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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Like It Was Never There

My computer auto-updated last night, so now I guess I'm using Windows 11.

Of course it opened a tab in my browser telling me about the great new features I got in the update. One of them had the tag line "Like It Was Never There" and was an option to use AI in the Windows photo editor to remove unwanted items from photos. Great! I've been wanting this feature forever.



So I clicked the "Try Now" button. There were no instructions anywhere, but eventually I stumbled onto the item and sub-item I needed to select to activate the feature:


And that was the end of my "trying" the feature. The little box that popped up says "You need credits to use this feature. Unlock AI credits to use here, across Microsoft 365 apps, and more, by upgrading to a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family Subscription". What the hell are Credits? I guess "Try Now" actually means "try after you pay for a Microsoft 365 family subscription". Also I'm pretty sure I have a Microoft 365 subscription but I guess the photo editor doesn't seem to know about it.

"Like It Was Never There" seems like an apt description for this feature after all.


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