Why you don’t need a PS5 or Xbox Series X Yet. Developers are not taking full advantage of the hardware. Tha
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And the backward compatibilty will never be removed. Look at how much crying and complaining there was for Win
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Did I just see a pig with wings fly past? If this is done properly I will be very impressed.
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Microsoft is not exactly known for clear and simple. Confusing as possible is often preferred.
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As I think Paul has said before, this is a software industry problem of ship now and fix later. How many other
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I do like Windows 11 but it was released too soon. It needed another few months of bug fixes. There was also a
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Start 11 gives Windows 11 the Windows 10 Start menu so I am not quite sure what you are saying here.
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Interesting, I just looked a buying it and Stardock lists the price at $5.99 on their website. Yes, I know it
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I also do like Windows 11, however, it is not in a finished state. Another 6 months and it should be a decent
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As Paul as said many times, Microsoft sucks at getting the little consistency finishes done correctly. If they
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Applies to Windows 10 as well, but when you setup Windows, you tell it what region are you in, but Windows sti
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There is a PowerShell command which allows you to download store apps without going through. I don't remember
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I don't think this a problem for Microsoft in the short term. Most businesses upgrade their hardware on a 3 -
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I am going to be one of "those" people and update my laptop to it now. My gaming PC stays on Windows 10 as it
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Search for Paperwhite Signature Edition. The product matrix further down the page shows all the new models
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I see the Paperwhite Signature Edition has made the jump to USB-C. Finally
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It is all Brad's fault for leaving!
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FRD is still available on Overcast, however whatever company is hosting the podcast files is pretty slow at pu
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Hopefully, this ad campaign won't crash Windows 11 explorer.exe or any other component.
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Why oh Why would you want ActiveX in a document anyway?
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Any chance Microsoft bought it because of its "community" and its yet another effect to get into social? Or ju
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Oh joy, a new app to show me stories about how I won't believe random celeb looks in a bikini
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I could do a lot of my stuff on an iPad. But I would stay with a PC for using VirtualBox, etc.
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The only reason I have YouTube Music is that is included in YouTube Premium. I almost never open the app.
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This is how you get tens of thousands of people to test the software before it gets pushed out to corporations
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Microsoft Modern USB-C Speaker Question
Does anyone know if I can use a USB-C to USB-A adapter to power/connect the Microsoft Modern USB-C Speaker. Office PC doesn't have a USB-C port
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I am having a similar issue. If I try to create a new post, I get an error message saying the URL can't be fou
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It's things like this that show that Microsoft's worst enemy is Microsoft. I am hoping they clarify the clarif
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USB Hub Recommendation
Any recommendations for a good USB hub to be used with a NUC. Should be USB A to PC and have both USB A and USB C ports to plug devices into. I would be buying from Amazon.
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Halo as a service? We will just add features over the next few years
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Now if we could just convince Microsoft to do the same.
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Are you going to need a vacation after this vacation to recover?
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My only concern about the phone is that you should never buy v1. And this is v1 for their SOC.
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Hopefully the comments on this story don't get too nasty here.
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How big is your box of random cables that you keep just in case you might need them sometime in the future? :)
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5 Billion dollars was spent on a new office building that few people want to go work in at present. Ouch.
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Sounds like you have a faulty motherboard. You could try flash with the latest BIOS in the vague hope that mig
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Sadly it is the bots and scalpers that have the better systems. Doesn't matter if it is GPU's, shoes, show tic
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I had an ad for Office/Microsoft 365 in Office, which is a waste as I already have a family subscription that
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Would be nice, but I would expect multiple Windows 11 ads to try and push as many people to Windows 11 as poss
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Windows 11 ads
Is anybody starting to get ads either in notifications or the Start Menu that Windows 11 is coming? Seems iffy that Microsoft can just push more ads about their own software onto all their users.
And what really annoys me is the PC I am getting these ads on can't even run Windows 11 as the CPU is too old.
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I could see it being a requirement for new PC's. It's difficult for older PC's.I will be buying a new PC next
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Liking an email is a really weird way of acknowledging that an email was received/read.
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Weird, when I save the link to pocket. It takes me to a different article. I wonder if that is on purpose.
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1064 showed up in my list of episodes in Overcast this afternoon (16/06). 1061 and 1063 are also available but
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It did show up in my Overcast, but was extremely delayed.
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There are now GPO's to disable News and Weather.Group configuration: news and interests on the Windows taskbar
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Showed up on my machines a day after the announcement that it was going out for general availability. And was
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Depends on how much a configured system you want. Amazon, NewEgg or Simplynuc.com are all good options
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Just another thing to turn off straight away. The GPO POlicy templates have not been updated for the News App
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Sunday morning is a slightly weird time to hold it
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While this is a good thing, its just another way people will get confused with USB. As if USB 3.0, 3.1 Gen 1,
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Grammerly or similar spellchecker doesn't know fuchsia so will fix some versions I guess
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Typo in paragraph one: deployed Fushcia in a shippingTypo in paragraph two: the release of Fushcia
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Nope, it is based on their own custom kernel called zircon. It takes inspiration from Unix but is not Unix/Lin
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With Windows 10X now being put on the backburner, is Microsoft continuing/re-starting Windows 10 S Mode develo
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I see there is no option to report spam. Is this something that will eventually be added?
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You can use this script/tool from GitHub with the Media Creation Tool to download old versions.
https://gis
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Small typo - and then swift to decaffe. I assume you meant switch to decaffe
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I remember you complaining about the previous AMD based surface which had an issue with the screen brightness
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In reply to ianceicys:You can set Meet as a PWA via Edge. (Paul would approve)
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I am surprised there was nothing said about IOS 14.5 as the privacy options are going to cause head aches for
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In reply to wright_is:I have to assume that there is some type of Browser Plugin that does this
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In reply to jrzoomer:You mean like the first impressions post Paul did on the Nano on April 2? I assume there
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You don't want an electric Porsche Taycan to go with your Tesla?
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Depending on the laptop, hitting one of the Function keys at boot should get you to a windows recovery page, i
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Try Jelly Bean Software's KeyFinder. The free version should be able to get your Windows key.
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Those ads were entertaining. Now they just need the PC guy in one of them to say something about I win :)
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Next year's Surface devices should be powerful and have a really good battery life (in theory).
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Apple is going to stop supporting the Intel based versions at some point in the future, so rather buy an non-I
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Slight correction, Christopher Krebs isn't a security researcher, he is the ex- chief of CISA (US Gov age
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In reply to Winner:Not Outlook, on-site Exchange (Exchange does email and calenders for business) servers
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This is not Google snooping, but rather ad company snooping. It's a major security issue as well as a pri
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In reply to Vladimir:The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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At least with naming it 21H1, it gives them until then end of June to release it. Now that it's not tied
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:He had a snow day. Recorded on a Saturday :)
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Did this episode happen? I don't see it in the list of podcasts anywhere.
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Small typo: "we just no it’s" which I assume should be: "we just know it's
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In reply to hrlngrv:You are assuming people would actually read a terms of service. Too a certain extent, Paul
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I have the same issue using Overcast. I normally send a tweet to Brad and he does something to his podcast ser
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Download the Microsoft Media Creation Tool for 1809, or if you can't find that, there is a batch file whi
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Does the XBox Media Remote work with the Series S/X?Do you know if Microsoft is making a new version for Serie
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It's time to update my PC, going from a 3rd Gen i5 to one of these would be a nice bump in performance.
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Do you think there will be a Surface Book with the new AMD 5000 Series chips?
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's Windows 10 Ten :)I just wonder how many people how many people will just s
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It's almost like Cable TV is a good idea (Apart from the terrible customer service)
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In reply to miamimauler:Reply to post, check your activity, delete the post. There probably is a better way to
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Click on your name to the left of the Date Posted for this question, you can see all your activity that way.
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Site is more aimed at the consumer side of technology - you might find more on the sister site petri.comThe PC
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Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX
From Slashdot
Google is Getting Left Behind Due to Horrible UI/UX | Daniel Miessler
Daniel Miessler writes:
I've been writing for probably a decade about how bad Google's GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other properties -- not to mention their multiple social media network attempts, like Google+ and Wave. Back then it was super annoying, but kind of ok. They're a hardcore engineering group, and their backend services are without equal. But lately it's just becoming too much.
1. Even Gmail is a cesspool at this point. Nobody would ever design a webmail interface like that, starting from scratch.
2. What happened to Google Docs? Why does it not look and behave more like Notion, or Quip, or any of the other alternatives that made progress in the last 5-10 years?
3. What college course do I take to manage a Google Analytics property?
4. Google just rolled out Google Analytics 4 -- I think -- and the internet is full of people asking the same question I am. "Is this a real rollout?"
[...] My questions are simple:
1. How the hell is this possible? I get it 10 years ago. But then they came out with the new design language. Materialize, or whatever it was. Cool story, and cool visuals. But it's not about the graphics, it's about the experience.
2. How can you be sitting on billions of dollars and be unable to hire product managers that can create usable interfaces?
3. How can you run Gmail on an interface that's tangibly worse than anything else out there?
4. How can you let Google Docs get completely obsoleted by startups?
I've heard people say that Google has become the new Microsoft, or the new Oracle, but damn -- at least Microsoft is innovating. At least Oracle has a sailing team, or whatever else they do. I'm being emotional at this point.
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You may run into some weird issue using the same current domain, better to use a different one (Even something
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Skill Based Match Making in Call of Duty
It looks like even the pro's are having issues with the Skill Based Match Making in Call of Duty.
Paul you are not alone, and it means you are not bad at the latest of CoD :)
Why Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty (vice.com)
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In reply to ngc224:Cross Microsoft at your peril. They will change your zeros to ones and your ones to zeros.
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In reply to barrywohl:You want a touch screen? That is what the iPad Air/iPad Pro are for. Or at least what Ap
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Brad and Mary Jo did the reviews as Microsoft sent them one for review.
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In reply to jdawgnoonan:Emoji get people to upgrade as they consider them a priority. Security and Bug fixes a
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I would assume they are going to buy somebody like DuckDuckGo. Developing the search engine and building the i
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I assume it will be generally available soon enough - except if you run a surface device based on previous per
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In reply to madthinus:Aiming to get one from Takelot, Loot, Raru or somewhere else? (Please not Incredible Con
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I was considering a iPhone 12, but there is nothing really compelling in them. I think I will just get a new b
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In reply to Alastair_Cooper:Chromium foundation, with Google as a Platinum member :)
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In reply to Sprtfan:Google could pay Chrome company to be the default search engine I suppose. But then Google
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Forcing Google to sell Chrome doesn't make much sense. Chrome by itself doesn't make money. Forcing
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Small typo - phone calls and Alex and Google Assistant compatibility - I assume you mean Alexa and Google Assi
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In reply to venuvedam:It is. Damn forum spammers.
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It might be time to update to a newer version of Windows 10 as 1703 is no longer supported unless you are on a
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Sadly yes, you have to move to GoDaddy.
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Small Typo. I think you are missing a word (I assume had) here: to the point where we almost to stop driving
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At present you can install other app stores but it is a pain. Android 12 will make it easier to install compet
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In reply to wright_is:According to the link that Johnny777 posted, it will only be available from Outlook and
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Easy thing to do would just be to move to Outlook.
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In reply to MikaelKoskinen:I have to think it will most likely be timed exclusives. XBox/PC only for first few
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In reply to bhofer:There are applications that allow you to read/write NTFS partitions on a Mac. I used Parago
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In reply to circuscircus:Note: This would normally be a Premium post, but thanks to Microsoft, we are abl
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Go for the entry level iPad. New ones cost somewhere around $320. You can get refurbished ones for cheaper, so
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TikTok signed a $900 million deal with Google for three years of Cloud Services in September last year. If Mi
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In reply to webdev511:I doubt it. It would just be another financial hit if they try to get out of the contrac
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In reply to darkgrayknight:They are not selling the data to anyone else. But it would not surprise me if sudde
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TikTok signed a contract for $800 Million for 3 years worth of Google Cloud last year. Not sure how they would
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Just got offered 2004 on my Surface Laptop 3 today.
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Surface Book 2 at the office is busy installing 2004. But my Surface Laptop 3 isn't getting it.
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Microsoft's brand worth more than Google
According to global brand equity platform BrandZ, Microsoft's brand is now the third most valuable in the world, passing Google.
Top five are
- Amazon
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Visa
Link: https://www.brandz.com/admin/uploads/files/2020_BrandZ_Global_Top_100_Report.pdf
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Paul - will you be buying testing either this version of the 5G version? Or have you decided to give up on the
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Happy Birthday Brad from South Africa
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In reply to sevenacids:Gmail was in beta for 5 years as well. :)
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In reply to StevenLayton:For me, a specific feature - WSL2. But as its a Microsoft device, you kind of expect
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In reply to Andrey_Medvedev:That ship has sailed, I don't expect many phones to now have a audio jack, It
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I would consider when/if Gen 2 come out. But I am not risking money on Gen 1.
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I might upgrade to a Lockhart console, but only in a year or two time once they stop releasing most content fo
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As a communications device, it does look interesting. I will wait for Gen 2 to buy one if Gen 2 happens. Been
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Missing wallpaper after latest patches
Has anybody noticed that after installing the latest set of patches, that their wallpaper has been set to the default blue Windows logo? Happened to me on a 1909 and 2004 machine.
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Small Typo That should be RTX 2070 SUPER graphics
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Have you heard anything more about mailbox categories/tabs coming to Outlook.com and the Outlook client? Apart
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You recently mentioned you were reading a book about the history of Instragram, what would be your top 5 books
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Why do I get the feeling she moved to Magic Leap as CEO so she can sell the company
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In reply to ghostrider:I am mainly waiting for WSL2, running 2004 on my whitebox PC, I don't notice any r
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In reply to epguy40:Hopefully rolling out, I just tried on my Surface Laptop 3 and still not getting it. Oh we
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Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004
It's weird, my Surface Go received Windows 10 2004 today, but my Surface Laptop 3 is still blocked.
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In reply to jrh:Correct, it works on Windows 10 Home
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I haven't had any issues, I normally use sudo apt-get dist-upgrade anyway.
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Quality articles over quantity articles is always an excellent choice.
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Have you tried Valoriant, the new 5v5 shooter from Riot Games?
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In reply to jt5:Same here for my SL3, I will check again in a week.
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And as usual, none of my Surface devices can see the update via Windows Update yet.
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A popup in Skype with Clippy asking: Do you want to install Teams?
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What do you think the chances are that Microsoft could release 2004 as an optional update (for seekers only) f
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Which do you think we will see first: Ubuntu 20.04 or Windows 10 2004?
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In reply to jaredthegeek:For power users, Surface is still better. But for productivity and basic usage, it is
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They are going to sell millions of these
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Small typo - 266GB should be 256GB
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Where is this enabled in the settings if it is available?
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In reply to Simard57:It's been known for several years, its only recently that the owner decided to sell.
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Typo - 26 hours should be 26 years
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In reply to hrlngrv:Groupy is a great app. Well worth the money
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In reply to JustMe:You can connect USB drives via the USB C port, just have to make sure the file system is co
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Importing Archives emails into Outlook.com
Does anybody have any suggestions on importing archives gmail emails into Outlook.com - When Outlook.com connects to my Gmail, regular emails in the Inbox are imported but not archived emails.
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Any suggestions for a better AppleTV remote? Mine is about to bounce off a wall.
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In reply to jimchamplin:You can delete it yourself
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At Least it is Opt-In instead of Opt-Out. But then again, just another reason to disable most notifications.
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In reply to IanYates82:That didn't register. I am seriously interested in this model.
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Where did you buy this model from?
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Personalized email address with Outlook.com
Is the offer of a personal domain email address with Outlook.com if I have Office 365 Home still valid. The option for it in Premium is randomly appearing and disappearing in my Outlook and I was wondering after reading Paul's article on custom email addresses
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:HR Departments still use them for hiring qualifications, even with all the problems
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If it works like a proper mouse, that is great news. If it is just that giant dot again, then not so interesti
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Are you still planning on doing a living with iPad only series?
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In reply to wright_is:If it is a company laptop, company procedures might require Windows as the host. But oth
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Yes, this would be more of the niche premium market that Paul talks about. You can run Linux in a VM but runni
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TreeSize from Jam Software has a nice graphical interface.
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Nokia and Windows phone!!!
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:G suite has better spam protection as well. And the privacy protections are suppose
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In reply to Vladimir:You can't find it if you are using and iPad, only with an iPhone
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Blackberry!
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In reply to goodbar:Generally that is not a good idea, but in theory you can run a custom OS like LineageOS on
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Windows 10X can run on a Surface Go
This is actually pretty cool, someone has gotten Windows 10X to run on a Surface Go (And I assume other machines as well. Instructions at:
https://osg.wiki/books/windows-10x/page/installing-windows-10x-%28emulator-image%29-on-real-hardware
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If the demo was staged, it would have worked flawlessly.
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More of a Windows 10 search annoyance. But yes, why would local search break if there is something wrong with
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In reply to bnyklue:It may stop Microsoft from getting anywhere near phones again if it fails, however I don&#
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How many of those are due to an older PC not being able to run Windows 10 I wonder. And I assume the biggest p
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Surface Laptop 3
I was one of the people who bought a black Surface Laptop 3 on Black Friday to replace the one that walked out the door at my house. Great machine but wow, its a finger print magnet. This laptop definitely needs a skin of some type which is kind of sad. Oh well. Time to go shopping on DBrand.
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Thanks Chris and Paul and the team
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We were taught programming in Turbo Pascal 7 in High school in South Africa
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with any text of your choosing
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XPS 13 does have a better port selection including Thunderbolt 3 and is slightly more self repairable. But I s
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Regarding the AAD Domain Joined device question, you may also need to turn on SMB 1.0 from the Add Remove Prog
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any text of your choosingThanks for this Paul
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Do you have a schedule for the site/first ring daily when you will be taking time off for the holidays (You a
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In reply to SvenJ:In my company, we have what we call dynamic standards. Each standard is different even thoug
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Standards are good. Now hopefully all the companies actually follow the standards.
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Pretty good games for this month.
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This is the downside of consumer smart devices, if the provider decides to stop supporting it, it becomes an e
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In reply to Skolvikings:An apology can be used by lawyers as an admission of guilt if somebody was to sue
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I am starting to wonder who was the worst software testing system. Microsoft or Apple
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Microsoft seems to be following the Lenovo method where they just constantly have s
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I have been a long time user of Evernote, personally I found it better than OneNote and the webclipper is gre
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A little weird that they are giving a deal with a competitors product instead of 3 months of YouTube premium
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In reply to paul-thurrott:SShort term memory loss for me :)
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And a list of features they have already removedFeatures and functionality removed in Windows 10https://docs.
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All the features Microsoft will no longer develop
Microsoft posted a blog post on the features for Windows 10 they will no longer update/develop:
Windows 10 features we’re no longer developing
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features
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They don't have to be friends but they do have to work together. Get along or the business suffers and th
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In reply to ggolcher:Thanks for this, its a good option for me to look at.
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In reply to txag:There is nothing from stopping you from installing Linux on the machine and carrying on usin
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I was reading that Cloud Print uses the same servers as the about to die Google Hangouts and this is one of th
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Are there any real benefits of using ExchangeOnline vs Outlook.com for hosting my own personal email domain. L
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I am looking at moving my custom email domain from GSuite to Outlook.com (I have an Office 365 subscription).
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Paul was saying good things about YouTube Downloader HD
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In reply to jim.mcintosh:I am getting the same error. I wonder if it is because I am using a G Suite account
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In reply to Bats:Lots of people (including me and Paul) use a custom domain, which is G Suite which means we c
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2 Stadio Ooops moments
- You can't use Stadia with a G Suite account
- On a Mac with a touch bar, you can't exit stadia as you need to use the physical escape key and since the escape key has been moved to the touchbar, you are out of luck
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In reply to chump2010:It's not a scandal, just highly annoying.
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Not really going to miss it. The only thing I used it for was to upgrade the firmware for my Surface Headphone
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Can you control an e-cig with an app? Otherwise what would you need these apps for?
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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