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matsan

Alpha Member Since Jul 2016

17 Posts
323 Comments
Upvotes 78%
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    Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand!
    By matsan, 8 months ago
    10 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    matsan Microsoft Windows 8 months ago 10 Replies
    What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks?
    By matsan, 11 months ago
    52 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Cloud
    matsan Microsoft Cloud 11 months ago 52 Replies
    Open the champagne – Apple TV remote rumored to be redesigned!
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    5 Replies
    Forum: Apple
    Category: Apple
    matsan Apple Apple 1 year ago 5 Replies
    Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    10 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Music + Videos
    matsan General Discussion Music + Videos 1 year ago 10 Replies
    With Team Upshift – is Microsoft now out of the car infotainment business as well?
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    17 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    matsan Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 17 Replies
    VMware Remote Console 12.0 for M1!!
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Apple
    Category: Apple
    matsan Apple Apple 1 year ago 1 Reply
    Bravo Microsoft – you have proved your point!
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    matsan Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 4 Replies
    What is this "New Outlook for Mac" and it is only for Office365?
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    matsan Microsoft Office 1 year ago 6 Replies
    Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!?
    By matsan, 1 year ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    matsan Microsoft Office 1 year ago 14 Replies
    Office 365 Home now for six users?
    By matsan, 3 years ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    matsan Microsoft Office 3 years ago 3 Replies
    Noticed any Spectre/Meldown slow-downs?
    By matsan, 4 years ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Hardware
    matsan General Discussion Hardware 4 years ago 6 Replies
    Good start of the year for AMD – the Intel CPU flaw…
    By matsan, 4 years ago
    33 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Hardware
    matsan General Discussion Hardware 4 years ago 33 Replies
    How Microsoft could loose the PWA-race as well
    By matsan, 4 years ago
    46 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    matsan Microsoft Windows 4 years ago 46 Replies
    Surface sales are down – nothing to report?
    By matsan, 5 years ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Paul
    matsan Microsoft Paul 5 years ago 14 Replies
    FFS Microsoft – get your updates working!!!
    By matsan, 5 years ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    matsan Microsoft Office 5 years ago 1 Reply
    After last Tuesday updates my two HP ProBooks have started to hot-bag
    By matsan, 5 years ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    matsan Microsoft Windows 5 years ago 3 Replies
    Premium articles on iOS Safari doesn’t scale
    By matsan, 5 years ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Community Feedback
    Category: Dev
    matsan Community Feedback Dev 5 years ago 6 Replies

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    Since new mode doesn’t work with AWS WorkMail we started using macOS native apps for contacts, calendar and

    Posted 3 days ago on Microsoft Announces New Outlook for Windows – 37 Comments

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    I’m sure IT departments will try to stop or disable this feature ASAP so they can scan the traffic themselve

    Posted 1 week ago on Microsoft Announces Secure Network for Edge – 13 Comments

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    Apple's approach with pushing the second factor to the device where you are trying to login is completely brai

    Posted 2 weeks ago on Passwordless (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    For about two more years you will be able to self-host Bitbucket but then it's all cloud.

    Posted 2 weeks ago on Ask Paul: April 6 (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    Alternatives to GitHub? Atlassian Bitbucket?

    Posted 2 weeks ago on Ask Paul: April 6 (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    Wow Paul, thanks for making me feel really old and out of touch. I have no idea who Ryan Reynolds is and haven

    Posted 3 weeks ago on We Need to Talk About Netflix (Premium) – 26 Comments

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    Hopefully his first and only action will be to close it down.

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Elon Musk to Buy Twitter for $44 Billion – 43 Comments

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    Automatically rolling out patches - what could possibly go wrong with that? 🙄

    Posted 4 weeks ago on This Week in IT – Is Microsoft Killing Off Patch Tuesday? – 19 Comments

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    Following up on your walk down Windows memory lane - what would you consider Microsoft’s last/latest real su

    Posted 4 weeks ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, April 22 – 7 Comments

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    Just cancelled our order for two MBP 14" with M1 Pro/32GB/512SSD that was made mid-February and now got pushed

    Posted 4 weeks ago on PC Sales Fell 6 Percent in Q1 2022 – 12 Comments

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    So. Many. Balls. Microsoft. Has. Dropped.Amazing!

    Posted 1 month ago on Programming Windows: iPad (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    So so so sad it's needed. I just ran Windows 11 to test our software and boy did they put lipstick on that pig

    Posted 1 month ago on Stardock Releases Start11 v1.2 – 16 Comments

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    Paul, "Uncanny Valley" is the term I think you looked for.

    Posted 1 month ago on First Ring Daily 1226: A Hybrid Windows – 2 Comments

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    You forgot the ipod Touch that enables us non-US users to enjoy all what the iPhone brought except for the act

    Posted 1 month ago on Programming Windows: iPhone (Premium) – 11 Comments

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    100% agreed. Thank you St Jobs for the on/off labels setting in iOS.

    Posted 1 month ago on Throwback: Simple vs. Easy (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    I guess, but I'm not sure how Siri would interact with a 3rd party software. Most of the tasks on my iPhone I

    Posted 2 months ago on The Future of Computing is … a Tablet? (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    It still baffles me that I cannot make phone calls on the iPad in 2022. With a headset that would at least mak

    Posted 2 months ago on The Future of Computing is … a Tablet? (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    Just home from two weeks in US and British Virgin Islands. That’s a place we really liked and with a fantast

    Posted 2 months ago on More Mobile: Less Mobile? (Premium) – 26 Comments

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    Don't know what they used to manage their source-code, but at this time in the history git is still a couple o

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Brian Valentine Interview (Premium) – 4 Comments

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    Wrote my Master Thesis entirely on a Newton MessagePad 2100 and used extensively at work. I always feel so sad

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Tablet PC (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    Apple TV+ for a month and binged-watched The Foundation. Due to the fever I could watch it all through the end

    Posted 3 months ago on WSJ: Disney+, HBO Max, Other Streamers Struggle to Keep Subscribers – 8 Comments

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    But Microsoft just got $70B more expensive...

    Posted 3 months ago on Apple Delivers Another Record Quarter – 38 Comments

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    Smartphone: iPhone 12 miniiPad Pro (10,5" 2017 version)Laptop:2019 Intel MBP 16", still on Big SurAcer Chromeb

    Posted 3 months ago on What We Use – Late Jan 2022 – 9 Comments

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    Paul, thank you for a great article - I was on the fence regarding renewal of the Premium subscription but I m

    Posted 3 months ago on Programming Windows: Meanwhile, in Cupertino (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    Cool - thanks for sharing. Many of cases I already do on the iPad, with the side-by-side in iOS 15. Since I ha

    Posted 3 months ago on Microsoft Finally Upgrades Surface Duo … to Android 11 – 35 Comments

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    Unfortunately the "New Outlook" doesn't work well with Amazon WorkMail and I am glad there is (still) a way to

    Posted 3 months ago on Report: Project Monarch Was Delayed, Now Expected This Spring – 46 Comments

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    Fanboyz and acolytes die hard.

    Posted 3 months ago on Microsoft Finally Upgrades Surface Duo … to Android 11 – 35 Comments

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    They missed adding "For those of you that have disabled to f**king annoying widgets, we have now added them ba

    Posted 4 months ago on Windows 11 Insider Build 22000.466 comes to Beta and Release Preview channels – 4 Comments

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    10 times the money they put on Nokia!Must feel nice to have that amount of money and no brains to spend it.

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft to Buy Activision for $67.8 Billion – 66 Comments

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    The running joke at the Borland-invested company I worked for 1993-1996 was “See plus-plus and then die”.

    Posted 4 months ago on Programming Windows: Overpromise, Underdeliver (Premium) – 3 Comments

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    So it may be, but with a gazillion of frameworks and the big, big un-portable elephant in the room - Win32 API

    Posted 4 months ago on Programming Windows: Whistler and Blackcomb (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    $6/user quickly adds up when you have a billion users.

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Talks Up Its 2021 Services Successes – 32 Comments

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    If they would have pulled off the .NET-stunt, Microsoft would probably have been in the same situation as Appl

    Posted 4 months ago on Programming Windows: Whistler and Blackcomb (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    Wow - brings some nostalgia back. Before moving to Mac I used Fences and Start8 to get back Windows 7 start me

    Posted 5 months ago on Stardock Releases Fences 4 – 8 Comments

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    "As long as they stick with backwards compatibility, the problem will only get worse with each new initiative

    Posted 5 months ago on About Microsoft’s Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    They tried (at least) twice to get rid of the heavy legacy backpack: Windows RT and Windows 10S. Both failed b

    Posted 5 months ago on About Microsoft’s Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    Strange Adobe didn't start porting back in 2016 when WOA was announced... It took Apple doing M1 to make Adobe

    Posted 5 months ago on About Microsoft’s Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    As long as win32 isn't ported to WOA, WOA is dead because there will be no applications. Apple has worked for

    Posted 5 months ago on About Microsoft’s Alleged WOA Exclusivity Deal with Qualcomm (Premium) – 45 Comments

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    Always been playing Spotify on Sonos without shuffling and didn't even knew about this Shuffle-Gate.

    Posted 5 months ago on Spotify Disables Shuffle Play by Default for Albums – 10 Comments

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    As an international user from Sweden I'm dead sick and tired of Microsoft and its US-centric approach and espe

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Continues to Bog Down Edge with Unnecessary Bloat – 49 Comments

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    Probably a nice SDK, but since support only extends back to Windows 10 (1809) we cannot use this or any other

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Finalizes the Windows App SDK – 6 Comments

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    Wow - reading how you spend a day setting up a new phone just makes me... sad. Is this the same Paul that I ha

    Posted 6 months ago on Google Pixel 6 Pro: The Day After – 32 Comments

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    Thank for clarifying ;-)Parallels can’t praise their marketing department enough for not using the slogan â€

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Publishes Windows Subsystem for Android Guidelines for Devs – 9 Comments

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    Why the hell do they name it "Windows Subsystem for X" (X being Linux or Android currently). Wouldn't "Android

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Publishes Windows Subsystem for Android Guidelines for Devs – 9 Comments

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    **tumbleweed***

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Publishes Windows Subsystem for Android Guidelines for Devs – 9 Comments

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    wow! Deprecating a framework but not introducing a new!!??! That’s a first. They have run out of them?

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP – 32 Comments

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    amazing they didn’t put an xbox console the base of that thing. Then it would have made sense.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft’s Xbox Mini Fridge Arrives – 18 Comments

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    As a PHP, JavaScript, ESP8266 hardware and Docker programmer macOS is simply the best OS of the two. Linux wou

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Set to Announce New Macs Next Week – 63 Comments

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    please don’t take away USB-C charging!

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Set to Announce New Macs Next Week – 63 Comments

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    hmmm. Isn’t that ruined notepad called wordpad?

    Posted 7 months ago on Yep, Microsoft is Updating Notepad for Windows 11 Too – 32 Comments

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    Alcantara or not - they have really stolen the ridiculous Apple pricing model. Good job!

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On with the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard – 8 Comments

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    Why do I get flash-backs from Mac OS 8.x when I see Windows 11? Has the design cycle completed the full 360°

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 11 Review: Fresh, Familiar, Incomplete – 84 Comments

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    will this work with multiple setups, like one for work and one at home? Different resolutions and sizes. I hat

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 11 Feature Focus: New Docking/Undocking Experience – 9 Comments

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    +1 I’ve had many Macs during the years with 16:10 and always feel cramped when using 16:9. But hasn’t Paul

    Posted 7 months ago on HP Launches 16-Inch Spectre x360, Consumer PCs, and Peripherals – 14 Comments

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    MacBookPro (16" 2019) with the CalDigit T3 gets the job done for me. Connected 2x27" screens, two webcams, mic

    Posted 7 months ago on More Mobile: First Steps (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    Groove Music was a paid service that was closed in 2017 so the streaming service then became unavailable. I do

    Posted 8 months ago on Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand! – 10 Comments

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    With so many computers around your house (I guess you and the family use a couple and not all PC are there to

    Posted 8 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, September 3 – 8 Comments

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    I guess I don’t understand what we are s discussing here. Subscriptions or initial app purchase? I pay the m

    Posted 8 months ago on Lying Liars Who Lie (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    R is great. Used Matlab myself in school back in the mid-90s but the price of that software package made it (a

    Posted 8 months ago on Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand! – 10 Comments

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    Some parts of Finland are Swedish speaking so you are correct. Since the machine is “Nordic” it has all th

    Posted 8 months ago on Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand! – 10 Comments

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    Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand!

    Been away from Windows for some years but just bought a new HP 340S G7 for a non-computer-savvy friend requiring it for studies (statistics course so unfortunately a Windows-based Excel is required for some special plug-ins and other Windows-applications). Nice computer for that price and with additional 8GB of RAM (total 16 GB) and an i7 it's pretty quick as well. Memory upgrade was a nightmare though - that laptop body required many of the iPhone-repair tools and HP's crazy sticker rubber feet just didn't got back 100% right. But... All. This. Cr*p. Starting the computer up and installing the school's EDU Office 365 seemed like an easy task, but... HP's take on Windows 10 is simply terrible! Sooooo much crap was installed. Hardest to remove was McAfee that had loaded up with AV, VPN and a Password Manager - all requiring separate reboots. Second was all the crap Microsoft loaded onto the Start-menu; Mail, Microsoft 365 preview (for ALL Nordic + English languages so it needed to be uninstalled 5 times!), Solitair, Spotify, Groove Music, Films & TV, Play, Adobe Free Trials etc, etc. Granted, with the exception of McAfee and Microsoft 365 they were all easy and quick to uninstall. If my friend didn't need the computer today, I would have gone through the hoops and downloaded a Windows ISO and nuked the machine from orbit and reinstalled everything. However, I am unsure of the Microsoft crap - would it have still been there?

    Posted 8 months ago on Bought a new HP, was teleported to 2005 and landed in Cr*pLand! – 10 Comments

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    In Sweden the law clearly regulates what you may do after a person has deceased, even if you have access to th

    Posted 8 months ago on What happens when I die Microsoft? – 15 Comments

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    Much like Windows 11 that I have spent a day with... Who would have thought rounded windows would go back in f

    Posted 9 months ago on elementary OS 6 is Now Available – 29 Comments

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    Great! Microsoft will once again build their own incompatible browser. If they are to replace V8 with their ow

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft is Working on a Super Duper Secure Mode for Edge – 18 Comments

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    Even though Parallels Toolbox is a confusing mix of applications and widgets I find it pretty useful. If it wa

    Posted 9 months ago on Parallels Toolbox 5.0 Adds New Tools on Windows and Mac – 3 Comments

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    I guess they couldn't name the initial release "888 beta"...

    Posted 10 months ago on Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 888 Plus – 6 Comments

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    Will VMware's vTPM (claiming to be TPM 2.0 compatible) work?

    Posted 10 months ago on Tip: Find Out Why Your PC is Incompatible with Windows 11 – 97 Comments

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    I hope this is just a step to show that the transition to a new CEO is planned and mutual good feelings all ar

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Elects Satya Nadella as Chairman – 25 Comments

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    Maybe all this is great but the only time I tried Vivaldi and was immediately presented with the “curated”

    Posted 11 months ago on Vivaldi 4.0 Arrives with Betas of Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader – 7 Comments

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    i hope they will be able to fix some other stability issues as well. OneDrive on my two Macs (Intel and M1) is

    Posted 11 months ago on OneDrive to be M1-Native on Mac by Late 2021 – 8 Comments

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    For me it’s easier to answer the opposite - what caused me to leave Windows for first Linux and then macOS i

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 11? (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    As a Synergy user for many years I’m amazed that you are amazed with the virtual KVM.

    Posted 11 months ago on First Ring Daily 1058: Windows 3.11 – 2 Comments

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    Thank you all for your insights. Just want to round off by saying that i put the Chromebook to a test last Fri

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    Thank you for an analysis giving great value to the Premium membership subscription.

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 11? (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    We have migrated two PCs running windows win32 applications for accounting to EC2:s running Windows in AWS. Co

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    Interesting. I'm normally on a Mac with my company's E3 license to get the applications installed locally. As

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    That strategy has been sort of working for many years and I was a believer of it until a month ago. Microsoft

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    Since we try to use BYOD and the user's computers may be managed by another organization it is impossible for

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    Thanks! Looks like I need a Google Workspace account for this functionality, but it's a great feature to manag

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    Fully agree! After ditching their mobile efforts, I guess we will not see anything else but Windows for many y

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    True. We run our own CA and have to get the OS to trust that CA to keep the Chromium-based browsers happy. Goo

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft is Bringing Automatic HTTPS to Edge – 8 Comments

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    What is Microsoft's response to Chromebooks?

    Volunteering as "IT-manager" for a non-profit organization I have been evaluating an Acer Chromebook 314 (intel i3 based) for a couple of weeks and I am blown away with functionality and price/performance ratio. We are using Microsoft 365 Teams and during the years we have been struggling with BYOD but run into constant problems if the users are already in a Microsoft 365 organization - the non-profit E1 tier is not playing nicely with commercial tiers!

    We have been limping forward with Chrome profiles it has been the secret sauce to solve this issue. Most of our users are up and running.

    Out of curiosity I bought a Chomebook and has been performing my non-profit work to 100% using this Chromebook and I am impressed. The Teams web-client is completely compatible and running meetings and the office applications without a glitch. The only issue I have found so far is that Chrome (the browser) is not supporting multiple profiles in Chrome OS - really convenient as an admin!


    The hardware is pretty decent at the price ($480 in Sweden). The keyboard is really nice with a distinct throw and island style that I really like. A bit quirky layout without the Win/Mac-key but it works. The Full-HD screen is really nice but the 16:9 aspect is hard for a long-time Mac user to accept - 16:10 is so much nicer. Battery doesn't leave anything to wish for. Connects like a charm to my iPhone and WiFi. The trackpad could have been a bit nicer, but I like the small size instead of the enormous trackpads these days.


    As "IT-manager" is see the big benefit here as a completely hands-off device without any problems with drivers, OS updates or AV/Firewall issues.


    So - what is Microsoft's response to this? Will we see any nice Windows-based devices running 10X or something similar with just the Teams client?


    Your thoughts greatly appreciated!

    /Mattias

    Posted 11 months ago on What is Microsoft’s response to Chromebooks? – 52 Comments

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    As a developer I pray to whatever entity out there this will be possible to deactivate. We live with self-sign

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft is Bringing Automatic HTTPS to Edge – 8 Comments

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    experimenting and will kill it at the drop of a hat.

    Posted 11 months ago on Here Are the Specifications for the Snapdragon Developer Kit – 87 Comments

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    As a developer I have been using Edge instead of Chrome for the last months because of a memory-leak in Edge m

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Edge 91 Adds Price History, Bing Rebates, More – 22 Comments

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    Just think for once that they would actually migrate some useful features from SharePoint into Teams? Explaini

    Posted 11 months ago on Build 2021: Microsoft Teams – 9 Comments

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    maybe they have discovered that CrEdge is he only viable development platform these days. They had a ChomeOS e

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Previews a Math Solver for Edge – 18 Comments

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    Why not throw in a Linux-distro or two while you’re at it? No wonder a consistent UI in Windows is so far fa

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Previews a Math Solver for Edge – 18 Comments

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    With the cancellation on Windows 10X and all the problems with Windows on ARM I have to ask your opinion: When

    Posted 11 months ago on [CLOSED ] Ask Paul for this Friday, May 20 – 15 Comments

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    BaaS = Bugs as a Service

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Fixes Outlook Email Bug – 23 Comments

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    And I guess if Microsoft would have started cleaning up their API and framework mess a decade ago, the task wo

    Posted 1 year ago on HP Elite Folio First Impressions – 44 Comments

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    Apple did the 68k -> PowerPC -> Intel -> M1 journey and must have gained so much experience from that

    Posted 1 year ago on HP Elite Folio First Impressions – 44 Comments

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    the corollary is that developers once again have a platform from Microsoft they will ignore and leave it withe

    Posted 1 year ago on HP Elite Folio First Impressions – 44 Comments

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    Why the sudden drop of Windows Store fees for PC games from 30% to 12%? Indication of lackluster sales? Don�

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, April 29 – 9 Comments

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    …and the market rewarded their stock with a 3% drop…

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Posts Huge Numbers in Latest Quarter – 31 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Port bash and be done with it!

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows Insider Build Adds Linux GUI App Support – 32 Comments

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    In reply to unfalln:I don't think you're an idiot - made the same journey 5 years ago when we starte

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows Insider Build Adds Linux GUI App Support – 32 Comments

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    In reply to Stokkolm: if they are simply adding another runtime platform they won’t attract any new develope

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows Insider Build Adds Linux GUI App Support – 32 Comments

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    Why, just why??? Sigh

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows Insider Build Adds Linux GUI App Support – 32 Comments

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    On any Sonos player (at least running S2) you can hold the Play button to cycle through the other grouped zone

    Posted 1 year ago on Sonos Roam First Impressions – 10 Comments

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    In reply to nanovak:Just $60 away - https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJFM3LL/A/siri-remote

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Event Recap: iMac, AirTags, iPad Pro, More – 113 Comments

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    Phew - I was afraid I’d have to buy an Intel 27” iMac right away but it seems like they will be around for

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Event Recap: iMac, AirTags, iPad Pro, More – 113 Comments

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    Why bother when you can dump a container of these devices into any Fortune 500 company and spin some PR around

    Posted 1 year ago on Baby Steps Don’t Win the Race (Premium) – 91 Comments

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    Go search for the official Dolby Atmos videos on YouTube and crank up the volume on the iPad. Just saying...

    Posted 1 year ago on In Praise of the Apple iPad Air (Premium) – 78 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:”When a Microsoft consumer hardware unit gets an international roll out we know fo

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Kills Cortana on Mobile – 48 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Fine with me - just as long as I can get a sense for up and down on the stupid thing

    Posted 1 year ago on Open the champagne – Apple TV remote rumored to be redesigned! – 5 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS brand generated €841M in revenue in 2020. They are practic

    Posted 1 year ago on Project Reunion 0.5 is Now Available – 5 Comments

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    Open the champagne - Apple TV remote rumored to be redesigned!

    According to Macrumors the stupid Siri-remote is up for a redesign!!

    Future computers are also rumored to have (drum-roll) - PORTS and SD-reader!

    Is the era of Sir Jony "Form-Over-Function" Ive finally over in Cupertino? No a decade too soon.

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    In reply to codymesh:Still runs but the batteries are not great nowadays. XP was a pretty efficient OS so the

    Posted 1 year ago on Favorite Windows XP Computers – 11 Comments

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    Question that pops into my mind after posting to the Forum about my favorite XP computer (the OQO e2) - https:

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 26 – 7 Comments

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    My OQO e2. Amazing piece of hardware and I would compare it to the Newton MessagePad 2100 (sporting two PCMCIA

    Posted 1 year ago on Favorite Windows XP Computers – 11 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle::-) we were already heavily invested in Sonos for the rest of the house so the Arc

    Posted 1 year ago on Thanks Paul – 7 Comments

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    Cool! Will be interesting to hear your experience with the Sub (we returned our since the room was a bit too s

    Posted 1 year ago on Thanks Paul – 7 Comments

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    In reply to j5:Given how terribly Microsoft managed Skype I wouldn't hold my breath.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft May Buy Discord for $10+ Billion – 33 Comments

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    What's you take on Intel's #GoPC? Will it work or blow up in their face?Much better than Microsoft&#

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, March 19 – 10 Comments

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    In reply to christianwilson:YMMW. 100% of our two-person household are happy with the smartness of the TV so f

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    In reply to GarethB:+1 for storing in another place. I use the Notes field and manually added recurring events

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    It's not only on Office 365 - we are on Amazon WorkMail using Outlook (macOS and Windows) and the built-i

    Posted 1 year ago on outlook.office.com ‘Birthdays’ calendar shows dates offset by +1 days. – 6 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Ok

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    As we have just invested in a Samsung SmartTV and Sonos Arc combo I wonder what services require a Chromecast?

    Posted 1 year ago on What I Use: Chromecast with Google TV (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to thalter:Microsoft is just giving us Mac users a whiff of the Windows Experience - same settings in

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Edge on Mac is Getting a New Update Experience – 15 Comments

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    I have always loved the 16:10 aspect ratio. 4:3 would be my second choice but I haven't seen a computer o

    Posted 1 year ago on Lenovo ThinkPad X12 First Impressions – 35 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:Consumers need to stop being lured in by Microsoft! Just because Microsoft is big most u

    Posted 1 year ago on Harman Kardon Removes Cortana from Invoke – 55 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:On paper USB-C charging seemed an excellent idea, but all these special things are frust

    Posted 1 year ago on Dell XPS 15 (9500) Review – 22 Comments

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    In reply to j5:Excluding "programming" from the list and I'd say 8GB would cut it (if you aren't doi

    Posted 1 year ago on Need Recommendations and Criticism – 33 Comments

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    In reply to jchampeau:Do you prefer PayPal or cash so I can keep the Sub :-)Jokes aside - the Sub sounds aweso

    Posted 1 year ago on Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc – 10 Comments

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    In reply to j5:Some RAM to spare will make macOS and you happier. However, Intel-based (haven't tried a M

    Posted 1 year ago on Need Recommendations and Criticism – 33 Comments

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    Since you are going for a Mac I take it your are not a heavy user or gamer, but I may be wrong. Anyway, if you

    Posted 1 year ago on Need Recommendations and Criticism – 33 Comments

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    In reply to codymesh:That would require a working Windows Update without all the 0x8000-errors so I guess we a

    Posted 1 year ago on Panay Touts “the Next Generation of Windows” – 106 Comments

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    Hopefully Oracle's Java will follow Flash into the sunset never to be seen again.Several of my tools (Jet

    Posted 1 year ago on Oracle requiring Java to be licensed in the enterprise starting in 2019? – 5 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Sorry I can't be of much help with sound-problems. We used our Pioneer exclusively

    Posted 1 year ago on Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc – 10 Comments

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    ... wow ... (stunned silence)

    Posted 1 year ago on Qualcomm Launches the Snapdragon Insider Program – 9 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott::-) We'll see.

    Posted 1 year ago on Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc – 10 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:No, we still have the Pioneer (VSX-LX52, the non-connected generation) complete wit

    Posted 1 year ago on Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc – 10 Comments

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    Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc

    Just finished The Old Guard from Netflix on our newly bought Sonos Arc (+ 2 * Sonos One as surround, waiting for the Sub to arrive, but we think it will be returned as unneeded) and our 75″ Samsung QLED TV

    We … were … blown … away!!!!!

    Bought our previous Pioneer receiver back in 2008 with 5.1 and considered it the high standard and enjoyed countless movies on the 120″ HD-projector from PS3 BD-player. We stubbornly sticked with the projector and screen and simple iPads for daily watching. We are glad we skipped a generation or two of home-theater technology and invested in the Samsung and Sonos.

    Our movie room is ~250 ft2 and the Sonos Arc is located about 4 in below the TV (not optimum, but all you Americans hang your TVs too high!). The Sonos Ones are 1 ft behind the sofa and spread 3-6 ft left-right. Calibrated the room with TruePlay.

    Our thoughts:

    Picture: HDR+ on the Samsung is amazing! The lens flares actually stings you in the eyes and lights up the room and the 4K content looks stunning viewed from 18 ft.

    Sound: Dolby Atmos is freaking awesome! The spatial location of the sound is uncanny. The sound is actually coming from the actors’ mouths – you are practically THERE!! We expected stunning effects from helicopters flying over your head, but hearing the spent cases from the first scene clinking over the floor stunned us!

    Posted 1 year ago on Our first Dolby Atmos experience with Sonos Arc – 10 Comments

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    :-( My first Fry's experience was while working in Mountain View 1998-1999. RIP

    Posted 1 year ago on The end of Fry’s – 22 Comments

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    Well done everyone! Great and refreshing idea!

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 1000: Our Wives Answer Your Questions – 60 Comments

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    Regarding your comment "I was never going to be that guy".When turning 40 a friend made this remark about cogn

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    What is the limit (in $) of Paul's slush fund spending? How much would you allow him to spend to solve on

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] First Ring Daily 1000: Ask Our Wives (Almost) Anything (About Us) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Makes sense. I've always considered free services a bonus and not a human right

    Posted 1 year ago on The Free Version of LastPass is About to Get Less Useful – 130 Comments

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    I don’t understand the comments here about Lastpass’ pricing vs 1Password. Looking at the companies webpag

    Posted 1 year ago on The Free Version of LastPass is About to Get Less Useful – 130 Comments

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    Do anyone know any Garmin sales numbers? As an all-in-Apple household we own at least two Garmin units per per

    Posted 1 year ago on Report: 1-in-10 iPhone Users Own an Apple Watch – 37 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:Pretty common on business plans and the lowest level consumer. My business plan has 20

    Posted 1 year ago on But it’s a Mac – 51 Comments

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    Still burned by my first gen Surface experience were we got it in Sweden 3 months before it got end of life. T

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Duo Drops to $999, Heads to the UK – 35 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:We've got two IKEA SYMFONISK lamps and really like the combination of lamp and sp

    Posted 1 year ago on The Lure of Sonos (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:...and work? Nothing as frustrating as technology that doesn’t work properly.

    Posted 1 year ago on The Lure of Sonos (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    As Sonos users for the office, city apartment and our homestead (totaling 17 units + 2 boosts) we are now eage

    Posted 1 year ago on The Lure of Sonos (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    In reply to rosyna:If Intel was sure about the mighty x86-platform they should have sent the reviewers one MBP

    Posted 1 year ago on Intel Evo vs. Apple M1: Preliminary Head-to-Head – 110 Comments

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    Thanks Paul, will let her know.

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: February 5 (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    In reply to jt5:Yeah - earlier zbooks had a BIOS setting "Disable Hybrid Graphics" (popular for high-end CAD u

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, February 5 – 18 Comments

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    Just bought a new Samsung QLED 2020 75" TV and are very happy with it - nice picture and the built-in apps wor

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, February 5 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to jchampeau:I just had to clear a similar situation with PayPal where they started charging my compa

    Posted 1 year ago on Bezos to Step Down as CEO as Amazon Posts $126 Billion in Revenues – 15 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:As a consultant, the only Microsoft product I have made an active choice about is Outl

    Posted 1 year ago on With Team Upshift – is Microsoft now out of the car infotainment business as well? – 17 Comments

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    In reply to kingbuzzo:"everything consumer turns into nothing "My point exactly - where will they meet us

    Posted 1 year ago on With Team Upshift – is Microsoft now out of the car infotainment business as well? – 17 Comments

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    With Team Upshift - is Microsoft now out of the car infotainment business as well?

    Saw Ford and Google just started a JV focusing on connected cars and leaving Microsoft in the dust. After experiencing the lackluster Ford SYNC in multiple rentals during the years I can't say I blame Ford for ditching Microsoft but it makes me wonder how many more areas Microsoft can afford to be left out in.

    Posted 1 year ago on With Team Upshift – is Microsoft now out of the car infotainment business as well? – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Igor Engelen:Too bad, thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple MacBook Pro (M1): Initial iPhone and iPad App Compatibility – 30 Comments

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    Just my $0.02 - I'd love to have Sonos iOS app running on the Mac because Sonos has decided to let the De

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple MacBook Pro (M1): Initial iPhone and iPad App Compatibility – 30 Comments

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    In reply to MutualCore:Revenue isn’t the same as profit and I haven’t seen a specific margin or profit for

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Posts Mixed Results for Windows and Surface – 39 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:YMMV

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple by the Numbers (Premium) – 93 Comments

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    During 2020 our two-person household has purchased the following Apple products:iPhone 12iPhone 8 2 * AppleTVi

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple by the Numbers (Premium) – 93 Comments

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    So much hot air... just give us a real number!

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Puts Up Some Big Xbox Numbers – 13 Comments

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    In reply to jbinaz:possibly, but with a shared storage plan I guess that could cause other problems.

    Posted 1 year ago on Free Apple TV+ Promo Extended to July – 25 Comments

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    I guess the interesting thing will be to see what happens when users that bought hardware with ATV+ included

    Posted 1 year ago on Free Apple TV+ Promo Extended to July – 25 Comments

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    Bonus points awarded for using ISO date format ;-)

    Posted 1 year ago on What I Use: Photo Management (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    Good read. Personally I hate Mac hardware and macOS UX but love the stability and how I can work for weeks wit

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing – 71 Comments

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    In reply to Prebengh:If I have my onedrive launch at login I have issues on my Intel Catalina Mac. I always la

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Mac Mini (M1): The Morning After – 59 Comments

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    Doesn't the term "overhaul" imply that you transition from one FINISHED state to another? I cannot see th

    Posted 1 year ago on Job Posting Confirms Windows 10 UX Overhaul – 46 Comments

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    VMware Remote Console 12.0 for M1!!

    Wow - the tsunami och M1-ready application is really happening and even obscure tools as VMRC are taking the leap.

    Must be pretty easy for Apple developers to port their code.

    Posted 1 year ago on VMware Remote Console 12.0 for M1!! – 1 Comments

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    Just "bing" it: xkcd 1360This is basically how my file organization looks like.

    Posted 1 year ago on What I Use: Suggestion, File Organization – 10 Comments

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    My old C64 disks and tapes are decomposing in the basement, but I drag along all files since my Mac SE/30 I us

    Posted 1 year ago on What I Use: Suggestion, File Organization – 10 Comments

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    In reply to Usman:In these pandemic times we are working from our rural homestead over LTE connection. I have

    Posted 1 year ago on Bravo Microsoft – you have proved your point! – 4 Comments

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    Bravo Microsoft - you have proved your point!

    December 8 and yet another update pushed out to (Cr)Edge! The morning routine seems to be open up the computer, allow the update to process while you fetch a cup of coffee.

    Good that Microsoft is now able to update their browser (and soon other parts as discussed in WW#701) but do they really have to do that daily!?! Is "ship early, patch daily" the new mantra?

    Posted 1 year ago on Bravo Microsoft – you have proved your point! – 4 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:In Scandinavia we have been plagued by Swedish/Danish/Norwegian combination keyboards (m

    Posted 1 year ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to rsfarris:Problem is that we have the degree symbol ° there. Getting to ` requires the use of AltG

    Posted 1 year ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    Here in EU different rules apply if you buy it as business or personal customer. Many companies these days ask

    Posted 1 year ago on probably my last surface purchase – 7 Comments

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    BTW: I mainly launch application through Spotlight.

    Posted 1 year ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    My pet peeve is the lack of a built-in application window switching like Alt-Tab on Windows. Exposé/Mission C

    Posted 1 year ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    As a non-Salesforce customer, this sentence in the PR: "Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be t

    Posted 1 year ago on Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion – 32 Comments

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    Since answering in this thread I have started to use Edge for my daily JavaScript development. The debugger is

    Posted 1 year ago on Why aren’t developers familiar with the new Microsoft Edge? – 10 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:OK - I see that NTVDM is only supported on 32-bit - phew! (I helped a friend getting his

    Posted 1 year ago on Everybody can calm down about Rosetta 2 performance now – 13 Comments

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    In reply to rkpatrick:I just have to chime in. As a Front-end developer on macOS I have tried Edge for Mac as

    Posted 1 year ago on Why aren’t developers familiar with the new Microsoft Edge? – 10 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:It's always the next version of Windows that will save the world, isn't it?

    Posted 1 year ago on Everybody can calm down about Rosetta 2 performance now – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:As noted above by bkkcanuck - the fact that 16-bit applications are still supported in Wi

    Posted 1 year ago on Everybody can calm down about Rosetta 2 performance now – 13 Comments

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    So less than 25% penalty for the translated emulation, full 64-bit support and Universal Apps pouring in. Seem

    Posted 1 year ago on Everybody can calm down about Rosetta 2 performance now – 13 Comments

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    In these corona-times we have started to revisit our big collection of bluerays and playing them on the PS3 an

    Posted 1 year ago on Xbox Series X|S: Blu-Ray – 14 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:My MBP 16" is 16 GB and it can handle all I throw at it when it comes to webdev, m

    Posted 1 year ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    My take on this is that Apple will succeed because they have made it "easy" for developers to tag along for th

    Posted 1 year ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:YMMV as they say - we hosted a halloween "LAN Party" for my nephews and the 7 kids s

    Posted 1 year ago on Xbox Series S Review – 23 Comments

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    In reply to murray judy:We have been struggling with our Bosch washing-machine and I would kill to just be abl

    Posted 1 year ago on Xbox Series X|S: First Boot – 10 Comments

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    when was the last time you hosted a LAN party? Now the kids have their laptops or chromebooks playing Minecraf

    Posted 1 year ago on Xbox Series S Review – 23 Comments

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    Working as IT-manager in a non-profit organization we are really looking forward to this. Most of our members

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Teams to Get Multi-Account Support (Updated) – 12 Comments

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    Just thinking what the Apple engineers will be able to do with their CPUs without the physical size constraint

    Posted 1 year ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to Mike_Peluso:Flashbacks from my Nokia N70 with a dedicated Vodafone button that took me to the Voda

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple TV+, Media Remote are Coming to PlayStation 5 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Talking about Paul’s needs is risky, but with his obsession with cameras in expensive

    Posted 1 year ago on Fitbit Versa 3 Review – 27 Comments

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    Buy a Garmin Forerunner 945 and it will solve all of your fitness tracking problems and give you two week batt

    Posted 1 year ago on Fitbit Versa 3 Review – 27 Comments

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    What is this "New Outlook for Mac" and it is only for Office365?

    Just installed the latest batch of updates for my Mac office. When starting Outlook again, I was greeted with an invitation to try the new Outlook - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-blog/enhanced-performance-designed-for-simplicity-the-new-outlook-for/ba-p/1675505


    When accepting it warned me about my Amazon WorkMail account not being supported (even though it is Exchange compatible)!!

    Is the new Outlook only for Office 365 users?

    Posted 1 year ago on What is this "New Outlook for Mac" and it is only for Office365? – 6 Comments

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    As the home's IT-admin I wouldn't survive 5 seconds with different sound system in different rooms s

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 914: Workspace and Workplace – 3 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:But sad that of all the 5+ different UI frameworks Microsoft has released the last

    Posted 1 year ago on Swift Finally Comes to Windows – 35 Comments

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    In reply to MutualCore:The calculator example mentioned uses swift-win32 which according to the project page o

    Posted 1 year ago on Swift Finally Comes to Windows – 35 Comments

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    Wooo-hoo - yet another way to write Windows software... in Win32.

    Posted 1 year ago on Swift Finally Comes to Windows – 35 Comments

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    Is this a Microsoft sponsored article? We have been trying to transition our non-profit organization to Teams

    Posted 1 year ago on SMB Tip: Use Microsoft Teams Anywhere – 18 Comments

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    About pairable speakers - check out Bullfrog speakers. We have two BF200 that are pairable.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Duo: A Review Is An Opinion – What The Tech Ep. 479 – 2 Comments

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    AFAIK there is only one company that can deliver a good user experience and integrated services across devices

    Posted 1 year ago on Not the Android Apps Solution We Were Looking For … Yet (Updated) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to remc86007:Total n00b when it comes to Android, but can you take a stock Android image and install

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Duo to Launch September 10 at $1399 – 98 Comments

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    "25-man-years of engineer programming" is waaaaay below what I would expect from a $100/year subscription-mode

    Posted 1 year ago on Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac is Now Available – 5 Comments

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    Still love macOS and its resource management but hate Apple hardware to the bottom of my heart. Dreaming of an

    Posted 1 year ago on Hubris, Thy Name is Apple (Premium) – 126 Comments

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    In reply to Minke:Most of us are on Macs anyway and the Mac version of OneDrive is very unstable in general an

    Posted 1 year ago on Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!? – 13 Comments

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    Yeah - took me nearly two hours before I could set the newly created user as owner of a channel...

    Posted 1 year ago on Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!? – 13 Comments

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    Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!?

    As admin of a modest Office 365 organization I came a cross the following message when adding a new user:

    "Due to increased demand, it might take up to 24 hours to fully set up ‎user‎ in Teams. Until then, you won't be able to assign Teams policies to them, and they might not have access to Teams features like calling and audio conferencing."


    Come on guys - do you have to send a person to the server-room to install a new license or what?!?

    Sigh!


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    In reply to TomKer:I have my walks, bikerides and runs from the days as activities in the app but with 0 steps

    Posted 1 year ago on Garmin Confirms Cyber-Attack – 15 Comments

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    In reply to TomKer:I'm not sure that's 100% true when it comes to steps. I can see my *activities* s

    Posted 1 year ago on Garmin Confirms Cyber-Attack – 15 Comments

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    Lost my 325 day long +10k daily step streak... %&@##! Grrr...

    Posted 1 year ago on Garmin Confirms Cyber-Attack – 15 Comments

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    Finally we may get some love for the laptops that have been 100% form-over-function for almost a decade now.

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple’s Chief Designer Jony Ive Leaving the Company – 32 Comments

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    The elephant in the room is that we are still developing and running Win32 applications.

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows, the Series (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    And in the AdDuplex stats that Paul loves to throw around, top two Surface models (together around 40% of the

    Posted 3 years ago on Surface is special and a huge success, Paul is wrong – 31 Comments

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    In reply to mclark2112:+1 my last ink jet was an Apple StyleWriter II and since then I have used laser (my fir

    Posted 3 years ago on HP OfficeJet Pro 9025 First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    I'm happy for you Paul, but it baffles me that you are still using ink.

    Posted 3 years ago on HP OfficeJet Pro 9025 First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    Wouldn't #1 prio be just to get it shipped and then start optimizing?

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Plans to Bring Smooth Scrolling to Chromium – 30 Comments

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    From this side of the Pond, in Sweden where only one of the five major banks has decided to go with Apple Pay,

    Posted 3 years ago on Report: Apple to Launch Its Own Credit Card – 36 Comments

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    I do hope you save at least some of the photos in physical form. I really enjoy seeing the photos in my great-

    Posted 3 years ago on Digital Decluttering: Photos (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    The Gartner statistics for 2018 PC hardware market shares are out. I was amazed to see Lenovo soaring to #1, p

    Posted 3 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 11) – 18 Comments

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    And as always the bet is on the next platform on yet-to-be-announced hardware. Boy, haven’t we heard that be

    Posted 3 years ago on Why Windows 10 on ARM Matters (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to eden197:Add LinkedIn to that... I'm sooo close to terminate that account.

    Posted 3 years ago on Deleted My Facebook Account – 31 Comments

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    You are missing one important point - Windows Update is the most fragile piece of software known to Man. How m

    Posted 3 years ago on Keeping a Windows PC Up-to-Date is a Nightmare (Premium) – 41 Comments

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    Windows on ARM is touted as the saviour of Windows (but as always it is the NEXT generation ARM hardware that

    Posted 3 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 21) – 16 Comments

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    Using his fantastic TeX typesetting system to generate documentation every single day. Nothing like it! Wrote

    Posted 3 years ago on Donald Knuth, the Yoda of Silicon Valley – 1 Comments

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    In reply to earlster:Have a Garmin ForeRunner 630 that I use daily. Fantastic battery life, software stability

    Posted 3 years ago on When S%^t Don’t Work (Premium) – 83 Comments

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    Had a ceiling-fan running at full speed for 3 months after iOS 11 was released. The manufacturer didn't c

    Posted 3 years ago on When S%^t Don’t Work (Premium) – 83 Comments

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    In reply to Maciek:Hopefully those developers were smart and used Electron (like Slack and Visual Studio Code)

    Posted 3 years ago on Don’t Let Fear and Loathing Push You Over the Edge (Premium) – 60 Comments

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    Where this strategy will fail is for the two developers out there that use JavaScript with UWP. The Windows.*

    Posted 3 years ago on Rest in Pieces, Microsoft Edge (Premium) – 61 Comments

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    Microsoft's inability to get things completed is what will bring them down eventually. If they launch suc

    Posted 3 years ago on Don’t Let Fear and Loathing Push You Over the Edge (Premium) – 60 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:That first one left me speechless. Truly horrible.

    Posted 3 years ago on “Grandma, don’t run out and buy an iPad” – 43 Comments

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    Will be interesting to see how this will affect the developers that went UWP + JavaScript. If Microsoft now pu

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft dumping EdgeHTML for Chromium? – 14 Comments

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    On the other side of the pond I have sometimes used Amazon’s International Shipping for stuff that is imposs

    Posted 3 years ago on An Amazon revolt could be brewing – 6 Comments

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    In reply to will:I'm on a 15" MacBook Pro with touch bar and I am amazed to see what the developers at Pa

    Posted 3 years ago on Boot Camp, Still Crazy After All These Years – 41 Comments

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    Dear Lord! Please let this be an international endeavor.

    Posted 3 years ago on Mastercard Partners With Microsoft for New Digital Identity Platform – 15 Comments

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    Still have my OQO model e2 with built-in HSDPA modem. Running XP, still working. Added the Logitech mouse for

    Posted 3 years ago on What Netbook Did You Own? – 16 Comments

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    I bought the 1st gen Surface Pro. My pre-ordered 128GB was DOA and had to be replaced with the 64GB model due

    Posted 3 years ago on What Does Surface Need for You to Buy In? – 36 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Exactly my thoughts. Just because fake/unconfirmed news fit the narrative doesn’t just

    Posted 3 years ago on Report: Apple Orders Second Round of iPhone Cuts – 41 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:My guess is that Corel sees the subscription model of Parallels with many, many use

    Posted 3 years ago on Report: Corel to Acquire Parallels – 37 Comments

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    Ugh - another great company down the drain. The US company IDERA has been buying many of the development tools

    Posted 3 years ago on Report: Corel to Acquire Parallels – 37 Comments

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    Wow - a year ago this was a $199 device. Time flies.

    Posted 3 years ago on Invoke down to $39.99 – 7 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:Tim sure showed he's clueless with the $10K gold 1st gen Apple Watch. So off-p

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Needs an iPhone Classic (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    Not Apple-specific, but I start to see trend of fatigue among my friends. If this because tech has gotten more

    Posted 3 years ago on Bad News for iPhone Sales Just Keeps Piling On – 88 Comments

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    Just another nail in LinkedIn's coffin. With all the ads - sorry, "Promoted" - content on the Home page I

    Posted 3 years ago on LinkedIn Really Wants to Get Along With the Cool Kids – 8 Comments

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    In reply to Speednet:As you I have tried BootCamp and Virtualbox with bad and mixed experiences. If one really

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    I gave up on Windows 10 as my daily development driver (mainly PHP and JavaScript) almost two years ago. All

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    How about implementing the dark theme throughout the entire OS (like on mac os) first, before adding a light o

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Will Ship a new Light Theme With the Next Version of Windows 10 – 35 Comments

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    "non-native" fullscreen (i.e. "normal" fullscreen) has always been available in the (non-obvious way) standard

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    Backlit keyboard and trackpad with physical buttons (two preferably three so I get middle button copy/paste in

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Just worried about your health, man ;-) Seriously I miss the old take-one-step-back-

    Posted 3 years ago on So, About the New MacBook Air (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    Is this the same Paul Thurrott that a couple of years ago said we shouldn't "overthink technology"? Are t

    Posted 3 years ago on So, About the New MacBook Air (Premium) – 42 Comments

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    In reply to jbinaz:Just a simple Sonos user, but I am amazed with the number of services they support. Here in

    Posted 3 years ago on Sonos Delays Google Assistant Availability – 6 Comments

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    Just preordered and I hope that link in the text was an affiliate link.

    Posted 3 years ago on Book Update: Beneath A Surface – The Inside Story of Building the Surface Brand – 40 Comments

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    In reply to My Hell baby speaking:After Ubuntu's brave bet on wayland and gnome in the disastrous 17.10 r

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    In reply to Jhambi:Amen. Our previous hosting provider (Rackspace) seems to be the final stronghold of opensta

    Posted 3 years ago on IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion – 27 Comments

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    In reply to maethorechannen:Are all these articles really written by the same Paul that some time ago said tha

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    I'd pick DisplayPort over HDMI any day just to get 60Hz refresh and glad to see it's HP's port

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    In reply to maethorechannen:At least they are still in control of the firmware.

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    In reply to spacein_vader:You are absolutely correct. iPhone is big here, but Apple has yet to be caught red-h

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    In reply to HellcatM:Potentially yes. But I'll tell you a story about my installation of a PV-farm at my

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    In reply to FalseAgent:In Q1-2018 they were #3, shipping 7,4 million (potential) spy-devices in Europe. Bring

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    Get over it and go back to iOS and buy a decent phone...

    Posted 3 years ago on First Ring Daily 493: Man Punches Self in Face, Sees no Improvement – 9 Comments

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    Yeah - let China roll over us clueless Europeans. Seeing what Stuxnet could do, just image what a couple of mi

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    Just decluttered the out-of-box Windows 10 Start-menu and I have to wonder why the 180° turn. Obviously someo

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 Now Lets You Uninstall More of the Pre-Installed Apps – 65 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:I bought my first paperwhite in 2013 and had until a flooding of our campsite in late 20

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    Aren't you cherry-picking data here? Yes, Microsoft is #5 in US, but world-wide they don't even regi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Becomes a Top 5 PC Maker in the US – 23 Comments

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    Since most open-source projects have devoted, unpaid members doing triaging of issues reported one would expec

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Has A Software Quality Problem – 114 Comments

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    In reply to anchovylover:After all, it's only customer data - enterprises are lingering on 1703 or possib

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update – 76 Comments

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    Given the Supermicro commotion I fully second this.

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    Such a good article. But sometimes I get the impression that Microsoft is acting too much on everything. We se

    Posted 3 years ago on Integrity (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:They missed the boat and the race. Microsoft's problem? They don't look outside US.

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul: September 21 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    Have you looked at any Azure-based MCUs (like MT3620 development board) and what do you think?

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (September 21) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Depending on your distribution, running Linux apps can be a hard computer science prob

    Posted 3 years ago on Chrome OS 69 Brings New Look, Linux App Support – 71 Comments

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    Office 365 Home now for six users?

    Just got a notice from Microsoft that my Office 365 Home subscription now allows six persons to use it, up from five. https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/important-news-about-your-office-365-subscription-06828297-4f1d-4059-8748-365d8e658968?wt.mc_id=email&ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB


    Is this the first step towards a price-hike?

    Posted 3 years ago on Office 365 Home now for six users? – 3 Comments

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    In reply to evox81:Thanks - will give it a try and see if it works.

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul: August 24 (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    How can we tame OneDrive so it doesn't sync GB of data silently in the background? Background: the compan

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (August 24) – 12 Comments

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    (Moved my question over to Paul as I thought this was Paul's thread). No offence :-)

    Posted 3 years ago on Questions for 8/24 – 7 Comments

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    Why is it (almost) always the next generation that will bring salvation to the Windows world?!? Is it frigging

    Posted 3 years ago on This is When Windows 10 on ARM Will Finally Make Sense (Premium) – 56 Comments

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    Why is Microsoft not respecting my privacy settings?Just one more annoyance with the current state of Microsof

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (August 17) – 11 Comments

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    Just chiming in with the other Windows migrants.I'm a software developer developing front- and back-end a

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    Always fun to see your home-city through someone else's eyes. I hope you have enjoyed the stay and the pe

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    Regarding Mac-sales: I held off from buying the old version and just put my money down for a 15” MBP. Will b

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Delivers a Blockbuster Quarter, But… – 62 Comments

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    In reply to djncanada:In 1998 I wrote my master thesis entirely on a Newton Messagepad 2100. Excellent handwri

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    I am happy for all Microsoft fans that Surface Go seems to be a real product so you may focus on something tan

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    Thanks for the answer! Living north of Stockholm and will be around that time. I know it's you vacation b

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    IIRC you said you were doing a home-swap to Sweden this year. As a Swede, just curious what part of the countr

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (July 6) – 15 Comments

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    Never got Sets - seemed like a resurrection of the old MDI-style interface to me.

    Posted 3 years ago on Let’s Talk About Sets (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to compunut:The way the ribbon changes based on the window's width is something that drives me c

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    In reply to jbinaz:I may be wrong but I saw that Apple guy in San Jose yesterday singing the Developer Gospel.

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft + GitHub – 73 Comments

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    In reply to Hal9000:...LinkedIn...

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    Thanks Paul! Comparing with apt or yum on my various machines Windows Update is lacking in so many ways, even

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul: June 1 (Premium) – 8 Comments

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    How can it be that in this day and age, Windows Update is still the most fragile piece of technology in the kn

    Posted 3 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday, June 1 – 25 Comments

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    A carbon copy of a recent article on macrumours but in reverse. They revealed that a Surface isn't ideal

    Posted 4 years ago on Quick MacBook Air Check-In (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    In reply to mrdrwest:It was Windows 10's automatic updates, installing a version of the Intel video-drive

    Posted 4 years ago on What I Use, Build 2018: MacBook Air (Premium) – 92 Comments

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    In reply to innitrichie:"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". While Microsoft is creating the

    Posted 4 years ago on Build 2018: The World is a Computer (Premium) – 66 Comments

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    If Cortana's slow international roll-out is a sign of Microsoft's "World", the World is a pretty sma

    Posted 4 years ago on Build 2018: The World is a Computer (Premium) – 66 Comments

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    One thing that amazes me is how well Mac OS handles resources. I am now working in a project using a MacBook P

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    The full outlook client is the only reason I as a Linux desktop user keep looking at Mac or Windows. With the

    Posted 4 years ago on Outlook is a Mess (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Yeah, Ubuntu jumped onto the Wayland / Gnome bandwagon with 17.10 and that was a mess. N

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    I don't understand:Targeted ads in Facebook based on your browsing habits = BADTelemetry-based ads (or "p

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft’s Opportunity To Capitalize on Data Privacy (Premium) – 10 Comments

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    I felt that pain in August and decided to wipe my HP EliteBook and installed Ubuntu 17.04, bought an iPad Pro

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft: So long, and thanks for all the fish… – 49 Comments

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    I put my money on the PDF issue. My company has been spammed the last week with pdf files about “court summo

    Posted 4 years ago on The Why, When, What, and WTF of Windows 10 Version 1803 (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Linux? I’ve been using Ubuntu for almost a year and haven’t looked back on my W

    Posted 4 years ago on What Led to this Mess (Premium) – 81 Comments

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    For crying out loud - Just give us an Apple-branded mATX-sized motherboard and be done with it. Apple can incl

    Posted 4 years ago on Apple Moves New Mac Pro Launch to Next Year – 48 Comments

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    Isn't looking at this device as another "iPad"-device a recipe for another Windows Phone-like disaster?

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Review Check-In: Taking Stock – 75 Comments

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    Ouch. I wonder where's the use case for this class of devices...? Is it right to assume that processes wi

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Review Check-In: Performance – 69 Comments

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    In reply to redstar92:Yeah, it's amazing that after 30 years of personal computers most of the manufactur

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Preview: Here Comes the Future – 35 Comments

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    Please add a review of sleep/wake reliability of this device. Specially interested to hear if it is better tha

    Posted 4 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Preview: Here Comes the Future – 35 Comments

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    Queue a million hot-bag-reports. After a couple of hot-bags I have personally given up completely trying to ge

    Posted 4 years ago on Always Connected PC is a Counter to All the Nonsense in Windows 10 (Premium) – 41 Comments

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    Sigh... reminds me of my worst tech-purchase of this decade. Got the Pro 1st gen when it became available in S

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    ”The general problem is that the iPad is just too awkward to be the one other device that everyone owns. Sma

    Posted 4 years ago on Even Microsoft Can’t Make Apple’s Post-PC Vision a Reality (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    Just home from the CAD Conference SOLIDWORKS World in LA. Microsoft was there with a booth filled with Surface

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Promotes Survey That Shows Big Preference for Macs (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    When windows 7 usage-share drops below 40% we will see PWA succeed. My bet is that there will be another "new

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    In reply to vonronge:In colder climate a chest-band is required since you will have the watch visible on your

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    In reply to skane2600:Yeah, I totally agree with this. As a "power-user" doing repeated tasks (in my case, che

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    Noticed any Spectre/Meldown slow-downs?

    Bring on all anecdotal data you may have.


    I go first:

    I run Ubuntu 17.10 on a HP EliteBook 840 G3 (i7-6500U 2.5GHz / 16GB RAM).

    As a software developer I have some IDEs, VMs and git as my daily applications. After updating to kernel 4.13.0-25 (fixing most of the vulnerabilities I understand) I see a 100% slow-down in git operations (stuff that previously took 2 seconds now take 4-5 seconds, most notably checking out from the server) and some file-indexing operations in the IDEs are slow to complete but not much else.

    Seems like disk and network took the most punishment.


    Anyone else noticed any major slow-downs?

    Posted 4 years ago on Noticed any Spectre/Meldown slow-downs? – 6 Comments

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    Microsoft is inventing a new computing category - “hubris computing” ;-)

    Posted 4 years ago on The Andromeda Strain (Premium) – 100 Comments

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    In reply to matsan:Quoting urban dictionary godspeed: "The intent is to convey hope or desire for an

    Posted 4 years ago on PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Six Years (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    And this is the market Microsoft is trying to enter with their Surface line-up... Wishing them all the best an

    Posted 4 years ago on PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Six Years (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    Why on earth would Cortana survive as a business-only product?!? Even smaller market and it will most likely h

    Posted 4 years ago on Will Cortana for consumer survive 2018 – 32 Comments

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    Seems to be urgent enough for AWS to issue the following to their customers:We previously advised you of impor

    Posted 4 years ago on Intel Says Recently Reported Security Flaw is Overblown (Updated) – 16 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:If it goes back more than one year it would be a disaster, all of the computers in use n

    Posted 4 years ago on Good start of the year for AMD – the Intel CPU flaw… – 33 Comments

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    Just three words for Microsoft to consider to be successful: 1. Release2. Cortana3. Internationally

    Posted 4 years ago on Will a High Volume Strategy Win the Smart Speaker Market? (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    In reply to Nic:Developers will probably join them. I will.

    Posted 4 years ago on Good start of the year for AMD – the Intel CPU flaw… – 33 Comments

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    Good start of the year for AMD - the Intel CPU flaw...

    Just read the article about the Intel microcode flaw - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/


    Nice to take a 5-30% performance hit on your hardware... Is this the dawn of a new throttle-gate...? Sigh...

    Posted 4 years ago on Good start of the year for AMD – the Intel CPU flaw… – 33 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:So true. It still amazes me that a fully charged ipad with email, slack, skype, browsing

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    If Win10S on ARM would deliver the same reliability, battery time and performance as I have on the iPad Micros

    Posted 4 years ago on Edge Battery Life Claims May Be Bad News for Windows 10 on Snapdragon (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    Amazon Prime became available in many new countries in December (Sweden included). I signed up for this and m

    Posted 4 years ago on Amazon’s Holiday PR is Just as Devoid of Facts as Always (Premium) – 9 Comments

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    In reply to dvsctt:I really miss the dedicated controller. It was nice to have but we have worked around that

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    Keeping my fingers crossed you will be happy. Meanwhile in Sonos land I got new firmware to my eight year old

    Posted 4 years ago on Google Home Max: First Impressions – 28 Comments

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    "Bodes well for Windows 10 S, this does not"Master Yoda

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Edge is an Outright Disaster (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    Is this really Intel’s fault and is ARM really the solution? Why is my MacBook and Linux machines instantly

    Posted 4 years ago on The Always Connected PC is the Future of the Platform (Premium) – 48 Comments

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    Related to your articles about Windows 10 usage share from AdDuplex and in there discussing the Surface market

    Posted 4 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (December 1) – 17 Comments

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    Thanks for reminding me. Those were the days. Not been a FF user for many years now but 1.0 was important for

    Posted 4 years ago on That Time My Name Appeared in a Firefox Ad (Premium) – 6 Comments

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    Will they also kill the non-MS-account login on Jan 10?

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft is Killing Facebook Login Support for Skype – 34 Comments

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    We are about to start the IoT journey but I see a bumpy road ahead. We bought a 19 ac “hobby farm” earlier

    Posted 4 years ago on The Essentials: Living in IoT Hell (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to maethorechannen:Definitely and that’s the way I will consider future projects. Probably I will b

    Posted 4 years ago on How Microsoft could loose the PWA-race as well – 46 Comments

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    How Microsoft could loose the PWA-race as well

    Just home from a developer get-together in London. We were 30 independent consultants developing for mainly the win32-platform enjoying a day of showcasing our projects and discussing. Many of us have been burnt by Microsoft’s promises of the new platforms – Silverlight, DNA, J#, XNA and Windows Phone, to name a few.

    When discussing, we found that most of us are still developing for the win32-platform. Why? Simple answer is – to support Windows 7!

    Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. Major business and most of the world (46% as of this writing) are still running it. Lowest common-denominator is win32! Why should anyone write for anything else? Microsoft is now muddling the waters with the UWP to PWA shift, so why should I look at UWP?

    Please Microsoft – allow us to develop for UWP and PWA platforms and deploy those applications on Windows 7. Create a wrapper or something (steal Electron runtime?) because developing and deploying win32 apps is not the way forward. It will make the life hard for us developers and you will have a even more fragmented platform since developers will turn their back on you.


    Posted 4 years ago on How Microsoft could loose the PWA-race as well – 46 Comments

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    In reply to arknu:Well, Microsoft is not doing any better - 46% still on Windows 7, XP larger than Windows 8 -

    Posted 4 years ago on Android Fragmentation is Still a Lie (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    @Paul, good read as always. BUT, I think you are wrong about Stranger Things - IMHO it correctly portrays the

    Posted 4 years ago on Lenovo ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Review: An Anniversary to Remember – 8 Comments

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    Micorsoft's problem is that they see their own videos (HoloLens demos anyone?) and actually really thinks

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft’s Problem? It’s Not Technology (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    As a consultant I have to deal with the pains of trying to connect to my clients' Skype for Business acco

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Launches a Dedicated Version of Skype for Freelancers as a Standalone App – 14 Comments

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    Hey Paul!OK, so $199 for HK Invoke was too expensive. What is your take on Sonos One at $199? Also too expensi

    Posted 4 years ago on Hey, Cortana, $99 is the Right Price (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    In reply to Delmont:Sorry - did not get a notification from the forum. I'm running a HP EliteBook 840 G4

    Posted 4 years ago on What would make you leave Windows? – 83 Comments

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    In reply to burog25c:For me I have a defective right thumb (broke it in a bicycle accident as a kid) so I don&

    Posted 4 years ago on Your Next Smartphone (Premium) – 41 Comments

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    In reply to compunut:[email protected]: we are many that don't have the gorilla hands. Looking at reviews of iPhone

    Posted 4 years ago on Your Next Smartphone (Premium) – 41 Comments

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    I must say I miss a review by John Gruber - when did he fall from grace?

    Posted 4 years ago on Here’s What the Reviewers are Saying About iPhone X Facial Recognition – 113 Comments

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    By Microsoft's definition Svalbard (part of Norway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard) is a new mar

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Reveals What’s New in Office 365 This Month – 13 Comments

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    I'm sure the few developers out there will have one last look at UWP and move on to the next Microsoft pl

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Bring PWAs to Windows 10 – 69 Comments

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    Neowin reports you can use netflix in picture-in-picture mode. As an iOS user these things amazes me with Andr

    Posted 4 years ago on Android 8.1 Hits Developer Preview – 4 Comments

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    In reply to TheJoeFin:OK - I'll remember that for when it's needed ;-)

    Posted 4 years ago on X-Cuses: iPhone X Facial Recognition Will Not Meet Expectations – 130 Comments

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    Not living on your side of the pond - but isn't FaceID "Tim's gift to FBI and CIA"? If I understand

    Posted 4 years ago on X-Cuses: iPhone X Facial Recognition Will Not Meet Expectations – 130 Comments

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    I agree in all what you said. I’ve been 100% Ubuntu since three months when I ditched Windows 10. I’m a so

    Posted 4 years ago on Thoughts on Linux – 2017 – 10 Comments

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    Ubiquity was able to roll out new firmware for most of their access-points within hours so clearly this flaw m

    Posted 4 years ago on What Wi-Fi Security Problem? Windows is Already Patched – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Billzeal:+1 Connecting stuff to the various HDMI ports is a great way to ask for trouble and confu

    Posted 4 years ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: TV Terribleness (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    I have this on my HP and Apple machines if I plug them into a non-grounded socket. The both have grounded plug

    Posted 4 years ago on Surface Pro power supply leakage – 2 Comments

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    First meeting of Paul's MFA (Microsoft Fans Anonymous)? Good article nevertheless.Personally, I got burnt

    Posted 4 years ago on What a Fool Believes (Premium) – 83 Comments

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    ”With Surface, Microsoft has none of those issues, or the costs”You conveniently forget the write-downs in

    Posted 4 years ago on Fake News: Microsoft to End Surface in 2019? – 54 Comments

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    I know the feeling - trying to simplify your tech-life could sometimes be problematic.As a side note - I got m

    Posted 4 years ago on The Android Switch: Bringing My Phone Number to Android and Project Fi – 48 Comments

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    I've been using Linux and libreoffice full-time för more than a month. Moved from windows and office 201

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Announces Office 2019 – 19 Comments

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    For the last several years I've been using a Logitech MX Anywhere that introduced me to the "step-less" m

    Posted 4 years ago on What keyboard & mouse does everyone use? – 28 Comments

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    statcounter doesn't include the users that immediately after setting up their computer open edge, type in

    Posted 4 years ago on 330 Million Microsoft Edge Users? – 95 Comments

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    I have now left Windows after a second windows-rot-induced-reinstall of my Windows 10 Creators Update machine

    Posted 4 years ago on What would make you leave Windows? – 83 Comments

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    I wonder if there are more of these "incentives" to be uncovered when it comes to Windows 10 adoption in Fortu

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows Phone: The Final Insult (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    You should rename the site xboxfanboyz.com For your sake I really hope your pre-ordered Xboxes will meet your

    Posted 4 years ago on Xbox One X Visuals Compared to PS4 Pro, Comes Out on Top as Expected – 18 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:...especially since you need full win32 support...

    Posted 4 years ago on Adobe Issues a Workaround for Photoshop Elements 15 on Windows 10 S – 22 Comments

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    I am curious of the numbers from Sweden, I don't know a single person using Bing other than yelling at it

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft: “Bing is Bigger Than You Think” – 48 Comments

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    We have built our Sonos system during many years - first units bought back in 2009 and they are still being up

    Posted 4 years ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: Music (Premium) – 49 Comments

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    In reply to Narg:If you are a gamer you may be correct - I don't know and I don't care. Gamers proba

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: If You Wanna Play, You Gotta Pay – 47 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Amen

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: If You Wanna Play, You Gotta Pay – 47 Comments

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    In reply to Narg:I am personally fighting a constant battle of Intel display drivers that are not compatible w

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: If You Wanna Play, You Gotta Pay – 47 Comments

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    The USP for this SKU would be of they disable the automatic driver update that is the worst part of Windows 10

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: If You Wanna Play, You Gotta Pay – 47 Comments

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    Wow - I just realized that I haven't opened Skype in a month. All my contacts have moved on to other mess

    Posted 4 years ago on Skype for Android Picks Up Dark Theme, More – 2 Comments

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    Wow - visualizations. Brings back memories frĂĄn the 90s and the mac application soundjam. Great re-invention

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft is Adding Visualizations, Equalizer, and More to Groove Music – 42 Comments

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    In reply to [email protected]:Latest number of users (Dec 2016) is 4,7 millions. The banks are pushing this

    Posted 4 years ago on PayPal Comes to the New Skype – 19 Comments

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    Yey - yet another payment solution. Here in Sweden we have one solution (Swish) that is pretty ubiquitous cove

    Posted 4 years ago on PayPal Comes to the New Skype – 19 Comments

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    I have made up my mind and have just one word to describe my computational future as a software developer: "Li

    Posted 4 years ago on We Need a Better Plan for Windows (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    Just moved into my new home - a farm with multiple buildings and a big main building. I want to control and mo

    Posted 4 years ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: First Steps Towards a Smart(er) Home (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    In reply to jbinaz:Shipping and long time support commitment?

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Shows Off a Smart Thermostat – 32 Comments

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    Shortage of components should lead to lower shipment, not lower demand, right? I'd say that the decline i

    Posted 4 years ago on The PC Market Decline Continued in Q2 2017 – 29 Comments

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    Hopefully The "Surface Pen Manufacturing Plant" is still operational...

    Posted 4 years ago on Looking for a Burgundy or Cobalt Surface Pen? You’ll Need To Wait A Little Longer – 5 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:"Yes, we can"

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Suddenly Drops OneDrive Support for Non-NTFS Disks – 94 Comments

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    Ahhh - the joy of having updates rammed down your throat when you at least expect them.

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Suddenly Drops OneDrive Support for Non-NTFS Disks – 94 Comments

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    In reply to MutualCore:If they would have just added the option to disable the automatic reboot I'd be a

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Updates the Shipping Versions of Windows 10, Again – 61 Comments

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    I don't mind the updates and reboots, but I do hate the automatic reboots! It is no longer possible to le

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Updates the Shipping Versions of Windows 10, Again – 61 Comments

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    "Microsoft did the PC expensive again" is maybe a better way of describing it.

    Posted 4 years ago on No, Microsoft Did Not Make the PC Cool Again (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    In reply to Breaker119:"form over function must prevail" Book of Ive 1:2

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Quietly Unveils Modern Keyboard and Mouse – 39 Comments

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    I got my Newton MessagePad 2000 in 1998 and later upgraded it to MP 2100. In 2001 I wrote most parts of my mas

    Posted 4 years ago on First Impressions: Apple Pencil and New Surface Pen Compared – 39 Comments

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    Paul and Brad are doing a great job with the articles, almost compensating for the FDR show that I honestly ca

    Posted 4 years ago on Who’s renewing? – 47 Comments

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    In reply to BoItmanLives:It will always be the "next version of Windows" that we are waiting for and that will

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 China Government Edition – 18 Comments

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    As long as they continue showing the future to developers at Build-conferences they will get away with it with

    Posted 4 years ago on When Will Then Be Now? (Premium) – 38 Comments

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    And why is this different that other packaging technologies already available (Cordova and electron)? Sadly I

    Posted 5 years ago on This is What Microsoft Said About Progressive Web Apps at Build – 26 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:I can not understand why you think the people publishing the exploits are the ones to blame.

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft: Ransomware Targets Out-of-Date PCs Only – 79 Comments

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    Looking at this with non-US eyes makes wonder if a) the backdoor was ordered by NSA and not patched by Microso

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft: Ransomware Targets Out-of-Date PCs Only – 79 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Apple's "goto fail" was also an honest mistake with potentially major implications. W

    Posted 5 years ago on HP “Keylogger” a Mistake, is Already Fixed – 13 Comments

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    Queue Clippy!

    Posted 5 years ago on Shoulder Tap Internals in Redstone 3 Build 16184 – 35 Comments

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    In reply to MutualCore:Yes, I have stocks in MSFT, AAPL and AMZN (and I bet your insurance company is having a

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface sales are down – nothing to report? – 14 Comments

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    If I had to choose between a locked down windows 10 cloud Windows-as-a-Service device only running UWP from a

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Cannot Afford to Lose the Education Market – 121 Comments

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    In reply to Paul Thurrott:Thanks for that post, Paul. I am not so much bothered with the release schedule. Wha

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface sales are down – nothing to report? – 14 Comments

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    OK - saw you discussing it on First Ring Daily. Thanks.

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface sales are down – nothing to report? – 14 Comments

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    Surface sales are down - nothing to report?

    Normally, each Microsoft report is scrutinized here on thurrott.com. However, I haven't found a trace of the Q3 FY2017 report (released on April 27) on this site. Why? I hate to think it is due to the 25% drop in revenue reported for the Surface line...

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface sales are down – nothing to report? – 14 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:And, some of our computers are not able to wake up from hibernation but others are.

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Adds Wake on Voice Capabilities to Surface Studio – 10 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Sadly not, it seems to be a combination of OS and BIOS. See https://support.microsoft.co

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Adds Wake on Voice Capabilities to Surface Studio – 10 Comments

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    With the slow roll out of CU they have been communicating - will the CU distribution be completed before RS3 i

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Aligns Windows and Office 365 Development Schedules – 15 Comments

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    They removed Wake On LAN support from power off in Windows 10 but now add Wake On Voice... Sigh....

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Adds Wake on Voice Capabilities to Surface Studio – 10 Comments

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    "This article isn’t about the abject lack of journalistic integrity that now grips my industry" This week ha

    Posted 5 years ago on Some Thoughts About a Surface Pro Refresh and the Spring Hardware Event (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    Wow - the Microsoft version on Monday's Apple Mac Pro secret meeting. Is eurogamer.net the Windows-clone

    Posted 5 years ago on First Ring Daily EP 126: Scorpio Soup – 1 Comments

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    In reply to reason42:I fully agree that the support for DPI scaling is horrible, especially when moving betwee

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Continues Working on Windows 10 High DPI Issues with Creators Update – 42 Comments

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    *crickets chirping*

    Posted 5 years ago on Apple Finds Itself With Its Back Against The Wall – 48 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Sorry but you must be joking. If you compare the situation back in 1996 with proprieta

    Posted 5 years ago on Apple Says Its Sorry. No, Really (Premium) – 50 Comments

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    Just license the OS separately and finally allow us to run it on standard PC hardware (yes, not a hackintosh!)

    Posted 5 years ago on Apple Says Its Sorry. No, Really (Premium) – 50 Comments

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    Do a Wallraff at Best Buy and ask for their advice on what computer to spec out and buy.

    Posted 5 years ago on If you could send Brad and Paul anywhere to do anything. – 39 Comments

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    My phone history for the last decade: Nokia N71 -> iPhone 3G -> iPhone 4S -> iPhone 5S and now iPhone

    Posted 5 years ago on Let’s Talk About Smartphone Pricing (Premium) – 92 Comments

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    Making it easier to become the next Pewdipie... It's this really what CU is all about and what the world

    Posted 5 years ago on Xbox One Tip: Find and Enjoy Game Broadcasts – 2 Comments

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    Great way to weed out all the users that have enabled "Defer feature updates". I guess the clock starts at the

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft: “Seamless” Rollout of Creators Update to Take “Several Months” – 18 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Oh yes!

    Posted 5 years ago on It’s a Date! Windows 10 Creators Update to Ship on April 11 – 44 Comments

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    In reply to Tony Barrett:I see so many new features in this update for all business users on Windows 10... (ir

    Posted 5 years ago on It’s a Date! Windows 10 Creators Update to Ship on April 11 – 44 Comments

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    Why is everybody so up in arms about the reboot itself? I am forced to reboot my laptops at least once a day w

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Updates Shipping Versions of Windows 10 for Third Time This Month – 29 Comments

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    Posted 5 years ago on Apple is Finally Competing on Price (Premium) – 38 Comments

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    FFS Microsoft - get your updates working!!!

    The most fragile thing in the Known Universe must be Microsoft updates.


    We have spent most of the day in the office trying to get the Office 365 update to install. Every time opening an office document, sending an email or while away from the computer for a couple of minutes the Office 365 upgrade window pops up.

    Trying to upgrade and it fails with "Something went wrong" on all our machines with the error code 30088-28 (1715). Only reference we could find was to "Network connection error. New code no info" on answers.microsoft.com.

    The solution was on another webpage - where this could be due to "an already existing installation of office". Hmmm, checked and we actually have two Office 365 installed - one in English and one in Swedish. Both looks like full installation, but the Swedish is actually only the language pack and dictionary. Uninstalling the Swedish language pack and the update could start and completed successfully. After reinstalling the Swedish Language pack, another "installation" of Office (with the "sv-se" extension in the name) shows up with the exact same version and install size...


    "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." - Einstein


    Sorry for the rant - just needed to vent!

    Posted 5 years ago on FFS Microsoft – get your updates working!!! – 1 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:I hope they remember to implement the red cross in the top right corner to mean "ye

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Begins Promoting Creators Update In Windows 10 – 8 Comments

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    They should check some free-to-play games in the App Store to get inspiration for more invasive ads. Maybe dus

    Posted 5 years ago on This is Why There Are Ads in Windows 10 (Premium) – 107 Comments

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    With the cross-licensing of x86-64 technology between AMD and Intel, the situation will be interesting in the

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft’s Big Bets on ARM are Really About Intel (Premium) – 37 Comments

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    Wow guys - you are talking about future updates to products that are not even released... I sure hope Microsof

    Posted 5 years ago on What The Tech Ep. 345: Project Scorpio Will Support Mixed Reality – 2 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Exactly! Twice now we have exceeded the quota of our LTE at the country house due to thr

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Promises More Flexibility, Transparency for Windows 10 Updates – 36 Comments

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    I'm still waiting for them to retire Skype Out, Skype Number and support for physical phones. I use my ol

    Posted 5 years ago on Skype Wi-Fi is Being Retired, No Word Yet on Microsoft Wi-Fi – 5 Comments

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    Wow - Microsoft is really liberal these days! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossplay

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Enables Multiplayer Cross-Play for Gears of War 4 – 2 Comments

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    In reply to chrisrut: I agree fully - natural language must work. However, I interact several times a day with

    Posted 5 years ago on Playing the Long Game: Microsoft’s Cortana Strategy Revealed (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    From all of us living outside of Cortana-land: we are so excited for you.  If Microsoft don't roll out Co

    Posted 5 years ago on Playing the Long Game: Microsoft’s Cortana Strategy Revealed (Premium) – 43 Comments

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    Amazingly the deal for the m3 Surface is available in Sweden. The other configurations don't have any deals. A

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface Pro 4 is On Sale For Up to $300 Off at the Microsoft Store – 4 Comments

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    They are hell-bent on beating Playstation sales this holiday season.

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Announces Its Biggest-Ever Xbox Sale – 12 Comments

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    In reply to Narg: Yeah, if it weren't for my mom that needs a new Mac I'd try this. My mom is self-employed in

    Posted 5 years ago on Putting Apple’s New MacBook Pro in Perspective – 31 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango: But if you go to your car dealer and ask for "a deal" or you want "to order", that's two

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Clarifies Its Surface Hub Sales Numbers – 12 Comments

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    "The average deal size we see in the pipeline is approximately 50 units" In our business lingo, a "deal" is no

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Clarifies Its Surface Hub Sales Numbers – 12 Comments

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    They could fix it by releasing a version of OSX that could officially run on "standard" PC hardware. The days

    Posted 5 years ago on Putting Apple’s New MacBook Pro in Perspective – 31 Comments

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    Fascinating news. A great way to kill the PC market for 2017. I can imagine many users (myself included) holdi

    Posted 5 years ago on ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs!? Hell Yes! – 147 Comments

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    In reply to Ukumio: You are so right - sarcasm it is. Giving numbers like the number of minutes spent in games

    Posted 5 years ago on PlayStation 4 Sales Hit 50 Million Units – 23 Comments

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    You mean that the number of "Xbox Live active users" that Microsoft reports isn't as accurate as actual sales

    Posted 5 years ago on PlayStation 4 Sales Hit 50 Million Units – 23 Comments

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    In reply to innitrichie: After reading this post I have just started using OneNote less than 6 hours ago. Init

    Posted 5 years ago on A Few Tips for Integrating OneNote Into Your Life – 39 Comments

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    In reply to MutualCore: Throw more good money after bad?

    Posted 5 years ago on Thinking About Microsoft’s “Most Ultimate Mobile Device” – 36 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn: You are probably right. With 4000 alpha members here at thurrorr.com and 400M Windows 10

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Issues Surface Book Firmware Updates (Updated) – 22 Comments

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    It's easy to laugh at the Apple Book. However, I have the previous book "The Work of the Apple Industrial Desi

    Posted 5 years ago on Thurrott Daily: November 15 – 15 Comments

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    I guess Microsoft's telemetry data indicates that 99,9999% of the users never bother to click the "more detail

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Issues Surface Book Firmware Updates (Updated) – 22 Comments

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    It stayed off during the night and did not run down the battery. Uninstalling definitely solved this problem o

    Posted 5 years ago on After last Tuesday updates my two HP ProBooks have started to hot-bag – 3 Comments

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    Uninstall took me through the day without issues on my primary laptop. I have it unplugged now and report back

    Posted 5 years ago on After last Tuesday updates my two HP ProBooks have started to hot-bag – 3 Comments

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    After last Tuesday updates my two HP ProBooks have started to hot-bag

    Anyone else seen this?

    After the Windows 10 updates that were rolled out last Tuesday I have started to get hot-bag problems on two laptops that have been working flawlessly sence they were reinstalled with Windows 10 about a year ago.

    It has now happened a couple of times on my primary laptop (HP EliteBook 640) and now on my secondary (EliteBook 850) after applying the November updates.

    Since the updates are now only distributed as one large file I'll try uninstall KB3200970 and see if it fixes this.

    Posted 5 years ago on After last Tuesday updates my two HP ProBooks have started to hot-bag – 3 Comments

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    Changing your Skype password during the show - Epic! Will you change ISPs mid-show next week? ;-)

    Posted 5 years ago on First Ring Daily EP 13: Password Fiasco – 20 Comments

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    You're honing your skills and the show is getting better and better. Keep it focused and short. Rellay looking

    Posted 5 years ago on Episode 5: An AI Future – 18 Comments

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    Premium articles on iOS Safari doesn't scale

    Hi,

    just noticed (2016-10-04 15:05 UTC) that all Premium articles are displayed too wide on my iPhone SE. All open articles show up fine (i.e. scaling to the device width).

    /Mattias

    Posted 5 years ago on Premium articles on iOS Safari doesn’t scale – 6 Comments

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    Thank God for answer from Lock Screen support! The old version was a mess, forcing me to always call back the

    Posted 5 years ago on Skype for iPhone and iPad Updated with Siri and Lock Screen Support – 6 Comments

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