The part about this that really stinks though is that Apple directs you to their website to sign up for Apple
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What do Toyota parts have to do with driving a Chevy Geo? 😂
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I never actually used Vista, it was actually the first OS upgrade I skipped probably because of a combination
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It never ceases to amaze me how many people post unprofessional content to LinkedIn like it's Facebook or Twit
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I was in graduate school at this time, and one of my classmates had a Tablet PC. I had Tablet PC envy.
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That's actually my only real complaint about Apple News+. The ads, they're pretty awful. Worse, you'll be read
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"I’ve been using YouTube Music since it was called Google Play Music and I like it a lot because it’s one
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I use that mute switch multiple times a day, every single day. My iPhone experience would be significantly wor
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When you decide to part with the Byte collection... call me. 😉
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True, but I’m running Windows 11 on an upgrade of a Windows 7 license I bought over a decade ago.
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I’m seeing it as well. iPadOS 15 Safari. I am logged in when I see it.
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You’ve been able to change default apps since iOS 14 was released. Even Apple is begrudgingly moving in the
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This is a "Preview" release, it's not meant for your "typical user".If the final product looks like this then
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I use macOS and Windows side by side every day. Neither “delights” me. They’re machines, tools to get a
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Remember last week when all the tech reviewers were complaining about how expensive the Surface Pro 8 is? How
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Extra emphasis on inexpensive. If you don't need WiFi connectivity Duet is a one-time $9.99 purchase.
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My company’s operations center just upgraded to Windows 10 this year. It’ll be a long time until they’re
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They aren’t really built into the OS, at least in any way that’s different than the crapware you get prein
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I kind of wonder if they are fudging it a bit by only reporting paying customers vs. one year free trial custo
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All this talk about being more mobile has me picturing Paul and his wife living the #vanlife.
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This is the part of the ruling that has me scratching my head. Apple's practices are anti-competitive, and the
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According to the blog post Paul linked to, the method Microsoft is using was originally developed as a way for
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I've been running Windows 11 in VMWare Fusion for the last few weeks. The fact that VMWare is free for persona
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That's my takeaway. The difference being that Microsoft is hosting the remote PC.
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My first hard drive was also 5 MB. I had an Amstrad PC1512 in high school, and I replaced one of the floppy dr
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In reply to rmlounsbury:It may be time for me to take another look at it. I did the free trial when it first c
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Interesting, I haven't experienced the issues with app installs and updates. Most app updates take only s
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I have one, but I don't really find it any better than the FitBit it replaced. I doubt I'd buy anoth
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Coherence view isn't unique to Parallels, I believe they call it Unity view in VMware.Regardless, I'
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In reply to will:Just turn the unit around, then all your ports will be on the front. Problem solved, LOL.
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In reply to Phil_Adcock:Outlook on Mac may look pretty, but it still lags its Windows cousin on functionality.
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In reply to harmjr:Does it really matter, you’re still giving money to HBO. They’ve long included streamin
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yes, but that was nearly 20 years ago. Why doesn't their recent history carry m
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"Yes, it’s depressing that Apple is about to manage a complete platform shift from Intel x86-64 to its own A
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So apparently none of the hosts watch Ham Nation, co-hosted by Bob Heil. ?At least Paul got the pronunciation
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In reply to helix2301:I'm currently a "subscriber", taking advantage of the three month free trial they o
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In reply to DBSync:Seems to be significantly more than Roku...https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/09/roku-q1-2019
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Here's my comment. Fingers crossed!
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"And some of them—Brave, Opera, and Firefox, in particular—have no ties to a huge tech corporation with pr
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In reply to mrdrwest:I’ve owned many, many phones over the years. The Samsung Focus is the only one I get se
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They could call it Outlook Express...
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I don't think it's a grudge people are harboring. When someone makes a living making prognostication
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In reply to IanYates82:Give Duet a try.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Well... they never asked me! :)The cynical answer is that they are purposefully not
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In reply to PeterC:I’ve had one for a couple of years now and it’s been perfectly reliable. Never had any
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CTRL-W and SHIFT-CTRL-T. I learned two new things from this story.Twitter is a bad place... that I already kne
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In reply to beckerrt:We're in a post post-PC era now.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's even more jolting when your work PC only has IE instead of Edge...
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In reply to Lordbaal:" it wasn’t intuitively clear that it referred to the version after KitKat"If your
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In reply to wright_is:Here they publish the maximum interest rate. There's nothing that says they can
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In reply to wright_is:I was a CompuServe user starting with the free trial that came with my TRS-80 Modem II c
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I would like to win a Huawei MateBook 13.
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It's the little things that get me the most excited... being (finally!) able to change wifi networks with
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In reply to SvenJ:The beauty of Facebook Messenger is that it’s as close to a universal messaging service as
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In reply to kjb434:I personally like typing on the butterfly keyboards. But I won't defend their reliabil
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In reply to jgraebner:I wonder if his played podcasts are auto-archiving. If you’re only seeing unplayed pod
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In reply to wright_is:I've been using the new design ever since it was released on iOS awhile back. I hat
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I hated the changes at first as well, but now that I’m used to them (I’m on iOS so I’ve had more time to
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In reply to j_c:I'm always amazed at how little Netflix original content I can let my children watch.
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Didn't you call the original Band the Microsoft Shackle on Windows Weekly?
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The headline for this story reads like a Huawei press release.
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In reply to Daekar: Don't assume too much at this stage...Exactly. The whole tech press is gaga over Huaw
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To take a contrarian view, we've heard this story for the last few years after the holidays when Google a
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In reply to evox81:Exactly. From an economic standpoint big cities in general are terrible places for corporat
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In reply to wright_is:The data is not shared with employers, the employer engages a third party such as StayWe
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Is the fix going to be worse than the bug? Apple has had enough update issues lately that I'm going to wa
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In reply to OldITPro2000:I used to really like the Tandy 1000, even though it wasn't 100% IBM compatible.
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I wish I had photos of all my old computers, I've had so many of them I have a hard time remembering them
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In reply to paulkbiba:They do make slide scanners, a little spendy but it might be the most efficient if you h
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In reply to wright_is:Nextel. It was awful. One of my former employers used the system extensively, and I used
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In reply to j_c:Yeah, I had to ignore Windows 95 to make my argument work... :)
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I like to say that Microsoft has a tendency to get it right every other time.Windows 98 - goodWindows Me - bad
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In reply to lvthunder:There's nothing that says it can't be preinstalled and still be a Windows Stor
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That ad reminds me of one of my biggest annoyances, when you buy something from Amazon and then they keep pest
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The elimination of subsidies and contracts has also had an impact. With two year contracts and deep discounts,
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I cringe every time I see someone use LinkedIn like it's Facebook and wonder, "Is this really the profess
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I have a feeling phones are getting to the same place PC's and tablets are. Phone's have gotten good
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I was so excited about the Up Next sync feature, but since updating Pocket Casts yesterday my Up Next queue ha
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In reply to wright_is:They wouldn't need to ditch the Surface connector. Replace the Display Port with Th
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In reply to Bdsrev:Not really, but to be fair they did list Apple Notes as the second worst app. That was a co
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In reply to wright_is:I recently installed Das Erste on my iPad and downloaded an episode of Tatort to watch o
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If they had done this 18 months ago I'd still be a MacBook owner instead of an SP4 owner. My first and la
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" that the feedback I receive is clear and that I get a ton of feedback from users both good and bad""The
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In reply to dvdwnd:And it's amazing to me that after a year and a half of ownership my SP4 is still the b
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Did you actually read that article about print papers past the (awful) headline? The column is not trying to c
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In reply to thalter:As a counterpoint, our school district is all in on Microsoft. My middle school age sons o
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In reply to paul-thurrott:LOL, when do PC makers listen to their customers? If they did, Dell would have fixed
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Far be it for me to disagree with Tom's Guide, but I've been very happy with the battery life on the
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In reply to Vladimir:I agree wholeheartedly, my own personal experience with FaceID has been overwhelmingly po
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In reply to BigM72:LOL, Apple’s going to invent the Surface Book and introduce it as a new iBook line.
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I've used MintSIM for my second phone for about a year now. There really aren't many downsides to it
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In reply to glong:I use Mint too, for my secondary phone. I pay $60 every three months for 2 GB/month data. I
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In reply to crfonseca:I've had the phone for a month now, and FaceID works every single time for me. It t
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In reply to maethorechannen:Google seem to be able to manage this on Android ... How hard can it be?Pretty sim
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I'd be much more enthusiastic about Edge on iOS if they optimized the app for the iPhone X screen. Next
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I've never understood why they call it "cord cutting." You still have a cord bringing internet into your
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I'd be happy to just be able to get DSL service... at any speed. The best we can do is Verizon LTE Home,
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In reply to Narg: That was my phone at the time too. I still have it in a desk drawer.
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In reply to MerlinE.: Lack of USB C is disappointing, but not really a deal breaker. I sold my 12" MacBook to
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I seem to remember you and Mary Jo (and Leo) making fun of Alcantara on Windows Weekly, making me feel bad abo
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I don't get this whole Assistant craze. I don't like talking to my computer, I don't like talki
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In reply to Mestiphal:That's exactly what it is. When I bought the S7 last year it allowed me to transfer
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Reading people's justifications for not liking Samsung/Android is a lot like reading people's justif
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Notifications in Chrome are evil. Whenever a website asks to send me notifications I click "no". Every single
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It's about time they incorporated the "Save as" feature. It was insane that on my SP4 if I took a screen
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In reply to Paul Thurrott: American is really hit or miss when it comes to planes. If you get one of their new
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I would have given living room crown to Amazon with the Fire TV. Do people still buy Roku's and Apple TV's?
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Well now I'm inspired. Next Christmas I'm building my children a TRS-80 Model 1 out of gingerbread.
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One random thought that just popped into my head while thinking about pricing... a lot of new Surface customer
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In reply to SkiddMarxx99: For me there were three 'must have' apps that were not available on Windows Pho
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I've been playing with the dial for about a week now. It still hasn't found it's way into my workflow yet, my
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Although I was a longtime Windows Mobile user, my one and only experience with Windows Phone was the Samsung F
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In reply to harmjr: Maybe because the skit wasn't about Microsoft, they were just the backdrop used to sa
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In reply to madthinus: Have you tried changing the connection to a "metered connection"? Windows 10 is a
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Have you listened to 1924: The Year That Made Hitler? It's about Hitler's trial after the Beer Hall Putsch and
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Of course they did, because I just bought a keyboard pack last week.
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I gotta say, if it sounds too good to be true then... well, I'll believe it when I see Paul's review. Crowdfun
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In reply to ErichK: That's awesome, my first computer was the MC-10. I think somewhere at my parents hous
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I ditched my iPhone 6 for a Galaxy S7 earlier this year and have no regrets. It's a great phone. I'll certainl
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Just downloaded and gave it a spin. I'd say it's still a work in progress, it took me three tries to get my pi
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I disagree with your comments on the 12" MacBook's keyboard, I used one for 15 months and loved it. It does ta
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CarPlay 2.0 may be boring, but it makes a lot more sense than Apple building their own car. It would make as m