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

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

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

Protecting privacy? Hahahahahahahaha!

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

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

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

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

I guess that means no foldable from Apple

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wait, so what *are* they doing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actually, control panel was introduced in Windows 2.0

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

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

In reply to MikeGalos:That much is true

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In reply to skane2600:Well sure, but I'm talking about successful OSs with a wide market, so Linux and An

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

Even these days you need a command prompt for some things, like diagnostics and troubleshooting. ipconfig anyo

In reply to MikeGalos:Actually the app issue is finally hitting me. GasBuddy was one of my most frequently use

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem is not the newly sized plug per se. The problem is that you can get a no-name old-style USB cable