Actually, yeah it does.
The advice isn't about the money, it's about buying the wrong thing. It's not like y
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How did it go immediately to lying.
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I also use a NAS, though it's not up-to-date with the work stuff. Mostly for photos.
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Google should have seen an explosion in revenues, not a 10 percent drop, which is still a double-digit drop. A
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I'm happy to write about Duo when/if anything happens. We're not being quiet on purpose.
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In reply to George_Semple:Yeah, it didn't happen until/unless I see numbers I trust.
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Can we just use words?
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In reply to navarac:Well. Microsoft keyboards and mice are generally excellent. Xbox hand controllers etc.But
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https://www.thurrott.com/smart-home/238549/microsoft-is-killing-cortana-on-mobile-invoke-and-surface-headphone
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In reply to valisystem:Right. I don't personally backup the available shell folders with OneDrive.
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You would never do any such thing. The app store hosting is a cost of doing business and the existence of all
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Fitbit is not a market leader in wearables. These are IDC numbers:
Apple - 21.2 million units in Q1 - 29.3% m
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lol I literally spit coffee on my display
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We don't use StatCounter here. But these higher numbers only serve to prove my point. Weird way to agree with
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I feel like when the argument turns to semantics, it's done.
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Actually, one of the most notable things about this is the bipartisan support for reining in Big Tech.
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Because it makes 100 percent on its own app.
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:) It does seem rather natural to me.
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Fixed. And thanks!
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It's perhaps irrelevant with consumers.
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In reply to Kenneth_Burns:And here it is, folks. The problem with comedy: You will always offend somebody.
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Pixel doesn't offer a pure Android experience anymore. It's a tailored Pixel experience with unique features t
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In reply to blue77star:ARM has all the momentum. What are you talking about?
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LOL.
Do I describe Surface as a success? I shouldn't. It's never made a profit.
Surface has inspired other
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I have a hard time seeing Microsoft as the inspiration for anything Samsung and Google do on mobile.
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Yep, thanks!
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Have you tried just using a third-party app like VLC Player?
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In reply to irfaanwahid:Nah. Doesn't seem worth it.
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In reply to MartinusV2:I can't imagine Microsoft plays into this in the slightest. Far more dangerous to
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In reply to brothernod:I've written many articles about the failure that is Pixel. What I'm suggesti
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Windows 10 turns 5 today
Microsoft released Windows 10 five years ago today. Here's my original review.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/4896/windows-10-review
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If it isn't, then they don't understand the problem well enough.
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Google exists.
https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-
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It's definitely going to be released. And soon.
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Having suffered from a ransomware attack, I understand the language. We said the same thing to our own users b
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It's called the Settings and more menu. Which is a terrible name.
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Yeah, I've been kind of wondering the same. Two OG Xbox games? Two?
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In reply to jeffrye:Yes.
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If this is your family and you want to use a Microsoft product, use Skype.
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In reply to reefer:Yes. Very much looking forward to that happening.
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In reply to IanYates82:Thanks for the edit, fixed that.
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In reply to UK User:I was referring to ALT + TAB for browser tabs. When this feature comes to Windows, you
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Sorry, who is "we" in this context? :)
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* Also, Windows menu is just a drawing and doesn't even exist in real life.
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They may literally be nothing because hardware makers artificially gear their designs to do well on those test
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Thanks ...
I'm not going to stress too much over a single tweet, which is a throw-away comment really, someth
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We can only go by the language they use here, but I assume that's what this line refers to:
"The new Qualcomm
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Classic :)
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:Yes! I have some amazing funeral stories.
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In reply to NewNole2001:Bam. Exactly. And good for you.
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UFS seems like a curious and cheap thing to use in such an expensive computer.
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I'm asking for this as an option, not a replacement. You can do whatever you prefer.
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This is the origin of the phrase "biting your nose to spite your face." You show them!
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I really use the products I review over a long period of time and observe how well they work during this time.
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It's just better and more modern looking. It's centered, which makes more sense on big displays. What's the di
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Yes, but like TSMC, not Foxconn.
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I feel OK about this. It's a great laptop.
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This is why I just use web clients on Windows.
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Microsoft earns ~25 percent of its revenues each quarter from Windows. They're not going to give it away.
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Right.
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Yeah, that was unexpected. :)
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No, we use Teams.
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It's easy to idolize this time, but Windows phone had lots of problems too. Its best ideas went nowhere becaus
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Sorry, didn't mean AOSP. Meant Google Play, and remove all the Google tracking etc.
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Yes, it's configurable and can be turned off.
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No, it's because those features are being A/B tested in the Dev channel.
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In reply to lvthunder:It to actually arrive.
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Closing this down so I can try and answer the questions. Thanks!
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No. :) I've been decluttering again and came across a bunch of old phones in a box.
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That is a ludicrous assertion given that I routinely criticize Microsoft.
And people don't forget. If anythin
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It's not that bad. Intel is obviously dominant in PCs. But Intel only gets half of its revenues from PCs. AMD
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In reply to kenosando:Nice!
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What's 5 to 30 percent of zero?
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That's nice. But as the user of a car from the 70s, you understand that this is not a mainstream solution for
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In reply to leonard.smith:I'm a big fan of .NET (and C#) and of Microsoft's recent strategy of makin
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It is something that users have to pay for. Microsoft 365 is expensive.
Outlook is part of Microsoft 365 too
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Win32 is just a brand, and it refers to a software API that is both 32-bit and 64-bit. It's not 32-bit only.
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You did not.
Microsoft Edge is being updated on the same schedule as Chromium/Chrome and separately from Win
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Only OneNote (for Windows 10, which originated this ribbon style) and Outlook have this type of ribbon on desk
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Windows 10 *is* a modern Windows 7. There is nothing modern about Windows 7.
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Google has done it too. It just integrated Meet into Gmail.
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Lol what.
Ah boy.
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Exactly.
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UWP is not the path forward. It's just another way to lock an app into a single platform and is thus a huge mi
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No, no, no.
No sane dev would ever rewrite a Win32 app in UWP. You do that over in something cross-platform.
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No one has ever made this claim about Vista and 7. Windows 7 is an improved version of Windows Vista.
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Sigh.
You can't contradict me with a nonsense number again and then say the debate is over. The numbers I pro
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They're not. Linux is one-third of the Mac, according to your numbers.
But we don't go by your numbers.
Her
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Does it matter what they're "based on"? :)
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As Apple so aptly demonstated when it welcomed IBM to the PC market in the early 1980s, this kind of hubris al
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Yeah, I was confused by that as well.
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That is a ridiculous assertion. Please don't just add noise.
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Sure. But does Office 365 have some kind of market dominance? Leveraging isn't illegal. Neither is dominance.
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ThinkPads are no longer the best keyboards. Even the newer scallop-shaped keys have too much throw.
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Then you completely misunderstood the point. I'm not into making lemonade.
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The Microsoft Store isn't the sole gatekeeper to app makers on Windows. Basically 100 percent of apps are acqu
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This is such immature thinking. Microsoft doesn't care which clients people use. They just want to have fair a
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They are both issues, actually. But yes, the fact that iOS users HAVE to go through Apple's store is of course
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Then your opinions about its use and performance are out of date. OneDrive works very well and I use it every
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That's not old school, it's unnecessary.
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You would love for this to ... harm Microsoft? Why? Because of document formats? Seriously?
Microsoft is comp
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No, one can't.
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Guys. The facts speak for themselves. Let's leave out the personal attacks. Please.
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This is the funniest/saddest thing I've ever read.
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Baed on my experience, yes, Xamarin is indeed a dumpster fire.
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Your Windows VM will work on an ARM-based Mac.
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They don't.
I have two neighbors in the medical field and they were telling me there are no breathing issues
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Sorry, this I have no experience with.
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No, it does not. It's not even close.
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Please don't get me started on the "where" of these posts. Microsoft is all over the map with that as well.
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Yep.
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Hm. I was shooting for more of a hose-like effect. :)
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The good news is that it's easy to remove the crap. But you'll never wash the stain of using a Mac off of you.
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No, the weights are correct. I got the "under" bit wrong, thanks.
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NVIDIA now earns as much revenue from datacenters ($1.1 billion the most recent quarter) as it does from gamin
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I think they meant that the UXs would be different on each device type.
Of course, it's impossible to say, g
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I assume that means "2 in 1", or a convertible PC. (Most are really "4 in 1"s but whatever.)
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No, I can't really quantify it. What I've noticed is that UWP projects, which can be quite slow to compile and
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What's the price?
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It's much fluffier than the Longhorn videos.
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Older than Silverlake, I bet.
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I have always thought that Windows 10X had the ability to become the next NT, yes. Still do.
What I wrote was
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https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6330195?hl=en
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Yes.
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I assume this works like 10S does, that it can come with desktop apps like Office but you can't add more later
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The Windows "team" these days is like a Three Stooges skit where they keep running in cirles, bumping into eac
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:)
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The customer advantage is that your apps all still work but now your PCs are simpler, more secure, and more ea
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It would almost have to be. Spotify doesn't charge its heaviest users more, for example. Azure pricing model i
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This is a very old-fashioned mindset. It's like saying that you'll only own cars from the 1970s because you ca
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Yep. Flutter literally asked Microsoft to look into this.
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Yes, thanks!
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A lease.
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This is like saying that people want to own their music. They don't.
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It's possible that Surface Duo is the first step in that direction and that Android is the OS.
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LiteOS always made sense to me.
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I'm pretty sure Sony is out for the money as well. They're both businesses.
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IE on Windows RT was likewise compatible with whatever web apps people were using in 2012.
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Package managers are about deploying (and I think, sometimes, updating) apps, but they don't impact the safety
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The Restaurant Store. My wife says it may be this one:
https://www.therestaurantstore.com/items/174358
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Please do not post customer service threads. Please email [email protected] No more comments please.
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Microsoft is clearly getting ready to ship Surface Duo, so I'm not sure what that means.
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In reply to egab:Correct, and thanks. Fixed that.
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Office is a really complex set of applications. I don't have a Surface Pro X, but for the most part, the
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?
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Guys. I've recorded 1000s of podcast episodes over the years and they're just conversations that you get to li
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This makes less sense today than it did in 2015. Or 2011. This ship sailed, it's time to move on.
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My source was an email we got days earlier. So I'd have to later remember to go back and look up the public po
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The original plan was to ship WinUI 3 by "the end of 2020."
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I assume this unilateral action against a single corporation will come to a close. To be clear, the U.S. gover
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No.
But 90s in the Eastern U.S. is a lot worse than the 100s in Tucson because of the humidity.
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"Just" more than kind of downplays the insanity of what's happened here.
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PC sales increased temporarily because of the lockdown. They're still a small percentage of smartphone sales a
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Closing this down so I can try and answer the questions. Thanks! --Paul
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Sounds secure. :)
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Why.
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This isn't about me being "correct." The press was told that UWP was "dead" by the person who "killed" it (the
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Well, yes, of course.
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They are free.
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Desktop.
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Microsoft has a much quality higher bar when it adds a feature to Windows than Stardock does when it releases
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In reply to Stooks:I play COD on Xbox Live every day. What's bad about it?
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The reason this is newsletter-only is so it's literally exclusive to Premium members. Non-Premium members can
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Skype is a consumer product.
Also, I have a phrase that applies here: "Optimize for the everyday."
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You forgot to end that with "... in my opinion."
Also, how the hell did the conversation go down this path, l
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They're nowhere near the consistency you desire, unfortunately.
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How many? Some tens of millions chose an Xbox One of some kind.
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I have never heard anyone express that need, ever.
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lol what?
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All of these things are comparable.
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Yes, thanks.
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I don't think there's a Windows 8 skin, but how is that different from Windows 10?
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Thanks!
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They don't call that out explicitly, but if it says "Outlook on the web" then it's business versions only.
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Others have mentioned this, but it moves the pointer to these virtual folders to a new location in the OneDriv
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Right. It looks awful, so it definitely fits in.
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Ah yes. I recall sharing a "teabagging" clip with friends at the time and laughing so I hard I cried.
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Given that it happened 20 years ago, it's probably not worth stressing over today. :)
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Fluent is a design language.
https://www.microsoft.com/design/fluent/#/
Acrylic is a Fluent visual style.
htt
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Right.
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If you read between the lines a bit, it's really one major release a year with a fine-tuned R2-type update 6 m
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I didn't see anything about a subscription.
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The point isn't to totally mimic old UIs. It's to modernize them and see what they look like within the contex
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Not a fan, I guess. It's hard to tell.
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It's not a phone! OK, it's a phone. No. It's not a phone!
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iPhones are priced artificially high. Just take the refund and enjoy it.
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None of this makes what I wrote incorrect. :)
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It had no problem finding mine for me.
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"If you want to do a serious days work, you need a minimum of 12 usable hours."
What.
If you literally need
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So it is possible then. :)
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December, I think. But yes.
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:) Hey, I registered for my $25.
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If there was a schedule, I would have mentioned it.
I see that someone else posted the link, I did not have i
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Yeah, I care very much.
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Businesses are by far the biggest consumers of cloud services. This is a ridiculous statement.
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It's different and better because it interacts with Windows 10 at a deeper level thanks to the platform's supp
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It's a long story. Citrix alone among Microsoft's competitors/partners has been given a free ride from day one
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Because it looks great.
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It's past time to get a new printer. MS-DOS hasn't been a thing since 1995. In that time, you could have had a
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This very much needs to be over-analyzed.
This article is about Wintel. Let's talk about that.
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I explain this in the Windows 10 Field Guide.https://leanpub.com/windows10fieldguideThere are four possible ic
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I use Skype 7 days a week 365 days a year. I never saw an ad in this application until this past Sunday, and y
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California has a lower standard for finding a company guilty of antitrust abuse than does the federal governme
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Define "demise."
The PC market is now less than 2/3s the size it was in 2010 and smartphones alone outsell P
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So, I'm not aware of me reusing the same word(s) on multiple podcasts each week or whatever, but I could see i
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We're not going to condone racism here. Thanks.
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It's there for me, privately. I'm thinking about it, yes.
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I've always really liked this guy, and am interested in his opinions. Definitely worth reading.
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It still exists. But as NT progressed and became Windows, the allure of x86 and native assembly for performanc
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The use of cloud services is not banned in businesses.
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No.
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What the hell does that mean?
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Thanks. Will remember to look at this when/if I leave. When, probably.
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I'm not seeing an ad. I do see Money in Excel listed as one of the available templates, though not even on eve
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The problem is that no one knows why Surface A gets it and Surface B does not. Could be a software configurati
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In reply to zhackwyatt:I feel like having a user-controllable theme setting would just solve this. Obviously,
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Yeah, in the early days at the original location, we used to run in Jerry Colangelo all the time.
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Yeah, I feel like we actually used WhatsApp during a few trips there.
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I feel like I do choose not to be most people.
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Who's "they"? You really think there is a group of people that are hoping PC sales will fall?
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To be clear, I have no good ideas about how it should be. It's just that the way it is, is broken.
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Yep. Microsoft should have done more of that. They have singled-handedly let the industry live in the past by
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PowerShell (as opposed to Windows PowerShell) is cross-platform:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/
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I never understood this, and coming from the Northeast, the desert landscape was so alien and foreign, and rea
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We knew him and the place when it was in its original location near 24th and Camelback. It became inaccessible
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Because of the pandemic, as it turns out.
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This question caused me to ask my wife about where she was at on Phoenix. One of our big takeaways, because we
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I used to walk Mark around the Biltmore when he was a baby. Just walking there and having to cross those huge
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Nice. We were literally right off 24th almost exactly halfway between Camelback and Indian School.
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Yes. It's obviously a ... strategy, lol. :)
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The problem here is you see this as "Microsoft, gigantic corporation, partnering with Google, another gigantic
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Well, it is temporary. :) It's not like the PC market is resurging or something. These are still secondary or
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In addition to the Best Buys and CompUSAs, there were a string of big box electronics stores in the south Phoe
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Gartner does not include Chromebooks in its numbers, but IDC does. This is among the reasons I average their n
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Sorry, I've lost track of what we're even talking about here. :)
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My understanding is that the split is something like 70 percent mobile PCs vs 30 percent desktops, but neither
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And maybe that's OK. There's no real advantage to having Windows-only UI or experiences at this point.
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What previous experience suggests that Microsoft could pull that off? :)
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In reply to smartin:A government that actually answers to the people can never have too much power. The proble
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In reply to karlinhigh:Well, you can see where the world's going now. So clearly our current system of "p
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Thanks! Fixed.
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:) Sorry, was joking. The Microsoft headline says it is "new."
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Closing this now so I can try and answer the questions.
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Yep, thanks!
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:I mean, you can tackle the 10,000 word Microsoft post to find out, but I didn'
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Well, Microsoft is not handing over the Windows UI stack to Google so, yeah, I guess you are wrong. :)
Google
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First of all, thank you for subtly accusing me of succumbing to a "media push" by Dell. I've been reporting on
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Brave? :)
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This was a problem three years ago when this experiment started. Since then, both Qualcomm and Microsoft have
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Agreed. And that's a great price. It's like half the cost of the 8cx version.
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ARM is already making inroads in datacenters because of the power savings. The number one and two costs in any
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They were rubbish as recently as last year. (Look up the Surface Laptop 3 reviews to see what I mean.)
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This sounds like the correct way to describe this.
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Thurrott Premium removes most ads on our site. If you're seeing ads in the video, that is most certainly from
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In reply to soconnor:I would not recommend anything WOA-based for anyone. But yes, either in an Intel- or AMD-
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In reply to pauldain:Hm. I think about this. On the one hand, straight-up Swift/SwiftUI/Xcode development see
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He's writing a book about the history of .NET, so everything is sort of waiting on that to happen. In fact, it
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There are huge upsides. Immediately, all iOS and iPad apps will run natively on macOS, giving developers anoth
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Interesting. I continue to experiment. And I still feel like some combination of web (which is cross-platform)
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Yes. It will.
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That's a rather glib knee-jerk reaction.
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Hm. Not sure that is possible and/or worth the effort or time. But I'll look into it.
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To be clear, I don't know. But there is no way that the Plus is that different. I bet it's exactly the same di
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... because? And this will not be the only way Flutter apps are deployed on Linux. This is just about a partne
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This is Microsoft. Solving the fundamentals isn't on the menu, sorry. They'll continue forging ahead with new
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If you haven't seen a modern 3D game on mobile, you're about to have an eye-opening experience.
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This position only highlights that you didn't get the memo. Microsoft is cross-platform, as it should be.
An
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It was co-created by Apple, and it's going to work on Apple Silicon.
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What are the Snapdragon alternatives that are cheaper and faster?
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No, sorry.
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lol nice.
Sounds about right.
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Yep. That one looks solid.
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It's not clear. I assume it was more of a partnership thing.
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I assume the protection/technology is more sophisticated today.
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It's 6.8 percent worldwide.
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I literally mentioned all those companies in the post.
"Several other apps are likewise copying data from the
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She went to Magic Leap for the same reason that Stephen Elop went to Nokia, but it's not the reason everyone i
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Careful, your elitist attitude is showing!
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I'm not totally on top of this, but I believe there are normally two developer betas and then the public beta,
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He did make a lot of great decisions. He made some mistakes. We all do.
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Normally it's in September, but who knows this crazy year.
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes. This UWP version will run natively on ARM. And if you transition the WPF (and I ass
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Surface Go 2 is in no way cheap.
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I love the commingling of facts and opinion.
Mac "may" have been wildly profitable but it is "over priced" a
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Yes.
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It is very much a stretch.
Apple possibly makes over 100 percent of the profits in the PC market given that m
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No, they don't. That's ridiculous.
Using your broad definition of the term, every company is "anti-competitiv
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Why are those two things mutually exclusive?
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\looks over at the smartphone market
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This is correct.
But that neatly highlights why this stuff is confusing.
I still prefer "desktop" and "mobil
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What a horrible world you think you live in. The scourge that is S mode! The oppression!
You need a monopoly
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I screwed up the Ramsey quote, too. It's even worse: "Better than I deserve."
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Please stop posting your opinions as if they are fact. All you're doing is jumping into a conversation and rui
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Please stop commenting with the same nonsense again and again. Repetition doesn't make nonsense a fact.
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In reply to Winner:Dear God.Yes, do get over it. This is a different company. And this LinkedIn thing is just
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Sorry if it seems like I'm picking on you, but this is very typical of those defending using WOA today.
"Have
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Yes. Actually, macOS does let you map any keyboard shortcut, unlike Windows.
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Well, so has Microsoft. It's using Qualcomm, which also develops its own chips based on the ARM architecture.
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Yes. macOS is a proprietary platform. It's not open.
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These apps run on the web.
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Nice, thanks!
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Windows-only isn't happening in 2020. That's over.
Embrace the point of .NET Core: Interoperability and cross
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Microcomputers, as you call them, also brought new and unique capabilities to the masses right away. Today, AR
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Yeah, it's terrible. Good UI is possible with UWP, in fact, the XAML part is the thing I like most about UWP.
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Win32 has become the Kleenex of the desktop app world, I guess. Not sure exactly how this happened, but part o
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It happened: Mary Jo confirmed this with two sources. But she believes he did this solely to improve his stand
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That is how I did it.
But yes, this new URI works, thanks.
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Every keyboard combination should be user-configurable.
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In reply to captobie:It does carry more weight. Apple also shifted from MacOS Classic to OS X in 2001 and from
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Like Xbox, Surface has never been profitable. Don't confuse revenues with profits.
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Come on. macOS---it hasn't been called Mac OS X since 2015, the year Windows 10 came out---is not a niche oper
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lol ok
It's *slightly* less extreme than that. :)
But yeah, the problem with WOA is that gotcha moment when
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iPad apps are generally of very high quality and iOS/iPad apps are almost always superior to the Android versi
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Thanks, but I enjoy writing. If I can spend just a few hours writing on an off day, that's a good day for me.
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I just checked on Surface Go 2 and 2004 is still not being offered. It's "on the way" ... someday.
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Sony definitely held a special place in the PC market for a time. They used to have a Sony store in Boston I'd
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Sure, anything is possible. Would require rewriting a lot of UX code. It's overdue.
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At my age, if it's in the ballpark, I'm OK with it.
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It's definitely on the very low-travel side of things. I could see some not liking it, for sure. It does feel
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Just looking for the option. You could draw a comparison to MDI vs. SDI versions of the Office apps, where if
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Yeah, but it was for 20H2 only:
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/236498/microsoft-announces-window
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I would hope so. That would be very useful.
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Why on earth would your comments be deleted?
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Yes, thanks.
It needs a name. Microsoft refers to it as "ALT + TAB," which is silly.
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That just seems like the Win32 File Explorer.
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Windows is quite mobile. What does that mean? It's not less mobile than the Mac. Most Windows PCs are laptops.
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Please do. Am curious.
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Actually, Microsoft chose Qualcomm because it is/was the biggest maker of CPUs on earth and it needed a compan
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In the bad old days when SS was running the show, client took over development of the core OS bits and took pr
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No, I just got it a few days ago.
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I'd just say it looks and works like Spotlight. There's nothing bad about it, aside from the fact that the WIN
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I don't have a Surface Pro X to compare (thanks, Microsoft). But I'll be looking at battery life over time, fo
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Honestly, I'm surprised it's not more common by now.
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Some people just prefer it. Some don't. So it should just be an option. It's certainly worked well for the Mac
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Comments? No. Personal attacks get deleted, yes.
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I think the word you're looking for is hypocrisy.
The open-source underpinnings of Mac OS X are a distant mem
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The goal here is the same as ever: To just that one legacy app you really need. If it's a bit slower because o
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I'm seeing the word "New" in a lot of headlines about this change.
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I think you're going to be surprised by how well ARM-based Macs work.
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Well, it's a moment in time. Windows has new leadership, I've been told there are big plans for the next year,
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Sure. It's only interesting because this is the way the Office team described it internally.
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There's a nice lipstick on a chicken quote, too. I'll try to figure out the right time for that little gem. So
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That's not even remotely important, but I doubt it.
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I'll have more about this soon, but to answer your questions.
Yes, Edge is ARM native and runs well. Extensio
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In reply to arthemis:Yes. One too many edits. Original version was Windows 10. Then I figured it was really Wi
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In reply to jimchamplin:Yes, but Microsoft had publicly previewed this in 2003. Shipping faster is fine, but i
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This is nicely put. Sadly accurate. But nicely put.
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Yeah, that stuff is good. My only issue is the expense: If works isn't paying for this, an always-on cellular
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I assume so given re: the battery given the design, but there are screws on the bottom so it's at least somewh
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lol yes
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The problem for Microsoft is that they've let it go for too long. With macOS, Apple has always kept things con
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This one is definitely a very low-throw. I assume it's for effect, since there's plenty of thickness for the n
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It's like Teams for gamers! :)
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I wonder about this sometimes. It's fair to say that incompatible Windows derivatives have all failed. But I'm
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That and $1 will get a cup of coffee at the local diner.
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Yep. Me too.
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Will have a write-up soon about the app situation. This platform is going to sink or swim on native app suppor
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I'm lucky I got the month right.
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We've been starved for good news for too long.
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God, there are just too many of these things. :)
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Yes, they definitely did lose their edge.
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lol sorry
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Yep.
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Thx... I do wish this was better. But don't see it ever really happening.
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The prices are based on the costs and would be higher, not lower, if Apple wasn't subsidizing the cost of Appl
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It's just an app. We don't need to know your opinions about the corporation. That's not a conversation. It's j
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Not sure what you're referring to, but the author of this story is the most credible source of Apple informati
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In reply to Master Devwi:Perfect. Thanks for this.
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Thank you sir.
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Apple was the enemy when Microsoft was competing in mobile. They just failed. In some ways, now that Microsoft
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Interesting. I think the names makes sense.
Today we have Xbox One S and Xbox One X.
Tomorrow we will have X
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That's what we are evaluating here. The prototype Mac is running Geekbench in emulation.
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There's a fundamental misunderstanding here. Windows 10 on ARM is really Windows 10 on Snapdragon, not "ARM" g
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Nice!
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Me neither. Assume you can turn this off.
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In reply to longhorn:There's no reason to think that ARM-based MacBook Airs and Mac Minis won't be o
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In reply to epguy40:On some Surface PCs.
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Why are those the only two choices? :)
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In reply to Patrick3D:Patrick3D, still waiting for an explanation. What do you mean by this?
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Right. The Xbox One series of consoles will be gone from the market when the stock dries up.
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I'm just waiting for all the apologies to Brad and for the Verge to finally cite someone else when they break
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I see this comment.
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It's not meant to be a full-featured development environment. It's a low-code/no-code solution for non-develop
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The precedent is there: Apple successfully managed platform shifts off of Motorola 68K and Power PC before.
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Email [email protected] if you don't like it. Let's get this prioritized.
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Yeah, that it was non-discoverable was among its many sins.
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Even if it's about as powerful, it's the new architecture/platform and the way forward.
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I don't see it that way.
Microsoft is upgrading Edge to a new, supported version of Edge. Nothing controversi
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Mac is already the preferred platform for many developers, especially web devs. And you need a Mac to develop
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Suspect they've been working on that in secret for years and have met some milestone.
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Disagree with the ideas. Let's not make it a personal attack.
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Well, you don't get the Duo Mix. :)
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Have you actually used it? Or is this based on a few screenshots?
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Dude. You gotta get past the constant negativity. Why comment on this article if you're not even using Prime?
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Good design is good design. If you have to explain why it's good, or need some degree to understand it, it's n
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Yep.
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You need a hug.
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lol what.
"money grabbing schem[e]" = a business.
Right. It's a business. What was Windows, a charity?
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Exactly. In case the Apple envy wasn't obvious. He'll always be a wanna-be.
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lol what.
Guess, geeze. MacOS is professional looking and consistent.
You know, there's this belief that goo
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Not sure about "mad." But there's literally a book about this called "Fumbling the Future."
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"Powered by Qualcomm®, the new custom Microsoft® SQ1™ processor delivers multitasking laptop performance,
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It's not the only way. They could and should have both.
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This is a problem of Microsoft's creation. It's not a condition of the market. It's their fault. And they coul
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Especially since this is how Microsoft describes it:
"Powered by Qualcomm®, the new custom Microsoft® SQ1
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Yeah, me too. The custom comments system we have here, while well-intended, is horribly broken. And I've been
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In reply to Patrick3D:Patrick3D please explain each of these comments. Be detailed.
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Well.
Apple is just doing with their hardware platforms. Microsoft is doing that in the cloud. That's why the
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Benchmarks are no measure of real-world performance, yes. But we're all very interested to see where this thin
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The promise of WOA is that apps just work. So there's no need for a special version of Office. Theoretically.
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What's old is new again! Well, it's still old. :) But compatibility is compatibility.
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Well, they did it with the iPad. We'll see.
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In reply to hrlngrv:Not sure what you mean.
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So, you're right. But people are going to compare them. And you can make a good argument that both companies l
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Obviously, many people reading this site care very much about Windows on ARM.
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In reply to fishnet37222:How would you know it if it censored too much? :)
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:It's interesting how much of that parallels my own experience. Suspect we all
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In reply to ianceicys:Steven Sinofsky is an egotistic jackass who ruined Windows and his thoughts about Apple
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Everything has a price. It's like saying you want to move to a dictatorship because the trains are never late.
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Just like his career.
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Yep. This will never happen. But that would be amazing.
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Yep.
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And please take this as constructive criticism: Write something shorter if you want me to actually read all of
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Microsoft was desperate for a Steve Jobs-style visionary. You don't have to spend 10 minutes listening to SS t
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The Microsoft Store wasn't a good consumer product. It was a money-losing operation that was unsustainable bef
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Seriously? Most/all people probably would almost certainly respect such a reasonable need. :)
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SS took over Windows before Vista shipped to customers, actually. Allchin did his goodbye tour when Vista was
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When you view the world like this, you can't change or evolve. Apple isn't an "enemy," they're one of a few pe
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All that adds up to Apple lowering the price of Macs, when you think about it.
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This is correct.
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In reply to kitron:Benchmarks aren't real life. Suspect that whenever x64 emulation does arrive, it will
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Yeah, but Steven Sinofsky is a freaking idiot so who cares what he thinks?Seriously. This guy single-handedly
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Maybe Mehedi will whip up something for this. :)
Or maybe this is just stage one and a formal GUI happens and
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lol
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Yeah. Ultimately, these two first represent the extreme ends of the spectrum of backward compatibility.
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This will be going away with the switch to Apple Silicon, of course.
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Yes. I see it that way too, sadly.
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Don't get caught up in a pithy, throwaway description. My real point about ARM is that, barring the performanc
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I guess a side point here is that this competition will "inspire" Intel (and AMD and Qualcomm) to do better as
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I feel your pain, literally. I think a lot of us do. But .. yeah, there's a morning-after effect here for sure
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So, it's fair to say that Apple would never announce this if they hadn't pulled it off.
But yeah ... let's se
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THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
What's that? Oh. Right.
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We're going to get gut-punched by whatever gigantic corporation we fixate on. It's best just to be pragmatic a
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We definitely need to see what this really looks like. But I think we can all agree that the compatibility/per
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Ballmer vanity projects.
Ah boy.
Ballmer is the guy who set the company on its current path, not Satya Nadel
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This is not mind-blowing. It's not even really that notable: WOA is a niche offering that doesn't warrant the
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Fixed, thanks!
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Surface Laptop 1 and 2 are not getting 2004 here.
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In reply to robsanders247:Focusing on a single feature is totally missing the point.
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Why? What is it about the cloud that ruins gaming?
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At which time PlayStation will also be only in the cloud. :)
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This was going to happen regardless. I was told that COVID simply moved the schedule up from next year to this
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If you say so. That's not been my experience at all.
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MacBook Air is the most influential PC design in history. It's the reason laptops have basically all become Ul
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Nobody does this anymore. Not literally, but almost. DIY is a tiny slice of the PC market.
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... with Windows 8, not Windows 10.
Windows 10 isn't perfect (Hello, crapware, ads, and telemetry) but it ha
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It's not ironic if it's just your opinion. It's just your opinion. (Literally, I've never heard anyone, not ev
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I'm not sure that the fate of R weighs heavily here. This is about giving Windows users, in this case develope
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Billions. Hm.
I'm not sure I've ever heard what the real-world visitor numbers are/were for the Microsoft St
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Xbox is still going. Strong ... Not sure I'd say that.
Also, Microsoft's first retail stores open in 2009, th
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No one is getting laid off.
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It's literally a superset of Windows, so sure. :)
But yes, what's bigger than Windows is the Office 365 compo
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Thanks!
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A what now?
iPads are inexpensive and portable personal computing devices, not displays. They start at just
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The NYC store will continue as a non-retail experience center.
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By comaarison, massive quarterly costs and losses are easy to measure.
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Yes. Both are part of the Power Platform.
Power Automate is basically Microsoft's IFTTT. I'll be writing abou
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Android works this way and is, by far, the largest and most successful computing platform on earth.
I'm not
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This has always been my experience as well.
That said, it's still nice as a customer to have a local place yo
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Interesting. Thanks for this.
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Yeah, it sounds even better when you put it like that. :)
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It's absolutely not 5-star dining :)
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https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/145606/serious-software-make-hardware
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It is fair to say that the Stores came about during an era of great Apple envy at Microsoft.
Of course, that
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Is there a way to express this opinion without being a jerk to the other person?
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Is there a way to express this opinion without being a jerk to the other person?
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In reply to StevenLayton:Sorry, what does this mean?
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Microsoft pays for that product placement.
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Yes.
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All we need is a transparent widget.
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Apple's audience is as big or bigger than Microsoft's now. That tells me that all kinds of people, up and down
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The funny thing about Google right now is the disconnect between the reality of their routine privacy invasion
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Ah boy.
This reminds me of people in Germany counting on secret weapons to turn the tide at the end of WWII.
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Right. To my eyes, at least, it's beautiful.
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You have to go to Microsoft's business store to find the Intel-based 15-inch. It's not sold by Microsoft direc
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Yes it is.
The AMD offering, sadly, is not very good, but it's a bit less expensive.
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Also, there is zero percent chance you don't use multiple products that were made in China every single day. P
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Sadly, that explains why Intel's chips are so expensive and why it can't quickly adjust manufacturing to meet
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Web browsers do not scrap the web. But Chrome literally tracks its users.
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Um. Yes you can. Microsoft has literally exorcised all of the terrible stuff from the past. This is not the sa
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Making WOA available for Mac users to run virtually won't move the needle on anything.
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In reply to Chuck_Glidden:Well, it's not in the Surface Laptop. :) So ... great. But it doesn't help
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Yep. As it turns out, the death of Windows was an inside job.
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And once you get over the differences, remember that the "grass is always greener" rule applies here. You'll b
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Maybe it's time to let that one go. :)
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How. Dare. You. :)
Kidding. Your input is always appreciated. Seriously.
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Thanks. I will be writing about Power Automate soon as well, for sure.
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That's a little unfair. At that time, Windows and the PC WERE personal computing, all of it. Today, the PC is
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In reply to wolters:Nice!
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Agreed. I watched that last night.
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Love ... regulators?
Why do you love for Big Tech to have unfettered power over consumers?
This is what anti
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In reply to SyncMe:Yes. But that's yet another step.
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Microsoft's culture rewards "new" over "improving existing thing."
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Yep. I rely on dark mode and bright white light really bothers my eyes. There's nothing quite like the hell of
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Hm.
The secrecy thing only works for Apple, from what I can tell. If we were to generalize it, I'd say that i
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I don't think the real-world impact on PC/Mac users was even noticeable. It's not like they got slower.
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Right.
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No, you can deploy them however you want.
This was in the State of the Platform talk.
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Right. I certainly don't have "the" answer. Just a desire for Microsoft to be better.
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I'm always fascinated to read about what I did, what I supported, and what I thought. :)
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That doesn't make any sense, sorry.
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Yes, I'm well aware of the history.
There is no reason why Microsoft couldn't have updated its legacy UIs ov
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I agree. I wish they would always do it like this. But... they won't, of course. Everyone loves to be cheered.
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Having used it now, I think it's fantastic too. But it's obviously not for everyone. To me, the bigger deal is
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No. Good, consistent design is just good design and it has nothing to do with hardware.
If anything, Microsof
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Actually that sounds reasonable. Imagine Windows 8 with its flat UI---which was modern looking in that day---b
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Microsoft's culture is the reason we'll never get the consistency I'm looking for. Microsoft rewards "new" not
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Steve Jobs was basically right in all of his Microsoft complaints. But it's important to remember that all the
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Exactly right. I was thinking about making this myself, but you know it will be one of the first third-party s
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Whether one likes the particular look/feel that Apple chose for Big Sur is sort of beside the point. What they
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I've found Xamarin.Forms to be rather terrible, but it's a natural evolution for anyone coming up from previou
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Yeah, one of the tragedies of Windows 8 is that Microsoft actually made some nice updates on the desktop side,
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What it didn't have was the App Store and ecosystem that iPhone had then and has now even more so.
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In reply to Michael_Johnston:I was watching a WWDC session video using Apple's Developer app full screen
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For sure.
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Always appreciate a heads-up about any typos.
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It doesn't matter what anyone "thinks." :)
Apple's design is what makes iOS unique. The look and feel, colors
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In reply to alsorun:This is a good question. Particularly for this build since Rafael takes them apart to see
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In reply to hrlngrv:Doesn't seem like this warrants a news story.
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No. :)Sorry.
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In reply to christian.hvid:Microsoft literally did not do what you said they did with Windows 8. They added a
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In reply to thurrotcommentator:There is a lot of evidence that Agile is bad. :)https://ronjeffries.com/article
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In reply to dcdevito:And the Mac isn't actually a closed ecosystem like iOS/iPadOS when you think about i
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In reply to Michael_Johnston:No, not yet. I've not really used it for anything yet though.
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I can't keep explaining antitrust.
Behavior that is fine when you're small is illegal when you control and/or
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We need to get past the semantics.
It's a duopoly. It still has an audience of billions and needs to be regul
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agree
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You go to battle with the army you have! ;)
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In this case, that might be the wrong question.
Suspect that moving from Reactive Native to Electron in Skype
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They do things like that passive-aggressively because it basically proves they were wrong not to have done it
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No, sorry.
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Parallels should continue to run Windows virtually. I don't see that changing.
The performance might be wors
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Also, it's possible that Intel-based Chromebooks, which are most of them, benefit from this.
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It's pretty much only used for developer emulators. Why on earth would any hardware maker ship an Intel-based
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It's been nothing but a solid loss every single year. I'm curious why Microsoft keeps it going, though I do lo
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In reply to DaveHelps:Well. Apple supposedly makes about 100 percent of the profits in the PC industry, though
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Macs and PCs both have pros and cons. Neither is better than the other. That they are "still Macs" is the poin
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Please email [email protected] with any customer/technical support issues. No one is scouring article comments
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They very specifically said that performance is better, not worse. They're not abandoning the pro market.
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The AMD Surface Laptop is literally worse than the Intel version.
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Wow.
I will take that bet. :)
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WTH.
Windows Mobile has been dead for years. Try an iPad or iPod touch if you don't want a real phone.
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Boot Camp is not happening, as expected.
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Nobody is perfect. But there is a mad scramble for eyeballs and it compromises headlines and writing quality.
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Apple's silicon is known as the A-series. It doesn't matter what they call the chips, they're the same product
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I don't understand this kind of complaint in 2020, at all. You somehow noticed 300 to 500 MB in app RAM usage
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It's hard to state what "will" happen. Apple lowered prices on the iPad and saw a huge sales surge. They could
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Doing well on a benchmark means only that.
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No idea.
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Mac's market share is down. It hit 6.8 percent at the end of 2019.
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Yeah. That's a good way to put it.
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Yes, I'm familiar with the issues in Germany with regards to data needing to be stored in-country etc. That's
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Yep. This is disappointing.
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They're in the gaming business because the future of this business is cloud services. But they can't jump from
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Right. It worked just fine.
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Why on earth would anyone would to run Windows 10 on ARM on a Mac? :)
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Well. I did write that. But they want better hardware for Windows, and they want competition too.
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Yes, thanks. Fixed.
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Am curious about this possibility as well.
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And you need to be nice to people even when you disagree. No personal attacks please. Go after the data, etc.
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Reasonable.
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Their marketshare is 6.8 percent, but their share of the market's profits is roughly 100 percent.
Apple's ma
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Apple has iCloud and the iWork apps. What? :)
Windows generates over $8 billion a quarter conservatively. See
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Surely there are many ways to do that.
Also, using an Xbox for that is really inefficient.
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Your belief that Duo is going to change anything always rings as sad to me.
But what on earth does this nich
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That was buried by Apple.
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No.
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The notion that A-series it the best by far will now be put to the test. Benchmarks mean nothing, and it's not
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That's a big part of it. But the benefits of doing this are real too.
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My response to that is, "there's no way you know everything about this thing, let alone everything *I* need to
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No idea. I'm eager to see this in real life.
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Why?
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Open File Explorer in Dark mode. Open File Explorer Folder Options... it's all white.
The term is half-assed
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Terry was happy with either outcome---ARM succeeding or Intel waking up---but the overriding concern was that
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Yes, I'm trying to open eyes about what is true vs. what people think. That was the point
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You can't seem to say something explicitly. Did they say this literally? Or does this just seem to be happenin
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Is that directed at me?
The move to the cloud is real, not anecdotal. How would I notice such a shift first-h
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I second the OJ Bronco. Just for the inevitable drone chase.
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I'm adding two new chapters for 2004, Commmand Line and Virtualization. And then completely rewriting Cortana
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In reply to Bart:Obviously. And it's unclear what the point is.
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Nah. They can present any change as user- or developer-focused and they'll be applauded for it.
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Right. I can't account for every single PC type. You'll need to look that up, like I wrote.
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Yes.
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Whatever. It happened. Not all companies can make a transition like Microsoft did.
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That is grossly incorrect. It's not the same at all.
Whether the Microsoft account integration and a handful
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There's a small RAM hit when it's running only because of the lightweight VM. I think that's it, I've certainl
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In reply to sgbassett:Appreciated, thanks!
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In reply to sgbassett:That is the answer. :)It's for developers and administrators who work in mixed envi
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In reply to hrlngrv:My instructions are in the book. This is a brief mention, so I'm not sure what you me
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I'm talking about the mainstream, which is many millions. No young adult turning to Udacity or Udemy or whatev
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It doesn't end up coincidentally being iOS compatible.
Also, that's not why most would use Flutter. It's use
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It's the next version of Xamarin.Forms. How they get there is sort of beside the point, at least to me.
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It will be handcuffs on someone's wrists.
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The real lesson is, it's nice having choices.
Apple users are confused by that statement, I know. It's OK.
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Oh poor Apple. Opened an App Store and can't find the pennies to pay for it. Poor, poor Apple.
They should st
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Yes. So what?
Xbox doesn't control access to 50 percent of the video game market. It's closer to 10 percent.
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This is so dumb I have no words.
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Where's your proof that it wouldn't?
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Who complains is "developers who sell subscription services that need an iOS app to reach 50 percent of their
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Please stop replying to this thread.
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A bit.
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Interesting, yeah. I would need to look that one up.
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Right. And since those systems are billions strong, they fall under the purview of antitrust regulation.
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Joking aside, that could be true. I would not accept the "everyone's a winner" culture where adults are wearin
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Get over it. That was a million years ago and the company Microsoft is today proves that they've improved tons
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We're not going to keep explaining the same thing over and over again. Your notions of monopoly and market pow
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The disc-less consoles are not the only way to buy into those platforms and gamers DO have a choice of which t
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Why would anyone do that? :)
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Google Play is a good example of how these things can coexist without any problems at all. Android users can s
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You had to learn C# and F# at some point, too.
And is there some long list of popular developer frameworks t
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Windows wasn't clever enough. lol.
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Right.
When you use Xamarin.Forms just for Android and iOS, the amount of times you have duplicate things in
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I don't see this moving the needle at all. Windows 7 is unsupported and no one is using Windows 8.1.
And most
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The dictator appreciates your uninformed acquiescence in this matter.
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No idea on WU vs. MU. Windows 7 is unsupported for individuals, so this is just kind of a curiosity, really.
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I don't see that happening. But that doesn't address the real problems.
Apple need to lower the IAP fees dram
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Maybe. But Resource usage in Chrome/Chromium is a problem on the Mac too. And I bet on Linux.
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Like you, I am very excited about .NET 5+.
Check out Flutter. It is very different from the .NET/XAML stuff,
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Yeah, we originally planned to re-do the Petri site in 2019 and then Thurrott.com in 2020, but the former took
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In reply to trparky:Yes. I didn't mean any offense. :)
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I need a hug icon, but thanks. :)
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I've recommended Sumatra PDF on Windows Weekly recently and prefer this over the bloated Adobe Reader and Foxi
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God, who can even remember this? It's changed so much and so many times. It's like they're juggling and trying
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Wow.
I guess we can take a stand on this issue, which didn't invade anyone's privacy in any way, harm the re
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We discussed this on Windows Weekly two days ago.
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It's like it's 20 years ago again and we have to start explaining again why this kind of behavior becomes prob
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Right. The majority segment.
Also, who cares what you want? (No offense.) No one out in the world thinks abo
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Apple is incredibly stubborn and they've never really learned the lesson of behavior change when you grow from
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By me. And by anyone else who closely watches Microsoft. This one was tested for 3x as long as previously feat
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Yep. The timeframe is problematic. They should have fixed Xamarin.Forms long ago.
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So, that's IS what's ludicrous. My point is that no one --- not literally, obviously, statistically --- would
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Yes, yes. Thanks!
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MAUI is just the next version of Xamarin.Forms. The reason you use/study it now is to understand how MAUI work
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It literally is easier when it's done right. Web apps and true cross-platform frameworks like Flutter are two
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It brings Windows app to the party. This is a requirement for many businesses and most big businesses. The ide
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In reply to zeetv:React Native being "better" or whatever, is ... an opinion. What's a fact is that Flutt
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In reply to OldITPro2000:This isn't just about the IAP fee. Apple uses multiple, sometimes secret polici
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In reply to Skolvikings:There's a "Manage preferences" link in the emails.
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Now?
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It's abuse.
It's abuse because it's unfair and they have no choice, no other option. It's abuse because Apple
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You shouldn't accept that. He's wrong.
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They will never do that.
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Yes. Yes I am.
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Actually, developers ARE all confused about Project Reunion, in part because Microsoft didn't even explain it
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Yes, but that's only for subscriptions. Apple always takes a 30 percent cut of other IAPs.
https://www.apple
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They literally are making one yearly update. The H2 update is not just a cumulative update. It's a good compro
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Yes, this is the behavior Microsoft announced back in January.
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Thanks, I will continue to veer too. :)
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So, I love all the .NET 5+ stuff. For sure.
Here's the problem.
Having used WinForms, WPF, UWP, and Xamarin
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Hm. I wasn't really his boss. :) We were more colleagues, really, and yes, I enjoyed working with him. Being m
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It's under personal technology.
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It's not as shiny and fun as the next Apple bauble, for sure.
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No, we just need both players to behave legally and in the best interest of their customers.
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Of course.
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Obviously, it's not a productivity tool.
Look, I don't understand the unspoken complaint/worry here. Xbox is
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As a reminder, I wrote about enterprise computing for over 15 years at Windows IT Pro.
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Through Brad, first on Twitter when he was writing for MSPowerUser.
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I was more surprised to discover that Bing Maps was still a thing. :)
But not joking.
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In reply to kcarson97404:Xbox is Microsoft. No worries there. :)
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In reply to miamimauler:Oh, no worries. I'm not turning into an enterprise guy. :)
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In reply to miamimauler:You are not reading that right at all."Personal technology" literally means consumers/
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Yeah, I'm sure that the publishers, which have always opposed this organization, were just waiting for them to
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No, that's the next price range up.
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Right. During a pandemic. When those people could not go to a real library.
So, yeah, there was intent. To h
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So, that's not true. Smartphone sales did fall 20 percent in Q1, and we'll see what that looks like in Q2. But
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I use Teams every day and don't experience that.
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Actually, if you have the older Barclays Apple Card, as I do, that works the same way. They just emailed me wi
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Non-Premium members can read three Premium articles each month.
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I'm writing more news now that Mehedi is gone and I intend to cover Azure more here.
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Obviously, we're not making any changes to where our children have chosen to go to college. :) Yes, it's expen
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lol ah yes
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Not sure, sorry. I doubt they write all zeros to an SSD.
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Performance. The 3a is really slow.
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The top one is a document feeder, the bottom is an "input tray" (for paper).
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Not understanding why many people would want this is something I'll never understand. To each their own.
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LOL Jesus. Recovery tools are not useless, and not everyone is technical enough to do that.
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There's no need for a name change, no.
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This isn't a solution for those who only need Windows. It's a solution for companies that want the lower costs
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They're not really comparable since Boot Camp requires dual-booting while Parallels lets you run Windows, or j
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Yeah, it really is needlessly confusing.
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Huh.
It's $149. I added that, thanks.
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In reply to naddy69:Sigh.
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I'm not a Mac expert, but have you tried the Mac's Disk Utility to see if the drive shows up there?
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In reply to NewNole2001:Yeah, that's come up, but as a temporary thing. Maybe go see a baseball game in e
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Sure. There is space for a real HDD as well as an SSD as well.
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It's a lot more nuanced. In any purported crime, there is the notion of intent and motive.
In this case, the
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Right. I've also bought used books from libraries. More crimes!
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Yes. As many probably know, I purchased dozens of used paper books from Amazon last year for that article seri
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That's been the situation with books since there have been mass published books.
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Sorry, what?
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Yeah I think so. 8 GB of RAM is still up there.
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Yeah, I have considered this as well.
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No, but I use an iPad every day an always have an iPhone around, so I could handle it. But yeah, it would be l
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Yeah, I mention this in the post.
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Come on.I wish to God that every article (or in this case forum post) with the words Huawei, China, whatever d
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In reply to Oreo:As I said repeatedly on the show, all we can do now is speculate. And your "knowledge" about
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I have been planning to do a "Living with PC gaming" series, but the pandemic sidelined that. Let me think abo
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Yes. Repeatedly. :) It just never worked out. We'll meet up some day.
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S9 and newer, including S10 and S20.
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"Lineup" is both correct in that it is a word and, more to the point, is literally the word that Apple used.
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It costs $100 a year.
Android developer account is $0 per year. Microsoft developer account is $0 per year.
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Nothing. React Native is a first-class citizen in Windows 10 app development at Microsoft. That's always been
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The internet will sleep easy with this correction, thanks.
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OK. So what? That seems like the responsible thing to do for shareholders.
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As noted in the post, it will appear over some number of weeks, not necessarily immediately.
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There is no such thing as a company that wasn't started to make money. It was never a charity and is not one n
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I've never heard of such a thing myself. Certainly, there have been times in the past where Microsoft pushed u
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Right.
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Yes, we all stand in awe. :)
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Yeah, I wonder about this as well. We'll see how well macOS runs on this platform and how much Apple had to ch
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I believe it's just that one core.
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Of course they would. In marketing, that's called "making lemonade."
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This failure confuses everyone, to be sure.
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Well, it's important to remember that Samsung had already announced the Galaxy whatever it is that Intel menti
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But why. The only real world advantage of ARM is battery life. And fanless, I guess. Not a big deal.
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Yeah, would love to have heard about this before the sale actually started.
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You buy DDG to ensure that Google or Yahoo doesn't buy it. It would cost them nothing to do this.
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It's not possible to make such a claim. Almost every person, every business, will have some special thing they
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Hear, hear.
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Right. I didn't mean to suggest this was ARM-based in any way, only that it is the same style architecture.
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In reply to StevenLayton:Sorry about that. I corrected the couple I found, but if there are more changes you n
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Zoom is following the law. All companies have to do this. In every country.
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Are you referring to Samsung?
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This is the promise of open-source. Many eyeballs.
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Honestly, if I wasn't reviewing hardware, I would stick with what works for many years. I guess you can see th
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This attitude is about why one creates a business, which is to make money. Getting acquired by a bigger firm i
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I suspect they do now.
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Yep.
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The goal is to get Google off of the iPhone, which they could market as a plus for their customers. The money
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What exactly does this mean? What is the accusation here? Please explain.
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Yeah, I think that is possible as well. Just guessing that first gen will be non-Pro laptops, but I guess we'l
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Yeah, the transition is not great. Once you get past it, everything is fine. But it's ... ugh.
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I think they service macOS perfectly well. This is a legacy OS that doesn't need dramatic new features every y
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If memory serves, Samsung was the real innovator in copying Apple. Huawei is just using a proven strategy.
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Right.
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This is the second time in a row that a Pixel flagship sold fewer units than its predecessor. This thing isn't
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Apparently, there were roughly 5 million of them, yes. :)
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In reply to MikeGalos:Ditto.
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Apple has the money to fix that, btw. They did it with Maps.
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We normally would never need Ethernet: The mesh wireless networking works great, even in the sunroom. The issu
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This is what's wrong with the police using facial recognition technology:
https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/
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The Pixel's camera is very, very good, but it is not the best in the market. That title belongs to Huawei. The
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I agree.
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/228764/revisiting-the-google-pixel-3a-xl
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I'm not playing with numbers: I'm presenting the reality of what this number means. 7.2 million units in one y
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When you sell next to nothing, selling more year-over-year is a really low bar. The issue here, really, is tha
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That's a weird reason to use it. Because it protects your privacy is a good reason, and Apple would continue t
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In reply to wright_is:I suspect this is a very early gen version of this tech (as is the Bluetooth support in
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In reply to bigfire:Yeah, all the coax in our house has been ripped out. It was poorly done to begin with, act
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In reply to wright_is:That's not how it works. It's literally only sensing what's right in fron
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In reply to RossNWirth:The original version of Windows 10 S was only Windows 10 Pro. After that, it turned to
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Thanks!
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In reply to Igor Engelen:Sorry. Missed the "for iPad" bit.
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In reply to SvenJ:Brio.
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In reply to GCalais:That's where the domain is, but it works fine. I'd be just as happy with Outlook
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In reply to wright_is:No. I like the Sculpt set in part because I can toss the numeric keypad, which is separa
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In reply to iantrem:One thing to try is Sumatra PDF. It's got an ugly UI, but it's light and quick a
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So you can choose a color/material.
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I don't ever use it and think or notice that it's higher resolution, if that's what you mean. These days, with
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Remember these are two different types of machines. One is a laptop, the other is a 4-in-1 convertible with bo
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This is the first time anyone has questioned their motives. They offer the most private web browser there is,
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I'd love to review Surface Laptop 3. And Surface Book 3. And many other products that Microsoft never sends me
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Yes, thanks.
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Using a stylus on a device whose screen doesn't lay flat in any way makes zero sense.
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In reply to dftf:First things first. :)I will say, it's interesting how some things just last and last. I
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You are reading my mind! :)I literally just wrote one up today, will publish it tomorrow. That's amazing
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In reply to scumdogmillionaire:Yeah, I'm very interested in the 15 as well.
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In reply to orbsitron:I list the weight as 2.8 pounds in the review.
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In reply to PhilipVasta:I find Full HD to be just about perfect at 13.x inches.
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Here's an idea. Let's let this one just stand without any commentary from anyone. Seriously.
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Well, there's no reason not to just try it. The worst thing it can do is fail.
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No, I didn't mean it like that. I meant that many people are sensitive about this.
Despising our president is
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Strongly recommend that no one reads anything Bill O'Reilly writes. And that you maybe broaden your horizons m
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This is just semantics.
Win32 is a legacy technology. So are WinForms and WPF. They're all still supported.
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Sometimes. Honestly, I'm not sure I could stomach going over all this again.
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wow.
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She'll be writing about it.
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Yep.
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Microsoft is deploying the new Edge via Windows Update too. That's separate from 2004.
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No, I'm going to keep using the correct term.
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No, but thanks, will check it out.
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Yeah, the sync thing is the weak link right now. It's there ... but it's not great.
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My understanding is that that is not correct. I don't believe you get the new Edge with 2004.
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My argument is about a gigantic corporation stealing from an individual after stringing him along for six mont
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The next thing is always going to fix everything.
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They just can't seem to get the performance where it needs to be. Its rather incredible.
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In reply to Andi:Don't beg. You're better than that.
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In reply to innitrichie:Well. There's a real advantage to the whole Surface design/build thing for sure,
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In reply to jgraebner:Appreciated, thanks.
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Please email [email protected] with this kind of thing. Thanks.
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Please. I am begging everyone.Do not write a forum post for customer support. Please email [email protected] i
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In reply to SoundersFan:I do use a ListView, I was describing how I got there.
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In reply to wright_is:Microsoft's beta groups were on CompuServe before they moved to Internet newsgroups
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It was 21 in the book, sorry.
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It's not a soap opera and it's not out of thin air.
Do we really need to be strung along by a potential emplo
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Yeah, time is fluid. It seems like it's creeping by and then suddenly a ton of it is behind you and don't know
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I had big LP and 45 collections. My 45s ended up in a restaurant's jukebox, which I always thought was nice.
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No one is blowing this out of proportion. This is not about Microsoft stealing his code. It's about Microsoft
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Well, yes. You'd have to be approved by someone to get a $1000+ phone with no commitment. :)
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Thanks.
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Thanks, and yep. Fixed.
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lol sorry
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In reply to Roncerr:No comma.
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:One person != Microsoft Corporation.
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Just timing. Windows 10 version 2004 was completed in December.
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Thanks ... Yeah, I was going to publish a big MSN thing, still will, but this kind of caught my eye.
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I'll get there. I'm already bumping into some of the weirdness of supporting multiple platforms in Xamarin and
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No worries ... Everyone else did when I first published it too. :) That's why I used a different title this ti
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In reply to madthinus:It doesn't need to be fixed. Please read the article. :)
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Yep. Wait until you guys check out the competition. It's even worse.
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I would imagine that most of that still works today in Cmd.
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I figured this was obvious, but I guess not. There's no reason to debate or discuss the events that led t
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In reply to IanYates82:Yeah, I need to figure that out, sorry.
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In reply to Simard57:Yeah, we don't actually make them all that much though. I will say that one of the g
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Closing this so I can try and answer the questions later today...
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Yes, I use the Microsoft Store. I'd use it more if I could. I'd use it for everything if I could. I
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Maybe. I am thinking about getting a Pi 4 now that there's an 8 GB version.
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"But [other company] does it too" is not a valid defense of unethical and illegal behavior.
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I'm pretty sure this didn't come from Satya Nadella, like he's a mob boss dictating a hit.
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Let's say a guy named "Mike" copies something that "Bob" made. Let's just say it happened. We will just accept
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Thanks.
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Yeah, me and my gushing.
Do you also still hold a grudge against Japan and Germany for World War II? I mean,
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Yes. We have this way of humanizing corporations as if this entity with 150,000+ employees is somehow a single
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In reply to reefer:I almost mentioned the Apple angle. This is called "getting Sherlocked" in the Apple commun
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So say we all.
It no longer happens with Windows 10 Pro at least.
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In reply to bogdan:I ... what?
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This provides a partial explanation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experien
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Yeah I have to think this happens in 20H2.
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:)
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It's still a big step forward. Did the PS4 ship with an NVMe SSD?
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You should be. This is a very different company today.
This was clearly the work of a bad apple or a small n
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Wow.
I mean. Wow.
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Thanks!!
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:) Yes. This is/was true of Objective-C as well, a necessary evil because devs wanted/needed to create iPhone
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Yeah. And yes, Blazor is definitely quite interesting.
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In reply to triggeringdingus:The ... cheques? So you're accusing me of accepting bribes now? Goodbye.
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Yes. If it works, Windows 10X provides a nice (and literal) separation between the new (modern UWP/Project Reu
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Yeah, this is almost certainly part of the same issue, sorry.
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And even Google gets this right.
Imagine if Android 11 shipped and some set of third party phones got it, but
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It does matter. It makes zero sense that Microsoft's own devices aren't fully compatible and ready to upgrade
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The quote above says that it's rolling out in stages. Not everyone will see it immediately.
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Yes.
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Yep. That regime had a real "not invented here" mentality and set out to replace everything that didn't come f
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It might be because Skype was a market innovator and Microsoft has handled its evolution poorly.
As to why pe
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"Productivity!"
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Yes, but Web development is like anything else. This will consolidate down to just a few successful frameworks
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Surface Pro 7 has a compatibility blocker.
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It's not that interesting, you're just one person. I think the broader user base is primarily on web and mobil
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PWAs are going to fix this problem, I think.
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I bet that's no longer the case. But it did enjoy an afterlife with the legal profession for a while because t
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I think their focus is entirely on productivity, and that that focus spans businesses and individuals. Microso
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I don't think most people ever cared about Windows updates.
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In reply to yaddamaster:We didn't intend to lose anything, of course. But ... best intentions, etc.
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We're working through this, sorry. We'll see where we end up.
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Sorry, I had a crazy-busy day, including a 2.5 hour meeting.
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thanks ... It is possible that what we're really seeing here---Reunion and WinUI, plus Blazor Web Assembly, in
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lol. Ah boy.
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Web dev is already the biggest dev market by far. And JavaScript is the most popular language, etc. We can kee
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It wasn't last year. I didn't look recently.
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The WinUI/Project Reunion stuff is long overdue, but it's really just more of the same. They're shifting how y
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In reply to dcdevito:Appreciated, thanks.I happen to really like the .NET stuff as well.
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Panos Panay said "this month," so I assume any day this week meets that promise.
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In reply to ebnador:I haven't really gotten to that part of the history yet.
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In reply to bpech:JavaScript.
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In reply to Bart:I started down that path. The truth is, I don't have an answer. I don't think anyon
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There are two places to manage policies for Office/Microsoft 365 (that I can think of):https://config.office.c
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I guess I do too. But then again, having to monitor two different apps is kind of a pain as well.
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Ha. Yeah, I can see that. :)
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When have they not?
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Yes. We're switching to a new hosting provider this week. More details soon.
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In reply to wordz42:Yep, thanks.
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In reply to DaGhost:Dual-SIM is only temporarily unavailable because of "technical limitations" but will be re
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This is exactly the kind of pedantry we're all looking for during a pandemic.
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Stay tuned. It has to happen soon.
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I am very interested in some form of iPad plus some form of keyboard/trackpad/cover. And I'm willing to pay fo
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The market has spoken and you are in a clear and tiny minority on screen size.
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Your viewpoints don't map at all to the mainstream. At all.
And that's fine. You can live your life the way y
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Used to be. That connection is not relevant anymore, and iOS was the starting point for all of those other pla
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Thanks!
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No, "I expected" that "Microsoft" would release it "more quickly."
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The Pixel 4 XL does have a great, great camera. You could just charge in the car, of course.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't stop CNN auto-playing videos.
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Um. Read the last paragraph, please.
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I think "pan" is about right. :)
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No.
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Yes. It's a primary piece of Microsoft 365.
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Thanks. The rest of the room was looking at me like I was crazy.
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What are you talking about?
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Yes, thanks!
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Because I prefer the Samsung UX. It's one of my favorites.
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No, but I guess that's possible.
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In reply to FaustXD9:Um. No.
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If the past is any guide, that happens soon.
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UPW was clearly designed as a mobile platform, and this kind of thing does make sense on some of the clients o
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Obviously, they don't want to make it easy to abuse this. That's perfectly understandable. That this is even p
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Most people would rather not pay more to get the same amount of storage. :) But this is the choice we have.
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Well.
What was the alternative? A version with ... ARM? That would just fail. This at least stands a chance.
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Thank you for this, of course. Will read this, keep trying to figure it out.
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Yeah. It doesn't work that way. I can't seem to reconcile how it really does work. All I know is that I fire o
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... for now. Obviously, this isn't just for Samsung.
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This isn't unique to Office. Microsoft switched the Surface logo on its PCs to the Microsoft logo, etc. The Mi
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In reply to bassoprofundo:Maybe technical people are self-destructive. :) It's weird, but I bet it's
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In reply to Username:FalconXhttps://chrisandriessen.nl/web/Website is safe despite warning.
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In reply to kevinbouwman:Good stuff, thanks!
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Correct: I looked up the specs, which were wrong, so I fixed those above. My observations about the display/de
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I'm not sure of the schedule on ASP, but yeah I'd imagine it's on the way out if it isn't already out of suppo
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My experience is that this is a huge stumbling block for developers coming from traditional Win32 environments
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Obviously, async exists for good reasons.
What I was/am asking for is a way to easily allow async operations
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I spent about $3000 (that I didn't have) upfront on a IIGS and then thousands more on various hardware upgrade
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People actually want the Samsung? :)
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The big deal here, I think, would be offering this simplified new UI *and* the normal UI, and letting you choo
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Ah boy. Very interesting, thanks for this.
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In reply to rob4jen:Yep. But the one that Mint proactively texted me to install doesn't work. :)
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Interesting. WinForms is certainly a lot simpler than this stuff. And it's good for this kind of app as well.
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This is actually in keeping with most of these feature updates. It has a version number for one month and then
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It's impossible to do what Brave does and not break something.
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For sure.
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People who make whatever percentage of their income writing books about Windows are beyond rare. The money I m
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That was literally 22 years ago.
This would be like me still holding a grudge against my son (now a 22-year-o
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Dude. Come on. Dear God.
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If any of those had been popular, they would have stuck with it.
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I try to unsubscribe from Wired's newsletters almost every day. It never works.
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It sounds more like it's just the wrong size.
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In reply to PCDoesWhat:You might not be. I think there's a bit market for smaller phones, and the iPhone
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In reply to wolters:Yeah. Availability has always been an issue for Pixel. But I assume you could buy direct f
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In reply to truerock2:Yeah. This is probably tied to soaring complexity and a big rise in capabilities as we m
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In reply to coeus89::)
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All of that sounds reasonable.
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Almost everything you wrote is nonsense. Sorry.
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Windows 10X is a product edition of Windows 10.
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Obviously it needs WSL. That's the point.
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With over one billion users? No.
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It has good and bad points, actually. :)
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That's not bad reading. Their post never says that. It's bad writing.
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They lump "a" music service with Prime. But they have paid subscriptions too. You pay less if you're on Prime.
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No, that's funny. I guess it's not surprising that someone would try to clone VB classic.
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Well, the second will never happen. So seamless updates across all Android phones.
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Kind of doesn't matter now, apparently. It's a 2021 product.
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Sigh.
Guys. Microsoft does not engage in the same tracking as Google. Google's business is built on tracking
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Not a very good one, given the age of this joke.
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Ah right, yes. I used to use that extensively, but scaled back to a home screen with just a few links.
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A few years behind the times on that one.
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"Normal." :)
Thanks.
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Can confirm that clutter proliferates.
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Yeah, but this is the dream. One open target supported by all browsers, ensuring compatibility on all.
Back i
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Are you really asking why one would spend money on something they enjoy?
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Why not just try it? :)
It's a web link. No install.
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I just use the Dark Reader web browser plug-in.
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How does this make it insecure?
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The whole thing is confusing. :)
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I really like the trackpoint too, but we're in the minority. And with PC touchpads finally reaching a certain
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Nice, thanks for this. Honestly, I feel like you're living the dream. This is the kind of downsizing over time
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Nice!
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Yes. But it would be interesting to know the percentage of each.
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I later switched to Google Podcasts, which is my first choice. But I've been using PocketCasts again beca
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No, but I feel like Lenovo's prices fluctuate all the time. I went from the normal (non-"special") pricing on
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I can totally understand a professional photographer wanting the cleanest/least-processed image.
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Already did. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/233575/my-mint-mobile-switch-first-steps
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Yes it is.
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Will do so, but need to finish it first.
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I had been using it with Pixel 4 XL and like it quite a bit. But the thing I need to get from phone to PC the
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Yep, I know. I'd prefer the period and comma to just be there.
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It's always important. But these days ... It's even more important.
Thanks.
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They're all paid, in a way: The "free" accounts are ad-supported. They're a lot less lucrative, of course.
N
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And just when I thought we had reached peak terribleness, I wake up this morning to an overtly racist and igno
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That's some prepper sage advice right there! :)
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Yeah I had to look too.
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Thanks, you too.
My day starts off with an unwelcome trip through the comments, and it almost always puts me
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Yeah, I need to get around to posting all the code somewhere. I'll figure it out.
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No worries. I can't remember everything.
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Guys. Please.
There is so much shit in the world. Let's at least be nice to each other.
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Thanks!
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Thanks!
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In reply to shawnthebeachy:Excellent, thanks!
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In reply to MartinusV2:Yes, and thanks!
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Yep. The stuff that's lost between generations is concerning. To stick with th
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In reply to AliMaggs:Thanks. The goofy thing is, I like the OneNote app for Windows 10 a lot and it never even
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"Second step back." Whatever. It's a step back.
Let's be less pedantic during the pandemic. And then maybe it
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No, it's not. It's an unfair and illegal fee on top of rent. Like a gangster charging neighborhood stores for
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Features also overload the interface and make the application more complex and, for Microsoft, harder to suppo
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Except that they don't have to. They required it. Amazon, Microsoft, all these other companies can and want to
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Nice, thanks. I very much hope to make that trip happen.
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Oh, no worries. It's OK if you're not interested. :)
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The Education (and Government, and Enterprise) offerings have not changed. I'm thinking that's for Ignite, if
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Yes. I see this as a productivity-focused thing, and that applies to both sides.
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There's no such thing as Office 365 Home Premium.
But this was about the commercial side mostly. I'll be wri
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I don't see the humor. What do you mean?
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In reply to illuminated:So... you can't help him then, right?
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It's not an advertisement. I was writing this anyway.
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Nothing about that. But I don't see Microsoft ever charging for online events.
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I'm not going to stop my work on programming topics. I'm going to focus less on consumer nonsense.
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Yeah. I've certainly never seen it.
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One targets small- and medium-sized business and one is for the enterprise, so it comes with additional suppor
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In reply to awright18:I see it as just standing up for the truth. Microsoft doesn't get everything right,
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Actually, I guess the big thing was true crime podcasts. For some reason, listens are way down. Maybe because
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It was private.
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Same pricing.
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The built-in menu control works great, yeah. Secondary windows. Now that is entertaining. :)
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Yeah. And it stole all our data and privacy and sold it to advertisers. So we wised up and started looking els
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We "covered" it more than it deserved. That event was terrible.
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lol ah boy
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Why would they? That's kind of a niche need.
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Everyone gets three free premium articles per month but I'll save you the credit usage: Cost is the primary is
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they are collapsable, yes.
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Come on. Can someone please send this guy the memo?
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Our township handles the disposal of electronics for us.
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It does seem like a counter to Grammarly.
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Just a rumor, no one outside of Apple knows for sure right now.
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If this is your bar, then every non-health and food company should just shut down right now, I guess.
Apple j
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I don't have one yet. I've been looking for something good. It looks like "UWP Unleashed" is just "WPF Unleash
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The names don't change until the end of April, so those sites reflect the current brands now.
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No, not yet. But the complete source code for the WinForms and WPF versions are there across the two article s
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Oh, yeah. This is a decades old thing for me. Marie Kondo has just come and gone in the interim.
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More likely that this is just the beginning of a set of feature spam now that the browser is fundamentally don
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In reply to TheJoeFin:Actually, did so already. Thanks again, works great. Confused I never ran into this over
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In reply to TheJoeFin:Thanks! Will try that today.
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No, invite only. I'll be live-tweeting it.https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/1244587735500951553
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In reply to StagyarZilDoggo:Sigh. Fixing...
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No, there's no Bixby button. And yes, all the buttons are on the right.
I don't use Night mode all that often
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In reply to red.radar:I agree.
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So far, so good. I was a bit surprised by how well/quickly the number transfer was, and that everything just w
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Yes.
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?
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
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lol yes
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In reply to PhilByPond:I suppose "block" is the better term, so I fixed that.Also, thanks for the suggestions.
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Nice, congrats. And good luck going forward.
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Yeah there are lots of great, cheap options now. It's scary changing something like this, but it can really be
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I'm pretty sure you cannot use an Apple Watch (with LTE or whatever) over Mint, yes.
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Well. They got this thing right by not doing what they had been doing. 1909 is not a real feature update so it
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Well, there is one, actually, and it makes as much sense as any of the services nonsense they're doing. Given
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We're overthinking this.
And I didn't consider anything to be disrepectful. We're all good. Sorry if I was mi
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Surface Pro 7.
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Still literally does not help anyone using the majority of the devices out in the world.
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They were just adjusting to the new conditions and now they're back to work.
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Yeah, it's amazing what you can do when you don't add many features and stretch out the development timeline f
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nice!
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They are literally the same. 1909 is just a CU for 1903.
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Windows 10 IS modular: WSL is optional and isn't installed by default. With WSL 2, you have to download it fr
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I can't see that happening.
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Please. Email [email protected] if you have technical issues. Thanks,Paul
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You should use whatever browser syncs with what you're using on desktop.
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It seems reasonable. :)
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Thanks!
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The benefits from Fi include using your own phone number everywhere.
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It was at least 3 months. Never had issues with the service.
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In reply to jecouch66:OK, but the point is it doesn't do network switching on FI.
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Obviously the set-up I'm using to test is ridiculous. But an iPad with a keyboard cover today (soon with track
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Apple's iOS/iPadOS version numbers these days are like Windows versions in the 3.x days. Some of the minor rel
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I like this style of keyboard, and my desktop keyboard has the same keys. The bigger issue is that I don't lik
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This may literally be why iPadOS was spun off from iOS. It made no sense when announced, but now it's starting
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Nice, thanks for this!
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Agree.
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I know this will bring certain opinions out of the woodwork. But it needs to be discussed. I always hope some
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If it's hardware, Apple. If you're talking about software and services, Microsoft.
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This is one of the things that was easier/more automatic in WPF: The textbox can automatically change its scro
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Right. It's a secondary device. The phone is the primary device. The secondary device is only needed by most r
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I'm not saying that's impossible. Actually I guess I am. But whatever, that's not the case for most people.
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Gotcha, thanks. :)
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In reply to fishnet37222:Right. But it's an Android tablet.
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Months and years are the important parts of what you wrote that we should be surprised by here. :)
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Isn't it just pausing? Like so much else these days?
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I think you're on to something.
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In what way does it not? (Don't answer. That was rhetorical.)
Both run native apps. Only the iPad's native ap
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That won't be the worst thing that happens in those 12 weeks by a long shot.
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I'm over-analyzing this, I know. But "legacy" is one of a few keywords he used that I think are purposeful in
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Just moving around helps. I don't do this enough, but I can work with a laptop from any table, desk, etc. When
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Thanks ... The "deep work" thing has evolved since I started going to the gym. I still have it in my calendar
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It seems like that kind of thing, while arguably non-essential, can continue, assuming there aren't a bunch of
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That's one way. But I think you can use references to resources right in XAML as well.
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I'm pretty sure that Panos is tasked only with two things: Riding Windows out and making the hardware and soft
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In reply to robinwilson16:Yes.So I actually started with that after a switch wouldn't work. And for some
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Honestly, Google should buy Slack.
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This doesn't necessarily mean there are no announcements coming.
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No. But Apple is unique in that it requires employees to be on campus for a lot of things, making remote work
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Making it simpler and consistent would be 1000x better.
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Yep it is.
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Thank you. Readability is job one, but I will go through this.
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Was thinking same.
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In reply to fishnet37222:Thanks. Have seen that usage from time to time, but wasn't sure if it was litera
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In reply to SoundersFan:And yep. I'd never heard of this, but it makes sense. The official documentation
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In reply to SoundersFan:Interesting, thanks. Will look at this.
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Oh, and not Windows Phone like he claimed recently? Gates... Sigh.
Anyway. The DB/OOP file system was never n
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Yeah, even in my short exposure to UWP I've become aware of things that were added fairly recently that were o
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No, this only happens on the newest Windows 10 versions on a clean install, typically on a new PC.
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Yes. Pretty sure that's where he got the idea.
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Today it is. The point of this update is that that may no longer be the case in the future.
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It will happen to WWDC, but not Build. Microsoft has already recorded many videos for the virtual Build.
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Microsoft had big dreams for Longhorn but were never able to make them come true. Today, no one cares about or
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In reply to madthinus:Agreed.
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Guys, come on. Please don't be delusional.
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It's the one thing it needed to actually replace a PC or Mac for most people. That may not be innovative. It m
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Also the Mac, yes.
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The iPad has a desktop web browser.
The PC/Mac will always have some use. But they're increasingly workstatio
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Same price as a good PC laptop or MacBook Air. So yeah.
But there will be cheaper third party keyboard/trackp
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Obi-Wan Panay.
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This is kind of the age-old debate about which makes more sense: Taking a big, mature OS like Windows that's s
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Everyone has different wants/needs.
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Also should add, it has always opened in the Settings designer for me. Not sure why it works differently for o
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Yes, but only because a developer on Twitter explained this to me. Right-click Settings.settings in the Soluti
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Yeah. Except one company has $33 billion in revenues each quarter and the other one has one web developer with
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So nothing major then.
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Yeah, that won't be happening for the same reason. :)
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Maybe it would. But it doesn't matter since UPW is a dead-end and no developer would ever choose UWP for a new
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Most people don't need that. Nothing will work for everyone. The worry here should be that this meets the need
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In reply to SeattleMike:Thanks!
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In reply to tonchek:yep
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Maybe the blob will become the proper cursor of the future and users will wonder why we had weird shaps for su
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Does the mask cover your eyes? If not, then ... you know. Good luck when someone sneezes.
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VSCode isn't exactly a mainstream app. For most people, the iPad Pro does run the apps they need.
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Actually, this is the joke of the year.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand?fnode=8a&fs=f%
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I'm surprised you've never experienced Apple hyperbole before.
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It's called Teams.
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We know exactly what the strategy is. UWP is dead. Microsoft is moving all of the important UWP-only stuff to
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I suspect that Microsoft stats really show that most people don't remove anything from Windows. I'm sure those
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Haven't they already moved the Office extensibility model to web technology? I assume that is the future.
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Microsoft Office will absolutely work with this.
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They're about to announce Teams for consumers. Which is a web app. Which will run great on Windows 10X.
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Sure. And then we'll put desktop OSes on them---macOS or Windows---and that supposed performance advantage wil
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All we can do is speculate, but Windows 10X will run web apps just fine too. Perhaps Microsoft sees PWAs/web a
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Interesting. Obviously, it's not supposed to work that way. Perhaps the case is deformed slightly.
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In reply to roykirk:Yeah. I should have mentioned that the whoosh sound that sometimes used to happen with win
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In reply to beatnixxx:The gym is closed. :)
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In reply to dougkinzinger:lol ok my heart stopped there for a second. :)
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No, I am really from Boston.
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Well. As I said, you either respect these people or you actually learned what they were all about. Their roles
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Suspect that the people who have been working to make this happen for two years might disagree.
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Yeah, that will probably happen as well. I did start writing such a thing.
Thanks!
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Not sure, sorry. Anyone?
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That's amazing, thanks for this.
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Me too. Just love it.
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Do you mean "winnow"? If so, that is what I meant.
Perhaps "winnow down" would be more correct.
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Certainly, it's a concern. But the benefits outweigh the negatives, for now. Apple is too egotistical to make
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I honestly really like writing XAML for UI. I did look into Blend at one point but found it difficult. But mor
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In reply to christian.hvid:It's not unreasonable to hope that we learn from this and emerge as better peo
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Yeah, I got a check for ~$5 from Nexus 6P. I do remember. But the Pixels have been particularly bad.
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How do you know this? Was there a poll about Teams brand awareness?
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I wish I could take the credit, but I didn't actually create that image...https://pixabay.com/illustratio
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In reply to stevek:Sorry, I thought you meant in WPF. The underline appears if you tap the ALT key.
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In reply to techreader:It's still there. You just use the "_" character instead of "&." So a menu ite
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I don't recall ever mentioning anything beyond the apps and recent documents, but I believe that's a
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Not sure why, but Apple users tend to spend much more money on apps whereas Android users will not, leading to
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I enjoy having to figure out all the little milestones on the way to release. If only they would communicate t
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I spoke with HP recently and brought up this model. They seemed to believe that the problems had been fixed wi
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It's there, just swipe up in the lower 30 percent or so of the display.
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Sorry, not sure. Someone else mentioned that it was technically open source. I don't see it going away anytime
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This is similar to Adobe Photoshop Elements, though that does at least have upgrade pricing. I assume most peo
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If I could briefly defend what they're doing. Yes, Windows is still xx% of revenues. But it's not the future.
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Yes. Live events are important. For all the people saying that xxxx whatever show has outlived its xxxx whatev
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Yes. I guess the big deal here is that it is the default in 10X and may be the only choice.
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Not sure about hate, but this is one instance in which epic disrespect is deserved and understandable.
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To streamline things, Apple will remove the many instances of "[Pause for unnecessary cheers]" in its speech s
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Far more likely that they'll just keep Groove. There's no reason to make a new music app for Windows 10 today.
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We have to guesstimate because they don't provide hard numbers. But even conservatively, yes.
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Lots of it was from Apple bloggers too.
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Please email [email protected] if you have technical issues.
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Hear, hear.
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love it
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lol yep
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Thanks. I think it's not sensationalistic at all. They are giving up on VB.
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In reply to CalvusVir:Eeenteresting. Thanks, I don't believe that was the case with the previous Slow rin
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Closing this down so I can try and answer the questions today....
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One thing I heard since this announcement was that the initial problem with VB.NET was that because it was lit
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They should have just said that. It's interesting to me that you just got that from their description. I still
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Honestly, with VB having long since ceded this roll, there's nothing that good/simple/approachable anymore. So
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I've always been a huge Black Adder fan, thanks. I've seen each season several times.
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I gotta tell you. One of the worst parts of my job, and of my day, is dealing with how shitty people can be in
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I delete accounts for this kind of bullshit.
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We should all be huge fans of companies that actually support our platform with quality software.
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If so, they're hinting that they're killing them soon, I assume.
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That is how Google phrased it: There are free and paid versions of G Suite. Also, it's not clear if he literal
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Not sure why you think it was unpopular or unstable, but I chose it because I had a shot of it.
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Stop.
You're providing an opinion not a fact, so the phrase "don't blame the messenger" doesn't apply. You're
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And not having a keyboard that works and is reliable is what makes them a non-starter.
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Really?
https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/13/idc-gartner-pc-mac-sales-q4-2019/
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What? Why wouldn't they? Most developers don't go to the live events for whatever technologies they use. They
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No, not sure at all.
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FalconX does this. https://chrisandriessen.nl/web/falconx/
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I haven't tried this but it could absolutely drive an eGPU of whatever kind.
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I have never taken to calling the "we've removed the build data from the bottom corner of the screen" build th
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No, I need to see it for myself using an OS image that was designed for that hardware.
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Yeah me too.
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Microsoft was very public and very clear about its desire to see Windows 10 S on premium hardware. Simplicity
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Actually, I was out all day yesterday, so I'm just now looking at it.
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In reply to Igor Engelen:Yeah, maybe. I didn't intend to keep using the same app, but it certainly helps
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In reply to ulrichr:Yes. I do understand there are reasons. And I see that automatic graying/enabling of the o
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I'm a user of this stuff, too. I have what I think are reasonable expectations, and I'm certainly capable of o
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I will be going over all the code suggestions, thanks.
In general, I do prefer readable (and understandable i
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Yep. This is me every single time I actually have to call a support line for help. I already know how it ends
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It wasn't in any mode. Unless, that is, that Samsung handles that automatically.
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I think the "bar" bit was, in fact, someone using a natural filler word but who knows?
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I guess you missed my point. Even when I ask for something explicit, they ask if I want other things.
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I ordered a breakfast sandwich with no bread in NYC one time (keto reasons), an order rural Pennsylvania handl
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The keyword in your comment is "arbitrarily."
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Right. Customer service is often like this where they force you through a flowchart of steps you already took.
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Yeah, I wasn't meaning to focus on DD per se but there is a language to it as well, especially in Boston area.
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No, it was whether I wanted skim, 2 percent, or whole milk.
On that note, if you want/need some non-milk, mi
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Yes. Starbucks is terrible.
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The focus here is on what's new in WPF. That's where I'm spending most of my time on this go-round. I honestly
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Yeah, I need to figure out a way to do this more regularly. Thanks.
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Yes, thanks. This is a quick and dirty application by design, I wrote about that in a previous article. It's r
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There is an excellent set of books about Commodore by Brian Bagnall that are all worth reading: Commodore: A C
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In reply to lwetzel:Appreciated, but not sure on that yet.
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Guys.
This has nothing to do with whatever others are reporting. This virus is impacting our industry in majo
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Taken aback by this lazy comment. Really.
I decided to spend about $1000 on Sonos equipment during and in the
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I'm guessing that would be expensive, but Sonos did offer to let customers send them in for recycling.
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No one here is hyping the coronavirus.
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In reply to madthinus:Guys. There is no need for anyone to justify writing about this topic. Clearly we need t
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I agree it's sad, but this is the reality of the web these days. Thanks to Google, the ad market has blow
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In reply to thalter:Yeah. And I have metric ton of this stuff. Even just one this one topic, just the tip of t
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Guys. Let's not waste time arguing facts. Jesus.
"Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is muc
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Unforgivable. :)
UI inconsistency is very common in Windows. It's kind of its thing.
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Not sure about that. These games were all designed to run only on one platform originally for the most part. T
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Apple are control freaks that think they know better than their own users. Google for all their issues let you
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:)
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Yeah. That's it. This is nothing.
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Microsoft provided the post to us, but not the URL, ahead of the announcement.
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I'll definitely provide the code in some way. Not sure what form that will take yet.
My goal here was just to
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Yeah. I think so as well. But I don't see it happening.
The alternative, of course, would be to continue addi
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https://www.thurrott.com/tag/windows-terminal
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In reply to jimchamplin:If it was posted by your account, you can delete it. It looks like it was.
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I already have the cameras. There was a really good sale over the holidays.
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The first VB/.NET Framework/WinForms version took about 4 months, I guess, and is roughly complete, though the
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What I wrote is that C# is more powerful than VB. Because it is: The two languages used to be developed in tan
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I'm not aware of a standalone keyboard from HP that mimics its laptop keyboards. Apple and Lenovo both ma
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In reply to MartinusV2:Yeah, I'd like to, actually.
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In reply to iantrem:Yes. I've had ... many frustrating afternoons and evenings related to this thing. :)
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In reply to SoundersFan:Yes, but to be fair, to build a faithful replica of Notepad, Windows Forms is pretty m
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Every decision we make is a calculation between risk and benefit. Every one.
I don't use Chrome, I use Edge.
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So, that's no longer true: Coronavirus is deadlier than the flu. And that's the problem with something like th
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Exactly.
I think about this when I fly. A few years back, Brad and I flew to Amsterdam for a work event on D
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lol
As if a class-action lawsuit over a consumer complaint would ever have the ability in this amount of time
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This is such a dangerous and --- sorry --- stupid attitude. We need to wake up to this stuff, people. Ignoring
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I may not live long enough to get to all that. :) But I'll do what I can for sure.
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I guess there's always a victim. Job loss sucks. Death is worse.
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Without actually having one, I believe so, yes.
But from a purely financial perspective, the IKEA speaker is
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Well, there will always be other brands making them too. But yeah, we love them as well.
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Microsoft and Google are on completely different planets when it comes to trust. A few ... decisions? Google i
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There is no future there. HK has already removed it from its website.
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Perhaps we didn't get the memo on personal attacks or trolling comments. Guys, please. We gotta grow up.
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In reply to darkgrayknight:It's pretty good at killing people, too. I think that's the problem.
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In reply to SoundersFan:Thank you for this.I've kind of obsessed over this and after going back and forth
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In reply to wh:Exactly!
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In reply to darkgrayknight:Right. I don't understand why Font wasn't the parent for FontFamily, FontSize,
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In reply to davidl:I just tested this in a test project, and it does work. Thank you.All I ended up having to
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Sorry about that. Obviously meant to link to it, will fix.
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Yeah, I'm sure it's related, and I feel like the Windows Forms (and VB) stuff will just light up at some point
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Nice, thanks!
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lol yep
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Those are different pictures, sorry if that was confusing. All hand-held. On the 100x, it was wobbling so muc
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You pretty much need a tripod, but even then you'd be stuck with that weird watercolor effect.
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Yeah, it's not bad. I need to compare this to the P30 Pro, which takes great zoom shots as well.
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Nice!
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lol
No. Apple met the price the lawyers said they would accept as a minimum and was able to get away without
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Yep. I've looked at this as well and ... it's just expensive to play in this sandbox.
You can save money som
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That could be. I'm about ready to post the review, so I'll try to figure that out.
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Yeah. It's a concern. So far so good. Maybe I'm finally losing my hearing.
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Also, the stupid thing is, after working on my own Fonts dialog for so long---I updated it quite a bit after p
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I'm not creating a Windows Forms project using .NET Core. It's a WPF project that uses .NET Core, and I'm tryi
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Thanks!
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Apple slowed down your phone to trigger upgrade purchases and, when caught doing so, concocted a story about t
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The Bixby feed thing to the left of Home is gone, and replaced by a new Samsung Daily feed that is more like t
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Yeah, I'm wrestling with the best way to do this. Many things are more time-consuming than I'd expect or want.
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It's not about guilty vs. innocent in this particular case, which is very limited in scope. I'm talking about
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In reply to North of 49th:Thanks... And yes. Oddly enough, I was driving around today thinking about this very
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In reply to aengineer:Thanks, and nice, I'll check out the book.
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In reply to ScottWH:You know, I mostly agree with this. If the Samsung A-series had a slightly better camera,
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So. I kind of agree with both sides here.
Microsoft isn't doing anything evil with telemetry data, in my opin
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I've only been using it for a day or so, so my observations are a bit meaningless. Yes, it has fans. Yes, I he
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Intel supplied a preconfigured unit for review, so I wasn't able to configure it the way I might have.
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Google makes most of its revenues from ads. Microsoft makes almost none. The potential for abuse is far greate
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1 Gbps
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Yeah, but that's what made that comment so stupid, because there are examples of convergence---like a toaster
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Sorry, I meant to take a picture of that. It's pretty big compared to the device, and a bigger but flatter tha
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They do make versions aimed at gamers with very different (and bigger) cases that might be of interest.
http
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Obviously, there are ways around this. I'm just saying that I'd like to have one more USB port. :) God forbid.
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Right.
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In reply to wright_is:Right. I did do that before, but it no longer works if you use .NET Core.
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In reply to ebnador:LOL. No, this is obviously possible and even easy.
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In reply to fourbadcats:Is the built-in version inaccessible? Then yeah.
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In reply to Bob25:Yeah, I really like these PCs.
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Thanks. But we're just wondering what it is, not casting shade on anything. It's reasonable to wonder.
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:Or Brave, which is probably even more privacy-friendly. But yes, there are obviousl
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In reply to anderb:"Can be" is different than "is." If we take this academic paper at face value---that is, ju
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In reply to Simard57:New Edge, according to the paper.
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For sure.
On that note, I'm surprised Apple doesn't have more lower-priced options, from them or others, to s
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Thanks ... I did consider this, actually, but going with something no longer made/supported isn't really a via
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Thanks, I'll take a look.
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In reply to AwkwardSwine:Yeah, that could be. I tried renaming a Fluid document to *.ZIP to see if that worked
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I probably should have added....
The original plan when we bought the IKEA speakers was to get two more of th
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It's still mostly a consumption device, but yes, since most people don't create content, or much content, it c
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My real issue with the Pro X is ARM. If you love this form factor, just get an Intel-based Lenovo, HP, or what
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Yes. That is very dangerous.
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It's a bit concerning that every solution has $$ attached to it. Yes, I guess I could fix Sonos by giving more
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I was just bringing up a new NUC and saw the same. Oddly, Office was still installed even though I chose no to
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>>I think Paul and Leo may have missed what makes "Smart Delivery" on XBOX Series X so important.
Well, yes.
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Yes, but I'd add ... "especially when you are not given the option to turn it off completely and/or have no id
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Exactly.
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In reply to jeffrye:No, it did it automatically.
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In reply to Vladimir:Yeah, I was convinced this would not work for the same reason, but it has been perfect so
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In reply to JustMe:Yes it is. There was some kind of problem in the tunnels that triggered ~45 minute delays t
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This reminds me of the PC vs. console thing for gaming: A PC gamer may never understand why a console gamer pr
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Yeah. Samsung's previous performance with cameras is certainly a factor. They're probably fine for most, but t
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That's true of everything in life. Consumers are not educated. And every single time an Apple Watch allegedly
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Why? That would have been accurate.
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In reply to XboxOneJimCramer:New icons could fill in the blanks if each came in multiple versions that support
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Apologies for not really commenting earlier.Mostly, just thanks for all the feedback, positive or negative.
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In reply to jmwoods301:This is something I need to look into again. WinDirStat is what I've used, but it&
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In reply to RM:Sure, but they cheated. 1903 was dribbled out incredibly slowly and 1909 wasn't even a rea
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The subjective nature of camera quality is correct. A happen to like the overly-saturated photos that the Huaw
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lol. Too soon.
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I would never block someone for telling me I needed a blue check mark. :)
If I did block you, it was for som
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I suppose it's possible that you have to enable AAD sign-in? If I ever did this, it was a long time ago.
But
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They assume people can Google it. :)
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In reply to C_J_Martinez:Ah K. Was wondering about that.
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In reply to coeus89:Yep. And agreed.
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That's not the file cabinet I have.
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*Four* different MSAs? That's unusual and extreme. I agree that Microsoft should offer a way to switch between
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That's ridiculous. There is no one at Microsoft today that was associated with the behaviors you carry a grudg
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In reply to Vladimir:I'm still investigating that, but the two primary management interfaces are...Office
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What's fundamentally wrong is that Microsoft's culture does not reward employees for fixing things. They are r
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Nothing you wrote is correct or true.
Apple does wield monopoly power over other companies and it does so to
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Well. One thing that I sort of figured out during this whole cord-cutting thing was the big deal isn't saving
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Not sure yet, but most likely on the review. No interest in the Z Flip at the moment, but perhaps a future gen
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Excited is a strong word. But any step forward is still a step. A small one, in this case.
Microsoft document
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In reply to BigM72:Got it, sorry about that. I approved the one below when I went through comments, but will d
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In reply to RM:Maps, Groove, and Movies & TV all have orange as a primary color. News, curiously, is stil
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In reply to MartinusV2:Well, it all starts with one step, I guess.That said, look at how they're rolling
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Probably. Who even sees that? I assume the priority here is app use by volume.
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I don't believe that is a real PC.
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Instead of, preferably. Or before.
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This is correct. These icons will be rolled out to the Release Preview ring, Microsoft says.
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That's next, I bet. There are no tiles in Windows 10X, and they make even less sense in Windows 10.
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It looks like an intern spent about 10 minutes on this. I wouldn't worry about it. Groove is built-in to Windo
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It's possible. I didn't want to get stuck doing the same app over and over again, but there is something to be
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Funny you should ask.
This experience made me go back and look at WPF after a few frustrating afternoons of
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In reply to davidl:No, it seems like all the new Office 365 apps are pretty much just on the commercial side.
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In reply to Thretosix:https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/1230202710500225024"Saying you prefer Android over i
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:I believe it's just dead now, unless you were grandfathered in from before.
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Appreciated. Not sure where this will lead, but will definitely be looking at other frameworks/platforms/etc.
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Exactly. You can get used to anything, of course, but this just doesn't make sense.
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I get that vibe from Apple, but not from Google or Microsoft.
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Deliberate?
We don't have ads on our videos. So this must be from YouTube.
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Yeah, I'm really behind on this.
Oh wait, I practically invented this.
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Um. You should have a problemn with this behavior, always.
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Safer, yes. But also more available. This is huge. And it's worth changing how I do things.
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lol yep
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Insidious is a great word to describe what Apple is doing here. Maybe open your mind a bit since this behavior
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I hear there are entire websites devoted to this line of thinking. :)
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I would kind of prefer this experience. Seems like you could have different app icons that basically open the
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Which is interesting since Edge is a Win32 app.
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Maybe you need to take a short walk or listen to a meditation app. This is clearly news.
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True. I hit this every day.
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It's called Wi-Fi Analyzer. :)
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I doubt it, since they'll want them on tablet and it's no extra effort. This is a good solution on phone for m
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Yes.
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In reply to arnstarr:Settings > Accounts > Access work or school > Connect
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In reply to wright_is:All Office 365 commercial accounts come with AAD Free, which lets you sign-in to a Windo
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Fake news.
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I don't think it's ever really possible to remove all the legacy cruft from anything that is really Windows. I
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Thanks!
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Interesting. This sounds like it may be how browsers are made in the future.
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Technically, yes. And Microsoft did have Android app support working in Windows 10 before they killed the proj
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Nice, thanks for this.
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I wonder if this is related to the app actually displaying normal File Open and Save/Save As dialogs. I had ex
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Yeah, the constant shifts with Phone were unfortunate and did a lot to turn off developers. It felt like they
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This seems accurate. :)
I will definitely stick it. I like the idea of a resolution/display independent app,
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No, I believe the point of this is that it's out of beta and generally available.
https://play.google.com/st
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Sure. But this is so fundamental to app UX. It seems like there should be a more sophisticated but simple syst
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One wonders what WSL 3 will bring :)
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Some of the sandbox stuff (like file access through a broker) isn't objectionable. I don't mind having to deal
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Yep. Auto-play media is often worse than ads.
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Yeah. But I have to use Gmail for work.
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I do get it. I was taken aback by it. This was generations ago.
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I assume that working in any environment like this (markup + code, essentially) will make it easier to work in
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I feel like this has happened with each generation of tools/frameworks. Windows Forms and WPF both have madden
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In reply to windowsdev:Interesting, and thanks. I will check out your app!
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In reply to sevenacids:This feels correct to me. I'm still early on with both WPF and UWP but the early b
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In reply to JerryH:Yeah, the terribleness of New Balance and its website is another story. :)
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In reply to TheJoeFin:I keep waiting for someone to defend this. But I just don't get why this is so terr
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In reply to mj:Yeah. Honestly, I like the look of it.
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In reply to wright_is:No, I commented it out so I could see the bad behavior again. Will fix that.
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OneNote and Mixed Reality. :) Microsoft's next growth market.
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In every way. Live tiles only make sense on a phone where you glance at the screen a lot. On a PC, where Start
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Everyone is different. I feel like I've said that already.
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Switching to ARM doesn't guarantee great battery life, just look at Surface Pro X. What it does bring is lackl
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Come on. You know what this means. Let's not get pedantic for no reason.
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In reply to lancessfb:Will try to figure out a way to test that. I assume it would work.
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In reply to jaredthegeek:Aside from respecting how different people do things differently, I'll just poin
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In reply to wosully:And speaking of evidence, in 2003, Colin Powell stood up before the UN with "evidence" tha
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In reply to wosully:No. If the US had evidence that Huawei is doing what it fears it does, then there wouldn&#
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Guys, seriously. Please don't attack each other or spew nonsense.
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If you don't need it, don't worry about it.
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There's a big difference between Windows 8 and Windows 10X. The latter is an option, and for now it's only on
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I mean both. But the reason I call this the next NT has nothing to do with the UI, since that could easily be
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I agree.
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It's what makes apps possible, I suppose. Not sure about beautiful. :)
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It's a Waterfield Designs Syde Surface Book Case, but I don't think they make this exact bag anymore.
https:/
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I usually do use an ad blocker. I didn't install one when I reinstalled this PC.
Honestly, I'm glad I left i
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https://www.thurrott.com/games/219490/quick-hands-on-ios-13-xbox-wireless-controller-clamp
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Wow.
Different people work in different ways. I use the desktop as a scratch space that holds current documen
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So far, the U.S. has wanted the world to presume Huawei is guilty without providing any evidence of it.
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You don't need to keep a restore image on the PC anymore, saving disk space.
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And they still have said nothing about moving it to Core OS.
I concentrated on the UI because that's what nee
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Yep. Some of these are earlier, but need to be added to the book regardless.
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In reply to TheJoeFin:Yeah a lot of this seems to move around. I don't know. All of this has to be added
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I haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure it will.
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Surface Duo relies entirely on Android SDK APIs, so I bet this is part of it.
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Well, yeah, but that idiot is the entire PC market. PC makers use this term all the time and have for years.
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To be fair, the last time this happened, we got Windows Phone.
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It's meant to run on a variety of dual-screen devices, which I think it's accurate to call PCs since they run
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Well, we're not assuming other form factors: Microsoft's leaked documentation specifically mentions that.
Bu
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It just looks like the standard Calendar app with a new color scheme. :)
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Almost. It needs true multiple account support, not just one Gmail account, and the ability to view all inboxe
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He's already moved on.
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I feel like this doesn't even rise to the level of rebuilding. It's just an update to the existing app, not so
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We went down the MLB.TV road specifically so we could watch (pretty much) any Red Sox game. The TV services wo
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Anything LG or HTC. I bet one of them will be next to go.
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What. That's terrible. OnePlus makes excellent handsets and is community-driven.
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They were clearly not staged.
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I've not babysat quick charging, but I'll try to figure that out.
Regarding the Insert key, there isn't one,
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We wrote about this a year ago. To date, the assumption was that it would be Win32 apps only, and that each ap
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Interesting.
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No, we still love baseball. The reason we moved from the one-team version to the full league last year was to
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I literally allude to it, yes. But it's not ironic: I know that Thurrott Premium is another subscription to co
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In reply to Minke:Technically, everything but food and shelter is discretionary, right? I mean, why do anythin
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Well, cutting costs was the original goal. But that evolved into freedom/choice, the ability to start and stop
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Yes, it is all of those. Just like "normal" Windows 10. We're not really confused by this, are we?
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It's new. They need to get it broadly tested and improved before moving it to more mainstream form factors.
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Or go here, since I explain it in simpler English.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10x/229847/window
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I wrote exactly that here: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10x/229847/windows-10x-is-the-next-nt
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It's all of those things. It's exactly the same as the Windows 10 developer story: Choose your environment, la
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This doesn't change anything from an app selection perspective. And that should be a bit troubling. Kindle is
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This is another way that 10X parallels NT: It's an alternative to the mainstream Windows version at first. If
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You still have children's games that require Windows 95? Haven't those kids grown up and had their own kids by
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No, it was Windows XP. Windows 2000 was just Windows NT 5.0 rebranded.
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I think that's why they called this 10X. This is just another variant of Windows 10.
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Sounds about right, though they're making changes that would require fewer resources for both the Win32 contai
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There shouldn't be a parade. We should evaluate this thing based on the information we have. Right now, I unde
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Most people don't need those things. First you hit the mainstream, and then you improve it from there. All it
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That's unfair. We got NT and Win32 in 1993. Apple had to wait until 2001 for their version of that. And they'r
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One example is applications that add items to the File Explorer right-click menus.
Microsoft has been using
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This is a fair question, but the big news here is that your existing apps will just work. So instead of requir
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It wouldn't stink, it would be impossible. You can't provide the full Office application experience with UWP,
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Yes! Just go to Outlook.com and sign-in to your Office 365 commercial account (and choose that it is a Work/Sc
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You gotta let this go. :)
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Will definitely get to PWA at some point. But I have a few frameworks to push through first.
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No one asked me to do this. In fact, this might surprise the people I work with a bit.
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It's been building for a long time.
I don't like the quickie "this company did this stupid thing today" type
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No. Generally available means to users in production, as opposed to those on Office Insider. It impacts only t
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It looks like it will never end.
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I didn't review the previous-gen Spectre x360 because the touchpad was so bad it was unusable. But most of HP'
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Yeah, their recent products seem to be particularly good.
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In reply to longhorn:Understood, and obviously there are always exceptions. In some cases, though, it just cre
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There's no date announced for this.
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Someone missed the humor of my purposeful hypocrisy.
Someone also needs a hug.
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How on earth could anyone claim to know what this person agreed to? It's just as likely Microsoft wants people
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It looks like the app he's using is Microsoft Outlook.
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If you haven't, be sure to check out Microsoft Launcher to see Microsoft's latest ideas about mobile UX.
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This was a minor event that lasted for a few hours on one day. You should be praising us for not making a big
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Agreed.
That said, he rode it into the ground.
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From a reliability perspective, that was the big hit. But the $900 million write-down on Gen almost killed the
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Yes, Apple Music can lose money forever. I'm sure it will.
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https://www.thurrott.com/apple/207520/oh-apple
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No. Sinofski over-reacted and almost destroyed Windows in the process.
You know he ]was wrong because most pe
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Because it's an extension, not a core browser feature. This kind of thinking is what led to the first Edge, wh
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LOL.
MacOS is not "more keyboard friendly" than Windows. Try selecting every control in a dialog with the ke
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There's no grudge like a decades-old grudge. Concerning events that probably happened before you born.
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People misunderstand the term monopoly. It's not as simple as "x percent" of usage/marketshare. Apple does hav
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Maybe because we use it every day and it's great.
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Every journey starts with a single step. The philosophy can't be that it will be hard, so why bother.
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