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bschnatt

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    Speaking of which…
    By bschnatt, 1 month ago
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    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Linux
    bschnatt General Discussion Linux 1 month ago 3 Replies
    Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?)
    By bschnatt, 4 months ago
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    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    bschnatt Microsoft Microsoft 4 months ago 11 Replies
    .NET fans fear being "SilverLighted" again…
    By bschnatt, 8 months ago
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    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Dev
    bschnatt Microsoft Dev 8 months ago 10 Replies
    Step outside of your comfort zone…
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    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Uncategorized
    bschnatt Microsoft Uncategorized 1 year ago 0 Replies
    Suggestion for gaming article…
    By bschnatt, 1 year ago
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    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Games
    bschnatt Microsoft Games 1 year ago 2 Replies
    My experience with Windows on ARM
    By bschnatt, 1 year ago
    13 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Windows
    bschnatt General Discussion Windows 1 year ago 13 Replies

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    Completely agree! I loved it (especially the Charms bar or whatever that was called). Nice work ;)

    Posted 2 days ago on Programming Windows: The Product (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    Agree. I loved the whole UWP thing (i.e., developers being able to code once and run on all UWP-supporting pl

    Posted 2 days ago on Programming Windows: The Product (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    I don't have a problem with people who want to work from home. I just want the option to work in an office if

    Posted 1 week ago on Ask Paul: April 6 (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    Leaving secret Microsoft-related conversations in the Microsoft cloud and not expecting someone at Microsoft t

    Posted 1 week ago on Ask Paul: April 6 (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    Last question. All our esteemed tech leaders seem hell-bent on pushing us into a virtual world where everybod

    Posted 1 week ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, May 6 – 8 Comments

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    I'm so done paying for services I rarely watch, and I've recorded enough over-the-air stuff on my Plex NAS to

    Posted 2 weeks ago on We Need to Talk About Netflix (Premium) – 26 Comments

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    It's probably a mixture of both. I don't like subsidizing garbage, and I don't find much there to watch (espe

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Report: Netflix Wants to Invest in Fewer, Better Originals – 32 Comments

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    Yep, inflation ramped up long before Putin invaded Ukraine, but we're told it was Putin and Trump's fault. Rig

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Report: Netflix Wants to Invest in Fewer, Better Originals – 32 Comments

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    Thank God miamimauler came along. Finally! Someone you probably like less than me, LOL

    Posted 3 weeks ago on This Week in IT – Is Microsoft Killing Off Patch Tuesday? – 19 Comments

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    I don't mind paying a monthly fee for streaming. I get access to lots of music I don't own and (at least with

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Ask Paul: April 22 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    About 3 months ago, I dragged out a bunch of cassette tapes to listen to for old times sake, and the player I

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Ask Paul: April 22 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    I'm the same way when it comes to tinkering and programming. Aside from money-earning potential, I love the fa

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Ask Paul: April 22 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    Brad Sams, if your company comes out with a way to make Windows 10 or 11 look and act like Windows 8, I'll buy

    Posted 4 weeks ago on Programming Windows: Anticip8 (Premium) – 6 Comments

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    I'm a rebel, I guess, because I actually liked the Windows 8 UI (one of the reasons I bought a Windows RT tabl

    Posted 4 weeks ago on Programming Windows: Highs and Lows (Premium) – 11 Comments

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    This would be Donald Trump all over again. Unless he fires almost all of Twitter's IT staff, they're gonna sab

    Posted 1 month ago on Elon Musk Wants to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion – 43 Comments

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    Made you look... ;)

    Posted 1 month ago on Speaking of which… – 3 Comments

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    Speaking of which...

    Not too long ago, I mentioned Qubes OS in Ask Paul, and I bemoaned the lack of good Windows integration there. It looks like some people have been working to improve that. https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2022/04/10/windows-integration-by-tabit-pro/ I haven't gotten back to Qubes OS, so I can't vouch for any of this, but good to hear!

    Posted 1 month ago on Speaking of which… – 3 Comments

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    I'm on Amazon Music right now to save money (and I've tried it before), but this will be the last time. They r

    Posted 1 month ago on Amazon Music Unlimited is Getting Its First-Ever Price Hike – 7 Comments

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    '...the “number one requested Windows Insider for Business feature since forever” 'Incorrect. Let me fix t

    Posted 1 month ago on Here Are the New Windows 11 Features That Microsoft Announced – 25 Comments

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    I'm surprised Edge doesn't have a larger marketshare despite the controversies. It's a really nicely designed,

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Edge Becomes the Second Most Popular Web Browser – 16 Comments

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    "running Windows in a VM under Linux" is what I meant to say. Ugh...

    Posted 1 month ago on Ask Paul: April 1 (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    I've been thinking a lot about alternatives too, and I think I've changed direction when it comes to running W

    Posted 1 month ago on Ask Paul: April 1 (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    This stinks of an April Fool's joke, but what do I know? I'm the guy who pushes the carnivore diet, remember?

    Posted 1 month ago on Report: Microsoft Adds New Android Division Following Internal Reorg – 34 Comments

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    Well, you gave your opinion of the diet in your newsletter. It's a shame I'm not allowed to give MY opinion. S

    Posted 1 month ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 21 – 20 Comments

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    Nope. I'm not wrong. Sorry, not sorry... I'd love to foot-race you even though I'm 5 years older than you (and

    Posted 1 month ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 21 – 20 Comments

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    "Tabs and the lack of a 2 pane layout option seem to be the major criticisms of File Explorer and have been fo

    Posted 1 month ago on Ask Paul: March 18 (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    I forgot to mention that you *can* dual boot with Windows if you want, but the Qubes people recommend against

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 18 – 13 Comments

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    Actually, I do have a question. Have you ever looked into the Qubes operating system? It's for hard-core priv

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 18 – 13 Comments

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    I realize your complaints about Windows (and Microsoft in general) are heartfelt and good fodder for your care

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 18 – 13 Comments

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    I know you've said you would never visit Mars, but would you consider a trip to the moon? Eventually, there'l

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 11 – 9 Comments

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    Guilty as charged... ;)

    Posted 2 months ago on More Mobile: Less Mobile? (Premium) – 26 Comments

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    Dr. Paul Saladino (the carnivore guy) recently moved from California to Austin, and then bought a place in Cos

    Posted 2 months ago on More Mobile: Less Mobile? (Premium) – 26 Comments

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    They do, but it resets more than I'd like. You lose settings, open tabs, extensions, and more. Not willing to

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: March 4 (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    Yes, I meant the Home button on the keyboard. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I went to the bottom of a

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: March 4 (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    I have another question. Have you noticed that the Home button doesn't work right in Edge? For example, you c

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 4 – 12 Comments

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    "insane person Richard Stallman". LOL, agree...

    Posted 2 months ago on Miguel (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    Addendum: The article I read hinted that this behavior by Apple may, in fact, be illegal...

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 4 – 12 Comments

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    A short while ago Microsoft announced a way to create hybrid apps for Windows on ARM (half whatever / half ARM

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 4 – 12 Comments

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    "...cat-like stretch, Bill Gated delivered..."

    Posted 2 months ago on Programming Windows: The Wow Stops Now (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    Wow, Paul. I'd be too nervous about getting screwed to do what you're about to do. I've thought about buying

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, February 28 – 26 Comments

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    I actually prefer the styling of earlier versions of Windows. Windows 10 seems rather bland and boring. Bring

    Posted 2 months ago on Programming Windows: It’s Not Going to Work (Premium) – 6 Comments

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    Unless I'm mistaken, this is a long-term problem for non-Premium members. You're one of many who've complained

    Posted 2 months ago on Programming Windows: It’s Not Going to Work (Premium) – 6 Comments

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    I would love to switch to Vivaldi, but it's just too sluggish (unless they've fixed that recently)...

    Posted 3 months ago on Vivaldi 5.1 is Now Available on Windows, Android – 3 Comments

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    I love the utility of all these computing devices, but the problem for me is just finding the time to *use* th

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Tablet PC Roundup (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    Holy crap, Paul. You've changed ;) Am I the only one who thinks "2022" is some science-fiction thing? It doe

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Tablet PC Roundup (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    The only one I like is the 2008 version. The rest of them are boooooring...

    Posted 3 months ago on Google Updates the Chrome Icon – 17 Comments

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    I would love to see you do a series on your experience using alternate operating systems (Linux, Haiku OS, Chr

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Alpha Tales (Premium) – 8 Comments

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    Paul, I think you just convinced me to go with Flutter for my next project. As to old phones, I know I could

    Posted 3 months ago on Ask Paul: February 4 (Premium) – 7 Comments

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    I haven't seen the Wheel of Time yet, but I've read the first 3 books, and based on reviews, what Amazon is pu

    Posted 3 months ago on Amazon Posts Massive Quarter, to Raise Prime Prices – 38 Comments

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    Hmm, you could almost say it's a... prime... example of inflation. Thank you, I'm here all night...

    Posted 3 months ago on Amazon Posts Massive Quarter, to Raise Prime Prices – 38 Comments

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    Well, I hear Brady is available now, LOL. Ok, not really, and I wouldn't want him...

    Posted 3 months ago on First Ring Daily 1196: Bungie’s Football – 7 Comments

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    Tell Brad the Steelers decided to take a vacation this year to let some of the "little guys" win for a change.

    Posted 3 months ago on First Ring Daily 1196: Bungie’s Football – 7 Comments

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    Yeah, but is it *safe*? ;)

    Posted 3 months ago on What I Use: Mexico City, January 2022 (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    "Kindle tablet", not "Kindle table". Ugh. Editing, guys??

    Posted 3 months ago on Google: Android Tablets are the Future of Computing – 81 Comments

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    I'm no fan of Google (or Microsoft or Apple or Fakebook or....) but I'm glad to see Google doing this. For tho

    Posted 3 months ago on Google: Android Tablets are the Future of Computing – 81 Comments

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    I think the Achilles heel for BeOS was that it was only single-user. Rearchitecting it for multi-user use wou

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Meanwhile, in Cupertino (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    You need to rename your app to .FREEMYBROWSERONWINDOWS11pad. You know, to make a point. Just sayin'... ;)

    Posted 3 months ago on The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): It’s (A)live! (Premium) – 7 Comments

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    Really wish they would come up with better names. You know, to differentiate versions? It must be maddening to

    Posted 3 months ago on Report: Project Monarch Was Delayed, Now Expected This Spring – 46 Comments

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    Hmm, maybe Inimitable Incident. Iota? Iteration? Never mind, I'll come up with something better ;)

    Posted 3 months ago on Report: Project Monarch Was Delayed, Now Expected This Spring – 46 Comments

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    You're both inimitable. You should change the name of the show from Windows Weekly to Inimitable Instance ;)

    Posted 3 months ago on Report: Project Monarch Was Delayed, Now Expected This Spring – 46 Comments

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    Have you ever been to Scotland? That's the only other country I've been to, and it was a fantastic trip (alth

    Posted 3 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, January 24 – 12 Comments

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    Amazon *does* do 2 factor authentication. I've had mine set up for something like 4 months(?)...

    Posted 3 months ago on Ask Paul: January 20 (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    I suspect that regulators will block this...

    Posted 3 months ago on Microsoft Gaming: Key Takeaways (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    I'm glad you're more mobile now with your setup. When the zombie hordes emerge (and they *will* emerge), you'

    Posted 3 months ago on More Mobile: On the Road (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    It's probably safe to say that no single software application (if you can call Windows an "application") has b

    Posted 3 months ago on Former Exec: Microsoft Should Spin Off Windows and Office – 28 Comments

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    I'm mostly interested in cross-platform .NET MAUI stuff. I'm assuming .NETpad doesn't already run on a Mac...

    Posted 4 months ago on .NETpad Resurrections (Premium) – 11 Comments

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    Turned off hardware acceleration, restarted the browser, cleared the image cache, reloaded the page, no differ

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    The images are there, so they're not being blocked. They're just not displaying properly. I haven't had time t

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    I did. Didn't change a thing (and I'm still dealing with the consequences - logins, mainly). I'll futz with

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    No change. I can see the larger text in the larger box but none of the rest of it. I can see the arrows now,

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    Sorry for the late reply guys. I was getting an error message from the site when I tried to post this, so I as

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?)

    I'm having a problem getting the illustrations in the website below (and the illustrations on other similar tutorial sites) to show correctly. I can see the box outlines, but no text within the boxes, or lines connecting boxes. I have similar problems with Firefox, but using a white theme (often) fixes that. (Using a dark theme in Firefox with the site below shows the text within the boxes, but the lines connecting them are barely visible.) I've tried using white themes everywhere, resetting Edge, turning off Dark Reader, etc, and nothing has worked. Is anyone else having this problem? I'm assuming this has something to do with transparency? https://blog.avenuecode.com/understanding-the-javascript-concurrency-model

    Posted 4 months ago on Can anyone else reproduce this Edge bug (feature?) – 11 Comments

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    "$3 trillion is worth more than Walmart, Disney, Netflix, Nike, Exxon Mobil, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Morgan Stanle

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple is First Company to Hit $3 Trillion Valuation – 32 Comments

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    Correction #2: The Kindle app *does* run on the PassPort, but not without a couple weird error messages to sta

    Posted 4 months ago on BlackBerry OS devices will stop working on January 4, 2022 – 9 Comments

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    Pain? What pain? ;)

    Posted 4 months ago on Programming Windows: The .NET Era (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    Glad to see you getting back to this (but no Flutter?) This is gonna take me a long time to read this - proba

    Posted 4 months ago on Programming Windows: The .NET Era (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    Correction: The Feedly app login *may* work, but it only prompts you for Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft

    Posted 4 months ago on BlackBerry OS devices will stop working on January 4, 2022 – 9 Comments

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    I decided to pull out my Passport and Z30 and set them up again (while I still can)! I wanted to see what I c

    Posted 4 months ago on BlackBerry OS devices will stop working on January 4, 2022 – 9 Comments

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    This actually makes me sadder than when I think about Windows Phone / Windows Mobile. The BlackBerry 10 OS wa

    Posted 4 months ago on BlackBerry OS devices will stop working on January 4, 2022 – 9 Comments

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    I have a family member who is "all in" on Apple and swears by it. Even though you don't want lock-in, it might

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Invasion? (Premium) – 57 Comments

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    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    Posted 4 months ago on I’m Switching to the iPhone – 147 Comments

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    I only kept a few issues that talked about the "amazing" Amiga computers ;) The rest I deep-sixed...

    Posted 4 months ago on Ask Paul: December 24 (Premium) – 8 Comments

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    I like Andrew, but it always felt like he was just going through the motions for that podcast. Not always, but

    Posted 4 months ago on what the tech – best / worst of 2021 – 7 Comments

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    I've recently dusted off my Lumia 950 XL to find out what the current status of it is (what apps still run, wh

    Posted 4 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, December 24 – 11 Comments

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    If Microsoft is smart, they will be working on a price-friendly version of Hololens. With more and more compan

    Posted 4 months ago on Ask Paul: December 17 (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    Agree. This is user-hostile and should warrant an immediate NO! from consumers. If there are any recent "consu

    Posted 4 months ago on Ask Paul: December 17 (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    To minimize confusion, maybe the user could only order these parts separately on-line (stores would only sell

    Posted 5 months ago on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 Review – 22 Comments

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    I'd like to see vendors standardize on laptop keyboard / monitor connections, so you could buy the upper half

    Posted 5 months ago on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 Review – 22 Comments

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    Aren't there flagships from other vendors you could consider? Sony? Oppo? OnePlus? I'm assuming you just won

    Posted 5 months ago on Pixel Imperfect, 2021 Edition (Premium) – 57 Comments

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    "The Martian" will always be my favorite of all time (the unabridged, uncensored version read by R.C. Bray).

    Posted 5 months ago on My Favorite Audiobooks of 2021 (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    I'm excited to see the desktop app support improving. I'm keen on trying Flutter to do cross-platform developm

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Releases Flutter 2.8 – 7 Comments

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    Agree about the episode with Anders Hejlsberg. One of my heroes too. Love Delphi and Object Pascal. It's too

    Posted 5 months ago on My Favorite Podcasts of 2021 (Premium) – 9 Comments

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    "...browser maker intercepts..." Ugh, still no edit, guys?

    Posted 5 months ago on Ask Paul: December 3 (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    "You can rest easy knowing that every time someone fires up Edge for the one and only time and uses it to down

    Posted 5 months ago on Ask Paul: December 3 (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    I think Microsoft is taking cues from WeChat. They want this browser to be and do everything for everyone, and

    Posted 5 months ago on Users Push Back Against Bloatware in Microsoft Edge – 49 Comments

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    I don't have to do any of those things! Right now the top of my laptop screen is about where my chin is, so i

    Posted 5 months ago on More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    "...if I raised..." Ugh

    Posted 5 months ago on More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    I should add that when I *do* raise my standing desk, the laptop screen ends up being at the position you reco

    Posted 5 months ago on More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    Well, if I raised my laptop that high, the only other thing that would move is my eyeballs. My head would stay

    Posted 5 months ago on More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    I don't understand why you need to raise the laptop up so high. Can't you just put the laptop on the desk and

    Posted 5 months ago on More Mobile: The New Setup (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    Can you use that reverse charging thing you mentioned (putting your earbuds on the back of the phone) if you h

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Pixel 6 Pro Review – 50 Comments

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    Rather than Intel adopting ARM features, perhaps future ARM chip makers will adopt some x86/x64 features to bo

    Posted 5 months ago on About Microsoft’s Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    You can watch old TV shows up the wazoo for free with ad-sponsored streaming services like Pluto, Xumo, Stirr,

    Posted 5 months ago on Hulu + Live TV Picks Up Disney+, ESPN+ – 10 Comments

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    Agree (for the most part). I think most users (myself included) use a particular browser for the features it p

    Posted 5 months ago on Ask Paul: November 19 (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    Even more important, can you install Linux on it?

    Posted 5 months ago on Hands-On with the Snapdragon WOA Mini PC – 33 Comments

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    How much space is left over after you finish updating it and all?

    Posted 5 months ago on Hands-On with the Snapdragon WOA Mini PC – 33 Comments

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    I have a number of pet peeves concerning browsers that I thought the brainiacs would have figured out by now,

    Posted 5 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 19 – 12 Comments

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    Here's an idea. Maybe Microsoft could block off certain features if a non-Edge browser is used (which would wo

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds – 121 Comments

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    Agree. I now prefer (and use) Edge, but Windows has always been about user choice, and this behavior is the op

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds – 121 Comments

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    One feature I'd like to see is a place to make software announcements (one and done, no update announcements)!

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: November 11 (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    If neither Surface nor XBox make money for Microsoft, then what's the point of having them? To make people lik

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: November 11 (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    Ok, I meant to break that down into "1) something, 2) something else" and got sidetracked. Gee, an edit button

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this week – 14 Comments

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    I have another question. I think Microsoft's reputation among "yutes" as an old, stodgy IBM-like monolith (whi

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this week – 14 Comments

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    For them to be able to keep the stores open, they'd have to: 1) make their Surface products a lot better (in o

    Posted 6 months ago on I Swear That I’ll Never Buy Another Surface Device – 32 Comments

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    Your experience is in stark contrast to WordPerfect Corporation back in the day. They offered endless free tec

    Posted 6 months ago on I Swear That I’ll Never Buy Another Surface Device – 32 Comments

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    I read (somewhere) that NEW Amiga games are being developed (and, of course, AmigaOS is still being updated).

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this week – 14 Comments

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    How successful do you think Meta's VR / metaverse thing is going to be? I wouldn't trust Meta (*cough*Faceboo

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 5 – 11 Comments

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    I see it (and I'm Premium)...

    Posted 6 months ago on 20 Years Later: My Original Apple iPod Review (Premium) – 34 Comments

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    I used to own the Creative Nomad. (I used to hoard old devices for nostalgia reasons, but eventually everythin

    Posted 6 months ago on 20 Years Later: My Original Apple iPod Review (Premium) – 34 Comments

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    And yet the same people who are going after Google are (apparently) ignoring the audio issue. Saying these ar

    Posted 6 months ago on Google is Pulling YouTube from Roku – 42 Comments

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    All I'm saying is that Roku has their priorities out of whack. They should have fixed this hardware issue a ye

    Posted 6 months ago on Google is Pulling YouTube from Roku – 42 Comments

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    Yes, I agree they have a valid issue here, but they're crying about a dog running around their front yard tram

    Posted 6 months ago on Google is Pulling YouTube from Roku – 42 Comments

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    I think Roku should be more concerned with the fact that a ton of their recent devices keep experiencing perio

    Posted 6 months ago on Google is Pulling YouTube from Roku – 42 Comments

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    I just love how this has played out:1) We take 30% - take it or leave it!2) Regulators start snooping around2b

    Posted 6 months ago on Google Lowers More Play Store Developer Fees – 9 Comments

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    Well, these newer machines running the VM are quite a bit faster and more powerful, so I think it should do a

    Posted 6 months ago on Hands-On with Android on Windows 11: Not as Seamless as Promised – 19 Comments

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    "How do I move to Ireland". Hmmm. I thought about that once or twice myself... ;)

    Posted 6 months ago on Hands-On with Android on Windows 11: Not as Seamless as Promised – 19 Comments

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    They lost me with the big rubber stick in the middle of what is supposed to be a device for typing characters.

    Posted 6 months ago on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2021) First Impressions – 31 Comments

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    I was thinking more along the lines of putting your houseboat on a trailer and high-tailing it out of there on

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: October 8 (Premium) (Updated) – 26 Comments

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    You had to write this article, Paul? Are you *trying* to give Mary Jo a heart attack? Geez...

    Posted 7 months ago on Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too – 32 Comments

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    A dark mode would be very welcome, but I won't be on Windows 11 for some time. I'd like to see it come to Wind

    Posted 7 months ago on Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too – 32 Comments

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    I think Mozilla should just adopt Chromium and get it over with. I know there's supposed to be something bad a

    Posted 7 months ago on Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy? – 28 Comments

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    I'm glad you mentioned the VW scandal. I will NEVER buy a car from them, or Mercedes Benz or Audi (they have a

    Posted 7 months ago on Is Mozilla Firefox Getting Sketchy? – 28 Comments

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    Go to the Forums section. Paul usually puts up a post asking for questions...

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: October 8 (Premium) (Updated) – 26 Comments

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    I briefly conversed with someone in Florida who lived in a sailboat full time. He sent me pictures of the int

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: October 8 (Premium) (Updated) – 26 Comments

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    I'm a little ignorant of terminology here, but if you had to pick between living in a RV (self-driving) and a

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, October 8 – 10 Comments

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    ...which is also anti-competitive.

    Posted 7 months ago on Google Search Rivals Call on EU to Do Something – 12 Comments

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    Right, but she doesn't care to find an alternative. My point is that no one is being blocked from finding one

    Posted 7 months ago on Google Search Rivals Call on EU to Do Something – 12 Comments

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    No one, absolutely no one, is being blocked from finding out about other search engines, or switching to one (

    Posted 7 months ago on Google Search Rivals Call on EU to Do Something – 12 Comments

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    You would think they would have given it a better name, like "The New Awareness Mouse" or something like that.

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On with the Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse – 15 Comments

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    Agree about the automatic window restoration thing (although I don't have Windows 11 yet). That's been one of

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 11’s Broken Promises (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    PCs are fast enough to make a full-time emulator (if done right) workable. Microsoft should have released a n

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 11’s Broken Promises (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    Actually, I would have said "Because Google said NO!", but I'm quibbling... ;)

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 11’s Broken Promises (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    Simply put, there wouldn't be enough of a return on their investment. As much as it pains me to admit this (I

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Phone Revival – 11 Step Plan – 14 Comments

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    Did you ever own / use a Windows Phone/Mobile device? If so, what did you love / hate about it?Use an Amiga (

    Posted 7 months ago on Question for 9/24? – 14 Comments

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    I'd rather have the Duo 2 over a folding phone simply because I think it would have fewer hardware problems, b

    Posted 7 months ago on Surface is Back, Baby (Premium) – 55 Comments

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    If that would double the ports on their new devices, go for it! ;)

    Posted 7 months ago on Today’s the Day, Surface Fans! – 15 Comments

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    How could something be water resistant but not dust resistant? #smh

    Posted 7 months ago on Amazon Announces New Kindle Paperwhite E-Readers – 23 Comments

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    An emulated environment will never be as good as the real thing. Microsoft wouldn't touch that with a 20 foot

    Posted 7 months ago on What if? – 2 Comments

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    I'm especially interested in getting a mobile dock, but it has to have 2 HDMI ports and both USB-A and USB-C p

    Posted 7 months ago on More Mobile: First Steps (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    Odd. This reply went to the wrong place, but I'm pretty sure I clicked the right link. I think...

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: September 17 (Premium) – 37 Comments

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    Yeah, I listen to a few podcasts, but had to cut way back because they were either too distressing (political)

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: September 17 (Premium) – 37 Comments

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    In addition to the aforementioned Enya and Patrick O'Hearn, I also listen to a genre I discovered about a year

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: September 17 (Premium) – 37 Comments

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    Congrats on your recent transition to StarDock. If StarDock wanted to advertise on FRD, would you take the mo

    Posted 7 months ago on Question for 9/17? – 10 Comments

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    1) You've spoken of your son many times, so I'm assuming you know sign language. How often have you come to t

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, September 17 – 13 Comments

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    Yeah, Sedona, Arizona is on my list of possibles. A higher altitude, so it's less hot in the summer, and they

    Posted 8 months ago on More Mobile? (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    Maybe I should just stay and buy a really good sun-bed, LOL. Or buy an RV and spend 11 months out of the year

    Posted 8 months ago on More Mobile? (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    I'm torn. I live in Pittsburgh and actually love the weather here. We have *real* seasons here, and winter / C

    Posted 8 months ago on More Mobile? (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    That's not a creepy response at all...

    Posted 8 months ago on Ask Paul: September 10 (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    Reminds me of the weird Palm Pre ads. Umm, what are they trying to say? LOL

    Posted 8 months ago on The First Windows 11 Ad is … Curious – 55 Comments

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    I am not crazy about a lot of Microsoft's decisions in recent years, but I'm willing to cut them some slack on

    Posted 8 months ago on Analysis: Microsoft’s Windows 11 Performance Claims (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    To paraphrase Doc Hollywood, "That's a handsome pig ya got there, Doc Thurrott"...

    Posted 8 months ago on Ask Paul: September 3 (Premium) – 6 Comments

    Forum Post

    .NET fans fear being "SilverLighted" again...

    I'm not invested in .NET languages/technologies (although I have received training in C#, XAML and Visual Studio), but I found this article interesting.   With JavaScript / React / React Native being so popular and prevalent, I wonder if there's any merit to the idea that Microsoft might kill off .NET. Any thoughts out there?   https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/08/17/silverlighted.aspx

    Posted 8 months ago on .NET fans fear being "SilverLighted" again… – 10 Comments

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    It's too bad it has one of those keyboard pointing stick nubbin things. I *hate* those things. They're a bligh

    Posted 9 months ago on HP ZBook Firefly 14 G8 Review – 6 Comments

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    1) While on your trip to "May-hee-co", have you had any concerns for your safety? We've heard the horror stor

    Posted 9 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, August 13 – 14 Comments

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    I can't speak to the extraneous features MS keeps piling on to Edge lately (I haven't kept up), but I really s

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft is Working on a Super Duper Secure Mode for Edge – 18 Comments

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    Ahh, I don't know. I was really hoping for a Super Super Duper Secure Mode! How disappointing... ;)

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft is Working on a Super Duper Secure Mode for Edge – 18 Comments

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    They look like one-eyed bandits with that black bar running across the top. LOL

    Posted 9 months ago on Google Announces Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro – 38 Comments

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    1st question: I think I already know the answer to this, but have you ever given any thought to doing UI desig

    Posted 9 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 30 – 6 Comments

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    I thought I had finally found my ideal tab solution with Edge (vertical tabs), but this two-level horizontal t

    Posted 9 months ago on Vivaldi 4.1 Adds Accordion Tabs and Command Chains – 5 Comments

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    I'm thinking of buying a NUC for the first time. They seem overpriced to me. Have you had fewer / same / more

    Posted 9 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 23 – 7 Comments

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    Have you ever made Paul really mad?

    Posted 9 months ago on Questions for 7 23? – 7 Comments

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    Awesome. I guess people are still hoping for the Windows Media Center app for XBox. ;) /kidding /wellMostly

    Posted 9 months ago on Xbox Just Had a Record Month in the U.S. – 17 Comments

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    Badly worded. What I meant to say was "apps that are delayed getting into Windows 365, or for which the develo

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 16 – 9 Comments

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    1) It looks like Microsoft is curating the apps that can run on Windows 365. Do you think they will ever allow

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 16 – 9 Comments

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    The only way to please everyone would be to have the Windows 11 UI be FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE. Start out with a de

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Could Miss an Opportunity with Windows 11 (Premium) – 82 Comments

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    (And, no, Chromebooks aren't the same thing! A Chromebook is just Chrome running on Linux. I'm thinking of an

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: July 9 (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    It would be interesting to see if LG (who still owns the patents for WebOS, I think) revisited WebOS as a pote

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: July 9 (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    Other than the Sams Report and First Ring Daily, what in the world do you actually do every day (besides bothe

    Posted 10 months ago on Questions for 7 9? – 6 Comments

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    Coupla questions (ok, four)...1) Since Andrew Zarian is too busy to do the What The Tech podcast, have you tho

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 8 – 8 Comments

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    I think manufacturers know these aren't going to sell as well, so they're trying to recoup the losses up front

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Elite Folio Review – 21 Comments

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    Wow, first the ice cream thing, and now this. I don't usually faint, but... whoa! <thump>

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Elite Folio Review – 21 Comments

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    Paul, I haven't read many of your hardware reviews (simply because I'm usually not in the market to buy). Have

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Elite Folio Review – 21 Comments

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    Also, I'm wondering if Microsoft's "miscommunication" is deliberate. You know the old saying, "Bad press is b

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: July 2 (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    I'm curious to see how Android developers will respond to the addition of the Amazon app-store to Windows 11.

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: July 2 (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    Unless Microsoft backs off on that...

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Announces Native 64-Bit Office for ARM – 12 Comments

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    So, it's pretty clear by now that Microsoft has no intention of giving up Windows on ARM. Interesting. Intel

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Announces Native 64-Bit Office for ARM – 12 Comments

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    Will it include a chapter on integrating Android & Windows 11 (Your Phone, Microsoft Launcher, etc)?

    Posted 10 months ago on Introducing the Windows 11 Field Guide – 26 Comments

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    I have a feeling there are going to be a lot fewer new PC sales than Microsoft is hoping for. There's nothing

    Posted 10 months ago on TPM Outrage (Premium) – 140 Comments

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    Not by me...

    Posted 10 months ago on Cortana, Skype, More are Being Removed or Deprecated in Windows 11 – 123 Comments

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    Let's put it together:Brad in a Clippy suitLeo rolling around on a ballCats knocking over camerasConstruction

    Posted 10 months ago on Join Us to See What’s Next for Windows! – 22 Comments

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    Brad, if you like science fiction at all, you need to watch Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. UNBELIEVA

    Posted 10 months ago on The Sams Report: Windows 11 Unknowns, E3 Home Runs – 5 Comments

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    First time questioner:Why Ohio? Paul apparently loves to move a lot. Have you thought of moving, and where to

    Posted 10 months ago on Question for 6 18? – 23 Comments

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    Wait. So, you're saying Windows Phone really *is* dead? /kidding ;)

    Posted 10 months ago on The End of Consoles? (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    I usually have 5 (or sometimes more) Explorer windows open. That's a pain in the ass to manage. I have 3rd par

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 11 First Impressions – 136 Comments

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    My biggest disappointment with this (so far) is File Explorer. Still no tabs, Microsoft? Really? I *still* h

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 11 First Impressions – 136 Comments

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    I actually like (and use) live tiles. I will be very disappointed if they get rid of that. Glad to see widget

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 11 First Impressions – 136 Comments

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    Well, if they change the name to something other than Windows, then "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10 Support Ends on October 14, 2025 – 87 Comments

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    I'm curious about the possibilities of Windows on ARM and Project MAUI. Despite having been stung by the Windo

    Posted 11 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 11 – 10 Comments

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    This could be a game-changer. People who want a Chromebook-like experience (95% web stuff) but want *some* Win

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Galaxy Book Go Brings Snapdragon on the Cheap – 12 Comments

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    I, for one, welcome our new .NET overlords...

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft .NET 6 Set for November 9 Release – 12 Comments

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    Best, worst, miscellaneous and a request...What was your best travel experience? Worst?Favorite travel city?

    Posted 11 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, May 28 – 10 Comments

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    Paul, you should do an article covering the Microsoft graveyard of abandoned devices (including pictures). Wou

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10 Throwback: January 21, 2015 (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    I couldn't care less about the James Bond crap. I want more Stargate (especially a proper ending for Stargate

    Posted 11 months ago on Amazon to Acquire MGM for $8.45 Billion – 29 Comments

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    ARM chips only make sense if they can keep ahead of Intel's and Apple's advancements, and that's a tall order.

    Posted 11 months ago on Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows 10 on ARM – 54 Comments

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    I think Microsoft are at a "Come to Jesus" moment: They need to get the Win32 app compatibility containerizati

    Posted 11 months ago on Ask Paul: May 21 (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    Great news. Now I just need to find a way to squeeze more memory onto the motherboard of my x2 laptop. D'oh!

    Posted 11 months ago on Adobe Photoshop is Now Native on Windows 10 on ARM – 34 Comments

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    You should patent that phrase... ;)

    Posted 11 months ago on Adobe Photoshop is Now Native on Windows 10 on ARM – 34 Comments

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    I'd love to switch to Amazon Music Unlimited, but their PC app *still* doesn't allow you to divert music to Ec

    Posted 11 months ago on Amazon Music Makes HD/Lossless Music Available for No Additional Cost – 33 Comments

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    Alexa has a skill that lets you ask Plex to play something. (It *mostly* works, but it's limited...) And you

    Posted 11 months ago on Ask Paul: May 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    True, but Plex is great for those who don't mind creating their own version of Netflix :) I have movies, TV s

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: May 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    Two words: FRESH BLOOD. New people with innovative ideas. I forget where I saw it, but I saw an article abou

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: May 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    Paul, forgive me if I'm putting words in your mouth, but it sounds like you don't think Microsoft is, or could

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: May 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    "keep it closed source". Ugh, still no editing?

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, April 14 – 7 Comments

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    (I'm especially curious to know what effect it would have on Linux if they open-sourced Windows. Would Linux h

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, April 14 – 7 Comments

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    I'm always curious how history plays out, and what might have been. I know forecasting is really hard, but how

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, April 14 – 7 Comments

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    Citizen Kane is supposed to be a classic, but I was seriously disappointed in that. Boring as hell....

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: May 7 (Premium) (Updated) – 19 Comments

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    Sooo..... Godfather = depressing. Gotcha. That's what I was thinking. I think I'll go to my grave having neve

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: May 7 (Premium) (Updated) – 19 Comments

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    1) Movie time! Believe it or not, I've never seen Casablanca or The Godfather. I'm actually a noire fan, so

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, May 7 – 17 Comments

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    Agree. I'm surprised no one is using this (as far as I know), or talking about it. I've been following Securit

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Says it Will Move Towards No Passwords – 35 Comments

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    Some questions:1) Who is the most famous person to ask you for an autograph or a selfie (and conversely, what&

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, April 22 – 13 Comments

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    The only edits of the original film I would approve of are the ones you mentioned: to clean up the photographi

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: March 26 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I think all of the prequels are awful. You should go to https://www.redlettermedia.c

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: March 26 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    So... your opinion on the meddling of George Lucas? Do you prefer classic Star Wars, or the "improved" version

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 26 – 7 Comments

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    Thanks. I hadn't seen that option (turning off Safelinks) the last time I looked...

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: March 5 (Premium) – 38 Comments

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    Actually, I have a second question:I don't think you've ever commented on Microsoft's recent(?)

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 5 – 11 Comments

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    Paul, your opinion on being forced to stay home more than usual is well known. Have you ever thought about do

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 5 – 11 Comments

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    Yeah, I agree with others. Paul, your webcam picture ain't great. Maybe your house is sitting on a forme

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 1000: Our Wives Answer Your Questions – 60 Comments

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    If Elon Musk or Richard Branson offered you a FREE vacation to the international space station, would you go?

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, February 19 – 17 Comments

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    For Paul's wife: Do you sometimes feel like a Call of Duty widow? Paul *does* play a lot of video games.

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] First Ring Daily 1000: Ask Our Wives (Almost) Anything (About Us) – 24 Comments

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    What are your thoughts about cryptocurrencies? Big banks are getting involved (and so is the government, which

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, February 12 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to christianwilson:I'm (mostly) the same re: broccoli. Can't stand the smell of it cooked,

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 22 (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I do intend to expand my palette in the future, but I'm limited on time and kit

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 22 (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    Wow, are you toying with me? If you remember, I'm on the carnivore diet, but even I'm not willing t

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 22 (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    Two questions:1) I've been using the Community Edition of Delphi to build an app (the first in a really l

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, January 21 – 11 Comments

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    Opera and Unstoppable Domains have their own browsers for this sort of thing, so I'm not sure Brave is th

    Posted 1 year ago on Brave Adds Integrated IPFS – 13 Comments

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    I agree that calling this thing Windows 10X is a mistake (even after they add Win32 compatability). It just co

    Posted 1 year ago on The (10)X Factor (Premium) – 72 Comments

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    Howdy. Mary Jo's recent laptop failure made me wonder if Microsoft is still dealing with quality control

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, January 15 – 14 Comments

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    The only thing faster than the speed of light is time. (Ok, that's meant to be philosophy, not physics ;)

    Posted 1 year ago on Happy New Year! – 9 Comments

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    In reply to ecumenical:Nice, but too slow and too buggy to use. I'll keep an eye on updates, though. Than

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: December 31 (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    Thanks for the Groupy mention. It's cheaper than I thought, so I might bite the bullet on that one, but i

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: December 31 (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    Any word on the multi-tabbed version of File Explorer we were promised a loooooong time ago? (Please don'

    Posted 1 year ago on Join us for our Live AMA on December 29th at 7PM ET – 76 Comments

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    In reply to richfrantz:I didn't really believe in extraterrestrial invasion ("Body Snatchers", et. al) un

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: December 18 (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    You don't care for ice cream?? That's just... just... despicable! I'm gonna have to reconside

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: December 18 (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    3 questions1) Have you ever used a phone with a horizontal slider (physical) keyboard (or a portrait one)? Yo

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, December 17 – 14 Comments

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    I had a Fire Stick 4K for about a year but only used it sporadically (to check things out). But then I discove

    Posted 1 year ago on Amazon Fire TV Now Has 50 Million Monthly Active Users – 8 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Well, technically you *could* try to remove the card even though it's inside th

    Posted 1 year ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, December 14 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Won't perform at all, or just won't perform well? Have they set a minimum

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Begins Publicly Testing Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 22 Comments

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    It'll be interesting to see how performant this is on systems with only 4GB of RAM, like my HP Envy x2 la

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Begins Publicly Testing Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 22 Comments

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    I got a set of (wired) ear buds with my BlackBerry Key2 LE, and they are the best sounding ear buds I've

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Announces AirPods Max – 86 Comments

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    Well, that's good to see, but if it works as well as it does on the PC, I'll pass. It's *terrib

    Posted 1 year ago on Spotify is Testing Local Music Support on Android – 17 Comments

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    JavaScript is the language that made me comfortable cursing. Ok, not really, but it got me used to saying

    Posted 1 year ago on JavaScript Turns 25 – 24 Comments

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    If ARM licenses their chip designs to others, what's keeping Microsoft from just making their own chips f

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 20 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to avidfan451:Years ago I read that it was a "snobby French director" who made the call, but that cou

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: November 13 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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    Since I asked the question, I'll give my own answer...Best movie? 4 way tie between The Dead Zone (Chris

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: November 13 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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    Nothing complex today: What is your all-time favorite movie, and the movie you would use to torment a terroris

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 13 – 17 Comments

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    Dude, not to be an ass, but buy an HP or a Dell. Microsoft clearly hasn't figured out how to build a rel

    Posted 1 year ago on New Surface Pro 7 Throttling to 200MHz After 2 Months, Exchange Warranty Only 3 Months, History of Devices Overheating – 9 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:That's basically what I tried to say last night. I commented from a mobile web

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: November 6 (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to jwpear:I have a Dell laptop I bought around 4 years ago. It's been stuck on 1909 for a long t

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, November 6 – 14 Comments

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    I don't think I've ever heard you mention standing desks. I have been using the "Flexpro Hero 37 Inc

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, November 6 – 14 Comments

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    Happy Birthday, Paul!

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 928: Kazaoo For You – 5 Comments

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    Amazon Music is a couple dollars cheaper, but there are several things keeping me from switching from Spotify:

    Posted 1 year ago on Spotify Now Has 320 Million Active Users – 11 Comments

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    In reply to bschnatt:I don't have any of those things I mention above anymore, and I regret it, but I

    Posted 1 year ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, October 26 – 23 Comments

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    My most memorable toy was a small helicopter on a tether. All it could do is go around in a circle, but you co

    Posted 1 year ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, October 26 – 23 Comments

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    Thanks for the info. Good to know...

    Posted 1 year ago on Panasonic HDMI 2.1 boo-boo – dark times for Xbox Series X & nVidia users – 11 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:We'll see in a couple years if cancer rates go up because of 5G. Let's no

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: October 23 (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    I know wires are cumbersome sometimes, but they have *definite* advantage over wireless, so it annoys the hell

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: October 23 (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    I'll try to lay off the heavy topics this time ;)1) Have you tried to incorporate VR into your daily regi

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, October 23 – 16 Comments

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    In reply to BigM72:Well, there goes my dream of living on the east coast ;) How about western Florida (aside

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, October 16 – 17 Comments

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    A couple questions (and a request)...First, the heavy-duty question: You've traveled extensively to the w

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, October 16 – 17 Comments

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    Reading between the lines, it sounds like you're thinking of moving again. To the coast? Come on, you kn

    Posted 1 year ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, October 5 – 16 Comments

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    Answering my own question regarding Haiku, I think it *could* have a place in the computing world if they port

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: October 9 (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    I'm sure you're aware of BeOS / Haiku (I've heard you talk about BeOS, at least). How do you fe

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, October 9 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:All of whom can be bribed too. I'd love to see some action here, but I've see

    Posted 1 year ago on A Quick Summary of the House Judiciary Committee Report (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    Umm, do politicians still take bribes? Of course they do! Whether you want to call it "campaign contributions

    Posted 1 year ago on A Quick Summary of the House Judiciary Committee Report (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    In reply to VMax:Ironically, when it comes to my phone, I'm grateful for WiFi because it means my phone i

    Posted 1 year ago on Hands-On with Google Nest Audio – 23 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Ditto, but from what I could see, it doesn't take Ethernet either. I own a seco

    Posted 1 year ago on Hands-On with Google Nest Audio – 23 Comments

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    In reply to VMax:Granted, but every little bit helps...

    Posted 1 year ago on Hands-On with Google Nest Audio – 23 Comments

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    What *I* want is a good sounding smart speaker system from Amazon that works with Ethernet! I know Sonos has

    Posted 1 year ago on Hands-On with Google Nest Audio – 23 Comments

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    This looks promising. Hmmm....https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/707174/pn/010-02427-02

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    I'm still rocking my gold-colored Pebble Time Steel from years ago. I love it, but I must have the "gadge

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    In reply to Oasis:Yes, the Surface line never made sense to me. Not that their higher priced models aren'

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    I've lost track of the number of articles covering the Surface Go, Surface Laptop Go, and similar "budget

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    So, everyone knows you've done cameos on Family Guy (ahem), but would you do a REAL cameo (or even a long

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, September 25 – 13 Comments

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    It'll be interesting to see who contests this, re: anti-competitive, monopolistic stuff, yada, yada... I

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    In reply to proftheory:Yep. On a plug-in card called the Video Toaster. A groundbreaking piece of tech at the

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    In reply to wolters:I have it (on my DVR), so I'll get around to watching it eventually. I watched someth

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    I recommend all the Stargate shows. I enjoy the first one (Stargate SG-1), but IMHO, it doesn't really ge

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    You sometimes talk about the stuff you watch on streaming services. Have you seen any of the following shows,

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    Ok, people mock BlackBerry fans for liking our physical keyboards, but THIS should be the real target. Really,

    Posted 1 year ago on LG Announces Wing 5G Smartphone – 30 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:Exactly! One of my favorite Star Trek episodes ever ;)

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    In reply to mattbg:"... because it's not designed to make Apple as much money as humanly possible." Ther

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    I'm not a game developer (so I could be talking out of my a**), but I *do* know that WebAssembly really,

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    The Surface Duo doesn't seem to be getting much positive press so far. Assuming that sales follow from th

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    I've been using an HP Envy x2 for several months now (bought refurbished for $400), so let me say a few t

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    In reply to BigM72:Saladino's book is extremely well researched and documented. My own experience and the

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:It's hardly a fad! Just research Mikhaila (sp?) Peterson. Growing up, she was

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    In reply to Vladimir:Actually, you're wrong. With only one exception (I can't remember the name of i

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    In reply to mclark2112:Agree about R.C. Bray. He did the original narration for The Martian, and it's a l

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    Paul, have you ever looked into the Carnivore Diet and/or regenerative farming? I've been on carnivore s

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    In reply to anderb:They've redesigned the entire UI to look like Minecraft. They're just waiting for

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:I *do* remember those now that you mention them ;) Agree about QEMM. The days of

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    Ahh, the memories of screwing in Centronics parallel port plugs and RS-232 port plugs. I remember using a yel

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    Even Gordon Gekko is shaking his head and saying "WTF?" (Yes, I realize Gordon Gekko isn't real - save

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    Well, this pretty much nails the coffin shut for me. I have toyed with the idea of developing for iOS (along w

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple’s At It Again, This Time With WordPress – 74 Comments

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    So.... these are follow-up questions to my inquiry about living in Phoenix.1) What are the pros and cons to li

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    In reply to Andrey_Medvedev:You're not the only one who insists on a headphone jack (if you can get one).

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    I've started looking at various *truly* cross-platform development suites (Uno, Flutter, etc). Uno really

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    Some questions and observations...1) I know you've owned iPhones and Android phones, but you haven't

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    You make Bob sad... :(

    Posted 1 year ago on No Ask Paul this week – 5 Comments

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    Happy Birthday, Brad. I can't think of anything clever at this point, so, um, I'll leave it there..

    Posted 1 year ago on Happy Birthday, Brad! – 35 Comments

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    I agree about Be. I was blown away by BeOS back in the day. It really made Windows look *bad*. Really bad. It&

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    Paul, I know that you used to live in Arizona (Phoenix?). What were the top 3 best things about living there,

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    In reply to Boots:Let me fix my earlier statement: It was genius -- when used in tablet mode with your fingers

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    In reply to Winner:Maybe I'm just a nutjob, but there were many things I liked about Windows 8. My favori

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    Step outside of your comfort zone...

    This post is meant mostly for Paul, but I'd enjoy seeing other opinions on this too ;)


    Imagine if part of Microsoft's mission statement was this: "We NEVER give up on our customers! We don't abandon our vision!" With that pair of rose-colored glasses on (and assuming we're in an alternate universe), what should Microsoft have done when:


    1) Developers ignored the UWP platform, and Windows Mobile. Since adoption of Windows Mobile was so poor, what should Microsoft have done to fix it. (No, going Android was NOT an option!) They essentially owned Nokia - what could they have done with it to make it work?


    2) Microsoft Band sales were weak. How should Microsoft have fixed that?


    3) Nobody bought anything at the physical Microsoft stores. What could have Microsoft have done to increase traffic and sales? Hololens game rooms (for a fee)? Steep discounts on Surface products (or a generous XBox game pass add-on with every purchase, or a free Surface hoodie)? If failure was not an option and you *had* to do something to get people to come in and spend money (but still keep it Microsoft-centric), what would you do?


    Extra credit question: How would things have turned out if Bill Gates have stayed on? If Steve Ballmer had stayed on?

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Or be square! One of my favorite things about my Pebble Time Steel is the square-with-

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    I think this was a mistake (closing the stores), but then, I think a bazillion things Microsoft has done in th

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    In reply to madthinus:Sigh. They could still make a dent in the phone world by coming up with a really cool UI

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    In reply to wolters:Yeah, I certainly didn't buy the x2 for gaming (I don't buy *any* PC for gaming)

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    Paul, I love you (in the "Bro" kinda way), but I wish you would stop saying the Windows on ARM experience is "

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    In reply to SWCetacean:Yes, I'm aware of the fact that they would have to continue to support existing PC

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    I think open sourcing Windows would be a disaster. You'd have dozens of variants of Windows out there tha

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    Just an interesting note: The ARM version of the Plex app in the store runs fine on my HP Envy x2 (Windows on

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    I have long thought that Microsoft should STOP selling Windows to 3rd party manufacturers and just refine it t

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    One thing to note is that not every PC out there supports the virtualization required for WSL 2. I bought a re

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    Paul, some questions:1) I know you used Delphi in the past. Have you tried it recently (i.e., did you rob a ba

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    Will Microsoft ever make a version of Hololens affordable by mere humans? Do you think it would be successful

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    Suggestion for gaming article...

    I haven't been much into gaming over the years (due to lack of time). Aside from once being humbled on (and awed by) my nephew's VR headset, my game play in the past decades has been limited to phone strategy games (like the Quell series, which I highly recommend). But I've always wanted to buy an XBox and get into the Halo series, et. al., but I don't really know where to start.


    Paul, can you write an article about gaming in general? What services are available, what loot boxes are (I have no idea), what downloadable content is (mandatory? optional? worth it?), whether Twitch or Mixer are worth watching, is PC gaming worth it (considering the tendency of game publishers to install rootkits, etc), yada, yada.


    I know it's a big topic, but it's one of your favorite topics, so I figured you might want to take this on, and it would help a lot of us Trogoldytes come into the modern era... ;)


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    Just a quick update. There actually *is* an ARM-native Nook app in the Windows Store. Don't ask me why a

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    Paul, I'm a recent Premium initiate, and have enjoyed reading your programming series. Are you going to d

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    I misspoke earlier. I mistakenly thought that WSL 2 was part of the main consumer channel, but it's not (

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    Yes. The store app is easy to start, it's relatively easy to find apps you want (assuming they've be

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    In reply to ghostrider:I was always a fan of the *idea* of Windows Mobile, but always hated how you had to swi

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    One more add-on comment: I turned on Signal in the Your Phone app. You can get Signal messages on your PC, but

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    I forgot to mention that the Continuum dock *does* charge the x2, but not if you're really pushing it. If

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    My experience with Windows on ARM

    As others might have noted in some of my other comments, I recently bought a refurbished HP Envy x2 2-in-1 laptop/tablet running Windows 10 on ARM (I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro almost immediately - it's free).


    I know this forum isn't my personal blog, but in case some of you are curious, I'll summarize my experience here. In a word (ok, two words), it's been "very good", bordering on fantastic.


    Despite having pretty scarce memory and storage, I've been able to install *most* of the apps I wanted. For development, I was able to install Lazarus (think Delphi), Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, WSL 2 (including Ubuntu on ARM), and Visual Studio Code.


    As to regular apps, I installed Spotify, Duolingo, Twitter, OneNote, Audible, HDHomeRun, FreeFileSync, VLC (store version - haven't tried the Win32 version yet), NextGen Reader, IrfanView, Pinterest, Kobo, etc., plus store apps made for Windows 8.


    So far, the only apps I couldn't install are Nook (although there might be a standalone desktop version - I haven't looked yet), Vivaldi (they only have a 64-bit version) and Kindle. I can use the web version of Kindle, but I'd rather have an app. There's a store version of Alexa, but it's very feature-sparse. The Amazon shopping and Netflix apps came preinstalled.


    Veracrypt runs but cannot install the necessary system file driver, so that's out of the question. (I'm assuming TrueCrypt has the same problem.) I reverted to BitLocker and that solution works well.


    My biggest showstopper right now is Signal. The only version I can download won't run, so I'm assuming it's a 64-bit Win32 app. I can always use my phone, of course, and if I set up the Your Phone app and give it access to Signal on my phone, it should work quite nicely, so that's a possible workaround. (I'm hesitant to do that since it might compromise the security of my conversations, but I haven't completely ruled it out...)


    I'd also rather use Vivaldi over the "Chredge" browser (which is ARM-compiled for this platform), but I can hold out until 64-bit support comes. The Chredge browser comes with DNS-over-HTTPS support, and the Collections feature can closely emulate the "tabs set-aside" feature I really liked from the older version of Edge, so this new Edge browser is actually really nice. Hmm...


    I couldn't find a 32-bit version of GnuCash (my go-to replacement for Quicken), but if you install PortableApps, you can install GnuCash that way (and it runs just fine).


    The machine has only a single USB-C port, so it's incompatible with my older, existing USB hubs (unless you use the included USB-C to USB-A adapter). However, I have a Continuum dock leftover from my experiment with Windows 10 Mobile (sigh), and it (mostly) works. To wit:


    Here's my current setup with my older Intel laptop (for background): I have 2 TVs I use as 2nd and 3rd monitors. I can use the laptop's HDMI port directly, but in order to use the other TV, I had to buy a USB-to-DVI/VGA/HDMI adapter. Both monitors work fine this way, running both Windows 10 and Linux (although I had to do some digging to find the right Linux driver for this).


    With the x2 + Continuum dock, the USB adapter connected monitor works, but the HDMI connected one doesn't, but most people won't experience this. Why? Because I'm also using an electronic HDMI switcher box. (It takes a single HDMI input and duplicates the signal to 2 HDMI ports (don't ask).) So, Windows 10 on Intel knows what to do with this switcher box, but Windows 10 on ARM doesn't. (Or it could just be a laptop hardware incompatibility - I'm not an engineer and I don't even play one on TV... ;) ) This isn't too much of a showstopper since having 2 screens to work with is already pretty nice.


    Having said all this, I could obviously buy a more full-featured multipurpose USB-C oriented hub. I've seen several on Amazon that have ports for Ethernet, USB-A, MicroSD, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc, and they even charge your laptop for you. But if you want to use your Continuum dock, it's already pretty full-featured (my USB-to-Ethernet adapter works through the dock too - nice!).


    I inserted a 200GB MicroSD card and copied over all my music, pictures and videos (and told Microsoft to use those folders as defaults). So, that goes a long way to negate the lack of storage on this machine.


    The only question I have concerning this machine is how well it'll do when I really push it (something I haven't done yet). But any limitations there are directly tied to RAM and storage - not Windows 10 on ARM. So far, I've been very pleasantly surprised at the responsiveness and, of course, the battery life. Aside from this purchase, I'm really hoping Microsoft sticks with Windows 10 on ARM. It's not, thank God, another Windows RT experience!

    Posted 1 year ago on My experience with Windows on ARM – 13 Comments

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    Thanks for doing this, Paul. Much appreciated!

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Surface Pro X, Pro 7, and Laptop 3 – 2573 Comments

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    1) When will Microsoft stop dragging their feet with Edge? I'd like to use it (it has the best built-in t

    Posted 4 years ago on Questions for Microsoft CMO Chris Capossela – 30 Comments

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