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Is this the same functionality as the PowerToys utility FancyZones?

Really? Spam? BTW: Grammer, the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

A regression that drives me crazy is the agenda / today's tasks list that used to be on the time/calendar tool

Sadly, they'll ignore it.

I hate all the title bar clutter crap. It used to be easy to click on the title bar and drag the window that's

Unless you're a developer. I use it all the time.

May I never need to create a custom RS232 cable again!

And here we go - build 22598 is ready to install. Let's hope this goes well.

I really hope the next iteration of Media Player actually works. The Artists view says I have no music even th

This all sounds like it did 20 years ago. It feels so much less relevant now than it did back then.

Yikes! Don't give them any ideas!

I hope they get the new media player to work properly. After filing literally dozens of problem reports to Mic

"will apply to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Access" What about Outlook?

God I hope not. Wouldn't be the 1st time Microsoft recycled a name or term.

This really has me uneasy. I've been using desktop Outlook since before it was called Outlook (the Exchange em

I understand why during the pandemic the sales have been going up but what do you think explains the rise in 2

Sorry but that isn't going to happen. Why do I need to ditch my server just because I run a desktop app on it

Well this is not good news for me. I have a very fringe use case here. I have a Dell Power Edge small business

While you still can't replace the battery (easily) you can now change the SSD. That's pretty good news.

You mean like we have to look at every time we go to Google with anything other than Chrome?

I guess its too much to ask that rather than a visual refresh that they fix some really long standing bugs lik

OK, my bad. I must have not pressed the CTRL button. The browser task manager is only SHIFT ESC.

That would be great! My name is Michael and I'm really tired of the user folder being initialized to micha. Cu

Somehow I doubt it.

Exactly! For example, I'm on vacation right now and thought I'd made sure everything I needed was setup on my

I just inadvertently stumbled onto a new feature I had no idea was there. I knew about CTRL SHIFT ESC as it's

We receive 200+ emails a day. When Outlook on the web can be programed like Outlook on the desktop - VBA macro

I wasted several hours yesterday on this issue. What was maddening about it was it was not happening on all de

I spent the day with vertical tabs and have to say I really like them. I like how easy and seamlessly it switc

Vertical tabs may come in handy on a couple of my devices. I'll have to play around with it to be sure. I

I really like the NUC. It is the perfect form factor for our small office. It mounts conveniently to the back

Apple created a product that is "ridiculously expensive"? That never happens :-)

I live in Outlook on the desktop all day and have for a long time. The ability to create processing rules is a

Well if the example above is anything to go on it looks like yet another variant of c less the line terminatin

"Windows 95 is the best thing that ever happened to DOS"

In reply to karlinhigh:That's already happening :-(

No but it did however create one of the greatest stories/controversies in our industry's history when Job

Hey Paul, your app might have a future. Seems Microsoft is making Notepad along with WordPad and Paint optiona

As a long time programmer most of my work has been in one form of c or another yet to this day I still prefer

I may be remembering this wrong but I thought a year ago Microsoft (quietly) put out a roll-up that helped to

In reply to Ezzy:"Not showing file extensions is absolute blasphemy to me" Exactly! It is one of the 1st thing

In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Exactly my thought. Looks like Brad got gauges.

This app has a lot of promise however as previously commented, it's still pretty spotty. I need to be abl

Whatever happened to "do no evil"?

Yikes! I hope you didn't discover this because you needed something out of backup. In reply to paul-thurr

In reply to paul-thurrott:This seems to happen anytime you hit the Windows key and search for something. When

Looking forward to this series. I renewed my membership here because of it.

Calculator? Really? That's the hello world of Windows programming.

In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I hear that. I'm personally getting really fed up with this particular behavio

"when you now select a word and then hit Ctrl+F, the Find dialog will automagically populate the dialog with t

This is a sore subject to me. I'm an early adopter of smart home technology. I started getting into smart

Blows me away that there isn't a USB-C port built into the Surface.

In reply to Skolvikings:I know. I got the email. ARG! No doubt the Windows app will be next.

God I miss Windows Media Center. It did all this and more and passed the WAF as well! *sigh* OK, I'm off

It's official - I just received the following email from MS: Microsoft Groove Thank you for usi

In reply to harmjr:Down vote not for the comment but because this is likely to be next. It's not worthles

In reply to Daekar:I will check it out. Thanks for the tip. Regarding going back to syncing to the device - no

Well that was even faster than I expected. So they say they are retiring the app. What does that mean exactly?

In reply to TroyTruax:I've played around with Plex and may put more effort into it if the situation with

This whole issue is very frustrating to me. I was way ahead of the curve with digital music. Just like my phot

In reply to gvan:Not sure why this got a down-vote. I'm getting really fed up with the inconsistencies in

In reply to brisonharvey:You know for a while all the players played nice with calendar data but then Google a

In reply to plettza:Imagine my surprise to find that they have finally added these missing features to the Now

And then there is the behavior inconsistencies. I use the built in calculator a lot. I have so much muscle mem

In reply to gregsedwards:I love Groove but like many things Microsoft does they took it to about 75% complete

Exactly!! I still use Media Center for some things and really wish Microsoft would have continued it. Another

In reply to paul-thurrott:Yes it does. And I would try it out on each new build but would always go back to Ch

I like it. Much cleaner interface!

I love my SP4. It is my daily driver. I've had several in the product line including the RT which I still

In reply to wolters:I've noticed this a lot with help pages. A bit frustrating to be analyzing issues in

In reply to WithinRafael:In the "now playing" list right?

Still waiting on edit capability on the now playing list - i.e. changing order and removing items from the lis

In reply to hrlngrv:The system applications are a different matter. Anything in the "control panel/management

Just renewed my Alpha subscription. Looking forward to following the events of your move. I feel your pain Pau

In reply to Narg:I agree completely. I wish there was a complete listing from top to bottom I could look at of

No love for the Seattle area?

In reply to jbinaz:This was a fare comment - not sure why it's getting down votes.

Looks nice but I already have a Nest. Now if this worked with eHome - shit what was I thinking. They killed Me

In reply to Chris_Kez:I agree with that 100% My contacts and calendar go back the mid 90's and have been

In reply to MutualCore:Troll. I pay for this blog to avoid nonsense like that.

In reply to hrlngrv:Glitches are now achievements? Brilliant! Gotta catch em all!

The only "feature" they should be working on is cross-platform like the rest of their apps. Until I can get Ed

Would sure be nice if I could load it on the Surface RT.

In reply to RonH:Edge needs to be decoupled from the OS (coming soon) and cross platform (coming ???). Until t

In reply to Michael Rivers:Wow, I completely forgot about that. Given how Windows can be sometimes I wonder if

It's a really good place. Good food and a of course the beer is very good too! Would love to meet up with

If this was actually made, I wonder if it would also include the Media Center extender function. I still have

If I recall, XP stood for eXtreme Programming. And Windows 2000 would not have really been that confusing if t

In reply to Kvbex: What would be truly nice is to be able to install this on an RT so it could have a Win10 li

In reply to wbhite: I can't stand the idea of tosing them out except in the case of where I have the negatives

Chrome is my daily driver too. The feature that keeps me with it more than anything else is cross platform com

Paul, I think you have a type-o here, "The original OneNote version would be made available as part of the Off

In reply to rortech: Google when visited with any other browser than Chrome...

In reply to SleepingPelican: I might update my main media center system to 8.1 at some point. I was stuck on 7

*sigh* I still use Media Center. I have a cable card and can do 4 HD channels at once. It runs my home theater

In reply to paul-thurrott: Stockholm syndrome?

"Finally, Microsoft has improved the build over build upgrade experience so that apps you previously uninstall