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by nayuki 89 days ago
> Microsoft PowerToys feels like something that shouldn’t exist in Windows today. What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools

Year 2019? Oh no, not by a longshot. I've been using Microsoft-branded PowerToys since Windows XP, around the year 2001. Wikipedia says:

> PowerToys are available for Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows 10, and Windows 11 (and explicitly not compatible with Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys
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pseudohadamard 88 days ago
They've been around since the 1980s, only they were called TSRs then and were mostly by third parties rather than Microsoft.

Not sure why this is news, there are a bazillion little Windows utilities out there not by Microsoft, they just aren't called PowerToys and Microsoft-branded.

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GaProgMan 89 days ago
A journalist writing about something technology relayed abd getting their facts wrong? The devil, you say?
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