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The Grease comment....Brad you are so fired.

"It's just a movie" - what? Perhaps there is a class with which we lucky husbands are unfamiliar, where

Paul and BradYour words and asynchronously my dollars are saying exactly the same thing. I am a Surface nutjo

In reply to wright_is: yep, which is my point about the current costs of logistics and communications. If wha

In reply to Chris_Kez: I fully understand the your point. But your expamples are what does that and virtual

In reply to richfrantz: Strangely, I WAS with Paul and you from about 5 yo to my mid-20s. All because I took

Paul, naps are now a bit of heaven not a punishment for 5 years olds. Learn to love them, then get more effic

HB Paul, PEN PEN PEN, pls. But I am old too. But the Pro x or small Surface laptop taking notes in excel in

Win64 vs Win128. The non-mathematical comparison twixt Bill Gates' 640k and your 16 exabytes comment is

Surface Duo question that you may want to look at first and then answer next week. What are your experiences

Okay, I am going against the flow. I listened and read Paul/Brad, Mary Jo, and even our Windows Central frien

I'm with you. I can't seem to get used to a laptop KB for long periods. A couple of days in a hotel

Paul, what helped me at 75 is a sleep number (with a high number) and the nightly sore back/hip just doesn

In reply to wright_is: aha! So with your comment about wind, I re-read the 8G standards and in paragraph 4,6

Paul, good posts today. But when I got to your post under Thin Clients to ErichK I had to snicker at:"And tha

humm, slight difference on my SB3 twixt Paul's pic clarity and brad's..in full screen. it is like t

As I recall you got an SB3 a week or two early. Are you going to be doing a review, or is Paul? Or did I jus

Will (555): Even further back. I spent two years in the mid-80s accumulating $2500 in cash to buy the finest

I am retired military...way retired. So at some risk (75). Went to the commissary yesterday for the weekly s

to a_seeker. I cannot over-emphasize Paul's comments about pillowed batteries on the SB. My SB1 pillowe

I also bought the Pro X for exactly what you described...a middle ground tablet that I can sit on the couch fo

Meaning SB3 or some of the other devices promised for the Spring delayed?

Good news, Paul! You are evincing signs of vast accumulations of birthdays not income.Seriously there does co

righty tighty, lefty loosey

Check under the "hood" (lap stand) and see if there is an SDXC slot please.

I agree that the Surface Pen is already compatible, but not easily carried around in such a device. (Nice wha

It is probably not in the specs for tomorrow's announcement, but if/when the LTE version of Surface Pro o

And will it include the new AX Wi-Fi ?

consider the "larger version" foldable as a school device, not K-12, but higher ED. It would resemble a book

In reply to BeckoningEagle: My first service too in 1987. It did not work well during the day, but when the

WP7Mango,I learned to program first using FORTRAN IV. Pretty basic, small “b,” but it did teach me on

Two things: if you time your business right will you be able to drive down to Paris and catch a world cup gam

In reply to craisin: Piker - my first was in Fortran IV in 1966, with my almost 74 year old fingers only NOW

Great idea, eagerly awaiting installment one.We can't know where we are going until we learn where we

In reply to will: Except for my Yeti coffee mug, there is little on my home (and only) desk that isn't Su

I am in the (very very) slim minority. I only use Edge and IE before that and did so without a doubt. I was

Two errors jgoraya: TI-8X should read TI-(3 through 8)X and 90s should read mid to late 70s. Ahh, but did I

When Jeff Bezos reads this, what is to prevent him from buying or coding a "cast" app a la Audible and use the

Truth in advertising: I am a Surface nutcase. I bought (on the first day in each case) direct from MSFT with

/sarc IF the 100 or 1000 HoloLens (1 or 2) US Army contract objectors want to cause trouble, they are going a

build ## is 500 number change. 18836 up from 18334

sigh, one eats McNuggets because of the BBQ sauce. No one even knows what is under the fried breading.

Good discussion...but question: could Intel actually be saying that they fluffed it with the market timing an

Humm, I signed up. I have been doing Insider or Beta for MSFT since 98 and Me, so I am aware of risks; but th

(sarcasm alert) I know, for most of us it was hard to tell if Paul had an opinion about Edge/Chrome one way or

hum, what many of you seem to be saying is that WaaS is not Windows as a Service, but Windows as a Sandboxi -

In reply to wright_is: geez, and here I thought that I was the only one on earth who thought Windows 2000 was

Ok, got the Amazon notice last night that my pre-order was available so I downloaded the Kindle version, paid

FYI - Panos Panay is a Cypriot, Panos is a first name therefore...

In reply to brad-sams: got it! already on pre-order from Amazon (Kindle). Technical question...when you do

Since I am a nut job for Surface products as an original purchaser of all except pro 4, 5 and 6 (which got usu

Paul - there are not enough dittos in the English language to express my agreement. Thanks for the reminder t

I wonder if the Chinese "spy chip" fiasco will affect Chinese-manufactured Lenovo's sales in Q4.

Damned good Feedback discussion! As a long time Insider and a long time Windows 98 and subsequent Beta tester

dumb question 468.3. Brad, when you had the headset on and were fiddling with the noise cancelling features,

About darned time...now about the 10nm? MSFT and Intel, here is the short-term goal: 2019 H2, SB3, i9, 5GHz

In reply to navarac: My O365 borked on startup and first run of 252. After three tries to open Outlook and wi

WIP - I've been an Insider since Oct 14 officially but a beta tester for Windows since and including W98.

Paul, as you can see from the comments, you have hit a chord. So, perhaps it may be worth it to revisit the p

Google vs Amazon vs ?? Recall that Sears, using the epitome of the tech of the day (paper catalogs) was liste

Thanks, Paul. Personally, a timely article. While I am not much of an Apple fan - exception: the Apple II GS

Have the same problem with my SB2 256. Hold button for 10-12 seconds and nada. sometime doing it a second ti

First the caveats: I am a Surface and Microsoft fanboy! (Actually, I am closer to an Surface nut job and firm

Paul - As you might expect my "updates" looked the same as yours. But the obvious duplicates in numbering, da

I come from a long military background. What we discovered over several millennia across every continent is t

Paul, okay, I fully admit I am waaay retro...old fashioned may even be closer to the mark..."dinosauric" even

In reply to jr.flynn: Let me posit two possible reasons for the "unexciting" Build 2018 presentations. ONE i

In reply to mhanch: Are you telling lies, because if you are they are WOPRs. BTW we cannot call it Skynet a

In reply to Daekar: Or worse: Shanghai...from which you can't escape the risk, but in Washington risk is

In reply to ianhead:Cat people object, but are willing to compromise. 1803 (RS4) is Poodle, 1810 (RS5) is Aby

Agree 100%, in fact it's a primary reason I stick with SP3, SB1 and SB2. At home with the SB2 as my prim

Dammit Brad, this article made me think and on a beautiful, warm, rare sunny day just 30 miles from Redmond.

The immediate advantage I see to a USB-C form-factor Surface power supply at this juncture is as a second sour

In reply to maethorechannen: Concur, EXCEPT, it's only the "wrong" team to some (mostly the media and Pa

I did have the "issue" (problem, no so much) but the correction using Power Shell worked the first time. I di

Me too, me too! (The old kind of "me too" not the new #metoo). Paul is the only internet content for which I

Dammit, Paul! I hate it when we agree 100% because that makes me a curmudgeon too. But the good part is that

In reply to dallasnorth40: you are "write", Word just works, but there are times when I yearn for a simple ve

In my case I can envision two personal digital assistants names: a standard "Yo, Cortano" (my high frequency

In reply to mattbg: I agree, tripping is not an issue. But accidentally taking my SB off the desk to go on t

Nail on the head, Paul. I am also one of those MSFT nutcases who absolutely trusts Surface Products and Windo

In reply to Nickel:Strangely I figured that out later on the same day I wrote the comment and I am a day one b

In reply to Nickel:Can't wait to order and get this 15 inch jewel. I had hoped that this next version wo

I got the same response a couple of hours ago, then took a nap and am back tried again and 17017.1000 is insta

Paul, your and Brad's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to: (a) interpret the language of the

In reply to edboyhan:Haven't got the color streaks, then again I use an external AOC screen for most of t

In reply to mbsnl: you got that right brother. An SB with LTE (optional), thunderbolt, performance base, i7-8

In the military, where I spent 30 years, there is no room for lying since someone's son or daughter is at

I have owned SP1, SP2, SP3 and SB1 all without mechanical quality issues, save one. As I reported to Paul one

In reply to wright_is:and in old English no less. I am impressed. Paulo (for another week) already sold me o

Geez, Paulo. Who can concentrate on your electronic, iOS or VPN rambling when your food pics are out of this

Good article. I fully agree that we insiders could help 10S or most any other software by using it and report

Some great points, Paul. Am currently in the "looking seriously" mode and the Laptop is looking to edge out t

for hrlngrv. I fully understand your point, and I could have been clearer in my writing. ORLA is a predictive

Agree with Darek...reparability is not part of my computer buying decision. Certainly reliability is, but tha

MSFT, IMHO, is and will "always be" a software company. Software sells, devices come and go. Where hardware be

In reply to red.radar: What's "ink"..LOL

I am listening to Build live, none of the presentations thus far shows any fear. They are stepping out and goi

In reply to Narg: I also think that the Surface Connect is not a flawed product. I like the mag hold, especia

Agree with several of you that the SB is the finest computer I have owned. I do use the tablet and pen a fai

I see these commercials as a continuation of the Mac vs PC ads of, what, a 1000 computer years ago:  an a

In reply to tremblaymax:  More than "just to be fair", the build quality and feel of the SB is the best t

Paul is about right.  MSFT seems to have Apple pixel envy.  But is that a bad thing?  No. Go ba

You hit the nail on the head.  I love my SB.  Alas I am one of those weird folks who did not have al

Paul, You covered the “whether a Surface phone” or not pretty fairly.  There are in fact plus