In reply to paul-thurrott:"Chrome is an ad-dealing, privacy-stealing engine. It exists only for those purposes
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In reply to madthinus:Newsflash, Edge is sending entered URLs to multiple Microsoft servers and they can be li
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It looks like Microsoft is attempting to copy Atlassian's Confluence product.
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Edge privacy worse than Chrome
A Dublin professor has released a paper on web browser privacy. Edge is singled out for using hardware identifiers in requests and unnecessarily sharing entered URLs with Microsoft:
"From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both send persistent identifiers than can be used to link requests (and associated IP address/location) to back end servers. Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to back end servers. As far as we can tell this behaviour cannot be disabled by users. In addition to the search auto-complete functionality that shares details of web pages visited, both transmit web page information to servers that appear unrelated to search auto-complete"
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"All of this was part of Microsoft’s plan to redefine what Cortana is supposed to be."The only Windows 10 ap
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Because having a LED on the outside was too easy.
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"The major new feature as part of today’s update is the availability of Microsoft’s edge://surf game for e
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Perhaps the options should be Basic, Strict and New Balanced?
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$1400 for ads in the dialer? No thanks.
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The way Microsoft are dealing with these complaints is reason enough not to buy a Surface. Good luck to those
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Proper autoplay blocking has been 'planned' for 25 weeks now so don't hold your breath for any
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In reply to gogogodzilla:It's actually resting on the external battery pack that they haven't told y
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In reply to Pbike908:The AutoplayStopper extension for Chromium does a pretty good job for those who can'
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Jason James was then heard to mutter under his breath "Or you could just use Firefox with uBlock Origin and no
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I don't think either device will be released this year. The impact of the coronavirus in China will give
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The whole idea of building a Windows-only app is a bit 'old-school' these days isn't it? Most o
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In reply to paul-thurrott:There's more the one manufacturer of chemically toughened glass and sites like
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'Gorilla Glass' is just a brand name. It's like saying if you don't brush with 'Colga
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If it's ok for Sonos to refuse to update your brand new Sonos speaker if it detects a 'legacy'
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Chrome users should make sure they tick the 'Report abuse' box when uninstalling the extension.
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Have Microsoft indicated when it will be no longer possible to apply any updates to a brand new installation o
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Windows 7 usage on Steam jumped in December
Maybe it's an error but according to the Steam hardware stats page at https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/ Windows 7 usage jumped 14.5% in December at the expense of Windows 10. That's a significant change, if correct.
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In reply to Pbike908:So what's stopping you from using Firefox which does give you that option?
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I'm ineligible so if I win I will settle for watching Paul install Ubuntu on it during an episode of Firs
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In reply to remc86007:Smoother scrolling has been promoted as 'coming soon' since the public launch
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The XPS 13 is serviceable. The SL3 isn't. When the battery starts failing in the Dell you can replace it
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It would have been worth mentioning that they're doing it to avoid having their own VR hardware (i.e. Ocu
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In reply to prifici:"I have a setting for limiting autoplay under my Site Permissions in Stable and Canary. It
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I'm looking forward to see how they've screwed over Windows 7 users. The aligning of the Edge releas
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In reply to gmj:Well, it does not block autoplay like the old Edge because Google won't let them. Adverti
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So giving users a choice of rendering engine is now 'a bad thing'? Let's see how that plays out
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Fantastic. Now everyone can hate it.
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They're probably integrating them with the new shopping feature they added to Edge.
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In reply to warren:"You make it sound like they haven't been talking about new features. They have been!"
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In reply to Rob_Wade:“To see if Picture-in-Picture is available to you, hover your mouse over the video to s
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I think Microsoft does get consumers. They're the free testing resource that they can dump this sort of c
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It is ridiculous. Have you tried not using beta versions of browsers?
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I updated my Windows 7 desktop hard drive to Windows 8.1 for the times I need Windows. I'm not missing ou
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This is the market for Chredge.
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Hey Jim! It's been a month. I'll give you my own update: I didn't even bother to install Classi
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So long as it can download Chrome when it replaces IE on the desktop, it will meet the needs of the typical ho
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The graphic designers worked hard on that one.
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The way the Credge team have completely caved in to Google and delivered a half-assed, user hostile, advertise
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In reply to paul-thurrott:His post is essentially a complaint about bad managers and bad management. He's
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In reply to jgraebner:Who on earth has ever set out to do a bit of astrophotography and forgotten to bring the
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A normal camera has better 'astrophotography capabilities' than this phone and costs a lot less.
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Step 1: Buy Windows 8.1 dvd from ebay.Step 2: Install over Windows 10.Step 3: Forget about Windows 10 until Ja
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In reply to T182:Where is the power coming from if not from the battery?
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I still wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft cancels one or more of these devices before 20H2.
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... start charging users an annual subscription fee
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No thunderbolt? This does not bode well for a Surface Phone reveal (lol).
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In reply to Lordbaal:You're right. It is not hidden. It's now labelled 'Domain join instead
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Microsoft remove option to create local Windows account
So apparently when setting up Windows 10 the option to create a local account is no longer available if an internet connection has been detected. You have to physically disconnect from the internet if you do not want a Microsoft account. Awesome.
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In reply to jimchamplin:It's still the standard operating environment at the company I work for. I'v
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Not that much of a challenge really. Install Classic Shell and you effectively have a version of Windows 7 tha
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You forgot to quote the ‘unique’ in ‘Housed in a unique circular design’.
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Because they're expensive and not as green as they're made out to be. Lithium doesn't leap out
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I wouldn't use one of these if you paid me but I can see why schools like them.
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You may want to point out the links in the pdf don't work (unless they're supposed to?)
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I was triggered by you and Andrew repeatedly pronouncing ‘2x optical zoom’ as ‘2 exe optical zoom’ ins
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Embedded battery? No thanks. M570 Trackball FTW!
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Well. That explains why the latest cumulative update broke my desktop.
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Check out the mess of fonts on all those screenshots! That hipster equivalent of Comic Sans that Google is so
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"web-powered suggestions" sounds a bit suspect.
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Looking forward to proper autoplay blocking coming to Edge. Oh wait! Google won't allow it.
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In reply to lwetzel:It affects anyone who had disabled web search - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/window
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In reply to lwetzel:It's KB4512941. I did post some links but they keep getting deleted.
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Avoid the 2019-08 cumulative update
The latest Windows 10 cumulative update borks searching and causes cortana to use a large amount of CPU in the background (hitting the Windows key and starting to type presents an empty grey box and finds nothing). The issue was apparently raised by Insiders but Microsoft have released it anyway. I encountered this on the weekend and had to roll the update back. Hopefully Microsoft pull it before it is pushed out to a wider audience and not just those unlucky sods like me who unwisely chose to 'check for updates'.
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In reply to lvthunder:Batteries don't last forever. Everyone ether knows it or they should know it.Correc
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6.5 years is 3 times the life span of a Surface device. Lot of people having battery problems with 2 year old
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Unless I am missing something?The maker isn't around anymore?
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Cue the 'What happened to Windows Uranus?' jokes.
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it seems the only things Java is really good for are providing Indian universities with a toolset and providin
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In reply to rmlounsbury:Now all they need to do is backport the store to Windows 7.
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I wonder how much they paid for that ranking. A little less than what Apple will pay when the iPhone 11 comes
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Edge privacy issue
Looks like Edge may be sending full URLs and system identifier back to the mothership: https://mobile.twitter.com/scriptjunkie1/status/1152280517972299777
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“We’ve replaced Google’s evil bits with our own!”
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“Let’s allow Outlook email messages to run VBScript”, they said.”What could go wrong?”, they added.
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I remember VB3 being very popular at the time, particularly due to the third-party extension market (i.e. vbx
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Didn't most of the original Delphi development team end up at Microsoft working on dot Net? I do remember
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Have you ever considered doing a 'Living With Linux Challenge' where you install a popular linux dis
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“And they’ve got a backdoor to do it!”
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Quick! Cancel that antitrust exploration! These are very fine people.
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I hope that internal rechargeable battery isn't glued in.
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Meh. No smart phone camera can escape the horrible ergonomics inherent to the form factor. Holding a glass san
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It would have been handy to compare the Apple figures with the Play store. Are Google's policies any fair
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In reply to dcdevito:Edge will getting the same changes unless MS forks the code. I would love to see MS do th
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In reply to hrlngrv:Unless Google link their continued funding of the Mozilla organization to implementing sim
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Google proceeding with adblocker-crippling V3 changes unless you pay
https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/
Google are going ahead with the Chromium changes they proposed earlier in the year to cripple adblockers because they’re in the advertising business and not the ‘let’s keep the nerds happy’ business. Enterprise customers excluded.
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It’s flakey. If I try to bring up the ‘Add or remove programs’ dialog it shows a giant cog and then the
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In reply to Vladimir:That's today. The point of this article is to suggest that future Windows versions w
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What about making a Pro Trackball Explorer. The original ones are going for almost $600 on Amazon!
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If you're ruling out Thunderbird as too old-fashioned, I'll give fastmail.fm a plug.
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In reply to dcdevito:Yep. The addition of a real Linux kernel to W10 is an admission from MS that the original
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Have you heard from MS when they intend making insider versions of Credge available for Windows 8.1 and Window
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12GB RAM is stupid. What are these people running on it? OS/2 apps?
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Normal people will find a screen that is "just 402 ppi" and "does not support HDR" perfectly fine. Normal peop
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When Safari was available for Windows does anyone remember if Apple branded it “Apple Safari” ?
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In reply to wolters:It does lack the laser focus sensor, but yes, it's a more attractive proposition than
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In reply to PeterC:”If Huawei decided to ditch android, or offer an alternative to it, google would have ser
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There are browser extensions that block all of them. Why get worked up about it?
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In reply to jimchamplin:Supposedly, according to Windows architect Bernard Aboba, "Edge supports the WebRTC 1.
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Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Well, they are blocking it, they're just claiming it is unintentional. They hav
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Google starts blocking Edge
As reported by Jez Corden, Google does not allow the new Edge to use their 'meet' service.
https://meet.google.com/
Intentional or Google's first 'oopsy'?
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In reply to skane2600:"So, are you taking the position that any vulnerability should be classified as a backdo
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In reply to wright_is:"Is that any worse than the backdoors in Cisco hardware or the CIA malware added to HP k
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Not interested in the 3aXL? Less glass, no notch plus a proper headphone jack?
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In reply to codymesh:How about backdoors in their laptop drivers?https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/
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1903 upgrade fails if external storage present
Seems the 1903 upgrade issues have begun:
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In reply to Jacob-Bearce:"why are we duplicating what's already been done?" decision on Microsoft's
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I had two different 'normal' family members ask me over the weekend if I knew how they could put Win
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Well, that was a waste of time and money. Makes you wonder how this sort of nonsense gets approved over fixing
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"But it’s also contrary to Google’s ad-based business model, so this isn’t functionality that you’ll e
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You declared Chrome to be 'the best browser in the world' based on purely
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Success? Using the same metric that declares Chrome to be 'the best' browser in the world, the new E
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Courage.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:"Telemetry does not harm your privacy."Depends on what's being sent surely? MS
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In reply to Bart:Who said all the google services are gone/turned off? Not Microsoft's engineer that'
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's a bit early to claim this won't be an issue on the basis of a few ear
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I ha-te the w-ay the for-um so-ftwa-re hy-phena-tes mem-ber p-osts
Is there any technical reason why the words in my posts have to be automatically hyphenated at line endings instead of just appearing on the next line? It makes posts harder to read and there is no visual indication that it is going to occur until after the post is created!
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How about giving Google and their real customers (i.e. advertisers) the finger and allow users (i.e. the produ
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'The good bits without the bad'? That's a premature claim given they haven't provided a li
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Hopefully consumers realise the main point of this device is to kill the second-hand game market -and reject i
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I am unable to successfully edit my original post. After a bit more testing, the complete settings required ar
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Firefox 66 - how to block all autoplay videos
It has been possible for more than a year to block all autoplaying videos in firefox, with and without sound, via a single setting using the about:config URL but with recent versions of firefox, other settings have been introduced. With the release of firefox 66, the new settings to change are:
media.autoplay.default = 1 (i.e. block for all sites by default)
media.autoplay.allow-muted = false (i.e. block video without sound as well)
They seem determined not to offer the 'block everything' option in the UI.