In reply to cr08:Agreed. I suspect MS is waiting for their 3rd-Gen Hololens before making any splash, instead
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In reply to Polycrastinator:Right - I put one on order at announcement, but after a detailed look at what they
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Holy ef... That hits close to home.
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In reply to phytio:Agreed. It is hard to lead without being totally narcissistic. MS has actually done quite w
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Well, Essential's first phone was also "different from any other."Note to self: different does not necess
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Paul, you are completely right about the Insider program being off the rails. I labored under the misguided as
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I was fully expecting Microsoft to come to market this fall with significant products in the holy crusade to r
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"Of course, announcing something to do with Windows 10 could undermine its own Chrome OS..."Or, more likely, l
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Hmmm. I can see how data could get lost - I'm set to sync to One Drive including my desktop. But I have a
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Wait; there's something wrong with that picture.It charges via USB-C - which none of the devices with whi
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In your post, you say: "Only by taking the core of what it got right the first time and then adapting quickly
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Beautifully described.
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Just took my main workstation off the Insider program - all is well. Very happy with this version of W10.
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But y'know, I really do hope MS has something cool up their sleeve - to get pulses racing. The marriage
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As did V1, that Surface Studio 2 poses a formidable threat to my credit card balance.... hopefully V2 will hav
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I'm new to Google Maps, but here's hoping this version will have learned to NOT try and make left tu
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So when is it clear to get off Insider Preview mode? Or did that window shut while I was traveling earlier in
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If they do in fact go in the USB-A direction, I would have to wonder "Why?" I'd want to know the real and
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BTW, due to the nature of closeouts and new product releases, I picked up a pair of V35 ThinQs at half price w
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Sometimes "oops" just doesn't cut it...
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Humph... well.... That actually sounds like a collection of great ideas.
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Thanks for sharing - I pay close attention to your posts precisely because I thoroughly respect your integrity
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Paul, I just returned from a trip to EU, and my opinion about the battery life being adequate proved wrong. Oh
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In reply to MikeGalos:Geeky indeed Mike... My boss at Gemini back in the 80s authored the Orange book. We mad
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(Writing this on my Surface Go from my Hotel room in Munich)A while back I observed that the various AIs have
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Pity I had to settle for an LG V35 to go with my new Google Fi account...
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Technological Convergence is a beautiful thing.
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Just installed the build on my workstation and it seemed to go remarkably fast. Much faster than the usual 20
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Downloading now. My heart's atwitter with excitement...
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What a world... Fortunately the next Patch Tuesday isn't that far off. But naturally it's the day I&
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Either way, too late - I just have to have Google Fi before I leave for Austria next week... so an LG v35 is o
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Hilarious! Bravo!
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In reply to jr.flynn:You have all those management tools installed in your baseline image for iPads? Oh. Sorry
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If that next generation Go on ARM lives up to the expectations you've just created, I'll be among th
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Two weeks back I needed to go to the far Northwestern-most corner of the continental US - Neah Bay, WA. There&
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I still use my Windows phone. No apologies there.But put it in this context: I spend hours, every day, using M
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Very insightful Paul - in particular the observation that Windows Phone was not brand-friendly... That's
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Dealing with - even the discussion of - the social issues raised by a new technolog
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Ambiguity is a bitch...Reference the Twilight Zone episode; "To Serve Man."
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In reply to wright_is:That's a much better solution. Start on an island then open the bridges as you nee
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In reply to jrswarr:I don't miss mine at all. Still have it :-) But I need Google Fi. Feh...
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In reply to karma77police:They did stumble on 1803 coming out of the gate, didn't they? But I was probabl
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Gosh Paul I'm jealous - I miss Eastern Pa/Central NJ quite a bit. Add New Hope PA/Lambertville NJ to your
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I think you're selling this short. This looks like a well thought out and comprehensive DLP (Data Loss Pr
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Seems they've been doing some in-depth enhancements to accessibility-related features. Someone thoughtful
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I'm still pondering "why" MS is expending so much effort getting Edge up to snuff on non-windows platform
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My main home workstation is a 7th Gen i5 NUC. Very pleased - been waiting for the upgrade. The discrete graphi
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In reply to MacLiam:Agreed on just about all. But as I mentioned elsewhere, since the Go can charge on the USB
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In reply to ommoran:For me, the form factor was the deciding factor. Anything with a 15" is too big for my use
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In reply to gabbrunner:I suspect the trade off was between the size of the available 3:2 glass panels and the
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In reply to gabbrunner:Exactly. That difference between 3 and 6 hours crosses the line separating "distracting
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In reply to straker135:Yes. See my comment below. Just as you say - it can quick-charge quickly. Moreover, sin
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Good review Brad. I'm really enjoying my Go; beyond expectation to tell the truth. The form factor is exa
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In reply to wbhite:We did the same in my enterprise years ago - using folder redirection group policies to sto
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Paul, we all appreciate that you've suffered the torture of a thousand cuts on our behalf. Heartfelt than
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17738 downloading now... Glad they fixed the Start reliability issues - sometimes Start wouldn't - made m
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I note irony in the lead photo of a mother, mothering her son, in the context of hearing how good ol' Goo
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In reply to Shmuelie:And vice-versa. Android or Chrome or whatever running virtualized on Windows. Eat one
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Without even having read the post, I'll say it one more frickin' time: there is no reason Windows co
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While long overdue, particular kudos to MS for the display scaling improvements - lots of things look much bet
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In reply to wright_is:It's easier to add a thin layer if a bit too cool, than to peel off layers of skin
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"It’s more psychology than disingenuous."Back in the 70s, my first marketing job was doing bulk-mail flyers
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But what was that parked behind the Volvo? Looks like 60's iron from the bit I can see...
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"...exactly what I was hoping for." This tears the stitches off my wallet: "Merry Christmas to me..." And lo
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"This is the world of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)"Soooo 2015... "BYOD" is "D-E-A-D" (Don't Even Ask Dumm
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One advantage of getting old is that I don't really perceive any of the "shrill ads" Paul mentions. I at
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"document sync with benefits" = workflow sync, or perhaps, experience sync.
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Re then and now... Lookin' good Paul... :-)
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In reply to macboy:Exactly; I lived in Copenhagen for a few years back in the early 70s, and even then, all ki
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Oh you young people... I'm at an age where rushing through airports is decidedly unhealthy, so I've
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In reply to wbhite:I transitioned just a couple of months ago, and I stopped missing the desktop version after
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One begins to think Microsoft has not leveraged "pin the tile to the taskbar" because either a: they're c
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Ooooohhhh, leap seconds. My clock runneth over...
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"My guess is that it was because the hardware wasn’t yet available in big numbers." That's plausible. I
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Thanks. That all makes perfect sense. Being one's own worst critic is by far the hardest job in marketing
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Re Notepad changes: Finally, an update to something I use every day. :-) That actually looks very cool.
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In reply to KingNerdTheThird:I agree, BUT, the ideas (I this case form factors) have to "have legs" as the old
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"Surface Go is additive. And that’s what makes all the negativity so unbearable."Great line, and completely
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I've ordered one to take on a 2-week trip to Austria in Sept. The small size wi
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OK - I'm going to Austria for a couple of weeks in September, and this would be a lot easier for my aging
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In reply to UK User:Unfortunately, the road to tomorrow is strewn with the corpses of products that were ahead
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Hmmm. If they're really good - the reveal would take that same picture and transform it - make it come al
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OK, so make it a Kickstarter project :-) "If we get 1 million orders, we'll make it..."And yeah... that l
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Great overview Paul. Thanks.Here's what I like most about Windows 10: in my Enterprise environment, I hav
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Interesting little device. For classrooms? Or ubiquitous handouts at business meetings as interaction devices
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Wonder if there's just "no hook" between the Ads and the user's config, or whether W10 privacy setti
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Wholeheartedly agreed: let's face it, the connectivity industry (or whatever you wa
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Paul, I couldn't agree more that waiting is the right move. Yesterday, in response to Mehedi's post
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"Worse, if I want to use Google Home, Chamberlin has decided that I need to pay $1 a month or $10 a year for t
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Not really a surprise: as an old product manager, I've been having a bit of a hard time seeing what this
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I've been expecting this release for be the "security" release for some time; it's in Microsoft'
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What fools these hapless mortals be,who bothered not to poacheth me...
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In reply to Mark from CO:OK, so the option is what? That we each curate the media flow ourselves? Somebody, s
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"And it can win in a coming generation of gaming in which content is delivered from the cloud to any device. S
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So what WILL Edge look like on Andromeda...?And might that device be a first shot at an agnostic platform - wi
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In reply to gregsedwards:Agreed. As I said in another comment, I think this gives Adobe a "way off the island
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Well gosh, that's actually good news from the sound of it. Good news for Adobe as well because it gives t
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I wonder if some kind of self-selection bias could be at play, such that users more likely to experience issue
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Yes, tweaks for UI settings should be a part of the "Sets" system that associates tool, objects, and in this c
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Not to criticize, but as I see it, the problem is that you - we I suppose - still live with one foot in a devi
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All in all, good news. It means there will be price competition for the sweet spot; so adoption could soar. We
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It's clear they had no clear idea of what they were trying to create, no model of what came after the "Of
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I dunno - I enjoy watching how far this envelope can be pushed without really breaking anything. I mean, there
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I've been cogitating on MS's failure to properly implement the "Tabs to Taskbar" feature... trying t
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Agreed. Occam's Razor to the rescue.There is plenty of evidence to see this as part
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Paul, how are you accessing the internet? I imagine many folks keep that bundled with their cable package.We j
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In reply to gabbrunner:Neither. I'd choose a gun.
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In reply to dstrauss:I was ready to order the I7 anyway, when my left-brain slammed on the brakes and said "Bu
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First rate analysis...
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Two things:First: I envision a classroom full of kiddies armed with these tablets in front of a bank of Surfac
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In reply to jchampeau:Quite right. And I already called dibs for the tinfoil hat concession on Amazon :-)But t
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Hmmm. Thinking about it… a bunch of these stitched together would make a damn fine "living blackboard" at th
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In reply to chriscarstens:But "Limited storage" is techno-speak for "Alzheimer's." :-)
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Agreed on all counts.And yes, my virtual system running a virtual OS needs gobs of virtual storage to house my
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"I just think of it as honest." You are the Simon Cowell of Tech publishing, and other than a few friends in
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And I can hardly wait to see the 2nd generation Surface Studio that will pair with these puppies...
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My heart soars like an eagle... :-)
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In reply to brad-sams:A wonderful idea. Who knows how much longer that will even be possible... Hmmm... A tech
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Wish I could say there were easy answers, but you'd know I was lying... But, as you know, the virtualiza
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Hey! That watch in the picture? If it can announce the time in Morse Code, I'm in.
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Perhaps the "nonsense" Microsoft added to Windows 10 should be seen as chaff: a distraction, meant to confuse
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Given humanity's track record, I sometimes think replacing it is a matter of some urgency...
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Nice picture Paul. Is that your new place? Oh wait. Windows. I get it... Your old place.
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Lot's of "wow" stuff in there. It's getting really real...
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Don't worry Paul. I'm sure they'll pack lots of "interesting" stuff in the next version. Or per
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Thing is, a system using "messages to communicate across that barrier" turns out to be perfect for the cloud a
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In reply to danmac:And did I not just read in the rumor-mill elsewhere on this site that a Holo-Apple (a cross
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In reply to Igor Engelen:You're right. I believe it stems from believing one's successes were a cons
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In reply to dcdevito: A sort of institutional hubris sometimes accompanies success; the epithet on the gravest
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In reply to dcdevito:Agreed. But that doesn't mean I don't hope I see it...
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At $79 I thought it was a loss leader... At $99I thought it was a bargain... at $119.. it's still a good
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But aren't we all glad they decided to fix whatever it was rather than release it?On a personal contribut
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Damn. Paradise Lost...
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In reply to red.radar:Good question. Certainly the way I would expect things to work in the near future, if no
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What amazes me is that this stuff IS managed in the apps themselves, rather than in an external UX layer, as G
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Perhaps that should be Microsoft's epithet: "Not today." Damn Sam... squandered opportunity.
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In reply to navarac:I completely agree. If it really is a break with the past, a break with the current brandi
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In reply to SocialDanny123:Interesting... I could see that.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yes, unless they're actually working toward a truly distributed Windows environ
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Microsoft's fabled "Department of Silly Rules" at work, no doubt. Their mission: to ensure every system h
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In reply to Harrymyhre:No, Rising Star coined the phrase in about 1981. But I probably couldn't prove it
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I find the fact that MS didn't release the flaky version into the wild to be good news. It means MS'
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Good grief. That borders on Balmer-esque. "I don't think that's what user's want." Okeydokey..
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In the hands of a press who spin stories exactly one way and no other, anything that can be interpreted as a s
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Well all I can say is "Bravo." I've been predicting baked-in security as a "next big thing" for a long ti
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You're right Brad; the braying of the Fuddites aside, MS's commitment to data privacy is best-in-cla
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Paul, you're right.I'd feel better if the ads could be turned off as a benefit of paid PRO licensing
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I'd prefer posts as premium content. I pay attention to this thread, but really don't have time to s
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Yeah, it's actually really exciting. Notice that at one time, the PC was king because it gave users acces
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I agree. It's likely they have evolved a model, a hopefully intuitive design, against which they are buil
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Beautiful article.
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But will it ever be Project Fi compatible? No? Never mind.
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Wonderful article Paul.I'd only one detail I'd remind you: while Windows will no longer be - that�
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Another case in point for the ongoing Technological Convergence in the form of Portable User Experience across
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Thanks again for the in-depth and thoughtful coverage of the changes. But two things; one a strong disagreemen
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Thanks Paul - good to hear the human side of the story. I hope and pray that the "experiences" portion of the
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I can hardly wait to see how Paul has to say :-)
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"Shoulda been done long ago" Buffalo SpringfieldThe real key is that it's now the "experiences" not the "
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I get it... Gosh, such a useful thing to report, Paul. Thanks. Indeed, that is why I'm here. Clear writin
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I hereby nominate this for "Best headline so far in 2018." LOL on a Sunday morning... :-)
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My portable computing needs are rather simple: after O365 and a browser, the rest is accomplished by remote de
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In reply to MattHewitt:You've evidently never worked in R&D - in the real world things take as long a
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Yeah, I'll give Google a hand - it only takes one finger, BTW...
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Thanks for the insight and analysis Paul. Well, hindsight is always 20-20... I should have bought Microsoft a
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After 40+ years in this business, I agree. And Jeff Bezos is the only guy in this sector who amazes me still.
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It also further abstracts those apps from the core.
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"Anecdotally, many of my colleagues who have been in the market for new PC’s this year have turned away from
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In reply to jpwalters:From the first, I got the impression that Microsoft didn't want to sell Surface dev
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"an expanding range of clients that lacks cohesion and direction."You've nailed this one Paul. MS clearly
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Very glad you're doing this Paul.Back in the late 80's I'd managed to pack 219 lbs. on my 5
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Thanks for the article. I feel your pain at trying to digest all this... been there, done that... I can only w
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I dunno... the high end of the market only has so much capacity, and the replacement rate of PCs (in general,
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In reply to Pargon:Yes - it was quite some time ago - I often wondered if MS wasn't preparing to launch t
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Interesting. But I speculate: was the iPad the twist in reality that convinced the masses the PC was dead? Pho
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Great article Paul - and I agree 100%.I sometimes sit and wonder - what are they waiting for? Are the app deve
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I'm getting a distinct "poverty of riches" impression here... Like standing at the entrance to Home Depot
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That would be an interesting distinction: if "I" products were those that involved Apple hardware, while servi
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"will change how you experience everything." Seriously? Wow. That'd be cool. that is, if it doesn't
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In reply to red.radar:Agreed. Its a clear sign the smartphone as we know it is a mature product - now trying t
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I am likewise surprised Microsoft hasn't implemented AR in Edge... Are they holding cards - waiting for t
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Beautifully said. Bravo...
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Uhhhhh... Ya might want an editor to take a look at the first sentence of the second paragraph... :-)
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In reply to jrickel96:" Android's success is smartphones comes down to the zero cost for entry." No. That
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In reply to jrickel96:I'm not so sure your analysis is accurate. True, Apple never captured the business
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In reply to skborders:Agreed. the headsets are interesting, but do not offer any compelling reason to upgrade
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I don't think price is the issue. I find the product interesting enough I might have already sprung for o
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Exactly right, I think.
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In reply to will:"So I guess while the functions could be the same, the interfaces might look and act differen
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A lovely example of Technological Convergence.
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I think the single code base is a big deal - quite an accomplishment; confirms and concludes MS' objectiv
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Y'know, what's really amazing is that it's amazing... Why are rational, reasonable pricing plan
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All quite right. The problem, I think, is that Apple was always hardware-centric. The emerging paradigm, as ev
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My 12 YO granddaughter visited over Christmas - and had never seen a Looney Tune...
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:100% agree. In response to the supposition of paranoia I was going to say: "And you
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The observation that "Each wave happened much more quickly than that of its predecessor" is interesting - I ha
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In reply to jblank46:Sorta true, but with deep roots.Way back when, Steve jobs established the pattern for all
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In reply to ChrisKal:Agreed, but based on what (admittedly little) we know, like Paul, I would put money on An
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Agreed. The "long game" can be likened to an airport runway - if the plane doesn
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Sort of - and would love to sit down and discuss it with him. The singularity is no
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In reply to simont:As an ex-Marketing Director for a large consumer electronics manufacturer, the most importa
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In reply to matsan:So, you think 200+ MILLION pcs a year is a market not worth the effort? Man, you must be a
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I think this is rather a big deal. Supports the notion that Microsoft's services are available everywhere
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In reply to karma77police:So, what you're saying is, no Linux user or systems will ever connect to Azure
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In reply to wright_is:Ah - you're in EU - that makes sense.One of the first things I learned many years a
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In reply to wright_is:I find your comment puzzling: I'm IT director for a national insurer with 200+ user
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In reply to Travis:Ironically, I think your response is more akin to clickbait... And look, it worked!
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In reply to dcuk7:In my opinion, that's pretty much what they're working towards - building the AI g
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In reply to gregsedwards:That's because it's so much easier to criticize than create.
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In reply to Nic:Yes, I see a security concern. But bogus concerns about "stealing your data" aside, the best a
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In reply to MartinusV2:I agree on all but security software; I believe security has to be baked in, not added
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Agreed - For some time I've felt this was the year MS would pull the pieces t
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In reply to harmjr:I agree. Locking people out may benefit the provider, but is more likely to harm the user.
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In reply to Mark from CO:" If you got the app, why in the world would Google and Amazon want to provide Micros
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In reply to Demileto:Good point. What, exactly, constitutes a "skill?"I'm curious how many skills they�
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Thanks for another insightful article Paul. Nice that u can keep the ol' brain in gear in the chaos of La
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In reply to VancouverNinja:I disagree. Any technology that can prevent the need for drivers to look away from
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Agreed. It was several years after the microcomputer was invented before that i
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In reply to Waethorn:I can share the sentiment, but not the conclusion; let me explain (and sorry if this is t
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Well Paul, as you've indicated many times, Microsoft doesn't even seem to be standing on the dock wa
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" I see Microsoft exiting this market as soon as this quarter"Pity, if that's how it turns out. "the firm
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In reply to DarekmeridianWhich is why I think the top product of 2018 (ok, maybe 2019) will be a UI that can l
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The optimist in me interprets this as recognition of the "poverty of riches" problem created by a plethora of
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In reply to Bart:I would only alter that to say "shouldn't be hardware dependent. Currently they are tied
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In reply to North of 49th:Actually, I think this is a primary reason Microsoft's updating technology is s
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In reply to Dan1986ist:The odds are zero.
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Yes, Alexa will have those 25,000 skills. But Alexa plus Cortana would marry all dem' skills with deep us
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In reply to jimchamplin:So: if it won't run on old hardware - we should write it off like Balmer dissing
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BTW: the first sentence in the third paragraph needs a bit of an edit...
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"Cortana’s development has stalled in the recent months, gaining almost no notable feature." Which you inter
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In reply to jimchamplin:Right. And users never walk across the room, and users never work in a noisy environme
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In reply to NicolasDR:Cynical, eh? Suite yourself. But forget-you-not: Meltdown and Spectre were discovered ju
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In reply to skane2600:So you're saying "screws" are what makes a new car new? This is more akin to announ
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Every company and vendor of anything and everything wants "customers for life." Turns out, It's all abou
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Re: The GeckoBeen meaning to say this for a while: kudos to whomever digs up the lead photos for articles on t
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In reply to eeisner:Things haven't changed that much. Coincidentally, last night, my brother-in-law visit
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In reply to Jeffery_Commaroto:Whoa... Hang on, let me get this out:Amazon thinks of us as customers. Google th
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I'll go on record saying I think Microsoft is building toward something... Thus, even if no great benefit
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iSlowgate - First ever combination of a small letter "I" and "gate" in one word?
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Boy am I stoked...Kidding aside, they actually seem to be getting good at this.
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In reply to jrickel96:And they actually do seem to be getting good at it... Here's hoping they can levera
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I gave my wife a Pixel 2 for Xmas - upgraded at long last from her Lumia 950. Once we'd ported her contac
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Un-ironically, it's also awkward to phrase such things in English. i.e. the pro
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Right on, Paul - you are right: Very obvious. I actually want to call my assistant "Karen" in honor of an exec
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"Conversely, the real world moves at a much slower pace which puts non-tech entertainment at odds with digital
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It is ironic that the company that started the downfall of the PC as the center of the user's world by in
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As I see it, I want to be tracked... by my own systems, for my own benefit: not for the benefit of some extern
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Back in the day I agreed with Steve Jobs that the computer's destiny was to become an appliance. To quali
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I wonder if, as with the VHS/Betamax wars of days gone by, the war will ultimately be won by the platform with
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Hmm. Could also relate to simulating the eye's visual discrimination strategies; the thing looked at - th
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Right. And perfectly consistent with bringing Android apps to Windows 10S if they want, too. Hats off to Make
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True zero touch. Take it out of the box. Turn it on. Use it. That's the very near-term goal for the very-
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And clearly, there is plenty of room on the lot for Microsoft to drive up and park its car... Where pray tell
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The PCs adaptability and extensibility ensure it a place in the pantheon of useful tools for many years to com
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"... It’s perhaps a great idea." And a great point. But at the same time, if broad adoption of a basic techn
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Wanted to upvote you twice :-)
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In reply to Nischi:How about a speedometer? Should we dispense with that iconic live tile in our lives? How a
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I think this is just one more of the many forces that make expansion of "remote work
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Right on all counts Paul. This is a very logical next step in UI, and a big one. Not just multiple users - mul
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Sounds like Sets is what I've been waiting for/expecting for quite some time... Extend it conceptually: n
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Sic transit Gloria...
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Alan was certainly right, and far from alone in his opinion. Back in the day, Zilog agreed to make a graphics
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I can but wonder if this just be the tip of the iceberg; that there be some method in Microsoft's madness
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In reply to hrlngrvI think you're right: if MS went back into the phone market they'd have to eat qu
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I can picture it now: all the devices update at the same time - and you're forced to visit every single d
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And so Microsoft brings yet another piece of the Windows Experience to yet another - whatever the customer wan
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PS, Paul:Good call on AI interoperability. Absolutely required. And consider this: if any AI can in effect a
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Like a frog in a pot set to boil we may not notice the change - ever. No one thing changing the game. No one g
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I started reading your stuff years back specifically because you covered the space between Microsoft's IT
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So, wait... did Google lose more on Motorola than Microsoft lost on Nokia?
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In reply to wunderbar:Which is why I believe that Microsoft's rapidly improving ability to roll out massi
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Excellent!
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I've been wanting to upgrade my Dell last-gen-pre-touch i7 Ultrabook for a while now but so far nothing h
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"I’d be happy to carry this 3.7-pound workhorse in my backpack."I want to ride my workhorse, not carry it...
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In reply to gregsedwards:Or, like having taskbars at the tops of multiple, repositionable, groups of windows.
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I could write pages about this, but I'll simplify it to "Good idea..." Applying set and group theory to t
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In reply to johnlavGood question. I don't think we'll ever say wow to any specific effect. To me it
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Congrats to all! And welcome, Mehedi!
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Tsk, tsk. Upset by a little pulp-fiction Zen, were we, Paul? Glad you saved your soda can for the morons who
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Yes, exactly. And Windows in turn, wants to turn into Android...
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In reply to Mark from CO:I think of it as less of a threat than the inexorable march of Technological Converge
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Given that color balance, as a technology, is really old, I find it remarkable that color profile systems, whi
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In reply to maethorechannen: Bravo!
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Welcome to the World of Harmony, Paul :-)
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Went through a dead-end-custom-domain back in Home Server days. Sigh... Once bitten, twice shy, so I've n
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In reply to dfeifer:Same here. Although had to manually reset a few connections to RD Gateway from preupdate b
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First rate journalism Paul. Thanks. Being copied to my whole tech team.BTW, I wonder if this emergent move is
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As I've said before, it's a "Big Data" thing. As the updating system learns, it will get better stil
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Interesting - I'll pass this on to my Desktop Support Admin who does most of the installs these days.I da
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In reply to wright_is:I agree. And think "heads up display" possibilities. But again, this resolution is limit
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Like a pebble in your shoe, small things can ruin your day.
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In reply to unfalln:Shhhhhh! That's the November Surprise...
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In reply to wolters:I think interoperability is the key - the next big thing in UI development - like having a
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Bixby! Alexa! Siri! Cortana! Google! ARRRRRRGH!!!!!Enough with the names already. I WANT TO NAME MY ASSISTANT.
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I'm hoping Google cries "We need to cooperate!" in response, and that MS winks and says "Good idea!"Yet a
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I'll be curious to see the deployment/release rate for this version. Based on progressively improved upda
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Thanks for the stream of ideas Paul; great way to start the day!How about that: hidden in plain view all this
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Hmmm. Cortana Collections could be the tip of a personal fave wish-list item: a tool with the ability to scan
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Y'know, I got to thinking about it, and it's really odd that MS hasn't even tried to do somethi
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In reply to Mark from CO:I agree with Paul: he's said elsewhere that VR/MR is going nowhere. As it stands
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In reply to JCerna:They can but amaze us to overcome tainted trust.
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In reply to AliMaggs:You're basically right. It adds up to this: MS would need to pretty well knock our c
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Thanks for the translations... :-) Sci-Fi Department: Mixed reality has a shot - perhaps quantum computing giv
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A few years back Consumer Reports did a review of bicycles, and one of the ratings was for "Ease of pedaling."
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In reply to North of 49th:Agreed regarding the Logitech. It's interesting to go to the online site where
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I feel your pain... We've gone through the drill of auditing our viewing habits - as you recommended - an
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" An assistant can only truly be useful if it knows who you are,”. Exactly. And I expected this from MS. It
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Paul, read this with near joy... Been waiting for decades ? See "Forbidden Planet."Its what i expected from Mi
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Great article Paul. BTW, Google's path toward AI was set in motion decades ago by their concentration on
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"We appear to be on the cusp of something amazing."Wouldn't that be cool?Perhaps this presages some speci
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In reply to MikeGalos: I agree Mike. We live by HIPAA, so control is mandatory, and not always easy to achieve
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On the "face" of it, facial recognition technology that works - trouble-free and predictably - may be the lead
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Thanks for the info Paul. Great article - well envisioned.
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In reply to wright_is:"As to the Microsoft case, they did lots wrong! Forcing resellers to buy a Windows licen
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I've long believed the best way for nations to avoid war is to sell and buy lots of stuff from each other
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Let me sum this up: the consumer market is bigger than the business market.A "PC on every desk" makes no sense
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In reply to SvenJ: C'mon. You know the answer to this - nobody promised you some specific release schedul
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Good point. Damn few folks spend much time talking about what MS does right. No click-ba
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In reply to Bart:"Would it be fair to say that AI's are nothing more than souped-up search engines?"No mo
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In reply to matsan:Dude... You go out shopping with $100 million in your hand, you will be AMAZED at the deals
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In reply to CompUser:What part of this, from Paul on Aug 23 (just a week ago), quoting Dona Sarkar, isn't
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"But it’s an interesting coincidence that Sony has met the base pricing on Windows Mixed Reality, no?"Yes, "
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In reply to Polycrastinator:Quite right - that envelope is being pushed right and proper...
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Wow. Wait... Newsflash:"Rise of the machines... they don't want to destroy us... They want to own us!"
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In reply to William_Kempf: Hmmm. The very first phrase on the MS "intro to Wi10S" site is "Streamlined for sec
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In reply to paul-thurrot:No, not "overly ... strong." More like "you seem really pissed off." And understandab
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"Still, it’s a shame about the lack of USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, right?"Indeed it is - a pimple on a Super Model&
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In reply to Narg: Agreed.
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Paul, you make it sound like the those with MSDN licenses are getting some kind of a "special" freebie here, r
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In reply to Waethorn: China wants to own the US, not wreck it. Microsoft's F/Us with Nokia notwithstandin
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In reply to IanM: Agreed. I think Narg's concerns are well-founded. The "computer spook" agencies would h
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In reply to jimchamplin: I can hardly wait for the review :-)
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In reply to GeekWithKids: Exactly. Leverages "self-selection."
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I'll be very curious to hear how simulated sunshine works out. Living in Oregon
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In reply to hrlngrv: Agreed. Personally, how about Photoshop for editing fine-art photography? Or dozens of ot
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Great article. Paul, sometimes you truly are a candle in the darkness.
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Agreed.
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:The machines don't have to steal our thunder - we're giving it away. Abdi
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Well, when you put it that way...Wonder how many of these misses are of the "not ready for prime time" va
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In reply to hrlngrv: I quite agree; touch on workstation monitors is not mainstream and I see no reason i
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In reply to hrlngrv: "Apple is just ensuring that Mac laptops work as much like Mac desktops as possible." Tha
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In reply to skane2600: Sorry I didn't word that more carefully: I didn't mean to imply the PARC mod
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In reply to Bdsrev:Yes, isn't it amazing that Apple has still not gone with touch? But really, it almost
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I fully agree... my i7/SSD Dell Ultrabook performs great but doesn't have a touchscreen - and I often lau
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I'll add my voice - great article Paul. That's quite some schedule you're keeping! May the resu
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In reply to wright_is: The question is not whether I need to tell the difference between a pressure 3 and 4,
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"Does the PC market bottom out at some level, apparently still unknown? Or does it continue a long, steady dec
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Oh for cryin' out loud...
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When marketing is held to the same standard of accuracy as documentation or contracts, it can consist of nothi
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And kudos on upping your programming chops. :-)
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In reply to primushed: That was always the problem with Token Ring Networks - getting them to talk...
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In reply to MikeGalos: Because it is not just a chip that passively responds to inputs and queries. It's
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Shades of E.E. "Doc" Smith! "The Lensman Series" (Sci-fi from the 30s) has come to life :-)Gotta get me one o
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I agree - good article - and good idea, too.Taking it a step further, I suppose MS could wrap a virtualized co
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Perhaps because there is an ecosystem of commercial products, and MS doesn't want to put them out of busi
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In reply to red.radar: You are right, "safety" can be used as an excuse for suspect and aggressive business pr
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"just the standard desktop application wrapped in a Desktop Bridge container."Why denigrate it? If it works, i
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BTW, when did "statements" morph into "promises?"
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In reply to Rcandelori: Agreed - I see a Tower of Babel forming as multiple independent agents quarrel over wh
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The burning need for improved security response-time and reduced innovation-lead-time fuels this engine of cha
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OK, I'm an old fart: somebody please explain to me why it's "smart" to remove the poor old "Insert"
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In reply to daveevad: There's truth in what you say - if nothing else, it shows that competition really d
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Nibbled to death by ducks...
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In reply to hrlngrv:Well, right. But I'm not questioning the basis or validity of Intel's complaint.
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Really seems rather late in the game for Intel and Qualcomm to be getting into a pissing contest about this; h
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In reply to VancouverNinja:yes, it seems to be working fine - and I already pinned a couple of sites to my tas
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Sweet. Installing now.
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Good one. And indeed, MS's failure to capitalize on what they had is indeed sad. MS has this fall, just t
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That "pen" looks bigger than the iPad!Doubles as a walking stick? Billy club? Drink mixer?
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Can't believe I'm pushing a conspiracy theory but here it is: all security companies are insecure.My
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In reply to pmeinl: Well, yes, the cloud is the media, not the method. What constitutes appropriate security m
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Sure wouldn't bet against you on this one! One's "profile" in all its glory will reside in the cloud
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It's a very important next step - these always connected plus great-battery-life devices. Count me in. Bu
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Great article Paul. But I don't quite buy the conclusion that MS should not pursue hardware. As the purv
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"Our desire to rewrite our personal histories is natural: We all have that one moment we wish we could take ba
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TINSTAAFL - "There is no such thing as a free lunch." It was so written on the wall of an exit-less cave in th
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Trends such as IDC notes are rather like-standing waves, the consequence of converging forces, in this case, t
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I guess the only part that surprises me is that MS isn't already doing something similar in updating W10
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Talk about a paradigm shift! We evolved in a world where disconnection was the norm, and connection the specia
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Look forward to your review - MS may have a future in mobile - but barring a miracle my personal mobile future
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In reply to adamcorbally:I agree. But to me it's simply a question of inevitable form factors. Just say "
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That would indeed be interesting to see - an Apple that takes a sep off the cliff for a new directon. Courage.
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Hear! Hear!That signifies agreement. Or perhaps MS is thinking strategically; helping Intel get its act togeth
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There are all kinds of interesting subtexts contained within this:The state of Security in general - the role
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Spot on Paul.I think "corporate self-awareness" - knowledge of their actual strengths and weaknesses - varies
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"The difference between genius and bullshit is results."Sad thing, when you're inventing unknown territor
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OK, well then, wow.
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I really so like the term "ambient computing;" ever so much friendlier than AI. But lest we forget, the whole
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In reply to mebby: Nah. If they're running emulations now, they're not years off of silicon.
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100% agree with you, Paul. And not just embracing the change, becoming the agent of change. Brilliant strategy
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In reply to Bats:1. Documents - which you so glibly denigrate - are the primary means by which humans organize
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In reply to tbtalbot:I agree. Factor in the coming explosion of AI, and the chrome books may be just a crude f
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This need to dramatically reduce TCO will reshape every market as we proceed. Wait till it hits the enterprise
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In reply to xxxdevxxx:You really haven't been paying attention, have you? Windows 10 now lives pretty muc
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These are staggeringly important capabilities. The world is changing before your very eyes.
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HK - or anyone else - could have put a screen on such a device easily. And of course will. That's the kin
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With regard to the screeching Howler monkeys who think every shadow is a leopard, to paraphrase Inventor/philo
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Oh, hmmm. Think "Kanji" and the issues with processing. Maybe MS has a rabbit to pull out of a hat for the Chi
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Uhhhh, that's really good news. About the pdf capabilities I mean.Working with PDFs is a big pain point f
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In reply to Steven Stolarski: Interesting - in contrast - I gave my 11 y.o. granddaughter an Acer Laptop with
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Nicely explained, and I find the notion horrific...
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Going to Austria for 12 days later this week - wish I had one of these to take with me. Had a Surface Pro IV f
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A very sad state of affairs indeed. Somebody, somewhere, thought it was a good idea...
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Interesting because I don't recall Microsoft actually having a particularly strong position in the Educat
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Actually, depending on the specific limitations of Windows 10 Cloud - and I'm not wishing for the moon he
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Paul, I think your analysis is excellent. I'll reiterate: it really is all about the I/o - usually expres
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A bit of clarification please: how big? How heavy?
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I liked your analysis when you first delivered it and I like it better now.Examination of strategic implicatio
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:But of greater interest is "Where's it going" and "Why?"
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In reply to adamcorbally:I agree with you. I'd just go on and say until and unless some other technology
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In reply to jimchamplin:Given MS's extension of Windows onto ARM, it makes me wonder if perhaps these fol
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In reply to jmeiii75:But get the mindshare message behind this: they are "advertising" one of their own compet
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In reply to wright_is:They won't.
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In reply to BoItmanLives:It's not about the Store. MS isn't selling the store, They're selling
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Personally, I think the complaining about "ads" is getting more annoying than the "ads."Putting that Box "ad"
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That picture says it all :-) 15058 it is...
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"All it really is..."ANY feature added to ANY product is intended to entice someone to become a user/cust
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Good article Paul.
The problem is complex and more common than you might think. The kind of success enjoyed by
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Yes, 30 seconds leaves a security window of opportunity. But larger auto-lock delays are common - very common;
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Hey Paul, I don't strongly disagree with you very often - but what works for you ergonomically could be a
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In reply to Narg:
"Again, each person is different, so if concerned, consult a doc. :)"
Exactly, 100% rig
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In reply to hrlngrv:
No, IMHO they copied it from the auto others and countless others who've arrived at the s
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I just had to wade through the 7th circle of Auto-name hell buying a replacement for the TDI VW
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Paul, y'know, that's actually a good idea...
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"... But by the time Longhorn limped out into the world as Windows Vista in 2006/2007, developers had lost int
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In reply to hrlngrv:
"multigeneration backups would be a good idea already known to far more people than visit
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I'm very interested in the Tab management features for Edge. I'm the guy Drew DeBruyne alludes to -
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Sorry to hear Brad's under the weather; Wish him a speedy recovery from, we your (mostly) loyal&nbs
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It seems to me that Microsoft is betting on a number of key technologies all coming ready at pretty much the s
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In reply to glenn8878:
Agreed.
Along with that I want One-Note it to be self-indexing to categorize and o
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Exactly.
The hardware/ship dates are locked in concrete by now. Glad MS has the gu
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I agree with everyone on everything.
But I do wish you'd done the article 6 months ago... by now the features
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As an update: I did a full Settings-System-About-Reset on my 950xl - which reinstalled 15007 on the first go B
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"Annoy-ware until you purchase" has been around since - forever. Half the damn apps you get have a free v
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I've purchased a small fortune in kindle books, and I really do hope they come down off their high h
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In reply to Jeff.Bane:
Indeed...
In 1980 at a conference in Phoenix, I gave a presentation on the importance o
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My heart soars like an eagle... :-)
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In reply to adamcorbally:
Yes, by the hundreds of millions...
What fools these mortals be...
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In reply to lordbaal1:
Yes, of course. But I've been on this beta program since the beginning, and this i
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This is the first time a phone update has actually had a negative impact on me; my 950xl is now rebooting
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I think the most interesting aspect of this is that MS is well ahead in this part of system evolution. As
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In reply to Steve757:
Same here. My wife's 950 and my 950xl are rebooting frequently; my wife would say "
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It's like cleaning out a garage - about half way through you wish you never started...
I'd love to see 3rd par
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Thanks for the links.
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In reply to hrlngrv:
Bingo. I was going to write almost exactly the same thing. I'll just add, it is also a ha
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Because accurate is more important than consistent: The folders are full of tiles, not lives.
And accordi
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"Set these Tabs Aside" sounds very useful to me... I often have separate projects going that include lots
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Godspeed, Paul.
Been there.
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A few years back I spent some time writing certification exam questions for MS. Part of the deal was that the
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In reply to yaddamaster:
Totally mastered a 10 key adding machine back in the pre-pc days - I was a production
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UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 8K display - Sigh... Champagne taste - beer pocketbook.
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Well, there was more to it than "just" business. Yes, we struggling young comp
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Feel your pain, Paul, feel your pain...
Back when it all started - we PC folks were forced to share space with
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In reply to kjb434:
Yeah, me too. But I want it in my Subaru :-)
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In reply to Corey_McCowan:
I agree wholeheartedly. I believe the entire emphasis of the Nadella-age
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Pretty much exactly as I've been predicting for a long time.
One part not mentioned - and perhaps wasn't
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Wondering if the Snapdragon 835 will also find a home in a next-gen HoloLens - and allow it to escape the conf
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Extremely good analysis.
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Can't get Leia's Theme out of my head...
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I Phone rumors... harrumph - I distinctly recall Tim Cook standing up and saying the next iPhon
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In reply to JudaZuk:
Even so - Hosanna! That resolves a good many issues with which we wrestle.
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Thank you very much for this insight into both the process and the status. Your efforts to keep us i
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LOL. Think I've got some templates here in a drawer next to an old package of Letraset...
Can't
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Gotta move them Color TVs...
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In reply to IanYates82:
Yes - woulda, coulda, shoulda...
I suspect Windows' move to ARM was the nail
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Jerry once told me his motto was "Backup early and often."
Considered emblazoning t
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Jerry once told me his motto was: "Backup early and often."
Considered emblazoning that ri
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Paul, first, Merry Xmas. Thanks for another year of sharing your thoughts and insights.
Second: I agree -
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I'd prefer a Surface Keyboard without the Numeric keypad. I understand the use cases - just not in m
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Here's five bucks on the table sez this will turn out to be much ado about nothing.
"Echo, is succe
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“We believe that your personal assistant needs to help across your day wherever you are: home, at work a
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In reply to Waethorn:
Agreed - wish they'd taken this further - integrated it with Systems Center -
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In reply to Demileto:
I get what you mean...
So far, the apps I have on my 950xl are adequate to my needs.
Som
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In reply to Waethorn:
Yes, and I think "they" were right - VR isn't a fad. They were however premature I their
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I agree with every word of this.
VR (and AI) will be as impactful as the PC and the Internet.
Althou
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OK, personally I think MS is going to launch an anywhere-oriented box-you-can-talk-to-and-it-talks-back which
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In reply to Clarkb:What you're really talking about, and quite correctly, is MS expansion into a true "applian
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Thanks for the insights Paul - just put this on the short list of possible replacements for my PRO IV. Yo
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"But this kind of core improvement to Windows 10 is a big deal, and will impact far more users."
I agree. It i
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Perhaps a bit of Occam's Razor here: why can't you accept that some small perc
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Thanks Paul - one of the most interesting articles in ages.
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Have fun in Amsterdam! Did a long weekend there last Spring - got a cab ride from the airport to dow
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Breakthroughs are uncommon. None here, is what I hear.
Sigh - one must wonder if we're at a point of diminishi
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
Exactly right. "Not-invented-here" think shaped the market responses of&n
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What was not understood by others was the importance - the overwhelming importance - of Apple's UI innovation.
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Agreed. Just add various wireless technologies to whip up a halcyon future.
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"Curious to see how it works out"
You, me, and a whol s_pile of system admins...
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Better then, that such devices feature a Windows Hello-like ability to recognize users by voice, cam
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I suppose MS could be planning to integrate certain hololens-like capabilities into a "Small Surface
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I'm sure you're right. This fills some gaps in the "user gesture catalog" nicely. Should be particularly
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MS appears to have created a tool for exactly the people needed to generate the
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The HASCI keyboard has come to fruition. This is where it was going. Wow. :-)
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"Further, I don’t understand why Microsoft didn’t offer a single option for the less well-heeled."
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To voice a Minority Report: I'm interested in the standard keyboard. Small, straight, and wireless, just
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In reply to tbtalbot:Agreed.
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Hmmm. I was right about the keyboard and mouse when it leaked a while back - they were the accoutrements to th
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Tragdies are not the sad things that happen, but the wonderful things that will never be.
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"Martin Hajek’s peek at what the new MacBook Pro OLED strip could look like."
Brilliant - that's what we
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Yup. Interested. My home-cook avocation could use a pinch of technology, no doubt. It's hard - no, make t
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These devices will prove more than adequate for accessing and leveraging cloud-based resources. Cloudy An
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Oh yeah - nice one Paul! Well seen.
I'm an amateur cook - and would love to have hands free access to my
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You are quite right - few end users need current server products - It's like bringing a Porsche
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Thanks for the story, Paul. A cautionary tale if ever there was one.
Not completly dissimilar - I've visited S
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In reply to Demileto:
I agree.
Good analysis. In another post, Paul mentioned this 3-D capable Paint in the sa
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Just off the top - interesting as products in and of themselves? No. But what if these are accessori
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In reply to zybch:
Had my big retro-moment this summer - won the gold medal in a "high speed telegraphy" conte
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Solid analysis Paul.
Technological Convegence (Architectural Stabailization) is inevitable in product cat
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Thanks for the share Paul... Good story.
Sounds like that original NES had a bit of that "perfect thing" magic
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Wow - just refreshed my browser screen and the world changed...
It'll take a while to digest this and proivde
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We are approaching technological convergence - architectural stabilization - the point in markets when the cap
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So not in 2016 - which is running down. Does this imply that it will reappear in 2017 as a newer and better pr
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I've been postulating the use of companion devices as the second (and perhaps most important) factor
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A replica of a Marconi 213 Morse code telegraph key made by Alberto Frattini...
That and my kiln red
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The death of QWERTY has been predicted many times. One purported QWERTY-slayer was the ill
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Big Data for the rest of us...
I'll be curious to see the penetration/adoption rates for these