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simont

Alpha Member Since Jul 2016

29 Posts
312 Comments
Upvotes 89%
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    Microsoft Cloud Services unreliable compared to Google
    By simont, 2 years ago
    16 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Cloud
    simont Microsoft Cloud 1 month ago 16 Replies
    Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX
    By simont, 1 month ago
    24 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Google
    simont Google Google 1 month ago 24 Replies
    Skill Based Match Making in Call of Duty
    By simont, 1 month ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Games
    simont Microsoft Games 1 month ago 1 Reply
    Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004
    By simont, 6 months ago
    31 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    simont Microsoft Windows 5 months ago 31 Replies
    Microsoft’s brand worth more than Google
    By simont, 5 months ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 5 months ago 2 Replies
    Missing wallpaper after latest patches
    By simont, 6 months ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 6 months ago 2 Replies
    Importing Archives emails into Outlook.com
    By simont, 10 months ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Google Microsoft 10 months ago 0 Replies
    Personalized email address with Outlook.com
    By simont, 10 months ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 10 months ago 1 Reply
    Windows 10X can run on a Surface Go
    By simont, 11 months ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 11 months ago 3 Replies
    Surface Laptop 3
    By simont, 1 year ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    simont Microsoft Hardware 1 year ago 2 Replies
    All the features Microsoft will no longer develop
    By simont, 1 year ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 6 Replies
    2 Stadio Ooops moments
    By simont, 1 year ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Games
    simont Google Games 1 year ago 6 Replies
    Google Inbox – Simple Gmail Chrome Extension
    By simont, 1 year ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Google
    simont Google Google 1 year ago 0 Replies
    Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903
    By simont, 1 year ago
    25 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 25 Replies
    Cuphead coming to Tesla cars
    By simont, 1 year ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Uncategorized
    simont General Discussion Uncategorized 1 year ago 0 Replies
    Surface Headphones $100 off
    By simont, 1 year ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    simont Microsoft Hardware 1 year ago 3 Replies
    New Edge gets its first weekly update
    By simont, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 4 Replies
    Huawei laptop ‘backdoor’ flaw raises concerns
    By simont, 1 year ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Uncategorized
    simont Microsoft Uncategorized 1 year ago 1 Reply
    XBox One Game updates
    By simont, 1 year ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 2 Replies
    Mixer
    By simont, 1 year ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 3 Replies
    Outlook.com and custom domain
    By simont, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 1 year ago 4 Replies
    Received 1809 finally
    By simont, 2 years ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 2 years ago 6 Replies
    Installing 1809 aka 1811
    By simont, 2 years ago
    16 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    simont Microsoft Windows 2 years ago 16 Replies
    Outlook.com Personal email address
    By simont, 2 years ago
    9 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 2 years ago 9 Replies
    Apps I need a Surface Go which aren’t available
    By simont, 2 years ago
    9 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 2 years ago 9 Replies
    XBox sale now on *(again)
    By simont, 2 years ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Games
    simont Microsoft Games 2 years ago 1 Reply
    What will you be using Surface Go for?
    By simont, 2 years ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    simont Microsoft Microsoft 2 years ago 14 Replies
    Lenovo X1 Tablet (3rd Gen)
    By simont, 2 years ago
    5 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Hardware
    simont General Discussion Hardware 2 years ago 5 Replies
    Things I would like to see in the a new Surface Pro
    By simont, 2 years ago
    12 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    simont Microsoft Hardware 2 years ago 12 Replies

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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

    Posted 3 days ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, January 21 – 11 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 week ago on Intel Launches 11th-Generation NUC PCs – 14 Comments

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    Do you think there will be a Surface Book with the new AMD 5000 Series chips?

    Posted 1 week ago on Questions for 1/14? – 11 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 week ago on Windows 10X for Single Screens Leaks – 50 Comments

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    It's almost like Cable TV is a good idea (Apart from the terrible customer service)

    Posted 3 weeks ago on Now Discovery Has a Subscription Service Because Everyone is Doing It – 34 Comments

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    In reply to miamimauler:Reply to post, check your activity, delete the post. There probably is a better way to

    Posted 3 weeks ago on View Posts – 14 Comments

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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.

    Posted 3 weeks ago on View Posts – 14 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 month ago on Nothing on this site about the big story of the day? – 4 Comments

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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.


    Posted 1 month ago on Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX – 24 Comments

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    You may run into some weird issue using the same current domain, better to use a different one (Even something

    Posted 1 month ago on Prospective MS 365 Business Basic buyer has some questions. – 7 Comments

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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)

    Posted 1 month ago on Skill Based Match Making in Call of Duty – 1 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 months ago on No Review by Paul for Surface Duo – 7 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple Brings Its Own Silicon to the 13-inch MacBook Pro – 34 Comments

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    Brad and Mary Jo did the reviews as Microsoft sent them one for review.

    Posted 2 months ago on No Review by Paul for Surface Duo – 7 Comments

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    In reply to jdawgnoonan:Emoji get people to upgrade as they consider them a priority. Security and Bug fixes a

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple Updates Almost All of its Software Platforms – 23 Comments

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    I would assume they are going to buy somebody like DuckDuckGo. Developing the search engine and building the i

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple Allegedly Developing Alternative to Google Search – 16 Comments

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    I assume it will be generally available soon enough - except if you run a surface device based on previous per

    Posted 3 months ago on What’s New in Windows 10 Version 20H2 – 32 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 months ago on The iPhone Sweet Spot (Premium) – 52 Comments

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    In reply to Alastair_Cooper:Chromium foundation, with Google as a Platinum member :)

    Posted 3 months ago on Feds may target chrome to be split off? – 12 Comments

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    In reply to Sprtfan:Google could pay Chrome company to be the default search engine I suppose. But then Google

    Posted 3 months ago on Feds may target chrome to be split off? – 12 Comments

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    Forcing Google to sell Chrome doesn't make much sense. Chrome by itself doesn't make money. Forcing

    Posted 3 months ago on Feds may target chrome to be split off? – 12 Comments

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    Small typo - phone calls and Alex and Google Assistant compatibility - I assume you mean Alexa and Google Assi

    Posted 3 months ago on Fitbit Versa 3 First Impressions – 23 Comments

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    In reply to venuvedam:It is. Damn forum spammers.

    Posted 3 months ago on OneDrive lost is marbles – 6 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 months ago on OneDrive lost is marbles – 6 Comments

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    Sadly yes, you have to move to GoDaddy.

    Posted 3 months ago on Microsoft 365 Family Mail Host – 7 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 months ago on What I Use: 2020 Road Trip (Premium) – 24 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 months ago on Startups In India Want To Build Their Own App Store To Bypass Google’s – 7 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:According to the link that Johnny777 posted, it will only be available from Outlook and

    Posted 3 months ago on Family Calendar – Microsoft breaks another feature w/ new "solution" – 12 Comments

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    Easy thing to do would just be to move to Outlook.

    Posted 3 months ago on Family Calendar – Microsoft breaks another feature w/ new "solution" – 12 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft to Acquire Bethesda for $7.5 Billion – 65 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 months ago on What to know about switching to Mac? – 39 Comments

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    In reply to circuscircus:Note: This would normally be a Premium post, but thanks to Microsoft, we are abl

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft 365 First Steps: Understanding the Value – 36 Comments

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    Go for the entry level iPad. New ones cost somewhere around $320. You can get refurbished ones for cheaper, so

    Posted 4 months ago on Help with getting an iOS device – 6 Comments

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    TikTok signed a $900 million deal with Google for three years of Cloud Services in September last year. If Mi

    Posted 4 months ago on Questions for 9 4 20? – 15 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft, Oracle Race to the Finish to Acquire TikTok – 26 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 months ago on Amazon Takes on Health Tracking … with a Device Called Halo – 29 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft, Oracle Race to the Finish to Acquire TikTok – 26 Comments

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    Just got offered 2004 on my Surface Laptop 3 today.

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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    Surface Book 2 at the office is busy installing 2004. But my Surface Laptop 3 isn't getting it.

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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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

    1. Amazon
    2. Apple
    3. Microsoft
    4. Google
    5. Visa


    Link: https://www.brandz.com/admin/uploads/files/2020_BrandZ_Global_Top_100_Report.pdf

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft’s brand worth more than Google – 2 Comments

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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

    Posted 5 months ago on Google’s Pixel 4a Arrives August 20th for $349 – 18 Comments

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    Happy Birthday Brad from South Africa

    Posted 5 months ago on Happy Birthday, Brad! – 35 Comments

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    In reply to sevenacids:Gmail was in beta for 5 years as well. :)

    Posted 5 months ago on Windows 10 turns 5 today – 17 Comments

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    In reply to StevenLayton:For me, a specific feature - WSL2. But as its a Microsoft device, you kind of expect

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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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

    Posted 5 months ago on is anyone thinking about the Duo as their next device? – 119 Comments

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    I would consider when/if Gen 2 come out. But I am not risking money on Gen 1.

    Posted 6 months ago on is anyone thinking about the Duo as their next device? – 119 Comments

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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

    Posted 6 months ago on Upgrading or downgrading to the next console? – 7 Comments

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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

    Posted 6 months ago on Duo Thoughts – 19 Comments

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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.

    Posted 6 months ago on Missing wallpaper after latest patches – 2 Comments

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    Small Typo That should be RTX 2070 SUPER graphics

    Posted 6 months ago on Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop – 35 Comments

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    Have you heard anything more about mailbox categories/tabs coming to Outlook.com and the Outlook client? Apart

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 10 – 13 Comments

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    You recently mentioned you were reading a book about the history of Instragram, what would be your top 5 books

    Posted 6 months ago on Questions for 7 10 ? – 13 Comments

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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

    Posted 6 months ago on Peggy Johnson is Leaving Microsoft – 14 Comments

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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

    Posted 6 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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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

    Posted 6 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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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.

    Posted 6 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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    In reply to jrh:Correct, it works on Windows 10 Home

    Posted 7 months ago on How to Install and Update Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    I haven't had any issues, I normally use sudo apt-get dist-upgrade anyway.

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Subsystem for Linux (held back Ubuntu updates) – 4 Comments

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    Quality articles over quantity articles is always an excellent choice.

    Posted 7 months ago on (Re)Focus (Premium) – 46 Comments

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    Have you tried Valoriant, the new 5v5 shooter from Riot Games?

    Posted 7 months ago on Questions for 6/12? – 14 Comments

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    In reply to jt5:Same here for my SL3, I will check again in a week.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Delivers May 2020 Update to Surface Pro 7, Laptop 3 – 11 Comments

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    And as usual, none of my Surface devices can see the update via Windows Update yet.

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 10 Version 2004 is Now Available – 51 Comments

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    A popup in Skype with Clippy asking: Do you want to install Teams?

    Posted 8 months ago on Microsoft Says Skype Investments to Continue – 18 Comments

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    What do you think the chances are that Microsoft could release 2004 as an optional update (for seekers only) f

    Posted 9 months ago on Ask Paul for Friday, April 17 – 3 Comments

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    Which do you think we will see first: Ubuntu 20.04 or Windows 10 2004?

    Posted 9 months ago on Questions for 4/17? – 7 Comments

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    In reply to jaredthegeek:For power users, Surface is still better. But for productivity and basic usage, it is

    Posted 9 months ago on iPad Pro’s New Magic Keyboard Now Available Earlier Than Expected – 18 Comments

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    They are going to sell millions of these

    Posted 9 months ago on Apple Announces New $399 iPhone SE With A13 Bionic Processor – 63 Comments

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    Small typo - 266GB should be 256GB

    Posted 9 months ago on Apple Announces New $399 iPhone SE With A13 Bionic Processor – 63 Comments

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    Where is this enabled in the settings if it is available?

    Posted 9 months ago on Outlook Could Soon Be Getting Inbox Tabs – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Simard57:It's been known for several years, its only recently that the owner decided to sell.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Buys ‘Dangerous’ Corp.com Domain to Protect Customer Security – 8 Comments

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    Typo - 26 hours should be 26 years

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Buys ‘Dangerous’ Corp.com Domain to Protect Customer Security – 8 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Groupy is a great app. Well worth the money

    Posted 10 months ago on Star Dock software Bundle – 11 Comments

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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

    Posted 10 months ago on Ten Years Late, the iPad is a Game Changer (Premium) – 80 Comments

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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.

    Posted 10 months ago on Importing Archives emails into Outlook.com – 0 Comments

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    Any suggestions for a better AppleTV remote? Mine is about to bounce off a wall.

    Posted 10 months ago on Questions for 3/13? – 15 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:You can delete it yourself

    Posted 10 months ago on Twitter Finally Gives Into the Stories Format – 8 Comments

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    At Least it is Opt-In instead of Opt-Out. But then again, just another reason to disable most notifications.

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Will Now Allow Apps to Send Ads Via Push Notifications – 13 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:That didn't register. I am seriously interested in this model.

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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    Where did you buy this model from?

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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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

    Posted 10 months ago on Personalized email address with Outlook.com – 1 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:HR Departments still use them for hiring qualifications, even with all the problems

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft killing off MCSE, MCSA, MCSD certifications – 12 Comments

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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

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple’s iPad Keyboard Might Finally Get a Trackpad – 22 Comments

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    Are you still planning on doing a living with iPad only series?

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, February 28 – 16 Comments

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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

    Posted 10 months ago on laptops – 11 Comments

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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

    Posted 10 months ago on laptops – 11 Comments

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    TreeSize from Jam Software has a nice graphical interface.

    Posted 10 months ago on what is taking up storage – 13 Comments

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    Nokia and Windows phone!!!

    Posted 11 months ago on MSFT Stock Analysis for Dummies – 5 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:G suite has better spam protection as well. And the privacy protections are suppose

    Posted 11 months ago on Outlook.com Premium custom domain option missing – 7 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:You can't find it if you are using and iPad, only with an iPhone

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft’s Unified Office App Comes to iPhones – 19 Comments

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    Blackberry!

    Posted 11 months ago on What mobile phone should die next? – 30 Comments

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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

    Posted 11 months ago on Questions for 2/14? – 20 Comments

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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



    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10X can run on a Surface Go – 3 Comments

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    If the demo was staged, it would have worked flawlessly.

    Posted 11 months ago on Anyone else think the failed demos were staged? – 6 Comments

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    More of a Windows 10 search annoyance. But yes, why would local search break if there is something wrong with

    Posted 11 months ago on The Win10 search disaster – why hasn’t this gotten more attention? – 10 Comments

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    In reply to bnyklue:It may stop Microsoft from getting anywhere near phones again if it fails, however I don&#

    Posted 11 months ago on I think the duo and neo are a mistake – 22 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on PC Sales Grew 1.9 Percent in 2019 – 13 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Laptop 3 – 1 Comments

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    Thanks Chris and Paul and the team

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Surface Pro X, Pro 7, and Laptop 3 – 2573 Comments

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    We were taught programming in Turbo Pascal 7 in High school in South Africa

    Posted 1 year ago on Programming Windows: Anders (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    with any text of your choosing

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Office 365 Home – 1116 Comments

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    XPS 13 does have a better port selection including Thunderbolt 3 and is slightly more self repairable. But I s

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Laptop 3 (13.5 in) vs New Dell XPS 13 (7390) – 11 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: December 20 (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    any text of your choosingThanks for this Paul

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – 653 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, December 20 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:In my company, we have what we call dynamic standards. Each standard is different even thoug

    Posted 1 year ago on Amazon, Apple, and Google Partner to Standardize the Smart Home – 36 Comments

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    Standards are good. Now hopefully all the companies actually follow the standards.

    Posted 1 year ago on Amazon, Apple, and Google Partner to Standardize the Smart Home – 36 Comments

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    Pretty good games for this month.

    Posted 1 year ago on New Titles Coming to Game Pass for Console – 4 Comments

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    This is the downside of consumer smart devices, if the provider decides to stop supporting it, it becomes an e

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Is Slowly Pulling the Plug On the Harman Kardon Invoke – 53 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on iOS 13 Bug Lets Kids Get Around New Parental Controls – 8 Comments

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    I am starting to wonder who was the worst software testing system. Microsoft or Apple

    Posted 1 year ago on iOS 13 Bug Lets Kids Get Around New Parental Controls – 8 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Microsoft seems to be following the Lenovo method where they just constantly have s

    Posted 1 year ago on Best Buy Offering Big Discounts on Surface Pro 7, Laptop 3 Today – 2 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Pathetic Dumbing-Down of MS Apps – 12 Comments

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    A little weird that they are giving a deal with a competitors product instead of 3 months of YouTube premium

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Is Giving Away 3 Months of Free Disney+ to New Chromebook Owners – 2 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:SShort term memory loss for me :)

    Posted 1 year ago on All the features Microsoft will no longer develop – 6 Comments

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    And a list of features they have already removedFeatures and functionality removed in Windows 10https://docs.

    Posted 1 year ago on All the features Microsoft will no longer develop – 6 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Is it realistic to expect Devs and IT Ops staff to get along ? – 12 Comments

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    In reply to ggolcher:Thanks for this, its a good option for me to look at.

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: November 22 (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    In reply to txag:There is nothing from stopping you from installing Linux on the machine and carrying on usin

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 8 a better alternative to Windows 7? – 40 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Quietly Kills Cloud Print – 27 Comments

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    Are there any real benefits of using ExchangeOnline vs Outlook.com for hosting my own personal email domain. L

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 11/22? – 5 Comments

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    I am looking at moving my custom email domain from GSuite to Outlook.com (I have an Office 365 subscription).

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (November 22) – 13 Comments

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    Paul was saying good things about YouTube Downloader HD

    Posted 1 year ago on YouTube downloader – 13 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft is Testing Gmail Integration in Outlook.com – 21 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on 2 Stadio Ooops moments – 6 Comments

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    2 Stadio Ooops moments

    1. You can't use Stadia with a G Suite account
    2. 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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Made Major Setup Changes in Windows 10 Version 1909 – 38 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Is Killing Cortana for Android and IOS – 51 Comments

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    Can you control an e-cig with an app? Otherwise what would you need these apps for?

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Removes Vaping Apps From the App Store – 13 Comments

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    Looks great but I see pre-orders are not open yet. :(

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Laptop 3 Launches With New 15-inch Variant, AMD Processors, Metal Finish – 23 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Launches Surface Pro X With New Ultra-Thin Design, Slim Pen, Type Cover – 28 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 9 27 19? – 14 Comments

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    Can you post the survey monkey links? They don't work from the pdf.

    Posted 1 year ago on Editors Desk V1 Download – Didn’t get the email? Download it here. – 2 Comments

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    In reply to dontbeevil:epub is an open format. No licensing required.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft is Killing EPUB Support in Edge Classic – 17 Comments

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    Password Managers are your friend. Work across every platform and have the ability to generate very secure pas

    Posted 1 year ago on Help me find a place to store these 100 passwords – 21 Comments

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    What type of games are you playing? That would help in deciding about CPU or GPU.

    Posted 1 year ago on What to upgrade first – 13 Comments

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    Any idea if Teams for Life would be included in a Office 365 subscription or an extra/separate subscription.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Hardware Event Slated for October 2nd in NYC – 27 Comments

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    It's going to be interesting to see what Microsoft actually announces compared to what everyone wants and

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Hardware Event Slated for October 2nd in NYC – 27 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on The Patch Tuesday – 4 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:Happens less. But does still happen.

    Posted 1 year ago on iOS Bug Enables iPhone Owners to Jailbreak After Years – 10 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Cleantalk is blocking my vpn. Won’t let me log in – 3 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Changing default user folders, mapping them to Onedrive – 6 Comments

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    In reply to StevenLayton:And then it's not notepad, it is just another text editor with features that wil

    Posted 1 year ago on Notepad Will Soon Be Delivered As a Microsoft Store App in Windows 10 – 44 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Cleantalk is blocking my vpn. Won’t let me log in – 3 Comments

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    In reply to rfog:<sarcasm> That is what the users are for </sarcasm> - But yes, Microsoft really s

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Book 2 and Pro 6 Experiencing Throttling Issues – 11 Comments

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    Do you think Microsoft will eventually sell a Microsofted version of the new Samsung Phones or are they now re

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, August 16 – 10 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 8/16? – 10 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Any red flags with this laptop for $399? – 31 Comments

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    In reply to Orin:For companies, you really should stick to the Latitude line of machines. Not as good looking

    Posted 1 year ago on Any red flags with this laptop for $399? – 31 Comments

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    Small typo - under Unique hardware features, you keep saying T940s

    Posted 1 year ago on Hands-On with the Lenovo ThinkPad T490s – 17 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 8 – 2? – 13 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft’s Original HoloLens Will No Longer Receive Major Windows 10 Updates – 17 Comments

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    Less version of Windows to support. So less money to spend on testing different versions, fewer patches as the

    Posted 1 year ago on Benefit to Microsoft to push everyone to latest Windows 10 version? – 19 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Finally Fixes Windows 10 Version 1903 Blocking Issue – 17 Comments

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    I would like to win a Huawei MateBook 13

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Win a Huawei MateBook 13! – 769 Comments

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    For my Surface Pro 2017, it was firmware update and now I am offered 1903

    Posted 1 year ago on Finally got offered the 1903 update – 5 Comments

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    I have no idea what changed but now I am being offered 1903.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903 – 25 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on New Kindle Oasis Offers Variable Display Warmth – 18 Comments

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    In reply to JustMe:Tried to get the update from Windows Update Control Panel page. I haven't tried using

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903 – 25 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903 – 25 Comments

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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).

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Pro 2017 not ready for 1903 – 25 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: June 14 (Premium) – 34 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Never logging out of Windows – 10 Comments

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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. :)

    Posted 1 year ago on Cuphead coming to Tesla cars – 0 Comments

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    Soon to be followed by iPhoneOS-SmallScreen and iPhoneOS-LargeScreen

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Launches iPadOS With App Expose, Multi-Instance Apps, More – 57 Comments

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    Hopefully they can get rid of iTunes on Windows as well

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Might Be Getting Rid of iTunes – 16 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Headphones $100 off – 3 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft 365 & Azure Outage – 5 Comments

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    Not exactly a high quality group of games this month.

    Posted 1 year ago on Games with Gold for May Debuts a Day Early – 5 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Google starts blocking Edge – 16 Comments

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    Is there any benefit to using Google Fit over Apple Heath?

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Fit Comes to iOS – 13 Comments

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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 :)

    Posted 1 year ago on 1903 upgrade fails if external storage present – 13 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Suddenly, Windows 10 Doesn’t Suck (Premium) – 72 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Inbox – Simple Gmail Chrome Extension – 0 Comments

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    Do you watch e-sports (PUBG) or is your sports viewing mainly Golf?

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 4/19? – 13 Comments

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    Whats new can be found at: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/welcome/update?channel=dev&version=7

    Posted 1 year ago on New Edge gets its first weekly update – 3 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on New Edge gets its first weekly update – 3 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Galaxy Fold folds in first 24 hours – 10 Comments

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    In reply to rob_segal:And don't forget how well the Emoji movie did.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft is Plotting a Minecraft Movie … for 2022 – 3 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Xbox Maverick: All Digital Edition Leaks, Confirms May Launch – 17 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:They got a support agents password. How they got the password is the interesting qu

    Posted 1 year ago on Cybercriminals Compromised Some Outlook.com Accounts – 11 Comments

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    Apparently there is a problem if you have Sophos Endpoint or Avast anti-virus installed.https://www.bleepingco

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 10 Updates Stuck at 35% – 5 Comments

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    In reply to TheJoeFin:I like that idea, I will have to try it.

    Posted 1 year ago on Just lost my temper with a tech support scam caller – 40 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Just lost my temper with a tech support scam caller – 40 Comments

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    So far the stopping autoplay if the one function I miss from Firefox. Otherwise I like the Chredge beta.

    Posted 1 year ago on Living on the (New) Edge: Media Auto-Play – 13 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Films & TV content – 8 Comments

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    Paul - will you be trying these devices or have you sworn off Pixel devices for good?

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Just Confirmed The Pixel 3a and the Nest Hub Max – 2 Comments

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    My Surface Pro 2017 received multiple firmware updates, this does look about right.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Pro 6 Gets New Firmware Update – 9 Comments

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    Smart decision by Microsoft. One SKU is always easier.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft’s GamePass Ultimate SKU Will Help Lower The Cost of Gaming – 13 Comments

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    What is a good place to buy/rent movies and TV series online that is cross device compatible? Amazon?

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (April 5) – 15 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Huawei laptop ‘backdoor’ flaw raises concerns – 1 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Book 2 Now Offers an 8th-Generation Core i5 Configuration – 19 Comments

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    This is a comment from John Pescatore from SANS about this:The UK has been inspecting and testing Huawei’s

    Posted 1 year ago on Brits disagree with Paul’s assessment of Huawei’s security threat – 30 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:That is an issue. And their consumer stuff isn't much better. Someone reported a bu

    Posted 1 year ago on Brits disagree with Paul’s assessment of Huawei’s security threat – 30 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Brits disagree with Paul’s assessment of Huawei’s security threat – 30 Comments

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    They also said they didn't find any backdoors. However they did say that the coding was terrible and they

    Posted 1 year ago on Brits disagree with Paul’s assessment of Huawei’s security threat – 30 Comments

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    And how long before spammers start abusing this feature I wonder.

    Posted 1 year ago on Dynamic Emails Are Coming to Gmail and Outlook – 27 Comments

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    I assume you mean head to NYC instead of had to NYC?

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily Live: Apple’s to Apple – 4 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on Mixer – 3 Comments

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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.

    Posted 1 year ago on XBox One Game updates – 1 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (March 22) – 9 Comments

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    Expensive but I will still by buying the 256GB version. Perfect for my travels.

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Announces New iPad Air and iPad Mini – 83 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Taking a Black Ops Pass: Call of Duty is Losing Me (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    Everyone seems to focusing on Windows 7 EOL in January and they keep forgetting that Windows 2008R2 server EOL

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 3 15? Drop them here – 13 Comments

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    It just started showing up now for me.

    Posted 1 year ago on FRD 579 not in feed? – 2 Comments

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    Weirdly this episode is not showing in the my list of podcasts on Overcast. Last available one is 578: Sprint

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 579: Windows 7 Nags, Australia Offends – 15 Comments

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    In reply to blackcomb:Except for the small problem of not receiving security patches

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 579: Windows 7 Nags, Australia Offends – 15 Comments

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    Is Microsoft looking at giving any discounts/free upgrades to Windows 10 to help move people off Windows 7?

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft to Nag Windows 7 Users to Upgrade – 34 Comments

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    Will anyone notice that it died?

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Allo Is Officially Dead – 7 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Keep to Microsoft OneNote for the long haul: Considerations and feedback for backup or data-export (if possible?) – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Bats:Since its going to open source project, its a donation

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Plans to Bring Smooth Scrolling to Chromium – 30 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: March 8 (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    Except it doesn't support Firefox or Opera

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Revamps Skype on the Web – 15 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Amazon, Facebook, and Google – 149 Comments

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    I am assuming you use OneNote for note taking. Do you have a specific organization strategy for it?

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 3/8? Drop them here – 13 Comments

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    Would you consider getting a Surface Go if/when Windows Lite is released for the device?

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (March 8) – 12 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on USB4 = USB 3.x + Thunderbolt 3 – 30 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Here comes USB4, goodbye Thunderbolt 3 – 19 Comments

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    Looks great, problem is the standard is not officially released yet, so only expect USB4.0 production in 2020

    Posted 1 year ago on Here comes USB4, goodbye Thunderbolt 3 – 19 Comments

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    Now that Samsung, Huawei, etc have introduced foldable phones, do you think this will have any affect on Andro

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 3/1? Drop them here – 11 Comments

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    Taken directly from Slashdot, I tried to read the paper and gave up.The overall conclusions were a mixed bag.

    Posted 1 year ago on In Control with no Control: Perceptions and Reality of Windows 10 Home Edition Update Features – 3 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft CEO Defends U.S Military Contract Following Employee Pushback – 37 Comments

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    He's a spammer. Posts replies with porn links

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft, whats going on ??? Office 365 – 5 Comments

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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?

    Posted 1 year ago on Outlook.com and custom domain – 4 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (February 22) – 14 Comments

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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

    Posted 1 year ago on TV Shows Have Nothing to Do with Apple’s Brand (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    The link to the Microsoft Store needs to be updated. It contains Outlook.com as part of the link.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft’s New Office App for Windows 10 Now Available to Everyone – 10 Comments

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    Nothing much. Current American politics has no problems with monopolies.

    Posted 1 year ago on anti trust – 30 Comments

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    Only A10 or A10X CPU but honestly for a mini, that's probably good enough

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Expected to Launch New iPad Mini in the First Half of 2019 – 13 Comments

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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?

    Posted 1 year ago on Unable to upgrade to latest 19H1 Fast Ring – 27 Comments

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    Apart from Rocket League, there is nothing great there.

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Offering up to 60% Off Select Sports Games – 2 Comments

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    Probebly best to ask this on a TWIT forum since it is their podcast

    Posted 1 year ago on can’t download podcast – 1 Comments

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    They did resurrect the Surface Mini - It's called Surface Go.

    Posted 1 year ago on Surface Mini resurrection? ;) – 21 Comments

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    Any update on your email move to Outlook from Gmail?

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (February 1) – 11 Comments

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    Surface HeadphonesUgly Windows sweater (Large)

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaways, Part 3: Surface Hardware – 2088 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on Lenovo Launches Next-gen ThinkPad Laptops With Lighter Design, Upgraded Internals – 8 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on Dell Perfects the XPS 13, Brings the Webcam to the Top – 16 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Too many CES articles – 19 Comments

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    For the simple reason that some gamestypes just don't play well on a console. Think strategy games like C

    Posted 2 years ago on Maybe it’s PC gaming that could fade away, not consoles – 19 Comments

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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�

    Posted 2 years ago on Windows devices aren’t allowed at Google’s HQ due to security reasons – 21 Comments

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    In reply to Lerch:US Only. Paul has to pay for the shipping and shipping to Australia is expensive

    Posted 2 years ago on Coming Today: Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaways, Part 2 [GIVEAWAY CLOSED] – 44 Comments

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    And yet on the last Windows Weekly podcast of 2018, Chris Capisela (spellind may be wrong) said multiple devel

    Posted 2 years ago on Windows devices aren’t allowed at Google’s HQ due to security reasons – 21 Comments

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    Xbox Game Pass

    Posted 2 years ago on First Ring Daily Live: The Giveaway [GIVEAWAY CLOSED] – 663 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Coming Today: Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaways, Part 2 [GIVEAWAY CLOSED] – 44 Comments

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    In reply to Jules_Wombat:I would assume developers would use the regular full install, this would be more for

    Posted 2 years ago on Python Lands on the Windows 10 App Store – 19 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft, Forget AI. Privacy is More Central to Your Mission (Premium) – 14 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (January 4) – 21 Comments

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    Not in the least. Apple would much rather have people talking about bending iPad's than a quarterly fall

    Posted 2 years ago on was that letter to investors an attempt to bury Bendgate 2.0? – 9 Comments

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    Is Cortana still set to MAX volume as part of the setup? That should be an easy change for Microsoft.

    Posted 2 years ago on The State of Windows 10 in 2019 – 77 Comments

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    DBrand Skin and a Amazon Basics laptop sleeve

    Posted 2 years ago on Which Microsoft Surface Book 2 Case do you Recommend? – 3 Comments

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    Xbox Game Pass

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Office 365 Home and Xbox Game Pass – 491 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 21) – 16 Comments

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    Corel owns WinZip??

    Posted 2 years ago on Corel Confirms Acquisition of Parallels – 22 Comments

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    This is a learning moment, build your own system, website instead of building it on Facebook, Medium, etc, it

    Posted 2 years ago on Facebook changed how it shares posts – 7 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:I am old school, passwords only, I don't use the PIN feature.

    Posted 2 years ago on Received 1809 finally – 6 Comments

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    What are your requirements for "Paul's Perfect Note Taking Software?"

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 14) – 14 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on Received 1809 finally – 6 Comments

    comment
    Some very interesting articles. But why Medium I wonder.

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Starts Telling Its Open Source Stories – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Sprtfan:Minecraft

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 7) – 31 Comments

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    With Edge possibly being replaced by the Anaheim browser, do you think Microsoft will make it a store app

    Posted 2 years ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday (December 7) – 31 Comments

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    4 different messaging systems is supposed to be unified and more simple?????? Or at least until Google announc

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Says Goodbye to Allo – 28 Comments

    comment
    The current theory is that one of the latest cumulative updates is causing the issue. If you have enough time,

    Posted 2 years ago on Constant Surface Book 2 blue screens – 2 Comments

    comment
    I should point out that US military policy is that a human is the one who has to make the final decision on fi

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft has gone too far this time – 20 Comments

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    You can look at this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history

    Posted 2 years ago on 1809 update blocking list. – 2 Comments

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    Small typo in the first line. It says Core when I assume you mean Corel.

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: Corel to Acquire Parallels – 37 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:I would guess that it didn't affect you, people normally scream pretty quickly when

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Cloud Services unreliable compared to Google – 16 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Office 365 not working properly in Europe today2FA outage last weekAzure Outage in Septe

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Cloud Services unreliable compared to Google – 16 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Sorry Haters, But Apple is Not a Monopolist (Premium) – 43 Comments

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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.


    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Cloud Services unreliable compared to Google – 16 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Windows 10 Version 1809 Breaks Windows Media Player – 56 Comments

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    I haven't received it on my Surface Pro 2017 yet.

    Posted 2 years ago on Anyone else not yet receive 1809? – 27 Comments

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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?

    Posted 2 years ago on Installing 1809 aka 1811 – 16 Comments

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    Paul's review of the Pixel 3 was negative. Great camera let down by other issues, just something to consi

    Posted 2 years ago on Pixel 3 and 3 XL reportedly $600 & $700 on Black Friday. – 7 Comments

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    I wonder if we will be able to buy an AppleCare plan at the same time for the device.

    Posted 2 years ago on Amazon Partners With Apple to Directly Sell iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch – 23 Comments

    comment
    If you are comfortable setting up your own machine, you can try FreeNAS. It has the option for running Minecra

    Posted 2 years ago on Replacement for Windows Home Server 2011 – 14 Comments

    comment
    It will be interesting to see if they allow cross network (XBox vs Playstation) play.

    Posted 2 years ago on PUBG is Coming to PS4 in December – 3 Comments

    comment
    Sadly no new iPad Mini.

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Unveils New iPad Pros With Edge-to-Edge Display, Face ID, USB-C More – 88 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (October 26) – 25 Comments

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    An Apple Mini with A11 or A12 Processor would be great. It doesn't need Apple Pencil. Doesn't even

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Expected to Launch New iPad Mini As Early As This Year – 24 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on Google’s Reliability Issues Continue with Pixel 3 – 67 Comments

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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?

    Posted 2 years ago on Outlook.com Personal email address – 9 Comments

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    Hopefully it will even remember what you removed so if you do another install linked to your account, you don&

    Posted 2 years ago on Windows 10 Now Lets You Uninstall More of the Pre-Installed Apps – 65 Comments

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    Interface aside. Which email provider do you think is better. Outlook.com or Gmail/GApps

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (October 12) – 18 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Facebook Launches Portal Smart Display – 16 Comments

    comment
    In reply to digiguy:There is a powerbank with surfaceconnect??? What brand and is it on Amazon?

    Posted 2 years ago on Surface Pro 6 Launches With Upgraded Internals, New Black Color – 26 Comments

    comment
    $1500 is pushing it past decent laptop pricing

    Posted 2 years ago on Lost in the Keynote, Apple Raises Prices on iPhone and Watch – 87 Comments

    comment
    Small typo: other fFfice 

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft To-Do Gets a Redesigned Web App – 2 Comments

    comment
    With the Surface Pro/Book only expected to have a major re-design in 2019. What would you like to see in a new

    Posted 2 years ago on Questions for 9/6 – 13 Comments

    comment
    Headline really should have been: Amazon Hits $1 Trillion Valuation briefly

    Posted 2 years ago on Amazon Hits $1 Trillion Valuation – 7 Comments

    comment
    Google Keep as a sticky note app is fairly good as it syncs across devices well. Google Keeps as note taking a

    Posted 2 years ago on Insane list of best note taking apps published by the verge – 13 Comments

    comment
    That is better name than Spring/Summer 201X update which only applies for half the planet.

    Posted 2 years ago on Yes, Redstone 5 Will Be Named the October 2018 Update – 21 Comments

    comment
    I have seen Thurrott.com mentioned on Slashdot several time recently. Do you see any difference in traffic (sl

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (August 31) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to steinbring:Sadly I think FaceID will replace the fingerprint sensor in general.

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Announces Its iPhone Event – 20 Comments

    comment
    I would love to have a proper Kindle App, Amazon Video App and Pocket app for offline reading. This is more a

    Posted 2 years ago on "Good Enough" Computing – 36 Comments

    comment
    Sticky Notes and OneNote seem to be competing with each other

    Posted 2 years ago on Sticky Notes Coming to Mobile Alongside Major Windows 10 Update – 14 Comments

    comment
    SwiftKey on the Surface Go would be very interesting.

    Posted 2 years ago on Hands-On with Redstone 5: Endgame – 41 Comments

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    In reply to mclanasa:Sometime in September. Or October.

    Posted 2 years ago on Hands-On with Redstone 5: Endgame – 41 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I didn't know about this feature, very useful

    Posted 2 years ago on Apps I need a Surface Go which aren’t available – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Stocklone:I did not know about PlayOn, looks interesting and useful

    Posted 2 years ago on Apps I need a Surface Go which aren’t available – 9 Comments

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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


    1. Kindle Reader
    2. Amazon Prime Video (With offline download)
    3. Udemy App (With offline download)

    Posted 2 years ago on Apps I need a Surface Go which aren’t available – 9 Comments

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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?

    Posted 2 years ago on What will you be using Surface Go for? – 14 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on XBox sale now on *(again) – 1 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on surface desktop – 14 Comments

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    Brad and Paul will be very happy to buy these :)

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft May Finally Announce the Next-Gen Elite Controller Next Month – 10 Comments

    comment
    I am behind on my listening to First Ring Daily, but did you decide if you were going to buy a Switch and what

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (July 13) – 38 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Tip: Get a Surface Pro Platinum Bundle for Just $799 – 9 Comments

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    Which model of the Surface Laptop are you using?

    Posted 2 years ago on Surface Laptop: A Year Later – First Impressions – 5 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:It's a corporatation, there is always CYA at any level

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (June 29) – 18 Comments

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    Any chance you can get a Lenovo X1 Tablet 3rd Gen to review?

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (June 29) – 18 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Things I would like to see in the a new Surface Pro – 12 Comments

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    I am also using Firefox 61 but I am not getting an error messages on the site.

    Posted 2 years ago on Firefox 61 breaks site? – 13 Comments

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    Things I would like to see in the a new Surface Pro

    1. Release date in 2018
    2. Intel 8th Gen CPU's
    3. USB C Port with optional charging
    4. Updated Intel Iris graphics


    Things I would like to see but I know won't happen

    1. i5 model with 16GB RAM
    2. Use screws instead of glue to put the machine together
    3. User replaceable battery and drive
    4. USB C Port with Thunderbolt
    5. Base i5 model sold as a complete package with keyboard

    Posted 2 years ago on Things I would like to see in the a new Surface Pro – 12 Comments

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    We will give you a USB C connector like you asked for, but you are not going to like it

    Posted 2 years ago on Surface USB-C Dongle Reportedly Shipping This Week – 22 Comments

    comment
    Are there any specific benefits of using Microsoft To Do instead of say Todoist?

    Posted 2 years ago on Questions for 6/22? – 19 Comments

    comment
    Rank your Favorite Call of Duty Game from Most Favorite to Least Favorite and Why.Also Fortnite or PUBG?

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (June 22) – 6 Comments

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    Are there any stats on viewers using Mixer to view the E3 Announcements?

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft’s E3 Broadcast Sets Twitch Record – 11 Comments

    comment
    I assume you mean CDMA instead of CDMI

    Posted 2 years ago on OnePlus 6 Has Already Sold One Million Units – 17 Comments

    Forum Post

    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

    Posted 2 years ago on Lenovo X1 Tablet (3rd Gen) – 5 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Carmel, Libra, and Andromeda are the next wave of Surface Devices – 81 Comments

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    I am mostly looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077, but that was always a 2019 (hopefully) release.

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft’s E3 Announcements Were a Whole Lot of 2019 (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    Outlook.com spam filtering has always been terrible. And they recently had issues where everything got moved t

    Posted 2 years ago on Outlook.com email processing issues. – 6 Comments

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    Look at getting an iPhone SE with some kind of case.

    Posted 2 years ago on Best phone for kid’s first phone… – 19 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Google to Microsoft – 23 Comments

    comment
    Is Thurrott.com completely GPDR compliant. I have not received a useless email about GPDR compliance yet fro

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday, June 1 – 25 Comments

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    Have you heard anything about a possible Surface Refresh (Dates, devices etc)?

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday, June 1 – 25 Comments

    comment
    Also depends on your TV. One S for HD TV's and One X for UHD TV's

    Posted 2 years ago on Is XBox One S till a good deal? – 6 Comments

    comment
    In reply to rmlounsbury:Core M CPU's and 4GB RAM means these are not going to be the most speedy devices

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: Low-Cost Surface Tablet Coming in 2018 – 127 Comments

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    Kind of surprising that no ARM model is mentioned, this is the type of device it was built for.

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: Low-Cost Surface Tablet Coming in 2018 – 127 Comments

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    Just needs some good apps. Kindle, Amazon Video (Offline), NetFlix etc.

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: Low-Cost Surface Tablet Coming in 2018 – 127 Comments

    comment
    In reply to wright_is:Which works well for business, not really an option for home users.

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (May 11) – 21 Comments

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    Now that the Office Apps are generally available from the Microsoft Store, which is the better method for inst

    Posted 2 years ago on Ask Paul for this Friday (May 11) – 21 Comments

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    In reply to tbtalbot:People actually use XPS documents?

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Details Deprecated and Removed Features in Windows 10 Version 1803 – 48 Comments

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    I think you mean 1805

    Posted 2 years ago on All Quiet on the Windows 10 1803 front – 8 Comments

    comment
    There was a discussion on Twitter about naming Windows releases after different dog breeds. Paul didn't a

    Posted 2 years ago on Behold the April (2018) Update. Sorry (Updated) – 72 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Questions for 4/20? – 6 Comments

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    I can visit the ZDNet pages/All About Microsoft again without annoying videos :) It doesn't stop video�

    Posted 2 years ago on Chrome 66 Arrives, Mutes Auto-Play Videos – 20 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft’s Opportunity To Capitalize on Data Privacy (Premium) – 10 Comments

    comment
    In reply to ulrichr:There are various PowerShell scripts floating around that do exactly this. They will just

    Posted 2 years ago on What Led to this Mess (Premium) – 81 Comments

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    Corre i5?

    Posted 2 years ago on Get $150 Off Select Surface Book 2 Models – 5 Comments

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    Hopefully they update the Surface Pro/Surface Book/Surface Laptop recovery images to 1803 soon. Otherwise its

    Posted 2 years ago on Here Comes Windows 10 Version 1803 – 39 Comments

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    I wonder how many of those are actual Edge users ;)

    Posted 2 years ago on How Many Windows Users? (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    Windows, Office 365, many Steam games and GOG games, Paint.net, filebot.net and Evernote. Then donations to VL

    Posted 2 years ago on What software do you pay for? – 26 Comments

    comment
    In reply to wright_is:I personally thought that the second season was better as they got rid of a few annoying

    Posted 2 years ago on Report Reveals Amazon’s Internal Prime Video Data – 18 Comments

    comment
    You have moved back to Chrome from Firefox?

    Posted 2 years ago on Living with S Mode: The Series (Premium) – 30 Comments

    comment
    Wired is the way to go for HD content inside your network.

    Posted 2 years ago on The Essentials: The Missing Piece to My Cord Cutting Home (Premium) – 24 Comments

    comment
    Now I just have to wait for it to come out on Steam as previous Windows Store releases were not exactly handle

    Posted 2 years ago on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Arrives on Windows 10 – 17 Comments

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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

    Posted 2 years ago on Exclusive: Microsoft Plots a Transition Year for Windows 10 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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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.

    Posted 2 years ago on Leaving G Suite (Premium) – 68 Comments

    comment
    It's not surprising, modern PC's are are powerful enough to run just about all applications for year

    Posted 3 years ago on PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Six Years (Premium) – 59 Comments

    comment
    In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:Could be worse, I paid for the Windows Vista Ultimate to get all those future extras

    Posted 3 years ago on What tech do you regret buying? – 63 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on How I Write: Tools (Premium) – 29 Comments

    comment
    $29 for a replacement battery is reasonable. Slowing down people's phones and not telling them is not.

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Apologizes for Throttling iPhones, Offers $29 Replacement Batteries – 66 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on Raising Tech: A Child in the Always on World (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    Are you using any two factor authentication systems other than the Microsoft Authenticator for Microsoft sites

    Posted 3 years ago on Questions for 12/22 – 5 Comments

    comment
    Weird question, but I can't find the Microsoft Complete plan for Surface Book 2, anybody seen it?

    Posted 3 years ago on Surface Book 2’s First Firmware Update Brings Stability Improvements – 5 Comments

    comment
    In reply to RonH:Like most movies, historical accuracy is an after thought. But it is still fun to play.

    Posted 3 years ago on Call of Duty: WWII Made $500 Million in Three Days – 11 Comments

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    I want to see some reviews before I put my money down

    Posted 3 years ago on You Can Now Pre-Order Surface Book 2 – 18 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft is Killing Outlook.com Premium – 83 Comments

    comment
    Any idea if the Recovery Images for the SP4 have been updated yet?

    Posted 3 years ago on Tip: Get the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update as Quickly as Possible – 44 Comments

    comment
    And a nice new security hole which exposes all your passwords in the keyring in plaintext.

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Delivers macOS High Sierra – 31 Comments

    comment
    In reply to Polycrastinator:That would make way to much sense as Paul has said before

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to Arrive October 17 – 21 Comments

    comment
    Bing, its bigger than you though everywhere except Africa.

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft: “Bing is Bigger Than You Think” – 48 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: Internet and Mesh Wi-Fi (Premium) – 62 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on There Should Be Only One Windows 10 Product Edition – 90 Comments

    comment
    Treesize (Free version of paid version) from Jam Software is also pretty good for this type of thing. The paid

    Posted 3 years ago on The Essentials: Freeing Up Space, the Smart Way (Premium) – 33 Comments

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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

    Posted 3 years ago on Is Thurrott.com affected by Cloudflare’s leak? – 6 Comments

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    Any recommendations or websites or books on learning OneNote 2016? I am considering moving off Evernote when m

    Posted 4 years ago on A Few Tips for Integrating OneNote Into Your Life – 39 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Cheapens Windows 10 with Ads – 51 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 years ago on Windows Server 2016, the End of an Era (Premium Only) – 26 Comments

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    I assume you mean Linux and not Linux in this sentance: Linus sits at 2.11 percent usage, Netmarketshare

    Posted 4 years ago on Saying No to Surface Phone (Premium Only) – 68 Comments

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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

    Posted 4 years ago on The Perfect Thing (Premium) – 56 Comments

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