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September 21, 2022

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Superstar Swedish pop band ABBA’s breakthrough moment that put their music in front of more than just Swedish audiences came when they won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974—as a result of their contest success, they were able to tour Europe and appear on major television shows.

Microsoft released Windows 11’s 2022 Update (aka 22H2) yesterday. It’s the first big release after Microsoft shifted to a once-per-year release schedule (instead of Windows 10’s original twice-per-year schedule.)

This update is packed with new features and improvements, including a snazzy new Task Manager with dark mode, drag and drop restored to the taskbar, live captions for any audio (U.S. English only for now), and tabs in File Explorer. (However, those File Explorer tabs won’t appear until October.)

Interested? Here’s how to install Windows 11’s 2022 Update today.

-Chris

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