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Kent beat you to it: The Insider News[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Strange. I could've sworn Kaspersky got banned at least half a decade ago.
Or maybe that was "the US government", as opposed to "the US" in general...?
I'm tempted to suggest that while they're at it, they should ban the sale of all antivirus software (since, according to most industry pundits, the one built into Windows is now, and has been, "good enough" for a long time...but then I suppose MS would become complacent.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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English is not my mother tongue but "favorited" sounds like a complete abomination. However Microsoft seems to think otherwise. This is a screen capture from Windows Explorer. How would you vote: to favorite or not to favorite?
PS A phrase like "After you marked some files as favourites, we'll show them here", wouldn't have been much longer and for sure would have been more grammatically sound.
Mircea
modified yesterday.
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Using past tense in such scenarios can be problematic.
Best not to verb it.
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Favoriting is not a valid word. Favorite is either a noun or an adjective but not a verb.
Couldn't get screen grab link to work.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Couldn't get screen grab link to work.
Strange, seems to be working for me.
Mircea
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my security software blocks it for some reason.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Looks like redacted by a non native English like me 
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I was once told (half-jokingly) that in English, you can practically "verb any noun".
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And noun any verb. But you have to be careful.
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In this case they seem to verb adjectives too as the proper phrase would have been "favorite file". Not sure if English language should be "beautifuled" with these constructs. I know I'm picky but I love this language even if it's an adopted one. 
Mircea
modified 15hrs ago.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: beautifuled
Beautified.
And in this case, yes, it's a thing.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: "favorite file"
Which illustrates the ambiguity: Is your "favorite file" the one you would prefer over other files, or a file of your favorites (e.g. URLs, lovers or whatever)?
In this case, you could of course "favorites file" for the second alternative, but even if you can, maybe you don't do that. I have seen lots of such cases where I had to guess from context what the meaning is. The less ambiguity, the better. (Except when the very purpose of the statement is to play with the language!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Appears locale specific. Am not finding such a word in Windows in India (English).
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Interesting. Mine is Win 11 Pro, 23H2 English(US)
Mircea
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Mine is Win 11 Home Edition, 22H2. This is also English, but not US English; mostly UK-English customized to India.
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