Looks great but I see pre-orders are not open yet. :(
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In reply to dontbeevil:What is it with you and UWP apps? They are really not that big of a deal.
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The battery on my iWatch series 2 is slowly dying so its time to upgrade. Which would you get? iWatch Series 4
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Can you post the survey monkey links? They don't work from the pdf.
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In reply to dontbeevil:epub is an open format. No licensing required.
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Password Managers are your friend. Work across every platform and have the ability to generate very secure pas
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What type of games are you playing? That would help in deciding about CPU or GPU.
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Any idea if Teams for Life would be included in a Office 365 subscription or an extra/separate subscription.
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It's going to be interesting to see what Microsoft actually announces compared to what everyone wants and
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After a few of these, I won't be able to tell if the headaches are caused by the hangover or caused by Mi
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Happens less. But does still happen.
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In reply to Bob Nelson:You can always use the contact support link at the bottom of the website and let the te
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In reply to ommoran:For apps, you would need to uninstall and then re-install and use the advanced option if a
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In reply to StevenLayton:And then it's not notepad, it is just another text editor with features that wil
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You could open a ticket with ExpressVPN to see why ClearTalk is blocking them, but I wouldn't expect a qu
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In reply to rfog:<sarcasm> That is what the users are for </sarcasm> - But yes, Microsoft really s
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Do you think Microsoft will eventually sell a Microsofted version of the new Samsung Phones or are they now re
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With the amount of Windows 7 PC's still in production around the world, do you think Microsoft is going t
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And Paul was just complaining (with good reason) that there are no good $500 machines. As long as you are not
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In reply to Orin:For companies, you really should stick to the Latitude line of machines. Not as good looking
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Small typo - under Unique hardware features, you keep saying T940s
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Do you think bringing Ninja will make a difference to the number of people using Mixer. The few times I have l
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In reply to K2Rusty:How is it trash? The device is still getting security and bug fixes, its just not getting
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Less version of Windows to support. So less money to spend on testing different versions, fewer patches as the
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And apparently Microsoft have now added a block for the SB2, something to do the Nvidia GPU. You would think M
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I would like to win a Huawei MateBook 13
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For my Surface Pro 2017, it was firmware update and now I am offered 1903
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I have no idea what changed but now I am being offered 1903.
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The 32GB model with cellular is $369. Now that's painful. I would love to have one but I can't justi
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In reply to JustMe:Tried to get the update from Windows Update Control Panel page. I haven't tried using
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In reply to wright_is:From the message text:The Windows 10 May 2019 Update is on its way. We're offering
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Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903
Interesting, I have a Surface Pro 2017 and according to Microsoft, it's not ready for 1903. I would have thought this would be an easy upgrade. Oh well, at least they are being cautious. (And I did remove the SD Card in device).
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World of War Ships comes to mind as a real time MMO Navy game. Wargamer.com has a list of the best Naval Strat
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If they are not rebooting at least once a month for patches, that is a seperate concern. But ideally users sho
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Cuphead coming to Tesla cars
I see Tesla is porting Cuphead to their in car dashboard system, we should soon start seeing an increase in road rage from Tesla drivers as they die multiple times in Cuphead during their morning commute. :)
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Soon to be followed by iPhoneOS-SmallScreen and iPhoneOS-LargeScreen
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Hopefully they can get rid of iTunes on Windows as well
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Surface Headphones $100 off
If anybody is interested, the Microsoft Store (and Amazon) are selling Microsoft Headphones with a $100 discount. Right now they are available for $249
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From what I have read, somebody messed up a DNS update. For all the sysadmins, once again, it was DNS.Interest
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Not exactly a high quality group of games this month.
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On a related note, is anybody experiencing problems with Gmail and New Edge, I can't seem to select and a
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Is there any benefit to using Google Fit over Apple Heath?
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Weird bug. But this is time is only affects testers instead of the regular users. This is why it is 1905 :)
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In reply to RonH:Why would you think Microsoft would get back into the phone market after they lost however ma
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Google Inbox - Simple Gmail Chrome Extension
For those of you who miss Google's simple Inbox
A Chrome extension to make Gmail close to it - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbmlfaiicoikhdbjagjbglnbfcbcojpj/related
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3387139/gmail-redesigned.html
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Do you watch e-sports (PUBG) or is your sports viewing mainly Golf?
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Whats new can be found at: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/welcome/update?channel=dev&version=7
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New Edge gets its first weekly update
New Edge (Credge) on the dev channel has gotten its first update. No idea what the update changes or fixes though.
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It does look pretty cool when it worked. I did see some people were removing a plastic screencover that they w
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In reply to rob_segal:And don't forget how well the Emoji movie did.
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I wonder how soon it will go on sales with specials, either a reduces price on X number of game codes.
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:They got a support agents password. How they got the password is the interesting qu
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Apparently there is a problem if you have Sophos Endpoint or Avast anti-virus installed.https://www.bleepingco
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In reply to TheJoeFin:I like that idea, I will have to try it.
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If I am bored and have nothing to do, I try keep them on the line as long as possible. It's fun having th
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So far the stopping autoplay if the one function I miss from Firefox. Otherwise I like the Chredge beta.
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The illegal way would just to download a torrent of the movies that you own and put them on the xbox. Not real
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Paul - will you be trying these devices or have you sworn off Pixel devices for good?
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My Surface Pro 2017 received multiple firmware updates, this does look about right.
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Smart decision by Microsoft. One SKU is always easier.
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What is a good place to buy/rent movies and TV series online that is cross device compatible? Amazon?
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Huawei laptop 'backdoor' flaw raises concerns
From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47800000
So the question is, honest mistake (and terrible security practises) or is somebody hacking the Huawei supply chain.
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I see they have i7 8th gen as well.Although I would like to see a SurfacePro with 8th gen as well.
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This is a comment from John Pescatore from SANS about this:The UK has been inspecting and testing Huawei’s
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In reply to madthinus:That is an issue. And their consumer stuff isn't much better. Someone reported a bu
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In reply to lvthunder:I forget who said this but: If we built houses like the way we build software, the first
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They also said they didn't find any backdoors. However they did say that the coding was terrible and they
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And how long before spammers start abusing this feature I wonder.
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I assume you mean head to NYC instead of had to NYC?
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Mixer
Does anybody actually use Mixer for watching e-sports or game streamers in general? The few times I tried it, the numbers were really low.
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XBox One Game updates
Is there anyway to find out what updates are applied to XBox One games. I recently installed the Master Chief Collection on my XBox One from disk and it had 72GB of updates. I could have just bought the digital version if I knew it was going to update that much.
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Office 365. Which is the better way to install it and keep it updated on a single user PC. From the Store or f
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Expensive but I will still by buying the 256GB version. Perfect for my travels.
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I am hoping for another COD:WWII, maybe a Pacific campaign. But I am also one of the people who enjoyed the ca
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Everyone seems to focusing on Windows 7 EOL in January and they keep forgetting that Windows 2008R2 server EOL
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It just started showing up now for me.
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Weirdly this episode is not showing in the my list of podcasts on Overcast. Last available one is 578: Sprint
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In reply to blackcomb:Except for the small problem of not receiving security patches
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Is Microsoft looking at giving any discounts/free upgrades to Windows 10 to help move people off Windows 7?
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Will anyone notice that it died?
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First problem you will have is that most of the good note taking apps do charge money. OneNote and Google Keep
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In reply to Bats:Since its going to open source project, its a donation
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In reply to wright_is:Any chance Mehedi could do spam chasing in the morning for him since he is on UK time (G
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Except it doesn't support Firefox or Opera
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Sounds interesting. But it took years to break up AT&T. And now they want to do it to multiple companies a
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I am assuming you use OneNote for note taking. Do you have a specific organization strategy for it?
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Would you consider getting a Surface Go if/when Windows Lite is released for the device?
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Lets hope that they also set a standard icon that manafacturers can put next to the port so we know its a USB4
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In reply to will:The tiny icons next to the USB port that the device manufacturer may or may not put there and
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Looks great, problem is the standard is not officially released yet, so only expect USB4.0 production in 2020
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Now that Samsung, Huawei, etc have introduced foldable phones, do you think this will have any affect on Andro
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Taken directly from Slashdot, I tried to read the paper and gave up.The overall conclusions were a mixed bag.
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50 to 100 employees demand something out of a total of 134944. That's a joke and I don't see why thi
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He's a spammer. Posts replies with porn links
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Outlook.com and custom domain
How is the experience so far using a custom domain with Outlook.com and GoDaddy as the domain register?
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Assuming the long rumored iPad Mini 5 gets released with a A10 or A10X chip, are you going to replace your iPa
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In reply to ibmthink:A better option would be for Apple to buy Netflix, original content and a large library o
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The link to the Microsoft Store needs to be updated. It contains Outlook.com as part of the link.
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Nothing much. Current American politics has no problems with monopolies.
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Only A10 or A10X CPU but honestly for a mini, that's probably good enough
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In reply to TheJoeFin:At this point, would it not be easier just to do a clean install with the latest ISO?
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Apart from Rocket League, there is nothing great there.
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Probebly best to ask this on a TWIT forum since it is their podcast
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They did resurrect the Surface Mini - It's called Surface Go.
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Any update on your email move to Outlook from Gmail?
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Surface HeadphonesUgly Windows sweater (Large)
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In reply to jimchamplin:For that you would need a T4XX model, the X1's just are not that user servicable.
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Only one model has 16GB RAM that I can see on the Dell website and that is the 9380 model and it is $1859.99.
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In reply to marbo100:This as well. Also, since they are not premium articles, I am happy with what is publishe
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For the simple reason that some gamestypes just don't play well on a console. Think strategy games like C
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In reply to FalseAgent:It used to be a Google version of Ubuntu, now I think its just specific Linux distro�
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In reply to Lerch:US Only. Paul has to pay for the shipping and shipping to Australia is expensive
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And yet on the last Windows Weekly podcast of 2018, Chris Capisela (spellind may be wrong) said multiple devel
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Xbox Game Pass
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In reply to MikeGalos:Wait until there is a hardware giveaway. If you you read properly, it says this is code
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:I would assume developers would use the regular full install, this would be more for
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In reply to yoshi:Sometimes I think that as well, then I look at the amount of outages Microsoft services had
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For you move to Outlook.com, are you going to be using just the regular consumer version (domain name via GoDa
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Not in the least. Apple would much rather have people talking about bending iPad's than a quarterly fall
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Is Cortana still set to MAX volume as part of the setup? That should be an easy change for Microsoft.
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DBrand Skin and a Amazon Basics laptop sleeve
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Xbox Game Pass
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Do you know any specific reason why your site is suddenly so popular with the forum spammers or what benefit t
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Corel owns WinZip??
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This is a learning moment, build your own system, website instead of building it on Facebook, Medium, etc, it
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In reply to jimchamplin:I am old school, passwords only, I don't use the PIN feature.
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What are your requirements for "Paul's Perfect Note Taking Software?"
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Received 1809 finally
My Surface Pro 2017 received 1809 last night. And I don't think I was even seeking it. So far the laptop hasn't burst into flames and all my files are still there. Although I admit it is still early days.
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Some very interesting articles. But why Medium I wonder.
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In reply to Sprtfan:Minecraft
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With Edge possibly being replaced by the Anaheim browser, do you think Microsoft will make it a store app
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4 different messaging systems is supposed to be unified and more simple?????? Or at least until Google announc
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The current theory is that one of the latest cumulative updates is causing the issue. If you have enough time,
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I should point out that US military policy is that a human is the one who has to make the final decision on fi
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You can look at this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history
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Small typo in the first line. It says Core when I assume you mean Corel.
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In reply to lvthunder:I would guess that it didn't affect you, people normally scream pretty quickly when
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In reply to lvthunder:Office 365 not working properly in Europe today2FA outage last weekAzure Outage in Septe
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I am surprised that it wasn't a developer/company that sued. And End User suing does seem strange. Oh wel
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Microsoft Cloud Services unreliable compared to Google
Is it just me or does Microsoft Could services (Office 365, Exchange Online, etc) all seem to be more unreliable than there Google counterparts. It just seems that they seem to have more downtime than Google which is weird considering that they develop those services and are dogfooding them. And they have the experts to run them.
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I thought Media Player was depreciated in favor of the Films and TV app. Oh well, there is always the mostly r
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I haven't received it on my Surface Pro 2017 yet.
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Installing 1809 aka 1811
I am now trying to be a seeker and looking to install 1809. Is there anyway to force the update from Windows Update? I would prefer not to wipe my installation using a 1809 ISO image install.
Or am I doomed to wait for my Surface Pro 2017 to get it eventually?
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Paul's review of the Pixel 3 was negative. Great camera let down by other issues, just something to consi
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I wonder if we will be able to buy an AppleCare plan at the same time for the device.
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If you are comfortable setting up your own machine, you can try FreeNAS. It has the option for running Minecra
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It will be interesting to see if they allow cross network (XBox vs Playstation) play.
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Sadly no new iPad Mini.
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Have you tried using your Project Fi SIM in a non-Fi approved phone? From what I read online, once the SIM is
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An Apple Mini with A11 or A12 Processor would be great. It doesn't need Apple Pencil. Doesn't even
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I did read somewhere that the photo problem is also happening on the Pixel 2 when using the Google Camera app.
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Outlook.com Personal email address
Has anybody tried setting up a personal email address/domain with Outlook.com Premium now that you can use GoDaddy as a Domain registrar for your domain?
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Hopefully it will even remember what you removed so if you do another install linked to your account, you don&
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Interface aside. Which email provider do you think is better. Outlook.com or Gmail/GApps
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It does sound like it has some good features and the camera shutter is a good idea. I still wouldn't buy
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In reply to digiguy:There is a powerbank with surfaceconnect??? What brand and is it on Amazon?
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$1500 is pushing it past decent laptop pricing
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Small typo: other fFfice
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With the Surface Pro/Book only expected to have a major re-design in 2019. What would you like to see in a new
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Headline really should have been: Amazon Hits $1 Trillion Valuation briefly
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Google Keep as a sticky note app is fairly good as it syncs across devices well. Google Keeps as note taking a
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That is better name than Spring/Summer 201X update which only applies for half the planet.
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I have seen Thurrott.com mentioned on Slashdot several time recently. Do you see any difference in traffic (sl
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In reply to steinbring:Sadly I think FaceID will replace the fingerprint sensor in general.
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I would love to have a proper Kindle App, Amazon Video App and Pocket app for offline reading. This is more a
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Sticky Notes and OneNote seem to be competing with each other
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SwiftKey on the Surface Go would be very interesting.
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In reply to mclanasa:Sometime in September. Or October.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I didn't know about this feature, very useful
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In reply to Stocklone:I did not know about PlayOn, looks interesting and useful
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Apps I need a Surface Go which aren't available
Some apps that i would need for a Surface Go to replace my iPad Mini
- Kindle Reader
- Amazon Prime Video (With offline download)
- Udemy App (With offline download)
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What will you be using Surface Go for?
For those of you who have ordered a Surface Go, what will you be using it for?
Regular laptop, media tablet, games, etc?
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XBox sale now on *(again)
Another sale for XBox games, some games up to 67% off. Sorting by % off does show some impressive numbers.
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In reply to Daekar:I obviously work at a different type of company. Most people have NUC type devices made by
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Brad and Paul will be very happy to buy these :)
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I am behind on my listening to First Ring Daily, but did you decide if you were going to buy a Switch and what
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I was able to take advantage of a different special, the i5 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SDD for $1099 ($200 off). I
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Which model of the Surface Laptop are you using?
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In reply to hrlngrv:It's a corporatation, there is always CYA at any level
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Any chance you can get a Lenovo X1 Tablet 3rd Gen to review?
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In reply to wright_is:Honestly, if it was slightly thicker and heavier so as to have some type of user replace
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I am also using Firefox 61 but I am not getting an error messages on the site.
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Things I would like to see in the a new Surface Pro
- Release date in 2018
- Intel 8th Gen CPU's
- USB C Port with optional charging
- Updated Intel Iris graphics
Things I would like to see but I know won't happen
- i5 model with 16GB RAM
- Use screws instead of glue to put the machine together
- User replaceable battery and drive
- USB C Port with Thunderbolt
- Base i5 model sold as a complete package with keyboard
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We will give you a USB C connector like you asked for, but you are not going to like it
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Are there any specific benefits of using Microsoft To Do instead of say Todoist?
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Rank your Favorite Call of Duty Game from Most Favorite to Least Favorite and Why.Also Fortnite or PUBG?
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Are there any stats on viewers using Mixer to view the E3 Announcements?
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I assume you mean CDMA instead of CDMI
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Lenovo X1 Tablet (3rd Gen)
Looking at the Lenovo X1 Tablet (3rd Gen), it looks like the Surface Pro 5/2018 that we would actually want from Microsoft.
Features include:
8th Gen Intel Core i5/i7
USB C ports (Sadly no USB A but I can live with that)
USB C charging
Thunderbolt 3
Keyboard and Pen included
And even some parts are user servicable!!
I hope Microsoft is paying attention
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Libra device make sense as a Windows S mode device.Its going to be an interesting year for Surface devices (ho
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I am mostly looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077, but that was always a 2019 (hopefully) release.
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Outlook.com spam filtering has always been terrible. And they recently had issues where everything got moved t
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Look at getting an iPhone SE with some kind of case.
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The only downside is it you can't use your own domain name for Outlook.com unless you have a business 365
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Is Thurrott.com completely GPDR compliant. I have not received a useless email about GPDR compliance yet fro
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Have you heard anything about a possible Surface Refresh (Dates, devices etc)?
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Also depends on your TV. One S for HD TV's and One X for UHD TV's
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In reply to rmlounsbury:Core M CPU's and 4GB RAM means these are not going to be the most speedy devices
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Kind of surprising that no ARM model is mentioned, this is the type of device it was built for.
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Just needs some good apps. Kindle, Amazon Video (Offline), NetFlix etc.
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In reply to wright_is:Which works well for business, not really an option for home users.
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Now that the Office Apps are generally available from the Microsoft Store, which is the better method for inst
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In reply to tbtalbot:People actually use XPS documents?
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I think you mean 1805
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There was a discussion on Twitter about naming Windows releases after different dog breeds. Paul didn't a
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Is there a cheap way to run my personal domain on Outlook.com now that they have removed the personal hosting
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I can visit the ZDNet pages/All About Microsoft again without annoying videos :) It doesn't stop video�
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In reply to chrisrut:From what I have seen, Apple still seems to be the best in class for data privacy, as lon
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In reply to ulrichr:There are various PowerShell scripts floating around that do exactly this. They will just
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Corre i5?
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Hopefully they update the Surface Pro/Surface Book/Surface Laptop recovery images to 1803 soon. Otherwise its
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I wonder how many of those are actual Edge users ;)
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Windows, Office 365, many Steam games and GOG games, Paint.net, filebot.net and Evernote. Then donations to VL
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In reply to wright_is:I personally thought that the second season was better as they got rid of a few annoying
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You have moved back to Chrome from Firefox?
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Wired is the way to go for HD content inside your network.
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Now I just have to wait for it to come out on Steam as previous Windows Store releases were not exactly handle
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And Paul was complaining last year that there were too many Windows 10 SKU's, this has just made it even
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Does anybody have a How-To guide on how to do this, its time for me to move back as well.
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It's not surprising, modern PC's are are powerful enough to run just about all applications for year
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In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:Could be worse, I paid for the Windows Vista Ultimate to get all those future extras
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You could always do what Mary Jo does and just use notepad. Its distraction free and you can use markdown in i
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$29 for a replacement battery is reasonable. Slowing down people's phones and not telling them is not.
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In reply to brad-sams:I am just thinking of the video where your daughter was water testing the Surface Laptop
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Are you using any two factor authentication systems other than the Microsoft Authenticator for Microsoft sites
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Weird question, but I can't find the Microsoft Complete plan for Surface Book 2, anybody seen it?
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In reply to RonH:Like most movies, historical accuracy is an after thought. But it is still fun to play.
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I want to see some reviews before I put my money down
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And here I was about to setup an Outlook.com Premium account. Luckily or unluckily I was planning for next wee
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Any idea if the Recovery Images for the SP4 have been updated yet?
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And a nice new security hole which exposes all your passwords in the keyring in plaintext.
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In reply to Polycrastinator:That would make way to much sense as Paul has said before
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Bing, its bigger than you though everywhere except Africa.
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Can the Google Wifi take 220v? I can't see in any of the pictures if it rated for 220v or just 110v
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Windows 10 Expensive version. If you can afford to run a PC on an i9 or Xeon, then you can afford a more expen
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Treesize (Free version of paid version) from Jam Software is also pretty good for this type of thing. The paid
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In reply to Tim:LastPass isn't prompting to change my password for Thurrott.com so I am guessing its rela
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Any recommendations or websites or books on learning OneNote 2016? I am considering moving off Evernote when m
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Here's a revenue idea for Microsoft, be like Amazon with the Kindle ads, pay a once off fee of $20 and no more
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This should really be titled goodbye to the home server. Windows 2016 in any format is overkill for a home.&nb
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I assume you mean Linux and not Linux in this sentance: Linus sits at 2.11 percent usage, Netmarketshare
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I am pretty happy with my Surface Pro 4. Microsoft seems to have worked out the kinks with Windows 10 now for