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NoFlames
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I would love to win any of these Surface products. They are all great devices and I can put any one of them to
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Evidence Free and not knowing the evidence are two different things. Tell us what your evidence is that they a
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In reply to Lordbaal:CPU clock rate is only one of many factors that determine productivity. In many cases it&
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The store only shows an older version built 6/21/2019. Anyone else able to download the new version?
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The drawing was scheduled for July 22nd. Any update?
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I would like to win a Huawei MateBook 13
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In reply to trparky: test in smaller markets before you bring to the biggest market so they can have a good la
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I built Windows Terminal from github, and it's something I am looking forward to. In the meantime I use c
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If I had to use Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 again that would be my nightmare. I'm quite happy with Edge (dev and
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I use WSL every day, looking forward to WSL2. I hope they can get it in the fall update, I don't want to
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In reply to PeteB: You forgot the reasons why you disagree. Is providing Linux in the Windows Store the death
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Win32 applications co-existing in the Windows Store with UWP apps is not the death of UWP, it is simply establ
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In reply to SvenJ: Both theories could be true, they want them to be "good enough" but not too good. Going bac
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In reply to brduffy: could it be they don't want them to be too reliable so people will replace more freq
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Read the reviews on best buy website, the go gets a high rating with many reviews.
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Now that's getting to a more reasonable Price. My Son bought these at full price and he really likes them
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To me Windows 1903 is the best windows ever. I think they have made some mistakes in the past, but they are at
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Why not give one a good home?
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In reply to PeteB: Mind read much?
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Is this a solution looking for a problem? I don't imagine these will sell very well.
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In reply to skane2600:If you have something to say (an opinion) FB/Twitter/YouTube are the primary ways to get
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In reply to skane2600: Is your argument that as long as people can pay for Fox News what is there to complain
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FB/Twitter/Google all have more power to interfere in elections than the Russians. They control what you see,
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In reply to evox81:I found the fastest method is to use the PureText shortcut in place of Ctrl+V and you save
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I installed and assigned your same shortcut. This will be useful, just need to break old habits of doing it th
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Is this for all bands or only the 2nd gen band?
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In reply to skane2600: Or perhaps Microsoft would like to quit competing in technologies that are settled and
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I'm using it as my default browser now on two different machines (including work). It is working well so
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I selected the option to exit the insider program at the next major build. Just now I went to check to make su
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I think 2nd half releases will be all about hardware enablement and bug fixing and the first half release will
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I'm one of the "fools" to buy books from Microsoft. The reason I did it was to combat the monopoly of Ama
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This is what I would want, however it doesn't appear you would save much over the family plan.
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I consider this exciting that based upon the short issue list the build is definitely very close to RTM.
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A change in the services have to be tested to work on all platforms not just windows
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I think their hardware efforts were a success and that is why they are shutting down. Android is very successf
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In reply to waclark57: I paid 1000 for the i5/8GB/256GB version with the black keyboard included. Got it on sa
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That is my ideal configuration for cost, i5 16gb/256GB. I just bought the 8GB version, wished I had the 16GB v
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In reply to skane2600:She determined from her own personal friend who did the tests she was 1/1024 of people n
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In reply to timo47: Why do they need to provide you with concrete reasons?
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In reply to skane2600: In Enterprise, 100,000 of something like this could be a huge success, because it'
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In reply to skane2600:Anecdotally engineering departments I have worked in big and small used to be almost 100
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Count me as the optimist, I really like the current release of windows 10, and will like the next one even bet
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In reply to yaddamaster: I have had the same experience at my company, they will by top of the line MacBook Pr
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But the price...
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I had no intention to get hooked on these things. I started out with the Harmon Kardon Invoke, then Amazon gav
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In reply to Polycrastinator: I have one and so far it's been good.
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Very helpful to learn from someone else's experience. I need to do this but getting that nice scannner is
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In reply to NoFlames: Finished the Audiobook, and it was much better than I expected. The flow and the narrati
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Office can already be run on the web, and tie into OneDrive so I think that will work out of the box, but I�
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I prefer Amazon, and they are building a smart home dynasty with all their acquisitions. With Echo plus and Al
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Blink cameras are wireless on are good on batteries compared to Arlo. Blink cameras have audio recording to go
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In reply to warren: That is a great point. With Windows 7 support expiring soon, they need to have a rock soli
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Maybe they diagnosed the quality problem and decided one year of testing a branch is better than 6mo. So they
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Echo Plus is also on sale for 119 but is on backorder until tomorrow.
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Purchased the Audiobook, look forward to listening.
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In reply to robincapper: hard to say but this is the best growth for the surface line that I recall.
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Politics aside, it sounds like a very well designed laptop. I'm very glad to see the 3:2 aspect ratio sho
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In reply to blackcomb: I have to have the latest and greatest for the developer focused features they have add
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In reply to Waethorn:At the moment NewsGuard is off by default. NewsGuard is a joke, they only accept liberal
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Thanks Paul for pulling this off. I hope you aren't discouraged from doing anything like this again due t
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In reply to hrlngrv: I switched my system over to use the 7GB reserved space, will keep my eye out to see if i
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In reply to hrlngrv: There is something seriously wrong, I don't see that problem.
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The latest insider build is supposed to fix the installation errors that have been blocking people. The new bu
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In reply to hrlngrv: Define slow as it compares to previous builds.
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In reply to robinwilson16: that is the same error I got.
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I also have had upgrade issues. I was able to upgrade from 1803 build to 18309 without issue, however when I w
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Surface GoSurface HeadphonesUgly Windows sweater (Extra-Large)
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In reply to shameermulji: Do you have knowledge that a redesigned Surface Pro is due this year, or is that spe
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There are so many teaser releases at CES, yet without specific pricing it's hard to make any kind of dete
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This was one of the reasons I used bitbucket for personal use. With this change, I will start using GitHub sin
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In reply to anderb: It is encouraging to see that there is a way to disable it. It seems like businesses would
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In reply to hrlngrv: Now that you mention it running in a VM that does ring a bell. I've had Windows Serv
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In reply to Waethorn:Try installing an new piece of hardware without a driver on Linux. I think you will find
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I just updated an older laptop to 1803 and it claimed it was up to date. When I tried to install 1809 from ISO
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I use MS Launcher exclusively and haven't noticed any such thing but I'm running Android One on Noki
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I quit using 3rd Party A/V software years ago, because they drag down the system too much. I always have MS de
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America didn't rise to the top in less than 200 years by being lazy. It's a cultural norm to work ha
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In reply to brad-sams:I also went back and deleted my 2nd duplicate entry and left the original. The drawing i
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There surely must be a fix for this? I haven't personally had that problem, but I try to jump on the insi
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Office 365Xbox Game Pass
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Office 365
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Good article. The regulation seemed to be a solution to a mostly hypothetical problem, thus it hasn't bee
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I think they have hit a sweet spot for form factor for the tablet. The fact that it has a usable keyboard is t
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What do people think is more likely next year, a Surface Go with an next gen Intel Chip or the new Qualcomm
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In reply to karma77police: What you are missing is that Edge IS the reason this deal can be made. Without Edge
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From a developers point of view, I can see why they would like to standardize on one rendering engine (mobile
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In reply to paul-thurrott: I agree it will be obvious with time, but 7% in 3-4 months on a new product seems t
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I think the success of the Surface Go is not only about price, but about form factor. I think the market resul
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In reply to wright_is: I'm wondering the same thing except then I looked closely at the picture in the ar
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In reply to brettscoast: I could say the same about Android, Google had massive resources but Android is still
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In reply to karma77police: I don't think they have much choice but to do two updates a year to deal with
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The biggest issue to me isn't that they delayed it after discovery of the problem, it's going radio
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In reply to karma77police: Home users probably do, there are many free apps which still qualifies as a purchas
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As someone that is in the software development field I find it naĂŻve to think that working on the next versio
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I trust Paul's reviews on most things but I think he has got it wrong on the go. Anyone interested in the
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Do they still count Surface in the tablet category?
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I have the Nokia 6.1 and I'm disappointed coming from Windows Phone to Android. Performance is horrible.
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In reply to canamrotax: Removable parts make for thicker devices. People voted with their wallets, many prefer
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In reply to Mestiphal: I don't think the scratch problem was that bad as in it wasn't a big problem
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This is like a movie script.
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I have one and love it, the build and sound quality is excellent. I use it mostly with Spotify but also weathe
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I use edge and I haven't found a way to turn off Google's annoying requests to download chrome. It h
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In reply to hrlngrv:I don't notice the inconsistencies and so what I can't think of any way that had
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I think Paul is ignoring those of us that used to use Chrome exclusively, and have switched to Edge. I prefer
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I think it's easy to read too much into the numbers when it's only been 3 weeks of sales. To me that
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In reply to yaddamaster: size matters. I have a surface pro 3 but want one of these for use in the recliner an
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In reply to PeteB:Why is it embarrassing?
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1 GB of RAM? My phone has 3G and it still has major lag issues. But at $70 they are pricing it to be disposabl
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In reply to james.h.robinson: The applications you mentioned are meant to run on higher end workstations. I do
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Survey was easy, and I'm glad that an actual date is set for the announcement. Often with giveaways or dr
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As someone who loves Surface Pro, I was actually considering getting a Go. I went and put the Go through it�
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In reply to gabbrunner: is your hand large enough to hold a tablet with one hand? Only then is that comparison
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In reply to Rycott:Thank you I've been thinking this too. it's annoying that no reviewer ever explai
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I think the recent reorg of windows is in response to market feedback. So I expect to see a more stable platfo
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This move eliminates the biggest objection in retail when a customer is shown a Chromebook and a customer asks
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In reply to unfalln: I meant to reply to all those people that were implying Microsoft needs to "beating Micro
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Edge supports native notifications for some time now
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In reply to slbailey1: Way too much talk, not enough info in that video.
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In reply to Slvrgun: Note taking, travel, RDP, email, browsing, twitter, photos, office, youtube. It's a
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In reply to karma77police:I've noticed the things I like the most are the things you trash. What device f
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Is this when Mac's will get touch screens?
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In reply to Daekar: I agree and I prefer OneDrive, but storage and cloud streaming sources are a cost to the c
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:The camera so far isn't great in different lighting but I didn't expect f
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I am loving my Nokia 6.1 as a replacement for the 950. Great price and great construction for a mid level devi
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I'm not sure "Little used" is accurate given how it is integrated into Windows 10 operation. I personally
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In reply to alissa914: I think that is the point, the website should give you a good mobile experience like a
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It isn't late if there's no release date set. That's the beauty of not having a public schedule
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I prefer edge over chrome, and I find the built in tools sufficient for my work.
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In reply to mrdrwest: That was fast!
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I'm interested, will it work with AT&T? Also the Walmart website says it has 4GB RAM, Amazon and Noki
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Facebook through their success has created what could be viewed as a modern version of the public square. A pl
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Jumped back on the Release Preview to get the latest updates. Periscope TV in edge was broken (no audio), with
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In reply to hrlngrv: This isn't an either or situation, I use Windows 10 safely, never had a single secur
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In reply to dcdevito: Secure in the sense that 3 people know what you did, yourself, the store and Google. I w
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In reply to JerryH: Sounds like you are better off on the long term servicing branch, no store, infrequent upd
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The changes does leave me to wonder are they tearing things apart just when they figured out how to unify? Tha
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can you run centenial x86 apps found in the store like spotify in S mode?
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In reply to karma77police:You obviously don't know what you are talking about. I use Linux this way every
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PWA's sound like the future, but my guess is that Google/Apple will still try to make platform lock-in fe
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Nice to see they released this in the store.
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I'm a domain joined computer running the latest release branch and I don't see "Fresh Start" option.
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I recently switched from Groove to Spotify, and Spotify is way better than Amazon app, however I'm happy
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In reply to hrlngrv:They bundle it in with other things, no way to know. But we do know that revenue went up o
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Apple is happy to be the low volume high price leader, because profits are much better. Surface was never abou
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In reply to Bart: The same reason inexpensive cars don't look as nice as the luxury models do. I wish the
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In reply to zybch: Optimism fuels the stock market in the short run. The future value is built into todays pri
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Has anyone noticed that good news has to be spun into a negative. The subtext is those throwing shade don'
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You can also install a PowerShell module to check if you are running Windows.Press the Windows key and type Po
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In reply to matsan: I would argue that reason this quote is true "PC buyers will look for quality and function
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In reply to lvthunder: For now it appears to be patching the OS to workaround the issue.
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In reply to George_Semple:The application allows you to store all of your files local forever, you don't
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I just purchased Write! to give it a try. They have a $10 Christmas special price right now, not bad.
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In reply to jimchamplin: I don't think Cortana/Spotify integration is in the PC version yet. It's in
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Will this integration require purchase of an Amazon device?
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In reply to karma77police:Your experience does not extrapolate to everyone. In fact it only extrapolates to yo
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I did my part, I downloaded it, gave it a bad rating, and now it's gone. I was surprised Microsoft allowe
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In reply to jimchamplin:Interesting, so you think when they converge, they will rely on touch pad and mouse, n
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Apple can afford to be late to the party. If they bring all their IOS apps to the Mac Platform, that will be s
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I will miss Groove music pass, but took the plunge a few days ago to get a 3 mo trial of Spotify, then exporte
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In reply to skane2600: The desktop bridge should be more relevant now that 10S was released. It allows a devel
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In reply to hrlngrv:The way it hurts Microsoft, is it reduces the number of 10S users, and thus keeps develope
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In reply to zybch:For the reasons Paul mentioned, they don't work with all content well. I have had two k
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In reply to will:First of all I don't think they have done it yet because they initially thought it was a
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In reply to cseafous:Apple has a way of making you need their devices. Going all in on PWA's would work a
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Microsoft has had a huge lead in converged platform, but this could change things knowing how passionate Apple
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In reply to hrlngrv:My point is not who is better/worse but just an opinion on why now. Did you notice they di
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Google is trying to kill Windows 10S in the crib. If they can get users to "Upgrade to Pro" then they have suc
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I wished Amazon supported Windows apps (not applications) for music and movies, if they embraced that I would
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In reply to Jeffery_Commaroto:I can tell you how I would use it, for capturing my signature or marking up a do
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In reply to karma77police: Unless you are running Windows 10S
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In reply to Waethorn:That doesn't surprise me, Apple has always been bad at making good Windows software
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My guess is that Apple wants to do more than just do a simple conversion using the bridge. Remember they can u
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As a new premium member, I think I'm starting to see the value. Articles like this are excellent, we get
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In reply to RamblingGeek:Props for finding it early, it is definitely news worthy to developers.
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In reply to fishnet37222:I found it just like the article said, however I'm in developer mode. I wonder i
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In reply to Chris_Kez: I must have missed that in the graph legend or article contents. I could assume that, b
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The article talks about PC market share, but the graphs appear to include all devices, including mobile. If my
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Well written and interesting article, glad I upgraded to Premium recently. Props to how you are making the pre
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I don't begrudge Paul and company to try and find a business model that supports great content. It's
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The Invoke sounds interesting, but only if you can tell it to play music using Groove. I'm not even talki
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In reply to hrlngrv: I've seen Windows in ATM's by catching one rebooting. I think they may also be
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:Purpose of Surface Laptop is Windows S and to drive developers to port their Win32 ap
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In reply to karma77police: Looks like you have all the answers. If Microsoft took your advice (especially 1, 2
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In reply to hrlngrv: RT Failed for many reasons, but mostly price, consumer confusion and lock in with limited
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In reply to hrlngrv: I think you missed the point. Non technical users (not Enterprise users) don't need
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I know many people that only use a browser, email and office. Windows 10S fits that model perfectly without al
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In reply to DocPaul: Buy some music.
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I actually like the e-book reading feature in Edge. I have purchased more books from Microsoft Store than from
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In reply to Andrey Medvedev: Yes the new pen works with the older surface pro 3 and 4, and it will support the
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I support Microsoft's decision not to include USB-C with given all the problems people report. That would
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I think the obsession with USB-C is just that an Obsession. Most people that want one I would venture to guess
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I have a surface pro 3 and I really like this laptop. There are times when I wished I didn't have the flo
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In reply to glenn8878: It should be as easy as buying a .99 cent app or song in the store. I buy music in the
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I see the point of a USB-C but it should be an addition, not to replace the power connector. Also the existing