Hey, it's not like they already did that with Windows 11 or anything.
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Is it still going to record browsing history for Microsoft data mining? Wouldn't want them to feel left out.
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Yep, "go woke, go broke" seems a perfectly apt sentiment that I hope Hastings will one day adopt and comprehen
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It takes a little work, but you don't have to subscribe to all ten at once. We made a list of shows and swap
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Exactly this. I have a short, narrow laptop screen, and what makes the most sense is putting it in the spot wi
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Of course the pandemic is already over. We are in the phase that we are just going to have to live with COVID
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Without intending offense, a survey (not a study) asking the average worker to make guesses on cybersecurity,
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"We believe that — without first providing a privacy-preserving alternative path — such approaches can be
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Yep. Microsoft are only supporting the last ~3 years of PCs with Windows 11, and everything else goes in the
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Anyone using or migrated to Microsoft 365 Family and a custom domain? Any limitations? I can't tell if you c
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I agree that if you pay for a sub, you shouldn't have to deal with ads. I pay for the (some) of the NYT subs
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"Supported PCs" is doing a lot of work here. Does this mean that 84% of PCs that could run Windows 11 aren't?
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We're about two hours from our major international airport, and we've done everything you have. More than onc
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You sound worried about getting converted. Hot mailman?
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For what it's worth, Ted Lasso is as British as it is American, besides being very good.
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what's the point in digging up things from the past?...all we can do is learn from historical things and be be
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Still not on Windows 11, and no plans to migrate soon, but this is great work by the Stardock folks. My job i
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Chump change for Google, though them buying Sonos would be the worst possible outcome. The products might get
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Nobody is going to criticize Google for stealing the technology of a tiny company who wasn't even a competitor
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Also, you can sideload a YouTube app that doesn't show ads on Google TV, and I'm fairly sure there's no reliab
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I bought a new Sony TV with Google TV installed this year, and though I don't like Google or its privacy pract
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The fonts are not consistent.Thank you for actually covering this! This is maddening and annoying, and Androi
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Thank you, Paul for reporting on and voicing an opinion on this. This sort of thing is predatory and has no b
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I'm not sure how, collectively as a company, Microsoft thinks there won't be repercussions over this.I wonder
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Bad news, but your camera missed focus, and we're going to need you to go back and retake those pictures. No
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It sucks that they've stopped shipping OLED screens for the 10-11" tablets. Holding on to my Tab S6 until it'
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Or just that people want an option that doesn't data mine them.
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Still a no on this. They need to put stuff back in (hi, Taskbar) that they ripped out for no reason, and only
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Sorry, I didn't know I wasn't allowed to compare the iPad to competing devices that have the exact same issue,
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This scrolling issue is a worse problem on the (OLED) Galaxy Tab S6 than it is here. Way too much is being ma
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That's $1.2 billion per year in revenue. That isn't Netflix, but it's not a bad business either.
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In the sense that's it's not a silent change?
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I've adopted every single Windows OS since Windows 95 early, including Windows Vista and Windows 8. Not happe
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The weather taskbar icon in Windows 10 is actually useful, and when air quality is over 50, that shows up in t
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Microsoft's position on this is absolutely baffling, and I think we all appreciate you, Mary Jo Foley, Ed Bott
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For example, PCs that meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements had a “99.8 percent crash-free experience”
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I don't fully disagree, but I'm not sure any lifelong politicians (I assume we're talking about House and Sena
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Pixel 3a user here. I realize the market doesn't agree with me at all, but this device is too big. I'm consi
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Windows should be neutral on this, and not using its market power to advantage specific third parties. Build
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COVID-19 isn't going to ask permission.
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Is your conclusion then that there is no risk from COVID?
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To be clear, we evaluate every place we visit as a potential residence or a spot for a long-term stay.I'm bein
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and even in a semi-remote area like where I live, it’s possible to get a 940/90 Mbps connection for $57 per
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It definitely seems like there are fewer Surface-type devices available from PC manufacturers as of last year,
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Yep. Really good deal, but even better with a touch screen option.
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Because I have children who are not, and I'd like them to stay out of the hospital and alive.
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Google employees are at will. They can be fired for any reason at any time. Posing an existential health ris
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Agree. Someone please nuke this entire comment section from orbit.
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This is nonsense. There are no vaccine passports in the US. Doesn't exist. And if the virus was created in
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Dude - you're lost. Give yourself a break from the QAnon stuff for a month. Talk to real people in the real
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The 600,000 dead people can't really learn to live with it, can they? Literally the way to live with this is
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So just to put some numbers on "blaming the Mexicans" for COVID. There have been about 900,000 detentions at
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I have to think a lot of the growth is in folks spending their stimulus checks on new devices.
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I bought two of their last gen Galaxy Flex Alpha 13.3" laptops with 12 GB of RAM for about $500 each on sale.
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Is Windows 11 Teams chat end-to-end encrypted? How does it work with the Teams mobile app, or does it work at
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I'm cheap, but I'm only running one streaming service at a time, plus Amazon, which is really just due to Prim
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Assuming risks to the vaccinated are low, at some point, someone will need the courage to define what a tolera
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My understanding is that the vaccines reduce, but do not prevent, contracting COVID-19.
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Super happy about there being a new Teams client. The existing client is terribly slow. Anyone know whether
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And in an upcoming release, we’ll also add an option to delete the site from your browsing history in Chrome
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How many years of security and OS updates do you get for $1,500?
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Since Microsoft just dropped Windows 11 CPU support to only include the last 4 years of CPUs, is that trend go
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Microsoft is selling a Vivobook Flip 14 with a Pentium N4200 CPU that's not on the Windows 11 compatibility li
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This screenshot doesn't look any different except for making all of the title bar colors the same, which is de
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It seems pretty likely that this is a strategic decision at the highest level to intentionally obsolete hundre
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Neeva uses Bing for their results. I think they may do some tweaking, but the starting point is Bing. Neeva
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I've got a 2.6lb, 0.55" Samsung laptop that gets 8.5 hours of real world battery life, and I assure you, the t
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No touch screen in the announcement, which is a shame.
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I get that people work a lot and are busy, but reading to your kids, even a little, is important for more than
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It's weird that they're adding color to icons but removing it from applications.
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I don't see any actual progress or a real explanation. I see a decision to maybe walk back a bad policy very,
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In this entire CPU obsolescence debacle, is Microsoft considering that if you force hundreds millions of peopl
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Hopefully the Teams integration fixes its slow performance.
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I use a left side-mounted taskbar on a short 1080p laptop screen because there's no freaking room top to botto
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Not really. I'd like to pick the few apps that show up there.
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Just getting rid of the mountains of blog spam would be a big step forward. Search, including Google search,
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Great, accessible article with very good info for folks who aren't super familiar with EVs.When it comes to ch
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I’ll just say that Facebook, which owns Instagram, can go F itself.This should be on a Thurott.com t-shirt.
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I like how the "Data mine my web history" has no checkbox in that screenshot. ;-)
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I'm not sure Apple's lock-in is that great of a strategy on desktop. It does appear to work to keep people on
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Do you not have anyone on your team who'd like to spend time with their children instead of commuting, or is e
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I imagine that everything Google does is driven by the data mining team. "If we open a store, what kind of da
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This picture seems a little...suggestive? And if you don't have high-end speakers or headphones, lossless aud
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Any word on encryption or privacy, or should we expect that Microsoft these private conversations to be data m
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This also needs a calendar widget that shows the next event or next X events, events by category, etc. in an a
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This looks really useful as a personal dashboard, but they need an Email widget as well, where you can filter
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It’s perfectly clear the decision to award the contract was politically motivated.
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Sheep specs!
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undermine American sovereignty when it suits them so either one makes good bedfellows with the current adminis
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I pay taxes and care how they spend $10 billion. I don't care which one gets it, or whether it's both. I jus
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According to the stats above, Apple outsells by about 2 to 1. Does that mean 30 people bought an iPad?
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I have an iPad Mini and a Tab S6, and after using both extensively and really prefering iOS for privacy and su
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And the proof is in the numbers; the places that went mask crazy (San Fran., etc.) did not have demonstrably b
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Have we desegregated the comments? I feel like a back passenger in Snowpiercer!
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No criticism to Paul, but that's an awful lot of words that don't say anything. It's 'con
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I think they're moving informational live tiles here as the kill them on the Start menu.
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Have that they figured out how to make the assistant "Call Paul T" without tracking all of your web history?
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First thing I turned off, as intrusive and unnecessary. I don't need Microsoft data mining my web histor
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Thanks for the response. I've heard this thing about apps adjusting to scree
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Thanks for the response. Can you elaborate? Which apps? I have zero problems with
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Not trying to change the subject or troll, but I have a Galaxy Tab S6, with a very similar magnetic cover. It
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Every pixel counts on a small screen. This absolutely makes a difference.
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Does anyone know of a definitive (or even partial) guide to what kind of data collection each TV brand does?
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In reply to Daekar:The ice caps are supposed to be gone by now, for example.Source? Was this scientific conse
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In reply to MachineGunJohn:Equally bad is the energy production side with solar still so woefully inefficientY
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In reply to Jim_Lewis:These are really good questions!Such as after only 1782 miles, what % of your initial fu
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Answering some things in the first class thread over here in steerage ;-)For us, if you can't charge the
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Agreed. I didn't like that initial decision by Sonos one bit, but they reverse
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In reply to Winner:Sonos did reverse that decision, and for the record, I'm no fan of the wild overpricin
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FWIW - the battery issues are likely due to too many apps synchronzing in the background. I'm probably a
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Do you do collaborative work with other authors, and if so, how do you share collaborative data? I know you c
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So much time and effort perfecting twaddle. How about working on making Teams not slow an entire computer dow
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Being upset at companies for arbitrarily bricking working hardware is not trolling. It actually seems like a
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The important questions are:Whether the 'Google Web and App Activity' permission will eventually inc
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Just to be clear, changing these settings doesn't let you control your data. Facebook will continue coll
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Just to be clear, Sonos recycle mode intentionally bricks functional hardware. Sonos is not doing you (or any
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I've actually had really good luck with Play-Fi devices. These are notorious (at least in the past) for
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Clearly, Brad chose the thumbnail for this article.
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In reply to alissa914:Don't browse the web on a server and run the risk of a malware infection. Download
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Be aware that by enabling Google Assistant all of your search and browsing history is stored by Google if you
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Pixel 2 loses OS upgrades in a year and security updates in two years, so factor that in to your purchase deci
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Can we drop the "great again" phrasing, or if we're going to draw an analogy, apply it to the disaster of