I'm also wondering if this was (at least partially) a reason why Discord shunned Microsoft's offer.
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"I feel like someone who can communicate in an articulate fashion with enough passion and knowledge about what
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I had no idea Visual Studio was still 32-bit...
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Could be. If so, it's a very mixed message from Microsoft.We're a midsized
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I had nearly the exact same reaction this morning."Oh hey, new Surface hardware from Microsoft. Laptop 4, oh,
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In reply to gartenspartan:It's US-focused for sure. Outside of the US iMessage (and the iPhone in general
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Not trying to be ignorant here, but is there any reason why Intel can't become a foundry like TSMC and Sa
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Do you ever run into a situation at home where something that was working for months/years conks out suddenly
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In reply to christianwilson:I was just about to post the same thing regarding Short Takes/Ask Paul.
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Have they announced any plans to drop the standalone apps (Word, Excel, etc.)? I can't recall if that was
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In reply to remco8264:It's not even Chromium Edge...I'm assuming the only people who would pay for t
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In reply to mattbg:It looks like the content itself so far is free.
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"I don’t think I will be able to avoid it. I can’t allow him to make new claims unchallenged."Good, good.
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I read earlier this week that Steven Sinofsky has changed his book plans and has started to publish Hardcore S
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I can't recall his name at all. He was a bigger guy with long hair and a long g
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I attended one of those roadshows in Manhattan back when I was writing for Penton and met Mark Minasi in perso
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I'm still amazed that so many companies walk themselves into these terrible situations.
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A paid update per year makes sense, that's what Tony Redmond and the guys who do the Office 365 for IT Pr
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Obvious future play will be to create a bundle of 10X hardware with 365 Education licenses to compete against
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Happy New Year to all. Hope your holidays were good.
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I know pre-COVID there were often Premium Member meetups at various conferences. Have any of you considered do
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That being said, I will still sell my soul for a 911RSame here, buddy.
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3rd largest ISV is probably true; they have plenty of popular Android software (Outlook Mobile, Office, Xbox,
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I agree this move would be to maintain feature parity with both Chromebooks and Macs. But there are web apps t
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In reply to beckerrt:Yeah, Paul, are you getting one of these? I'd like to see a review from you.
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Today I learned that Paul was responsible for the design of the computer displays in all Toys 'R Us locat
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As mentioned on Windows Weekly over the past month, there have been several high-profile outages with both Azu
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But this is so Apple: They moved quickly on removing the headphone jack, and I could see them taking
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Paul, about a month ago Microsoft submitted patches to the Linux kernel in an effort to allow Linux to be the
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Paul, hope your vacation was good.As we all know, Microsoft is still steadfast in their 18 months of service f
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Interesting. Looking forward to what you find in there, Paul.
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I'd like to know the sell through rate of third-party accessories from Apple stores (both physical and on
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It's just Edge on Linux...they've done cross-platform browsers before. Even Internet Explorer had a
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I tried this a few times in the past, with a variety of Lenovo ThinkPad T models and the hardware ThinkPad doc
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Justin's Family Guy mashup with the workout montage is beyond funny.Enjoy your vacation, Paul.
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Big Sur is probably still too buggy; we'll probably see it in October.
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Seems like there is little reason to go with an iPad Pro versus the new iPad Air, unless you absolutely want o
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There was likely more backroom talk going on here.I'd bet that Microsoft started to get cold feet after t
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Good.
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NVIDIA won over critics by pledging to keep Arm as a separate company with open licensing, and it will honor S
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Good move. I thought this would have happened sooner, actually. Remember when we were all asking Microsoft to
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Star Trek fans will appreciate this.The TNG episode "The Ensigns of Command" was rerun on H&I tonight.I ca
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In reply to Jogy:Interesting, thanks for sharing. These are from the same Jimmy Maher that wrote "The Future W
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Typical Apple non-starter "response."Microsoft should make a quality single-screen Surface xPhone, price it be
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I accidentally destroyed an expensive Omen gaming display a while backGo on...
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In reply to wright_is:I agree. These are mature operating systems now used by billions of people. Major change
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Paul, I was looking through my bookshelves the other day and realized I have plenty of books on the history of
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Enjoy, Paul.
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Microsoft (and Walmart) should run away from this as fast as possible.
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I'm very interested to see where this goes. It could really be a one device future if you could plug in t
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Let Oracle have it, then watch them kill it with their licensing model. Actually, maybe that's their real
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Paul, thanks for suffering through the podcast for us. Some interesting stuff here for sure.
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Small step, but a welcome one - as long as it has feature parity with the existing MMC.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You may have to drive your RV there. It's hard to find a new compact car for sa
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Online gaming with strangers is far too toxic. It's also hard to progress to higher levels within the gam
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I agree. Epic successfully pled their case in the court of public opinion. Now they should revert Fortnite bac
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Similar to Apple, Google has a consistency problem.But Google forced OnePlus to renege on the deal, citing Goo
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In reply to davidblouin:Lawsuit just hit.
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Apple's main problem with the App Store is consistency.Some apps aren't subject to rule XYZ because
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In reply to colin79666:This....was pretty good.
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Paul, three questions:I know you are doing a Living With series on laptops. Have you considered doing one on u
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In reply to jimchamplin:100% how I feel about it. I've had Apple devices since the late 90s, and use thei
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In reply to gregsedwards:Hmm. Sounds too coincidental to not be related.
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In reply to wright_is:One of our ISPs at the office did that a few weeks ago on a piece of their own equipment
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In reply to gregsedwards:Nice! I suppose you can reach back out to them in a few days to see if they can give
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Where did you receive the message stating that your phone number was removed from the account? Was it through
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This happened to my grandmother about 25 years ago. She lost one entire phase of power that the electric utili
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In reply to wright_is:Same for me - I used to use a laptop+dock at home but never took the laptop off of the d
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There's a lot of business boilerplate speak in this. Do they have a team of people that writes these thin
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....why would they even be considering this? For some bizarre Xbox integration?
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Does anyone use the Cortana experiences in Office 365? Serious question. I'm not even sure how to access
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Happy belated, Brad!
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Interesting. Have to wonder how this will change Arm licensing, if at all.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Same here. Some intentionally funny, some unintentionally funny.
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Paul, I get your sense of humor, so when I saw that tweet I chuckled a bit and then immediately thought, "Oh n
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Intel apparently has a contingency plan if they can't get high enough yields at 7nm...use third-party fou
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In reply to retcable:You missed nothing. They showed nothing tangible. Total fluff.
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In reply to Vladimir:Huge, sure, but I figured it was low to mid teens huge, not mid twenties huge.
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In reply to madthinus:I wasn't aware the gaming PC market was that big either.
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This has nothing to do with the post or the ethereal video...they posted this on Medium? Not complaining, just
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In reply to blue77star:Microsoft loves subscription revenue. They've been headed in this direction for de
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For better or worse, all of the Microsoft news (good, bad, and confusing) over the past few weeks has put the
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Regarding the naming of Windows 10X, I agree with many here who think it should be called something different,
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In reply to BigM72:True. However, even a large enterprise may be more comfortable with a flat rate here.
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Paul, 6th paragraph down:felt like Windows but could run all Windows apps.I believe you meant to write "could
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They'll get you to pay for all of those services, too. There honestly is a lot of value in them when you
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Interesting. Mary Jo also mentions in her article that Cloud PC could be priced at a flat rate as opposed to t
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I'm assuming this means Surface Neo is delayed as well. It seems crazy that they showed it in 2019 but no
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You may have run into the Outlook outage from a few days ago. Maybe that is causing a lingering issue for you
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And thanks to OneDrive and Files on Demand—coupled with some good organizational skills, which I feel like I
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On Windows Weekly everyone briefly discussed the rumor from Bloomberg about Softbank selling all or part of Ar
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Panos Panay has a picture of him using the device again up on Twitter today.
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In reply to wright_is:Modem pool support also. This was important back in the days before broadband access was
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In reply to wright_is:C2R or MSI for your Office install?
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According to Microsoft, this is supposed to be resolved now. I believe it only impacted Click to Run installs
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Microsoft, seriously. Acquire Citrix already.For sure. For 20+ years the lines between Microsoft and Citrix fo
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In reply to wright_is:I have little familiarity with PLC software and industrial production lines in general,
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I didn't even know this existed. I'm assuming this never came to OneDrive for Business.
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Paul's last sentence is similar to what I was thinking while reading Gassée's article. Just because
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In reply to wright_is:How do these vendors intend for these products to continue to get security updates? Are
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In reply to wright_is:Don't forget the 6 figures for the consultants to tell management what new ERP soft
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I understand why they "light up" known contacts in Signal. Likewise, I understand why they added PINs and are
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In reply to wright_is:We are still waiting for shipments of headsets and webcams.
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This happens every time there is a new Feature Update. It's pathetic. They have these devices in-house an
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In reply to will:Same here; I only hear complaints from my own people (all of us are in tech).Also, I know it&
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Paul, have you heard any more Microsoft reorg news beyond the changes in sales and support and Peggy Johnson l
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In reply to Truffles:The longstanding rumor that Apple should (or will) buy Nintendo still comes up from time
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I think you need a new tagline for the site: Personal technology, mixed with foiled bank robberies, mainly sho
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That looks...not bad.
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Game prices haven't gone up much at all since the early 8-bit days, so a jump from $60 to $70 isn't
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Yes, new NES games were $50 for sure. (Regardless of the quality of the game. :) )
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I can't help but wonder if Mr. Laermer's employees would also slack off on Friday's while IN th
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This is the mess that Panos Panay inherited when he was handed the leadership role at Windows after he at
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In reply to gregorylbrannon:That may have been their original idea with 10X, despite originally burying it beh
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In reply to Waethorn:I believe Nintendo does the same for the Switch.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I ran [email protected] under Darwin on an old blue iMac for a few weeks about 20 years a
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In reply to SvenJ:I had the same thought. I've seen people with literally dozens of browser tabs open, of
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Do people find that centering the taskbar icons is a productivity benefit? I know this started with macOS, but
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I think Microsoft should first get ReFS to feature parity with NTFS before they add support for ext2, zfs, or
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In reply to mattbg:Yep, craziest thing I ever saw happen to Windows. All Sinofsky's doing as far as I und
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Good episode, guys.
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In reply to Waethorn:XNU is the kernel for macOS (and iOS et al.). Darwin is the OS underpinning. Both are ope
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In reply to Bart:If they were ever to do such a split, they should come up with an alternative name. People he
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I'm curious to know where you go for statistics outside of directly from a vendor when you need them for
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I have a very similar experience to yours. Well said.
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Speaking of Rocky, Microsoft should do a 1980s "fixing stuff up montage" on Windows 10.As for you enduring thi
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Perfect example is Azure, which was Project Red Dog when it was started with Ballmer
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In reply to wright_is:I agree; I can't see consumers signing up for this in droves. More likely this is t
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In reply to glenn8878:They should release a true Surface Desktop computer base on the Series X. They can even
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In reply to truerock2:What makes you suspect that? WSL2 and Microsoft shipping a Linux kernel in Windows?It�
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In reply to SvenJ:I wonder if enterprise user training changes a bit as more people who grew up with technolog
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In reply to naddy69:I was thinking about that earlier. Neo was supposed to be released later this year, but 10
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Great episode. Paul was spot on about the Mixer shut down - teaming up with Facebook gaming is tone-deaf. They
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They’d only have to test code changes on their own hardware, and could do the same fine-tuning that Apple is
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"I’m not advocating this per se, but what just jumped into my mind was that maybe Microsoft should instead j
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Can't say I'm surprised. The times I've checked out a Microsoft Store there was hardly anybody
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It's clear Apple dominated the tech news this week, even with an announcement that has been rumored for y
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Neat, glad you checked this out since I was hearing more about it lately.
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In reply to codymesh:I recall earlier this year there being a rumor that Panos might have bailed out to join M
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In reply to jimchamplin:I had forgotten about this! NeXTSTEP 1.0 was released in 1989 and Windows NT 3.1 was r
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In reply to paul-thurrott:They've been in this business for 20 years now. I half expected them to bail ou
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In reply to lvthunder:Or sneer at it given the recent circumstances.
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I may have zoned out and missed it yesterday, but I don't recall seeing the usual self-congratulatory sli
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Apple intends for this to be a two year transition, meaning in late 2022 the only Mac Pro you will be able to
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It looks like this got buried in all of the other news from today. In Apple's official PR about "new deve
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In reply to jlv632:They may keep Movies and TV around so Xbox owners can rent/buy movies.
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In reply to Mark from CO:I have the same question. I expected them to bail out on Xbox long ago.Edit: We can a
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In reply to james.h.robinson:Yep, here it is from Apple's own documentation.What Can't Be Translated
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In reply to jwpear:The Intel Mac announcement was in June 2005. The first release of Mac OS X that dropped Pow
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Paul is spot on - Apple goes it alone, Microsoft partners on everything, and it appears that Apple's appr
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In reply to james.h.robinson:Your guesses are probably all true - I think it's telling that they mentione
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I asked this in the comments on Brad's article also...I might be reading too much in to this, but during
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Apparently they are moving Mixer partners over to Facebook Gaming. I guess they had no where else to put them
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I might be reading too much in to this, but during the virtualization part of the presentation, did anyone els
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Regarding “Real Developers Use the Mac," I notice a lot of security folks do as well. I would be curious to
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I thought all of the Project xCloud iOS limitations were TestFlight restrictions...not saying it would be any
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Paul, I'm curious to know what happened to the site a few weeks back. I read there was a security issue,
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Sounds like a good approach.
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They should rehire their own software testers. Stop relying on the Insiders program.
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New branding is good; reduces confusion.
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This is why I have so many different devices. :)Edited to add: it's usually easy for me to decide between
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Paul, where did you see that you have to be in the developer program to be able to do anything besides see the
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In reply to wright_is:Yes, that would be nice. The Electron-based desktop app for Teams has gotten better over
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In reply to dcdevito:I agree completely. I use Windows 10 and macOS and macOS is not what it used to be.
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Assuming the move to ARM is announced in a few weeks, I wonder how long the coexistence period will be.I looke
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In that Messenger screenshot, is that Bob the Bob from ActiveWin? I remember that site was always going to be
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Someone named Andrew (same guy Keivan Bieig was communicating with?) posted a bit of an update to this saga. T
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I noticed also that custom user photos seem to have been lost in the move.
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Great input, Paul. On the desktop side I see more and more Electron apps (even from Microsoft), so it would be
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In reply to coeus89:Same here.
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Neat tip, thanks for sharing Paul.
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That's interesting. I wonder if there is a way to override this in case you really do want the Android ap
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Sure, it was 22 years ago, but for some OEMs I think their envy is as strong as ever.
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Apple envy is a real thing that some manufacturers blindly succumb to, but shouldn't. Remember back in th
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Looks nice. I'm sure the 4 or 5 Bing users will love it. ;)
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I agree that the Xbox Series X wouldn't be a good PC, but I wonder if taking the chassis, tweaking the ha
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Great words, Paul. Thanks for sharing it with everyone. Let's all try to stay as safe as we can and suppo
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If you don't want to join the machine to Azure Active Directory but you DO want to have Windows "light up
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"I’ve joked that Excel is green because of money, and that Word is blue because writers are depressive, but
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I do Office 365 Business Premium for myself. It's the fastest way to get the Office apps licensed on a ha
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Apparently Microsoft is joining the push notification advertisement gang now. I just saw a Microsoft Word noti
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I can't do it. I have a system that works for me which means I very rarely (if ever) have to search the f
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Ads are everywhere and feel completely inescapable now. It's like that scene from Idiocracy where the guy
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This kind of tracking can also be IP address based.A few months ago we were searching Southwest flights in a p
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Reminds me of the early days with NT when the fact that it supported multiple personalities (Win32, OS/2, POSI
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Everything in moderation. That said, I recognize it's a challenge for many people to put these devices do
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Interesting. This might explain what Paul was saying about Panos acting oddly at the Surface event last year.
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Good analysis, Paul. Thanks for sharing it! Are you going to keep this Windows 7 install around with extended
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Paul, I have a Pixel 3 XL and have noticed that the monthly security update lands on my device at different ti
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Agree 100%. I'm sure that's why FB bought Oculus.
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I saw this article title in my RSS reader and literally said, "What?! Who would ever use it?" Unless this is o
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I'm very interested to see how Surface Neo and Duo impact this conversation next year.Nitpick - "Thanks t
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Paul, can you post some aggregate results when the survey ends?
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In reply to lvthunder:I agree that releasing shows weekly is going to wind up being the primary model all thes
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In the 11th paragraph I think you meant to say "Skip Ahead" not "Switch Ahead."It's never easy keeping tr
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I haven't heard of anything, but would be interested as well.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Wow, wasn't expecting to see that.
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I'm curious to see what Lenovo, Dell, etc. do with their own dual-screen devices and Windows 10 X. Will t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Thanks, Paul.
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In reply to SuperSteph:Thank you!
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I will be there. It would be cool to have a reader meet-up.
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In reply to red.radar:Or simply money. AMD may have given them a deal.
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In reply to jgraebner:All very true. Nintendo started going this way with their Directs - just precanned video
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Paul, can you post the text here for those of us who are not receiving the newsletter because we can't si
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Windows 10X...only for dual/folding screen devices? Or is this the formal name for LiteOS and potentially goin
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Paul hit on all of the big ones already. Fixing display scaling would be nice. Microsoft simply finishing the
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I'm also really itching to know what the plans are for LiteOS. Any chance we'll get a hint of that n
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These newsletters have been great. I have yet to get them by email, however. :)Paul, can you do a Premium-only
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In reply to wbhite:Same here - I remember having to do that myself right after installing Windows.
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They had to publish similar documentation for the HomePod after it was leaving marks on certain surfaces. I gu
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I thought Office went 64-bit by default with 2019 and 365.https://support.office.com/en-us/article/download-an
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What is Cutler up to these days? I know he's a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Last I read he was working
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I have a Pixel 3 XL, picked up when some of the deals were decent. I got used to the notch, but the sound echo
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“These claims are simply false,” a Google spokesperson told The New York Post. “Google is not having any
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"And it led the way to Windows 95, which was really just Windows for Workgroups with a new UI."I seem to remem
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Seems like he's still copying the best ideas, except now they are coming from Paul's articles....
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"...but also completely inaccessible to beginners."Which is really a shame. Having an included built-in access
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Oh man - the What's New screenshot and the days of DoubleSpace and DriveSpace...
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I had some similar experiences with Borland products, specifically Borland C++ and then Delphi with applicatio
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In reply to djross95:That wouldn't be a bad compromise. If they would change the servicing timelines to n
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Paul, do you think the account creation process of these spammers is still automated, despite your efforts to
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Ah, embrace, extend, extinguish. :)Regarding the old "3 tries to get it right" and "not finishing the job" thi
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In reply to ChristopherCollins:Do they send a new or refurb with the advanced exchange?
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Maybe a stealth firmware update as part of the Catalina install that failed?
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Paul, you may want to consider compiling this series into a self-published book when all is said and done.Auto
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This is a great idea! Really looking forward to this series, Paul.
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Teams "for life" to compete with WhatsApp? Don't we have enough services like this already?
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Thanks! I will check it out for sure.
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What happened to having less SKUs with Windows 10? This is just an artificial money grab.There should really o
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That brings up a good point - what are some good mice for lefties? I always have a hard time finding decent on
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Excellent idea by Acer.
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In reply to nfeed2000t:I think they are planning to fix the "don't touch Linux files with Windows tools"
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I was waiting for this to happen. Can't beat Qualcomm for their wireless modems. The Intel ones aren'
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In reply to crp0908:My idea (and echoed by others elsewhere) is one Feature Update per year near September, su
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It's still one too many Feature Updates each year.I think before we can "declare victory against WaaS" th
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I can't believe this would be anything other than them using AOSP and Linux.
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In reply to webdev511:The Wii sold better than both.
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Paul's mention of iOS being macOS with all of the desktop stuff stripped away made me think.What does ev
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Regarding the multiple monitors problem. I noticed this with even a single monitor after I moved to Windows 10
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:It's got what apps crave!
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In reply to lvthunder:I think it's a little bit different. Microsoft needs original content on the Xbox t
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Good analysis, Paul. I agree 100%.I would also add that for this to be remotely successful, Apple needs to pro
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So much awesome here. I started with a Tandy 1000 and have had countless desktops, laptops, servers, tablets,
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Great post, Paul. We all appreciate the work you do and are happy to be part of this community!
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I believe Duo Authenticator will let you make backups of your 2FA tokens also, if the Duo administrator allows
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What settings sync when using a Microsoft account sign-in? I’ve never tried it but I would think the Taskbar
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Paul, I always considered your primary focus to be Microsoft because of your connections and history there.How
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This is the bane of my existence for sure.
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Very interesting. Congrats, Brad.
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Congrats, Brad!
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Very sad news. In pace requiescat.
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I still don't like the term "post-PC." Everything we use from smartphone to Xeon workstation is still a "
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"Or make its own Android smartphones where Cortana was the default."I've often wondered why Microsoft did
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In reply to maethorechannen:Exactly. Obviously the detectors worked and the only solution the aliens had was t
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I was just about to say the same thing.
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Ugh, another one bites the dust. I still can't understand how Lightning to headphone jack works great but
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I find it just as annoying when Google "encourages" me to use Chrome when using Google Search through Firefox.
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This will change again for sure. I suspect Pro will go out to the exact same timeframes as Education/Enterpris
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"I have an editorial I’ll probably never publish called Microsoft’s Consumer Play"Why the heck not? I'
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In reply to thalter:Show Stopper! is an excellent read. It may be hard to find nowadays, but is worth the effo
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Consumer Cellular? Is a walk-in tub next, Paul?(My fiancé makes fun of me because I watch a lot of old TV sho
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Never figured you for a worrier, Paul. I worry also and evaluate other platforms continually, just like you do
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This is spot on: "They’re moving to a model where iPads are PCs and Macs are workstations."Also, I think Pau
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I agree with Paul; I believe this will fail if it ships. From the rumors and speculation we have seen, it just