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MICROSOFT: "Pardon the interruption to people dying and the world on lockdown and everything but SKYPE USAGE I

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Have to agree, Paul. I've been diehard Windows and Android for decades. I've used others people'

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Convenient scapegoat

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In reply to VancouverNinja: Microsoft has become the most trustworthyLMFAO . Still waiting for that telemetry

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In reply to trparky: Don't care, I'll continue to use Microsoft (Chromium) Edge because it's a

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In reply to Silversee:Feel free to actually share what you believe the point of Edge to be because there is li

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> there’s nothing particularly nefarious about the data collection in Windows 10 that individuals can’t

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In reply to brduffy:Uh huh. Meanwhile Dona Sarkar is somewhere taking another selfie at the precise moment ano

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Welp guess I better look for a GSuite alternative before he ruins that too.

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In reply to MikeGalos: The 1,750,000,000 people choosing to use Windows over its competitors?Correction: Endin

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In reply to MikeGalos: Sorry but that's how the world works when you support all the OEMs in the world ra

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"This time we really fixed everything" -- yarite. Knock yourself out, Paul. Personally I"ll wait another 6 mon

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This is pathetic. Nicely done speaking truth to power, Paul. Someone needs to hold them accountable.

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In reply to Dan:Facepalm. What an idiotic post. Enjoy your downvotes.

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I just wanna know how did this folding tech fall into Chinese hands

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In reply to MikeCerm:Well gee do ya think maybe the tech has improved since 7 years ago?YA THINK?

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About damn time. Backward compat was a terrible substitute for a firstparty library. Hopefully MS learned thei

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Spammer alert

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In reply to yoshi:Nobody will care about xCloud or even know what it is -- dumb name first of all.

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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:. Hurr Durr Google giving speed data to the police Facepalm

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Lol Skype? Thats so mid-2000s

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Microsoft "loomed large" because AppleTV will support Xbox and PS4 gamepads, a Minecraft demo, and iPad still

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In reply to cmucodemonkey:  Microsoft makes many of their products available for Mac, iOS, and Android de

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In reply to Maktaba:BOOM goes the dynamite!

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In reply to MikeGalos:Imagine going through life this angry, ladies and gentlemen.

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Lol the Department of Justice is such an ironic name under this current administration (lack of). This sounds

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Alright closet MS intern, I'll bite. WHERE else is UWP going to be "in more place

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What a cluster

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In reply to ghostrider:Sad but true. And the Windows 10 hostages that *think* they're googling something

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In reply to yoshi:Nobody cares. Microsoft trying to pay people to be their friend = pathetic.

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Hopefully it has a Telemetry off switch for Windows 10

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In reply to ghostrider: I see the first people out of the blocks on an article like this are the naysayers. Us

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> Upset that Microsoft is no longer bringing window tabs to Windows 10?Nope. Can't be upset at what we

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In reply to jrickel96: There's no evidence of any growth with ChromeOSHaha. I hope MS and it's fanbo

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Come to daddy. Looks like I'll finally retire my LG V30

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Hololens was doomed from the get-go. What's comical is Nadella apparently isn't aware that some depa

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In reply to Michael_Jones: It seems great if you use a ton of data and not a lot of talk time.That's most

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I'm not sure who's more on denial on the meaninglessness of Build now - Paul, or the MS employees th

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In reply to Skittlez:Microsoft trying to slither their way into other companies mobile platforms after they fa

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No thanks. Windows will never touch my phone. Stop trying to hop the mobile bandwagon after windows phone fail

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In reply to zeetv:You're delusional to think Apple or Google would let failed UWP anywhere near their pla

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In reply to RM: I think once developers get use to the UWP featuresFacepalm. Did you not read the article at a

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What else is new. For nearly two decades Microsoft has treated Windows gaming like their redheaded stepchild.

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"For those unfamiliar with Mixer"Literally everyone. The fact you even have to qualify it like this isnt a goo

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In reply to navarac: Don't understand why someone down-voted your legitimate comment.A lot of closet MS e

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I'll be ecstatic if Gmail could simply ever respond to the Delete button being able to delete emails the

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In reply to MikeGalos: Microsoft's addition of a folding screen API to their operating systemsLol, what o

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In reply to MutualCore:Or Microsoft Privacy Invasion. It's just swapping one data thief for another.Fun f

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In reply to Stooks:So bitter. There's a reason the antiquated NMS/statcounter sites aren't picking u

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Why would I want a copypaste knockoff Chrome on Android, when I've already got the real Chrome on Android

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In reply to david.thunderbird:Swing and a miss

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In reply to jrickel96:You're hallucinating if you think MS will ever make another mobile device.It's

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In reply to Hypnotoad:"Here's some crappy backward compat games from 2006 instead - we don't need fi

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Who is this even for? Nevermind its the crappy and underpowered S model ..They couldn've made a discless

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In reply to dontbe_evil:You don't sound bitter at all, lol

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In reply to MikeGalos:I'm sure this has something to do with something.

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(a bear crapping in the woods)

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In reply to Jules_Wombat:WTH is windows mobile

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In reply to codymesh:Developers don't give a sh#t about new edge, old edge, no matter how many times MS r

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Give us a damn telemetry off switch or Win10 can rot in flatline uptake as it is now.

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In reply to lethalleigh:As if movies and TV won't get abandoned/canceled too.You're not getting it.

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In reply to MikeGalos:Found the MS employee.Nobody cares about age of OS. They care about what works best with

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Give us a telemetry off switch, control over updates - including ability to receive security-updates-only and

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In reply to MikeGalos:Bitter much?

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Hundreds of millions of Windows 7 PCs force converted to Windows 10 in the middle of the night without user co

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> And this isn’t some half baked port to the Windows ecosystem either.uh huh....

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This will be ignored by every other console, just like "Microsoft making UWP available outside Windows 10 Stor

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In reply to jsangerman:This guy gets it. The tantruming about higher pricing reminds me of the gamers crying t

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>improvements like these don’t justify price hikesThe market will decide what's justified or not. It

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Can't wait for a general release Chrome OS that I can install on any x86 PC, and do away with Windows 10

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In reply to RonH:Lol theyre not that financially suicidal.

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In reply to Rob_Wade:You're not the target demographic, and this game isn't Titanfall 1 or 2 so thos

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Good riddance to the awful metro tiles and useless cortana. Only took them 4 years to figure out nobody uses t

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In reply to lodmot:The Fisher-Price metro tiles have always been an abomination. Sooner they kill them for goo

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Much ado about nothing. Yet another MS API that everyone will ignore.

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In reply to ecumenical: The X has sold quite wellLOL

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"The feature had quite a bit of a rough history, and it could be completely gone soon."Yeah like being ut

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In reply to Mestiphal:"She" lol. You guys are too much.

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In reply to FalseAgent:I bet you think hiding them stops them from running and sending all your searches to th

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Those ugly metro tiles still clinging to the start menu from some abandoned, bygone mobile era.Thank god for C

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In reply to brduffy:Yep. Microsoft has already pretty much abandoned UWP, and will abandon the windows 10 stor

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In reply to NazmusLabs:Nowhere did he claim it was new information. It is however a good reminder since 7 is t

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In reply to FalseAgent:Pretty pathetic for 10 and the fanboys that 7 is still so close. Hundreds of millions o

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In reply to williamz:Windows is 3 decades of spaghetti code. Linux has some old code but the important stuff h

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In reply to longhorn:Nadella already pivoted away from Windows years ago - it's EOL in his eyes, and the

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In reply to Greg Green:And they're drowned out by the ugliness of the metro tiles that are still hanging

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Looks like my next laptop. I liked Pixelbook but screen a little too small. And I'm done with bloated Win

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In reply to Th4:Gimmick

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In reply to glenn8878:Because Siri is dumb as rocks next to Google AI

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Wishful thinking as nobody actually uses Skype anymore.

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"It’s unclear why Microsoft can’t simply communicate its defeat and move on. But then we’ve seen this k

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Embarrassing for the fanboys that always cried here that Cortana wasn't dead when it was obvious to every

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Some interns in a numbered cubicle in the bowels of MS that are still putting these superfluous updates out be

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They don't need to. They won.

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Microsoft slopping a new buzzword over everything like a five year old that just learned the F word.

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"Quickly" fixes? LOL

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Desperation since it's coming to PS4 shortly. This company wasn't the wisest to take a bribe check f

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If you want a phone that works on Verizon and Verizon MVNOs, OnePlus is NOT here for you.

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In reply to MikeGalos:Cool. But you're not really shining a light on anything not obvious to everyone.

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Unfortunately neither this nor backward compatibility old games are a substitute for their firstparty problem.

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No thanks they will just datamine the shit out of all my files and it will still be slow as ever.Search Everyt

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In reply to dontbe_evil:Troll alert

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In reply to ivan19998:Windows 10 has become a running joke at this point.

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In reply to FalseAgent:Objectively awful. The ghost of Windows Mobile says hi. The tiles repelled consumers, s

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In reply to FalseAgent:Why, because crappy, feature stripped phone apps - for a mobile platform they already a

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Good for Google. The hardware co's in Europe wanted their cake and eat it too.

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In reply to tsangmanfai:This is his blog where he gives his professional opinion, dingaling. Stop assuming he&

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In reply to Illusive_Man:Yep. Three decades of spaghetti code and endless patches and virus/malware scanning.

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Always the first thing I disable after cortada and the store.

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Boom! Headshot

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I have a better model: fuck off and let me choose when to update.Users shouldn't have to resort to third

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In reply to FalseAgent:Tweeten? Mytube? Lol I rest my case. Third worlder knockoff apps instead of just going

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Now if the windows 10 store would only get some improved apps.

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"differentiated innovation" - add another square to the nadella corporate-bullshit bingo card!

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No thanks. Sticking to proper Win32 version.The crappy mobile app UWP junk is too watered down for real produc

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How about a leap telemetry off switch

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In reply to skane2600:Maybe that hate is rooted in something though. Maybe MS has grown more and more user hos

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Idiots.

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In reply to gcalli:Why would anyone add MS bloatware to a nice clean phone image?

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In reply to skane2600:This is wishful thinking that ignores the data and reality. Phones continue to displace

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> Why are we so obsessed with this project?Outside of MS echo chambers, nobody actually is. Even the '

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*slow clap - you NAILED it Paul*I assume this is a vain attempt to block out their inner disappointment that M

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The Microsoft curse continues. They wrote a big check for console exclusivity for PUBG, only for everyone to s

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RIP, Semantic Machines. Apparently their AI couldn't remind them that when Microsoft acquires you, it&#

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Tough break for the fanboys that believed the "Amazon/MS" partnership rumors meant something. Amazon isn'

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In reply to Angusmatheson:MS never really cared about Cortana. They haven't even bothered to make it work

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MS's brilliant decision to limit Edge to Windows 10 (alienating the vast majority of windows users still

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"We need a Microsoft One Too"We do? Does it really matter except to MSFT zealots and shareholders? Windows 10

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"Microsoft has done a good job of showing that it cares about your data and trying to protect it"Haha. Almost

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In reply to jennyc:The "right thing" would've been to test more thoroughly internally by the QA division

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Telemetry off switch?

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In reply to Hypnotoad:Yep. The GWX-like secret backchannel they hardcoded to be able to bypass Windows Update

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Thank you Paul. Another refreshing 10/10 article that prob makes closet MSFT employees here uncomfortable, but

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Once again we watch MS just go through the motions of yet another bizarre and pointless product with no real u

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In reply to willr:Actually MS could've made Edge available on Windows 7, 8.1, Linux, MacOS, etc.Instead t

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In reply to HoloLensman:Plain and simple fact is Edge is the most easily hacked and exploited browser every ye

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In reply to SupaPete:Thing is though, Android NEVER force updates the way Windows 10 does. I don't think

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In reply to VancouverNinja: Don't expect them to add it to old versions of the OS or to a Mac OS with a t

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In reply to VancouverNinja:"Edge is on everything"Lol. No it's literally only on Windows 10 - and it'

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But Hololens

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In reply to Igor Engelen:"One Windows" was a sham from the get go.

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Game Bar = more bloat I delete pre-install from the ISO with MSMG Toolkit

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In reply to Nykilde_Gronne_Tage:If you don't think there are growing privacy problems with Microsoft now

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You can't kill what's already dead, and UWP never really amounted to anything more than a petty DRM

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In reply to JohnGalt1717:Boom goes the dynamite. Perfect summation.

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In reply to Win74ever:More bugs, more feature removals, more useless bloat apps and games that can't be

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In reply to MikeGalos: That's a really low level of fragmentation and makes life much easier for develope

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Now if only some new exclusives would arrive.

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Good riddance. Microsoft never bothered creating a killer firstparty title to showcase the damn thing.

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In reply to prjman: My opinion: PWA's will act to help MS with the app gap. App gap for what? Device

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Anything to distract from the lack of new IP and anemic current library of stale Halo/GoW/Fotza rehashes. Zzz

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Seems like they're trying to distract from the anemic Xbone library and lack of new IP or exclusives. L

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In reply to EZAB: What happens when Windows on ARM rolls out next month or December??What do you think is goin

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In reply to karma77police:Yep. They need a proper successor to Windows 7 and NOW. Lose the ugly tiles and mobi

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Ruh oh, general electric just dumped Microsoft too. 300,000 workers. Ouch.

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In reply to Stooks: The X runs a modified RX 580. A 580? LMAO. Where are you getting this utter BS? It&

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In reply to ecumenical:I bet you think Microsoft's "minimum spec" has something to do with proper VR. It

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In reply to Stooks:So you'll be paying $500 to play the exact same games. Congrats. I guess.

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In reply to SleepingPelican:  you want to play a game in native 4K you will need Xbox One X.You mean "4K"

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Niche of a niche. Not sure what MS bothered since the GPU in a surface studio can't drive proper VR.

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In reply to slerched: Unless MS decides to drop Cortana, which is unlikelyRight.. as "unlikely" as Microsoft d

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In reply to hrlngrv:Dude, give the Continuum fantasy a rest, this isn't 2015 anymore. Its over.

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In reply to conan007:Their actions weren't wrong since they told Microsoft first, and Microsoft chose to

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In reply to Vidua: This is the most beloved mouse by gamers in history of eSports.Uh, no. Good mouse, but let

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And they won't do it for PC even in this desperate Windows 10 store era of pretending to "really care abo

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In reply to Bats:Wall of drivel = scrollwheel

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In reply to skane2600:Actually 4K displays are pretty damn cheap these days, so the usage scenario isn't

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In reply to Speednet:Stuck because there are 3x as many ps4's as xboxen.The MS bribe to keep it off of PS

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About time Android got it's own FaceTime.Now iOS really has nothing good left.

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In reply to William_Kempf:Unfortunately for Microsoft, nobody is associating Minecraft with them. Just like a

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Wake me up when Microsoft stops "blocking" Halo 5 from Windows. Until then, cry me a river - Microsoft is jus

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In reply to Tunrip:The Microsoft today is a different beast...It really isn't. Its just that beggars can

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When Microsoft has been in the same market position as Sony enjoys now with PS4, they've behaved EXACTLY

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In reply to Winner:And Microsoft practically invented it.

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"See anything missing? Right. Microsoft’s Movies & TV service, which is locked to Windows 10."The Window

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This could come across as a bit desperate.

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In reply to Dan:No, it'll be the wishy-washy, Joe Belfiore "We're focusing on other things right now

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In reply to skane2600:So true.

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Wonder if they'll ever get around to fixing HDR, which they broke in the CU.

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In reply to karma77police:We definitely need a proper successor to Windows 7, but they've burned all thei

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In reply to NoFlames: Purpose of Surface Laptop is Windows SHahahaIn reply to NoFlames: and to drive developer

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"So far from the truth"Thats so not a denial. RIP, Surface

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In reply to FalseAgent:WHAT "windows hello enabled laptop"? There are none beyond surface that Consumer Repor

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LMAO. The idea of facial recognition long, long predates the crappy windows hello implementation. Good Lord I&

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Enough with the pointless gimmicks consumers ignore (Windows Hello) and give us a telemetry opt out.

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Schools can, but won't, because there's literally no point.

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Poor MS missed the VR wave because they bet it all on Hololens Hololens Hololens, developers and consumers wan

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I'll never use MSA, or the Store, or cortana, or any of their poorly executed me-too marketing features.L

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In reply to Waethorn:Boom goes the dynamite. Well played.

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So, 10 Store edition is just crippled 10 Pro with the desktop hidden. And all it can run are the crappy store

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In reply to John_Craig:Found the MS employee

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In reply to Roger Ramjet:Their stock price is irrelevant to the merits of this shitty, overpriced TV. The sto

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In reply to Angusmatheson: "Microsoft is totally ahead on this."Apparently not. Did you even read the article?

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In reply to ghostrider:"We remain committed to Kin""We remain committed to Surface RT""We remain committed to

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In reply to bluvg:They're glad to be set free from working for a dinosaur tech company on yet another dea

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In reply to MikeGalos:Found the Microsoft employee. To play devil's advocate, at least Google is upfront

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In reply to spacein_vader:This isn't a use case problem. It's a windows store problem. No interest.

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Fanboys when an app is announced for the windows store: "OMG it's finally happening the year of the windo

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Because that's what a platform like Server needs where stability is paramount - a constant state of flux.

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Not sure I believe it. Seems more like PR damage control since it's the internet is on fire about it bein

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Dumbest console branding ever.

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"22 of the 42 Xbox One games that Microsoft showed off yesterday are, in fact, Xbox One exclusives."Deceptive.

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In reply to MikeGalos:A few first party titles at best. Developers by and large will code for largest audience

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In reply to chaad_losan:No 4K won't have "huge requirements" because games won't have Scorpio specif

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In reply to MikeGalos:Old games don't sell new consoles unfortunately, and old games aren't a replac

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In reply to jrickel96: Retail has seen them demoed next to each other and said the X1X is noticeably superior.

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In reply to cawoodstock:What exclusives? There was a Forza rehash, that's literally it.

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In reply to Demileto:But Chrome was never limited to one version of one OS, you know.

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In reply to Bdsrev:Name a single way edge is better than chrome.

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Being limited to windows 10 is the first thing they need to correct. So pointless.Needs to expand to windows 7

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"Apple's long-anticipated move into Augmented Reality (AR) has delivered a decisive death blow to HoloLen

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Old games don't sell new consoles, and old gen games are not a substitute for a decent current gen librar

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Marketingspeak to English translation: "We have no VR plans for Xbox. We probably shouldn't have put all

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In reply to VancouverNinja:The pen latency is terrible on the Surface. Do you even own one? Try it in the sto

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In reply to teched:Not with the awful input delay of the surface pen.

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In reply to siko:"An easy thing" lol. Many Developers are philosophically opposed to creating anything for the

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Give me a paid prosumer version of 10 that's finally a proper successor to 7: telemetry opt-out, control

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"But then that’s the point of the Fluent Design System: To modernize Windows in a way that is evolutionary,

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In reply to Jeremy Petzold:Why would all your files be wiped out, brains?

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High time MS stopped crutching on this stale, 11 year old franchise and get some new IP. Scorpio launch is loo

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In reply to siko:Why should he stop using the industry standard browser?

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In reply to jimchamplin:More like Windows RT brought Tegra down because it was a useless OS. Because newest T

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In reply to ncwmail:Its a solution in search of a problem, and might actually matter if this were the alternat

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In reply to warren:Sure, bloated x86 Windows and it's decades of legacy code running endless updates, tel

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In reply to bluvg:Why wouldn't it be? It's the same old decades old, bloated Win32, just emulated.

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Bloated x86 Windows 10 - that MS can't even really get right on the most powerful Intel CPUs now 2 years

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In reply to Maelstrom:Oh boy, is "eSim" the new fanboy buzzword ala "Hololens", "OneCore" and "Continuum" that

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"Not only did history happen as it did, but it better prepared Microsoft for its natural future. A future tha

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The famous video of him laughing at the iPhone when it was unveiled ("They'll never sell") pretty much te

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In reply to skane2600:Notice how Xbox One isn't affected. Xbox Division keeps the "one windows" nonsense

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So Android-first and Windows last.. smart move since Android is the new windows.But copying Snapchat UI 1:1 is

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Netbooks 2.0 are going to flop harder than Windows RT. Snapdragon 835 is a flagship part already being gobbled

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In reply to Icybubba:Lmao "a ton of dev support for Windows 10" I'd like some of your hallucinogens.

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In reply to skane2600:ITunes and F.Lux arent real UWP apps anyway, they're fake app UWP wrappered Win32 p

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In reply to Jeff Jones:Why would Windows 10 Store edition "inspire" developers? It's literally just regul

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In reply to Bdsrev:Not sure that unsubstantiated rumors fed to the creepy MS blogger qualifies as "news"

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In reply to Jari Pennanen:Maybe Windows 11 will finally be the proper successor to 7 that everyone's wait

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In reply to rameshthanikodi:Except "info about computer health" shouldn't require 2000 datapoints in the

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In reply to lvthunder:Well, I'd buy one windows license if it was spyware free. And there are hundreds o

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Windows users: "Can't we just have a telemetry opt-out in 10?"Microsoft & zealots: "LOL put your tinf

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In reply to MikeGalos:Your defensive analogy needs work. Do you work for Microsoft?There's no excuse for

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So.. ship with crippled windows but the unlock to noncrippled is free. Why not just ship the damn things with

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In reply to Nicholas Kathrein:You're spot-on. Google is doing well to take their time to get Android app

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In reply to Daniel Blois:Meh - autofill should be kept Google only for security reasons, I don't want thi

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In reply to Chris Lindloff:"I don't use them therefore why does anyone else"? That it? Theyre extremely

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In reply to SvenJ:Bing vision? I don't even remember Bing.That said, Google goggles existed before everyt

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In reply to Tony Barrett:Yep. Emulating bloated x86 Windows on ARM is such a pointless hammering of a square p

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In reply to MikeGalos:I sense some bitterness about Android. People are actually engaging Android devices - ap

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Microsoft's recent "push" for EDU? What push? They removed the desktop icon from Windows 10, added an "S"

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Let me get this straight: Paul gushes over MS shipping a crippled Windows 10 SKU that's artificially lock

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In reply to skane2600:Ofcourse they're ignoring it. Why "convert" a perfectly good Win32 program into MI

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In reply to Henning Kilset:Why should "software manufacturers" jail their programs into a UWP fake-app just s

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In reply to Ugur:Manifesto = scrollwheel. Christ, dude.

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In reply to glenn8878:Yeah, $1000 for a dualcore with 4GB RAM and a crippled OS that won't even run your

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In reply to Waethorn:The Paul I used to know would have skewered this thing for being $1000 - $2199 and shippi

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In reply to munchieswolf:Worked on you, bro.

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In reply to glenn8878:Ofcourse Microsoft claims 7 is "less secure" to get people on 10, except the opposite is

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In reply to Engineerasaurus:Lots of small and midsized businesses run Pro because they cannot afford enterpris

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In reply to nwebster:That "faster release cycles" may be popular with some other companies does not create in

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What an absolute mess. And for no apparent gain to businesses, like the whole of 10.

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In reply to Narg:Newsflash: it's not about you.

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In reply to Tony Barrett:They created a substandard, crash prone (still freezes far too often when opening new

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In reply to Oubadah:They don't care about PC gaming. When you look past the marketing smoke and mirrors,

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This reads like a MS sponsored article, no offense I realize the bills have to get paid but it's a stretc

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In reply to skane2600:Well stated. This is the reality.

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In reply to rockycpa:"So it is easy for me to imagine a cutdown version of Windows that might be a bit faster

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Windows 10 Store Jail Edition

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In reply to bbold:" I am one of the few who prefer Edge, it's snappier, I use Office 365 and Windows

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In reply to Ugur:You don't have a clue how the industry works because you're an outsider seeing it t

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Reminds me of my last remaining Blackberry holdout friend always touting his battery life, and then you realiz

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In reply to rameshthanikodi:Calm down. Phil Spencer already disclosed the games that would be shown with the S

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In reply to Ugur:Except there won't be a "supreme" version of a multiplatform.. Publisher's see to t

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In reply to Vuppe:Eh, they've announced the games lineup they'll be showing with it at E3, including

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Unfortunately the lack of any kind of new exclusive IP is worrisome. The endless Forza/Halo/GoW copy-paste ite

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In reply to skane2600:"UWP isn't even universal within Windows since not all UWP apps run on all devices.

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In reply to James Wilson:Sorry but Wmobile's horrid, Fischer-price tiled UI and poor quality apps aren�

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"As is always the case, there were no new features" Sadly the case for everything shipped since Windows 7.

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In reply to Vidua:"People don't like Android"Found the MS employee. Newsflash: Android is the windows of

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In reply to Brian Devins:"Let's see a tile-based Android launcher similar to the Windows 10 Start menu."S

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No thanks, Microsoft would only find a way to lame Android up and ultimately bring it down - like a fat accoun

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In reply to jrickel96:Really, an old CoD title for the 360 is a "huge moment" for Xbone? I didn't realize

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In reply to chaad_losan:"Why is the PS4 so popular"Because it actually has a current gen library of exclusives

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In reply to Narg:Shoosh. Works great.

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In reply to Narg:Found the Microsoft employee. Sorry but losing access to manually changing a driver is bullsh

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In reply to hrlngrv:It should be YMMV

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In reply to Todd Logsdon:Why is your IT installing perpetual beta Windows 10 at all? There are no new business

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Does this disable telemetry for the gaming session?

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Only thing I ever downloaded in Edge was Chrome.

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In reply to JudaZuk:Holy meltdown batman

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In reply to Narg:"out does a 1070" lmfao keep dreaming

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In reply to chaad_losan:It's really not about you.

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In reply to JC:Sony will drop the price of the PS4 Pro to $349 or even $299 and cut the $500 Scorpio off at th

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In reply to prettyconfusd:Found the MS employee.

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Blech. Only a creepy MS intern like Brad thinks any of this isn't a major regression.

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Elephant in the room: Scorpio will have no exclusive IP games. With a W10 PC and a PS4 Pro you've got all

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Now with Wmobile dead, UWA apps are pointless - certainly have no place on the desktop since they don't d

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More lip service. Still waiting for that Telemetry OFF option.This is the #1 most requested feature and compla

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In reply to scumdogmillionaire:People know the store exists, they just know how crappy the not-even-good-enoug

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Windows store apps? Oh you mean those feature-poor phone oriented widgets I avoid because they have no place o

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What a mess. "Ship it out buggy and fix it later.. " seems to be the new mantra. I sure do miss the service pa

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In reply to smoothbond:Scorpio isn't going to play games "native 4k" either and will have to resort to up

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In reply to chaad_losan:Or a file. Period.

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In reply to chaad_losan:Spoken like a true fanboy. Psst I'll let you in on a little secret that Phil Spen

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In reply to CompSciGuy31415:Because the magical cloud is overblown marketing noise.

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In reply to Ron Diaz:Yep. I couldn't get into Outlook for over an hour during their outage the other day.

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In reply to RM2016:All you have to do is look at the ugly Fischer-Price tiles of Windows phone to realize why

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In reply to Matt Barker:What "basics" is it missing? Google Assistant is far superior to cortana anyway. The

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In reply to Nicolas De Roo:PEBCAK.

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They still haven't dropped that ugly hinge..

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In reply to petteri: "I can no longer start Groove with this update nor can I update the store app."You must h

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Good lord what does the minutiae of a random new build with no new features matter when the house is on fire a

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Wow the mental gymnastics Paul is going through to avoid acknowledging the elephant in the room: this could al

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"the benefits of UWP are largely unknown to both users and developers." That's because they largely don't exis

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In reply to skane2600: That would've been way too forward thinking.  No, they decided to go straight for

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In reply to lmoritz: Semantics.  Windows 8 Metro app = WinRT8.  UWP=WinRT10.   Same shit.  

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In reply to skane2600: Perfectly stated.  

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In reply to Atoqir: The regular MSFT employees aren't posting today. Maybe they finally had an all-hands-on-de

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In reply to doofus2: Actually its been 6 years since MS first started begging developers to create Metro/WinRT

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In reply to moorpipe: Wall of bitter text.  FWIW, not even Microsoft's CEO uses a windows phone - why wou

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In reply to DataMeister: "I wonder if thurrott.com readers have a higher than average Edge and IE percentage i

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Dude looks like a creep that sells stolen watches in a Brooklyn alley.

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In reply to prjman: "For gamers, every frame matters.."  Real gamers that actually care about framerates

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UWP crap only = pass  

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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein: Truth.  Google gets bashed a lot around here due to the bitter WMobil

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In reply to gwydionjhr: Apples v Oranges.  Google's implementation here is slicker and simpler.  

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In reply to prjman: Too bad Windows Mobile is abandonware.

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Embarrassing for Microsoft how Nokia phone sells out the moment it gets Android.

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In reply to James_Wilson: Soooooon™ Just wait for Mango™ Just wait for Tango™ Just wait for

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In reply to skane2600: Degree it'll boost Xbone sales = zero.  But I do wonder how much MS paid the devel

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Idiots.  If they want to create a SKU of Windows 10 that's free and ad-supported, fine.  But not in

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In reply to DaveMcLain: Scrub/jog wheels are nothing new.  This would be overpriced for that function any

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Right... "only" 111 million users..  I mean.  WHY EVEN TRY.  /wrists, Google! And if this same

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In reply to JC: "Windows 10 adoption passes 48% on Steam" Millennials duped into believing the marketing

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In reply to MikeGalos: Maybe you should've stayed in school.  Just sayin.

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In reply to Jules_Wombat: She's so inept I wonder if she wasn't just some winner in a "Win a job at Microsoft"

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In reply to karma77police: "Ultimately Microsoft will replace all Win32 elements in Windows 10 to UWP includin

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In reply to skane2600: Xbox Division isn't allowing UWP garbage anywhere near its pristine store.  That w

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In reply to ghostrider: Scorpio is vapor.

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In reply to mrdrwest: Consumer lack of interest in UWP Developer lack of interest in UWP.   Microsoft lac

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"Learn UWP development"  Ahahahahahahahaha!  Thank you Paul, you brightened up my Friday.  

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In reply to SDreamer: "Eventually"?  Keep in mind WPG is over 10 years old.  So if Metro/UWP was so

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And this is a big reason why many people are resistent to "change" in this current post-7 Metro era: MS consta

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"We are launching two new experiences" Oh for the love of PR-speak, beating around the bush.  New UI on t

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In reply to MikeGalos: "Thank you. I've been fighting this one all morning.  I ended up posting this on F

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More rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic..   Windows software on the desktop has never been in a mo

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The proper care of your Microsoft Account is not to have one.

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In reply to MikeGalos: Continuum is stillborn so I'm not sure where MS really tackled anything.

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In reply to glenn8878: Windows isn't even part of the conversation.  This chip will be powering the newes

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In reply to Vidua: "Next" HoloLens?  MS couldn't even get anyone interested in the first one, certainly n

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Why in God's name would anyone install Microsoft's Cortana trojan on Android, especially when it's inferior to

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"Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Signature Edition. What they really mean is that this is a Signature PC, meaning no

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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein: Eh, Brad is a Microsoft intern.  He's in the MS bubble because it's where

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I wish MS would apply the "Clean PC" efforts to cleaning the crapware and spyware out of Windows 10.

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In reply to MikeGalos: $3500 and its got the ugly chrome arms and square base of a 1960's table lamp.

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In reply to jwfisher01: Edge is dead in the water.  As long as its stuck in UWP/windows store jail and is

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Paul must be aware that Google has two new Android Wear 2.0 flagships on the way for Q1'2017 with an unveiling

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Not to nitpick, but the winner of "Laptops/2-in-1's" is Windows 7, not Windows 10.    Windows 8.1 is