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I've heard of two possible reasons, but the 8th generation cut-off doesn't make sense in either case.Spectre m

I can't believe they're actually going to ship this thing with the stupid dual context menus in Explorer, wher

Minor correction: Windows 10 is supported for 4 more years, not 5.

Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations are a spectrum, not a yes/no thing. The 8th gen doesn't have any - these were

Plus the (lack of) international distribution. You can walk into a store anywhere in the world and buy an Appl

Also, some Kaby Lake CPUs are 7th gen, some are 8th gen. Neither have Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations, yet MS

Desktop 8th gen CPUs (Coffee Lake - released in 2017) don't have any Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations. Only 9th

Why not (try to) have it both ways? Simplified (dumbed-down ;-) UI by default, but add (well hidden) options t

Fun fact: Brad's 7900X CPU is a Skylake-X - so technically 6th gen, but sold as 7th. CPUs with (basically) the

"once codenamed Deschutes"Will it run on a Pentium II? ;-)

What's weird is that the Windows Processor Requirements page is clearly incomplete, at least for Windows 7, 8.

On a somewhat related note: Windows 10 will go out of support just 4 years after its successor is released. Th

New computer I built last year, with one old piece of hardware - an AMD Radeon HD6850 graphics card. WhyNotWin

Agreed. RCS already works fine in the Android Messages app. The only problem is that you have to turn it on ma

One thing I like in Bierstadt and Grandview is that the lowercase L is different. Easier to distinguish from t

Maybe if they kill enough of these features, Windows 10 will turn back into 7 at some point. ;-)

Few years ago I built a PC for a friend from scavenged / second hand parts, put Windows 10 on it, CPU was a Pe

In reply to MattHewitt:Right, damn. There goes my theory....

So support for Office 2016, 2019 and 2021 will all end in 2026. I see two possible causes:It's the Maya c

Maybe they want to copyright the notch, and sue every company that made a phone with one. ;-)

1903 at 6.6% is a bit alarming, since it's been out of support for more than a month now. Not as bad as W

I don't really get the complaints against SBMM. So the game is only fun if you're winning? By that d

In reply to JH_Radio:From what I read elsewhere, none of the current CPUs support this. The upcoming 888 will

ISV means "Independent software vendor", right? They do have a lot of Android apps with a lot of downloads. Of

My guess is that we should expect Core i3 level performance of the native apps - with the actively cooled M1.I

In reply to wright_is:13/26/52 mm for the Pro.13/26/65 mm for the Pro Max.I won't care about smartphone c

Until now, Skype had ads only if you haven't paid them in some way.If you had a Skype to Phone subscripti

In reply to red77star:Windows 10 is this fragmented because they no longer force the upgrade, except for versi

I guess the 12-month chart has averages from the 12 months in the grid below the chart. The monthly numbers ar

A 222 kg phone - I guess it's really built like a tank. Or it's just 222 g.This is how NASA crashed

I really don't get why people who care even a little about photography bother with smartphone cameras. Ev

I've been dual-booting Windows 7 (for gaming) and 8.1 (for work) on my main desktop PC since 2013. It

So OneNote is the new Skype, in terms of Microsoft having a hard time figuring out which version to support.I

Looks like Windows 10 has its own minor "XP / 7 problem" with 1803. It will go out of support (for Home / Pro)

In reply to wunderbar:Right. Haven't seen sub-GHz clock speeds since the Pentium III era. Let's part

Am I the only one to think that the AI in Google Photos is kinda dumb? At least regarding the built-in Places

In reply to wright_is:Or the 16th - since 10.0 was the first, 10.1 the second, etc...

I guess most people will be 1 or 2 versions behind from now on. The Normies won't even know there's

The Huawei P30 Pro doesn't really have optical zoom... It has 3 prime lenses (16, 27 and 125 mm equivalen

Pretty much any computer running Windows 7 should be able to run 10. Getting it to run may take some work thou

Even if this is really real, it won't be the same as in Pro,There are two ways to delay updates in Pro:-

In reply to Daninbusiness:Just make sure you don't connect to a network! So say we all.

Nope. They're all bad. I like my displays square - no notches, no holes, no damn rounded corners.Also: I

Skype 8 is ever so slowly inching towards being half as usable as Skype 7 was...

I don't think so. Apple's prices are also (way) up in Europe, and that can't be because of the

The 85% - 15% split is market share (the number of devices sold in a year) not usage share (the number of devi

So, do these things run the mythical "Home Advanced" edition? If yes, what are its real improvements over plai

The iPhone was $200 with a 2-year contact, right? As far as I can remember, the base unlocked / bought outrigh

PC sales are in decline. (At least they were until the last quarter.)PC usage is (probably) not in decline. Th

> will “adjust”—e.g. “raise”—the pricee.g. == "for example"i.e. == "that is"Sorry for the gramm

In reply to trparky:There's some hope. According to the latest Microcode Update Guidance PDF, Intel is pl

I've been using 7 (for gaming/internet/media), 8.1 (for work) and 10 (on a laptop) for the past few years

I never understood why Nokia had to choose at all. Why not make both Android and Windows phones, like Samsung,

> And Qualcomm’s offerings are looking better now too, aren’t they?Not really. Their upcoming flagship

Is this for PC or Mobile? 15235 sounds like a Mobile (feature2) build number, but the features look like they&

UWP is dead. We knew that already, but this is a nice confirmation.Windows Phone/Mobile is dead. We knew that

The last 2 years of supposed "mainstream support" for WP8.1 wasn't actually worth anything anyway, was it

I can't believe the guys at Qualcomm haven't thought about this. Seems so obvious in hindsight...

The $12/year unlimited photos plan was actually dropped last year. Just when I've finished uploading all

You guys completely mangled the Intel Coffee Lake (next gen CPUs) vs. Core X (10-18 core CPUs based on Skylake

Is USB-C really such a big deal in the real (i.e. non-enthusiast) world? I don't have a single USB-C devi

Microsoft dropping its mobile platform before a replacement is launched would be par for the course. They'

I think no high-end phone is worth what it costs. I have a year-and-a-half old Moto X Play which cost about �

In reply to Delmont:The glass has been engineered to the wrong specifications...

In reply to wunderbar:It uses mini SIM, while most smartphones today use micro or nano. Plus it's 2G only

Polo is the minimum, Sir.

> Why is there no quad-core processor option? Because Intel doesn't have any ultrabook-class (15/28 Watt) q

In reply to DaddyBrownJr: It's the only way to be sure.

NT may have been a clean break technologically, but it still had compatibility with 16-bit Windows and DOS app

8 pm CET is the usual time for Windows Weekly, so it should be the usual time in elsewhere too, barring any su

About Skype on Windows Phone 8.1 - MS really should update the old app to support the new infrastructure. Afte

In reply to jr.flynn: I guess it would be possible to use the security-only updates instead. As I understand,

In reply to Goochland: For now, it's cumultive starting with this month. So, not very... yet. But Microsoft sa