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  2. Background Intelligent Transfer Service - Wikipedia

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    Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of Microsoft Windows XP and later iterations of the operating systems, which facilitates asynchronous, prioritized, and throttled transfer of files between machines using idle network bandwidth. It is most commonly used by recent versions of Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows ...

  3. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009. [ 10] It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier.

  4. Windows 7 editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2009. Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers. [1] The other editions focus on other markets, such as the software development world or enterprise use.

  5. 64-bit computing - Wikipedia

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    The IBM System/360 of the 1960s was an early 32-bit computer; it had 32-bit integer registers, although it only used the low order 24 bits of a word for addresses, resulting in a 16 MiB (16 × 1024 2 bytes) address space. 32-bit superminicomputers, such as the DEC VAX, became common in the 1970s, and 32-bit microprocessors, such as the Motorola 68000 family and the 32-bit members of the x86 ...

  6. Microsoft shakes up its Game Pass service, hiking prices and ...

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    Microsoft Game Pass, a Netflix-like service for the company’s video games, is undergoing some substantial changes that are likely to rile up the always vocal gaming audience.. Microsoft has ...

  7. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    A "personal computer" version of Windows is considered to be a version that end-users or OEMs can install on personal computers, including desktop computers, laptops, and workstations. The first five versions of WindowsWindows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1 –were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both ...

  8. Brad Pitt Has “Virtually No Contact” With His Adult Kids

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    Brad Pitt remains mostly estranged from the six children he shares with ex-wife Angelina Jolie. Per a new report from People, the actor has “virtually no contact” with his adult kids, but ...

  9. A 72-year-old was alone picking huckleberries in a Montana ...

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    Danita Delimont/Alamy Stock Photo/File. A 72-year-old Montana man shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked him while he was alone picking huckleberries, according to the Montana Department ...