OK, I'll be the optimist. If this thing will cost around €350, it could be a competitor to phones like the S

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Thanks Microsoft, but no thanks. I think I'll wait a year or two. Or three.
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In the short term (i.e. the next few years), my strategy is to stick with Windows 10. With all of Microsoft's
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Talking about "momentum" means they don't want to talk about actual numbers, right? (I mean for Win11 specific
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I guess this will be US only (maybe US/Canada), like a lot of Microsoft stuff these days. Usually we Europeans
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"Huge Company's revenues/profits jump by double-digit percent to astronomical number of billions"These kinds o
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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
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I can't believe they're actually going to ship this thing with the stupid dual context menus in Explorer, wher
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Minor correction: Windows 10 is supported for 4 more years, not 5.
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Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations are a spectrum, not a yes/no thing. The 8th gen doesn't have any - these were
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Plus the (lack of) international distribution. You can walk into a store anywhere in the world and buy an Appl
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Also, some Kaby Lake CPUs are 7th gen, some are 8th gen. Neither have Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations, yet MS
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Desktop 8th gen CPUs (Coffee Lake - released in 2017) don't have any Spectre/Meltdown HW mitigations. Only 9th
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Why not (try to) have it both ways? Simplified (dumbed-down ;-) UI by default, but add (well hidden) options t
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Fun fact: Brad's 7900X CPU is a Skylake-X - so technically 6th gen, but sold as 7th. CPUs with (basically) the
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"once codenamed Deschutes"Will it run on a Pentium II? ;-)
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What's weird is that the Windows Processor Requirements page is clearly incomplete, at least for Windows 7, 8.
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On a somewhat related note: Windows 10 will go out of support just 4 years after its successor is released. Th
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New computer I built last year, with one old piece of hardware - an AMD Radeon HD6850 graphics card. WhyNotWin
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Agreed. RCS already works fine in the Android Messages app. The only problem is that you have to turn it on ma
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One thing I like in Bierstadt and Grandview is that the lowercase L is different. Easier to distinguish from t
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Maybe if they kill enough of these features, Windows 10 will turn back into 7 at some point. ;-)
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Few years ago I built a PC for a friend from scavenged / second hand parts, put Windows 10 on it, CPU was a Pe
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In reply to MattHewitt:Right, damn. There goes my theory....
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So support for Office 2016, 2019 and 2021 will all end in 2026. I see two possible causes:It's the Maya c
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Maybe they want to copyright the notch, and sue every company that made a phone with one. ;-)
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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
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I don't really get the complaints against SBMM. So the game is only fun if you're winning? By that d
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In reply to JH_Radio:From what I read elsewhere, none of the current CPUs support this. The upcoming 888 will
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ISV means "Independent software vendor", right? They do have a lot of Android apps with a lot of downloads. Of
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My guess is that we should expect Core i3 level performance of the native apps - with the actively cooled M1.I
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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
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Until now, Skype had ads only if you haven't paid them in some way.If you had a Skype to Phone subscripti
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In reply to red77star:Windows 10 is this fragmented because they no longer force the upgrade, except for versi
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I guess the 12-month chart has averages from the 12 months in the grid below the chart. The monthly numbers ar
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A 222 kg phone - I guess it's really built like a tank. Or it's just 222 g.This is how NASA crashed
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I really don't get why people who care even a little about photography bother with smartphone cameras. Ev
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I've been dual-booting Windows 7 (for gaming) and 8.1 (for work) on my main desktop PC since 2013. It
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So OneNote is the new Skype, in terms of Microsoft having a hard time figuring out which version to support.I
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Looks like Windows 10 has its own minor "XP / 7 problem" with 1803. It will go out of support (for Home / Pro)
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In reply to wunderbar:Right. Haven't seen sub-GHz clock speeds since the Pentium III era. Let's part
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Am I the only one to think that the AI in Google Photos is kinda dumb? At least regarding the built-in Places
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In reply to wright_is:Or the 16th - since 10.0 was the first, 10.1 the second, etc...
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I guess most people will be 1 or 2 versions behind from now on. The Normies won't even know there's
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The Huawei P30 Pro doesn't really have optical zoom... It has 3 prime lenses (16, 27 and 125 mm equivalen
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Pretty much any computer running Windows 7 should be able to run 10. Getting it to run may take some work thou
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Even if this is really real, it won't be the same as in Pro,There are two ways to delay updates in Pro:-
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In reply to Daninbusiness:Just make sure you don't connect to a network! So say we all.
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Nope. They're all bad. I like my displays square - no notches, no holes, no damn rounded corners.Also: I
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Skype 8 is ever so slowly inching towards being half as usable as Skype 7 was...
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I don't think so. Apple's prices are also (way) up in Europe, and that can't be because of the
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The 85% - 15% split is market share (the number of devices sold in a year) not usage share (the number of devi
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So, do these things run the mythical "Home Advanced" edition? If yes, what are its real improvements over plai
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The iPhone was $200 with a 2-year contact, right? As far as I can remember, the base unlocked / bought outrigh
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PC sales are in decline. (At least they were until the last quarter.)PC usage is (probably) not in decline. Th
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> will “adjust”—e.g. “raise”—the pricee.g. == "for example"i.e. == "that is"Sorry for the gramm
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In reply to trparky:There's some hope. According to the latest Microcode Update Guidance PDF, Intel is pl
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I've been using 7 (for gaming/internet/media), 8.1 (for work) and 10 (on a laptop) for the past few years
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I never understood why Nokia had to choose at all. Why not make both Android and Windows phones, like Samsung,
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> And Qualcomm’s offerings are looking better now too, aren’t they?Not really. Their upcoming flagship
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Is this for PC or Mobile? 15235 sounds like a Mobile (feature2) build number, but the features look like they&
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UWP is dead. We knew that already, but this is a nice confirmation.Windows Phone/Mobile is dead. We knew that
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The last 2 years of supposed "mainstream support" for WP8.1 wasn't actually worth anything anyway, was it
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I can't believe the guys at Qualcomm haven't thought about this. Seems so obvious in hindsight...
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The $12/year unlimited photos plan was actually dropped last year. Just when I've finished uploading all
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You guys completely mangled the Intel Coffee Lake (next gen CPUs) vs. Core X (10-18 core CPUs based on Skylake
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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
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Microsoft dropping its mobile platform before a replacement is launched would be par for the course. They'
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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 â‚
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In reply to Delmont:The glass has been engineered to the wrong specifications...
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In reply to wunderbar:It uses mini SIM, while most smartphones today use micro or nano. Plus it's 2G only
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Polo is the minimum, Sir.
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> Why is there no quad-core processor option?
Because Intel doesn't have any ultrabook-class (15/28 Watt) q
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In reply to DaddyBrownJr:
It's the only way to be sure.
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NT may have been a clean break technologically, but it still had compatibility with 16-bit Windows and DOS app
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8 pm CET is the usual time for Windows Weekly, so it should be the usual time in elsewhere too, barring any su
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About Skype on Windows Phone 8.1 - MS really should update the old app to support the new infrastructure. Afte
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In reply to jr.flynn:
I guess it would be possible to use the security-only updates instead. As I understand,
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In reply to Goochland:
For now, it's cumultive starting with this month. So, not very... yet. But Microsoft sa