This story is not worth expounding on any more than Paul has already done other than to say that Harmony is of
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Thanks this was useful! My original streaming box was an Apple TV and I really liked it. It got a little old t
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The wireless charging capability is intriguing. One of the things I would like to do is connect the tablet to
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At least the base config comes with 256G nowadays. When I bought my Mac back in 2014 I opted for the 128G mode
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Plus one on software updates. This continues to baffle me. I wish they would focus on that issue and make the
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Flutter is pretty cool, but just because a framework can target 5 different platforms doesn't make it par
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Nice article, thanks for sharing. I have recently been thinking about getting a turn table and buying some vin
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What sort of services do these Advanced Driver Assistance Services provide?
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Yeah new computers sure are nice these days. My Mac is 6 years old and still going strong but my girlfriend ne
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Whenever you get back to "Programming Windows", I would be interested in seeing a project or projects implemen
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The Acer Book RS looks nice. I would be interested in the full specs and a review on that one. Reminds me of m
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Are there any obvious missing apps? I'm using the amazon fire tv box and its pretty annoying not having a
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I got about half way through that article on Slashdot and bailed on it. Thanks for confirming that it was not
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In reply to Lyndon: One of the problems discovered with TikTok is that they were not disclosing the fact that
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To be fair, Donald Trump is not the only one concerned about TikTok. Joe Bidens campaign banned it from their
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In reply to Andi: I don't understand why you are asking Paul to "get with the times" here. He clearly mad
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:Where Paul goes wrong is by calling them "in-app charges". Apple does not use tha
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I like the idea of Flutter, but in practice I always find that cross platform environments like these present
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Yeah I have a hard time envisioning producer apps being delivered efficiently from the cloud. But then again I
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Why can't they just develop something until they are reasonably sure that it is going to work and then in
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I have found that not using a visual XAML designer helps me to understand XAML much better and be more product
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In reply to JoePaulson: Yeah unethical is the right word. I guess we shouldn't be surprised by that.
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Nice photos, but no. Regardless of the regime.
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In reply to red77star:"Without .NET and of other crap Microsoft have added over the years, you will get one he
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In reply to hrlngrv: The best thing MS could do is to spend more time developing high quality native apps for
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Paul Thurrott : "Its not just that, but how many people didn't buy these things?" ... referring to apple
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I started with VB in 94 after we moved to it from FoxPro for Dos :-D. So, its pretty much what I cut my teeth
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In reply to taswinfan: Well its a non issue because if you don't want to close it you don't have to.
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In reply to paladintom:Right, although I suppose you could just flip the phone back on itself in the open posi
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Amen brother
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I don't see 10X as a 10 replacement necessarily. I think they knew that running all kinds of applications
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This should be fun :-)
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The form factor looks fine. It looks thin enough. I guess with that hinge you could just leave it open so that
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I don't hate this idea. I think there can be many situations where an app can take advantage of both scre
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I'm really hoping that the next iteration of the Surface Laptop is something Panos focuses on. I was stro
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In reply to LocalPCGuy: I have tried that before. Selecting and downloading the area you want did not work wel
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I have never been happy with how Google and Apple handle offline maps. If you were to load your location onlin
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In reply to hrlngrv:I think the Kindle Cloud Reader gets it right with side by side pages. But yeah if I'
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I have to believe this results in a decline in people reading news content online, whatever that content may b
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If only there was a certification process like the one they had for hardware. Its not big shops like Adobe tha
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"...given the lack of quality and the fact that no one reads any more..."Maybe few people read newspaper but p
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Still on Windows 7 at work. I wonder when they will be forced to move to Windows 10 in the enterprise?
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This company gets an awful lot of attention on this site for a product that has less than 10% US Market share.
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I don't like the idea of my home being connected to the internet for things like locks and thermostats. S
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That's good news. Those handsets should continue to do well in China.
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In reply to hrlngrv: Oh God yes, auto play video is number one on my list.
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I have been using Edge Dev for months now. I like it, but I guess the reason I like it is that it just render
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In reply to paul-thurrott: Agreed. I hope they put a little of that focus on their development tools too. Don&
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Definitely worth noting that IOS 13 is so buggy. Saying that there are conflicting opinions on IOS 13 updates
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I don't care. As long as the keyboard is fixed and those fixes propagate down to the next 13inch Macbook
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Holding out for the 13 inch with working keyboard.
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Sounds good. Looks like WinUI 3.0 will essentially be XAML that works regardless of the Windows platform you c
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In reply to illuminated: Agreed. Its a nice feature but not a show stopper. They are right to release it even
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Well I guess the B-Teamers finally got it together. Windows 10 is pretty good now imo.
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Hmmmmm, I don't see a track pad on that second image! Have they gone all minority report on us?! :-D
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I'm using edge dev. Works great on my Windows 7 work machine. I don't even think about it anymore, i
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In reply to Jules_Wombat: While I don't think the chances of its success are good, I would argue that the
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Yep, I'm waiting for the new keyboard before getting a new macbook pro. Actually though, my mid 2014 macb
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I was slow to jump on the smart phone craze. I don't know if I'll ever buy a smart watch. No interes
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Meh, its okay to tease something you're not really ready to talk about yet. The problem will be when they
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Can you expound on the idea that it "makes sense" to separate Apple Music and Itunes?
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I use a mac but rarely us itunes. What does this news mean for itunes? Are Apple Music and Itunes fundamentall
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Yeah definitely room for something like this. It sounds similar to Chrome OS and that is appealing to users wh
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Okay, the gray wood look good, but the dark wood looks too much like the 2600.
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Well something going wrong is always a headache with Apple stuff but I can't understand why they don'
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In reply to RM: The point is that an eco system is a very hard thing to get people to buy into. Various vendor
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Lets see how good this company is. They now have an opportunity to develop their own mobile OS and make it wor
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"Huawei may launch its own operating system WITHIN MONTHS and 'it will work with all Android apps"Here yo
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In reply to WP7Mango: Well of course it focuses on the US Market otherwise it would hardly be worth keeping up
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In reply to WP7Mango: There might be implications in other countries. Profound implications, not really. If th
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Hardly. They can compete in their own market. They are a non-entity in ours. This is a political discussion. T
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You know Microsoft made a pretty good phone too there for a while, but nobody cared. It had no ecosystem and n
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I can't get too worked up about Huawei phones in the US. They hold less than 1% market share. Why are we
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Building an eco-system that people will adopt is a hard thing to do when you are late to the game. Just ask Mi
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Well they can still create their own services and app store to try and compete in their own market. If MS is a
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Yeah, I'm not losing any sleep over this.
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I guess I'm confused about how MS is using the open source project that is chromium. I never expected the
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Hindsight is 20/20. I can understand MS wanting to get in on the entertainment/phone side of things. The mista
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I would settle for just a tabbed experience in Windows Explorer. I can live without tabs on every application.
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agreed
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Yeah I doubt it too. Too bad, I like the idea for nostalgia sake but that is starting to wear off the longer w
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It seems like the argument Google is making is that consumers will be hurt because they won't have access
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Interfaces are an integral part of the architecture of a language or framework. Copying the interfaces of an e
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Its true that I don't get nearly as excited about Apple releases as I used to. The magic seems to have di
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I learned the hard way that Microsoft is too much of a moving target to develop for any more. I figured the UW
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Windows just needs to embrace their newer development technology and force developers to use it or not be supp
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Its hard to imagine a more serious bug than "My files are being deleted against my will". Is there no way to c
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The only comment in the article I would take issue with is that UWP is dead. There may not be many people usin
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I have no idea what Andromeda would look like or if it would be useful and honestly neither does anyone else.
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Yay! I have been using MightyText and it works mostly. But it is sometimes slow to connect and work with my ph
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Wait, here is an article discussing an idea for a future article and its categorized as "premium"?!
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In reply to karma77police:Why is it the worst release ever?
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I like the looks of this one.
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In reply to karma77police: I agree, although I do think that UWP could be good at developing desktop apps if i
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In reply to NoviceTechy: I also like Windows 10.
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I like the idea of "Sets", but if it only works with store apps as suggested then it won't be of much hel
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“People understand the Store. You use it to install apps, it manages updates to those apps, and because PWAs
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In reply to Marius_Muntean:It could be your only choice in the future. I personally think 30% is exorbitant. A
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Paint.Net is a fantastic program. Been using it for years. If the few advantages available in the store versio
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Windows 10 Creators Update has been very reliable for me on my desktop machine. My favorite version of the OS
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In reply to PincasX: There is some sense in deciding that having a camera and a phone in one device is worth a
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In reply to SvenJ:I would never spend $50k on a car no. I might spend that much on a truck that offers some ad
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In reply to PincasX:Fair enough, but that does not address the issue of what is so desirable about the $1000 p
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For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would spend $1000 bucks on an android device when you ca
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I don't find anything particularly compelling about any of MS's hardware offerings. I like Windows 1
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In reply to skane2600: Maybe your skills do have some value. There is a "developers" link on the site for Atar
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Atari 2600 was my second video game console. Before that I had one that just played derivations of pong. My ho
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Greetings from Delaware, which could be very close or very far away from your new destination. At the very lea
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In reply to Daekar: Typing on a phone is always a tedious operation for me. The one thing that has me consider
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Yeah this was a big moment in the mobile computing world. I was not on board and I'm really only barely o
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I guess I don't mind a couple more frequent updates after a large update like the Creators Update. There
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In reply to skane2600: MS is moving towards a line of products that will be of small form factor with cellular
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The point here, that some of the commenters seem to be missing, is that development tools from MS be capable o
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In reply to karma77police:That's just a statement made out of ignorance
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In reply to skane2600:Updates are handled through the windows store for UWP. If you are trying to write an aut
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In reply to karma77police:The average user could care less where the application is installed and rarely even
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In reply to karma77police: Not as easy as UWP from a users perspective. It depends on the applicatio
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In reply to illuminated: Your application also runs in a sandbox for increased security regardless of whe
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In reply to skane2600: Of course it was about the needs of developers. MS setup a development environment
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In reply to Atoqir: Development API's change over time to meet the needs of developers and platforms. Whe
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Looks like something that could be useful if it was integrated with NLE software
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Is it too much trouble to specify where quotes that you respond to are coming from? I don't even know who you
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So, is Edge now a browser you would consider switching to from Chrome yet? Why? Why Not?
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Well mid level specs are fine with me. I don't need a super powerful phone. A well designed mid level phone bu
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Wait, is this baloney because digital assistants are baloney or because a Samsung digital assistant is baloney
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In reply to lordbaal1: I think the point is that you can load the thing into a laptop shell or connect it
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"Addressed issue that required users to log out and log back in before using the application they installed us
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Focus! Microsoft is smart to focus their efforts on what is working for them.
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Andromeda. The galaxy ours is destined to be consumed by several billion years from now. Haha, great name