threads.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/advantages-of-multitasking

To the user, the advantage of multitasking is the ability to have several applications open and working at the same time. For example, a user can edit a file with one application while another application is recalculating a spreadsheet.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/multitasking-on-xbox-one

Multitasking on Xbox One. The guide offers several ways to do two things at once, like listening to music while you play, broadcasting your game, capturing clips and screenshots, and tracking achievements. Background music. Launch a music app that supports background music, such as Pandora. Once music is playing, start a game.