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In reply to mmcpher:I use Launcher10 - works identically to Windows 10 Mobile and has an in-app purchase to ma

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In reply to VancouverNinja:As seen in the demo: if the other person doesn't have pixel buds (or a phone c

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Yep, the dropping of Groove has been an even bigger wake-up call to me than with W10M. I moved to Samsung (S8

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I genuinely do think this is good news. It astonished me when Microsoft said they didn't have any plans t

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In reply to dgr_874:On my S8 it's called 'Smart View'.

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Oh my God. So they built a service that actually does rival Spotify (trust me, I've used both over the pa

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It looks great, and I seem to have it on the Release Preview ring too. I'll play with it at some point an

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OneNote gets better all the time, and the team behind it should be held up to other MS teams as an example of

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In reply to JC:OneNote Class Notebooks are used at all age groups - I teach ages 6-19 and the younger ones esp

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In reply to carlrhorn:Be sure to check out a home theme called 'Launcher10', it's made my trans

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In reply to Stooks:Two of those articles are for Microsoft products and one is about an explicit rival to a Mi

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OneNote is a brilliant example of what can be done with UWP and it's a shame all groups at Microsoft aren

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They need to do a lot of work on the custom domains to bring it back to the level of Windows Live Domains from

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Sad but true.Skype especially is such a shame - *everyone* used MSN back even up to late 00's but th

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I dunno, the decision to get 72,000 smartphones for free over four years seems pretty smart to me - especially

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Looks great! A shame the UWP doesn't look like this though. Did the Skype team talk about that at all?I m

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In reply to SleepingPelican:Nope, this is a win32 desktop app for Windows 7,8, and macOS. The UWP is still a b

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I'd agree with this. I'm on my fourth Surface Pro 4 in 15 months and this one is having troubles too

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This is all great stuff, glad to see Groove filling out continuously.The lack of a free ad-supported version a

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I wondered what that 'continue on PC' icon was that turned up the last couple days. I tried it but i

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In reply to adamcorbally:Yes please! They must be working on this. If they're not then they're even

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Very cool stuff! I think I prefer 'Albums' as a header though - my parents will certainly understand

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Admittedly the feature I most want from this (and wanted from the online App Studio) is to also be able to exp

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I think Fluent Design should come to Microsoft's major apps across platforms - if Fluent is present on th

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Agreed! I've never understood the argument of "I don't like/use it so it shouldn't exist" from

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They're all great features, but once a year would be fine, so long as Insiders get a steady stream of new

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Sticking with Groove for now, it has improved so much over the past year or two and I prefer it to Spotify for

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Interesting... I really wish Microsoft would do something education focused for this though. App Studio was ac

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The market is there, it's just that these things simply don't need to be re-bought every 12-24 month

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In reply to RedSign:That's how we can get into full screen mode sure, but once that menu has vanished, ho

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Re: full screen mode. I wonder how this will work in tablet mode when there's no physical keyboard to F11

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In reply to SherlockHolmes:I remember pinning a few sites back when they launched the feature - and built jump

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In reply to siko:On an OS level it's not up to Windows 10 levels yet but they did show some great stuff o

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It also one-ups Surface Pro by being a better tablet experiences and also bringing along all the great tablet

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Xamarin is great and all, but Microsoft are doing things right and building native apps all around. This is a

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In reply to Patrick3D:Well, PCs are already "always connected" at home and work or are you not connected to an

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I still want a Surface Mini, but as a creative device - a notepad and sketchpad that's more portable than

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In reply to MutualCore:It's not a negative article, which article did you read? 😉 It's odd people

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Thank goodness! It's about time they modernised these parts of the shell. Though I suppose this means the

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The lack of USB-C and a 360 degree hinge have made it a non-starter for me, which is such a shame. It seems li

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Sad, but true I suppose. I'm also interested in what is put forth about PWAs, as that's probably goi

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I've never understood why this hasn't been available since the app debuted on Windows 10 mobile near

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Yep, Paul has a point here about usage, I think I can split my Windows 10 time into three:1) Productivity/Prof

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At least people who want to can continue to install on older devices but it makes sense for them to cut off ph

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Edge has definitely improved with the Creators Update, and I'm much happier using it - I've yet to b

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In reply to dvdwnd:Absolutely, it is a real shame they weren't given the chance (and they didn't at

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Absolutely correct, and something I remember discussing with friends a few times last year.They just have to s

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In reply to Rob_Wade:We already known Win10Cloud can be upgraded to any other Win10 product version by paying

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All sounds quite fun speculation, hopefully it'll turn out to be true! ;)The journalistic integrity part

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In reply to PeteB:Asking because I'm genuinely interested, not to be snarky:What telemetry is it you don&

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In reply to yaddamaster:Haha, and you absolutely should. I hear about that bug regularly from friends who have

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I hope they start to add this functionality to other parts of the OS eventually. It would be fascinating to be

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It's looking like a good start, but it's one that's going to require a lot of work as they can&

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In reply to yaddamaster:I'm always surprised this comes up in posts like this, unless you're joking?

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In reply to jrickel96:Depends on your eyesight to an extent too. The QHD resolution at 5.2" on my Lumia 950 lo

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Barring actual magic this simply isn't something that can be completely fixed. If there's a scaling

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I just don't get the amount of throwback Windows 10 gets for updating. First up, outside of the big

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it would make more sense to me if they built powerful Intel innards in the base and ARM in the scree

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I'm a lot more interested in these than any other phone announced recently, and am excited at the prospec

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I'm interested to see what else we'll see from the Groove team between now and the Creator's Up

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Great stuff, so many new features rolling out this week to apps I use daily which is great. I guess they'

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You speak the sense, Paul, as you do most of the time! ;)I love my Lumia 950 and Windows 10 mobile as an OS -

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I wish someone at Microsoft was able to communicate this stuff simply. They still struggle and then fail to ex

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My second PC had Windows ME (Got it Easter 2001 iirc) and saw me through my A-Levels - I thought it was great!

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Windows Essentials was a wonderful collection of programs back in 2012. I was always surprised how Live Mail h

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I'm sure Microsoft could price the Surface line cheaper overall, but feel they're probably artificially keepin

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Yep, I picked up a plastic VR headset for phones in the Black Friday sales (£10 instead of £25) wh

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Interesting, but looks a little more "pro" than I need (though granted I use screen captures a *lot* as a teac

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I never quite understood OneNote fully for a long while. I started using it with my first Windows Phone (a Sam

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Shove the innards of a Lumia 650 into a stick - remove the screen, nfc, phone, speakers, cameras etc. And add

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In reply to IanYates82: Agreed - it's a real shame they ditched the Android bridge - having their own Android

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It's a really good looking phone - a shame there's no international release even rumoured, let alone confirmed

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Well it's a premium machine - it's not just about the specs. Sure, you could throw those specs into a bulky pl

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Incredible stuff! Microsoft has long supported the tools for creatives and yet done nothing with them, allowin

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Exciting times - seems to me the 'Dial' could be a virtual radial menu and the 'Surface Dial' something simila

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I don't understand why pen input isn't standard on all Windows devices now - a Windows version of this (at the

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Agreed, they don't look any different to generic cheap keyboards and mice out there that have been aping the A

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Great stuff! I don't actually need this feature anymore (decided to go for the 256GB SP4 when I upgraded rathe