Well, remember Windows Phone 7.8? That was a bit childish, after having promised every existing device would b
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In reply to proftheory:Of course not. The whole point is that each person must have their own.Google makes cha
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Bundling things and being first to market because they own the platform is pretty much how Microsoft killed of
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In reply to jm2016:Amazon, for all it's *many* faults, doesn't own the platform, so they can't
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In reply to colin79666:But it's not Apple's products, it is? Why should Apple get any cut when Epic
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To be fair, there are lots of issues with how the EU regulates taxation, like, for example, in how they allow
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In reply to Vladimir:I think that's what the court said, but courts don't get to make laws, only to
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In reply to red.radar:I've had much the same issues getting mics and headphones to work in Webex, Zoom, a
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In reply to LordMartarius:I does have background blur, and I use it all the time.But from what I understand it
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Skype has always been an also ran, at best.It's also always been clunky and cumbersome, where doing the s
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In reply to Phil_Adcock:Also, while it's not installed in newer versions, if you're upgrading from a
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“People are idiots and you see their true selves in times of crisis.”Truer words have never been said
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In reply to Vladimir:True, but the same student will need a pretty good, uncapped, Internet connection.This mi
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In reply to Skolvikings:Maybe.I use both daily, and while I share lots more files on Slack than on Teams, the
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In reply to Dan1986ist:I don't think it'll be an issue in the EU, since Cortana doesn't actuall
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In reply to MartinusV2:Telemetry does help a lot, it's literally a boon to devs.The problem is it's
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To be fair, who else could do it?Google already bundles all the apps they want into Android, and you can'
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In reply to mystilleef:Blocking browsers is not the way of the web. We've had this debate years ago when
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In reply to lvthunder:https://youtu.be/24yOLa1W5cw?t=26m11s
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“We have to examine the role of Apple and Apple’s app store"Uh oh, this isn't something you ever want
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In reply to SteenMachine:.And Spotify already pays an annual fee to have it's app on the store.And that&#
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Yeah, there's a reason the job title is "European Commissioner for Competition", and its "armed" branch i
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In reply to jbinaz:Pretty sure they already did...
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In reply to pepesilvia:I think the first image *is* Edge, it's just the second that's Anaheim.
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Yikes, disabling adaptive contrast is, well, not for the faint-hearted...https://www.windowscentral.com/how-di
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In reply to christian.hvid:And basically force people into using other ways to get to the sites, like, oh, I d
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In reply to Daekar:As it turns out, not really.Google Maps will still track you, and ask you about places you&
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In reply to ratkutti:Yup.The 3rd screenshot with the autosave tab is the "old" version of the OneDrive sync cl
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Yeah, about SwiftKey...Didn't they took almost like forever to bring Word Flow to Windows 10 PCs (it has
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In reply to ponsaelius:Yup, but like Half Life fans see *anything* Valve does as confirmation that Half Life 3
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Uh, did they really suggest Windows Phone as an alternative to Groove on iOS or Android? You know what that me
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I still find it amazing that the Outlook on the web actually has more features than the Mail app in Windows 10
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Yeah, it's a "Windows not needed" it this devices situation.You just have to look at the first SoC that A
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In reply to Bluesman57:Yeah.I see lots of people wearing Apple Watches, but I don't think I've ever
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My guess about Build still not being sold out is that instead of doing what they did before where you could go
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In reply to maethorechannen:"If PWA's are the future, then what's the point of Windows in the future
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They'll kill native apps, eventually.This will mean big changes for Microsoft, since that'll mean Wi
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I dunno.Thing is, even if games are wrong, in the end they're the ones buying the consoles and the games,
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In reply to T182:To be fair, Bungie itself hasn't had that much success post-Halo.Well, unless you count
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In reply to wright_is:My guess is never, since it's been available for years in Windows 10, so it should
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In reply to hrlngrv:In my experience with working with Accenture, if you hire Accenture to audit something, it
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The big issue isn't that LibreOffice is inferior to MS Office, it's that it's not 100% compatib
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I especially like that it turns itself on when it detects a game.
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I'll add that if you have multiple devices, they should "talk" to each other, so that the one that picks
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In reply to chrisrut:Google is a definitely a parasite, and the jury is still out on Amazon.
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In reply to ulrichr:No, it doesn't.Maybe by outside the US you mean English speaking countries and a few
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In reply to MattHewitt:Yup.Those that will notice the performance hit will blame the update they just installe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68But seriously, the only way Microsoft could win the digital assista
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I think it's important to remember that the Google Home app can also be used to control Chromecasts, and
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In reply to sj3vans:To be fair, there's nothing wrong with companies getting rid of failed products, the
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In reply to wocowboy:Yawn.We've heard this dumb argument a million times before, and it has been refuted
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In reply to jimchamplin:While that's true, the devices themselves don't have multitouch screens, so
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Troy Hunt gets it:https://www.troyhunt.com/face-id-stinks/It works, except when it doesn't, and that gets
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In reply to ardale63:It should.Some metallic cases do stop wireless charging from working, but leather should
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In reply to SRLRacing:I think people got pissed off not by the testing, there were several different UX in the
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Well, I have to say I was completely surprised by how badly Microsoft communicated this. I mean, they usually
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In reply to hrlngrv:But then, if you're going toa) get a device that's powerful enough to run Chrome
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No lights randomly turned themselves off in this episode.I am disappointed.
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This pretty much sums up why MS has the Patch Tuesday.It's predictable.Sure, it might break a bunch of st
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In reply to ChristopherCollins:In my experience dual booting doesn't work, not only is it an hassle, beca
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In reply to ChristopherCollins:While Steve Jobs saw Google as the n. 1 enemy, these days I don't think th
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In reply to madthinus:I dunno, I guess they really want you to use the UWP version?
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Nope! The Spotify UX *is* garbage. And that's not subjective. It looks like a badly implemented iPad look
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In reply to wright_is:Well, it does use completely different technology, since it does face recognition while
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In reply to madthinus:You can, but only the older 7.40 version.
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Well, this isn't confusing at all.Thing is, Microsoft really really really wants you to use the UWP versi
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FCU you too day!No? Bad idea?Hmmm...
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In reply to Polycrastinator:It's the same, it looks smaller because it's next to the 15" model :)
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Is it me or it doesn't yet sync favourites and reading list?
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What about having a CAPTCHA for the first post after creating an account?Since bot spammers won't usually
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Well, at least it's not ads.I get that software development isn't free, even if for open source soft
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Google will win the AI race because they don't give a f**k about privacy. They'll mine your data fro
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In reply to navarac:IIRC they added the desktop icon on some previous bild, and if you deleted it it won'
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In reply to harmjr:Harsh, but true.:)
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In reply to maethorechannen:Well, I can see why Firefox did it, since they've always stood for being an a
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In reply to Lewk:You mean Rise of the Tomb Rider?As an added bonus, it's also the best Tomb Rider game.An
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In reply to Win74ever:Sure they are.Have you checked Steam's own hardware and software stats?I'll sa
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To be fair, these days Windows Hello on the Lumia 950/950XL works pretty well, it's *very* fast, works a
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In reply to nbplopes:Qualcomm didn't say they invented everything, they're saying the enabled it.Tha
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In reply to Wolf:That's my point exactly. It works, but there are situations where it's unreliable.
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I very much doubt they're releasing in next month, since they're only making it available to those i
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Facial, or iris, or any other form of imaging unlocking sucks on a phone.It's fine on a laptop, since the
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In reply to maethorechannen:you're confusing SEO, which aims to improve a site's rank on Google Sear
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Uh, that might explain why skills for Cortana are mostly non-existent. I mean, why go to the trouble of develo
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I very much doubt this will have any significant impact, at least any time soon, mostly because, unlike Apple
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Isn't that a bit like saying "well, I never use a touch screen on a laptop, so
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In reply to jgraebner:Sure, but my main point is, is anyone of importance doing them?Yes, you have the oh my g
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You can already wrap web apps as UWP apps today, they're called "Hosted Web Apps", and the fact that pret
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In reply to Simard57:Uh, I've just checked the PCs list in OneDrive and... Yikes!Oh sure, the new names a
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In reply to bsd107:It is *now*, and to be fair I don't know when they changed, but some time ago changing
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In reply to Rickard Eriksson:So you're not into tablets or smartphones?I get it, you don't see any v
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In reply to Watney:Meh, who cares about benchmarks? That kind of reminds my of the folks that instead of havin
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In reply to Simard57:It does, but it might take a little while.
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In reply to BigM72:My guess is he looked at the devices list and found a list like this:DESKTOP-50FTBIJDESKTOP
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In reply to jimchamplin:It's Skype.And the guys behind Skype obviously have, er, issues... Just look at h
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In reply to SvenJ:It's not so great on the bigger Surface Pros, but the trick is to pin it to one side, b
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If they're officially releasing it in September, couldn't they have named it something like Septembe
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In reply to adamcorbally:I kind of get the delay with Cortana, since they wanted to have decent regional suppo
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In reply to sentoo:Yup, the iPhone 5se, for example.True story: my SO dropped hers on a small creek and while
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In reply to Rickard Eriksson:I think you missed the point of the article... By a lot.Having a touch screen on
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In reply to hrlngrv:I'm guessing a multi-touch screen doesn't add that much to the price, sure, it&#
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In reply to dstrauss:Oddly enough, I didn't see anyone talking about the gorilla arm syndrome when they w
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Did they add a way to see who's online yet?I mean, how hard can that be? The "old" version had it. Facebo
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In reply to SvenJ:I've been using Cisco's WebEx. It's not free, but it works great,
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In reply to jimchamplin:Hey!Thank you favourite deity they haven't yet "updated" the Windows version.Or d
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I think you guys are being straight up robbed on the tyres.
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Oddly enough, Edge does support the timeline functionality, or at least some of it. It doesn't have the n
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In reply to Polycrastinator:My guess is that they experimented with it, but it didn't work out so well in
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Uh, and not a single reference to gorilla arm.
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Yup, whether you prefer the feel of the Surface Pen of the Apple Pencil is definitely a personal thing.I actua
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In reply to tremblaymax:The problem with updating Android is mostly the OEMs not bothering to do it, or taking
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So it Google going into the "approved" add business like some ad blocking extensions do?Google: Nice ad you go
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In reply to Tony Barrett:Uh. Google as a pretty long history of forcing people to use their stuff, remember wh
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In reply to Lateef Alabi-Oki:I'm an hardcore Google hater since they figured Google+ was the future and k
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Is this a iOS thing only?Or Google Android device only?Or Android 7.1 only, you know, for the 0,6% of Android
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Microsoft could had a File History type of thing to OneDrive, that would be the better solution, IMHO.And they
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In reply to MikeGalos:"A lesson for those thinking that writing a full new OS platform can't be that much
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In reply to skane2600:And do we really need a RTOS in a phone? I get why such a thing would be useful in indus
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It took Microsoft, what, 20 years to get from talking about Windows Everywhere to actually doing it with Windo
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It's based on Android, but does it support Google Play?Thing is, while Android is pretty open, Google Pla
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I dunno, I think the strategy this time involves bringing the a fuller Windows experience, via Windows on ARM,
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Having to say "USB-C/Thunderbolt 3" neatly sums up everything that is wrong with USB Type-C ports.Used to be t
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Do people not know that Word, Excel and PowerPoint have "mobile" versions that are pretty much cross platform
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Well, a man has to have priorities in lifeThey just don't have to be *good* priorities.
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This is not creepy at all.I also like how Google, as they always do, happily identifies and tags *other* peopl
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We can hear the dehumidifier!And yeah, saying that MS should support software forever and ever until the end o
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Surface Book = Macbook Pro, just replace the ports for USB-C, dump the lower end models without dGPUs, and the
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I have to say, I still don't get why Microsoft did the Laptop.I get the other Surface devices, even the i
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In reply to JudaZuk:Ya know, I'll bet with you that the ratio of pros that don't ever need VMs is to
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Not supporting Hyper-V and the WSL isn't really an issue, to the intended audience.You'll notice tha
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Being a software engineer, there's no way I could use only store apps, but at work, other than the dev to
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In reply to leops1984:Windows 10 already owns gaming, note that even Gabe Newell has been silent about it, so
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Wait...Is Paul insinuating that the way Microsoft communicates stuff is laughably, ridiculously, bad??
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"There are simpler ways to blast phone-based content to a big screen, and better devices—Chromebooks, PCs, a
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:Oh, I wouldn't put it past them either.Yes, knowing the busiest hours is incre
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In reply to hrlngrv:Wait, what?Your argument makes absolute no sense.In what way does running UWP apps detract
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In reply to Clarkb:Yup, I guess most people are used to the ads.I mean, I get *lots* of ads on my Andoid phone
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So... Now Microsoft has the Windows Insider program, the Skype Insiders program, and the Visual Studio Preview
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In reply to Thomas Parkison:Personal data is personal data, and my phone has lots more of it than my laptop. M
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In reply to Byron Knight:You're doomed then, because *everything* is constantly transmitting your informa
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Uh, I've just spotted two bugs in the comments.Who should I contact, and how?(Since I think that even if
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I don't think there's a way to fix this, since it's not actually broken.Fixing perceptions
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In reply to Lewk:Windows has had a "timeout" lock since pretty much forever, this is a different thing.It migh
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In reply to rohitharsh:"I think Microsoft knows this too and hence the presence of Word on iPad."And also Wind
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In reply to Waethorn:
True, but I was hoping they would have figured out by now what the first W in WWW m
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In reply to karma77police:
Given how frequently you post here, you do, obviously.
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"It’s still offered only to users in the United States."
Oh, I'm sure there's perfectly reasonable and l
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Are "subscribers" the same thing as "users"?
I ask this, because I have a Office 365 Home account, but it
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To be fair to Microsoft, when you open the awfully named Windows Defender Security Center, you see a pop
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A feature I've not yet seen anyone even mention is than the "Apps for Websites" now works.
If you're usin
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Ah!
I just saw an original Xbox on sale on a shop near where I work!
:)
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In reply to Waethorn:
I'm pretty sure you can't trademark names of chemical elements.
I think even "acrylic",
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In reply to dcdevito:
I dunno, it kind of reminds me of the old Zune Music app...
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In reply to RonH:
Even if it is, and I agree with you that it isn't, lest we forget, there are dinosaurs every
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I think the reason neither Apple nor Google have taken oven the low-end market is two fold.
Apple ha
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Microsoft's 2FA system is great, it's just a pity it doesn't work like that if you have a...
(I'm sure ev
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Yeah, Skype is seriously screwed up.
The fact that the Skype Preview shuts down the Skype "desktop" is qu
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In reply to ghostrider:
Well, these days I have a cheap Lumia 640 DS and a cheap Vernee Thor that ru
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To be fair, the Surface Book is not only a lot more expensive than the cheapest Surface Pro 4, it's also a lot
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In reply to Bats:
Actually, I use the pen a lot more for taking notes in OneNote than drawing. Handwritti
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In reply to DataMeister:
Pretty sure that'll never happen.
More than anything, the Surface devices are suppose
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:
So you're saying it's useless today (unless you're single and live alone) but j
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In reply to FalseAgent:
To be fair, Microsoft won't be making Surface devices until the end of time, so he doe
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"This app requires appropriate comercial Office 365 subscription".
Welp, so it's dead even before it sta
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In reply to karma77police:
Uh, I almost thought it was 1990 all over again with all that filesystem talk.
You
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In reply to Mike_Peluso:
My guess is two fold. On the one hand they were bitten by jumping onto the SkyLa
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In reply to karma77police:
So you're saying that both Google's and Sony's solutions are laughable to
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Luckily for Microsoft no one ouside the US knows who Mr. Belichick is, and so couldn't care less about&nb