I find it astonishing that they can't make a profit on over $116 billion of revenue. It's a junk business.
Rcandelori
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Bland looking device. Not sure what all the fanfare is about.
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Paul, it's interesting that your analysis of anything to do with China and the CCP's insidious influ
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10 pages per minute for black and 7 pages per minute for colour? That is pretty slow for an allegedly "Pro" pr
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Tremendous effort Mehedi
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I fail to see how USB-C is more user-friendly. No doubt it's the future and they ought to include at leas
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You're right, it is an issue of culture. I mean, in one sense it is a miracle Windows Phone 7 even got to
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I basically live in Outlook when I'm at my PC. It does everything but some of the older parts of the app
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One side effect of an iPad photoshop port is that it works on ARM processors. This could mean ARM64 versions o
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A bit too far to claim Gates' fortune is "ill-gotten"
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Publisher hasn't had a significant update in years, I almost forgot about it.
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In reply to ben55124:I don't mind this suggestion. Even a nominal $0.50 or $1 would deter them because of
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Paul, I do find it peculiar that you think this is merely about xenophobia and trade war tactics. China is a t
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Glad to see the mouse support, but to be honest I'd really like to see the ability to assign different de
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In reply to wocowboy:You missed Paul's point altogether - he was referring to the fact that Cook didn
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In reply to mccoll:Secret City
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Less Apple Memoji, more real news
Hey guys
Overall I enjoy the site but can we have less fluff such as the recent article on Apple Memoji ads, or the one last week about more “cute” Animoji coming to iOS?
I tend to think of this site as more high-brow, if I want that sort of fluff I can go to Neowin or The Verge.
I understand you need to keep the site populated with new content on a regular basis, but let’s keep it real. Mind you, I have no issue with the site’s coverage of non-Microsoft news.
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No offence, but not sure I come to Thurrott.com to read about Apple Memoji ads.
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Why are so many articles entitled "Finally...."
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Needs other improvements as well - e.g. why do movies have larger thumbnails than apps.
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Interested to hear about fan noise. I've got the old Skull Canyon NUC with Skylake and it's noisy.
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Sounds like a rather esoteric bug. The question is why they take no notice of the feedback mechanisms they
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The US-only nonsense belies Microsoft's claims to be a global company. Heck, they have a retail presence
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One thing that Apple is generally very good at is "finishing the job" rather than quickly moving to the next n
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In reply to arknu:It's easy to say "well developers should update" but it's often the case that the
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Apple products are always nice, but the prices are beyond absurd at this point. In Australia, a fully loaded X
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Why not just use a Samsung Galaxy S9+. The pixel is a proven failure as your experience has demonstrated.
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Not sure how a 25% improvement in single-core performance is "disappointing". When was the last time we saw su
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I wish they'd fix the intolerable lag and bugs once there's a few days of emails cached.
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So they are still losing money. However they have had a steady stream of releases. Microsoft basically gave up
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Having used Nine for the past few days, I do miss Outlook's 'Focused Inbox' feature, but defini
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Outlook for Android issues
Hi all
I'm not sure whether I'm the only one experiencing these issues but Outlook for Android has become really slow lately even though I'm running it on a Samsung Galaxy S9+ with plenty of processing power and RAM. In general, I'm starting to get really fed up with this app.
- Attachments in older emails don't appear. I literally have to open OWA through Chrome to search for older emails and download attachments.
- Search is broken - it doesn't do a server-side search for emails, only whatever is locally in cache. Useless.
- You can't search the calendar.
- Dropbox/OneDrive integration is clumsy.
- It doesn't have rich text formatting or rich text signatures
- notifications are buggy and often delayed
- Calendar options are really limited - e.g. it doesn't allow multiple notifications/reminders
- Did I mention that the app is S-L-O-W (and I'm only running two Office 365 accounts). Sometimes opening the hamburger, you just get a blank screen with no folders to select. They appear 20 seconds later.
I feel like the app was really good to begin with but just seems to never improve. We've had a lot of skin-deep changes but the basic functionality remains the same. I've raised these issues with the in-app support and 99% of the time the answer is "reset the account" or "it will take several updates before anything happens, we're sorry".
Interested to hear what others think, but I've finally given up and after two and a half years, I've moved to the Nine app, which seems to work beautifully so far.
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Paul it wasn't all that long ago that you were saying the x86 emulation with Windows on ARM was a massive
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In reply to hu_daa:There's an option in settings to enable hardware acceleration which improved the scrol
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Swiftkey was here first and supports a wide array of obscure languages.
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Great to finally have HiDPI support.
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They should have done what they did with Outlook for iOS and Android - simply rebrand Wunderlist as ToDo. Inst
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Paul I note you say you use Gmail because it's better. It would be helpful if y
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Apple is part of the economy so any large additional investment into itself is a contribution to the economy b
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Cortana should be on rapid release - instead it just withers away due to lack of effort/interest from Microsof
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In reply to red.radar:How is this good for consumers, the vast, vast majority of who would rely on Type-A peri
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Bing is very bare-bones outside of the United States. The product has been around since
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Frankly, I'm annoyed they removed the USB Type-A ports. USB Type-C is the future, but we live in the here
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If you need core editing, you can get it via the web apps. If you want offline access etc, then you can use th
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In reply to IanYates82:It has been a problem with Microsoft products for years. Whereas Apple and Google tend
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In reply to ponsaelius:The question is, does OnePlus make any money? There's no evidence to suggest it is
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The current emoji keyboard is also US-only. Microsoft loves shooting itself in the foot.
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Unless I'm missing something, these Pixels are not water resistant. iPhone and Galaxy are water resistant
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Why not use Office 365
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I like the single player story modes in these games. The return to WW2 is a sign they're out of ideas tho
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A few of his suggestions were a bit bizarre, particularly grouping the context menu in File Explorer so that c
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If they go down the verification route, a mandatory requirement of verification is a presence in the store (ev
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In reply to Darekmeridian:Agree. Furthermore, in Australia we have statutory warranty protection which basical
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In reply to ibmthink:It comes with Windows 10 S - which tells you all you need to know about its target audien
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Paul I remember the days when you used to talk about "letting go" of needless complexity. User-accessible part
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The other thing with ThurrottNow is that it always opens on 17 February 2017 for me rather than the current da
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What nonsense. Although it's something nice to have, the chances of most people bothering with a SSD repl
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Control Panel will only die when (a) all of its functionality is completely replicated in the Settings app; an
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Would have been smarter to partner with Microsoft to use Cortana rather than re-invent the wheel.
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The solution should be something that allows you to override carriers by downloading android updates through t
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Also, for all the song and dance about USB-C, the vast majority of devices out there today still use USB-A and
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Yes the sync engine is not very reliable, nor is the Favicon rendering. Edge and Internet Explorer have the sa
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There is no right to be forgotten. Another bizarro-EU concept.
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In reply to Narg:Actually, Samsung has released some of its best ever designs in the last couple of years. The
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Not a big deal. It makes sense to communicate the ability to pay for more OneDrive cloud storage via the OneDr
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Is Paul charging $8,250 USD to sponsor the Thurrott Now feed? :)
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I'm seeing this issue on mobile, coupled with lack of timezone awareness.
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Paul - it's legitimise ("legitimatize" is not a word)
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More discussion about Microsoft's absurd US-only focus for many of its products and features. Case in point is
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I can't help but think the advertising issue is over-exaggerated by the press. I've seen very few ads and I've
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In reply to karma77police:
You're kidding, right? Windows 7 updates are a mess and it takes absolutely forever
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In reply to MarkH:
How did you move texts from Windows Phone to the Pixel?
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Paul, you're the relentless Debbie downer of the tech press. :)
Let's get real here. If Microsoft is goi
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In reply to Tim:
If you make the usernames hyperlinked to that /users link, it would be helpful :)