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    With the hardware requirements from MS, I have no equipment that can run W11 and I have no current plans to bu

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    I will be following this.

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    Both names are stupid for different reasons. Bingo reminds people of Bing; for most a semi-relevant site. Cor

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    There are problems with MS' policy: HIPPA, medical, and religious. HIPPA says health information can only be r

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    What struck me as odd about Surface is MS is not a hardware vendor like Apple or Dell. Making a top-of-line bo

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    SCOTUS still screwed up. If using an API is fair use in one instance it is fair use in all instances. It also

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    In reply to jolla: In reality, probably nothing. Just marketing speak for the next round will be trash.

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    For my purposes, an M1 Mac is very intriguing as the software I need has Mac versions already. If I was lookin

    Posted 1 year ago on Intel Takes on Apple M1 with New Series of “Go PC” Ads – 86 Comments

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    Branding seems to be MS failure. If it is Windows blah it must run Windows applications be definition. So to r

    Posted 1 year ago on The (10)X Factor (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    My guess is the normal plateau is somewhat below the 2020 figures, probably about 3 to 4% lower. In the future

    Posted 1 year ago on PC Sales Grew 8.6 Percent in 2020 – 24 Comments

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    Why do I have a feeling this is likely shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic? Add features to Windows is mostly

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft is Adding a News Feed to Windows 10 For Some Reason – 76 Comments

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    I use the three major desktop OSes with regularity. Of the three Windows is the most confusing, least stable,

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Mulligans (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to SWCetacean:The pundits think MS should mimic Apple but forget Apple is a hardware manufacturer fir

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    Other than web developers, I do not see a need for another Chromium based browser on a Linux box as general pu

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    Google and Facebook are definitely monopolies. Apple sort of is since they have a walled garden approach to th

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    You cannot be carbon neutral until the entire electrical grid is carbon neutral. All they are doing is a versi

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    In reply to nbplopes: I have been wondering why it's MS and Oracle sniffing and not others who seem more

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    All successful products 'scratch an itch' even if people do not immediately realize the itch is ther

    Posted 1 year ago on Even Microsoft is Still Trying to Figure Out Surface Duo (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Why does remind me of shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic?

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    In reply to HellcatM: Often MS has used its control of Windows to abuse competitors in various ways in the pa

    Posted 1 year ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    My complaint is about branding, Windows has certain brand implications that people expect. Anything that does

    Posted 1 year ago on Two Paths, One Destination (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Doing what a competitor does to ape the competitor is always a fools errand. Intel needs someone to keep them

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    Internal development means you have the internal staff to do all. It might mean you are a couple of years (may

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    In reply to thurrotcommentator:Agile as a mindset is good because at its core is communication between the use

    Posted 2 years ago on Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers. Please. (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider: "more like MS shuffling the deck-chairs" is more accurately "MS is still shuffling

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft is Changing the Windows Insider Program – 14 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I doubt any of the numbers are terribly accurate. But unnerves the medicos is it is

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Says Two of Its Employees Have Been Diagnosed With Coronavirus – 22 Comments

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    Open sourcing W7 would probably hurt MS in unexpected ways, assuming they can actually open source all the cod

    Posted 2 years ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    I agree sales have plateaued for PCs. I would expect sales to bounce around the average, some years a little b

    Posted 2 years ago on The New Normal (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    The problem with any web browser no matter its backend is how to make it stand out with users so they will eve

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Still Doesn’t Get Consumers (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    I have 1 rule about computers - I own the hardware so what I am willing to share with anyone is my business on

    Posted 2 years ago on Here’s How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 10’s Privacy Issues (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:Unfortunately I have to agree with you. IBM has been run by idiots for years and I have

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    In reply to skane2600:I would say the legacy of the toxic culture is a key factor. MS has not been a great inn

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    When the OS release road map is unknown that is a big deal to others such as OEMs, vendors, and users. What wi

    Posted 3 years ago on 19H2gate (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Facebook and Twitter are in the dog house because of their censorship antics and unwillingness to be consisten

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    In reply to skane2600:Effectively an oversized tablet with a huge screen. I am not sure about the use case wit

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    It sounds like Windows is becoming the 'red headed' step child in MS. The major effort appears to Of

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    In reply to ahassall:It's not that the content isn't on the Internet; it is. But it takes some (not

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    In reply to skane2600:FB failing would also badly hurt the extremist fringes as they would not have a readily

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    In reply to yaddamaster:Amazon is not the retail killer most think it is. A careful analysis of most retail fa

    Posted 3 years ago on Facebook Co-Founder Calls for Breakup of Company – 50 Comments

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    In reply to Daekar:Banks and other financial service companies provide a useful service in handling money and

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Consumers rely on their enthusiast friends and relatives for advice. With the ongoin

    Posted 3 years ago on Ethics Matters (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    My take is feature updates should be at most once a year maybe even every two years. Security and bug fixes ne

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s WaaS Changes Are All About Windows 7 (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Maybe MS will finally learn that users generally could careless about new features and just want their compute

    Posted 3 years ago on Declaring Victory Against WaaS (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    My observation is MS has not been all that interested in the consumer market for some time now. Asking your le

    Posted 3 years ago on Bring Out Your Dead (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to provision l-3:Not sure what the OS is under the hood and how well it will run apps written for oth

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    They never learn. Annoying users is not good customer relations.

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft to Nag Windows 7 Users to Upgrade – 34 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:No

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    Just because I have someone's phone number does not mean they want me to have access to their account. Th

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    In reply to skane2600:If you were not around PCs in the 80s and early 90s you would not realize how rare they

    Posted 3 years ago on Foldable Device Mania – What The Tech Ep. 425 – 6 Comments

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    In reply to warren:That is true about Windows now. However, I detected a bit of sarcasm in the post. Nadella i

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    Paul, I think you hit it out. The PC market will be dominated by the enterprise refresh cycles with occasional

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Basically a mature market for hardware and software with reasonable options for some impor

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    It looks like the market is stabilizing at about 260 million units per year. One should remember all markets e

    Posted 3 years ago on PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Seven Years (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to tboggs13:Adds in an OS along with other data slurping activities is unacceptable FULL STOP. It doe

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    In reply to locust infested orchard inc:There is a key difference, MS is trying to leverage Windows usage to c

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 (Update: Or Not) – 50 Comments

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    If I ran an OEM I would strongly consider advertising any Chromebooks in my line up hard and start installing

    Posted 3 years ago on And You Thought the 1809 Delay Didn’t Hurt Anyone – 88 Comments

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    In reply to karma77police:"When Windows fails, entire MS empire will fail like there is not tomorrow." Bingo,

    Posted 3 years ago on Fiasco – 96 Comments

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    With this pattern recurring with variations every 6 months W10 is loser for home users. Just to much risk of s

    Posted 3 years ago on Fiasco – 96 Comments

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    In reply to solomonrex:The question for both Ginni and Nadella will they have the competence to seize the oppo

    Posted 3 years ago on IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion – 27 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Short answer to both questions: No. The only possible upgrade would be from a 32 bit proce

    Posted 3 years ago on PC Market Flat-Lined in Q3 2018 – 22 Comments

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    The real problem is the lack of a proper internal testing team. An internal team can develop test plans based

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Has A Software Quality Problem – 114 Comments

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    In reply to Hassan_Timite:MS has not learned 'Unix Way' of having important parts of the OS being mo

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    In reply to Ulfvar:Depending on how it's done on a website, the action could go either way. In an OS, the

    Posted 3 years ago on Finally, Microsoft Takes a Step Back from the Windows 10 Cliff (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to JustMe:I just tried with Opera with adblockers on and did not see a banner.

    Posted 3 years ago on Finally, Microsoft Takes a Step Back from the Windows 10 Cliff (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:It is still the owner's hardware and the owner is the final authority not any vendor

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    I think the bigger problem for Office is it is a mature product. Thus, there are very few new features that th

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    At first glance this sounds stupid. But something about using Facebook (or Google) to long into a foreign site

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Depending on your needs the OS may be totally irrelevant. You are correct that the OS is a

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    In reply to hrlngrv:One of the real problems with Windows is the lack of a builtin application that will handl

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    What were the trends from initial release? Also, some of the 'improvements' are stated in a meaningl

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Touts Windows 10 Quality and Reliability – 29 Comments

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    In reply to unkinected:The key is not to be first to market but to be first to market with a usable device and

    Posted 4 years ago on Too Soon, Microsoft. Too Soon (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:My observation is very few Windows users ever loved it, tolerated it yes. The primary r

    Posted 4 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: Store Apps or Web Apps? – 47 Comments

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