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ISSUE 20.45.F • 2023-11-06 • Read online • Text Alerts! • Gift Certificates You're reading the FREE newsletter You'll immediately gain access to the longer, better version of the newsletter when you make a donation and become a Plus Member. You'll receive all the articles shown in the table of contents below, plus access to all our premium content for the next 12 months. And you'll have access to our complete newsletter archive! Upgrade to Plus membership today and enjoy all the Plus benefits!   In this issue WINDOWS: My hot annoyances Additional articles in the PLUS issue WINDOWS: Learning to program PowerShell with AI APPLE NEWS: M3 powers new MacBook Pros and iMac FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT: WhyNotWin11 — Seriously, why not Windows 11? ADVERTISEMENT 12,987+ Investor Pre-IPO Offering "EarnPhone" is the first disruption to smartphones in 15 years, delivering Mode a 150x revenue growth from 2019-2022. Claim Exclusive 70% Bonus: $0.16/Share*! Disclosure: Please read the offering circular at invest.modemobile.com. This is a paid advertisement for Mode Mobile's Regulation CF Offering. WINDOWS My hot annoyances By Susan Bradley • Comment about this article Technology newsletters like ours often cover the annoying things about a new operating system. Taking potshots at such things is easy. They are new, they are different, and you didn't have to deal with them before. But what about the aggravations in the operating systems we've been using for years? Or what if the vendors have rolled out new features and they are vexing, too? How do we deal with them? Here are some of my favorite (?) peeves. ADVERTISEMENT Here are the other stories in this week's Plus Newsletter WINDOWS Learning to program PowerShell with AI By Bruce Kriebel The media has been ablaze with headlines shouting that AI will put programmers out of jobs. Less discussed is how AI can help professional and even novice programmers learn a new language. An excellent case for this is Windows PowerShell. PowerShell is, well, powerful. It's a great tool for writing scripts, especially special-purpose or time-saving scripts that solve tiny problems in a way that allows customization so that you get the exact result you desired. But PowerShell is very different from the command-line language handed down from the earliest days of MS-DOS. That makes learning it daunting. APPLE NEWS M3 powers new MacBook Pros and iMac By Will Fastie Apple is infamous for making nebulous comparisons, but this time it has gone too far. Apple's dark (Halloween) event a week ago was mildly disappointing. The company finally got around to announcing its previously expected M3 family of silicon and refreshed the MacBook Pro series as a result. The problem is that it wasn't all that exciting. With a few exceptions, these were moves the company had to make, even though they will not generate the same sort of excitement as previous M1 and M2 announcements. FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT WhyNotWin11 — Seriously, why not Windows 11? By Deanna McElveen It's been over two years since Windows 11 was released, and Microsoft still won't tell you why your computer won't run it. Well, maybe that's not quite fair. Microsoft will give you reasons, if you take the time to install its PC Health Check app. Of course, you'll need to go through Settings to get to it, agree to Microsoft's usual onerous terms of use, and then get an app that will tell you a few reasons why Windows 11 thinks your hardware is beneath its standards. (Not all, but some.) I've got something better for you. Know anyone who would benefit from this information? Please share! Forward the email and encourage them to sign up via the online form — our public newsletter is free! Enjoying the newsletter? Become a PLUS member and get it all! 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