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Demileto
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"New Alt + Tab behavior. This is, perhaps, this Windows 10 version’s most controversial new feature. To
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I don't honestly know what Google aims to achieve by releasing their own branded phones. The raison d
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In reply to plettza:UWP Word, Excel and PowerPoint are barebones compared to the real deal, it'd take the
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In reply to Althalus:They did, but what's stopping them from doing it again for the sake of killing NuEdg
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In reply to paul-thurrott:There's a lot of IFs there, sure, but I think you're overestimating Chromi
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"I don’t believe this is a problem. Any attempt by Google to lessen Microsoft’s participation in Chromium
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Honestly, I thought since they killed Groove music service back in 2017 that the app was not properly streamin
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Blizzard supported World of Warcraft in Windows XP long after the OS ended its lifecycle, it took Windows Vist
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In reply to lvthunder:I'd argue that crazy was allowing Google to buy Waze. ANY other company - Microsoft
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In reply to AtlantaPaul:Alex Kipman addressed this in his The Verge interview (source: https://www.theverge.co
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Mobile phones? You're joking, right? You can't do half the things you can o
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if th
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In reply to jbinaz:If people cared that much about privacy the Scroogle ads Microsoft aired during the Ballmer
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In reply to paul-thurrott:10 minutes writing a more complex post than Maciek about that only to have to delete
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In reply to skane2600:Well, I guess it's a good thing that I preceeded the "easy as checkmarking ARM64 as
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In reply to karma77police:Good thing you're not in charge of Microsoft, then, because that's delusio
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In reply to karma77police:READ. AGAIN. THE. ARTICLE. Or even the original Windows blog report, because they bo
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Just four months after the non-LTE version was announced versus the year long wait for the LTE Surface Pro 5th
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In reply to jblank46:Or, more likely, they're dedicating the majority of their human resources to finish
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Eh, I think you're being way too optimistic about Google's willingness to remove the clutch they hav
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In reply to Mark from CO:Uh, what? OneCore, Windows' universal kernel, has been part of Windows 10 since
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Brad is productive?!
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In reply to HellcatM:Android holds 85+% market share in pretty much any country not named United States. How i
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"Update: Microsoft has quietly updated the blog post, removing any mention of new hardware. Microsoft’s
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So Google is allowed to poke into Microsoft's turf with Chromebooks + Android Apps but Microsoft isn'
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In reply to karma77police:You do not matter.
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"None will ship new IP anytime soon, addressing years-long criticisms of Microsoft’s dedication to first-par
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They should call this new flaw "Skyfall".
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In reply to VancouverNinja:That e-mails are pretty much you web identity, it's hella hard to move to anot
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In reply to Saxwulf:Not unlike Surface Hub, might I add. In fact, if Hub 2 is anything to go by then we can pr
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Because Google doesn't need to, every website and their mother used either Goog
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In reply to edanco:I agree with you on Windows Mail since it IS meant to be simple and easy, but OneNote UWP i
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In reply to dvdwnd:"With Sets, the level of fit and polish in the UI has gone down the toilet. Anyone that thi
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In reply to hrlngrv:"If Google's approach works similar to Google Play or the Chrome web store, that mean
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yeah, I acknowledged that in my post:"Knowing Google they'll probably add the f
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In reply to karma77police:"I agree, unless they want to get rid of that toggle?"No idea. What's certain i
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"Google is moving its apps to PWAs. This one is huge: Google finally commented publicly on its own shift to PW
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In reply to karma77police:First of all, let me say that I appreciate that you actually put some effort in your
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I often get annoyed by Paul's negativity (IMO), but this is indeed a valid peeve. I don't understand
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In reply to ncn:Or, you know, Paul and Brad could add a user blocking feature that'd automatically omit t
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In reply to karma77police:I can't, the site doesn't support user blocking so your comments would aut
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In reply to karma77police:Your comments in this site are a waste of (our) time.
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This is assuming hardware and software makers won't provide ARM versions of drivers and/or software. Isn&
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Rumor is that they have demoted 17133 from RTM status. They even compiled a new RS4 build with a higher number
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In reply to obarthelemy:AOSP has several hundred million users in China because a) China blocks pretty much al
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Google Play Services is the cancer that makes Android a free but not really OS:
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They should also think about allowing KB/M only games into the Xbox ecosystem, a quick search at the Xbox One
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In reply to paul-thurrott:The problem is that it's easy to call Windows Phone the wrong platform now, but
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In reply to Kudupa:Motorola was also an established brand, picked Android for their smartphones like everyone
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In reply to Kudupa:Exactly. It's hilarious to think things would really have been much different had Noki
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In reply to hrlngrv:"What innovations did MSFT make to Win32 going from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? What featur
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"There is not even a single example of a major new app on UWP, nor is there is a single example of a major app
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In reply to jrickel96:I wish I could upvote you 1000x times, because your post was top notch! Good job!
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Oh, good catch!
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In reply to harmjr:The new name is apparently because S has evolved from being an SKU of Windows to being a mo
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In reply to Chris_Kez:The chart is about the education market, the only one where Chromebooks having 50+% mark
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"Once a source of jokes"It still is. Less than 1% in desktop OS market share gets that."But only Microsoft can
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There's been reports that Xbox Play Anywhere games on Game Pass do play on PC already despite Microsoft n
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In reply to jrickel96:Exactly. I roll my eyes every time Paul plays Chromebooks as this serious threat to Wind
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"Chromebooks are not a US-only phenomenon, of course."Source? I've to see a single statistic where Chrome
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In reply to BrandonMills:Well, if you feel strongly about this you could try giving a shot at a suggestion in
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In reply to Daniel_Blois:I wish I could upvote you 1000 times, because it does get tiresome to see his repeate
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"Brad is a Wing Ding" LMAO!!!
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"They support more skills, or actions"Do 'they', plural? I mean, I know Cortana's 300 skills ma
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In reply to zybch:Microsoft isn't supporting 45 versions of Windows either, these are basically Windows 7
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In reply to lvthunder:Yup, and it's also why UWP will have more of a chance to take off only after Januar
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In reply to North of 49th:Microsoft has already been on record that Spectre and Meltdown don't affect Xbo
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Not very long:https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/7p8juy/microsoft_reveals_how_sp
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In reply to RossNWirth:It would have if Android had a) x86 and x64 builds for each version besides ARM in addi
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"The supposition here is that there is some audience of professional users out there who would value the epic
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"...if I spent $2999 on a graphics card, there would be no food on my table."Psh, who needs food? ?
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In reply to smartin:On the flip side, Windows Store is miles better than the Mac App Store.
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I bet Microsoft would gladly lift this restriction if only Google agreed to publish its entire range of servic
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In reply to IanYates82:I see 2020 being a huge milestone for UWP: with Windows 7 reaching end of life that yea
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In reply to Mehedi:Even so, I don't think it's a good idea to portray an assumption, however credibl
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"Apple is only bringing the existing iTunes app for Windows to the Microsoft Store using Microsoft’s Desktop
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In reply to Jack_Smith:My understanding is that the first column in both charts are for the entire year of 201
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In reply to MartinusV2:Yesterday reports mentioned that Sets will support UWP apps only at first, then it'
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In reply to NT6.1:The new game bar is a work in progress not yet intended to be seen by us. When they're
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"Let’s forget, for a moment, that Surface has one foot stuck in the past, thanks to Microsoft’s decision t
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In reply to matsan:Windows XP had the leading market share among all Windows versions prior to reaching end of
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So, when I click on "Upgrade to Premium" I see the new $48 holiday promo ad but when I go to the checkout page
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"Worse, the delivered game is simply too difficult for most gamers, and is a non-starter for casual gamers. My
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LOL, are you serious? "Botanic Panic" is the easiest boss in this whole, frustrating game - I defeated them in
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In reply to Wizzwith:This, so much! I'm so over the moon with how amazing facial recognition works in my
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"Microsoft’s new Windows servicing model explained." LMAO!
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In reply to kzrystof:I think it's a reaction to the backlash they received from having to postpone the de
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In reply to warren:Let's put it this way: you don't see many Porsches, Lamborghinis or Ferraris on t
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For what's worth, units sold, while a good metric to measure the healthiness of a market, by itself it me
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Battery life, for one.
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:Once upon a time Chrome had 5% of market share too, you know.
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In reply to skane2600:First, I'm not talking about domestic flights, but rather this:https://www.theverge
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In reply to rameshthanikodi:FWIW, WalkingCat said the console is named exactly that in the SDK. :)
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In reply to skane2600:Said trend is due to people preferring to use tablets and laptops for entertainment, bot
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In reply to skane2600:What screens? Are you kidding me?http://imgs.vietnamnet.vn/Images/vnn/2015/03/09/11/2015
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In reply to skane2600:Until Donald Trump surprises you with a prohibition of laptops inside a plane'
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In reply to Bats:Fairly sure the problem is that the implementation of Android in Chromebooks is seemingly not
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:No, it was because it ate Surface RT's battery.
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In reply to hrlngrv:Many planes have screens behind the seats, these could in theory be used as Continuum disp
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In reply to Stokkolm:Not to mention we may soon be really wishing we had a powerful Continuum feature in our p
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In reply to ponsaelius:What Terry Myerson said is that Mobile was not their focus *that year* (2016).
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In reply to shameermulji:Then why do I see repetitive articles by Paul about the threat Android apps on Chrome
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Yes, Microsoft, refrain yourselves from trying to fight Google's mobile dominance while Google is activel
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In reply to BigM72:The traction Lumia phones had was in the budget phone market, where profit margins are smal
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"Google Googles"? LOL, they seriously named that one of their products? ?
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In reply to wolters:Islandwood was used to port dJay Pro to the Windows Store:https://mspoweruser.com/djay-pro
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In reply to hrlngrv:People check for notifications in a phone's notification center, not its home screen.
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"Consider the live tiles that everyone seems to love so much. This kind of interface, which provides “at a g
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"Key among them is how Apple intends to make this application available. My guess—no one is saying at the mo
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:The target audience for BUILD is developers, you're not one so of course you w
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"But worse still is Microsoft’s outright fear of modern technology. Surface Laptop is artificially constrain
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:Well, duh: both devices are a year and a half old, and the Pro in particular now fa
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Anyone who had the slightest understanding of the complexity of building operating systems and application mod
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For the record, Paul, PC World stress tested Game Mode with a less suitable PC set up - a Surface Book with Pe
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:Bullshit, the real reason Apple and Google promote native apps for phones instead o
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:No, it isn't, they've been crystal clear that they'll only support n
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In reply to jwpear:The problem with Teams is that the bulk of its target audience, the businesses, are still u
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"On the one hand, Microsoft has at a technical level delivered on its cross-platform vision, and has created a
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"As I noted yesterday, Windows 10 Insider Preview build 15055 is what Microsoft would have called a Release Ca
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In reply to CompUser:2) That's because only a really small amount of people are that privacy obsessive. I
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In reply to Tony Barrett:Microsoft, Palm and Blackberry had several YEARS lead from Apple in the smartphone ma
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The screen of death's color has also been blue again since 15031. :)
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In reply to Corbey:Android is way more widely used than Windows, actually.
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For what's worth, Paul, the OneNote team did an AMA in Reddit a few months back and said they're pivoting
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In reply to Atoqir:
Pretty sure both were 8/8.1 apps and not UWP.
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In reply to Winner:
You have every right to not like it, but I reserve the right to discredit anyone attemptin
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In reply to hrlngrv:
Fair enough! :)
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In reply to karma77police:
XD version of Adobe? Jesus, learn about the subject before posting, XD isn't a
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In reply to karma77police:
Your anectodal experience is not valid evidence, where's the scientific-based poll
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In reply to karma77police:
It will absolutely have the full capability of the macOS version of the program, th
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In reply to Narg:
Like I said, the government agency I work for is not from USA. :) To be more specific, I wor
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In reply to ghostrider:
I wouldn't say zero advantage, it has plently of new security features not available i
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In reply to karma77police:
No one gives an f to UWP? Say that to Adobe and their upcoming XD app. Lawl!
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In reply to karma77police:
24% is a lot more than Window 8 had in the same timeframe, I'd say Windows 10 is su
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In reply to karma77police:
"The end of Windows 10"? Lol, no, there's something called 'expiration date' that p
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:
I don't know about English speaking countries, but I've been using Windows 10 sinc
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The government agency I work for - not USA - has been testing Windows 10 for a while, but I've been told they'
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In reply to toukale:
For what's worth, you can turn off ads with a few system settings, like 'Settings > Sy
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In reply to Daekar:
That's probably the reason why Microsoft included free upgrade to Windows 10 to their Ente
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:
That feature cut from Pro was bad form, I agree, but to be fair I only saw Microso
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In reply to hrlngrv:
But it's not truly a Mary Jo Foley show without beer picks! :( lol
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Why is in-OS advertising such a hassle when you can just go to 'Settings > System > Notifications and Ac
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In reply to davidblouin:
Whoops. I opened a link Paul shared in twitter and forgot he shared Br
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In reply to Waethorn:
This is interesting because in the potential near future hinted by the recent batch
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Zac Bowden's new article about Windows' future composable shell changes things a bit, I'd say: that means you
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"Who on earth would buy e-books from Microsoft when high-quality options like Amazon Kindle and even Apple iBo
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In reply to wshwe:
The problem here are the apps: how many of them actually takes advantage of the bigger scre
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"The first and most obvious is whether this thing is a Windows 10 Mobile device or a full Windows 10 device. G
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In reply to RonH:
Sony held onto its reputation because of their exclusives: Uncharted, The Last of Us, God of
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In reply to karma77police:
Because passwords are oh-so-secure, right?
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In reply to warren:
Until they find out that Home Editions don't benefit from the new feature. :)
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In reply to ghostrider:
Take a read at the article below wholly before writing further uninformed posts about
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You called OS "Google Things" twice in your article. Mistake? :)
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In reply to charms55:
Slight correction: macOS (ex-OS X) most definitely can run full desktop applications. :)
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
First, a nitpick: I'm as much as real a user as anyone else. :)
That said, I don't
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In reply to MutualCore:
Because I'm not suffering at all?
It may be a novel concept to many here, but I don't
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In reply to jbinaz:
I'm not sure why people keep pointing this up to me. I've never contested it, wh
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In reply to Narg:
Not for everyone, and that's my point. If apps were this be all, end all Windows w
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"First, as noted above, Windows phone is dead. And if you’re one of the few remaining holdouts of this o
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In reply to glenn8878:
Pretty sure the idea is that Windows 10, regardless of the SKU, will look like Mobile w
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In reply to maethorechannen:
They cost that much for other reasons, not the SoC, which itself costs only $70 p
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In reply to MutualCore:
Apparently it's sacrilege if Microsoft doesn't go for the "me too" approach, copying w
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Sigh, articles like these are the very reason Microsoft keeps its projects secret until they've something to s
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In reply to WP7Mango:
Exactly, karma's delusion that his (bad) opinions of Windows 10 represent that of the Wi
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In reply to karma77police:
Get off your high horse, you have no statistical evidence that your personal prejud
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In reply to wbhite:
Ouch. You sure that's not a problem with the Facebook app per se and not the share event a
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In reply to wbhite:
Well, it's obviously not ready for Insiders to use, otherwise Microsoft wouldn't be hiding
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In reply to bmertz:
http://www.windowscentral.com/affinity-designer-windows-exits-beta-official-launch
http://
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Don't forget to tell Dona Sarkar when you'll be taking your flight back to the US so she can properly schedule
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In reply to normcf:
"(...) the worrst parts of windows, the slow application of updates, malware and managemen
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What's really hilarious about Mashable's article is that the writer doesn't name a single artist who criticize
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Yeah, I agreee, "Surface" is definitely a better name for a future Microsoft Surface device running W10M than
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In reply to FreeJAC:
What the hell are you talking about, the first Windows version to become popular was 3.0
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
I wasn't talking especifically about Windows phone, we all know they fall short whe
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In reply to Bart:
The obvious one is Continuum, they're building it up to give you an UI and UX no d
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In reply to WP7Mango:
Indeed, you're right about that. My point was that for the longest time, generally speak
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In reply to cheetahdriver:
Microsoft will only ever release a "Surface Phone" - if it'll even be called that,
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In reply to Narg:
I'd also add that Windows has never been a product they built with consumers as a focus, it
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THANK YOU, PAUL! THANK YOU!
Finally a more positive, even if cautiously so, article after all
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In reply to gvan:
"Does Microsoft’s video service support downloading and off line viewing?"
Yes, it doe
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In reply to karma77police:
Oh, I have no doubt Pascal is better. The thing is, they've been burned before bein
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In reply to jhoff80:
I had forgotten about that music keyboard. What happened to it that they didn't make new
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In reply to Elindalyne:
Exactly, this is the piece of the puzzle Paul missed: Surface Studio is a competitor t
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In reply to dhallman:
Good question. Then again Continuum has the potential to be THE feature if a) Microsoft
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In reply to karma77police:
Oh, denial, such a powerful emotion!
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In reply to karma77police:
So you're a Microsoft Surface enginner? Good to know! /s
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In reply to karma77police:
Eh, you might want to check what Apple users are thinking about Surface Studio
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In reply to karma77police:
Remember the last time Microsoft released new hardware with recently released proce
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In reply to munchieswolf:
Just a guess, but the lack of a 10-series GPU is probably nVidia's fault. Surface St
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In reply to PeteB:
We already know the app ecosystem is terrible, the point is it's annoying to keep repeating
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In reply to ghostrider:
An Android phone does NOT give you the combined experience (well, sort of) of a p
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In reply to Illusive_Man:
For one, performance: Windows Mobile builds were slower when they bundled the Androi
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In reply to PeteB:
1) A platform Microsoft no longer wants? They killed the Lumia line, not the mobile OS, or
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In reply to adamcorbally:
Daniel Rubino and Zac Bowden already trolled Paul's slip on their twitters... :P
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In reply to EnterMegatron99:
Skype didn't leave W10M, it stopped supporting 8/8.1 devices, which have a combin
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In reply to AlexKven:
BYOD isn't this be all, end all approach that fits all possible use cases, its desi
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In reply to FalseAgent:
The ecosystem doesn't come down to just Windows phones, it also involves desktop, tabl
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
Sigh, it's not always about apps, even if they do play a big role.
What I look in a
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In reply to mmcpher:
THANK YOU! This, many times this!
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
This thing has enough apps that enterprises heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosy
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In reply to bassoprofundo:
Oh, please, one could say the same about Chromebooks, that you're limiting yourself
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
No, it isn't. As Daniel Rubino correctly pointed out in his Twitter account, the El
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In reply to wbhite:
They ARE happening via the Store, it just happens that Microsoft updates Fast Ring first s
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In reply to glenn8878:
1) Yeah, let's measure 2016 Microsoft by the same metric we did the 2011 one, comp
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In reply to MikeGalos:
Yeah, I already have a hard time detecting sarcasm face to face, it definitely isn't ea
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In reply to glenn8878:
UWP is a very young development platform, built from scratch - it's little more than a
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In reply to WP7Mango:
It would be bad for Microsoft's reputation towards their enterprise customers not to pat
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In reply to DemBones:
Google discontinues support for lots of products, whether they're liked or not. See Goog
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"I think it’s fair to say that UWP hasn’t taken off in any meaningful way"
Eh, it's been only a li
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In reply to hrlngrv:
Aside from the fact that we all go back and forth changing words, sentences or even
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In reply to Wizzwith:
Has there really been that many trendy average-consumer-focused Win32 rel
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In reply to ABianucci:
A tablet or a smartphone replacing a PC with bluetooth keyboard/mouse and miracasting t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
People may not need it, but they most definitely prefer to use them to do it. You s
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
You mean it's not a consumer application, and I agree: you'll only ever use it
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In reply to maethorechannen:
And iOS got or will get Instagram, Plants vs Zombies 2 and Super Mario Run months
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In reply to karma77police:
Knorr's assertion is very, very wrong: https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/adobe-
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"What Mr. Knorr gets very right is his assertion that 'nobody writes new applications for Windows anymore.'&nb
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In reply to Narg:
To be fair Paint in its current incarnation is already a lackluster offering for anyone but
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In reply to Narg:
You have a good point there. Hopefully Microsoft can cook up a good solution that satisfies
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In reply to glenn8878:
Software development takes time, it's not a realistic expectation to have Microsoft com
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In reply to Awhispersecho:
Are you seriously defending Control Panel? Sorry, but that app's user experience is
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I miss the days when he'd gloat over the possibility of Google getting screwed over by the EU for antitrust at