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Eric_Rasmussen
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That blue arrow showing where to turn is large enough to block out a motorcycle. I love this concept but I cer
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Microsoft Authenticator has such a simple way to verify that you're actually looking at the device being signe
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Fell* apart. Dang autocorrect.
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I feel like HoloLens feel apart after Mike Ey was killed in a traffic accident. 😔I wish Microsoft invested
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This is a great write-up, and looking at it now from the future's perspective, a lot of the ideas in Windows 8
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Twitter is a cesspool, the worst expression of what social media does to a society. I hope he can turn that a
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A few years ago I worked for one of the large PC OEMs. We had software written in-house that shipped pre-inst
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For me, the day the Windows team snubbed the Client Platforms team was the beginning of the end. We had WPF, S
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I wish Windows 8 had never happened and that Windows Phone wasn't abandoned. I also wish that Microsoft had in
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Is this because 5G on the iPhone is limited to AT&T or something? I use 5G with Fi on my Pixel 6 and it wo
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I don't understand how a company the size of Microsoft hasn't been able to, over the course of nearly 10 years
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My company built a lot of specific Explorer extensions to make working with our game prototyping tools seamles
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I agree, I personally run Ubuntu Budgie as my preferred Linux desktop OS.However, I have a special place in my
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If only this marketing team also did marketing for their other products. The initial Windows 11 ad was just bi
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I think AR is inevitable, but whether it goes dystopian with ads everywhere or is actually helpful to people d
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I mostly use Ubuntu Budgie and my Mac Mini these days. I still use Windows for the few games that won't play c
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I'm running Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 and it's been great. Most stuff runs fine in the windows emulator (wine) and S
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Yes, exactly. This pricing model is completely crazy.
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This is exactly what I do, it works great.
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Awesome! My wife and I have discussed something similar. We've been looking at Lima or possibly Cusco in Peru
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As an outsider I see the problem. Microsoft does innovate and they're often years ahead of the competition. B
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Microsoft bought Xamarin and then proceeded to do... Well.... Nothing.Microsoft could have been the ones to b
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I'm still waiting for WinFS... 😁On my Linux systems I use either XFS or F2FS to make the best use of my fa
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The original idea behind XAML was that it would be ideal for tooling. While you could write it by hand, it wa
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I don't doubt this, and it's actually encouraging news. I'm a huge proponent of AR, and I believe some form of
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My next graphics card? Intel Arc.My next CPU? Whatever 7-ish or 9-ish processor is available at the time that
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There are some legitimate concerns here. After passage of the DMCA, a lot of colleges and universities gutted
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I don't think Microsoft will ever do consumer MR/AR until Apple does it and has success with it. At that point
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They should have at least used >= instead of ==, but whatever. It just goes to show that no matter how simp
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Awesome, thank you for all the work you're putting into this! I can't wait to read it. I've been on the Micros
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The development of Windows Longhorn was also tied into this history of .NET. The division between WinDiv and D
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Same. I bought mine on launch day, never had a problem. I love the camera system and we use Google Home for ev
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Is that you, Steve? 😂I think most people under the age of 50 have some idea of who Cortana was. Halo was o
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I wish Paul had received my Pixel 6 Pro; I've had literally zero problems with it since receiving it about a m
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Flutter is great, it's exactly what I was hoping Microsoft would eventually do with WPF or Silverlight or Xama
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I did too. Then I re-read the paragraph after learning that Dave Grochocki is the program manager over tools l
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I was actually using and enjoying Edge until the most recent auto-coupon popups started annoying me everywhere
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With regard to journalism, I subscribe to this site for that very reason: I want content written by someone wh
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This is great for battery replacement but bad for making the phone IP67 or IP68 water rated. The old phones t
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Huh. When selecting to mute, make a note of all recording sources that are currently enabled, then mute everyt
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I didn't think I would like Windows 11 but it's turned out to be pretty great. My son likes it a lot too; he
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I picked one up today too. I was really upset about the horrible ordering issues and then everything went out
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I upvoted this feedback in the feedback hub during the insider testing phase. Just like many of the bugs repor
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That's an excellent point, I hadn't thought of that. Though certain apps in the store aren't available to S Mo
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I'm with you - I plan on ordering one as soon as I can! It will be great to see what Google can do with an aw
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Unless it's somehow tied to Azure and a recurring revenue stream, nobody within Microsoft seems to really care
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I think that's why Flutter has been so successful. They render everything and don't rely on any native control
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Maybe someone on the Windows team also disagrees with ads in the OS, and helped develop an ad that would do ex
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I've received ads asking me to try Office 365, even though I currently have both personal and business subscri
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I have a Pixel 4 right now and I've been saving up for a Pixel 6 Pro when it comes out. I'm definitely looking
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I hope they analyzed traffic logs to determine that no customer data was leaked; it's not typically obvious th
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Anyone who was looking forward to playing the campaign with a friend will have to wait. Building co-op experie
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Sounds like Microsoft's stellar communication skills have made their way into the enterprise support group. :)
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Securing systems against attack takes careful planning by security specialists. Companies these days have figu
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I love Elementary. When it was first being developed, the team chose Vala as their language of choice for the
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This is good news in my book, I hope Google continues to innovate on the Pixel line of devices. I plan to pick
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I can buy an Intel system that performs tasks at speed 'X' while consuming 275W of electricity.I can buy an AM
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As a professional sysadmin, I can tell you that I have a strong preference for Chromebooks over anything Windo
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I normally would provide feedback through the official app built in to Windows, but Windows 10 taught me that
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XFS is a significantly faster filesystem for some workloads like video editing. I would have loved to see Wind
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It looks nice, but of the 7 PCs I have in the house for me and the family, only one PC meets the requirements
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With regard to the Uno Platform, I've been a C# developer for a long time. I jumped to Flutter a couple of yea
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After seeing the new folder icons in Windows 11, it's hard to go back to the plain drab icons in Windows 10. I
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Forever. The people who wrote the legacy stuff moved on and the people who do still work on Windows aren't giv
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That is exactly what I'm afraid of. Since Windows is legacy to most people within Microsoft, the only way to k
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Except for supporting other filesystems. NTFS is good, but for video editing XFS is significantly faster. F2FS
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Yes, a million times this. I surely hope whoever thought getting rid of internal test teams was a good idea ha
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If everyone was kind, generous, and altruistic then communism works great. The problem is that humans are not
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Yes, %programdata% and %appdata%. The programdata place is especially nefarious because standard users have c
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Exactly. We already have some basic inroads into true Artificial Intelligence where the systems go beyond neut
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I think Teams was written in React Native. I was always hopeful they would use Xamarin.Forms but it seems like
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Unity3D is a big one. Writing a game using Unity means writing lots of C#. The assets that are sold in the Uni
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I've got a friend who worked on some of this at Microsoft. He said the older applets in the control panel were
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Microsoft moves too slowly to attack the mobile app development market in any meaningful way. Flutter is quic
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The price is free* for all consumers.?
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Those "What If..." questions are spot-on with my feelings as well, and I assume also align with the feelings o
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They could, but I'd be surprised if they didn't already have an in-house legal team to deal with things like t
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This is the problem with continuous delivery. Why bother testing something much when you can just release anot
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My son works for a local pizza place. He works 40-45 hours per week and brings home about $800 every two week
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I can't wait to fly again, I actually like the entire experience - airports, airplanes, and the always necessa
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In reply to j5:Agreed - I used to love messing around with Linux, spending weeks to get things just right. Now
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I don't have a problem with the 30% / 15% / whatever %. As an app developer it's nice that they han
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I really like how clear Tenorite is. I've got a few monitors here, ranging from 1080p to 8k and Tenorite
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This is exciting. In my opinion there is no better development environment than Visual Studio, particularly fo
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I'm a big believer in Pixel's photographic prowess, especially in night shots. Even the iPhone 12 Pr
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In reply to thewarragulman:This is one of the reasons people don't have more trouble with the lock-in: Ap
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This is a huge win! I don't much care for Oracle as a company, but my concern was the impact that a win f
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In reply to vernonlvincent:Microsoft never tries hard at anything it does for consumers anymore. The company i
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:As a side note, this is my favorite feature of the Pixel phones - astrophotography
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I had no idea you witnessed the Phoenix Lights - that's pretty amazing! I've seen the documentary t
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In reply to c.turk:While stuff like this is unsettling in the moment, to say the least, it does hint that ther
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I'm very glad to see your review of the camera. All I've seen online so far are reviews that made it
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Early reviews seem to indicate that the cameras are so-so. A step up from prior OnePlus handsets but nothing e
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Thanks for sharing this! My wife got her vaccines, I'm scheduled to get mine next month. We're plann
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I'm happy about Terminal, except for two things. First, there's too much padding between individual
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My guess is that a large percentage of their patents came from IP that was stolen from other communications co
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In reply to Daishi:Yes, this exactly.I also think Microsoft has a division that caters to the gaming market (X
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The top-notch camera quality is what keeps me on Pixel devices. If OnePlus can deliver a competing camera sys
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In reply to proftheory:This is one of the innovations of StarLink. It uses a dish similar to what the military
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In reply to qaelith2112:I bought a StarLink dish for exactly this reason. While StarLink is not portable yet d
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In reply to MartinusV2:Xamarin has so few people actively working on it compared to the number of people Googl
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In reply to IanYates82:Agreed, but this is unfortunately typical of Microsoft. They build something awesome t
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People are definitely polarized, but the growing polarization and intolerance of differing opinions is greatly
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In reply to IanYates82:Windows has always had this weird clipboard thing where Ctrl+C doesn't always pick
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This is awesome! There are a lot of games I love on the PlayStation but it would be nice to be able to play t
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I have to completely agree on Def Leppard Hysteria - to this day that is still my favorite overall album. I a
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In reply to eeisner:You are definitely not alone! I grew up in the 80s and learned how to program my first so
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I have a couple of Roku TVs from Sharp and TCL, they work great. For the other TVs in the house I have standa
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I know that memories tend to be romanticized the older they get, but I remember being actually excited for new
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In reply to djross95:I remember standing in line for Windows 95. There was real excitement around special ver
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In reply to stevek:It's telling that in every Windows 8 promotional video the OS was shown on a 10" table
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In reply to navarac:ChromeOS also lets you use tiled Windows and on modern Chromebooks you can install and use
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In reply to TheJoeFin:It's cool for one or two things maybe, but once every application tries to add an e
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I loved the Zune Music application and the buttery smooth interface it had. I subscribed to the Zune Passport
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In reply to illuminated:As a professional C# developer who is helping a C++ development team, this is so true.
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In reply to mclark2112:My parents use a Chromebox as their primary PC since everything they do is web-based an
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It works on Windows 7 and up. Nice.
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I've been using a non-XL Pixel 4 for several months and I've come to really like it. I was on the l
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I've tried the latest Flutter for Windows desktop applications support and it works surprisingly well. I
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In reply to ndelena:Apple builds amazing hardware. My daughter just got the iPhone 12 Pro Max - she's a
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In reply to proftheory:Assuming it's not too radically different from normal ARM variants, probably not l
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"Worse, I am somehow attacking its fans. They take it personally. And then take that out on me."This is the re
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Microsoft should take some notes here about UI consistency. ?
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In reply to peterc:I like Apple's products and I love their attention to detail. They've got great
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:As a follow up, I now have 20H2 installed and the issues I had with WSL 2 no longer
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I really hope there is a fix for WSL coming. WSL2 was still broken with the most recent insider build of 20H2
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Any word on when WSL2 will be fixed for 20H2?
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I would love for Microsoft to freeze all Windows development for 12-24 months and the only changes allowed wou
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These look great, high performance without producing a lot of heat. I have a Ryzen 5 3600 that may get passed
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Microsoft likes making money from Windows. Microsoft does not like maintaining Windows. I honestly think a m
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In reply to rmlounsbury:My wife and I both have Pixel 4's and my son just bought himself a 4a. They'
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I've said it many times here, but it's worth repeating: Flutter is today what Xamarin should have be
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More evidence that Windows has become a low-priority side project within Microsoft. I don't expect them
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In reply to Scott_Shingleton:Agreed, and it's frustrating to watch. I used a WIM editor to modify the Win
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I love the muted design of the professional laptops as well, it looks really nice without trying to stand out
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Is this the AMD chip that's having issues? That would be weird, TSMC seems to have things pretty dialed i
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:It does mean that ad companies will no longer be able to tell which ads are more su
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In reply to ryguy:This is unfortunately typical Microsoft. They debut some awesome feature (like snaps) that
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I remember the Windows 95 launch parties, and the celebration at CompUSA the morning they opened with Windows
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I have a Pixel 4 and I really like it. I had an opportunity to purchase it new for $450 and I couldn't p
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In the beginning, Microsoft advocated that there was only one version of Windows 10 and that it would be kept
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The camera is pretty good during daytime shots, definitely one of the better cameras available. But with a tr
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For decades, American companies have outsourced labor to cheap markets like China. It started with manufactur
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Companies like Google and Apple are companies, not altruistic volunteer organizations. With that said, I do ag
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I'll be interested to see your take on Uno! I still love C# but I've gotten so used to Flutter that
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This is pretty awesome. If they expand ChromeOS to handle my professional development tasks, there's no
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:If it saves IT people even just a few hours per year in support costs then it will
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Not much more than they already do through Chrome and Android. They can collect ba
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This is normal. Security is always a nice-to-have feature in most tech companies, meaning that it's neve
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In reply to Daishi:TSMC only makes chips. They're experts in lithography because it's the only thin
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In reply to MartinusV2:They tried and tried until they eventually succeeded at snatching defeat from the jaws
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In reply to SvenJ:After watching this kind of vaporware advertising for so many years, you'd be forgiven
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In reply to christianwilson:They are trying again with Windows 10 X, except this time you can't upgrade 1
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In reply to JustMe:I love the last statement: If anyone can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it's
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So if our Internet connection is disrupted for any reason, it's time to send the employees home I guess.
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In reply to navarac:Yep. I switched to macOS. It's got a similar foundation to Linux except it runs the
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In reply to fishnet37222:I did as well. It was fitting for the Windows OS too. I never understood their clai
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I'm excited because I've focused my development efforts for mobile on the Flutter platform. Between
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Yeah, I suspect Magic Leap is dead and will be sold off for IP. Apple and Microsoft are the only ones current
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Writing code is a lot like writing articles, blogs, books, and the like. You are sometimes up at 2am staring
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I bought a neat little bluetooth adapter that turns normal 3.5mm headphones into bluetooth headphones. I have
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I gave up on Windows, I am so sick of waiting for them to do the right thing. I switched wholesale to macOS,
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I remember going to Electronics Boutique at the mall to grab the latest version of MS-DOS. I learned a lot of
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In reply to proftheory:You can also turn a PC into a Mac-like machine (a "hackintosh"). Then you can familiar
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I don't understand this. Unless Microsoft hired back their testing team, this is a terrible decision.I&#
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In reply to Energy:If you do, be prepared for some unsettled times. It's amazing how many Windows tricks
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In reply to MartinusV2:I don't think that's controversial at all. ? It's reality, Microsoft mad
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One thing I like about Intel is that nearly three quarters of their chips are manufactured at their own fabs h
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In reply to wunderbar:I'm in the same boat. I started developing apps with Xamarin for Android many year
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I'm messing with Flutter for Windows desktop right now. Writing an app that works on Windows, Linux, Mac
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When things like this break, you have to assume that they were working on some of the code related to it. Howe
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It's not just USB. My Canon printer is connected via WiFi and I can no longer print. I've been on
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In reply to BigM72:To be fair, I've always found it odd that Microsoft devoted more time to Facebook'
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My guess is that software will need to be designed to spin up that single Sunny Cover core as little as possib
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In reply to tghallin:I honestly believe the Pixel 3a is still one of the best phones on the market. It's
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Google Maps is, on occasion, absolutely amazing. It almost always works flawlessly where
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The issue is so much bigger than white people being racist. Most white people aren't racist, they'r
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Some parts of Google are so great (the teams that work on Firebase, Flutter, Dart, and Google Maps for example
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Definitely one of the weirder areas is how the platform-specific stuff is defined an
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Google's Cloud Firestore or Microsoft's Azure CosmosDB would be good data storage options. I think
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The fact that Windows 8 eschewed .NET in favor of C++ and COM (the component object model) was all I needed to
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Personally I wish they would have made the screen slightly larger, around 5.3", but otherwise this thing seems
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I don't like the trend towards wireless everything. I like having a headphone jack. I don't like b
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Oculus Quest. Being able to hang out with friends and talk to them as though they're standing right next
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As a professional Windows developer, my main issue with UWP is that Microsoft never fixed a lot of the issues
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In reply to mattbg:Especially papers that, like this one, have not yet been peer-reviewed.
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:I think some of the improvements they're making these days are to the core of
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I'm beginning to wonder if we've hit the peak for phone pricing yet, or if they'll eventually c
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In reply to JC:The concern is the much higher fatality rate for people with underlying conditions. The flu is
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It's good to see Microsoft doing the right thing for their employees and the surrounding communities. I
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In reply to JaviAl:One word:. LINQ. The extensibility provided by the language itself offers a very functiona
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The photo quality is better than I expected, based on early reports. That's good.The price is pretty hig
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In reply to paul-thurrott:These days I would suspect something like zstandard or maybe lz4, because they'
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Awesome, thanks for answering my question, Paul! I just installed 19041, and there's something in the se
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I've seen some recent news articles that Windows 10 20H1 19041 is the "RTM" build. It's still downl
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Taking a trip to Disney with the family? Just use the phone's camera, since you
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I laughed at the "Now I'm just waiting for the internal bleeding" story - that sounds like something I wo
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"A bit of Win32 here, a dash of Fluent there, some UWP randomly thrown into the mix, and Windows will be all y
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If Apple's AR glasses are a hit with consumers, I see Microsoft scrambling to release a consumer version
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In reply to lvthunder:Fixing the issues more than a year after they were widely experienced and complained abo
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In reply to TheJoeFin:The discoverability of the correct properties to override is lacking. The documentation
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WSL2 and the virtual desktop enhancements are awesome for me as a software developer. It feels like this rele
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New ads in the Windows 10 Start Menu
Microsoft is adding some new ads to the start menu, targeting users who have Firefox installed and prompting them to switch to (Chr)Edge. I'm okay with a company promoting their own products, but Windows 10 has always wavered too far across the "annoying line" where I feel like there is just too much. I've had notification center pop-ups happen in the middle of a gaming session, taking focus away from the game and getting me killed. The pop-ups were ads for Office 365. Which I already own. Which are already installed. It's a bit ludicrous.
Now these new ads are in the Start Menu. Like my Office 365 experience, even if you already have (Chr)Edge installed, you'll apparently still see them if you have Firefox installed. It actually makes me mad that this kind of thing is being injected into parts of the OS like this. Notifications are one thing, but what's next - ads in Wordpad to tell me to install Office? Ok, that was a bad example - that's something they are actually looking at.
Where does it end...
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I'm imagining this could be useful for developers too. You'd need to carry a Bluetooth keyboard wit
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Azure is interesting, but as computers and networks get faster, it becomes easier for smaller companies to als
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In reply to danjohndj:This is my suggestion as well. We're getting further and further away from Windows
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Windows 7 takes many hours to compile. There is such an enormous amount of legacy code there that isn't
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Apple is almost exclusively a consumer-driven brand. Microsoft is almost exclusively an enterprise business-d
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I still use my non-XL 3a as my primary phone. It supports Google's AR kit, has Fi support, has an excell
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Using Steam's Proton layer, I can run a lot of Windows-only games just fine in Linux without having to co
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One thing not many people realize is that starting with Windows Vista, the driver for graphics and sound devic
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In reply to Chris_Kez:I can't agree more. Windows actually needed a single source of trustworthy applica
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I remember back in the Vista days we had the ability to write applications for the desktop and the sidebar (th
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In reply to christian.hvid:Actually that's exactly why we should watch Star Wars as grown men: The day yo
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Thank you for the giveaway, Paul, and thanks to Chris Capossela and Microsoft for the hardware! Have a happy
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They've done a good job with Oculus. It's an unpopular opinion but I think a consumer oriented OS t
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In reply to Chris_Kez:That is really sad. I spend most of my money on traveling and camping with my kids. I
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In reply to TheJoeFin:I'm in my 40's and I still take chances and make changes that I'm not cer
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Cortana needed to not just be another voice assistant, it needed to literally be the AI from the Halo series.
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Do you have any plans to visit the TWIT.TV studio in the coming year? I've been wanting to go down and s
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Merry Christmas to us! Thanks Paul. :)
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In reply to djross95:Fluent or fluid or whatever was announced more than a year ago, with acrylic glass being
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I've caught up, mostly - I just finished the Thanksgiving episode of Windows Weekly. :) I was particula
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I have a Pixel 3a and I'm constantly impressed by how good its photos are. They're not on par with
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I actually like Collections. I can browse product listings on Newegg, Amazon, Fry's, and Best Buy and co
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In reply to chrisrut:I've not heard of NGA's before, it's pretty interesting. I think I'v
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In reply to jwpear:If Oracle wins, nobody can make anything that is API-compatible with anything else. That w
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This could be him just retiring, or it could be a sign that Microsoft's focus on research isn't what
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In reply to ghostrider:When you can add machine intelligence to everyday objects, such as seeing names above p
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I can't imagine the investments they're making in quantum are cheap. It's a big bet with a pot
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The Pixel 3a I have takes amazing shots for a single sensor. It's nearly as good as the current generati
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In reply to lwetzel:Windows Terminal is a UWP app, and now there is a well-known UWP developer joining Microso
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This is typical of large corporations. Google is still making cool stuff (Flutter, Go, Protobuf, gRPC, etc.)
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Something I've noticed is that the Windows Store has added a few non-UWP apps that are super useful. Pyt
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I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't devote any resources to this. The HoloLens has such an inc
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I was an enterprise Java developer at the time C# was being developed, and I remember making fun of it for lac
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Microsoft's leadership doesn't seem to care that much about Windows anymore. The company keeps rele
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In reply to Bats:Do they offer deals on just the phone? I've seen some of the carriers offer deals but I
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Borland played a big part in how Microsoft evolved their tools too. When I was studying Computer Science in c
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I've had the same experience at Best Buy. The store is clean and well stocked, people are friendly, and
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In reply to wunderbar:All of the version numbering mistakes really drives home the fact that Microsoft is maki
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I wish they would make a version of this with plastic instead of carbon fiber so that they could maybe get the
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In reply to VancouverNinja:1. It's because it comes with PCs. I'm willing to bet if every PC start
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In reply to VancouverNinja:I just looked up ChromeOS on StatCounter and in the United States usage share is si
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In reply to VancouverNinja:My kids use them in school and love them. They support the Android applications th
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I used to love Java, but when J2EE started catching on and big corporate players got involved the language too
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I loved getting the giant computer catalog called Computer Shopper, and I couldn't wait for the new Dr. D
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These companies have actually been good for some businesses. If you create something and people start to use
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I remember being in college when the Internet was first being deployed. We didn't have web browsers, we
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In reply to Kevin_Costa:The only issue is that the LTSC (previously LTSB) versions of Windows 10 have some lim
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This is something my kids love. They have a 3D printer at school and they design and build things. They also
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Worse is that after issuing that sorry excuse for a response, he blocked you on Twitter. That's somethin
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In reply to yoshi:I also have a Pixel 3a. Camera quality is excellent, it's just the right size for me,
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The company was so siloed in those years, with so much in-fighting between teams that it's no wonder they
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I really enjoy my Kindle. It's the perfect media consumption device, which is really the only thing I ne
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I'm curious why they don't leverage Xamarin more than they do.
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The release of .NET was supposed to coincide with the release of Longhorn. The Shell was supposed to be writt
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This sounds awesome, Paul! I started my programming career before Windows 1.0 was released and I'm now a
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UWP as an API and platform services is fine. The touch first mentality behind all of the user input controls
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In reply to OldITPro2000:One of my kids is left handed and I bought her a Razer Deathadder Left Handed Edition
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There has never been a mouse that fit my hand better. This is a very welcome blast from the past! Now all I
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I was in Best Buy yesterday picking up an Oculus Quest (which is pretty amazing, btw) but beforehand I was per
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It's difficult to compete with things like React Native. I'm a .NET developer through and through,
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I do feel bad for the people working at these Chinese companies that are being impacted. I know several engin
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Everything about this device is great right up to the headphone jack, or lack thereof. I listen to YouTube at
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Thanks, Paul. There were a lot of questions this week right after all the traveling. I just wanted to give m
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Microsoft has talked a lot over the past week or two about bridging the UWP-Win32 divide and bringing full pla
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This sort of sounds like Microsoft's take on IFTTT ("if this then that", for anyone who doesn't know
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This is great to see, but I wonder what exactly has happened within Microsoft to make them suddenly care about
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In reply to ben55124:Microsoft seems to have adopted Android as their Mobile platform, so I honestly don'
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I use ConEmu as my console emulator specifically because it has tabs. If File Explorer could also have tabs i
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I'm several weeks behind on my Windows Weekly schedule so I've been catching up over the past severa
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In reply to DrWindows:This is the stuff that worries me. Historically, Microsoft is very good at doing the fi
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I wonder how long this Edgium thing will last before Microsoft cancels it and directs everyone to just use Chr
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Losing consumers doesn't bother Wall Street, which is the only customer Microsoft seems to care about any
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I'm not being facetious when I say this, but it will probably sound that way: Microsoft in the future wil
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In reply to lvthunder:The fact that Apple gets 30% of in-app purchases, regardless of whether or not they are
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Microsoft kills me. They can't stop punching themselves in the face with their consumer strategy. This f
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They added DX12 to Windows 7. I find the fact that Microsoft did this at all, much less the timing of it, to
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Being bought by one of the tech giants is actually a legitimate business strategy. A lot of start-ups are crea
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This is a recurring tale for Microsoft. Windows Media Center could have been the basis of a Roku device. Zu
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Universal serial bus. Universal apps. Universal health care coverage. The term "universal" gets tossed aroun
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Did anyone else notice that none of Microsoft's new mobile APIs (such as Azure Spatial Anchors) work with
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In reply to FactoryOptimizr:Agreed. Google is taking Flutter seriously, whereas Microsoft seems to be pulling
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In some ways, I'm actually more excited about their announcement of the Azure Kinect SDK than HoloLens 2.
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I think "modern Windows" is being designed specifically for the future, assuming the future looks exactly like
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In reply to jgraebner:Same here. My _hope_ is that things like formal definitions will take hold and allow te
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In reply to christian.hvid:The problem is that you can't install Office, Visual Studio, or a whole host o
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In reply to evancox10:I was just going to suggest exactly this. One major version every 2 years with interim
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In reply to VancouverNinja:I hope you're right; that would be really exciting!
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In reply to Hal9000:I have one of the new Mac Mini machines. I love it; it's a great machine for doing m
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The app store was one of the greatest democratization of wealth devices ever invented. Today, virtually all s
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Hey Paul, I've been reading your articles since the early days of winsupersite. I didn't comment ne
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In China, the ruling party consists of a high number of scientists and engineers. In the U.S., close to 100%
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In reply to StevenLayton:My kids have had the same experience. Things just work and they love the math lesson
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I have a Mate 9 and it is simply the best camera phone I've ever used. It's not as good as the Mate
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As much as I talk bad about Windows 10, if something like this were to occur I think it could fix a lot of the
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Windows 7 is a polished, performant OS with predictable behavior. Windows 10 is a perpetual fluctuation of la
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When we were growing up in the 70's and the 80's, computers were new. Every generation of PC was tr
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In reply to tboggs13:I agree with you as far as apps go as a general concept. Ads are a legitimate way for ap
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Windows 10 on ARM. It can't run many Windows applications, and it's incompatible with a wide swath
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In reply to LuxuryTravelled:I think Apple has one Ace up their sleeve: They don't need to monitize people
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In reply to madthinus:Agreed! It makes you wonder how many people at Microsoft use Windows 10 the way normal
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In reply to ryandevega:I do spend my days managing tech at a low level and I agree with you. They need full s
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In reply to wolters:I remember that... It was almost exactly what my parents did too. I ended up installing
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In reply to Patrick3D:For some things, you have to. AMD and nVidia divers in Windows Update are very old and
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I thought the same thing when I read the claims. I'm a professional developer with decades of desktop, s
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In reply to lwetzel:Right you are, of course./Hushed voice/So they got to you too, huh? I'm sure you als
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In reply to Yaggs:I'm a Windows guy. I've been a Windows guy since Windows 3.1 came out, and I was
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You, Leo, and Mary Jo talked about open-sourcing Windows as a potential strategy for Microsoft in the distant
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In reply to karma77police:I've been a professional .NET developer since 2004. C# makes me an order of ma
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In reply to wolters:I could have written that... I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers and lo
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In reply to Yaggs:I use that quote pretty often in my code comments. Some of the younger people on my team ha
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In reply to ph-sth:Nope. That was my thought as well. We'll see what the shipping version looks like, b
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In reply to jwpear:Agreed. I moved on to Linux after the troubles we had earlier in the year with Windows 10.
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I've been very impressed with the changes they've been making to Chrome, and the speed at which they
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In reply to JeffKirvin:The trouble with this is that gaming is a much larger market than most other initiative
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The fact that Fuscia uses the Vulkan API makes me hope that they are targeting desktop PCs with this thing as
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In reply to Joran_Nohr:Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion also do this. You don't have access to your ful
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In reply to HellcatM:Exactly. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the US government went after Huawei be
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In reply to aelaan:These things are unable to run desktop software that was compiled for 64-bit, which could b
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I'm waiting for them to announce an end to S Mode. I have no issues with the store, but I do have issues
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I'm a professional developer, which means I'm paid to break things. I also don't trust other d
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In reply to Skolvikings:They would have to. 23 years ago would have been Windows 98. There's no way the
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In reply to Travis:We use ours all the time. "Alexa, what is a scalene triangle" and "Alexa, add cat food to
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Flutter is interesting in that it renders everything constantly, basically by drawing pixels. I'm not fl
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One of the things I've been wondering is whether or not Blazor would work on ChromeOS... It's just
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I use the snipping tool all the time. I hope Snip and Sketch works okay. Microsoft has a bad habit of deprec
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Google does this as a pop up in a web browser only when you're on one of their sites. Windows does this
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In reply to Bart:Or, you know, maybe make the software not suck so that people actually want to use it. ;)Edg
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In reply to Pargon:As much as I criticize its flaws, I have to agree that Windows 10 has gotten much better ov
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In reply to gregsedwards:Yes, Google is a business so they do have revenue-generating requirements for product
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Microsoft introduced Cortana with Windows 10, and I immediately thought of the advanced AI from Halo, with the
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Microsoft could have made the shell for Windows 10 using .NET. For political reasons stemming from the Longho
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I have that the US government went on a tirade against Huawei; the Mate 9 is the best phone I've ever own
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Remember Windows Media Center PCs? I always thought that Microsoft should make a small box with a lightweight
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In reply to Chris_Kez:My wife and I did the same a while back. We also do HBO Go seasonally for Game of Thron
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In reply to North of 49th:This morning. :)It wasn't with AV but it was just as bad. Windows Update dete
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I wonder if the iPhone is more popular in the US because of the easy access to financing the carriers offer?
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I'm a .NET developer, and I love what Microsoft has done with visual studio and the developer tooling. I
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I don't like the fact that "Windows 10 is a service, and as a service needs regular updates." I understan
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My kids have been playing and _loving_ Beat Saber. It's the kind of game that was inevitable on VR and v
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I think Microsoft is in trouble. I bought a Chromebook (a PixelBook on the recent sale) and things have impro
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JavaScript is a great language to teach early CS students. The idea of being able to write something and get
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I love Huawei products. I have the Mate 9 phone and it has the best low light camera I've ever seen, pho
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There was a shift several years ago to a new way of providing a UI for Windows applications. Microsoft was st
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What makes me sad about this is that I grew up with Microsoft. I bought the original Microsoft Mouse book and
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There's a code inspection and signing process that you have to go through with Windows Update. Not all s
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One nice thing about the webcam in a key is that the camera cannot spy on you without you knowing about it. I
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The most difficult thing any of us has to deal with is confronting mortality. Most people can put it out of t
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I don't feel like Apple is committed to OS X anymore. I think they're trying to figure out how to g
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In reply to rmlounsbury:Agreed. The only worrisome part of this shift to the cloud is loss of control over my
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I have the same feeling, but I think I know why. We grew up with Windows, and some of us grew up with DOS bef
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Way back in the early days, the Internet Explorer team was leading the charge in browser innovation. Yes, the
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I really wonder how Microsoft can put their own Win32 apps in S Mode but disallow other companies from doing s
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In reply to hrlngrv:It is in fact quite bad. Win32 is extremely powerful. The push to turn everything into C
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In reply to Chris_Kez:I feel exactly the same way. When I go look at what's happening with Xamarin, ther
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A big factor for OEMs is minimizing after-sale support costs. S Mode will incur higher support costs as peopl
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A multi billion dollar company with legions of developers and they can't make fluent design work across t
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With PWAs on the horizon, something like Ubuntu is not as difficult to transition to a it once was. The open
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Guns don't kill people. Neither do knives, compound bows, cars, planes, trains, etc. It's the way
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In reply to hrlngrv:There are intangibles to consider here though. I've been through Media Center, Plays
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In reply to jimchamplin:I missed that Home S is also a free upgrade to Home. I caught that in Paul's nex
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Okay, wow. I don't know how I missed the fact that Windows 10 Home in S Mode is a free upgrade to Home,
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It's still too many. If I write a piece of software, I have to use the least common denominator when it
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Windows 10 S / Windows 10 in S Mode is going to destroy Microsoft. Why?Pricing for full Windows 10 is being i
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Compared to native, the performance of PWAs is terrible for sophisticated workflows. Yes, we have web workers
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Microsoft, as usual, demo'd a device that could have been transformative but was announced before the har
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In reply to jrickel96:We're not currently doing mobile for this particular project, since our application
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In reply to jrickel96:Have you spent time in the Chromium code base? My company builds a custom compile of Ch
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In reply to longhorn:Windows 10 S is not new. It's based on OneCoreLib, which basically exists solely to
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My favorite phone so far is the Huawei Mate 9; its ability to take clear photos in dimly lit scenes is amazing
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One of the things I loved about the windows phone interface was the live tile feature. I get what Microsoft w
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Perhaps it's time to consider headquarters #2. I live in Reno (Nevada) and we've got a rapidly grow
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Store apps are also sandboxed, meaning they can't do anything that affects the OS. This appears to be ch
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In reply to ncn:This made me literally LOL! So true...
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Reading this review, I immediately purchased one for myself and one for each of my kids. Imagine their surpri
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Awesome, thanks Paul! I've been reading your articles since the early days of Supersite for Windows, and
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Does this thing use a custom variant of AMD's new Zen/Vega APU? I haven't seen any details of the u
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The one thing it doesn't do? VR. I thought the Windows 10 mixed reality announcements would have includ
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I've been driving my wife crazy with raspberry pi devices all over the house. My dad is an electrician,
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Thanks to miners, Vega is basically impossible to find in retail. The 1080ti is still faster in a lot of game
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I loved that mouse. There has never been another that fit my hand quite the same, so for me this is fantastic
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Wow, this is actually pretty exciting stuff, especially the babelfish headphones. Chrome OS is, in my mind at
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In Physics, all particles exist in a state of "superposition" from one moment of time to the next. They colla
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This is funny. The cloud existed in the 1970s, with devices being limited functionality things that accessed
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You know what one of the other problems was? Microsoft continuously getting tech people excited about somethi