Gee, Laurent, Microsoft "doesn't guarantee these devices will receive updates on unsupported hardware forever"
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So the "Match Group Sues Google" part of the headline seems right if a bit short in not mentioning that it's a
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Because there are people who live in areas without acceptable Internet access or whose access is limited in to
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Having been an architect on converting a proprietary group of sign ons at a well known global corporation to a
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Great news. Passwords time is long past and anyone still counting on them is relying on security theater and s
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And court case from Apple to block interoperability in 3...2...1...
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Precisely (although the article doesn't really make that clear). The big thing is that it's no longer installe
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Precisely. The remaining usage being supported will likely be things like process control systems in factories
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And yet the latest Apple rumors say that Apple is going to continue with the proprietary Lightning connector o
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Which means those older devices are also not secure and likely have other security issues that should make the
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Why? This is Musk spending his money not Tesla's money. It isn't as though SpaceX is a division of Tesla Motor
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Frankly, I don't use the Surface Duo enough as an actual voice phone device enough to really matter. They are,
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Or subsidize better bandwidth for remote workers.
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And if you haven't bothered to learn how to take advantage of any new features since 1995 then Windows 95 is t
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The cost of Apple's walled garden model. They can't admit anyone would use any computer but an IOS or macOS de
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That's assuming the 13 inch would still continue and that it would not be rebranded in that year's release as
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So there's nothing here but a disgruntled ex-employee making an undocumented claim?
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So the real story would be them killing off the MacBook Air product line and reinstating the MacBook product
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If the 15" MacBook Air drops the "Air" notation wouldn't that just be a 15" MacBook?
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or foLding :-)
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Two reasons:As darkgrayknight stated, more versions means more testing and support.As applications add feature
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Ah, you mean they're finally trying to catch up on their own phones on their own OS to match what Microsoft an
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No. The GIANT software acquisition didn't become Defender. The GIANT product became one of several parts of th
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It isn't a warning to Microsoft. It's a sop to frightened shareholders.
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Yes, history IS repeating itself. Microsoft is supporting increased security and Linux advocates, being behind
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This should be interesting. Washington State's Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, has a spectacular track record
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€5,000,000 is trivial money even if it's weekly.
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That's hilarious. And rather pathetically desperate.
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Even less than that. An Ex-exec.
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And this is why Ben isn't CEO and Satya is.
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Apparently, you thought it was news, Paul, or you wouldn't have made it a front page story.
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Really. Viruses don't survive or mutate into new strains without people to infect. Like it or not, the idiots
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An odd statistic since it is neither a report on new installs nor one on installed base,
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Amazing how an article on Spotify dropping a useful feature managed to include a paragraph and a link bashing
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Fan or no fan the heat has to go somewhere. Using the case as a to dissipate the heat radiantly only works if
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It's not an opinion up for consensus. It's the official status of the operating system as announced by Microso
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Windows 8.1 reached the end of Mainstream Support on January 9, 2018.It currently is on Extended Support which
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Windows 8.1 reached the end of Mainstream Support on January 9, 2018.
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ADM ads on the Sunday Mornings aren't for executive ego stroking. They're for making sure that stories that ma
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So 82% of Alphabet total revenue is from Google targeted search. After years of trying they're still a one tri
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This is textbook Abuse of Monopoly Power.
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Odd how, In order to remove Google influence they removed non-Google search engines, Let's be honest. They cha
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There are. That's what all those standards organizations are.What you're asking for is the equivalent of an of
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And if you actually read the linked report you'll understand why Microsoft is strictly enforcing TPM and Secur
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So you're saying that you reported this problem and the article is that they're fixing what you reported.Not s
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You also have to include things like differences in required warrantee support laws. That's one reason why con
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That's not quite accurate. OEMs could buy their licenses with or without Microsoft support but the larger ones
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Which is ironic on a site flooded with interstitial, online and video ads.
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Hopefully it will include dumping in the monopoly abuse charges.
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And THAT is why Windows 11 requires using the TPM.
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Seeing that the whole point of a Chromebook is to replace a personal computer with a smart terminal attached t
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Cool. This should be a fun addition.
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Wow. A 10% price increase over a decade. The horror.
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Exactly. When I joined the US Medical Reserve Corps, along with the background check I was required to get cur
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I never said it wasn't a good trick while it's still legal.
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The unanswered part of "What everyone wants to know" is how much advertising contributed to Google's PROFITS n
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So they're still a one-trick pony whose trick is quickly running into both monopoly and privacy legal issues a
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Good new you always announce on a Tuesday morning and bad news on Friday evening. That goes back to Tom Watson
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Since their announcement still includes them saying they'll update the actual dates monthly it's hardly a more
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As an FYI: some people in the UK still have pre-pay electrical service where you pay into a meter and when the
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As a bit of an FYI: I worked for a while as a Security Program Manager at Microsoft and two comments:Little be
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If by "former administration" you mean the Obama one since they had the strictest restrictions on Chinese high
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And people are wondering why Microsoft is enforcing hardware based security in Windows 11...
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Paul, how much of the article was about what's changed in all the Office applications and how much was about h
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That really was my thought. We're getting a "Hands-On" view of a suite of applications which is mostly describ
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Note also that Google's "choice" screen doesn't have the option of NOT installing the Google choices. They are
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The judge is part of the government. Paul didn't say "the prosecution can define markets".
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Arguably OnePlus was trying to game battery life benchmarks instead of the usual deceptive practice of gaming
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It's worth noting that in the DoJ v Microsoft suit there was also the bizarre argument by the prosecution that
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As an FYI, TPM 2.0 has been a Chromebook requirement since it was created.
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Google plus bellyfeel newspeak.
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It's also worth noting that people running pre-2016 systems still have until October 2025 to upgrade since Win
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You could argue that Windows 11 is to Windows 10 as Windows XP was to Windows 2000 but it would be wildly wron
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Gee, what a surprise, an unreleased daily pre-alpha build of part of the "Windows 11" shell isn't feature comp
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Exactly with one unstated qualification that got misinterpreted for many. The board has a fiduciary responsibi
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Great choice. Satya's both a brilliant strategist and a really nice guy.
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For those who don't follow Earthquake news, this is not an Android app so much as it's an Android front end to
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Interesting that the "Big Tech" companies in trouble are Numbers 1,3,4 and 5 but not the second largest tech c
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I'd guarantee it. Amazon corporate may be a tough place to work but they know how to think through the details
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Yeah, if you use a beta with a beta it's not surprising you get crashes and bugs. That's kind of a given for w
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Actually I have looked at it and it's not even close but I suspect you just notice the ones that bother you.
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So basically a set of minor "point releases" on the software side, minor "continuous refinement" tweaks on the
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You'll note it's not "big tech" but Apple that's being that strict with employees working at the facility. Per
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And the late Bill Hill would be pleased to see this. Now if only Amazon would revise Kindle to use his OSPREY
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Upper left corner light has become a multi-industry standard. I wouldn't read much into it.
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And that's actually what you want in this case. Remember this is a device for testing ported code. The idea is
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If the AirPods Max use the same wireless protocol as the less insanely expensive wireless Apple audio devices
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Great. The only reason I keep an unsupported copy of Internet Explorer around is for it's very good RSS Reade
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Always useful to get the deprecated and removed list.Could we also get a corresponding list of deprecated and
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Since color gamut is well beyond what the typical user understands it's something best left to the specialty a
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Amazing how consumer products now have better and smarter webcams than some premium laptops.
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This is one of the costs of software prices being pushed down to nearly nothing by companies who consider soft
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Wow. There's news. An Apple person saying everyone should follow Apple.Yeah, that's "The Real Story" that nobo
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Great. Do you have a site you trust for segment market share now that NetMarketShare is no longer reporting?
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But the other question is whether the tablet market has continued to collapse. This is something NetMarketShar
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UK Azure data has been stored in the UK (Either London or Cardiff) so when the UK stopped being part of the EU
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In reply to ggolcher:Good point. There's no question about Spotify being an EU corporation with their cor
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In reply to Pbike908:It doesn't have to be big tech to get the EU's attention. Opera was small and i
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The reason the EU is using Spotify as their target case is that Spotify Technology, S.A. is incorporated in Lu
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And it's a carrot that can be pulled away should an anti-trust case go in a way that Apple doesn't l
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In reply to garrygbain:Without the Surface Studio's functionality
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You can tell it's "fashion-forward" because it comes in "graphite, platinum and soft gold" rather than "d
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And THIS is why I buy physical media.
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Yep. Small form factor doesn't have to mean "Laptop components soldered in place in a bigger box". For th
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Fun videos from someone who actually knows what he's talking about. Highly recommended.
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In reply to crunchyfrog:Privacy, like security, is always "Whack-a-mole" at best.
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And both people using it will have trouble finding it with the new name. Hopefully they won't change the
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Then (December 2003): Motorola MPx-200 - generations ahead of anything else on the market Now: Samsung Galaxy
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So, short form, the Miata is not as good as my Ferrari so you might want to look elsewhere.
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In reply to Winner:You are correct that advertising (I assume you mean selling advertising) is not illegal BUT
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In reply to yaddamaster:It's always been, "Do no evil (that doesn't make a hefty profit)".
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A reminder that Motorola partnered with Hasselblad a few years ago for one of their magnetically attached add-
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In reply to hrlngrv:Speaking of "It may just be me" items, does anybody still use dial-up networking? That str
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So when Sony drops a service the response is that the biggest paragraph of the story is an attack on Microsoft
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There's also the three hours of keynotes from 8:30AM-11:30AM today (Tuesday, March 2nd)
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And then people complain when Windows 7 and Windows XP are no longer supported.Or, to be fair, equally old ver
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In reply to jjonas51:Yes. In some of their products they scrape the content and while they attribute it they d
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In reply to StevenLayton:For over three times the price I'd hope the build quality is better. (That'
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Not being 'cute' here but it's now over four years since Apple dropped USB Type-A connectors an
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In reply to TigerTom:Absolutely. Black on White is, by far, the easiest on the eyes except If you're work
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In reply to kennyb:I thought everyone knew that the Contoso family of companies were named after Contoso, Colo
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In reply to ngc224:But even if they do it will be labeled as them "revealing a secret" rather than announcing
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In reply to paul-thurrott:And removing it completely without replacing it would remove rendering components an
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Of course bad extensions, like bad apps (as opposed to applications) are what curated private stores are suppo
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And such is the joy of having an open ecosystem with the exponential interactions of dozens of choices for hun
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In reply to trparky:Which just means you haven't hit the "corner case" (edge case of an edge case) to tri
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In reply to Pungkuss:The one thing that might change is that Google's ad revenue is based on the value of
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In reply to paul-thurrott:So none of their attempts at diversifying their product line have moved the needle.
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How is Google Advertising's 81.2% of corporate revenue compared to Year over Year? That is kind of the ke
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In reply to paul-thurrott:The supply chain problem between different scale industries reminds me of two versio
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In reply to rbgaynor:I don't pick only numbers that make me happy. That's why I usually can spot tre
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In reply to rbgaynor:Analysis from Canalys’ recently published PC market outlook report details key growth t
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And for perspective, the same research firm, Canalys, also says PC shipments were 458 million units last year
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In reply to pecosbob04:More a way of getting the announcement read since it's being treated as a critical
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And on the same day issued critical security updates for which they recommend immediate updates for everyone u
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In reply to spiderman2:And nobody could get them
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In reply to oscar999:That's what you say when your OS development efforts are collapsing and you can'
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In reply to shawnthebeachy:Exactly. The Google acquisition was the reason I shut down all of our Fitbit produc
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Personally, I like the curved display edges on the earlier Samsung flagships. They made the display less like
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The problem with rechargables and why "some gamers apparently still very much want to use the old-fashioned ba
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In reply to SvenJ:The reality is that it IS a desktop. That it's built using laptop components doesn'
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The difficulty being, as was learned with Windows 8, that customers want a "New UI" that looks and works like
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To "pray to the court for relief" is pretty standard legal boilerplate.Yes, I'm actually defending Google
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Odd how Google hasn't come up in this seeing that it's about user tracking and privacy.
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In reply to Jeffsters:Thanks. Blackberry devices? They did demographics on both of them?
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What's amusing is that, if Facebook's numbers are correct, Apple users, who are about 22% of the dev
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Really? What's its share?Seriously. Lots of "It's really popular" and "It&
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For some reason.
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It's worth noting that due to Adobe's "Coke Classic" renaming of their top-end photography products,
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In reply to paul-thurrott:BMW convincing people that they're the BMW of automobiles was a pretty impressi
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OK, that case is really, really silly.Seriously, it's worth going to the Apple site just to see that case
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In reply to lilmoe:No. That would be C.
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It also, amazingly for 1995, used "19"+2 digit format for dates and was the last major programming language to
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In reply to Angusmatheson:The discussion was on the design. That didn't get a "Disappointing MacBook Air
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So you can "volunteer" to give them your data and thus make them not liable for how they sell it and use it or
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In reply to reefer2:Desktop/Laptop Market ShareWindows 87.03%macOS 10.74%Linux 1.71%Other 0.52%Having over eig
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In reply to toukale:Because monopoly does not require that you have a majority. It requires that you have suff
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Yes. There is no magic. Games with resources that are many times larger take many times more space.Replacing s
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Obviously, you're wearing it wrong.
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In reply to crp0908:Additionally, AdDuplex and NetMarketShare use data from Internet usage so they don't
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It's been more than just making it look like Chrome had a competitor. It was also about manipulating stan
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Guess they need Larry Page to come back as CEO so he can tell people they're holding it wrong.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:And Apple should make those system-level APIs available so it can be done without ha
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And, once again, no, the telephoto lens does NOT have 4x "optical zoom". It has 4x digital zoom.Optical zoom w
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In reply to sammyg:Why are any comments deleted here that don't violate the guidelines?Yet they are.
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In reply to Jim_Vernon:They're welcome to create them. That's the point.
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In reply to Skolvikings:And all of those ARE monopolies.Being a monopoly is not against the law. What's a
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And the Xbox team has now tweeted a picture and made it official with the following text:Let’s make it offic
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In reply to Bob25:Yes, that's how they decide if the new feature is actually used more than the one it�
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In reply to jgraebner:Yes, and that's clear in the updated version of Paul's comment BUT not in the
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In reply to yaddamaster:Monopoly doesn't require that there be no choices. Monopoly only requires that th
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In reply to Saarek:The profit in a bundle is getting you to pay for services you wouldn't otherwise buy.
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I don't still have my 1020 because mine is now in the photographic equipment collection of the George Eas
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In reply to bnyklue:Looking at those numbers I think they're doing OK thinking what they've been thi
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Gee, what a surprise. An ad broker made an "experiment" that makes it more likely to click on their customer&#
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I'm not quite sure how "up to 5x the regular fare" equates to "slightly more than before".
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Ten years seems quite reasonable. That's better than most non-digital consumer products.
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Paul, if it bothers you that much then file a bug against the name of the application. That's what beta t
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In reply to Randall_Lewis:Yep. Right now it's a decision between Garmin and Samsung as far as replacing m
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In reply to SvenJ:But even more if you start getting ads for cremation services and funeral planning and stop
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:It really exits support yesterday. If a zero-day shows up today it won't be fi
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Of course, trying to draw conclusions from the outside package of a chip is like looking at a car body and dec
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Of course having a USB Type C connector tells us almost nothing about what capabilities are on those USB ports
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I don't know, Paul. When was the last time a new version of Windows came out and you actually praised it
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Here's a comment.
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Nice guy and I've had my teams using TypeScript and C# for years now (along with occasional F#) TypeScrip
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Once a product misses the Holiday Shopping Season train (which means completed in July) it might as well slip.
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In reply to basic sandbox:I'd like somebody to actually create an alternative OS that's actually not
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In reply to MartinusV2:That'd give Google some competition...
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In reply to gregsedwards:Good points. As for acquiring the product, though, you already need a license which y
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Note, however, this appears to be the lighter Lightroom and not the full featured Lightroom Classic. Seeing ho
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Wow. That's up to the Multimedia PC specs from 1991.
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In reply to glenn8878:Because they make more money even with the fines. That's why non-financial remedies
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In reply to RonV42:From the article:Users are recommended not to use water or other liquids to clean the nano-
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In reply to DataMeister:But would you trust your $6,000 (sorry, $5,999 plus tax) monitor with its delicate scr
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And don't forget the extra $400 if you want wheels rather than feet at the bottom of the system unit.And
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In reply to RM:How much is the kit to clean the cleaning cloth?
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To be fair this isn't really that unusual in very high-end monitors. Even going back decades, Tektronix v
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In reply to red.radar:Not so much the Mac product line as just the Mac Pro product itself. The MacBook Pro an
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In reply to MikeGalos:And while we still don't know pricing on the full top of the line configuration, we
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In reply to Stooks:You're wearing a Homepod?To quote Steve Jobs, "You're holding it wrong".
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So wearables, as they've been previously defined, are actually down but by suddenly counting headphones i
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:That wouldn't be an issue here (as it wasn't when it was done on the Leno
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Nothing new in the main part. The W series laptops designed for photographers by Lenovo had this a decade ago.
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In reply to pecosbob04:You're right. Apple doesn't do marketing like that to the PRO market. That�
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But how many configurations did they include in the email?We know the base model with monitor and stand is $12
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In reply to bluvg:About the only thing involving "courage" is not the wireless charging but going wireless for
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In reply to glenn8878:Our idea "missing product" in the line is close.We want a small, battery powered, Echo t
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In reply to evox81:Exactly. That's why 5G really is multi-band and why calling any devices without full m
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In reply to lvthunder:Kind of hard for palmer73 to use "broadcast/streaming software" that "doesn't have
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In reply to palmer73:One thing to realize is that if you have application software that doesn't run on a
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In reply to trparky:Wow. I knew there was a LOT of Google abandonware but 191 listings is more than I'd e
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In reply to Phuor:In some cases the printer vendor has a remote printing app for phones. That's at least
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In reply to SvenJ:Nor recognize what it takes to design a good one.
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In reply to Maktaba:More likely they saw sales figures for desktops and laptops and full function tablets and
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Now that will make for interesting testimony. "If it please the court, I didn't write that agreement to c
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Well, it's a start. The Lumia 1020 battery case put the extra battery bump in a the grip that made the er
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In reply to miamimauler:No. Providing balance. You see, I don't get paid to show my biases.
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In reply to WP7Mango:And Apple's apologists keep pretending that whatever Apple says is true regardless o
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Well, let's be fair. Apple can't say, "We tried the new design and it was a bad idea. Rather than ad
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So in reality that's actually "Microsoft dropping Cortana support for two 3rd Party Operating Systems in
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Despite Google's effectively winning by stalling this out until, even with the monetary damage, there
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A folding flexible display phone in a more usable format than the Samsung. Interesting idea.
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In reply to glenn8878:Actually trying out a new UI is easier for Microsoft than it is for users whose response
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Seeing they'd promised it for 2019, the only news here is that it won't ship in the next couple of w
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"Magic Keyboard"?OK, forget them dropping the headphone plug, creating that straight line really is a case of
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In reply to codymesh:But, but those are all FEATURES. Didn't you watch the last half dozen keynotes? Seri
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I love how going back to the keyboard from four versions ago that actually worked is euphemised as "improved"
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In reply to warren:Yes and no. The points you make are reasons why it's easier to make one policy but the
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Any responses from Google. Apple, Facebook, Twitter or Thurrott.com/Petri on whether they're going to do
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In reply to dontbeevil:I loved their apologia for Apple saying it's not as glaring an error as it sounds
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In reply to WP7Mango:Actually, it's a feature. The corresponding benefits are ease of hiring experienced
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Another feature it has now is three and a half years of application development experience out there by both i
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Typo in the first paragraph. Where it says "Excel is getting language queries", it should say "Excel is gettin
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Put very simply, if you think Outlook on mobile device operating systems or on the web are anywhere near the
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In reply to jimchamplin:And WordPad used a lot of the same Word routines. That doesn't make them the same
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So "Photoshop for iPad" is to actual Photoshop as WordPad was to Word.
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In reply to pecosbob04:No. I'm saying Mehedi took a cheap shot at Disney and Netflix to excuse Apple'
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Well, that means we'll be downloading our data, killing our Fitbit accounts and destroying our devices.An
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In reply to ghostrider:But that can't be true since Mehedi told us that, unlike Netflix and Disney+, Appl
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Of course. Growth rates of a new product had better be faster than the growth rate on the established and domi
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In reply to nbplopes:I was talking about software but if you mean a hardware problem then let's compare t
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In reply to Jeffsters:Nice to hear. When I wrote that it'd had been 100% so at least it's not quite
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In reply to Greg Green:Or because people insist that software be free or sold below cost. Testing and high qua
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:It's looking like their "solution" will be to accept a "reconditioned" replacement
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In reply to Jeffsters:You mean when they bricked 100% of their own product?Oh, wait. That didn't happen.
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I've been doing that for well over a year now using Alexa and LIFX and enhancing that with other services
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In reply to dontbeevil:Apple: It Just Bricks
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Realistically, expect this to be fixed very quickly. About the only way this kind of thing could happen is a p
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So, combining the 20% increased revenue and 23% decreased net income works out to net income dropping from rou
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In reply to Greg Green:Clarifying that, they've pulled 13.2 for the HomePod but not the 13.2 update for o
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Pretty bad when you ship software with a device-specific, severity 1 bug when that software only works on one
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In reply to Andi:Microsoft and Apple sell actual products and services. Look at their P&L statements.Alph
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In reply to tboggs13:Absolutely, and the Microsoft Band had features that Fitbit still hasn't quite caugh
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In reply to mmurfin87:And, having had a couple die during warranty, horrible customer service with replacement
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Well, if Google buys Fitbit I'll stop using my Charge 3 before the acquisition and switch to a platform t
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With roughly twice the paid subscribers and twice the growth rate, it looks like Apple Music is hardly nipping
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In reply to MrKirbs:And has a legendary history of incompatible systems as each vendor's interpretation o
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Great. When I was a Security Program Manager it was always frustrating having an unsecure level below us that
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As, of course, has virtually every computer from every reputable vendor for the last twenty years.
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Note he wasn't the "Outlook Boss". He headed up the transition of his acquired startup's code into O
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How are the load times on a second play after exiting?
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In reply to paul-thurrott:They also could have, and perhaps did for all I know, code in a cross-platform toolk
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In reply to pecosbob04: "Good artists borrow, great artists steal' Picasso Among othersIt&
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In reply to wright_is:In fact, the first Microsoft hardware product, years before the mouse was a Microsoft ca
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In reply to PeterC:Thanks.
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What market share does OnePlus have in the global market, the China market and the US market?They seem to get
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In reply to FactoryOptimizr:You think everybody's implementation and version of Bluetooth is the same and
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In reply to cayo:A workaround for a problem is not the same as not having the problem or fixing the problem.
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Paul, could you do a followup article that actually focuses on using iOS and the iPhone 11? This was an intere
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Mehedi, you say this will be an "iPhone accessory for mass appeal."Which is it? An accessory for iPhone or som
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In reply to dontbeevil:No. It's not going to be a competitor for HoloLens. Mehedi states it's "an iP
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Microsoft announced Xbox Project Scarlett will be out in time for Holiday 2020 back in June so four months lat
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In reply to MikeGalos:Amazing. Somebody voted down a bug report. :-)
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In reply to MikeGalos:Oddly, this post is tagged as a reply to SvenJ's reply to RobWade's post but s
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In reply to SvenJ:The problem, at this point, is that pretty much everybody who wants an Assistant based speak
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So, they didn't set a date and so they haven't missed that date and nothing about today make the pro
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So, to get multiple windows and multiple app instances and a decent file system on iOS you need to leave Apple
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Sure, this has been rumored for several months now as only for the Chinese market and is supposed to be cheape
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In reply to miamimauler:The 1,750,000,000 people choosing to use Windows over its competitors?
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Um, Office integration with the built in noise cancelling microphones is really cool, Mehedi, and Microsoft ha
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On a foldable device a rear camera wouldn't make sense since you already have a screen on the other side
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In reply to F4IL:Correct.
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In reply to Sammibulin:No. It charges because it's in its storage dock in the keyboard which means it doe
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In reply to RonH:Nor do I (and I think that there's a pretty solid consensus here that I'm solidly i
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In reply to mjarosch:So are all the links pointing to the evleaks Twitter feed.
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Seeing how rarely a battery needs to be replaced in a current Surface pen using a AAAA (yes, quad-A) battery t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Not at all. Just that reporting a feature that's been out for literally decades
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Sorry but that's how the world works when you support all the OEMs in the world
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Not sure why having virtual desktops is supposed to be impressive. They've been available on Unix under t
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No. It means the bugs in 3rd Party drivers have finally been fixed by those 3rd Parties.
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"... it’s meant to sound like a high-end, premium speaker, thanks to the three speakers inside the dev
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Nice. Now if we could only get the average marketing type to actually use it.
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"Design-wise, it just looks like a wider version of the regular Echo, and a lot similar to Apple’s HomePod."
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Very cool new category. Congratulations to Amazon.
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But, to be fair, undercutting Apple on price isn't exactly a major achievement.
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In reply to Sandy:Laws follow the jurisdiction. That's why there's a need for diplomatic immunity an
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In reply to Waethorn:Laziness and profits. It's easier and cheaper to have one code base to write and mai
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In reply to dontbeevil:Perhaps they will. Then they could blame US manufacturing for the cost.
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Which was a given seeing that it was just a question of jurisdiction. In other "key decisions", Seattle city o
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I'd be very curious to see if they got exemptions for duty on other Apple products made in China as part
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Or, somebody could decide it's OK to have a phone that's half a millimeter thicker and go back to re
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In reply to dontbeevil:Now, now. Let's be fair. This time Mehedi didn't have a headline actually say
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As an FYI, if you go to surface.com/microsoftevent you can get a reminder file including the streaming link.
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So, a bit of catch-up and a lot of meh.
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In reply to SvenJ:dontbeevil might as well. It seems to always be appropriate.
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In reply to jedwards87:You understand wrong. The bug that opened the security hole was code in iOS that was ac
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In reply to dontbeevil:You think Microsoft is sucking up to the Chinese government to help sell their phones?
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To swarnock over on the Premium side who was sure BillG was going to be the barrista:They wanted him to be but
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Honestly, a plague on both their houses. Google uses "Project Zero" as a marketing attack tool.Apple should ha
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In reply to MikeGalos:Apparently I replied to "Good example" that were [REDACTED]
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Any statement on whether there will be only ONE compatible version of USB 4 with USB Type C connector unlike t
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In reply to Scsekaran:And that kind of confusion is precisely why USB 3.x with the Type C Connector adoption h
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In reply to dontbeevil:Oh, I agree. I just wanted to point out this Apple "innovation" has been around for at
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In reply to dontbeevil:Good examples. Odd how that works out.
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Wow. Another "Innovation" Apple will have retroactively invented.
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In reply to dontbeevil:To be fair, evil, that really wouldn't be true. Even Nokia in 2014 was introducing
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You know, it's not that Apple is the only one who plays catch-up with devices that have been around for y
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Oddly, Lenovo didn't call out their Chromebooks in the headline and didn't include them until right
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In reply to Jeffsters:I think I'll keep having my Windows Phone as long as it's still getting securi
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In reply to dontbeevil:Fourteen separate attack vectors including being able to break into Apple's "keych
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In reply to unkinected:No. They'd wildly disagree with you and cite things like products that they'r
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It's been available for years for Linux and for anybody else who paid to license it. The real change is p
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A headline so nice they had to use it twice.Shame this article, which had a lot of content that wasn't ab
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In reply to codymesh:Because if you're actually in the software business then the number of unique config
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In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:Why? Who uses Thunderbolt besides Apple?Or do you mean USB 3.1 with a USB-C connector
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Looks like there's no time on the invitation but last year's event, also on October 2nd was from 1PM
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Curious, indeed since the "another measurement" doesn't provide an actual motiv
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Wow. Nice coverage.I assume we'll see a front-page headline story every time any vendor has a feature off
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You mean the "bug" that you promoted as a useful feature in "iOS Bug Enables iPhone Owners to Jailbreak After
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In reply to hrlngrv:As mentioned above, you dropped a decimal point and it's roughly 1 million units.Your
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In reply to PeteB:And next year, for sure, will be "The Year of the Linux Desktop".
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In reply to Hypnotoad:Not just "so many on this site" but actual companies that measure these things. For exam
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In reply to SvenJ:And the role of tech sites and tech "journalists" is to educate the public so that they'
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In reply to emanon2121:It's two prime lenses AND digital zoom between them and in the area above the foca
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Once again...Having multiple fixed length lenses is NOT Optical Zoom. It's multiple ranges of Digital Zoo
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In reply to Jeffsters:No. The message is "you're vulnerable to remote hacking even without any apps ever
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In reply to Jeffsters:That won't work since the security hole is present in the OS already.
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Several of those changes are already at in the beta, developer and canary builds.
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In reply to ngc224:Apparently "leaked" means somebody violated the embargo on the press release by a couple of
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In reply to SimJeff:I don't think those imposing this policy think.
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So which is it?Yesterday you said, "There haven’t much talk about the Series 5 Apple Watch, and it’s kind
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And this is why it's important that sites are VERY clear about when they're reporting gossip and whe
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Both users were pleased.
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In reply to solomonrex:When you replace ten local servers with one Internet connection you need less IT to mai
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Sure beats tablets which everyone claimed were going to replace PCs.
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In reply to red.radar:Note they "outgrew the market" which says that they took share from competitors in a GRO
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But, but, we're living in the Post-PC World...
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Cool, and similar in concept in sensor design to the Nokia Lumia 1020's 41MP sensor from 2013. Now add in
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Apple Card, prestige status for anyone who wants it.
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In reply to skane2600:Yes but aside from that its significance is no more than yet another Linux distro.
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But is it REALLY an actual new OS or, like iOS, macOS, Android and Linux, just another variation on the 1960s
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Not only does Apple's iMessage compete in the VoIP space but VoIP itself is also a competitor for the car
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The rumor Mehedi failed to mention is that Apple is supposedly doing this to first produce a cheaper iPhone fo
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Actually, JScript became the standard (ECMA 262) for the proprietary Javascript because, among other things, i
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In reply to derekaw:At this point Mac usage is so low that it's impossible to believe that anyone still c
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In reply to Jeffsters:And you do?Great! Which one?
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And it's likely that even this tiny sop to user control of their experience was really driven by Accessib
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Three years to Long Term Servicing and followed by likely a few more years of security fixes. Odds are HoloLen
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And why would you? Cheaper Android-compatible hardware already exists.
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In reply to MacNala:Alpha numbers only apply if you were an alpha paid customer and have that hexagon with 3 a
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In reply to ghostrider:And, really, individual growth RATE isn't an important comparison since, as the in
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In reply to Pungkuss:97% of their revenue or 97% of their profits? Remember, they used to spend a lot of ad p
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So Google's revenues were 81% advertising. What was the percentage of Google's profits from advertis
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In reply to skane2600:He didn't in THIS story but has, frequently, made fun of long, very precise Microso
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Ah, so when Microsoft makes product names longer to be more precise, that's bad and when Microsoft makes
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In reply to skane2600:I know they weren't actual announcements. And THAT is the rule as far as saying it&
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It's a start.
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Or you could save yourself that trouble and go with somebody else rather than Google. Alexa doesn't have
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In reply to skane2600:Then we need another word because I've seen "rumors" that were manufactured by comp
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Was it announced? NoDid "journalists" report things they knew violated their NDA? No
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In reply to skane2600:Vaporware is when the company ANNOUNCES a product that doesn't yet exist.It isn
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"The acquisition would give Apple access to all of Intel’s talent that’s [sic] worked on the company’s
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In reply to Lordbaal:You mean "copy editor" rather than "copyright editor"?I charge $20/article.
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Half the memory and 10X performance? Man, that old program must have been garbage.
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You answered your own question. Your "Aside from..." sentence lists incredibly key reasons for minimizing the
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Windows Phone 8.x is no longer supported and hasn't been for a while. Windows Phone 10 still has a few mo
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In reply to irfaanwahid:Inherent to all battery powered tech devices from all vendors.
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And currently up 2.65% in after hours trading on that news despite the scare headline about Azure growth being
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In reply to skane2600:The one that's about to be deployed but already exists in test sites and that alrea
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In reply to m_p_w_84:I'm pretty sure Amazon isn't "stateless". Last I'd checked Amazon was head
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In reply to remc86007:I have no numbers but I do have two points that agree that A/B testing is a good thing:1
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In reply to Stooks:Well, to be fair, it's also what some tech sites seem to use as their key criterion fo
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And an application that the industry press at the time was certain would not only never catch up to WordPerfec
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In reply to skane2600:They actually believed their own "Post-PC Era" marketing meme.But that does give them 6.
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In reply to magmastyle:What's illegal is selling the license you bought with the medium and then using th
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In reply to skane2600:Sure. It depends on which headline you want to write. The article, using the same number
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Reports have also been saying that Apple is producing an in-display fingerprint reader iPhone without Face ID
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In reply to Waethorn:Yes. A large number of "open source" products are just commercial products paid for by co
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Wow, what a deal for the students. "We'll give you 7% off of a product that costs twice as much as a gene
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And that is how "open source" really works with it being a way for rich corporations to get development given
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In reality, Microsoft files hundreds if not thousands of patents per year and only a tiny number become "real
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Note the wording difference.Microsoft is not "planning to move" versus Microsoft is "looking … at alternativ
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A little bit of trivia: Visual Basic was such a success that it was the first language to surpass COBOL as the
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Then whatever sources you did use for the history of the product did just that and y
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As way of introduction, I was on the extended Visual Basic 1.0 team, wrote the official Microsoft training cou
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Remember that Microsoft also did a great MS-DOS Mobile app for Windows Phone as an April Fool's Day joke.
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In reply to Stooks:So, basically you're suggesting the 5th generation MacBook Pro should undo every "inno
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Hopefully this will be in time for the keyboards on the Mac Pro and they won't just charge $1,000 for the
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In reply to skane2600:Yep. It's not new as much as a return to what they had before their "brave" butterf
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And that recognition that software needs to work for all systems rather than tied to one vendor is what distin
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Seeing how Facebook (and some of their other sites) are down and partly down today that may not mean anything.
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In reply to skane2600:I recall their comment and they were given straight and factual information and made the
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In reply to skane2600:And very much by their own hands by a mix of management horrible choices.They bet on OS|
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In reply to frank_costanza:As is shown by the contents of their "WordPerfect Office X9 - Professional Edition"
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In reply to Greg Green:"We're coasting on our cash reserves" is not a message that inspires confidence in
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In reply to BrianEricFord:That's more likely the price they pay for a contract saying he can't desig
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That's now 180 degrees for Apple who used to advertise how their products were so intuitive you didn'
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So, really, he was, in the old IBM jargon, "Retired On The Job" for a few years now and finally made it offici
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:Which has also left Apple without a great operations/supply side guy since he was "Pete
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I can't think of an OS that does have its file system in the kernel. What am I missing in Paul's tre
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In reply to RM:No. He knows how to sketch out products that are rectangular with rounded corners. It was engin
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In reply to Waethorn:To be fair, it isn't his designs that have impeded Apple's engineering. It was
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In reply to Thom77:Now THAT comment is content worth paying for. A nice change from the reformatted Google pre
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And, while it's nice to see an optic system slightly more advanced than a Kodak Brownie from 1901, Adding
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In reply to digiguy:Tablets, period, have failed. NetMarketShare shows them as only 4.6% of the computing mark
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Paying that premium price for that famous Best Buy experience.
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In reply to lvthunder:And announcing who their new partner is and their new process for vetting their content
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Another example of how USB 3.1 with the Type C connector and multiple, optional extra protocols is far too non
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Either way Google is responsible.Their defense is equivalent to saying, "We didn't steal those television
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Bravo. Just like Solitaire taught people to use a mouse this will teach the new UI techniques not just for tho
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In reply to James_Rainey:And you typed that comment using your modular Mac Pro while listening to music on you
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Ah, good old "Don't Be Evil Unless There's A Buck In It For Us"
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In reply to Stooks:Becoming?
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Maybe someone told them that if they didn't have their services linked they'd be less likely to be a
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In reply to sevenacids:Or the fan was blowing loudly for hours because the logic that controls the fan was dea
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Well, it wasn't really a matter of the 3rd party shop doing a clean install of the OS that cost you your
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Wow, your comment actually (at this time) got voted as worse than the spam post.
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In reply to Greg Green:More accurately "Xbox Backward Compatibility Continues Unchanged" with a subhead of "Li
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:They get paid to do that and it peels right off.
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In reply to saturn:And even then backward compatibility for the Xbox One isn't ending. It's continui
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And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. For those too young to get the reference, this was a recurri
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No. Unlike the badly worded headline, backward compatibility continues on and goes into the future. What actua
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In reply to m_p_w_84:It's pretty standard usage.In this industry "Holiday 2020" means it will be for sale
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You've got a pretty big typo in that transcript on the SSD performance, Mehedi...You have "The company ha
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In reply to jgraebner:Actually, had Apple set artificially high prices in that case they would likely not have
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In reply to skane2600:It's actually more complicated than that.The market that was the monopoly involved
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In reply to Greg Green:NoYou can be a monopoly if you aren't anti-competitive.You can be anti-competitive
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In reply to vernonlvincent:"Companies are allowed to have monopolies. What they are not allowed to be is anti-
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In reply to lvthunder:Sure. There are monopolies in virtually every type of business. Once again, being a mono
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In reply to lvthunder:Whether you think it's fair or not really isn't the issue. It IS a market. It
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First off, I Am Not A Lawyer. That said, I was a part of the Windows extended team during the DOJ v Microsoft
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In reply to RobertJasiek:And unless the fines increase significantly over time the interest on the money will
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In reply to hrlngrv:The DDE and NetDDE solutions I saw predated most use of the Internet and all of the Web an
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In reply to hrlngrv:There was but it was a lot more fragile. In fact there were both DDE to a local app that g
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In reply to pecosbob04:Why? If somebody steals your car do you say, "Hey, when they do it twice I'll cons
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In reply to pecosbob04:Ah, so what statement I made wasn't objective reality?(This should be amusing)
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In reply to wright_is:Don't you mean you paid around 650€ for a STAND for a 34" ultrawide Dell display?
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In reply to pecosbob04:Correct. Courier was NOT leaked as a trial balloon by anybody. It was a research projec
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In reply to pecosbob04:Did Microsoft ever announce a Surface Mini? No.Did Microsoft ever demonstrate a Surface
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In reply to curtisspendlove:It seems primarily targeted at post-production houses and post departments of stud
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In reply to wright_is:Exactly. When you're talking about render farms or other high performance computing
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In reply to curtisspendlove:And the AirPower had a "demo area" where press could even pick up non-working hard
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In reply to curtisspendlove:More likely they have marketing metrics on "would you still buy a <model> if
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In reply to curtisspendlove:"I’m not 100% sure how “compatible with standard graphics cards” the new Mac
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In reply to curtisspendlove:... I still have to decide if amortizing a $12k Mac Pro over ten years
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In reply to wright_is:Oddly, hundreds of thousands of desktop computers are sold every year in Germany with di
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It's a start.
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In reply to curtisspendlove:But they weren't offering hands-on time from what I've seen. And they�
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In reply to curtisspendlove:There are but this won't be a doubling of output over a computer at half the
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In reply to lvthunder:Not many companies in the video production or other "creative" tasks that have only one
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In reply to bbold:That high-end version demonstrated with all those expensive monitors ends up well above $59,
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:You can't configure a Mac Pro with that graphics horsepower today either. Well, no
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In reply to Oscar Castillo:Actually, Mehedi penned this one.
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In reply to pecosbob04:Charging your multiple Apple devices on your AirPower charger? No? But it was not only
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In reply to skane2600:It's worth noting that IBM's high-end Microchannel machines rarely sold at ret
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:I compared this with it's equivalent at Dell. For the base model which is the only
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:Yes but it has to be at a price that is justified by its actual increase in productivit
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Yeah. Being an obedient and unquestioning devout religious follower is an easier life
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In reply to lvthunder:Exactly. That was my point. It's not, as lvthunder suggested, a machine that gets a
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In reply to curtisspendlove:And that's fine. But the point was about the people who can justify it becaus
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In reply to joeaxberg:They clearly had ongoing commitments to some large organizations that use their high-end
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Exactly my point. They know people need backward compatibility with USB Type A con
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In reply to Addkeyboardtoipad:Agreed. Apple did return to producing an actual computer geared toward actual pr
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In reply to MikeGalos:And now we know Microsoft has until "the Fall" to ship.
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In reply to MikeGalos:Oh, and $1,000 extra if you want that non-reflective coating on the display.So we'r
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In reply to lvthunder:And how many 1-person, 1-computer shops are there that bring in a million dollars and ca
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In reply to skane2600:No. It's which customer. The studios who'll buy 100 $25,000 Mac Pros and have
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In reply to skane2600:All-in-ones have lower support costs and higher margins. Apple is willing to put up with
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Interesting that on the Pro box they went with USB Type A connectors.
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In reply to MikeGalos:And now fixed. Thanks.
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Apple’s new Mac Pro is finally here.No. Apple's new Mac Pro has been announced. It won't be anywhe
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In reply to yoshi:No, $10,998 for the minimal base configuration plus $999 for the monitor's stand. To ge
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Not "rename" in that headline, fork or split off.It's not like they'll be the same but with differen
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And in a couple of hours we'll have more data about whether "Centaurus" and "Andromeda" will ship before
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In reply to glenn8878:Who says you can't? Screens rotate.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:This seems like a story that deserves front page coverage.
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In reply to jedwards87:No. Google is an advertising company first and an advertising company second and third
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In reply to CloneURpeople2::-)
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In reply to skane2600:Oddly, Paul understood and I understood.
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In reply to JHancox:And there's as much chance of that as it running on MVS or Multics or VMS. Why would
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In reply to skane2600:You're the one saying "I have no idea WTF this is."
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In reply to warren:I believe that's repeating the old Unix fan myth (which gives you an idea of its age)
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Apparently it must be since, although Paul was able to easily pull out a list of f
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In reply to brduffy:Apple did it therefore it must makes sense. That's the only criterion needed to the
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In reply to skane2600:No. It's not a "clear description". It's a first teaser. As I said the announc
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In reply to solomonrex:Sadly, "delighters" has become a fairly standard term now for new features that the end
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In reply to illrigger:This wasn't an announcement. That will come later. I'd guess within a couple o
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In reply to jimchamplin:That's one way to strip it down, another would be what Thompson and Ritchie did b
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In reply to geoslake:Yes, the 6502 is modern compared to falling back on a stripped down version of Multics th
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After discussing rumors of a Modular Windows and Composable Shell and Always Connected PCs for literally years
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In reply to jimchamplin:And the "repair" should be replacing the defective designs (all three of them, maybe f
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You have to love iFixit's comment: "Topping it all off is the key cap. This has a handy label to tell use
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In reply to skane2600:It's not so much suing over that violation as much as it would give the US to go in
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In reply to nbplopes:Huawei was one of the companies involved back then. There may well have been others.
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In reply to karlinhigh:No. They also used multiple fixed focal length lenses with digital zoom between them.A
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In reply to SvenJ:I've seen a few demonstrated at shows but don't recall any ever making it to produ
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In reply to mikiem:Yes. Going to a smaller size rectangle of sensors in the same image circle is just cropping
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Without membership in the various organizations they also won't be able to use the logos for stating comp
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In reply to brduffy:Likely because the old design couldn't be made as thin as the new one and having the
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In reply to WP7Mango:No. I don't believe any have had optical zoom. But phone vendor's marketing de
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In reply to mikiem:Crop factor really has nothing to do with it. That's really only important when you ar
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No. And no even with the update.Optical zoom involves the lenses (you know, the OPTICAL part of the system) ac
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In reply to wright_is:That doesn't mean they don't still own them. Licensing a use, even for free, d
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In reply to illuminated:Actually, the old deal negotiated by Susan Rice and her team allowed spying. They knew
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In reply to wright_is:And how do they do that without paying the licensing fees for the parts of Linux that ar
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In reply to brduffy:To write their own OS they'd need to create a version of an OS that was either compat
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In reply to illuminated:I put some of it in my comment below. If you're actually interested, I'd hig
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This really is not about the trade war. Huawei was already under tight scrutiny and restrictions under the Oba
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Looks like the new Microsoft ownership of GitHub is starting to make a difference.
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It looks like Apple is getting all the mea culpa announcements like this regulatory judgement and the "updated
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So, really, the headline should be "Apple Forced to Be More Upfront About iPhone Performance"
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In reply to karlinhigh:Improvements shouldn't happen and when they have to you shouldn't know it.Let
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Well, no surprise that while Microsoft is supporting increased user privacy rights Google is getting caught vi
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In reply to SvenJ:The problem is they can't go back to the old keyboards since they're too thick and
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In reply to lvthunder:Replacing a defective part that failed with another known defective part that will fail
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In reply to provision l-3:And since neither Microsoft nor Apple base their revenue model on selling user data
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In reply to jbinaz:Actually, it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to call for this.They're having to do
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The most used operating system in the world is Android, by a lot. Probably not and certainly not "by a lot".
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In reply to mrlinux11:15,000 not (obviously) 15,00
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And this is why you ideally go with actual independent standards for device interoperability and if that'
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Nice to see somebody actually doing something about the skills shortage in AI and ML along with the growing pr
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Nice to see both the latest intel chips already have this fixed and the latest Windows patch already has a fix
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It's worth noting that this particular attack vector was, reportedly, used to target Jamal Khashoggi, the
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In reply to James_Wilson:Or send you an email alert so you can check your cameras and use those to send an e91
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We're currently using Alexa with LIFX smart bulbs and IFTTT to do a lot of this. Nice to see even more fu
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In reply to provision l-3:You're missing the point. This does enable civil suits AND it's the key st
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Ah, The first announced Andromeda device. The OEM version.
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Using the current state of the art to celebrate the 50 year old state of the art.Sadly, we're not getting
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In reply to hrlngrv:I worked in the tech industry and mostly saw lawyers using Blackberries.
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In reply to provision l-3:Monopolies are merely those companies who can act and are signficant enough in a spe
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In reply to lvthunder:Antitrust law IS to prevent monopolies from abusing their power.Prior to US v Microsoft
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In reply to skane2600:Actually, you do but, again, being a monopoly is neither rare not a bad thing. ABUSING a
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In reply to lvthunder:Apple certainly is a monopoly. There's nothing wrong with that. Virtually EVERYBODY
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In reply to toukale:The problem with your theory is that abuse of monopoly power to restrict competitors doesn
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In reply to hrlngrv:I'd class Blackberries in a different group because they were almost totally a featur
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In reply to hrlngrv:That's not just a "rather small group" that switched from a feature phone to a Window
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In reply to pecosbob04:As I said, see US v Microsoft for precedent.
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In reply to pecosbob04:See US VS Microsoft.
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In reply to Greg Green:No. But Ford Corporate can be sued for not letting a third party shop keep buying Ford
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In reply to msorrentino:Actually, the Microsoft antitrust case was about a LOT more than bundling of IE as the
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In reply to robsanders247:Actually, that would be the case if Mercedes actually produced a drivetrain for the
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In reply to pecosbob04:You bet. What part in particular of the very standard US anti-trust law that I stated a
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In reply to lvthunder:Actually, they absolutely can make iOS a market which makes Apple a monopoly in that mar
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In reply to pecosbob04:Nope. I'm just pointing out that there are OTHER factors in the stock price that d
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The problem for Tim Cook is that Netflix can exist quite nicely with or without Apple TV+.And so can Apple use
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In reply to techguy33:Instead they got the memo about Apple raising their dividend and announcing a stock buyb
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In reply to pecosbob04:Simple. Apple raised the dividend and announced a stock buyback. Both of which are grea
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In reply to glenn8878:Making them only 2mm thick with only 1mm of travel apparently is.
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In reply to MikeGalos:And it's worth noting that Amazon will report earnings after market close today, Al
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As of 11:25 EDT the market capitalizations wereMicrosoft $994.63 Billion Apple 978.64 BillionAmazon 941.23 Bil
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In reply to Pbike908:Kind of shows there's more to the computer industry than just cell phones and that t
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:To be fair, Microsoft wa the computing champ of the last quarter of th
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In reply to skane2600:Sadly they thought they had fixed it with the membrane around each switch. That didn
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In reply to red.radar:More likely they just wanted "first mover" advantage and to get established as THE compa
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In reply to hrlngrv:So, both no real answer to the Linux question aside from a tiny distro that doesn't i
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In reply to AllThisEv1l:All major products have 3rd party tools to tweak them after the fact.What are the defa
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In reply to ahuli:I'd love for notepad to gain a tabbed interface and File Explorer to stay multiple wind
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In reply to hrlngrv:Actually, Chrysler had the pushbutton transmission selectors in the late 1950s as did Ford
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In reply to Sir_Timbit:If people think Paint 3D was too radical a change and too hard to use can you honestly
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In reply to AllThisEv1l:Are you sure it wasn't?
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Yep. Learning something new has become too hard for the typical consumer. Notice how frozen almost every progr
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The real question is why this is being "settled" in a corporate lawsuit and not in a criminal false advertisin
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Good for them. They could have just released it and told their customers, "You're folding it wrong".
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In reply to longhorn:Ah, the classic, "I wouldn't use it so nobody else needs it"
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The key to Sets was not having multiple tabs in existing applications, application creators can do that alread
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In reply to Stooks:Long before the AirPower
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In reply to skane2600:Lately it's defined as "it has a dark mode"
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In reply to lvthunder:Oddly, they're quite capable of removing other items that violate their "community
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Gee, how surprising that Google has been lobbying against making it a crime to take other people's intell
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I'd say the catch up on floating windowing is a lot bigger change than "dark mode" and the only thing on
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Seeing the Morrison code-name it's more likely that Joplin was named for Janis Joplin than Scott.
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There was also at least one for the Surface Pro 4.
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And so much for Tim Cook's reputation. We always hear, "Well, he's no Steve Jobs but he's a gen
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In reply to orbsitron:One Kirkland tech company of note is Google's northwest office complex (located the
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Most likely too many of Amazon's senior staff live on the Eastside and didn't want the bridge commut
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Google partnering with Walmart. The parallels amaze.
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Tim Cook is "the better CEO for today's Apple" because today's Apple is based on what Tim Cook is go
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They just need to make sure that larger battery doesn't prevent them from making the next iPhone 0.2mm th
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In reply to jaunty:Not only didn't succeed but had marketing given so much power that they could announce
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In reply to skane2600:And most people find it convenient which is enough for it to be a positive optional feat
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In reply to shameermulji:Note, that's a YEAR after the announcement. The keynote was in September 2017 an
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In reply to skane2600:Oh, not even that. Wireless Qi standard charging is not only nothing new but does solve
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Based on the posts by people involved in induction devices over on the Premium side, it's even more amazi
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In reply to codymesh:And the Qi standard, used in those Lumia chargers and devices and later in Apple devices
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In reply to dontbe_evil:They are adorable, aren't they?
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Well, at least we have fewer choices left in the "Which will ship first? AirPower or the new Mac Pro".
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In reply to Stooks:The evidence is that they took time out of an announcement event to show it off as a featur
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In reply to provision l-3:Why thank you provision. That's nice of you to notice. Yes, a few decades insid
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In reply to shameermulji:I know that engineering wasn't close to ready because the code to support AirPow
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In reply to provision l-3:Sure. And people saw a "demo" of VisiCorp's amazing Visi On product at Comdex 1
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In reply to provision l-3:Actually, a lot was sold. iPhones and Apple Watches and AirPods that were, at least
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In reply to shameermulji:The problem isn't what Apple "was trying to accomplish" but what Apple announced
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That's what happens when sales and marketing announce a product that engineering hasn't even begun t
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btw: I'm pretty sure Denmark, Ireland and Poland are in the "more important markets like … Europe"
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In reply to spacein_vader:Precisely. Outlook/Exchange DID have this capability in the late 1990s (but nobody n
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In reply to wixtech:I go back far enough that I used RTC as a ship term in my Microsoft days.For those not tha
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In reply to toukale:Monopoly power is determined by ability to affect a market. What's defined as a marke
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In reply to solomonrex:Give away the razer and sell the blades works well when you have competition. When you
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"improving the battery life is a basic first step that was seriously needed."And maybe still IS seriously need
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In reply to warren:It isn't that it wasn't well documented. You made the grievous sin of admitting t
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Seems like you kind of need to have the architecture defined before you actually announce your vaporware. Them
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In reply to provision l-3:You didn't read the very first sentence of the article?You know, where it says
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So that's, what, something like 17 current variations to choose from with contradictory accessories and f
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A reminder that this is the conference where, every year, Apple fans and virtually every tech "journalist" rep
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Seems pretty reasonable.Windows 7 was released almost a decade ago. Windows 7 was replaced by Windows 8 almost
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In reply to red.radar:The same here. I thought I'd try a Brother laser printer when it offered more featu
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Wow! A rumor of an upcoming gaming controller that looks like every other gaming controller. Slow news day?
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In reply to trevor_chdwck:Actually, Adam Smith, the creator of Capitalism, wrote in 1776 in his book The Wealt
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In reply to luthair:Not in a long time. Microsoft SQL Server has been a close second to Oracle for years now.
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In reply to ffrances_q1:Again, they wouldn't if she gets the breakups.That's kind of her point.
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In reply to ffrances_q1:Because they have actual competition from Microsoft SQL Server and a bunch of other da
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In reply to sportflier:They wouldn't if she gets the breakups.
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Works for me. All three companies have monopoly power in their markets and all three have clearly abused that
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So if it only offers remote display of the iPhone apps and doesn't integrate them with the real world ima
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In reply to codymesh:You mean aside from half a dozen versions of macOS, hundreds of variants of Linux, actual
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In reply to PeterC:Or, instead of them only offering content that works for children they could implement Pare
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Gee. Google will have to stop stealing intellectual property and then using it as bait for eyeballs to sell to
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:Actually, the IEEE did it right. And just in time before we started se
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Actually, there are also still USB B connectors and USB Micro B connectors both in the USB spec and in the fie
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Now THAT is a laptop I lust after...
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In reply to HellcatM:Yes, but in The Orville they don't call it a "holo" anything. It's an Environme
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Given their very limited battery life, when are Apple suggesting that people charge their Apple Watch? Serious
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In reply to skane2600:<sigh> Yeah. Lost cause.I blame Star Trek: The Next Generation and their "holodeck
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:There's a full developer program in place already.
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In reply to Hoomgar:The problem is that Apple's traditional business model has been to ride a new device
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In reply to skane2600:Exactly. It matches Satya Nadella's comment on it really being an era where data in
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In reply to skane2600:Precisely
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I guess the rumors of the death of the PC were exaggerated.
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Of course they are. It's a way to get yet another cut off the top of people's purchases of 3rd party
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In reply to provision l-3:With Apple you really do need to have a separate story on their "we're going to
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Nice to see some innovation. That's been mind numbingly rare in this industry these days, especially by t
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Worth noting it's only for iOS initially.
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In reply to Greg Green:It takes a while to design every module in an otherwise generic PC to be completely inc
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In reply to karlinhigh:Actually, that is the OLD interpretation of anti-trust law. That changed with DOJ v. Mi
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In reply to James_B:But instead using the disk I/O and the network I/O of the user's machine (and some pr
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That sure looked like gallium.
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In reply to jmurray:Realistically, it wasn't that much of a corner case and it shouldn't have even b
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In reply to jmurray:To get audio-only snooping it took calling somebody on FaceTime and then adding yourself t
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It's amazing that this bug made it out of Apple. And amazing how little press coverage it got considering
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In reply to provision l-3:(All data from December 2018 NetMarketShare figures)Vendor platform usage Google - 3
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In reply to BrianEricFord:Innovations that don't provide features to the user don't drive sales.Inno
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In reply to JoePaulson:That's never been Apple's business model, though. They count on huge profits
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In reply to kellyjaye:Seeing it's being done by an independent auditor with a documented methodology perh
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In reply to Waethorn:Since Edge has more users on the desktop than Safari you'll be making the same comme
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Really slow news day?
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Let's see. In January 2020 I won't get the latest update and security patch for my old Windows 10 Mo
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In reply to iamthekgb:The same number who get refunds from Apple for not supporting their own hardware with th
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So about a month before Windows 7.Sadly, there is no tolerable replacement, at the moment, for Windows 10 Mobi
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In reply to yaddamaster:If you don't put jobs where people want to live, you don't get the people wh
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While Microsoft has contributed to the housing and traffic problems in metro Seattle, their campuses are sprea
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In reply to nbplopes:Yes. Lionhead studios could be a division of Apple based on their ship schedule.
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In reply to robincapper:I've had a bunch of smartphones through the years starting from a Motorola MPx-20
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It's amazing how iPhone users always talk up the industrial design and the Apple trademarked "colors" and
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In reply to digiguy:So you're saying the big problem for you is a broken OEM driver that the OEM won'
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In reply to Informed:As I said earlier, who here is currently using Éclair or iOS3 or Snow Leopard?
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In reply to Informed:Yes. It says that in a lot of cases they only get a new OS when they get a new computer a
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In reply to skane2600:So it's OK and "Apple's decision" that they don't support Snow Leopard an
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In reply to skane2600:As I said earlier, who here is currently using Éclair or iOS3 or Snow Leopard?
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It'd be interesting to see how long other operating systems get full support with updates and limited sup
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In reply to MikeGalos:Oh, and credit to my ex-boss Mark Ursino for coining the word Vaporware about VisiCorp&#
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Note that the "originally hoping to launch by June 2018" wasn't an actual Apple date. It was press specul
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In reply to dontbe_evil:It could be worse. Remember all the stories about how Microsoft was late in shipping "
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Thanks to Microsoft for providing the prizes.
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So, basically, it blocks ads from all of Google's competitors on Google's dominant phone operating s
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Surface Headphones
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In reply to obarthelemy:But does it come in "Space Gray"? Apparently that matters - no idea why.
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The Samsung Notebook Flash is a really nice casual use Windows 10 Notebook. What it has to do with a terminal
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Cool. Care to share anything in the kernel that's new?
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In reply to j_c:Yes. But I was talking about UNIVERSITY year which typically starts later.
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What comment should you put in if you want to win hardware but not product keys?
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In reply to dontbe_evil:Understandable as many of them doubled down on their fandom by investing in AAPL stock
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Seems unusually early to be running "Back to School" since the new university year isn't typically until
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In reply to provision l-3:Then he should not have mentioned them in why their guidance was wrong. They're
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In reply to nbplopes:Actually, the closest organization to me is a cat supply shop. Living near a company mean
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It's amusing that in all but one case the downturns were supposedly predicted and planned for but didn�
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Bravo to Microsoft and to Microsoft Research. This is both valuable and innovative and helps actual users rath
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In reply to Rob_Wade:There's still nothing on the market that really competes with the Lumia 1020 even th
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In reply to sevenacids:Or you could say that, as the article did, that only Desktop/Laptop OS are actual opera
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In reply to glenn8878:Windows lost over $100,000,000 before it made a profit. And that was at a time when Micr
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As an FYI: "But now that Windows 10 is practically the most popular OS in the world, with macOS (as a whole) b
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In reply to hrlngrv:I figure most enterprises definitely prefer using the same hardware and software for as ma
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In reply to hrlngrv:For good or bad that's using the same NetMarketShare methodology and data as Mehedi c
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Based on those same numbers, the computing devices in the world are:37.9% Windows computers36.3% Android phone
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In reply to Simard57:Actually since Windows 1.0 which had Reversi and Solitaire.
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"[O]ne can only wonder why Microsoft didn’t shout these results to the world as they had previously."Perhaps
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In reply to WP7Mango:Actually, in this case producing bent housings was a manufacturing defect. Not discarding
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In reply to skane2600:Actually, in the case of the Pinto it was a design defect that was then made into a cris
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Of course, making it worse is that while Apple is allowing exchanges within the 14 day purchase window, this i
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:No. It's Apple's use of those components in ways that violate the patent with
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Odd how Apple seems to keep losing patent infringement lawsuits. Why it's as if they've had an inter
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In reply to RobertJasiek:That's what inspection is for. Apparently skipping that step is one of those "ma
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In reply to Zinga74:If you go to the actual Windows Blog where the changes are announced, you'll see that
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In reply to bryan1up:I suspect he went non-parallel on the wording to sound less boring, realized that saying
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Kind of guessing "with the lights on" and "With the lighting enabled" aren't exactly the opposite states
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In reply to SvenJ:A cable doesn't change from one format to another. A cable just extends distances.
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Ooh. A dongle. A dongle that might work or might destroy your computer depending on the charger you use.Wow. T
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In reply to ragingthunder:At a minimum it'd be nice if the authors, when (if, in some authors' cases
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:They last quite a few years and they're roughly the same price depending on sale p
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In reply to Wondering_Bard:You honestly think the average family is stressing out about the problems of having
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Bigger problems with the Philips Hue system are that they require a separate dedicated controller box rather t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Repeatedly referring to Alcantara as "carpet" is not, in fact, an explanation. Alcan
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Somebody's being proactive about anti-trust litigation...
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Realistically, this would just be a change to the Office 365 Home installer to install and configure those app
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In reply to Waethorn:Ah, you mean like Apple does?
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Confirmed that the new features are running on my Insider copy.
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It's amazing reading these comments that 80 years later we're seeing virtually the same, exact argum
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In reply to red.radar:Why do I need 5G? My connection feels fast enough.Why do I need LTE? My connection
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In reply to Winner:It's still in extended support but not in full support. And nobody's saying not t
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In reply to karma77police:Netmarketshare November numbers:Windows 7 - 38.89%Windows 10 - 38.14%That's glo
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In reply to puggsly:Sorry Puggsly but trparky is absolutely correct (if incomplete) and your "correction" is j
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Additionally, most security holes still come from the insanely awful string and mem
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In reply to Winner:Hey, if you want to use an unsupported OS you can use whatever you like. I suspect you can
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In reply to sony06:ISO is a standard's organization. What's meant here, though, is a standard CD/DVD
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In reply to sfagundes76:Contact the OEM who issued the key. Supporting their copies is part of why they paid l
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:Put down the pistol. While Android may, in total, have a 3.3% lead ove
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In reply to provision l-3:No. None of my comments were specific to any company. The rule of not mentioning a c
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In reply to BrianEricFord:I think the word you're looking for is "accurate".
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In reply to provision l-3:I guess when you saw this ad you hadn't even known Apple made a tablet and the
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In reply to provision l-3:The old rule of "never mention a competitor" comes from IBM 360 days when IBM was pr
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In reply to Stooks:Terminals like Chromebook are great for admins at a cost to the users.Actual personal compu
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On the other hand, Reindeer Games is an amazing ad.
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In reply to jaredthegeek:Actually, the ad is the child telling their Grandma not to buy THEM an iPad as a Chri
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In reply to safesax2002:I suspect that won't actually happen. They'll find lots of promotional ways
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The "good news", though, is only good news for short-term investors. And based on the stock price dropping ove
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In reply to provision l-3:Ah, you mean how years of "I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC" ads hurt Apple and hel
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In reality you will just be struggling with a low-powered tablet that isn't a full computer if you get t
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In reply to curtisspendlove:That the license is enforced isn't what makes the license required. The "If i
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In reply to MarkWibaux:Nope. That they provide the bits or not doesn't make it legal to run without a lic
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In reply to shameermulji:A VM is really only close to being as efficient as a native load when the host OS has
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In reply to SvenJ:Yes. And that's because it's essentially stolen software.And I'd say anybody
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In reply to pecosbob04:While anything can be argued, what license is the user using Boot Camp installing under
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Really? What license is there on the Mac for the copy of Windows 10? An OEM Windows
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In reply to Sihaz:Correct. Nothing illegal IF you buy a Windows 10 license. I don't seem to have seen tha
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In reply to pecosbob04:I'm pretty sure that "some people didn't get prosecuted for it" isn't a
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And that's not even discussing the legality of the first step being "download the latest Windows 10 ISO"
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In reply to chump2010:They certainly can do that and have been able to for years on ANY voice system.When I wo
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In reply to RoHo:Not to mention a history of buggy drivers that don't get fixes since updates make it les
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Honestly I'm not seeing what's so "21st century" here. Wireless, network attached printers aren'
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Apple does have a history of either being very late to a new technology or being so early that they force it b
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To paraphrase the top comment about Corel buying Parallels:I didn't realize that Hangouts was still in bu
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Which is pretty surprising since the first thing an Apple fan does is talk about the beautiful industrial desi
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes. And those other people won't get paid, either. Zero dollars doesn't go ve
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In reply to jprestig:You could move to a music service that isn't made by a hardware vendor if you really
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In reply to glenn8878:Musicians get almost nothing even with people paying subscription fees. Can you honestly
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The reviews I've seen place it above the Bose and below the top of the line Sony in the Bluetooth Noise C
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In reply to ghostrider:Notice it says "specialized HoloLens" not "consumer grade HoloLens". Notice it says Mic
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In reply to skane2600:And the many that didn't fail. You know, like the computer network you're usin
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FYI: Typo on the first graph. 100,00 should be 100,000.
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In reply to skane2600:Absolutely true. But I'd say that the "non-technical people" today don't know
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In reply to skane2600:In those days a year was an eternity. :-) And you may have used WordPerfect for Windows
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In reply to obarthelemy:Yep. Semantically almost null. And it certainly says nothing about "iPhone Sales Woes"
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Seeing that there have been reports that the iPhone XR has been a horrible disappointment in sales, saying “
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In reply to Dan:Google's employees big complaint was about their company providing technology specificall
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In reply to provision l-3:Exactly my point. They are cutting production. Apple apologists say that sales are n
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In reply to SteenMachine:And what of those statements that I made was not objective?For that matter, which of
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In reply to skane2600:Remember that WordPerfect came out of the Data General minicomputer world and not the PC
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In reply to skane2600:Sorry but your memory is off. WordPerfect for Windows was on the market long before the
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:My point wasn't that anything you said wasn't accurate just that it was y
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In reply to SteenMachine:What's not objective that you're objecting to?That Apple has removed featur
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In reply to provision l-3:The other option is that every Apple supplier is cutting production and laying off s
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In reply to dontbe_evil:Absolutely. There were entry-level Nokia devices ago with OLED screens. And they were
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In reply to dontbe_evil:And then brag about Apple profits to take pride in just how much they've been mil
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In reply to RM:Or, at a minimum, they'll recognize that removing features people actually use (analog hea
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That Parallels was available for a buy-out says something about Macintosh sales levels.What's surprising
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In reply to Waethorn:Because when you're buying 10,000 computers and 10,000 licenses you don't get a
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:The time you're talking about is long after the battle was over. WordPerfect w
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In reply to skane2600:There's no question that Pete Peterson (head of and one of 3 owners of WordPerfect
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Nice to see the port issue finally being properly labeled as Thunderbolt 3 rather than the misleading talk abo
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In reply to JHancox:There's a difference between defending reality and literally praising a company for h
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In reply to Jeffsters:Oddly, I'm also there on Google articles and MIcrosoft articles and other articles.
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In reply to Jeffsters:Not sure what message you're replying to. Can you be more specific in your question
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In reply to Jeffsters:Not sure what message you're replying to. Can you be more specific in your question
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In reply to cacarr:Well, seeing that ChromeOS is really a smart terminal attached to a network attached comput
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Paul, rather than just pointing out the number of physical USB Type C and Type A connectors, can you tell us w
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This is what you get when you use technology, materials science and engineering to build a laptop rather than
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In reply to CompUser:Actually that's a choice made by the font designer. Just like deciding whether to pu
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In reply to truerock2:On the other hand, I've always loved wide-angle lenses. They allow you to separate
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In reply to puggsly:It always amazes me when people brag about the cash reserves or profits of companies they&
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In reply to Greg Green:Actually, yes. Microsoft IS still updating their phones. The latest update came out abo
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In reply to eschekman:True. They've had quality problems that, until recently, marketing has made "go awa
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In reply to lvthunder:There's never "something interesting" left to do until somebody does it. Then it�
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"Apple has worked to keep Google out of its precious iPhones as much as possible"Not really. They just wanted
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In reply to dsharp75:Think back. How many of the last dozen "major Apple events" have really been reviewed as
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In reply to Waethorn:Nah, the Infinite Loop campus is down the street.
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In reply to dkirk:Yes. The announcement said: All you’ll need is a device running Windows 10 Version 1809 or
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In reply to provision l-3:By Apple's own numbersiPhone sales are flatiPad sales are downMacintosh sales a
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In reply to HellcatM:Thanks to Karma for demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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In reply to karma77police:Sorry. Password only systems died with the creation of GPU arrays.And while you can
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When you've got nothing new to show and are resting on your laurels you advertise your laurels and hope n
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In reply to Stooks:It's the largest product unit but they have a LOT of product units. Gaming (including
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That's a great option but I hope they keep it an option and not go pure download since the cost saving wo
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Trade shows are expensive. Doing a major one when you have nothing to show is a very bad use of money and it&#
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In reply to javajunkee:Because some other vendors made a big deal about dark mode so the press suddenly though
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In reply to Brazbit:Essentially true but realize that even a tightly controlled ecosystem like the Xbox has a
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Well, not that unique considering Motorola has had their MotoMods backs (which are effectively the same idea)
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In reply to skane2600:Actually, what they're likely doing is the Agile methodology testing model of havin
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Let's see, an iPhone XS Max, fully loaded and with Apple Care+ with Theft and Loss is $1,748 so the Samsu
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That's two full articles on branding names of Google products in, what, a week?This is newsworthy?
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In reply to skane2600:In that case Microsoft never did that and Paul's statement is wrong altogether.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Actually, your objection in the article isn't about it being 10" but about it b
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Looks like your ordered list is out of order.
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FYI, "Microsoft eventually created its own e-book platform"?Really?Microsoft Reader (complete with online in-a
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Actually "what could have been" was the Microsoft Reader software that was available back in 2000, long before
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Shouldn't that headline read "Apple Claims to Have Finally Fixed watchOS 5.1’s Bricking Issue With New
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In reply to Stooks:And that's $9 Billion this year and $12 Billion next year to be the DEFAULT search pro
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With iPad and Macintosh sales down, the iPhone sales basically being flat was Apple's "good news" in thei
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In reply to provision l-3:Great quarter on revenue. Horrible quarter on units and market share.At some point y
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In reply to shameermulji:Actually that's exactly what it's saying:iPhone sales flatiPad sales downMa
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Well, that makes it clear why they were using the silly year over many-years-past numbers for the Mac Mini and
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Which really means that Apple is giving up their channel to put up counter-arguments on speculation based on t
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In reply to peterlc:Well, apparently code names are important enough to get a whole topic on a significant tec
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The problem with word-based names is that, like Apple's macOS naming scheme it becomes hard to remember w
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Cool. That's how you do cross-platform.
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In reply to Brazbit:As opposed to what? As the article says, this is already available in Office for Windows a
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So, what's the "good news" part of the story?
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Kind of amazing that when you have less than half a dozen total system configuration combinations you can'
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In reply to dontbe_evil:Apple: It just bricks!
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In reply to skane2600:Much better. Thanks.
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In reply to Winner:Which would be even better served by a "Modular Mac" or "Mac with slots" as the Macintosh I
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Apparently it wasn't obvious to Mehedi when he rewrote the press release as an a
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In reply to Pbike908:Hmm. A stylus and keyboard attaching to a tablet with a magnet. Now where have I seen tha
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Nice to see what you get when you court more than just a few major developers and get some creativity into the
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In reply to skane2600:Nah. You didn't bash Android or ChromeOS while you were at it. You gave the whole G
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So they did a processor upgrade after years of neglect and, surprise, it's faster than the ancient model
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Wow. When any other company blows an OS release and delays key features they announced and publicly demonstrat
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In reply to dontbe_evil:Apparently not where actual customers are concerned. You think maybe the bubble of peo
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In reply to Waethorn:Technically no. Analog systems are also programmed but it is very rare today.Good point,
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In reply to TechsUK:Scorpion was cancelled after 4 seasons.It did have gaping plot-holes but what it had that
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:And until then most of the application level API is identical from IoT
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And yet another Microsoft is FINALLY …Let's see, they announced it was coming "back in September" - you
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Fun to see the Microsoft colors across from an ad for the late, lamented TV show Scorpion which had Microsoft
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In reply to Markiz von Schnitzel:Because the index has to be maintained on every file change including files t
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:If that's what he meant then the rest of his statement makes little sense.
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In reply to Phuor:Because you can be low volume from whispering in which case it should whisper back or becaus
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"Microsoft’s new HoloLens has a lot of competition"Um. No, actually it doesn't have any. That's wh
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In reply to skane2600:You should have worked in the industry at the time. Or worked with Asymetrix (on Microso
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In reply to RM:Ah, so finally released is based not on how long the company took but how long somebody wants i
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In reply to TriplePlayed:No. Industry PUNDITS have talked about it. That's the same game that we saw with
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While its the full Premier Rush that's not just on the desktop, Premier Rush is hardly Premier.It's
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Guess that's targeting the Antipodean summer.
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Three weeks from stating intent to announcing the beta is hardly "finally". That's actually pretty quick.
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In reply to skane2600:Actually, Paul Allen got "sidelined" by non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer back in 1982
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In reply to lvthunder:And I use the "Classic" version of Lightroom all the time on my Surface Pro. Still, ther
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In reply to dick:I think the question was about the tracking screens (which really are the same) but, you'
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Interesting. A more touch-centric version will work even better on the Surface line than the current versions.
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In reply to Necron:What's the point of USB-C at all if there's that level of incompatibility on some
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In reply to someone:Bizarre.
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In reply to MikeGalos:Or put retro-graphically with W=Windows, M=macOS, L=Linux, U=Unknown and C=Chrome OSWWWW
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In reply to Jeffsters:I'm not "calling Apple" on anything. As I said, everybody releases a post-RTM bug f
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In reply to MikeGalos:And now 10 articles on the home page for a show without "any major innovations".
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"As customers continue to embrace the Chromebook ecosystem..."Chrome OS market share (from NetMarketShare.com)
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So, like every software product and operating system, Apple's iOS has a post-release patch to fix bugs ca
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So, no surprise. A £1000+ smart terminal isn't as useful as a £1000+ actual computer.Kind of what the w
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In reply to Angusmatheson:It really doesn't compete with the iPad or and Android tablet. It competes with
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There are a lot of neat features in there but a camera cover is hardly worth "best of all" and the feature of
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In reply to MutualCore:Not questioning that being cross platform is good. Just questioning why, unlike your co
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In reply to skane2600:Please. It's Google products. Of course they'll talk about the price of the ba
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Fantastic. I've been waiting for a new generation change with hardware fixes for some of the Specter/Melt
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" I am not expecting any major innovations from Google this year."Clearly. Looks like little more than minor r
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" Imagine being able to play Xbox exclusive titles on a MacBook "Yeah. That could increase their market over j
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Now that the embargo is off I've started seeing them in local Starbucks and they look pretty good.
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In reply to warren:The ease of configuration changes in Apple hardware isn't just not a Steve Jobs thing.
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More like "Apple is taking away the ability for 3rd Party shops to repair their products".I'd point out t
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In reply to skane2600:Windows 10 iOT Core is for what you call "traditional embedded systems" and Windows 10 i
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In reply to ibmthink:The indentations on the keys also keep your fingers centered on the key which keeps the p
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Well, seeing how the big differentiators with the Surface Book are the detachable screen and the touchscreen c
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I read a lot of the code when it was first released and it was fascinating to read the comments.
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The question still open is why the event is being held at 4PM (after stock market close) rather than early in
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You're right. I am thinking "big deal" even after reading why I should care.But then I don't call wh
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Shouldn't that headline be "Google claims to finally fix massive security holes in Chrome extensions"?
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Looks like we're seeing a trend toward automotive materials with HP doing leather and Microsoft doing Alc
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In reply to Waethorn:Yes. It doesn't run on your Commodore 64. Sorry.
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In reply to karma77police:Obviously you're not running the latest software if you're on Windows 7 an
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Another key takeaway, especially for developers, is that since Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have now aged out to
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:Or lSheep or uSheep...btw: Showstopper is a fairly good book but it do
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:It's not just users. There's an entire level of security tha
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In reply to roastedwookie:If you understood the complexities involved in a secure multi-user cut/copy/paste yo
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In reply to chrisrut:Oh, and I still have my set of Rainbow Series books so if you run into your old boss you
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In reply to chrisrut:An A level kernel?Really?That's insane. (For those who don't know, A level mea
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In reply to skane2600:Odd. Apparently Microsoft must run every other company as well since I don't know o
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In reply to MikeGalos:It's also worth noting that the multiple users on one screen capabilities are prese
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"And copy and paste between apps signed-in with different users, assigning the permissions allow it. It will t
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Actually, don't assume things like submarines and oil platforms are offline. I knew someone in Microsoft
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In reply to skane2600:Windows 10 is under Full Support.Windows 7 SP1 and 8.1 are no longer on Full SupportWind
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In reply to skane2600:Nope. If you aren't counting phones then Windows is still, by far, the biggest play
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In reply to jdmp10:I have Version 1810 (Build 10910.20007 Click-to-Run) and my copy of Word has the Black them
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In reply to curtisspendlove:So you're saying that censorship = quality?I'd point out that Apple coul
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In reply to Waethorn:Precisely. Apple is responding to the old "Censorship is saying that because a baby can&#
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Precisely. It goes both ways.I'm saying you can choose to not watch something
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In reply to DataMeister:Then it seems like you can save some money and not subscribe to Netflix. See? That was
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In reply to Jeffsters:Actually, that's an urban legend.Betamax failed because it had too short a runtime
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Of course! Apple is doing a 1950s TV show revival network. Think of the bandwidth they'll save by streami
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In reply to skane2600:While you CAN do a lot in post-processing you can't add things the camera wasn'
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In reply to jrickel96:Any camera or phone with an autofocus system can "actually detect depth from the [...] c
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In reply to rbgaynor:No. They do NOT. And that demonstrates how Apple's flat-out lying by misusing terms
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In reply to David_Mandery:I don't know. You could ask Todd Gustavson sometime but, frankly, there's
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In reply to djr1984:You mean like how Microsoft's Windows 10 default background bitmap was done with actu
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In reply to skane2600:None, of course. It's not a real camera. It's a snapshot equivalent of an Inst
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In reply to bluvg:Correct. There are 3 lenses, 3 cameras, 2 modes and, like Apple, there is NO optical zoom an
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Realistically, then, you should be talking to your government about why they keep off
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It should come as no surprise that Google thinks they're the ones who own your phone and should be able t
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Anyone have a link for the weather forecast for Hell? I'd like to grab a screen shot of the blizzard that
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In reply to pecosbob04:Sorry that actual industry expertise rather than fandom annoys you.No, actually, I don&
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In reply to shameermulji:As opposed to a USB Type A to Lightning adapter. Yeah. Big difference.
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In reply to SvenJ:Why? A USB Type C connector has nothing to do with lightning charging and your scenario onl
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In reply to brad-sams:And if Brad knew how marketing images are distributed he'd know that they get sent
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Oh, and while Brad may "hope the new laptops will have a Type-C connector", if he looked at the actual picture
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In reply to bbold:Most students you know are buying USB C connectors to power their iPhones? A device that doe
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Bah. Nobody would buy a black tablet. Maybe they could call it something like "Galactic Gray" and then get eve
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Seeing we already had a story on the iPhone Excess and iPhone Excess Max names and the Xr name for the "This m
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Wow. A web browser manufacturer putting up a "Use our browser?" tag on their company's websites, apps and
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Cool. I was at the dedication for the first Microsoft Canada headquarters building. We had a nice little party
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In reply to lvthunder:In case you weren't paying attention, Apple leaked their plans for the behind the s
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It's incredible that a device that's supposed to be network based wouldn't support SMB networks
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Wow. The new feature is "This time it actually works! (Sometimes, on some specific phones)"I guess the people
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Gee. I guess that wasn't as hard to do as Apple thought.
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In reply to unkinected:Too bad for them. Shame they decided not to buy a useful product.I suspect people who d
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iPhone Excess Max?Seriously?Apple's THAT tone deaf these days?
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So they're doing A/B testing on a beta UI on a web based system. That's hardly "a little weird". In
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"Google is introducing a major update for the browser on your computer, and mobile devices"Google is introduci
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In reply to ghostrider:Two reasons:1) "Don't you guys have a sense of humor" isn't a defense against
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It's NOT that Apple is "stupid" for not adding mouse support to iOS. It's that iOS was intentionally
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In reply to nbplopes:Which is why tech products cost more in your country. Effectively, you bought Apple Care
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In reply to B_Mallon:Can't be. I think Apple trademarked "Courageous" as part of the iPhone launch when t
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:Apple actually had the Pointer Sisters record a version of "I'm s
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Wow. So they're using the Cortana ring as their launch logo. If I were Siri I'd be a bit peeved.
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In reply to Bart:Build number (what you call "code name" although it isn't) is the date of the build. Nam
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In fact, the headline really should be "Yes, Office 2019 Will Still Require a Moderately Recent MacOS Version"
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Typo: I'm pretty sure AIX isn't made by IMB.
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In reply to dkb1898:Actually, I got that phrasing from the archived version of FitBit's website.
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A clarification. The Charge 3 Special Edition with Fitbit Pay will not be available until November unlike the
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In reply to c.hucklebridge:I can top that. I just bought TWO Charge 2 trackers as gifts for my cousin and his
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A correction. The Fitbit Charge 2 was NOT swim-proof. It was only rated as splash-proof and shower-proof. That
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Cool. Logitech is now copying Microsoft's Sculpt Ergonomic mouse and went even more extreme in the angle.
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What I don't understand is why Google doesn't just get it over with and change their motto from Don&
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I hardly think violating user agreements and international privacy laws is "Caught Being Sneaky". I believe th
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Shouldn't that headline be "Siri may someday finally be able to support multiple users"That is the usual
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And The Verge's review was the most positive of the ones I've seen. They glossed over problems like
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Of course it has a Day-1 Update. Whether that update includes OS patches or driver patches or both really does
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Of course it got a low score. It's a tablet form factor.You want easy repair and upgrade, get a thick lap
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In reply to cybersaurusrex:And closing on Amazon.So where is Apple?
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In reply to Truffles:Actually, they absolutely are a monopolist. Can you buy a macOS computer from anyone else
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In reply to mtalinm:Actually, since the Moto Mods often include extra battery capacity, that shouldn't be
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iPhone sales being flat for the quarter year-over-year is a worse sign than it looks when you remember that a
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Considering the tiny market share of Chromebooks, the legendary return rate of the after every Holiday Shoppin
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In reply to dontbe_evil:I hear that someday they'll invent a wireless charger. Imagine. What times we liv
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In reply to wright_is:Exactly how a well-run IT department should do it. Nice to see.
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In reply to JustMe:Since Windows 10 is a service driven product it's automatically updated. That there ar
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In reply to JustMe:Windows 8.1 is now a month shy of 5 years old, is out of Mainstream Support, no longer gets
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A side note, Mehedi,The point of doing a photo to illustrate a story is to show a visual reflecting the actual
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In reply to karma77police:I suspect it's a sign of the apocalypse but I have to agree with karma77police
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Interestingly the videos that have shown people testing the "fix" do show an increase in temperature stability
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None. I was already using a Motorola MPx200 smartphone running Windows Mobile in 2003 that could play MP3s so
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In reply to rkpatrick:It may not work anymore but it will be a quarter of a mm thinner.
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In reply to Saxwulf:And a VERY cheap (in either sense of the word) way to avoid a massive class action lawsuit
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That last phrase should be: "the proposition is insanely difficult, and that's why it hasn't existed
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In reply to curtisspendlove:There's a difference between a bad batch of components where the replacement
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In reply to curtisspendlove:And then the liability for not installing the "fixed" version on all the warrantee
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The old measure used to be "how many of Microsoft's businesses pull in a Billion dollars per year.It woul
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In reply to skane2600:You're confusing what the Press Releases said with what was actually in the court d
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It's a nice design but without the ability to tilt back and become a drawing surface it's hardly lik
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In reply to Rickard Eriksson:A "server" is designed for specific functionality like serving files or serving s
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In reply to Jeffsters:Yes. On desktops. You see, not everybody is in an office filing sales reports. Some peop
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Fantastic. That's actually a harder problem than it looks and needed standards compliance. Now, the quest
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In reply to CaedenV:Because for some people other than you being wrong for a few seconds for 5 minutes is horr
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And now you can set your reminders to August 21st at 10:00 AM PDT for the "Microsoft Blows Deadline on Elite C
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In reply to Andi:Nice to see somebody noticed that...
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In reply to skane2600:Antitrust since the DOJ v Microsoft trial is about damage to companies not about harm to
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In reply to skane2600:Monopoly power is NOT determined by market share or number of competitors but by ability
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In reply to arunphilip:There should also be tags for Google, Alphabet, Android, smartphone, tablet and Antitru
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To add to the irony you might remember that Microsoft was forced by the same EU regulators to not have a defa
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Google's statement is hilarious. Having a competitor has nothing to do with either monopoly power or abus
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Shame that even with "more information" it's still pretty mind numbingly simplistic. I guess this might b
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In reply to solomonrex:Seeing that when Jobs made that analogy the worldwide installed base of PCs was about o
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In reply to Hifihedgehog2:Exactly. Or as Microsoft put it, not the "Post-PC Era" but the "PC Plus Era"
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Short version:Adobe has FULL "Lightroom Classic" and stripped down but touch friendlier "Lightroom CC"Pros and
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OK folks, let's get real. The whole point of "Andromeda" was to take advantage of the C Shell and its cap
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In reply to PincasX:Sales doesn't equate to quality nor does a lack of good design nor good engineering t
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In reply to Waethorn:The one populated by people who after returning their MacBook for a bad hard drive and a
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Which means that in the "Post-PC era" PCs are now growing faster than tablets or phones using "lightweight" op
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In reply to MikeGalos:As a follow-up, while this is a useful feature it's worth noting that even though t
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Wow. Talk about just reprinting a feature branding name without understanding what it is.The article says "App
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In reply to BrandonMills:Realistically, this was meant for programmers who came from the Unix or Linux world a
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In reply to Andi:And very few of those tech sites and tech blogs even bothered to inform their readers about a
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In reply to skane2600:Storage is limited by the MicroSD card so I'd certainly say that a shop floor devic
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In reply to glenn8878:This is a computer running full Windows not a cell phone or tablet with a toy operating
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In reply to glenn8878:Realistically, a person would use the removable MicroSD card for data storage where they
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In reply to MikeGalos:Additionally, the timing of the announcement wasn't "back to school", it was "get i
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In reply to dsharp75:Well, targeted is a bit self-selecting since the industrial customers will be getting the
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And there in the video is the key target market. Surface Go has the pricing and design to be the new standard
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The key thing pointed to in the Microsoft Mechanics video on one of the other articles that people don't
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In reply to dontbe_evil: last time apple copied ehm innovated was with iPhone and ipadDon't forget Mac "C
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In reply to Oasis:Because nobody bothered to read them and they were expensive.One or the other and they'
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In reply to dontbe_evil:And Windows 10 usage has grown 36% over the last year.There are always people who are
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A timing clarification. Windows Live Essentials wasn't new utilities with Windows 7. It was a bundling o
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In the bad old days one of the reasons for the "Install them all and make them visible" camp was that without
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In reply to Jeffsters:So you can use an adapter to get around it not being supported OR you can use a dongle t
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In reply to FalseAgent:Actually, it's supposed to use Windows. In fact, the entire premise of the device
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In reply to montyfowler:Absolutely correct. But, IF and only if the carriers don't screw it up.
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In reply to F4IL:You've got your requirement of proof backwards. If Microsoft didn't announce it the
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In reply to F4IL:I have great respect for MJ and, in fact, we have known each other for many years but this IS
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So an unsubstantiated rumor says another unsubstantiated rumor of about an unannounced ship date of an unackno
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In reply to davidblouin:Did any of the things you read have actual data? You know, numbers and explanation of
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In reply to davidblouin:Apparently enough people use AdDuplex enabled apps to make the data worth buying, the
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Yet, oddly, pretty much every Apple PR event starts out with Tim Cook bragging about
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In reply to karma77police:Really? You can charge your iPhone 8 Plus from your MacBook or MacBook Pro with thei
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In reply to karma77police:I haven't seen Microsoft announce Surface Phone or, for that matter, even ackno
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In reply to karma77police:Unlike Apple, MS shipped product.
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In reply to karma77police:And requiring dongles for virtually any device or peripheral you need including thin
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In reply to jds4:Actually, the existing Surface power brick also has a USB power socket specifically designed
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The STILL unanswered question that I asked in the last "lot's o' snark but no actual data" report on
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That is pretty impressive lack of installed base fragmentation.By comparison, using NetMarketShare numbers, ma
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In reply to davidblouin:And you'd still be incorrect. Business is concerned with profit.Government is con
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Getting email from Amazon recruiters is pretty much a common event for Microsoft employees and ex-Microsoft em
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In reply to Daniel_D:When you pre-announce vaporware you don't even know how you're going to build i
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The real, unanswered question is what protocols it actually supports. As Microsoft pointed out, saying you hav
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In reply to Hifihedgehog2:Nice summary. Thanks.Personally, I expect the Apple "studio-quality" headphones to
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If the new over the ear headphones are really "studio-quality" they won't be competing with Beats.
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In reply to MikeGalos:Oh, wait. I forgot. The companies that write off unexpected losses rather than charge th
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In reply to nbplopes:Which is why Bob_Shutts is wrong in thinking it won't cost Apple users as I pointed
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In reply to nbplopes:I'm hardly "outraged". You'll note my objection in the original post was at App
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In reply to joeaxberg:Actually, both AMD and nVidia changed directions. I suspect Apple just focused for sever
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Everybody ends up with missed products. As you pointed out, Apple's amazing at
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:Yeah, because Apple has a long history of absorbing costs and cutting profits rather th
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In reply to skane2600:Only for those who sell form. You know, like doing long videos in their presentations ab
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:It wasn't just the falling out. It was the decision of multi core versus multiple
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In reply to nbplopes:I can see why an Apple apologist would want to change the subject to Intel or Microsoft b
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In reply to nbplopes:You might note that the flaw in the MacBook went on for 3 years' worth of models and
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An item that hasn't actually been answered is whether Apple users who get the "free replacement" for thei
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In reply to MikeCerm:The "Can't innovate, my ass" Mac Pro was also so badly designed that when it turned
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While technically "certain MacBook and MacBook Pro models " could be interpreted as "pretty much every MacBook
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In reply to curtisspendlove:If it isn't a 2019 product then they've given up on the expandable compu
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In reply to Stooks:Ah, the same excuse used for the Mac Pro being a year late. When they said it wouldn't
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In reply to Stooks:Well, looks like Daekar wouldn't do worse than Apple is doing. They DO have jobs there
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In reply to mau47:Then perhaps they shouldn't have announced that before they had a clue how to do it.
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As to the "only if Apple can figure out the cost-related issues associated with ditching the charging port and
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Technical hurdles?Really?Qi charging has been around literally a decade. The standard went into effect and the
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It's a bit disingenuous to say "Microsoft no longer plans..." when they never said they planned it in the
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In reply to karma77police:Ah, so you run no-name antivirus, antimalware and antispyware products. Now I unders
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So the question is whether to go with the data from tens of millions of telemetered setups or relatively tiny,
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes. For one thing it's handy when you need to type in a different language's
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Are we merging iOS and macOS? NO! Of course not.Now, let me tell you about our new multiyear project to merge
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In reply to Waethorn:OneCare also vastly dropped the cost of anti-malware. You might recall that, way back the
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Maybe not. Having the intelligence in the controller rather than in the bulb itself
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In reply to evox81:Personally, I expect a bulb to come on to how I have it configured. If I have it set for 80
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Well, that's a start in Philips catching up with LIFX. They still have the problems of requiring a centra
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In reply to paul-thurrott:And, to be fair, Tim Cook is brilliant at maximizing profit margins by minimizing co
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In reply to ghostrider:99% of Windows users aren't volunteering to be in the Windows Insider program and
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In reply to davidblouin:So?That isn't what you were pointing out.
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In reply to curtisspendlove:I do grant that that Microsoft has definitely been more innovative than Apple in t
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Anyone want to bet Google finds a way to become an SSL root certificate provider and offer to provide discount
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In reply to JudaZuk:Absolutely. Additionally with a product not shipping until 2019 you can bet the APIs are n
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In reply to nbplopes:While Microsoft is a great environment for testing things like Surface Hub, Microsoft alw
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In reply to JudaZuk:Or ... you have a whiteboard in New York, I have a Whiteboard in Los Angeles, Bobby has a
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Just don't call it blue.
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In reply to ghostrider:And we already have a pad of paper and pencils and an adding machine and a typewriter.
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In reply to karma77police:Wow. Shock. A product that isn't scheduled to come out for a year is designed f
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In reply to nbplopes:Because the corporations who typically purchase these high end conferencing systems do so
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In reply to Ugur:The joys of a Composable Shell
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Now that is what you get after the Surface team gets a chance to do the full system rather than just adding ne
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In reply to ghostrider:So you're demonstrating the very first two lines of the post you're replying
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Of course the reason it's "only with Android" is because of Apple's restri
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In reply to davidblouin:You forgot about: Complaining about how the new, unfinished features in an early beta
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To be fair, the statement "This is the same lineup from 7 years ago. They have not made anything truly revolut
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In reply to paul-thurrott:That would be the important consideration if this were a financial journal. It'
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In reply to skane2600:Yes, you are correct in saying that "Having a supported OS is important, but it's n
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Exactly right on the comparison with Apple keynotes. Build is a conference for dev
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Build has been focusing on strategic and corporate technologies in the Day 1 keynote and consumer technologies
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This really is burying the lede. The BIG story is that while iOS and macOS products were flat, Apple's ma
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In reply to thisisdonovan:I don't see that this says anything about the mobile market not plateauing. iPh
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In reply to curtisspendlove:The issue I'm talking about isn't commoditization, it's the lack of
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Absolutely true. I must have missed all the articles on here criticizing Apple for d
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In reply to Mehedi:No. I follow Apple NEWS and other industry NEWS and have for decades now. Breathlessly repe
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In reply to Daniel_D:I don't know about where you've worked but in my experience there are ALWAYS pe
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Wow. Speculation based on rumors about a product not even publicly hinted at and, at earliest, to be released
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That is a spectacular lack of fragmentation. Now that Windows 8.x and Windows 7 have aged out to "Extended Sup
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In reply to davidblouin:Don't kid yourself, "you gotta spend your entire budget to get a bigger budget th
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In reply to ghostrider:If you aren't part of the Insider Program the last time you had to update was Octo
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Wow. Shock. An unannounced, unreleased feature looks like it isn't finished. Imagine.Slow news day?
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If you don't like the dull gray color, maybe HP could call it "Galactic Gray", trademark it and get every
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In reply to Speednet:And in the "host of others" let's not forget Apple's Mac OS X/OS X/macOS which
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In reply to jimchamplin:17.10 is Artful Aardvark18.04 is Bionic BeaverThey've been doing the alliterative
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Guess they found out how hard it is to actually do a flexible operating system the way Google is learning that
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In reply to Simard57:That's part of what Windows 7 being out of Mainstream Support and only in Extended S
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In reply to curtisspendlove:The problem isn't that they had to pay too much for a computer that meets the
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In reply to PincasX:In addition to charging there's also the problem of worse sound quality and the probl
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In reply to pecosbob04:The quarterly investor calls don't break down to sales per product. You'll ha
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So exactly as normal with a final cumulative update going out to the Insiders so they're up to the same v
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In reply to Mehedi:Actually, one is the effect, the other is the quality of the effect. For example, "Any port
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A bit of correction. Bokeh is not the effect of having the main subject in focus and the background out of foc
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In reply to MikeCerm:Unable to run full applications. Only can uses "store apps" designed either for mobile de
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Realistically, considering they're only donating $14.5m per year and getting a tax deduction on that, it&
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In reply to Mestiphal:No. That's what Google says they're doing. Paul's article says that unlik
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Competitor for the Surface 3? Maybe.Competitor for the Surface Pro? No. Sorry. That's just click-bait.
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In reply to curtisspendlove:And those who bought the unexpandable iMac Pro had to buy it with all the expansio
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In reply to SvenJ:And make that three. Skype is the universal video chat format by far.
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Actually, this isn't an announcement, it's a press release that they'll be doing the announceme
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In reply to skane2600:They almost certainly won't make an x86 clone that's better than the Intel ori
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In reply to curtisspendlove:Not if they're stuck using a Mac that's already five years out of date.
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In reply to Stooks:I doubt they could afford me.
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In reply to SRRLX1986:More likely they're planning on replacing the Intel Xeons with their own cloned x64
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True. They didn't REALLY confirm 2018 as the release year. Schiller just said in April 2017 that "that wi
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In reply to unkinected:And the iPhone X's failure will remain a "rumor" in Apple fan's minds until A
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In reply to skane2600:As a Moog Theremini player, I thank you for pointing out how a touchless interface is no
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Wow. It is amazing how the usual Microsoft bashers are quick to post on here with no understanding of how IoT
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In reply to pwingert:Another thing Javelin pioneered was date aware data types so you could have a table of sa
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In reply to pwingert:Absolutely. As we talk above, Lotus cloned Javelin Plus in a GUI version first for NeXT a
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In reply to William_Kempf:And neither using reflection nor decompiling the byte code waives copyright. That ha
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In reply to hrlngrv:AFAIK there hasn't been a really useful interactive OLAP system since those. And, yea
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In reply to skane2600:You got that right What you say is not valid.No. There isn't. Open source is explic
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In reply to hrlngrv:Sorry. I should have been more specific. I'm looking more for simplified versions of
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Fantastic news. This has been on my wish list for a while. Now if only we could get an object/rule model simil
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In reply to William_Kempf:Exactly. The exception to copyright that does exist for APIs is when you say the equ
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In reply to skane2600:That makes as little sense as saying that Copyright doesn't apply to any book that&
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In reply to Donkey_Gas:One key point is, as Paul put it in the linked Short Takes is:Acknowledging that Google
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Now. Combine that with the fact that the only other supported client OS members in the Windows family are Wind
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Yeah. Poor Google. It's such a pain when you steal their work and make money off of it and they have the
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Nope. I AM playing fair. His comment targeted precisely the market that is now being fil
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"If you see a stylus, they blew it." - Steve Jobs, 2010
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That's not just "HP’s Envy x2 battery life claims are quite accurate". That's really "HP’s Envy
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This is what happens every time Microsoft democratizes a market.
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In reply to dontbe_evil:To be fair, in this case Apple DID adopt PART of the standard although they did do som
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It's worth noting that HEIF is an MPEG standard and part of MPEG-H (which is also an ISO standard). It�
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Right. It's accurate to what your brain interpreted the colors to be. That'
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That sounds like Google has decided that the Android brand is a negative.
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Realistically, neither phone is showing accurate colors in a mixed color lighting scene. The candle light IS y
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In reply to Username:Yet another reason to not use unsupported products.
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In reply to MikeGalos:As an FYI for those who don't track these things:Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and
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In reply to Stooks:If 3/4ths of your computers are using a product that's been out of mainstream support
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The Microsoft bashers here are both hilarious and predictable.Microsoft DROPPED support for Windows 7 and 8.1
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Never did for me. But dueling anecdotes aside, that still doesn't make it "blac
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In reply to Stooks:Ever bother looking at the feature list?
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Only in the sense that anything that isn't solid color through the entire depth
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And those basic concepts, now refined over five years, have proven themselves. Hence the vast number of copy-
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Nice review. It's fascinating to see what has and hasn't succeeded in five years, what has and hasn&
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It's amazing that it has taken two major competitors over a decade to copy what Microsoft first introduce
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In reply to Jhambi:Hence my pointing out that this is NOT a set of Consumer SKUs.
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So these are not only not "Consumer SKUs" but not even SKUs at all. They're wholesale licensing pricing g
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Seems reasonable since many IT managers only update once per year and have an evaluation cycle that could put
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In reply to MutualCore:And you seem to have a reading comprehension problem since I didn't bring up .NET
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In reply to skane2600:Well, at least this time they aren't doing the "we'll be universal with an API
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In reply to skane2600:That's Apple's problem. If the fans keep buying iPhones no matter the problem
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"Bloomberg reports that Apple is still working to get the universal app platform for iOS and macOS ready by 20
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Thank you, Mehedi, for pointing out that Microsoft never said that Sets would be part of Redstone 4. Now if on
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Now there's a feature I don't expect Google or Apple to steal.
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In reply to rbgaynor:Smaller but hardly tiny. And even if you only get 90% of your library from them in a non-
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I'd say that neither Google nor Audible is really a good choice since they're locked in. I prefer ge
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In reply to glenn8878:The there's a bigger problem if you think 2 updates per year are "a blur" and need
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In reply to glenn8878:Then you probably shouldn't be in the Insider beta program and should get one to tw
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Well, in reality this isn't a new Operating System. It's a new shell on top of the existing *ix that
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In reply to nbplopes:Nice to see you agree that Apple does all those things and is deserving of being called o
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In reply to Stooks:No. I have no problem with Apple. I have a problem with anybody lying about their accomplis
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No, no, Paul. You're misinterpreting Apple's "Courage".They meant they have the "courage" to sell a
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In reply to jimchamplin:It would take more than that. You need to add in different interaction models and not
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In reply to Stooks:Yes, and if Macs have another good quarter or two they'll be back up to where they wer
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In reply to Pbike908: Update: US only. Oh well.So much for "The app is primarily for Android users in India.
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Cool. Nice to see it shipping even if it's only in Fast Ring so far.
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Gee, I certainly trust Google to remove their competitor's ad customers.You do have to wonder about anyon
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Gee, it couldn't possibly be Apple delaying doing something that would benefit a competitor while making
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:No. I'm fretting about the repetition of Apple marketing speak verbatim.
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In reply to karma77police:As an FYI, ZDNet is estimating that the current fully maxed out iMac Pro will sell f
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In reply to karma77police:So what you're suggesting is that everybody buy the maxed out top version of th
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Oh, and, can we stop pretending "space gray" is a thing? It's really silly to call it "hot" and "new" o
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Yes, because "creatives" and "professionals" really want a locked-down all-in-one that has to be totally repla
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In reply to Stooks:Who said Phone? I said Windows.
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In reply to WithinRafael:It'll be interesting to see the site statistics for this article.On an unrelated
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In reply to jfingas:Funny, getting information at a glance doesn't seem to be a problem with Windows Hell
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Interesting article. I do wonder, though, whether thurrott.com is a place where it will find an audience.
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In reply to hrlngrv:That's potentially a very bad security exposure. Hopefully they'll fix that befo
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In reply to skane2600:Correct. Money also means Apple fans are willing to pay a vastly higher profit margin an
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Wow. That's even more restricted compared to Android than Windows S.Odd that we're not seeing people
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Good news. The SV Campus was always a bit weak compared to Main Campus in Redmond.
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In reply to MikeGalos:For those who want to see a minimal HTML application (no script, just a web page as an a
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In reply to Pbike908:Hence the problem. It's a least common denominator approach to coding.
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In reply to skane2600:Well, you do get less functionality than is possible in an app you download from the sto
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In reply to X911ty12:Clearly you don't understand the concept of a beta. It's about previewing a pro
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And that is how you get momentum for a new platform. You partner with people already out there both in hardwar
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In reply to skane2600:Right. If you only target one specific platform then you lose the others. Just like sayi
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In reply to hrlngrv:I'd found out that pasting in bold from HTML sources worked (found that out by accide
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In reply to hrlngrv:Because I didn't assume 10% weren't PCs - a valid assumption seeing that they�
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In reply to hrlngrv:Yes. That's 2 versions to keep track of.
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In reply to skane2600:Yes. But with backward compatibility that Microsoft has maintained that's not the b
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So crunching this number and the share at NetMarketShare we find that:There are now over 2 Billion personal co
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What's really cool, and not mentioned, is that the buildings are based on the flexible design created by
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In reply to NCaffo:There already are several. Have been for years.
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In reply to PincasX:Apple disagrees and tells you to enable root access in order to set a password on the root
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Apple is now confirming that this security vulnerabilty exists matching Paul's statement and that the tem
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In reply to neumarke:Do you have a reference link?I have Macintosh using friends who will be asking what to do
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In reply to PincasX:TechCrunch says Mehedi is correct:See https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/28/astonishing-os-x-b
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In reply to pmeinl:And the nice thing about Windows is that you CAN work side-by-side OR in a Set OR on multip
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"Though I bet Sets only works with Store apps"You'll note that in Microsoft's video from the Insider
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In reply to FalseAgent:At least partly because every time Microsoft has offered virtual desktops starting with
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In reply to agt4:Changing the basic capabilities of an operating system is, pretty much by definition, an admi
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In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:Couldn't have put it better.
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In reply to Mcgillivray:And you had to intentionally join for that. The issue is when you "join" by agreeing t
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In reply to jdawgnoonan:That's the cost you accept for not paying for the products or even not paying eno
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In reply to Winner:Of course they sell the information. They provide whatever level of targeting their custome
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Awww. Poor babies. The product you get for free is showing ads...By comparison with what's done in other
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Anyone surprised should remember that virtually ALL of Alphabet's revenue comes from gathering informatio
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One quick note, Paul. Rather than go with the unwieldy "USB-C Digital to 3.5mm headphone adapter" we could al
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It's nice to finally see a Google product get the same level of review quality, insightfulness and journa
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In reply to PincasX:So what you're saying is that Apple demonstrated a product for the press that actuall
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In reply to Rahul_Partoti:Remember this is also the same industry that calls a camera with two fixed focal len
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Just to add a vote against the HDR and other oversaturated settings. That "fashion" is one of the reasons my d
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So six months as vaporware and then another (at least) three months before first customer ship and that to a l
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In reply to Stooks:FYI: The bug appears to show up not when it is cold but when the temperature has changed ra
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A full suite of AI tools fully integrated across the amazingly flexible set of Microsoft's cross-platform
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So now Microsoft has the easiest to install hardware, the best price range, a full complement of hardware vend
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Nice but, as you said, it's no Microsoft Sculpt.I've been using computers daily since they had toggl
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In reply to hrlngrv:I said "upgrade ... with no loss of data or settings or installed apps." You know a way to
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In reply to seapea:That is kind of like saying that a Ferrari should come with a trailer because it doesn'
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Of course the thing about Windows 10 S is that any time you need features not in Windows 10 S you can upgrade
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In reply to ThatMouse:We also shouldn't call cutting and pasting out of a press release "journalism" nor
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:I've learned not to trust YouTube "reviews" from people I don't know.
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Since you're into reviewing phones with a high weighting for their cameras, Paul, are you going to review
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In reply to James_Wilson:That's been exactly what marked the death of all the earlier attempts to do a le
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So, in short, it costs between $1,000 and $2,000, doesn't do as much as a Windows or Macintosh laptop and
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In reply to skane2600:Except, of course, this is a $1,000-$2,000 Chromebook. And, for that matter, if you DO n
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Actually I said actual standalone applications not phone apps. Real Office or Re
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Wow. $1,000-1,650 PLUS $100 for a pen and $250 for the extended warrantee. That's Two Grand for a portabl
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In reply to evox81:Oh, let's get real, if it were from anyone but Microsoft he'd be talking about ho
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But who would buy one when you can get locked into the Apple ecosystem, get a remote that's unusable and
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In reply to Cosmocronos:For that matter, it was never intended to be a product. It was a Microsoft Research co
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In reply to pmckean:"the vast majority of professional writers on tech blogs are Apple shills, biased in favou
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In reply to Evilsushi:Actually, that'd be great for Microsoft. Because of installed base, nobody is runni
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Combining these two takeaways:“Hosted Web Apps are UWP apps,” Burtoft said. “They’re built with web te
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Which also means that 97.5% are using a build no more than about a year old (1607 or newer). That's a rea
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In reply to JackWang:Sorry. Consider your heart broken.All browsers on all "walled garden" ecosystems like iOS
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In reply to sdrjax:If it were, say, JUST the processor I might agree but with all major components changing it
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In reply to brad-sams:Seems like it should be an i9-7920X, 1080Ti and 64GB of RAM to be a fair comparison.
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Nah. Building it yourself on a budget would have been going "back to your roots". Reviewing a pre-built custom
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In reply to Lane:Sounds like a corrupted install. Try rolling back the install and then letting it update agai
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In reply to Winner:Oh, you mean poor little Netscape who distributed their browser for free and then when they
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Actually, they generally haven't. Microsoft has historically ported all their ke
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In reply to karma77police:You mean like how Chrome on iOS has nothing to do with Chrome other than the name?Yo
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In reply to Waethorn:Paul has brought it up in virtually every mention of Edge as a "missing feature" so, yeah
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Of course they used the native engine. That's how all 3rd party browsers work in mobile operating systems
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"They’re just shells around the native browser engines on each platform (Chrome/Blink and Safari/WebKit)."Wh
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Nice to see a full range of AR/VR/MR solutions at multiple price points and multiple targets all using the sam
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And that is how you do a premium laptop line...Not just beautiful and thin but with features and options and p
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In reply to GeekWithKids:Let's see. Windows 10 has over half a billion active users which is more than al
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And ... that's plenty!In fact, it's lots more than any other vendor has available and is, by far, th
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And even the $30 model's remote doesn't need to have a white circle painted on it so you can tell wh
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In reply to hrlngrv:So you want them to break backward compatibility.
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In reply to Jeremy_Petzold:As did I. And I already have paint.net and have since it first released.Software de
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In reply to david.thunderbird:You mean where you have to identify who you are to accept the licensing terms yo
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Cool. I only use 6 extensions on Edge but they've been surprisingly solid even through the Insider Progra
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In reply to spacein_vader:The reality is that tax is what allows you to get a high-end gaming system for so mu
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Cuphead is really about the visuals more than about the gameplay.That sounds like the recipe for failure but s
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In reply to TheSeeker:Obnoxious pays better.
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In reply to PincasX:I stated that Paul saying that Google harming a competitor was not illegal was incorrect.
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In reply to Winner:Exactly what you'd expect early in a new version. The early builds have almost no fea
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In reply to skane2600:It doesn't summarize it. It states one finding that was held valid. And which demon
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In reply to skane2600:You can feel free to state what YOU think are the only valid reasons. The COURTS ruled t
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Monopoly isn't defined as "something everybody has to use". It's defin
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Sorry. It's not about ads. Or at least it isn't unless Alphabet offers
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:And THAT is why it's almost certainly abuse of monopoly power and a violati
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"What this is clearly about is Google hampering a competitor. Which, you know, is technically both fair and le
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In reply to hrlngrv:The facts say that 3/4ths of all Windows 10 computers are now on the new build. And given
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In reply to PeteB:Apparently 3/4ths of all Windows 10 users disagree with you (and most of the others are wait
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Microsoft has had the huge advantage of senior management who understand the value of having a pure research a
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In reply to glenn8878:And we can take your wording to mean you also still use Yahoo.
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Which, of course, is what anyone paying attention would expect since Creators Update has been implemented with
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In reply to PincasX:Backwards as I understand it from the reports I've read. They may be wrong but it was
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In reply to PeteB:No. They will stay the same. Apple users complain about any part of their product that didn&
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In reply to nbplopes:It depends on how you define the market. Apple themselves say this is a hobby and not a m
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Not sure whether to go with the headline where Windows 10 S is moving into the enterprise or the body of the a
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In reply to SteenMachine:So is there anything inaccurate in what I posted or did you just object because I ins
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In reply to SvenJ:Hence the 2nd paragraph which is what "comparatively" really means about the iPhone 8 and 8
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So Apple partially played catch-up on a device with no real market penetration, introduced nothing their compe
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Bravo to the HoloLens team. Another important win. And with Ford and Volvo now using HoloLens to vastly increa
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In reply to Daniel_D:Welcome to the online world.Nobody ships a version every 3 years without online updates a
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In reply to glenn8878:Really? So tablets aren't mobile and laptops aren't mobile?Gravity must be rea
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In reply to PeteB:HoloLens is, of course, out now and shipping in two different configurations.He, of course,
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In reply to Rob_Wade:So, you're a vegan and you feel a need to post a negative comment on a review of the
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In reply to glenn8878:"Hmm. Microsoft has no credibility selling any new form factor mobile device"You mean be
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So, from what we can expect from the "Pixel2" family, the current Pixel has:Bad battery lifePoor storage or at
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In reply to Simard57:He doesn't even need to do that. After all, that would just measure what they said t
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In reply to Stooks:Bing Rewards has gotten me free subscriptions to Groove Music and to Xbox Gold.
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In reply to Tunrip:I don't know the StatCounter methodology but NetMarketShare treats "desktop" and "mobi
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In reply to Jeremiah_Moss:Which is probably how Mozilla is claiming 500 million.Or Google has found a way to d
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So how did Microsoft say they determined that number when you asked them for comment?And what's your view
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In reply to Minok:Sure. The point was that hrlngrv's point about Firefox being "about as wide spread as C
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In reply to JustMe:No. Realistically it's $1,149.00 for a phone.Since Apple still refuses to allow memory
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In reply to jjaegers:Because to a loyalist like karma, any time before Apple gets in a market or adds a featur
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Yeah, it was amazing to see them copy even the numbering scheme from Microsoft. And s
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In reply to Jhambi:Let's be fair, saying "One more thing" is all they have. Their "Future of the smartpho
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In reply to Bats:Wireless Charging....are you kidding me? It's 2017. Not 2008. Yes. 2008. Qi wireless cha
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In reply to Stooks:Yep, and then in a year Paul will be calling Windows 10 a failure that no developer would b
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Hmm, high res OLED screen, wireless charging, face recognition...Wow, Apple invented the Lumia 950OK, to be fa
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In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:Yes, if all you know is Apple then anything Apple catches up with is "new".
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In reply to NicolasDR:Nothing even new in the "leaks" since most of this leaked out months ago and the remaini
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In reply to James_Wilson:But, hey, Chrome supports "standards" and Edge doesn't...
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In reply to karma77police:Actually, Microsoft found that the Windows 7 style implementation didn't scale
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In reply to Waethorn:Which is ideal since 32-bit Office is the best solution for most people since only specia
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Of course it doesn't "record" you. That'd be horribly data expensive for Google.Much more likely it
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In reply to hrlngrv:Current Netmarketshare numbersDesktop Google Chrome 59.38%Mozilla Firefox 12.28%Mobile Goo
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In reply to maethorechannen:Nope. It's supposed to be the ChromeOS killer in a specific market. You know,
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In reply to hrlngrv:Quite a few, actually. It's not an uncommon thing for universities to do since it mea
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So, it appears to be common knowledge in the tech industry that if you don't hide your browser's not
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For me it would take somebody actually having an actual new architecture rather than the bag on a bag on a bag
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:The whole point of this OS is that it is for remote management and control not for
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In reply to skane2600:Actually it can't. Any functionality that doesn't work exactly as planned beca
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In reply to Waethorn:To show off the platform for Universities that want to use it as a standard platform for
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:What happens is that the drivers ON SUPPORTED DEVICES are updated just fine. If you
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In reply to SvenJ:Microsoft IS making the driver issue go away. They're working with the hardware vendors
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In reply to skane2600:The problem there being that since he's NOT installing it on supported hardware any
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Or there's the third option Run Windows 10 S on hardware that's actually supported. Microsoft and th
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In reply to Minok:Insteon has this with their remote thermostat.
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A reminder that "Skip Ahead" is for people who thing Fast Ring is too stable and boring and usable.
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Yes, now that Google is involved the category is real. That Amazon and Microsoft and Apple all have a head sta
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In reply to emanon2121:But then it wouldn't be a Google product. :-)Seriously, though, there are a lot of
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In reply to Stooks:And it is only designed to run on very specific hardware yet Paul insists on trying to get
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So, Google is years late to the party, blew their first try and has shown some demoware prior to the big consu
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Judging from the videos and hands-on photos on other sites today, looks like somewher
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With Google's history of intercepting and monitoring user data, you have to wonder if this is an anti-mal
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Great looking design. Absolutely looks better than Apple's bloated, rounded edges that look like they ove
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In reply to hrlngrv:And Microsoft only supports Windows 10 S on a very limited set of hardware listed on the p
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In reply to pachi:Exactly. For Windows 10 S to work on any given hardware it requires that the hardware vendor
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In reply to PeteB:Yeah, we could follow that up on a review of how macOS sucks because it doesn't cleanly
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How about actually installing and using it on a machine that IS supported so we'd know how Windows 10 S w
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In reply to James_Wilson:Yes, but let's be fair. The Commodore 64 architecture is much newer than the "We
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In reply to Bats:See my reply to Jules_Wombat on the subject or look up eSports on Wikipedia for some numbers
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In reply to bzakharin:But the 17" Envy (at least the ones I've seen) does have a full number pad and a nu
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:As you should. E-sports is now a two billion dollar a year industry. Events draw tens
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In reply to RobertJasiek:This is a full size, full weight, full power 17" high end laptop and not a 13" ultrab
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In reply to Dan:Really? So you're saying that Android hardware hasn't changed in 5 versions of the s
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And the fragmentation continues.Netmarketshare.com now shows:Android 6.0 - 20.59%Android 4.4 - 12.53%Android 5
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:So you're saying you may get a better price and there's really no actual
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In reply to Waethorn:And "cuz Internet is cool" all the cable providers have online viewing over that same coo
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In reply to Chris_Kez:If cost is the only reason then let's stop pretending there are other reasons inher
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So the advantage is paying Google rather than paying Comcast or Charter Communications?Seriously. What advanta
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In reply to hrlngrv:Ah, you mean that Chrome OS can be, by means of turning it into a developer mode, can be t
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In reply to Waethorn:You mean Chrome OS is equal to any operating system that includes a browser? Like, say, W
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In reply to anchovylover:And as you had no actual disagreement with what I posted I assume you actually agree
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In reply to JackoUK:"[Windows 10S] is an attempt to relegate consumers to a serf-like existence where the comp
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What a shame that an article that's basically "I live in the Google ecosystem and this doesn't supp
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In reply to hrlngrv:They serve VERY different computational problems. I worked with the High Performance Compu
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A note about hardwareTo really take advantage of Windows 10 Pro for Workstations you likely need new hardware
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In reply to Darren.Jones:Yeah, they'll probably need to fix that before the product actually ships for th
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In reply to offTheRecord:This is a product for high end compute-intense workstations. If you have been hitting
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Checking Microsoft's status page at portal.office.com/servicestatus the current status shows:Title: Can&#
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In reply to MatthewSteeples:Nope. That feature assumes you are using NVDIMM-N modules for your RAM and it does
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Fantastic news. The people doing serious scientific and engineering computing have been screaming for this for
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:If you have a 4K/HDR TV it already IS a Smart TV. So for a "cord cutter" using 4K (
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In reply to toukale:Of course that was also true when 1080p TVs shipped. The content providers and data pipe p
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So let's sum up.Two years ago Apple released a product that wasn't up to 2015 standards withNo suppo
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Odd. I never had that problem with Windows Hello after the firmware update on my Surface Pro 4. In fact, after
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In reply to F4IL:Yes. They intentionally preserved the old colors on upgrade so people wouldn't lose cust
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Additionally to the other posters pointing out where you're wrong, note that nei
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In reply to chrisrut:Yes. That was my point.
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In reply to YouWereWarned:Yes. I did the work. And, apparently from other comments, that made the point that U
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In reply to Tallin:No. A USB Type-C connector must only be on a cable or device that supports USB 3.1 or 3.2
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In reply to Tallin:No. They certified 4 general Alternate Modes which can be used by any vendor in any combina
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In reply to Minok:Exactly. It's redundant hardware and a redundant potential security threat location.
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In reply to Tallin:They don't "allow" Alternate Modes. They control 100% what Alternate Modes are allowed
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In reply to Tallin:Actually, USB Type-C connectors support USB 3.1 and 3.2 The USB Consortium controls what Al
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Let's see:Windows already includes full anti-malware that works just fine (disclaimer, I worked on an ear
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In reply to MikeGalos:Oh, and then there's the LIFX+ bulbs which also provide an infrared channel so they
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Two problems with Philips Hue that are solved with LIFXThe need for a hubThe problem with brightness. The Phil
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So, actually, it's NOT a new USB-C spec. It's USB 3 being upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2. And the USB 3.2
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In reply to Waethorn:Because Google gets to track everything you watch or DVR rather than Comcast and A. C. Ni
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Odds are the Perceptive Pixel acquisition had a requirement that Microsoft keep the manufacturing facility ope
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Of course, by that methodology, every person who replaces their conventional laptop with a Surface Pro or othe
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In reply to SvenJ:You mean your Father's Microsoft that built POSIX.1 compatibility into Windows NT from
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Oh well.The cost of transparency is seeing feature slips as they happen. And they always happen to every produ
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In reply to skane2600:It would be. But what I did was translate yours out of Fanboi into English. Think of it
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In reply to skane2600:So what you're saying is they should issue optional patches specifically for people
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Seems pretty well thought through and they've got partnerships with all the key players and are supportin
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In reply to OntarioPundit:Yes, because there are lots of dynamic electronic devices out there that support bio
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Of course the problem with implementing Do Not Disturb While Driving is that it has to be manually configured
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Oh, you're still Scroogled. You're very much still Scroogled.There were several Google privacy invas
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In reply to jimchamplin:Eventually it'll have some limited local access. But not yet and not full.
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In reply to DocPaul:Nope. It's not the same thing.Dictate is online only since it uses the back-end
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In reply to DocPaul:They've had it for 10 years now. System-wide Text to Speech shipped with Windows Vist
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In reply to Luka Pribanić:No, Between that moment and until you realize it, you're running Windows Defen
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In reply to SteveM:Now, now. Just because Microsoft has had it since 2013 doesn't mean Apple doesn't
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Well, actually saving to a file in a file system including a local one would be...
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The reason for the “Have you saved all your files?” dialog is not because it will delete files. It's
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Actually, dictation has been part of Windows for over a decade now and usable in ANY application including Off
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In reply to Ed Woodrick:"It sounds as if they thought waiting until the RTM build was made BEFORE they decided
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In reply to mjw149:Purely a matter of choice for Google. The restrictions prohibiting non-native web renderin
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In reply to Bats:Nope. That was the $200 Windows 10 s laptops from OEMs. This was the "Window 10 S is a viable
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In reply to hrlngrv:And Microsoft gets to demonstrate that Windows 10S isn't just for low end systems.
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In reply to SvenJ:So you're saying a piece of chalk and a sidewalk is more productive than an iPad Pro?OK
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And, of course you can't do an in-place downgrade because that would leave you with the applications you
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So, in short, it's not only nowhere near as productive as a tablet running Windows 10 S, it's nowher
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So, in short, Windows 10S is not ideal for somebody who lives almost entirely in the Google ecosystem wit
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Realistically, either modern laptop/tablet/phone devices are replaced under warrantee or replaced.You want acc
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One other nice thing about Microsoft's pens is the interchangeable tips. I spent some time working with t
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In reply to PincasX:In favor of the "intentionally designed to make it hard" is the addition of a pen(cil) whi
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I know I'm risking the wrath of those who hold the late Steve Jobs in a religious fervor but he was
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"How you feel about this will depend on your level of experience with that original console"Yes, but the range
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In reply to hometoy:Yes. Leaving out Linux means it isn't "cross-platform" in much the same way as saying
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Yes. They're in the business of selling games not consoles. Which means they
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:That's what happens when you try to differentiate the difference between 4K HD
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In reply to BoItmanLives:They demoed 42 games during the keynote of which 22 were exclusives. In fact there w
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In reply to BoItmanLives:No, actually games will have Xbox One X specific textures and assets. You probably sh
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And backward compatibility not just to Xbox 360 but to the original Xbox including Crimson Skies.
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In reply to Tony Barrett:As he said, "the same price as Apple’s iPad Pro-compatible Pencil"
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In reply to Simard57:I never got why manufacturers went for more widescreen ratios for laptop screens in first
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:I'm sure Sony is absolutely saying they don't have backward compatibility
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In reply to nbplopes:During the Microsoft anti-trust trial it got even worse than that. One of the key governm
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In reply to Waethorn:Actually, Kaspersky wants Microsoft to do LESS testing. They want updates to Windows to b
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It's a mix of pathetic and hilarious that Kaspersky is so incompetent that they want Microsoft to hold th
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In reply to skane2600:Actually, you're flat out wrong. That's EXACTLY what is done in the new Window
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Yeah, Satya's strategy for future computing with the user at the center and multiple devices in multiple
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Yep. Writing actual system software is hard. That's why nobody's written a new OS since Windows NT i
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In reply to 2ilent8cho:Back in the "NT days" the "Home" version was Windows 95 and Windows NT was, effectively
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Let's compare:macOS runs on 6 computer models from 1 vendor with limited backward supportWindows 10 runs
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:The "Coalition for Better Ads" is NOT "an independent organization". Google is one
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:That's not how "anti-competitive behavior" works.If you use your power as a mo
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So Google is blocking the types of ads they don't sell but their competitors do and thus will make it&nbs
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And there we have the first real "generation change" in years.
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In reply to SvenJ:Exactly. This is a step toward getting a single, standard that actually IS a standard becaus
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:As for "Historically, we've seen the PC as the device you can plug all your ot
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:It's a start, but it needs more.The USB consortium needs to clarity the spec s
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In reply to rameshthanikodi:Not only is USB-C not interchangeable with Thunderbolt 3 but Intel specifically ad
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In reply to Vuppe:USB-C is a connector and cable spec not a port spec. Thunderbolt over USB is an Alternative
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In reply to Vuppe:Or, next year "USB 3.1 (or USB 3.0) with the USB-C connector, the optional USB Power Deliver
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In reply to prjman:Right. Having a USB Type C connector only guarantees that you can put in the plug upside do
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Actually, I just quoted the actual specs and why they're too immature to trust.
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In reply to prjman:That you haven't seen them is not saying anything. USB C connectors so far are on high
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:See my other reply about how the vague USB Type C connector is an optional suite of
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In reply to Kevin Holt:Certainly a better option for any computer that has multiple USB ports right now t
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And, speaking of "USB C", I note that the Microsoft Lumia 950 uses a USB C connector and the Apple iPhone 7 us
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In reply to Kevin Holt:The problem is that what you call a "proper USB C port" isn't. It's a USB 3.1
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In reply to MerlinE.:If the only reason you haven't replaced your 4 year old computer is because the Surf
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Looks like a nice refresh. Alcantara keyboard, upgraded components and connectors that protect my investment i
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In reply to hrlngrv:I suspect, but have no data, that a good percent of devices running each vendor's OS
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In reply to hrlngrv:And odds are that at least 1 Billion of those Android devices are running Microsoft produc
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In reply to BoItmanLives:I don't see it yet because it's been said every year since Windows 95 launc
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In reply to Eric Rasmussen:Actually they're likely in 4th place afterComputer Associates (historical but
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In reply to thisisdonovan:We're running a Lumia 950 and a Lumia 950XL. They work great and nothing from e
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In reply to Boris Zakharin:No. They just added support for Google's user-data capture devices. Your 950 w
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In reply to Wizzwith:I crunched the numbers and it's about:Google: 2.0 billionMicrosoft: 1.9 billionApple
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Well, Android may be "the most popular computing platform" but hardly by much and hardly with such a bright g
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We DO have a clear demarcation between the big 3 tech companiesMicrosoft invents itGoogle steals itApple steal
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In reply to skane2600:The flaw is actually in old IBM OS|2 code still in there to support a flawed old network
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In reply to Simard57:I don't mind tech site complaining when a vendor misses a date the vendor published.
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Of course the product is long from feature complete and that's the reason Microsoft used to prohibit pres
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In reply to Waethorn:Windows Phone, Android and iOS all have fragmentation problems but, for some reason, peop
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The latest Netmarketshare report shows 13 different versions of Android in use (plus about 5% that show as And
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In reply to MikeCerm:Exactly. If apps aren't hurt by fragmentation it means their developers are coding t
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Netmarketshare says that 7% of systems worldwide are vulnerable. That any large, managed systems are on that l
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In reply to Andrey Medvedev:Cool. what company do you dance with?
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The "new creative app" is called Story Remix. It was demoed with that name and it's mentioned on the "Com
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In reply to MikeCerm:You do realize that Microsoft is just using the same requirement Apple has for iOS, use t
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Let's be honest, a report prepared before the Microsoft initiative only says what would have been true wi
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In reply to Darren Chapman:Using next as a placeholder is a Microsoftism (and used by others as well) to refer
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In reply to skane2600:Actually that's exactly what it can do. If your application doesn't use any sp
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In reply to skane2600:Feel free to look at any history of BSD which is the basis for NeXTSTEP which is the cor
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In reply to Greg Green:Surface, IoT, most of Azure come to mind.
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In reply to Waethorn:It's up about 36% over the last 12 months. I think they're doing OK...
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In reply to Rob_Wade:Actually, they don't. Apple is famous for secrecy. What you're confusing with A
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In reply to glong:For that matter:MS-DOS vs CP/M-86
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You'd think that with three Microsoft major press events in one month (last week's EDU announcements
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Bravo. What people keep missing is that this adds two thing Echo misses out on:1) It's actually tied to t
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In reply to SvenJ:"I can already resize UWP apps into windows on the desktop that look remarkably like their p
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In reply to skane2600:And that proves you have no clue about how UWP works and how you develop for it. Windows
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In reply to skane2600:Even if we pretend that Linux is anything but a knock-off clone of Unix, you should real