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    They never promised that. They were just very silent on the topic. You might be thinking of Windows 10 Mobile

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 11: Clean Install – 81 Comments

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    Android is no longer doing that. It's just a version number now

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 11: Clean Install – 81 Comments

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:Given what early Android was like, it may not have been Rubin who got Android right.

    Posted 2 years ago on Gates Gets It Wrong Again on Windows Mobile (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Protecting privacy? Hahahahahahahaha!

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Wants to Continue Selling Ads While Protecting User Privacy – 14 Comments

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    Weren't there always version numbers? My phone's "about phone" screen shows "Android version: 8.1" w

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Ditches Android’s Naming Tradition, Android Q to Be Called Android 10 – 35 Comments

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    As I always said, Edge based on Chromium is not going to impress anyone. People who want Chrome will use Chrom

    Posted 2 years ago on One Million Downloads? (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    I don't buy this. Android was exactly what the old Microsoft would have done. It was enough like the Appl

    Posted 3 years ago on No, Bill. No (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    I could have sworn this has been there for a long time, but since I rarely use GPS, I might be thinking back t

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Maps Now Has a Speedometer – 41 Comments

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    I guess that means no foldable from Apple

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Launches iPadOS With App Expose, Multi-Instance Apps, More – 57 Comments

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    How does the camera get past whatever is being displayed on the screen right over it?

    Posted 3 years ago on Xiaomi and Oppo Show Off Under-Display Selfie Cameras – 6 Comments

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    This really helps with accurate drawing and free-form selection. I've been using mouse keys (an accessibi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s Updating Paint to Make it Easier to Use – 10 Comments

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    Paul, Paint was introduced in Windows 95, "only" 24 years ago. Before that Paintbrush was a completely differe

    Posted 3 years ago on Suddenly, Windows 10 Doesn’t Suck (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    I'm sure Paint3D will get there. I remember copying old Paintbrush onto my Windows 95 machine because I c

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve it Deserves – 35 Comments

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    See, I think the opposite. Microsoft is on the way out of the browser market. People who care enough about tra

    Posted 3 years ago on Everyone Needs the New Microsoft Edge (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Am I the only one who thought "fester" in this context is a bit off? I checked the definition of "fester" and

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 May 2019 Update Heads to the Release Preview Ring – 17 Comments

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    I had settings suggestions on my Moto G5+ since Android 7, but maybe that was a Motorolla-only feature

    Posted 3 years ago on Hands-On with Android Q Beta 1 – 22 Comments

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    That's a lot of requirements. How many people are there whoUse Galaxy S8/S9Have Surface GoAre insiders on

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10’s Phone Mirror Feature Could Arrive This Week – 12 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:That hasn't happened to me since Windows 8.1 (or maybe original Windows 10).

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Plans to Bring Smooth Scrolling to Chromium – 30 Comments

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    I still don't get the point of Chromium / Edge. If you want a Chromium browser use Chrome. If you want to

    Posted 3 years ago on Is Microsoft Edge on Chromium a No Brainer? (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to sabarrett:Well sure, but Apple doesn't have other ORMs. The lightning port is *only* used by

    Posted 3 years ago on USB Couldn’t Be More Screwed Up (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    So let me get this straight... the Apple dongle always works... with Apple products? How is that different fro

    Posted 3 years ago on USB Couldn’t Be More Screwed Up (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:If you aren't using an iPhone, it's even better. The phone 18 months ago is st

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple iPhone XR Review – 33 Comments

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    So if there is a speed boost to 5G E, does any LTE-capabe phone get the benefits or only the ones supporting 5

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Is Going Along With AT&T’s Fake 5G E Network – 9 Comments

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    Well, yes, a badly made USB type C charger could break your device. That is why you can't just buy a rand

    Posted 3 years ago on This $19.99 Cable Lets You Charge the Surface Pro or Laptop With USB Type-C – 13 Comments

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    Remember when Netscape 9 (or was it 10?), in a last-ditch attempt at relevance, adopted the IE rendering engin

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s Embrace of Chromium is Historic (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Why would anybody use such a thing? If they want a Chromium browser, they'll use Chrome. If they were usi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Reportedly Killing Edge in Favour of a New Chromium-Based Browser – 75 Comments

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    Windows does not have limitless backward compatibility. There are many DOS apps that never ran under any versi

    Posted 3 years ago on What if Windows 10 isn’t the Future of Windows? (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to remc86007:Microsoft's diversity doesn't really exist given that the cloud business is th

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Briefly Took Over Apple As the Most Valuable US Company – 37 Comments

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    I see it inherits the horrible arrow key design HP has invented. It kills any attempt at gaming without a joys

    Posted 3 years ago on HP Spectre Folio First Impressions – 34 Comments

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    2 things:If a web app is integrated to Chrome to this extent, is it still a web app or is it a "native" Chrome

    Posted 3 years ago on Google to Bring More Native Features to Web Apps – 20 Comments

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    I've never had any use for tablets, except for an original Surface I didn't have to pay for, which g

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung Infinity Flex Display Looks Like a Winner (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Pretty Sure Motorola is already meeting these requirements with updates every 2-3 months being 1-3 months late

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Finally Gets Serious About Android Security Updates – 16 Comments

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    I'm sorry, but this attitude predates Trump. I remember quite well when the US government refused to buy

    Posted 3 years ago on Huawei Will Not Sell New Flagship Smartphones in the U.S. – 63 Comments

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    In reply to Markiz von Schnitzel:It's as simple as putting them in the right folder as long as they are i

    Posted 3 years ago on New Kindle Paperwhite is Waterproof – 23 Comments

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    Seriously? Look at anyone advertising apps. *Anybody*. "Get it for iPhone or Android". Sometimes, it'll e

    Posted 3 years ago on Android: Going, Going, Gone (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Didn't we already have this story a couple years ago?

    Posted 3 years ago on Oh No: Google Is Killing Google+ – 20 Comments

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    Back when I got my first smartphone (Nokia Lumia 900) it was free with contract (thanks to some sort of faulty

    Posted 3 years ago on Remember When a New iPhone Cost $199? (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    When I switched from Windows Phone to Android I liked GMail so much that I switched to the GMail Chrome app in

    Posted 3 years ago on The Email Experiment: Outlook.com and Outlook Mobile – 32 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:I have an unlocked Moto g5+ sold in the US. I got it from Amazon. You don't need a c

    Posted 3 years ago on Motorola’s New Android One Phones Are Budget iPhone X Clones – 7 Comments

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    How is performance on this? I tried a lot of launchers before settling on (free) Nova, which doesn't have

    Posted 3 years ago on Tip: Bring the Pixel Launcher to Your Android Handset – 18 Comments

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    I have this feeling that ultimately there will be a hardware solution to this problem, or at least I hope so.

    Posted 3 years ago on Android 9 Pie Feature Focus: Adaptive Battery – 5 Comments

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    But why? this is what frameworks are for. You can write a mobile-focused framework in any language. Apple'

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Finalizes Dart 2.0 – 5 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:Right, because the biggest feature notepad lacks as compared to vi is text zooming...

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10’s Latest Redstone 5 Build Brings New Notepad Features – 28 Comments

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    Wait, so what *are* they doing?

    Posted 4 years ago on About That Office 365 and JavaScript Thing – 29 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:Cortana is quite useful for PC/Phone integration (and I mean Android and to a lesser ext

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020 – 34 Comments

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    "the first Surface-branded ARM" ... huh? If by mobile you mean phone then it's the first Surface-branded

    Posted 4 years ago on Andromeda Dreams and Awakenings (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to johnh3:I really wanted to get a Nokia 6 last year, but couldn't justify paying $50 extra for

    Posted 4 years ago on HMD to Expand its Nokia Phone Portfolio – 37 Comments

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    My list is shorter, Windows 95, 2000 (yes, did install it on a home PC and it was great), and Windows Phone. T

    Posted 4 years ago on Let’s Talk About Tech Enthusiasm (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to Stooks:Seriously? I spend most of my non-work time reading via web browser on my Windows 10 laptop

    Posted 4 years ago on Apple is Killing the Texture App for Windows 10 – 22 Comments

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    In reply to Jack_Smith:MS already allows running Linux apps on Windows, just no bundled GUI. You can still ins

    Posted 4 years ago on Linux App Support is Coming to Chrome OS – 123 Comments

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    In reply to skane2600:Buy the time I started programming WinHelp was already deprecated in favor of HtmlHelp f

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Details Deprecated and Removed Features in Windows 10 Version 1803 – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Daekar:It began much earlier when PC manufacturers stopped dumping you into BASIC in favor of a pr

    Posted 4 years ago on Learn to Code … with a Mobile App? – 23 Comments

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    What's the point of a bezel-less screen if you need a case, presumably with added bezels. I'm still

    Posted 4 years ago on Samsung Galaxy S9+ Review Part 1: Design, Hardware, and Specs – 18 Comments

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    There is a reason why Huawei is frowned upon by the US government. It's associated with the Chinese gover

    Posted 4 years ago on Huawei Mate 10 Pro Review – 18 Comments

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    So what is the real world use case for this? If it's just UWP apps then it's Windows RT again. If th

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Review Check-In: Taking Stock – 75 Comments

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    I use Windows 7 at work and Windows 10 at home. I don't miss either when I'm using the other. I also

    Posted 4 years ago on Want to Feel Better About Windows 10? Go Back in Time (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    In reply to skane2600:Linux is copyrighted. The copyright is just as strong as any other. It's just that

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Introducing Multi-Instance Support for UWP Apps in Windows 10 – 30 Comments

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    I don't see how you can say this. First, we need competition, otherwise there will be stagnation and prog

    Posted 4 years ago on The End of the Platform Wars? (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    What a strange roundabout way to compare sales. You don't actually need a smartphone app for any of these

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    In reply to skane2600:I assume you're using some sort of browser control. That doesn't use the actua

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    So it's already built into the OS. It's called the taskbar. Of course having multiple "taskbars" may

    Posted 4 years ago on Groupy Brings Tabs to Every Window in Windows – 28 Comments

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    It's a bit of a clickbate-y title as it sounds as if MS announced new Surface devices when they're j

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Updates Several Surface Devices – 14 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Depending on where you are in a rural area, you can find wifi a lot easier than LTE. For e

    Posted 4 years ago on Did Microsoft Just Ruin Its October Surface Announcement? – 56 Comments

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    This is ridiculous if true. I've been bitten by these "features" in Windows Phone as a developer, and was

    Posted 4 years ago on Android Users, Welcome to the Age of Oreo – 40 Comments

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    Actually, control panel was introduced in Windows 2.0

    Posted 4 years ago on What Gets Left Behind (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    But you can connect a "dumb" speaker/microphone to any device with a microphone jack (or Bluetooth!) and just

    Posted 4 years ago on Lenovo Announces Its Own Smart Speaker, But with a Few Twists – 7 Comments

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    I don't get the point of these super huge phones. My Lumia 950 already causes problems when I want to put

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    In reply to MikeGalos:That much is true

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    In reply to MikeGalos:I have a 17" HP Envy which is not optimized for being thin and light, but does have arro

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Announces the OMEN X Laptop – 14 Comments

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    I typically replace my laptops about every five years. I've had four so far including the current one. Th

    Posted 4 years ago on Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface is Dead Last for Reliability – 134 Comments

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    In reply to skane2600:We had more Windows NT 4 labs than Sun (and later Linux) labs in our engineering school.

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows Subsystem for Linux is Out of Beta – 15 Comments

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    Couldn't this change be implemented in software at least for some devices? I know a device's softwar

    Posted 4 years ago on USB-C is About to Get Twice as Fast – 43 Comments

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    Now I'm curious what I'm missing. I thought Outlook Express was removed in Vista, replaced by Window

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft is Deprecating and Removing Legacy Features in the Fall Creators Update – 83 Comments

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    Windows was actually able to run on old hardware since Windows 8. That is, Windows 8 worked better/faster on a

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows as a Disservice (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    Well, I mean if it's just a wrapper of the website with some UWP features added, you might as well use th

    Posted 4 years ago on LinkedIn for Windows 10 Triggers Its Own Controversy – 47 Comments

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    I disagree regarding laptops. I've had two touch-enabled ones so far. The first was intentional (Windows

    Posted 4 years ago on Multi-Touch is the New Minimum (Premium) – 0 Comments

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    This isn't a recent issue. IMO Vista was so badly received because of all the features it dropped (that a

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Delays Windows 10 Timeline Feature, Won’t Ship with Fall Creators Update – 68 Comments

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    Haven't they ever heard of token ring networks? Are they trying to confuse us on purpose?

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    Posted 5 years ago on Google Has Allegedly Killed Its Andromeda Project – 93 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:I don't know how you define a full new OS. Linux was developed in 1991. If you'

    Posted 5 years ago on Google Has Allegedly Killed Its Andromeda Project – 93 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Wait, is that being removed? It still works in the shipping version of Creators Update with

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Ships Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16199 to the Fast Ring – 17 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:Safari's rendering engine is very close to Chrome's, so Chrome can still more

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:"If it is dead and buried in three years, then it will simply find a revival in five yea

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    It sounds to me like he's saying it might not be called Surface Pro 5. Although I am annoyed with all the

    Posted 5 years ago on Don’t Be Freaked By Surface Pro 5 Misquote – 54 Comments

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    I remember that Windows programming was something I just couldn't get. I tried first with Borland's

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    If continuum is just the ability to run mobile apps or remote desktop on a phone while broadcasting it to a PC

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    Windows ME only existed because Windows 2000 didn't quite get compatible enough with legacy hardware and

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    It's just a popup. Anyone can put a popup in their own app for any reason they want. Granted, MS is showing po

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Has Added Another Advertisement Inside of Windows 10 – 58 Comments

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    So they're turning the insider program into... LinkedIn? Seriously, we have social networks for this. Microsof

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