It's a nice idea.It took too long to get developed. Great that it's tight, and done in assembler, etc. But tha
IanYates82
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Nice idea. Wonder if it works with YouTube videos? If it does, I expect Google to get rather upset as playing
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Yeah, a top down "here's the keyboard layout, no perspective distortion" would be very helpful.As I type this
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Paul's right. The "apps" written for Windows are within the Enterprise for the most part these days. There a
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Maths Paul... :)The US doesn't have 33 billion peopleMaybe 0.6% of the population - 0.33 billion (330 million)
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I'd read elsewhere about this that the revenue split may be an option to devs who choose to license their game
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Cool. I'll check this method out today
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So a person could get either ISO and not be on the insider program but end up with the RTM build? I have a mac
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In reply to Gedisoft:Behind my screen is joking that the way to really know between lower i and upper L is to
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In reply to IanYates82:That's not targeted at you Chris Kez... Might have come across a bit cranky 😊Ju
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Not true I'm a YouTube music user, but still had the Spotify app on my Android phon
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Our ACCC has usually been pretty good. If nothing else it will get the issue more in the public mind here.
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This reminds me of the Windows Phone achilles heel where a platform function (eg contacts) wants to control so
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In reply to matsan:WSL1 was closer to what you describe - a layer that shimmed the Linux system calls and dire
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They should at least also offer this to business. Keep the high 20-pen/pack requirement. That'd be fine.T
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Mutli action support has been available for a long time. Is it like saying "put the kids to bed" and it knows
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And very plain azure AAD didn't have sync in the first place. That always required a higher level account
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Seems a lot like the galaxy buds I got with my S21 earlier in the year.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:As someone else said, you could use Windows on ARM to run your x86, and soon x64, ap
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Amazing. Would love to see some part of the Dragon find its way in to windows and/or office. Fantastic speech
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In reply to fishnet37222:I believe that you need to proudly deregister your number from your apple account. Ot
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Nice laptop, although that keyboard is a deal breaker for anyone even trying to do light development / system
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Regarding the Bose headphones, I got my first pair of wireless "bud" headphones with noise cancelling with my
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Your ipad experience mirrors some of what I've had when using the one ipad I've owned - it's gr
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In reply to lvthunder:I'm so glad to live down under these past 12 months (well generally anyway, but esp
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Do they mean 2x faster than it being emulated under Rosetta, or that the M1 version is 2x faster on the M1 tha
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I'd love some more multiplayer couch games - 3 players and up.
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In reply to SRRLX1986:Yep. They have a PC client. It's in the wild. Let us use it, even if it's ju
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I read a blog post by the contributor of the new high perf utilities that are in the pack. A great read and go
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Not being able to run a tab as administrator in terminal made it tricky for me to use when I last gave it a go
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Google assistant is much better than siri, and has more market share here in australia than Alexa. I use a bun
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In reply to lvthunder:The trouble with this market, compared to something like groceries, is that your ultimat
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Odd of them to talk about mobile app changes in the context of an xbox dashboard update.
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In reply to gregsedwards:Yeah, YouTube kids is far too restrictive. I get why they did it though - content con
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In reply to gregsedwards:Does that type of connection work? I was excited when Google said they added Bluetoot
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What's annoying here is that I still have an exchange server doing nothing as I left it running minimally
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In reply to simont:Two Krebs now in security sees them mixed up a lotChris is the new kid on the block (for me
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Streaming the console to the pc.... So it was a regular xbox one, or does he also have the new streaming tool
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In reply to netkruse:Your answer here is a lot more comprehensive than what I just minutes to tap on the mobil
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The worry about the safelink is worrying about the horse after it's bolted. Microsoft literally has your
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Or go to the 8 week schedule for "embedders?"
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Dart hasn't really caught on. I'll have to give it another look as it seems like it's not going
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That EA Play deal is working out well for them
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It seems doubly short-sighted of them to cancel Minecraft Earth... Make it the consumer entry to this way of t
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I've signed upI suspect it's just a mailing list, but maybe we'll get more? I can't see it
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In reply to Jester:I have been able to in the past, although it can be hit & miss in that regard.
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In reply to thalter:The bit they can update is the Android bit. That's also the bit you want to disable.
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Streaming does seem like a smart approach. There are games I'd run locally for the FPS sensitivity, or ju
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I want to like this... If I had one I'd use it for sure. But I wouldn't buy one at that price How do
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I use the classic snipping tool dailyIn the past couple of days I've noticed I can now take a new snip, c
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Hey Paul, If you're able, moving the Petri article earlier in the week would be absolutely fine for all o
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I recently bought a Google TV. It has done wonders to turn a dumb flat panel TV into something smart, and its
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In reply to crunchyfrog:It'll effectively be a snapshot of the Office 365 client apps taken at a point in
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Related.... Facebook banned the sharing of news site links for Australians today, and the entire world cannot
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Nice Oxford comma addition there ;-)
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We've seen the other extremes of the approaches with WSL v1 vs v2 - they form a bit of a triangle of brid
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In reply to JH_Radio:Or it's plugged into a Fast Ethernet switch (which like the original high/full speed
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Was the leaked app from last year an electron app? If not, I reckon it has been scrapped and we'll see an
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Do you think it's "last device" or is it a toggle between the remembered xbox console and the remembered
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It's a fun game! Cross platform play finally arrived. Now I just need to be able to access my xbox save g
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Miracast: I find the Microsoft dongle is reliable. Other things, especially when built in to the device, can b
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In reply to jchampeau:It was one of the software patents held up as everything that was wrong with software pa
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Apple's approach of having devs write to specific dimensions was good for a while with developer simplici
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In reply to gregsedwards:A family plan is sorely neededFor now we have my old Xbox One set as my "home" xbox (
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Australian person here who uses Google news daily I still don't get why our govt is doing this, apart fro
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In reply to IanYates82:Now I'm past my rant.... The Medium looks great! Keen to play. I've done a bi
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It's tedious that they keep using Android in the platform description. Can't they have just kept the
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In reply to madthinus:Pretty much Or to a younger audience, BitTorrent with its DHT mode in use (no need for t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Given you're running this in Hyper-V, couldn't you just right-click the VM
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In reply to cyclequark:I find the Twitter app works OK.Although I see people using more and more extensions fo
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I don't mind the current approach I bought a play & charge kit for one of my new controllers, and in
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In reply to Althalus:Agree. The low battery indicator comes on much faster using the new controllers. I'v
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I know the descriptions and headings are lifted straight from Microsoft, but it's weird to see it saying
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I signed up for a beta but it never came to Australia as far as I know. We're a country that could actual
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To make things easy for us, could you indicate what ET is relative to GMT/UTC? Most timezone converters I'
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:I keep the acronym in my head... Weird how that works out hey?
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In reply to davidl:Little Nightmares was great. I bought the add-ons too, all in one pack a few months ago whe
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I suspect they'll do the same optimisation Apple did to make the x86 emulation work efficiently... Althou
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Australia was among the first to ban Huawei from 5G, partially at the behest of the US and other five eye nati
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In reply to IanYates82:Link to generic Intel page on doing this... https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/
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Sent you a note on Twitter Paul... Try to clear the cmos of the nuc. I have had similar experience and the cmo
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ISV is independent software vendor - not hardware maker. I can see them being near the top of software vendors
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Interesting how they've blended content from multiple providers on to the one screen - eg Mandalorian fro
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You did tell it previously, but I'd forgotten about it until now :DRipper of a
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We're very good at remembering how something made us feel. Much more so than the details of something.
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Not so sure about auto opt-in for some of these things. Shortened urls will confuse many people. Having to opt
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Do ARM apps install in program files? And then x86 apps go in program files x86? (like how wow64 does things?)
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:Cross play for coop would be great! Full screen each. I tried cross play the other
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In reply to richardbottiglieri:Nice. My console arrives next week. I've given up asking reviewers here, a
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Good article - my pre-ordered X comes in another week or so.Really keen to hear you or Paul try out these two
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In reply to IanYates82:My screenshot didn't seem to come with the post sorry...
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In reply to Dashrender:There's a whole page in the security settings page (go to account dot microsoft do
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Agree. I back up to both OneDrive and Google Photos. I have a couple of Google display
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I signed up for it this morning (Australia)It asks for which carrier you're with... I'm with Optus,
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Good games. I've already fetched some. Thanks!
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In reply to gregsedwards:It's worked on me. I was considering trying it in December when we have school h
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Wonderful. We have a pc in our conference room that's logged on as a generic user but we also need to get
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In reply to proftheory:I think it's a bit of an Americanism (at least I don't hear Aussies, Kiwis o
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In reply to Vladimir:I read somewhere it's going to be out in the next couple of months (January maybe)
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Love the insertion of the Oxford comma into that quote ;)
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In reply to RonH:Agree. Works very well for me
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In reply to Patrick3D:Yup. I suspect Your Phone relies on subnet broadcast to find the phone to do things. Sim
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In reply to Dashrender:Really? It's a rectangle. Quite inoffensive to me frankly. I'm really not
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In reply to lezmaka:Each app must offer signup within it for new users, and the signup must use Apple payment
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Sync your files from teams (which is really a SharePoint site, aka a OneDrive for business library). Then they
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In reply to ecumenical:Yeah, at least remember the answer with a cookie
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In reply to geschinger:Doesn't Apple add APIs to allow better apps and services because it wants its cust
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In reply to madthinus:Agree. This does smack of them getting something out there for people to hang on for 3,
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Good points in here, thanks.I brought a Chromecast with me on a family trip once but since then have used a Mi
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In reply to digiguy:I shopped around for my new laptop, comparing to Surface, etc. Ended up with a Lenovo X1
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Another point of difference between xbox and the apple app store is that xbox apps are welcome to advertise to
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I just had to turn this off for pictures two nights ago for personal OneDrive. My newish laptop had the issue
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Being able to tell the users there's an alternative goes a good way to mitigate the issues Apple has with
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In reply to jwpear:My understanding was that Apple, at least, mandated you charge the same price in app as you
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Interesting... I wonder why they, and stadia, put the logic in the remote rather than leaving it to an app lik
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In reply to gardner:WinPhone had deep links back in the day where you had an app - say the maps app - and coul
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In reply to jgraebner:100% agree.
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In reply to JH_Radio:They're still streamed - the dowload would be a launcher & stream host. Still s
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In reply to IanYates82:Maybe Microsoft could ensure edge on iOS at least supports gamepads well, and if they c
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Weird edge isn't available for it yet. I suspect it will be quickly What's not changing is that you&
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In reply to bschnatt:If the games could run in a phone's Web browser we'd not be thay excited about
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"way the f back in April...." haha, love it
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In reply to BigM72:Yeah I was wondering the same Can I shuffle a 100GB game off to usb storage and move it bac
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As an OG Xbox One user I'm now torn between going with this - since I only have a 1080p TV anyway - or go
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In reply to jgraebner:It being a bluray player was a huge incentive for many people. I remember my Dad bought
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Miracast supports using a keyboard/mouse from the display end to control the "brain" device. It's a sham
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In reply to IanYates82:I really hope they don't remove the function - they were doing well with Miracast
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The projecting to the PC thing was quite handy for me at the start of the "work from home" thing that we start
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Whilst we wait for xCloud and/or remote-from-home console streaming to be available on the PC, does DeX, or "Y
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Once you're done with the Note 20 review it'd be interesting for you / us to see if an Android emula
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Oh that's nice to know. A lot of people don't realise Miracast does allow
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For clarity - would really like to hear this from someone in the know - if you bought the cheaper version of t
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In reply to lvthunder:Actually it's petty common at many Australian retailers to disclose if you pay by c
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In reply to sgbassett:If you have Zoom cloud recording enabled then you can grab the audio-only download from
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In reply to Hawaiianteg:I saw their action as they'd like to make the apple vig transparent to the user.
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:It's ended up that way but I think they're hoping to reign it in again ov
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In reply to kshsystems:Some of these services have html files included in the download thay act as a bit of a
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Moved from a T570 to an X1 Gen 2 extreme a couple of weeks ago It's been a nice upgrade for the most part
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Many will read this and assume it means no support in Windows for either browser... Not the case - they'l
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In reply to lvthunder:How much do you think it costs Apple to host files for Facebook and instagram on a CDN?
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In reply to jimchamplin:Small, however significant, difference for the console market is that console hardware
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Reverting fortnight wouldn't be a backdown, so seems like a smart thing to do - clear stake in the ground
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I still have a Surface Pro 3. It was, and still is, great (albeit a bit long in the tooth). I've since
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In reply to Skolvikings:Switching from Costco to Walmart doesn't hurt you. You don't have to throw
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In reply to travishill:It's similar, although Epic's own CEO (Tim Sweeney) says he sees the differen
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This is so similar to Microsoft not giving the base numbers and only giving growth for azure so you are given
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Weird that this needs country by country support. I get that they may not have localised the words into variou
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I thought it was free to anyone with a "edu" email address... I guess notThe little coding robot in there make
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I'd forgotten about the parental control apps saga. An early example of app store rule shenanigans suppos
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Is home console streaming moving too? Do you need game pass ultimate to do home streaming? The 15 million... H
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In reply to ProgrammerAl:Maybe this will be the compromise. Works well in Windows 10. Works well in the Androi
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In reply to Hawaiianteg:How is allowing an xcloud app on iOS going to ruin the pristine experience for you? Ge
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In reply to Skolvikings:The tech is actually quite similar, just optimised differently. Remote desktop is opti
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In reply to Hawaiianteg:Does this change any of the facts about not allowing an iPhone user to buy content the
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Wow the comments on this are a hornet's nest. Paul told people sticking with Windows phone to the very en
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This could only appeal to the anti-Windows crowd that still has to run Windows apps. Beefing up a Chromebook
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In reply to MattHewitt:Here's my suspicion...I used the "play your own home console on your Android phone
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In reply to SRLRacing:That dongle looks awfully "wide" to me. I get why - it's for a phone. I'd wo
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In reply to SRLRacing:This isn't crazy - you may be on to something. The Facebook investment is often fo
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In reply to mattbg:I recall years ago that Microsoft was an early investor in facebook, back around early wind
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Portal knights looks like fine. My kids and I are almost through Minecraft dungeons on the apocalypse level -
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..... As to the “kill” part of the strategy, Skype alleges that Microsoft... Think you mean Slack here rat
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In reply to JH_Radio:As hard as it is to make iPhones or Surfaces from components, making a chip is exponetion
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In reply to lvthunder:Better WSL? Niche, I know, but I've just set up a new laptop and wanted to get it o
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The Skype word is valuable and Microsoft should do better with it. It is a manufactured verb we all understand
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In reply to SvenJ:Yeah, there's a big migration area in the admin section of Office 365 about whether you
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In reply to will:You're not wrongHowever, they also need good files integration - dropbox or box in the m
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Is it odd that the Edge change is in Windows itself rather than in Edge? What version of Edge do they ship in
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I thought I'd had all of these for a while... Then remembered I'm still on the dev channel, so yeah,
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In reply to compunut:Yes, that's the traditional thin client and is closer in spirit to the definition of
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In reply to sheffieldiswonderful:Even at its worst, Nokia is worth more than ~1/3 of a fitbit, surely? So is
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In reply to evox81:That's all quite true. 99% of software notices the change.What can be fiddly for some
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In reply to SvenJ:What is correctly perceived as gradually reduced battery life is often a sign of a device "g
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They didn't say why this change was being made. Security concern? Or just lack of use?
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Mutli-window in teams would have my vote. Tearing off a couple of channels because I'm doing work in a co
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In reply to Vladimir:You'd be using Safari on the [email protected] would be using some Chrome derivative, or
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Recall when office switch from MDI to SDI so each word doc had its own separate window? Excel was a holdout fo
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Just bought the dlc for minecraft dungeons. I thought we got the hero version with game pass but it seems not.
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Keen to see more. I'm wary this still isn't quite a direct comparison as we'd like due to the s
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Customers can use hotel aggregation sites - Expedia or whatever - to book a hotel room. Those same customers
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In reply to lefrinj:You're quite welcome :)
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I finally got console streaming working for me. Spent an hour playing minecraft dungeons with the kids whilst
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Years ago I used to load up the kb articles at Microsoft and just browse through recent ones. All sorts of int
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Everyone's making a huge deal of this, but it's kind of obvious I'd have thought. The console t
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For the "capture screen during login..." Install Teamviewer. For what you want it'll be free. Boot up th
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Paul, I think the xbox back compat question was driving at something else. That is, Microsoft has said their f
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In reply to christian.hvid:The thing is though, the browers deliberately go out of their way for a site to not
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In reply to SAPaleAle:Yeah I must say the 2x Chromecast devices I have are working very well now. For a month
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In reply to iantrem:Yeah, that's a website issue where the xaml was escaped for HTML display, and then th
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In reply to lvthunder:They're preparing to launch one
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Player count... As in filter the games that allow 2, 3, 4+ players to play locally? Awesome!! I'd asked t
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In reply to darkgrayknight:Nope. Just ok google or hey google as far as I'm aware.
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In reply to brothernod:Cortana does flow off the tongue better than Microsoft Also, I use Hey Google rather th
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Fun how they've removed things from cortana but phrase it as being updated and enhanced
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:I finally got 1909 on my laptop after being stuck on 1803 for ages. Tried Windows s
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In reply to MacLiam:Every event viewer I've examined in the past couple of years - server or workstation
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In reply to SvenJ:They won't get around to testing such a niche device from an obscure hardware maker for
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Has been working well for my wife and I for a couple of years. Those worried about this being a "hack" need n
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Ignoring the slippery slope arguments. Ignoring general creep factor. Others have addressed these for and agai
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I hate conversation view in email, but quite like the focussed inbox. I could see myself using this once it�
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In reply to lundp:Same, but on Windows. Really want to use the background stuff. I've been through our ad
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In reply to TheJoeFin:Yep. Something a desktop user may not notice unless they keyboard has media controls on
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Since an installation of new Edge replaces old Edge, I think it's fair enough to combine them. It'd
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In reply to TheJoeFin:Yep, the same can work in Teams too. Works very well in modern browsers.
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It's a huge missed opportunity - hopefully they can claw back some share. Most people - me included - di
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In reply to slerched:And Apple then threatening to remove apps if they dare add 30% to the subscription fee to
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In reply to lvthunder:It doesn't cost Apple $30/user/yr to handle maybe 12 office updates of 300MB each -
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Nice to see. The scroll chaining - couldn't have known the name for it - was indeed something I've s
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Looks like fun. Another good reason to have game pass I wonder, can you buy the DLC at a discounted rate on ga
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In reply to TheJoeFin:I use ScreenToGif. Some of the Microsoft polish on its rough edges would be fantastic.
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Country selection on the sign up page is rather restrictive... Australia not mentioned ?At least I could pick
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So Apple built it instead of Google...? :D
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It'll be like Windows phone, some apps will come over due to Huawei throwing money at the devs - at least
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In reply to pk driven:Mehedi wrote up the headset a few days ago: https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/233208/hp-
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Outlook (desktop client) & Teams had a feature announced the other week where I could have an email in Out
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My daughter in year 5 uses an ipad for her school work - Office, Teams, etc all on there.Her one big annoyance
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In reply to Rycott:I thought so too, until the end where it's explained that a 12U game will run on only
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In reply to JH_Radio:Non-fox news has been telling us this for weeks
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In reply to IanYates82:I read on Ars Technica's article about the expandable storage that option (a) is i
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Good info. Thanks.With the expandable storage, do you think there might be an option to move an Xbox One Seri
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I was hoping you might publish the editorial email on the website and had been meaning to write back to sugges
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Nice to see
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I haven't kept up to date on super specifics of the cameras... When you say the iPhone's portrait m
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I suspect your Teams admin will have to enable this for the tenant as it could be a bit of a governance issue.
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In reply to IanYates82:(ignoring Microsoft's own shenanigans with "Commercial Cloud" and whatever that me
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I feel this isn't a useful number if it just includes regular people with a gmail account.When my two kid
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In reply to IanYates82:"Bruce" from Microsoft at least chimed in during the chat over at User Voice to indicat
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In reply to MikaelKoskinen:I didn't realise they only supported nested virtualisation on Intel CPUs for t
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I only recently tried the first Ori game. Looks good, and it had my attention for a bit, but I felt a bit str
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This is similar to the issue with chromebooks where, whilst you can say X years of support since manufacture d
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Always good to see more of this series. Thanks for writing it.For the very last bit, I've been bitten en
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Congrats. It's such a nice feeling when these things click together. The frustration of debugging somethi
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In reply to simont:He didn't - he was given a test unit by Intel (topic of first paragraph)
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I just tried this. An interesting previewAnyway, I then followed Paul's idea and got the file via deskto
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You mentioned this in a FRD episode earlier in the week, and explicitly said you had your ISP's box in br
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I don't get the US centric focus always used here. I get it for other languages, but surely Britain, Aust
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Neat. The NaCL component in Chrome is being deprecated, right? So this move makes sense. I'm loading i
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In reply to robinwilson16:They are removing the app for legacy edge, or at least making it hard to launch. Th
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In reply to red77star:What do you use instead?
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Of these, I've only played batman. Can recommend - great game. I'll try the others for sure. More co
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Wasn't the lack of a share button a big issue on Windows Weekly last week? Prayers answered it seems ?
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Good to see.One minor nit: "where a friendly URL is translated into a domain name"... Not quite right. It&#
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In reply to legend:Thanks. Weird. I literally set up my new yoga a week ago and had to use an app password. An
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In reply to HellcatM:Oddly enough, in Australia, Star Trek Discovery comes via Netflix and Star Trek Picard co
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Just ran in to this the other day on my new X1 Yoga and I was listening to your podcast mid-week when you ment
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In reply to bassoprofundo:Agree on the fingerprint sensor. I loved the simplicity of it on my S8. With the cas
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In reply to ponsaelius:I have a galaxy S10 (using it right now) I don't see any crapware at all during a
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In reply to Cubkyle:Interesting... Again though, this warning should appear to brave, Vivaldi, opera, etc user
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In reply to MikeGalos:Yep. And why even have a test? If I visit there in Firefox I couldn't even use the
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In reply to DXtremeBob:It wouldn't be. And applications expecting to spawn other processes, pipe data bac
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In reply to lvthunder:Have a "thanks, got it" so you don't see it again.Also, these are for paid services
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I might give it a go, but not keen on buying games and a controller when I'm already all-in on xbox. Ass
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:Ink is one of those things that, if you find it useful, it's *really* useful.
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Nice. I'll give this a try. Linking in with planner and a terms channel would be handy too perhaps
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Weird that some gameplay mechanics would be different. It sounds like detecting trigger held down (for automat
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In reply to FaustXD9:I thought that, or possibly it's that MS had to assert the rating of the content ava
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How does the fast charging work? By that, I mean is it from 0% (flat) to 50% in 30 minutes, and then the rema
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In reply to lvthunder:I think it's that the Teams app runs using a single account - one email / password
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In reply to remc86007:It's odd to me (but good for me) that as Australian ISPs started offering decent un
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I hope they fix the issue where the console streaming is useless for me due to my console, physically in Brisb
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I just ctrl+click a few tabs and then drag them away. Works in Chrome as far as I recall. Opera too
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Multi-browser theory seems apt.I use new Edge for my browsing now and use Opera for my dev work since it has t
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Is it still deemed as 8 years of support from the release date of the particular Chromebook model?There has to
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In reply to wright_is:I'd like the mid-size one but with all of the bells and whistles... Probably won�
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Trouble with this for me in Australia unfortunately. My connection speed tests from Brisbane to Sydney at 25ms
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In reply to starkover:Edge stable and edge beta (along with dev and canary) are installed side-by-side. Beta i
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In reply to IanYates82:I hope this is handy for someone :)
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I've just gone to enable this on my domain. Had some trouble getting the group policy editor to display
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In reply to Vladimir:It's already freely available?
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Keen to try on my Android tablet.I was on the beta program for the phone, but won't switch to this very-n
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I find Chromecast is *amazing* but can be spotty even with things like Netflix.I can frequently start a show f
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In reply to ivarh:True. But if you're on a home network the only real zero-days you need to worry about
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I'm curious to see how long Microsoft continues to support new Edge on Windows 7.Will they just rely on G
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I feel this may be more about dwindling marketshare and taking a leaf out of the old patent-wars from about a
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I notice you're using Security Essentials on this PC but went with one of the freebie (AVG or Avast - can
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In reply to RichCampbell:You're right, many Microsoft Server products utilise .NET underneath. SharePoin
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In reply to karlinhigh:Big Outlook certainly supports things like MAPI and drag/drop of attachments (using it
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I'm super curious. Too early for me to adopt.Does the keyboard slot over the bottom "half" of the screen
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Regarding xcloud, I feel the words Chris chose were too careful, and there's knowledge he has (obviously)
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Keyboard is a deal breaker for me. But I'm not the target market for this, despite really wanting somethi
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Yuck. It's not my content but I feel violated on your behalf. Gross behaviour.
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True about Spotify being a one-trick pony. They don't have anything else going to cover the losses where
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Great windows weekly episode, and a great prize to win this time of year!
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I watched his test video. Fair points.What would have been even more compelling is to open the Developer Tool
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It'd be nice to see how these compare to their non-LITE counterparts in terms of camera, general phone sp
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It was a great Windows Weekly Episode.... Keen to win (although the hardware would be even better!!). This i
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I'll enable this. As a Web-based line of business app user, I'll have customers still using legacy e
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The batman telltale game was great.
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In reply to kevinbouwman:Dont worry about the guest thing (as in, not necessary to adjust). But SMB1 may be us
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In reply to kevinbouwman:Drop to the command line. net use \nas /user:nasaccount passwordWhere nas, account an
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You have to wonder what possible technical limitation exists to restrict this to US-only.... It's litera
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In reply to wright_is:I think you can turn this off using a flag?(or just switch to new Edge?)
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I love that this is in metric for once :)I think they should've included a game case in the photo too, if
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In reply to csalese:Yep, contact sync using device-to-device comms is a long dead thing. Use a cloud service
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Does this mean the "magic window" won't be a thing anymore, since if you're always running the fresh
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In reply to dsamuilov:IE is hanging around for quite some time. The rendering engine is embedded into probabl
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In reply to karlinhigh:Probably salting... Although then if every user has a unique hash due to the salting,
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In reply to Sykeward:I've gathered that a lot of games will run on all of the xbox systems. Similar to ho
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In reply to Orin:ToDo has become useful in recent months. With new features that let it reach in to other pla
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In reply to jwpear:A kickstand on the book is a pretty neat idea.
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I saw a third party battery base for Google Home & Home Mini that ended up offering similar utility. It�
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I've just been digging into printing in our own code...The PrintDocument is as Petzold described. The On
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Request files sounds very handy. Great idea.
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It'd be nice if Microsoft created a Google assistant bot to let me build up a sticky notes list, just lik
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I don't get the whole "reduce lag" thing. If it's connected to a PC via USB, and that PC has an Ethe
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Shame about the vid card requirement. This would be nice for casual things on the go. Also, i don't see w
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And that friend can then use a regular xbox or ps4 controller with chrome to access stadia? (ie, no purchase o
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I wonder how much of this is flowing back upstream to chromium? Great to see this kind of thing. An option to
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Switching between work and personal makes good sense. I'd happily keep Cortana limited to work things gi
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It took me 20 minutes the other day to find where to domain-join a fresh Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 install...
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The "give me the news" feature works fairly well here in Australia. However the sources it draws upon vary in
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I set this up when the beta came out. Has been handy!
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I don't have access to such a device. Can you or Brad please post screenshots of some things like task ma
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I still can't get my laptop to go to 1903 from 1809. Multiple attempts but it always aborts after a coupl
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Neat. It irks me when I read things like "Spring 2020". At least here in australia we don't have such a f
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In reply to Rcandelori:Apparently that specific feature is coming very soon
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I installed a really neat Android emulator on my kids' PCs - MEmu. Has the Play Store, etc. Free too.Yo
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Good idea.However the suggested approach would corrupt the clipboard - the act of pa
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Does the Google Backup and Sync app for Windows integrate with Windows' Files-on-demand functionality, or
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Sherlock Holmes: good to see it in here as it's interesting gameplay but definitely not worth the price.J
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In reply to captobie:I think you're right here.Sometimes a "fan" will have a thing they think is clever t
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Continuing a good series! :)For the caret position, seehttps://stackoverflow.com/a/526545/1053381which then li
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I'll stick with GPM until they have it completely stop working. Not out of spite, or particular dislike
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Not a time waster. I am a professional dev and I'm enjoying reading along anywa
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Smart lights, etc throughout the home get the most engagement through Google devices
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Do these chips get used in any non-Samsung phones?
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Nice description of the functionality.One thing though... The galaxy S10, whilst offering buttons to choose be
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In reply to dallasnorth40:I suspect not, despite it maybe being a bit easier from a comp science problem due t
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In reply to jimchamplin:Wow! That's quite a bit, but reasonable for home IF you have the connection. I us
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In reply to IanYates82:(and I see the photo with the display & keyboard - appreciated... I opened in a new
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Sounds like good value. Great review.However, as someone looking for a new laptop soon, I'd love some ph
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This is good. I don't know if I'd do restrictions. It's about trust and discussions, until they
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In reply to ghostrider:My kids run the MS Launcher. It works well - they prefer it anyway. (they're also
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Brad, is build 18999 a 19h2 release or a 20h1 release? It's not related to the rest of the article, or do
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Your conclusion makes sense. Microsoft has control of UWP and could theoretically work to emulate it on Andro
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As a Delphi user at the time, who was familiar with Visual Basic but not at all a regular user, one big advant
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Sidecar sounds quite useful.Does anyone know of a similar Windows utility? Where I could use my Surface Pro a
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Definitely.The outreach to communities and so on was nice to see, but that seemed to
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In reply to alexoughton:You can set your linked music app for your Google assistant. I've got mine set to
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In reply to Thom77:?? Why do we need an article about Notch? Or more stuff about Epstein, particularly on a te
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Works pretty well.The setup was a bit disjointed as the login page failed, and then it showed up in my Google
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It's funny/sad to see the same behaviour in some more modern incarnations of companies.Google and its sea
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In reply to wright_is:I often use the phrase slightly differently anyway - "calls a spade a [email protected] shovel"
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In reply to wright_is:I'd read too that the TB3 docks won't "downgrade" to USB 3 mode. It's a
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Nice. Looking forward to this arriving on my S10. I just got the latest security updates - they tend to come
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Hope it has chromecast support and an xbox app
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In reply to wright_is:Foxpro, the visual one, is still used by a few major products in the Australian healthca
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In reply to pepesilvia:I'll check it out. Thanks
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In reply to alexoughton:Yep. Stops the "evil maid" attack. Firewire had a similar issue but wasn't as wel
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I didn't quite understand until half way through.. The hidden flag is something you as the original poste
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In reply to beatnixxx:Yep. Even on a brand new, out of the box Galaxy S10, you can sideload apps. Download the
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In reply to darkgrayknight:Same.
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In reply to will:Agree. The vendor tools to keep things updated are great, but their extra stuff that fiddles
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Leaked to coincide with the Apple announcements? :)
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We did a LOT with NT 4, terminal server edition, back in the day. Really innovative stuff for local business w
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In reply to harmjr:Because so many PCs and laptops have one, maybe two usb-c ports (and if just one, it could
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In reply to Bryan75:I'd love to still have a second reader on the back...
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In reply to JHeredia:Yep. Same here. Worked very well. Seamless. Paul, you really should try this and then upd
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In reply to gregsedwards:Pull request to the github repo?
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In reply to LT1 Z51:I hadn't heard this. Nice to know, thanks.I have avoided expensive "smart" appliance
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In reply to Untitled1:Yep. I barely noticed the differences when Samsung updated my handset from one major An
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In reply to evox81:I'm a huge fan of the ribbons.They particularly shine when the extra "tabs" of the rib
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The only advantage to the galaxy store is that, for some games, they'll give you cheaper access to in-app
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It was also useful for accessing libraries you may have written in VB, C++, or even
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I had this ages ago with a PebbleBee.The whole "having others help track down your lost stuff" idea was great,
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In reply to IanYates82:irda means infra-red right?
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Interesting... So I can stay in desktop mode on my surface, but remove the keyboard and stay in desktop mode (
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In reply to wright_is:And still if you use COM automation to enumerate active Explorer windows, you get both t
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FYI: The Australian language pack seems to work OK for me (in 1809, as 1903 keeps failing to install :( )It�
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In reply to IanYates82:(so that someone was me I guess)
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Surprising to see Australia get it before a lot of Europe, particularly the UK.I'm sure someone will say
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The sign up page is a bit tricky. I had already signed up. Going to it now doesn't really say I'm si
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I remember these days fondly :)Are you going to do an article on '95 OSR2? That was a great release, bri
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In reply to anderb:The J2EE, which Eric refers to, has nothing to do with Android. Unfortunately J2EE has poi
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This will be quite useful!
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The monitor was done with troy hunt's cooperation. (pretty sure that was the case - he partnered with som
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They're still improving regular Edge it seems, although it's a notification change so I suppose it p
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Can't they at least give users the choice of allowing the apps to still run in the background?
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No headphone jack, despite all of that space :(
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Hoping a review unit makes its way to Thurrott
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Nice!
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In reply to dab2kab:Or if you mark your xbox as specifically offline then it might work. I've had to do
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I went from a Samsung S8 to an S10.I use the fingerprint reader on the S10 rarely - it's in the display a
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August 5/6 is mentioned. That's literally today. This doesn't seem like a lot of notice. If I was
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In reply to ecumenical:Agree. It's about letting the chip power down further whilst still keeping your pc
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In reply to christian.hvid:Unpredictable is the word...But back to Github... Git != Github. Devs may not hav
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Would be nice to see google get involved here, but I suspect that won't happen given the stadia competiti
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A *very* welcome change :)
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In reply to DaveHelps:DOSBox works too
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This site should be above simple cut & paste of bullet pointsThis one...Windows containers require matched
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In reply to jchampeau:It's taken me quite a few weeks to get the whole "dual" account thing working after
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Failed installation of this 3 times so far.Windows takes probably an hour to get through its 2x reboots. All
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It's nice that they do this, but by not really marking it as something obvious on the box, unaware people
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The whole A|B testing thing is frustrating to hear. Turns me off wanting to take the risk of being an insider
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I thought bookmarks were present in the browser & desktop (Win10) version already?
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In reply to ibmthink:Yep - dealbreaker for me to even consider this unfortunately.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:AgreeLike all things unfortunately, if you were doing C++ programming all along, you
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What's odd is that I thought they claimed they'd fixed the external drive blocking issue a while bac
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In reply to garumphul:Agree. I found COM to be smart. Versioned interfaces, etc. Transparent DCOM sounded neat
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Nice history continuing here! Thanks for the articleGive your Delphi background, will you cover some of it an
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In reply to richfrantz:I looked at lightswitch for a little bit to see if I could farm out some embedded parts
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Shame. I just got my daughters set up with their first PCsRefurbished HP all in ones, big touchscreen, etc. I
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Prime on chromecast is welcome. I have a Prime subscription but hand't bothered to really use it - I had
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I haven't played the game yet. Might see if it's on Game Pass. After hearing how difficult it is I
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In reply to IanYates82:276MB for Windows 1.11.... How times have changed :D
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In reply to TJA:I had that yesterday, but today it's available. Worth trying again.I'm up to episod
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I thought I'd give the Skype one a try. It turns out it wants you to become a Windows insider. Nope - n
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I'll give this a crack as I use SwiftKey on my Samsung S10.However I think they should make this a separa
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Great to hear TMS Software are still around. I had a *lot* of their controls back in the day :)I run a small
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These look good. Ones I can play with the kids are welcome, and inside looks good (and makes we want to try li
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Excellent news. We're one step closer to me being able to tell some customers that they can still use th
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In reply to MartinusV2:Delphi was amazing.We still have an app that's written in Delphi - although it
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In reply to Bart:Same, no idea they had such content!
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I like the little floating keyboard. I noticed it on my Surface a few weeks ago in Windows 10 (it's stil
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In reply to Skolvikings:It's be Windows on ARM. So any ARM app, plus any 32bit x86 app.
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In reply to wright_is:PoE would be smart.I'm using injectors at work to power some phones. Can you get a
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In reply to MarkPow:Agreed.It worked really well, to the point where if released then it would've meant n
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In reply to will:Agree. The Ninja Cat thing was fine so long as it wasn't the only thing that came out o
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In reply to mattbg:I've got a Thinkpad T570, and also a T560 we use as a demo machine.Quite thin & li
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In reply to Shmuelie:Yeah I saw that I never had a Win 10 phone but I'm sure someone on this site does.
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In reply to evox81:I thought so too. Probably to do with some hacks made to games expecting certain video card
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I wish Simpsons Road Rage was brought forward... Loved that game!! Crazy Taxi is *not* a good substitute at al
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Fantastic for when I travel. Home internet should be good enough (100/40mbps) and mobile phone speed should be
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Sounds nice! ?
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In reply to gstevenb:It's not only that, but the classic Americanism where what's written is the opp
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In reply to Kevin_Costa:Nope, not yet . Will soon though.If you visit the download page from Windows 7 or 8 yo
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In reply to VMax:It's hair splitting to some extent. If I enroll my device to inTune, I'm using Mic
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I suspect Microsoft will continue the work of porting Chromium over to ARM even if Google won't. MS needs
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In reply to SvenJ:I agree. I wonder though if it's not so much the surfaces to worry about since most pro
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This whole article is on point. I can see where people are picking nits for various bits, but imho Paul's
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One issue for them, to be charitable, is that they'll engage with their fnas and get told UWP all the way
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In reply to Wiredcoach:You're saying you recompiled it using VS 2019 and your app is now significantly fa
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In reply to Igor Engelen:And few other companies are as opaque & secretive about their updates
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In reply to Dan1986ist:Good question. I think they've fixed that - it wasn't expected to hang around
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Big fan of The and A getting ignored in titles when sorting!
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Clicking the link for the testing program tells me I need to sign up for, or be invited to, that testing progr
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In reply to Bart:See here... Tells how to enable developer mode, etc.https://www.best4geeks.com/reduce-animat
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In reply to bassoprofundo:You're not wrong.I have YouTube Music but haven't bothered even trying it
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Google Play Music has been a no brainer. Paying for full YouTube and getting GPM for free on the side, for up
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In reply to christian.hvid:Agreed. A language is just one half of the equation - the libraries / framework ar
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In reply to wright_is:I think they mentioned FUSE, but that's not quite the same thingThey're talkin
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Marooners looks fun for local multiplayer. The kids and I play Knight Squad, Speedrunners, some rainbow jump
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I almost bought Wolfenstein II during the big sale a couple of weeks ago. Glad I didn't :)
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In reply to feek:I had trouble getting in to it. I liked the idea, but at the time wasn't able to play e
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In reply to Trickyd:My guess is that if you're using this as a dock then you have a USB keyboard and USB
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In reply to wolters:Someone actually used the iOS porting tools! I was wondering what happened to them. I re
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I like how he even has 26 tabs open in the demo. It's a good fake.Except that 26 tabs was far too low ?.
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In reply to bharris:I use Pushbullet at the moment.It's very noisy at first but as notifications pop up o
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This should be nice. I use Pushbullet to get notifications on the PC, and it works pretty well. But it'
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Windows dictation has been horrible for a long time, but it now seems that could be due to English (AU) not be
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How does this work with the WIM format for Windows installs? I've never had such an installation, but II
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In reply to Kevin_Costa:Yep. There are also quite a few devices out in the wild that just don't have 64-
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Great to see the change in sorting. So many games under "The"...With the "Play later" that sounds semi-useful
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As a dev, window management is a tricky thing. Grafting sets onto misbehaving apps, some not updated in 15 ye
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In reply to mrdrwest:I did, until the Skype integration became very buggy. It kept asking me to add my wife&#
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In reply to kshsystems:For quite a long time to come
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The only issue with the 8 -> 8.1 transition was that Server 2012 did *not* get an automatic and free update
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I might actually make use of my Prime Video then. Neat.
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In reply to dcdevito:I guess they're calling out hypocrisy - Google / Android doesn't make a virtue
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In reply to Vladimir:They forked Chrome from WebKit, which was originally forked from Konqueror - that is the
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Paul, my Edgium has "Save to PDF" quite distinct from the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer. This is the same
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For those wondering why this is new, I have a theory... Since it requires Bluetooth, and requires Chrome, I su
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Opera has been a very decent browser since they ditched their Presto engine and went to Blink. For me as a Web
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In reply to jchampeau:Handy for a fixed endpoint. Picture putting an old phone to watch the kids in the pool
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This cash you get back, is it actual cash (albeit paid back as a deduction off your owings on the card) that y
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In reply to Dan1986ist:Interesting... Microsoft should offer this option and publicise it. The game playing wh
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Great idea!
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In reply to IanYates82:I'm a little confused - the Microsoft announcement indicates you need Enterprise 1
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I feel the browser extensions stuff deserved its own article. There's some interesting concepts at play
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In reply to lvthunder:Not really. An Android phone, and even a Windows PC or a Mac, can be set to only accept
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In reply to mattbg:Apple's compensation is that it gets users buying iPhones / iPads due to a working sto
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In reply to wright_is:You're right. The fee charged here is disproportionate to the service provided.In
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In reply to gvan:I feel they should've gone harder on the xbox branding of consumer things back when the
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In reply to Xatom:Spotify doesn't have an app store or a smarphone platform? Maybe Apple could raise the
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In reply to Rycott:Yep. I tried Apex Legends a couple of times and had some guy cranky at me cause I didn
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I've just set up my new s10. Good time to look at a new podcast app - currently I backed up and restored
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In reply to lezmaka:I'm hoping not. I can't easily run a test and a production operating system sid
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In reply to jgraebner:Especially because most things you've purchased for iOS just can't run on a di
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I hope this gets some traction. Not to be anti-apple, but be anti-lock-in. The 30% fee is excessive. Limiti
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Oh this will be fantastic.Now just to get my mailbox off our Exchange Server and over to Office 365....We stil
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Could it also be that their 'Edigum' browser will take advantage of DX12 to some extent, so this eff
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Google seems to be doing pretty well here in Australia. Lots of Home Mini devices given away, and they were o
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In reply to Daekar:Yep, I use this feature in Podcast Addict. I have a couple of podcasts set to play at 1.2x
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Podcast Addict works well for me. Seems to tick the boxes you mentioned - clearly seeing what's been dow
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In reply to simont:There shouldn't be any technical reason why it doesn't support Opera - it's
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Is there a link to that proposal (probably on the Chromium bug tracker?)
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So glad someone brought this up: Edge/Chromium, Android, passwords, and youI love the daily podcasts - always
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I worried going from my Galaxy S6, with fingerprint reader on the front, to the Galaxy S8, with it on the back
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Disc to digital is a good idea.I had worried a couple of years ago about not being able to buy cheap second ha
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Batman will be fun.I'll try the open world games. Takes me a while to get in to them, and I don't q
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I bought my xbox one a month or two before the S was announced. I had a little buyer's remorse at the ti
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This is fantastic. A lot of our customers won't run non-Microsoft browsers, but in many cases that leave
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There was an xkcd comic earlier this week that's rendered moot by this. Surprised it's come to Andro
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The good thing for me, as an ISV, is that often our customers will only have the default Windows browser. Tha
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Neat first impression. Keen to watch this tech improve and get cheaper over the coming years. I can see even
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Agree :)Getting this integrating with many things - such as allowing third parties
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Nice. The hoops and screens to jump through when you're out of space are in need of obvious improvement.
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Yay! I'll not ever double press the button, so I know which way I'll configure to open bixby. Single
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Regarding window positions... The monitors are being disconnected and reconnected (not physically...), so Wind
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The Walking Dead games are fantastic!Keen to try a Batman action game for once - have heard good things (the
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How does the fingerprint work on the side? Do you need to swipe?
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Typo with the battery stuff?"The device also comes with a 4,500mAh battery compared to the S10 Plus’ 4,500mA
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I imagine it's to do with some means of game installation. They had indicated they were even happy for u
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That's a lot of phone for the money. Would love to see a hands-on, or even a first impressions, review o
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In reply to mattbg:Forget the headline number since that's all theory, as you say. The big thing is bette
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I actually saw this yesterday when I was browsing through Android Auto compatible apps and say YouTube music.
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Neat. I had installed that other extension anyway but it's nice to know thata) Microsoft is investing mo
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Pretty sure my Samsung Galaxy S8 has some sort of "flip to shh". The edge lighting feature is sort of an earl
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In reply to Sprtfan:I think the point is that they mentioned Alexa and Siri (I'm assuming that's h
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Probably time for me to pick up an extra controller... Thanks
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In reply to Chris_Kez:I found if I had my photos in folders like 2009_01_07, which is what my old Canon and So
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Sweet. I've been holding off on getting back to the book pending getting this. Will now follow along :)
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Neat use of the file system redirector - sits neatly alongside \tsclient :)
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In reply to christian.hvid:This was also my understanding. Its use is discouraged, but it's the same pro
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In reply to IanYates82:And maybe those improvements could even find their way over to Electron apps!!!!
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In all the discussion from Windows Weekly about Microsoft Edge moving to a Chrome backend I'm surprised t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Search for files, vs search the web, should be separate things (not that I need to
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Looks nice.Keyboards *really* matter. Could you please possibly post a photo of it open, not at an angle, whe
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In reply to ldsands:Oh neat. I will give this a try! I've got Google Photos and OneDrive going, but an
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In reply to ldsands:I was just wondering about this. Does it require window focus to operate, or did it take
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In reply to jgraebner:I completely agree with you about the broadcast. It'd be nice to say "Speak to �
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In reply to Pierre Masse:I'm sure he read the manual, sent an email to customer support to clarify, and t
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In reply to SoundersFan:Yeah, I agree. I don't need Bixby doing things. I tried it. I tried Cortana on
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"on the side"? Fingerprint scanner on the back you mean? (although I don't see it there in the picture)
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In reply to FullyLoaded:Agree. This article made me thinkThe cloud storage is for save games. How *big* are
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I listened to First Ring Daily this morning when you were discussing this. All sound reasoning. When you sai
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It is amazing how far we've come. The kids and I watched the new Carmen Sandieg
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In reply to christian.hvid:Not sure if it's a common term globally, but here in Australia we have editori
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Google ending ad-blockers in Chrome... That may well be what pushes the needle far enough for many to switch
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In reply to TrevorL:My daughter, starting year 4 next week, is getting a school-issued iPad. We parents were
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In reply to RonH:I'm hoping the "Cortana available as an assistant to other assistant X" will make this w
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In reply to RoHo:I have fond feelings of that phone. But never got a new win phone after it... I did have a ca
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Whenever you set up 2 factor using a qr code you'll see an option to manually get the text of the two fac
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In reply to IanYates82:Ahh - I see in their notes that they're separating Start from the other host proce
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In reply to wbhite:I get that on mine a bit too.I can see that in task manager, the shell experience host gets
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In reply to Jackwagon:Yep, back in the day when Google was new, it was competing against Lycos, AltaVista, Ask
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In reply to madthinus:Not entirely true. It is supposed to get cumulative updates - even 1803, 1709, etc stil
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Regarding the 1903 naming scheme. I meant to tell you I saw this in the file / storage team blog post about re
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In reply to Polycrastinator:I'd want that. I saw the mini supported bluetooth and actually bought a Bluet
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Still $59 in Australia according to that website. Hard to rely on their prices though.. Whilst they say $79 fo
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Part of the original appeal of Netflix was that you could find it *everywhere*. That really helped make it a
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Only the US... :(Ho hum.Cool idea though
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In reply to jimchamplin:I'm now trying to remember if UHD is better or worse than QHD...
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How's this all that different from Android Auto which has the maps & assistant readily available? (I
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Xbox Game Pass Office 365
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It's a valid point that the Cortana thing during setup is silly, and that video makes the point *very* we
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The multiple products launched in a single quarter didn't gate supply... It gated demand. Specifically, i
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Presumably as a sad accident and not the "pawned one too many times" reason :P
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In reply to jchampeau:Agreed.The Bluetooth connection screen in my Hyundai is so irritating, it can't pos
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In reply to Winner:Anti-virus... They keep adding more bells and whistles to AV products - things like "smart
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In reply to SvenJ::( Wish they kept the jack
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In reply to SilentHero117:If I remember correctly, the only way to get 4k Netflix on a desktop / laptop right
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In reply to Pungkuss:Same JavaScript engine. Same rendering engine. They ought to be very close, but only beca
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In reply to ryandevega:Play music is great. Haven't tried the YouTube flavour of it yet... I just assume
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In reply to ryandevega:I use Google photos and onedrive for photo backup - both are on my phone. Google is *mu
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In reply to cadrethree:It used to be a battery hog. Not so much anymore in my experience.
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In reply to c.hucklebridge:As a fellow Brisbane dweller, I concur with your analogy :)Happy the digital stuff
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In reply to javajunkee:Read the technical post from the Ms team about this. You can enable nested virtualisati
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I assume the games I buy now will be forward compatible? Also, since it seems like it's still Windows 10/
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Removed from your devices..... But did you remove the devices from the fitbit? Without that you won't be
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Not full win32 onenote? (I still prefer it and this sounds like a nice feature)
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In reply to Daishi:It was a ridiculous week ending a ridiculous year of #auspol :(
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In reply to rossdelliott:My Lenovo T570 was offered it late last week. I finally let it reboot on Sunday even
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In reply to DaveHelps:Yeah I paused at that too
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So like opera, brave, Vivaldi, etc. You'll get a custom user experience - menus, bookmarks, etc wrapped a
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I'm not an apple user, but I'm surprised webkit doesn't get a lot of mention in this sort of ar
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In reply to colin79666:I totally agree. So frustrating that the only built-in "sanctioned" browser in remote
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I get my Google home mini to read me news in the morning.It starts with our ABC news (in Australia ABC is the
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In reply to maethorechannen:I think you're right. They've settled on a software system now, so apps
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In reply to MrKirbs:A fancier SMS that's standardised. I can't recall more than that sorry... Would&
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Since it became available...So anyone who wanted an XS /Max got one when they came out. Then when people want
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Is this the first original XBOX title to be included in the Games with Gold? Neat.
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Never Alone is an awesome game. My two kids and I worked our way through it. Great little story and good puz
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In reply to zybch:Oh no - really.... We're so backwards with some of the rating stuff here :(
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That porting has to happen - if they want UWP apps written, and they genuinely still do, then you can't r
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IMHO, it's not the seek control that's broken. It's the underlying codec. That's why it&
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This is a bit of cut and paste from the release notes. I appreciate that, but it'd be nice to get additio
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My TicWatch got a Wear OS update a few weeks back. Since then it's had *much* better battery life. Last
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Just went to order the paper version as I still tend to like dead trees. But the shipping internationally to
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In reply to jwpear:Apple have ended up in a wonderful position of having people get exposed to the Apple ecosy
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In reply to StevenLayton:Transport Safety Administration... Basically the airport screening people, always t
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In reply to Bart:Being where developers are, even if tangentially. Also stopped it being bought by a major co
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curious about this too. Keeping the Jack makes upgrading from my S8 a no brainer when the S10 comes out.My USB
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Ahhh.. I use the beta and got the little search box a couple of days ago. Had no idea what it was for. Assumed
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In reply to Lucas:I think I recall hearing that if you have IPv6 disabled then this is what will happen in 180
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In reply to red.radar:I still laugh at how many clock radios were sold with the old 30 pin connector. Then th
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Wrong approach IMHO. Without a like button we're just going to get a lot of noise - needing to reply to
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Google stuff is just so damn convenient. The location history is really neat - I can see where I've been
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In reply to SenorGravy:It's centred if you ignore the numpad.My Lenovo I'm using right now is the sa
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Paul (or Mehedi if you're an insider), can you test this out for built-in apps like Edge, OneDrive, etc.
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In reply to markiehill:This!The battery management apps do need to be checked. My Samsung phone has a similar
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In reply to Scott8846:Yep, I read this on the Gates website. I guess the WSJ asked for permission to reproduc
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:VS code runs on 32 bit Windows. Same as SSH clients. There aren't that many ap
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As an Android user I was unaware this was missing from maps on iOS. It's been handy for the very reason g
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In reply to gregsedwards:I agree with you - I tend to have both Outlook and Mail configured. Mail gives notif
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In reply to CWood27:It'd be nice if they did.I can't see Siri support, but supporting Google Home wo
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In reply to TroyTruax:*yourAnd... They stopped putting that message in a couple of releases back (12-18 months
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In reply to earlster:The whole site is old fashioned - that's his style.It is taking him *ages* to finish
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In reply to Breaker119:You still need a different password at each site.If even one site has a breach, or is r
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In reply to mattbg:With any product, if I get it repaired by a third party within warranty period then I lose
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In reply to ndwilder:Agreed - this does count against the device imho. I'd rather a few mm of extra thic
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This might be my next laptop next year when it drops a bit in price :)I've already got a T560 for demonst
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In reply to Rycott:Exactly. It's sooo frustrating to turn up at a business and find half of the PCs are
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In reply to madthinus:You don't do usb c to a display though. The usb c port supports the hdmi / DisplayP
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So is cortana built in, or do you need to be paired to a phone or pc to have that work? I suspect the latter,
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In reply to Daekar:There's a similar plugin for Chrome desktop too...
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So now cortana & Microsoft launcher on Android are next I presume? Both still tie to wunderlist rather tha
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In reply to digiguy:Keep usb A for sure. But in my mind the smart thing would be to ditch display port and mak
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In reply to jbinaz:Does Apple still force safari to be the default browser though? So if you click a link in a
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Remove mini DisplayPort in favour of a thunderbolt port. That makes a LOT of sense. Keep the A port. I think m
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In reply to jprestig:I too appreciated this. It's also because Paul doesn't talk quite that direct v
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My problem with this is that it's really making Chrome an extension of your Google experience rather than
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Can you connect multiple mice & keyboards?My kids love playing Minecraft on the xbox. I *think* I heard i
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Neat idea for a book. Good timing too! Does the print edition also come with a digital copy? I buy a few manni
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Sad news indeed. MY kids and I have been waiting for the next walking dead release coming this week. Apparent
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In reply to djross95:It's ridiculous that they haven't got Cortana to sync with ToDo yet :(I will le
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Actual numbers for the latency would be nice to know. if it's gone from 2ms to 1ms then it probably does
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Interesting... I'm a software dev so it's no good for me, but I think the Chromebooks are now at a
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I listened to the brand new Azure DevOps podcast the other day - https://www.clear-measure.com/community/podca
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In reply to jimchamplin:Different driver model. They're working to change it, but it's the same way
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The WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) core team member that was on Hanselman's podcast the other week was
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Just a 20 hour plane flight away. Sounds like it would be epic, but not worth the dollars to fly or the unplan
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I appreciate the comments about this possibly being predatory. However I don't see too much of a downside
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Paul, if you've got a USB A (whatever the regular USB 3 port is) to USB-C adapter handy it'd be good
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We still use Lync 2013 in the office primarily for phones. We don't use the instant messaging, etc funct
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If you get to keep the console at the end then this is fantastic.If, instead, you can pay to keep the console
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I like the education toggle in the consumer edition. I've been wanting to see what was in that edition a
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I saw someone mentioning charging via USB-C. That's neat.Does this thing support Bluetooth or do I still
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In reply to jeradw:Despite the similar name, Skype for business is not at all Skype, but more a renamed Lync S
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Good to know, thanks! I'd only ever used Expression Blend, and even then that was when I had considered
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Glad I didn't buy it in the game sale a couple of weeks back! I'll just get it in game pass now.
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I got offered to install YouTube music today for the first time inside the YouTube app on my s8. Didn't b
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In reply to krabago:This is reading straight from your phone rather than having the phone go to the cloud and
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In reply to marshalltm:No. Paul's been on it once before a couple of years ago. Richard Campbell is a c
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Listened to this yesterday. RunAsRadio is always good - this episodes was no different :)
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Surprising they don't offer this for Google Play Music (or whatever the new name is) subscribers.I'v
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Windows 8 managed to have a slider for brightness so Windows 10 could, but doesn't. The "why" is probabl
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I noticed the web version has improved with the new ultimate game sale - I can preview details about the games
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In reply to wluck:Same.It's in the Windows store too so it can run on Windows S mode, although the store
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I've already got Gold & Game Pass. Can I buy them again during this sale and just have the cheaper b
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In reply to IanYates82:But, on my S8, I've never hit the Bixby button on purpose and always regretted the
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In reply to Daekar:To be fair, you're right. The default Samsung apps are quite fine. My wife uses them
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In reply to ibmthink:Exactly. I have a similar machine and think it's splendid. Don't get the low en
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I'd been wanting something like this. Thanks
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In reply to paul-thurrott:A half-way point would be to at least show total up-votes versus down-votes (like at
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RE: Future of Win32My understanding was that they were making it easier to consume UWP features from within tr
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Reminds me of Google Play Music - I was pleasantly surprised to find it had quite a few tracks cached for offl
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Downloaded last night. Was surprised at the large size (10GB). I'm sure I've played it in the past
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When my laptop failed a couple of years ago I used my SP3 (i5 version) as a dev machine for a couple of weeks.
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I too think PWA makes good sense.But I don't get the calls from many to turn Outlook.com into a PWA. The
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In reply to jchampeau:Cross platform is the big appeal. I carried on conversations that I started on my Windo
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In reply to JerryH:Agreed. Devs in win32 land usually need to specifically accommodate this. It's one o
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In reply to evancox10:Yep. Just look at the wide variety of software that's already cross compiled for Li
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Ran into this by accident on my phone a couple of nights back. Asking for weather in another city for this co
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You probably would've mentioned if you knew, but any info on worldwide availability? Is there a link to
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The MS Launcher is a must, for me, on an Android device. Probably relates to my Win Phone roots and my intens
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In reply to iantrem:The Google family app has lots of settings for this kind of thing. My kids are pretty good
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In reply to crfonseca:I was thinking along the same lines. Many writing about this seem to have missed that wo
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In reply to Scott8846:And 99% of users using that browser get the update. So from a developer perspective you&
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In reply to beatnixxx:Similar boat. I forgot it had updated. Only issue for me is that my fingerprint reader d
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Do they support a stylus of any kind? (not the fake finger ones, but real active ones like an s pen)
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In reply to Ulfvar:Which country? We in Australia are usually in the second or third waves of MS products (usu
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The thing about Android, that I like but makes it hard to review, is that I've got a lot of these little
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In reply to slbailey1:I envied VS Enterprise, since I just had Premium, back in 2013. When they scrapped Prem
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In reply to jimchamplin:True. I've used symlinks in the past with great success to work around these sor
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In reply to innitrichie:I know, right? I joined Wunderlist a long time back since it's what MS Launcher
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In reply to iantrem:Yep. I still get weekly reports indicating how little my Surface RT is used by my kids ?Th
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Reminds me of the bridge MS developed to port iOS code to WinRT. Did anyone end up using that for anything hig
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With all of the hand wringing I saw on Twitter about this, I wonder if them putting Nat Friedman in as CEO wil
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KoToR was one of my favourite original Xbox games. Definitely grabbing this. I never got much into the secon
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Sounds like a nice machine. I've got a T570 with an i7 and 24GB of RAM. I'm very happy with it, al
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What pushed me to Google play music after Pandora packed up in Australia (I was originally using it ad free, f
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In reply to Markld:Agree. Once you've used a Windows touchscreen pc you won't go back. Even for desk
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In reply to zybch:Yeah, a few unfortunately. Bioshock comes to mind. I never got around to actually playing
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Multi WiFi will be very useful. I take mine around a bit as it gives the kids something to do but having to se
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In reply to dcdevito:My thoughts too. I have the same bundle. I read elsewhere that I think the bundle ends up
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Brave story. Glad you made it home in the end. Can't imagine that stress level for flying, but, as you sa
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The funeral was awesome :PI think you missed "NoDo" (was it the one that brought us the groundbreaking copy &
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In reply to jr.flynn:I didn't bother staying up (Australia time) to watch it like I have in years past. I
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In reply to UK User:Yeesh, that last bit is the scary part. It'd be good to know if those files are in a
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That's the least discoverable keyboard shortcut ever. Is it seriously something a power user would know?
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Everyone, please read... XPS Viewer is still there, it's just not installed by default. For the few per
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The speech recognition looks like a welcome improvement over the garbage version that has shipped in Windows,
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And just last week everyone was reporting how iPad apps were coming to the Mac, until that was hosed down.This
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In reply to Ruvger:Are you looking in your start menu's startup folder? If so, keep in mind there are pr
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In reply to ibmthink:OK - so pretty much build materials. The 570 feels like a classic thinkpad - not at all
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In reply to dkb1898:Wow - I did not know that. Just checked on my machine and, despite it ending up in progra
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I don't need this for me but see it as important for the platform. I'm curious about whether or not
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In reply to NoFlames:The article reads like you could use Edge debugging tools to debug an issue in Chrome.Tha
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My guess is that it's technical.Keep in mind, Windows (and other OSes) don't validate signatures on
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Seems remarkably similar to my Lenovo T570 I got last year. It doesn't have the fancy Carbon name but st
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In reply to gabbrunner:I've use slack heaps, but not for work or calling. Does it have a similar limitati
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In reply to brisonharvey:Same. Would like to hear more about these non-traditional Office apps & tools tha
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In reply to Polycrastinator:It's not really a hard problem, I promise :)
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In reply to Igor Engelen:Yep, that's crazy.A To-Do app is literally the thing most JavaScript frameworks
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In reply to bpech:Oh, I didn't realise. Maybe I've been using the pro side without knowing? In any
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In reply to Dan1986ist:Good question! I was going to do the whole magic window thing, but then couldn't b
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In reply to awesmdiver:Absolutely.I found it was very smart & useful to be able to call Cortana via a spec
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I enjoyed KOTOR 1. Never got to play #2 so this will be great for me. Easy purchase ?
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In reply to gvan:One of my favourites. I tried crazy taxi the other week. Apparently simpsons was a rip-off of
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In reply to Polycrastinator:I don't know what to say. My OneDrive sync seems to have paused for me in th
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Microsoft, Mostlysince lots of other stuff gets discussed, albeit for good reason (
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In reply to dkb1898:This is a 32-bit app - uses Visual Studio hosting environment underneath.SQL Server itself
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Interesting that a lot of articles are bleating about this being the end of Intel due to the 5% drop in share
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In reply to SvenJ:In a pinch you can (not that you should have to)Open an admin command promptroute printYou&
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In reply to IanYates82:Also interesting to see that this mobile connectivity is really what's always been
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Hey Paul,Regarding..But Windows is also dumb enough not to include any way to automatically throttle other pot
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In reply to gregsedwards:I'm in the same boat. We used to have little Windows devices around the place t
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Obvious and clever. I've got a bt speaker already but it doesn't get used an awful lot as it's
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In reply to Trickyd:And keep the headphone jack...
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In reply to Simard57:Apple could allow site devs to block a PWA being installed on a device without it coming
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In reply to wunderbar:No one is asking for every usb port to have thunderbolt. We just need one per device, al
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In reply to wright_is:Have you tried ublock origin? It blocks nasty scripts quite well and is super configurab
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In reply to andrewtechhelp:That's my guess. They explicitly said they were optimising the office apps del
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I don't really see the lack of 64-bit Intel as a big problem. I've still got some small machines do
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In reply to Elindalyne:Yeah, I like the fingerprint on my s8-the slim case guides my finger to the right spot,
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I'm surprised they're doing this at all. Linkedin is the last place I'd expect to see Snapchat
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I still use wunderlist daily. Not because I think it's great, just happened to be what I started using. C
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In reply to hrlngrv:I wonder what the side loading story is like. Can you put your s machine into a dev mode,
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In reply to zvonimirm:I was wondering why he didn't use Windows + E again?
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It seems crazy to put the video feeds to monitors to then have them captured by other software. I can see why
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In reply to Chris_Kez:I liked the 920. It was definitely "dense" but that made it rugged. I still had a slim c
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It sounds like these should just be things you can add on, like themes used to be in Windows (Vista / 7? Neve
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"only selling 150,00 pairs with hundreds of unsold units" Can you fix this up in the article? Is it 15,000 uni
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So calling not available on ARM Android devices? (or should I read between the lines the other way and assume
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If you didn't do the Project Fi thing last year I think you would've ended up with a Note 8. My wif
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In reply to wolters:I started with Android using an S6 and have now had an S8 for a year. I don't think
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In reply to IanYates82:I'd only heard of Superhot beforehand, and then it was only good things
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All of these look pretty good :)
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I can see massive application for this. We're finally moving from on-prem to Office 365. Teams looked n
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In reply to jbinaz:Same with me. The FPS was never an issue with my slim case on the phone. The cutout makes h
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In reply to dbatools:The s8 has that. The health app is pretty good. Oh, maybe I'm mixing heart rate with
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In reply to Purian23:Premium user here....I agree!!The separation of comments is unhelpful for everyone. By a
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The camera thing doesn't bother me. It is a pretty elegant solution. Sitting in a hotel room at the mom
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Good increments over what's in the S8. Not enough to make me spend the $100 (Australian) for a mid-cycle
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In reply to jrickel96:I don't have your breadth of experience, but I use my s8 a *lot*, but with the thou
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This serves no one. Like others have said, the deadline forces action. But 90 days at this time of year also i
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In reply to kjb434:Oh. I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! Sometimes it'd be nice to just use edge on th
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In reply to mrdrwest:Makes sense to support the market leader, but annoying they don't support their own.
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Every time Paul or Brad said "why do we still need skip ahead?" this is what I thought... You're in the s
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Not a waste of time Debbie downers. I can see this being very useful for education - shared environment so you
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The font handling code at Apple seems to be incredibly brittle. Every 18 months or so there's some magic
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In reply to dcdevito:Inertia. History. Familiarity for IT. Single sign on and manageability (although mitigate
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In reply to Omega Ra:Which probably explains why the UWP Twitter app *still* doesn't support 280 characte
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So we'll have RS4 out before Build and I imagine there will be a month's worth of new Insider releas
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Fasting is the tricky one... I really can't ignore feeling hungry.I've tried to distract from that
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In reply to jr.flynn:Yeah, the 12MP version of photos still look amazing.I just have OneDrive backup turned on
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uBlock Origin, which is available for Edge, seems to do a good job blocking rubbish like crypto miners. Also
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In reply to thea2_:If you really have to just pick one or the other I think I'd go game pass. However, i
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In reply to rbwatson0:It works with the proprietary wireless protocol rather than Bluetooth so should be faste
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This is as clear as mud - could you possibly format their text a bit better?EGEntryIntel Atom/Celeron/Pentium
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Direct link to the actual Store app rather than a scammy rip-off: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/
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In reply to jimchamplin:There's no recent Windows version of Safari to turn into a desktop bridge store a
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I've been using Wunderlist because it's tied in with MS Launcher on Android and even Cortana makes i
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I don't think it's too surprising that Office 2019 won't support Windows 7 since Win 7 be near
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In reply to wolters:Right-click a folder that you want to treat as "on demand" and choose "Clear Space". Also
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In reply to Nic:Damn :(I was hoping someone had some success with this :D
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In reply to wright_is:You'd certainly hope so!I need to do the same with MS, maybe, in the near future.
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It's crazy, and MS have similar things happening on their side too. I'm now in the boat of, like you
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In reply to judgejewelz:I had to deliberately break my OneDrive file sync to stop the silly Photos app from do
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My wife has the most recent galaxy note. I've got the s8. When picking out her phone, apart from the larg
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In reply to coeus89:Good question... I tend to stick with the 32 bit ones out of habit and compatibility, alth
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In reply to lvthunder:You're a "captive" user ?
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In reply to Markyjns:Your logic sounds pretty plausible and is similar to the way MS counts Edge and Cortana u
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In reply to IanYates82:Also, it's worth noting that UWP apps can be flagged as having extra special permi
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It's definitely that the setup exe was signed appropriately. You may find that the media creation tool wo
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In reply to jbinaz:Good question - I wondered this too after seeing that part of the article.
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In reply to ben55124:This wins the internet today
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Agree with pretty much all of this. Reminds me of various podcasts where I hear Brad talk about his Apple TV
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In reply to harmjr:The ipad and Android apps started this, as they shared a common core of c++ code with os sp
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In reply to wocowboy:Your caveat is what got people rightly riled up. "so long as it notifies me..." It didn&#
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In reply to MartinusV2:Whilst funny, it's simply because of the embedded string pointing at the registry
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It's unfortunate, but you're right ?Simple test... Apple release a device with a notch. Many apps up
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Given what Brad was saying about 10s the other week when running RS4 insiders on there, I found this curious.
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In reply to Bart:He's linked at the very top with "released". Subtle, but it works at least
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In reply to CrownSeven:Don't reuse passwords..... Just don't All I need to do is set up some site th
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This is the sort of thing MS was hoping to achieve when they started their "as a service" approach. If they ca
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My guess is that they won't encrypt by default as that would break the browser integration for messages a
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In reply to SenorGravy:Even just one USB A port would be enough. To take one out and someone says "oh, it'
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I wonder if we could have both running at the same time? That'd be neat.This may be a useful UWP app (the
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In reply to pnewey:Keen to hear more...Is it noisy? How do you find typing on it? I guess you just walk at
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Paul's snark is rubbing off on you ?I'd like to use cortana more, but I'm slowly drifting to go
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Of course, this isn't an offset. It's not like they couldn't continue ma
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I tried Edge again over the past couple of days for odd browsing jobs like looking up IMDB for a movie, checki
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In reply to cheetahdriver:I'd still be very annoyed with a phone that's not very old only lasting 2h
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It would certainly help overcome the accidental trigger via podcast. At the same time, you'd want some m
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In reply to IanYates82:Raph may know if the Job objects are supported in UWP at all. I just read about UWP an
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The "tools" Google refers to could well be the ability to run external processes in isolated Win32 job instanc
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I've often wondered why, apart from politics, the xbox version of YouTube could
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In reply to Usman:Thanks for the reply.It's at least comforting to know I'm not the only one with th
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Photos app downloading LOTS from OneDrive every day
Hey. I've got probably over 200GB or so of photos + videos in OneDrive from my mobile phone camera roll over the years.
I'm running Win 10 1709.
In the past couple of weeks I get these notifications from OneDrive saying its doing a download of files in the background because the photos app has requested it.
I get a chance to cancel it, which takes a while but does seem to cancel.
The problem is that it'll just do it again later anyway when I'm not at the PC.
Over the past week I've had it download well over 160GB 4 days out of 5. This morning I have 8MB (M!!) of space available again.
It's easy to get back the space by right-clicking and telling OneDrive to "clear space" in Explorer.
I've visited the settings area the OneDrive notification suggestions and it doesn't list the "photos" app as something I can prevent from doing these auto downloads. In fact that entire list of apps is empty - would I expect to see some there?
The only thing I can think of is that I've got the "Auto-Save" location for pictures in the OneDrive settings set to "OneDrive" rather than "this PC only".
My PC is domain joined... Very small directory though - literally me as the very part-time admin for a business with 4 people. No policies at all configuring the placement of pictures, documents, etc.
Luckily I now have infinite Internet quota available at work and at home. Fortunately OneDrive is respecting the "metered network" settings for when I'm travelling too.
Anyone else seeing this crazy behaviour??
Thanks!
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In reply to wunderbar:Might depend on location I the world? I have always wanted this but SMS was the only op
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Not a small task for them either, given Mac OS has zero touch support and most iOS apps not even having the co
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It won't be on the Opera site. My understanding of what you included is that Opera AS, which makes the br
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In reply to Darekmeridian:I don't believe they're making a UWP version though. Maybe they're ad
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Oh wow - I didn't realise. I replaced my S6 with an S8 when that came out, and
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In reply to rmlounsbury:I tend to put the MS (I liked the "arrow" name, but it wasn't discoverable) launc
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In reply to eeisner:As someone a touch over 10 years ahead you, you're thinking the right way at your age
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In reply to brad-sams:Yes, this kind of article is great to see.Even if you don't understand it at first,
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I think I remember We Help Wednesday, a bit over a week ago, had a question about Invoke not working with Goog
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I suspect S on ARM will be the same as S x86 in terms of doing desktop apps if they're from the store. M
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In reply to ibmthink:Unfortunately a big part of the slowness of those machines was the poor storage interface
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In reply to LuxuryTravelled:Maybe the have compiled for ARM rather than letting the x86 support do the work?
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In reply to JerryH:It rains rathee often too ?
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In reply to wolters:Use both. I put the full high quality photos and videos in OneDrive, but also take advanta
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In reply to SRLRacing:Maybe, but that's a pretty small bit in Windows compared to something literally in
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In reply to JBerls:To be fair, it's not all that discoverable in Chrome actually. I only sought out how
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I switched to Arrow launcher when it first came out. Fairly buggy back then but was still worth it as it wasn
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In reply to maethorechannen:I saw it as a joke too. Pretty funny when you hear Brad's voice in your head
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In reply to jr.flynn:Yeah, similar to when facebook only had the "like" button. Someone you know, but not rea
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In reply to JBerls:He means pinning the page to the Windows taskbar. When you do that, that page runs as a "c
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I joined for $1. Lots of good stuff there. I was looking at buying a few games on sale but then found them i
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MS natural keyboard 4000 all the way for me. No longer made but I have a few spare in the cupboard unopened f
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Yeah, people do need to lighten up. There's enough to be offended about for good reason already. This is
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In reply to UbelhorJ:I thought I wouldn't like the rear sensor on my s8, but it's actually better th
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Interesting. I'll give this a look over the xmas holidays. If it's got some of the simple things s
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Photos with an iPad is never a good idea. Camera is not as good anyway and you look like an idiot. Triple ne
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Google splitting "Google Play Services" out into its own thing, separate from Android, did two thingsGPS provi
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In reply to jboman32768:As an Aussie, I agree. Things like the emoji keyboard not working in Windows 10,despit
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In reply to hrlngrv:Most of Paul's stuff will now be premium. They've got someone new starting who w
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In reply to Rcandelori:Ahhh - I've been trying to bring up that keyboard and thought I was doing it wrong
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In reply to Jacob-Bearce:On the S8, there's a little dot in the corner of the nav bar. You can double-ta
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In reply to lezmaka:And the stats sound vague... The 1% of tweets sent - was that 1% of tweets from people we
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I read the Verge review and came away with the same notion that it was at least trying to be honest about the
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In reply to karma77police:Wouldn't it be to watch video streams of gamers? If not your cup of tea, no wo
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In reply to BoItmanLives:I don't get the windows 10 hate. In an enterprise like delta, etc, they have ent
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In reply to wunderbar:I side loaded form APK Mirror back when it first came out. Then it seems to update fai
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"Modern white"? Can't it just be white? I know some people like the added flair and fluff he uses in hi
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This sounds like it's not far enough along. If they were to mass-manufacture them in the next few weeks,
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10am PST (2.5 hours away) according to https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/17/get-windows-10-f
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In reply to Harrymyhre:Yep. I switched from hp to lenovo a couple of months back. It took me a week or so but
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I watched hoping to get a flaming fireball, then read the article and realised that version's still not a
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Neat!The only issue I've found with a Centennial store app is the Ditto clipboard. The classic version c
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My kids and I love Speedrunners. I got it a couple of months back in that big sale IIRC. We also play Runbow
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Sounds like a frustrating experience :(Didn't someone on your podcast on Thursday or Friday mention diggi
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In reply to Finley:She did drop it over the side, as instructed. She'll make a good programmer in future
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The article doesn't actually say what terms were being violated... Is this publicly available?I wonder i
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In reply to evox81:Today I'm in a different city and have a hire car. It's got Android Auto, which
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In reply to wosully:To make it even more enterprisey...Open the Windows store on your Win 10 PC. Search for V
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Misfit Shine
Forum Post
"Calling" one of the assistants via a phone number from Bluetooth
I posted this as a comment on one of the "Thurrott Now" posts but it probably will never be seen by anyone there. Posting here hoping someone has an answer...
I felt like an idiot the other day in the car. I realised by accident - due to a Game of Thrones podcast referring to Bran as "googling history" - that my S8 supported "OK, Google" through the car bluetooth.
So during another drive I thought I'd "call my wife".
I said OK, Google. No response.
Hey Cortana. No response.
Hello Bixby. No response.
Then a few seconds later I got something about "bixby is a ...." through my car speakers.
It wasn't immediately clear which assistant finally responded.
Cheating and looking at the phone whilst stuck at some lights, it turns out it was Bixby.
Getting it to "call my wife" was a *lot* harder than it was using Cortana on my Nokia 920. I loved how you could even "call cortana" via that preset phone number. That made it so easy to integrate with Car Bluetooth.
Does anyone know if any of the assistants on the S8 (Cortana, Google or Bixby) have a similar function? I'd find that a lot more reliable than hoping the phone / bluetooth hears me and knows I want to start the conversation.
From what I can tell, the Cortana number was 5555559876 if my Google-fu is working well today :)
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I felt like an idiot the other day in the car. I realised by accident - due to a Game of Thrones podcast refe
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We're an ISV and, apart from writing & selling software, also need to provide support and ongoing col
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Not that I'll be getting it from TPB (I'd feel a bit cheap grabbing the game when I could buy it), t
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I just bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T570 for work. Not quite as powerful as my old HP Envy 17" monster but certai
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So these are drivers, not firmware in the classic sense, right?
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Finally. The one thing I really miss from windows phone is now available on my s8. Just two and a half years l
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In reply to kdjones74:Sign out and then sign in again
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In reply to KingPCGeek:Agreed. When Pandora left Australia last month I had to pick between various services.
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In reply to Skolvikings:I could see them removing support for creating new partitions but still being able to
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In reply to DWAnderson:I don't know if you can boot from ReFS yet, so there would still be at least one N
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In reply to Stokkolm:A breakdown would be handy. I always thought a 30% cut of purchases through the store was
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In reply to Waethorn:Here in Australia, just about every bank has been advertising Android pay, and even Samsu
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In reply to Skolvikings:Wrong article ☺️
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I've had this two page login process for months. I put in my address and then before I can type my passwo
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I see they're reusing their "Better Together" slogan. It was originally for the Lync software on a PC an
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In reply to Dan:From Paul's reaction here I'm trying to work out if there is a missing sarcasm tag h
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This compatibility is pretty similar to what I get on the surface et. Surprisingly good. Being able to access
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In reply to wright_is:Agreed. I'd like to suggest this to clients to use with our software rather than th
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I'd consider windows 10 home, rather than pro, a con for most too. I have a hp envy 17 (including the fau
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In reply to brad-sams:Cool. Thanks ?
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In reply to evox81:This hasn't made things worse though. Back compat and possibly forward compat. It'
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I'll stick with pushbullet until they make this better. Goes bidirectional, uses my browser, and a whole
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What about it being a router.... Options for port forwarding there? Does it support anything else unique on th
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In reply to brad-sams:Always nice to be able to configure without the app IMHO
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In reply to Todd Klindt:The amplifi units don't use the power line to communicate between satellites. How
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I thought the UWP office variant was effectively deprecated now that office is going the centennial route?
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So does their translator turn fries into chips too? The other way around would take chips to crisps I guess...
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In reply to Wolf:Oh yeah, but the timing on this is quite different, don't you think? A device that was
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In reply to Waethorn:Unless you're updating from win8 where it was still called skydive. My folder still
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Didn't seem too unusual to me. Fair points made... I guess it mixed enterprise
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In reply to red.radar:Agreed. Forced to not get security updates is definitely a problem...
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I've got a first gen Intel compute stick I've been trying to get insiders on for over a week. It
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Brad kept calling his new access point a router too. I tried working out through two
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In reply to PhilipVasta:I'm glad they didn't from a monoculture point of view. They'd want to h
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In reply to lvthunder:Most gui apps don't need the 64bit address space. Sure have a 64bit OS but each app
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Updating twice a year does allow this sort of slip without having to push it back another whole 12 months. Th
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In reply to 2ilent8cho:This isn't a Microsoft invention. It's (going to be) from a third party and M
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In reply to Jeffery Commaroto:And with the amount of spam you get I reckon the data from email would have to b
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In reply to RonH:Much better than some that just have a "via" link at the bottom and reckon that justifies the
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In reply to Jedi Dwight:Yep. I've even had LastPass and its injection of stuff occasionally muck with si
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If I was someone using this for a school then this bit would have me worrying...August 1, 2017. Docs.com
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I'm not a "Windows at all costs" person, but i don't understand how groundbreaking this is?I can sel
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In reply to dhallman:Decent idea.
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In reply to daveevad:I didn't realise it had negative connotations... Consider me schooled. It was easier
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In reply to wolters:Yeah. I am thinking of buying a second hand kinect to use with my xbone. Do the old 360 ki
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In reply to Brad Sams:Agreed.
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I've really enjoyed the back compat, and I'm someone who had 2x 360s but used mainly as media centre
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In reply to lecter:It's funny because a lot of people irrationally complain when this site has some non-M
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I don't use file history myself, but your article sounds like it's confusing "previous versions" of
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Best one yet ☺️Aside... What do you use for the editing?
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In reply to hrlngrv:If I remember correctly, the field of view didn't change. However the prototype occlu
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It's nice to see someone express my thoughts so clearly. I've become increasingly pragmatic about th
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I also think that Microsoft's clamp-down on piracy did a lot to slow the automatic and wide-spread adopti
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In reply to JoseBarreto:True. It was the standard interface that made things work in Windows 8.1 apps with a c
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If nothing else it brings some more credibility to the platform. Good on both companies for doing something us
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Something has definitely changed in the last few days server side :(Here's the output from my podcast app
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Same for me - Podcast Addict. It puts a big red banner up saying the server is not behaving itself.
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So some form of sideloading. Interesting...Frankly I'm interested in using this for the doctors to whom
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On my Intel compute stick (1st gen) I've found chrome can just be too heavy to the point where the system
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RE: Authenticator appsWhen setting up a site in an authenticator app I alwaysa) use the QR code to get it into
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In reply to IanYates82:Forgot to say... Great article! As someone who works as a dev ( & a lot of everyt
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About Grammarly and only being in Chrome... I'm sure I see Grammarly getting its hooks into Outlook, Wor
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To do so, open Edge and select Settings and More (“…”) and then Settings. Then, select the View Advanced
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In reply to rbwatson0:Maybe go through the motions of buying a non zero price game? Or buy something on the wi
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In reply to skane2600:They can't make an iso for licensing reasons too. The layout download makes somethi
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:2017 has been awesome for me, and it's still in prerelease. They had a few bug
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I noticed today (not that I look often) there's a section in Windows 10 WiFi config called "Hotspot 2.0".
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In reply to wbhite:This was my question too and it's frustrating so many articles I've read haven�
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Oh that is just awesome - thanks for the link! :)
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In reply to wolters:Yep, Pushbullet works pretty well for me. Has Chrome integration, SMS "heads" that can ap
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Great news :) I feel the Petri site hasn't had as much attention as the Thurrott site. Whilst not a sit
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I bought C&C for the XBOX original (or maybe really early days of the 360?). Anyway, I specifically got o
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I thought that video was actually a really good photoshop job of a paused YouTube by Paul. Only clicked
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In reply to Chris_Kez:
Neat idea
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Tsk Tsk.
It's notification area, not system tray. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2003
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Would be good to get Paul + Brad down here. Maybe for NDC later in the year? We have an MS partner
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Lumia 640 LTE (Cricket)
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Nokia Lumia 830
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Nokia Lumia 930
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Nokia Lumia 735 (Verizon)
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BLU WIN JR LTE X130Q
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BLU WIN HD LTE X150Q
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Amazon Fire Phone
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Nokia Lumia Icon (Verizon)
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HTC One M8 for Windows (Verizon)
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In reply to gregsedwards:
I heard this one on the podcast. I have a Surface Pro 3 with the *exact* same
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I grabbed a little Android set top box about a year or so ago from Aldi (discount German retailer here in Aust
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In reply to MutualCore:
The pen has two separate batteries - one for the button and one for the pen being some
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In reply to Chris_Kez:
That'd be neat. Actually, if google had some public api where we could inject our own b
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I'm looking forward to finally flagging an Ethernet connection as metered. When I have a booth at a conference
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I have an s6. Yes I have to manually enable my hotspot, but I don't want my other devices using my mobile data
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Agreed. I switched about 18 months ago from a 920 that was just over 2 years old (it still runs pho
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For those who can't get Cortona in the Play store, I get it from here: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/micro
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In reply to Brad Sams:
Not that I have one of these devices, but I *hate* it when I find someone on the Intern
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That's a nice screen.
From MS' point of view, most people will still just click through and end up with w
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In reply to Polycrastinator:
That update that killed DHCP was a bad one to help with remotely. I wasn't
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Since moving to cumulative updates there is the flipside of being able to see the upcoming fixes for next
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In reply to John Dunagan:
I feel a bigger focus on the known issues should have been made in this article
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In reply to chrisrut:
Yeah I was thinking they avoided the name because they're not "live" once put into folde
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Awesome video. Great to see behind the scenes. Did you get a lot of stares when filming walking through the ai
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Apple got the original deal with AT&T and was able to hold subsequent carriers
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In reply to dvdwnd:
Agreed. Astoria was pretty neat, and required pretty much zero effort from the developer.
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I think a long-form article explaining the ins and outs of Windows Backup would be handy. From how it id
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Worked a treat in podcast addict on android.
For those needing the url method for authentication, becaus
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We were big fans of squad watch on Windows phone. Going to give the trusted contacts app a try. Thanks! ☺&nb
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In reply to Alin_Maior:
Unfortunately office lens on android is pretty crippled as far as document scanning is
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In reply to Waethorn:
I too was reminded of the old "Small Business Contact Manager". Still, we hav
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Neat, I'll sign up. Have you had unstable builds for the Xbox similar to the fast-ring builds on PC, or
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I was starting to look at a new open source entrant into this market called BitWarden. It seems to offer
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If the android bridge was still a thing then this would be a genuinely useful device. Continuum with app
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In reply to rortech:
I'm hoping the new cumulative update fixes it but haven't had a chance to check those lap
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In reply to andrewtechhelp:
If you're coming to DDD Brisbane this year bring along the watch - would love to s
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In reply to thespecificocean:
Yep - good to hear. Just added to Podcast Addict on my S6. Tick "pre
Forum Post
Task scheduler failing in Windows 10 AU
Hey,
I've had 3x laptops that recently applied the AU. A month ago they were literally unboxed and had Win 10 v1511 on them. We installed one bit of software and a scheduled task - the laptops don't really get used by a person.
Anyway, since they applied the AU update, all three have task scheduler issues. It seems we're not alone as there are many reports on the net about task scheduler breaking things like backup apps. I'd love to get Paul or Brad to get Microsoft to acknowledge the problem and see when a fix might be coming.
Example threads: https://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=12406
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/anniversary-update-version-1607-build14393-breaks/d034ab52-5d49-4b92-976a-a1355b5a6e6d?page=1&auth=1
We just have a simple command line job that needs to run, and if it's closed, start again. A scheduled task set to run only when there's a user logged in, to not run if already running, and to try to start every minute, was perfect. That now doesn't work - it just refuses to launch with similar error outputs as per the threads above. If you right-click the task and run it manually you can get it to start (that might depend on settings - I've been through *many* permutations!)
Wondering if this is biting many others.
Thanks!
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Podcast Addict on my S6 works :)
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In reply to lwetzel:
Agreed. What Explorer has works really well
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I got the impression it's more that you can use your phone - iPhone, Android, etc - as the second factor for y
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Being in GMT+10 timezone it's day two of the month for me... Lots of refreshing overnight to see what ga