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    Hmm, four notification toasts? I sure don't miss them, as notifications are one of the first things I turned o

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Releases April Patch Tuesday Updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 – 12 Comments

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    In other words, Microsoft relies on having a firm Monopoly, and a government to fracked up to do anything abou

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Has No Plans to Let You Move the Windows 11 Taskbar – 104 Comments

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    I'm of the same cut when it comes to being inept at home maintenance. However, I have built and still can fix

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 29 – 8 Comments

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    Go back and ACTUALLY read the article. The problem is very real and absolutely abhorrent to anyone who wishes

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft Confirms Its Anticompetitive and User Hostile Behavior is Purposeful – 87 Comments

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    Me, no. I have no use for Outlook or Adobe. The computer should use my choice for all protocols and file types

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds – 121 Comments

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    There is no reason that a browser needs to be baked into an os. Time has proven again and again that Microsoft

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds – 121 Comments

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    I guess what you have to look out for is that they said they aren't just dropping support, but that they are g

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft to Kill OneDrive for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 in Early 2022 – 41 Comments

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    Ya, when I read that, I remember reading back in the '90s when Bill Gates saw Mozilla for the first time he go

    Posted 6 months ago on Visual Studio Code Comes to the Web – 6 Comments

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    Posted 6 months ago on Visual Studio Code Comes to the Web – 6 Comments

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    Ctrl-Shift-Escape. Don't ask me why I've got that memorized...

    Posted 7 months ago on Start11 is Getting a Big Update Next Week – 42 Comments

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    Ya, at Microsoft customization is adding a Dark theme. Which only took about 30 years. Another 30 years and al

    Posted 7 months ago on Start11 is Getting a Big Update Next Week – 42 Comments

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    This goes hand in hand with the decades old decision of MS to integrate the browser so deeply into Windows tha

    Posted 8 months ago on Those Windows 11 Instabilities Were Caused by a Microsoft Ad – 86 Comments

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    "open Task Manager (ironically now harder to do in Windows 11)"WTF did Microsoft do to make opening Task Manag

    Posted 8 months ago on Microsoft Issues Fixes for Windows 11 Instability – 25 Comments

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    Is this why my results from google.ccom.netwiff.cn are always so unreliable? Maybe I'll switch to blng.com...

    Posted 11 months ago on Google Quietly Gives Up on URL Shortening in Chrome – 13 Comments

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    Australian's should be so lucky! Think of the return to normalcy and decency that would occur to society

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Threatens to Pull Search From Australia – 42 Comments

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    Gonna be honest. Since my retirement as a Software Engineer, I find sticking to the Premium edition of Thurrot

    Posted 1 year ago on A New Support Plan for the Windows 10 Field Guide – 38 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Yes, and another reason not to use the Bug called Edge, ever. Imagine a Bug that ac

    Posted 1 year ago on Office PWA Installs Caused by Microsoft Edge Bug – 16 Comments

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    In reply to karlinhigh:That's the incredible part. I argue that the only good government is minimal gover

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: July 10 (Premium) – 41 Comments

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    Well that cleared up... Nothing. Sorry the Xbox Series X is the consoles part of what exactly?

    Posted 2 years ago on And Now, Some More Confusion About the Next-Gen Xbox Branding – 13 Comments

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    In reply to jdmp10:Google makes an open source OS that these others can benefit from and do their own thing wi

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Announces Impressive Set of Pixel “Feature Drops” – 12 Comments

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    I assume you did this simply as a test. I want them on the PC FOR the mouse and keyboard...

    Posted 2 years ago on Hands-On with Halo: Reach for PC – 16 Comments

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    In reply to TriplePlayed:Perhaps it's because I have Xbox ultimate pass. I can and have downloaded the ga

    Posted 2 years ago on Hands-On with Halo: Reach for PC – 16 Comments

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    It's always amazing when down in the trenches when you suddenly get hit by one of those wonderful moments

    Posted 2 years ago on From the Editor’s Desk (Monday, November 11) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:You've made the classic mistake of believing that aggressive competitiveness i

    Posted 2 years ago on Gates Gets It Wrong Again on Windows Mobile (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    Of the titles I'd be interested in I already have, well, all of them. So I will be able to pass on this f

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Announces the Games Coming to Stadia – 26 Comments

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    I love the idea of a Chaos Manor column. Great idea for at least one letter a month if they are weekly...

    Posted 2 years ago on From the Editor’s Desk (Wednesday, September 11) – 80 Comments

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    I'm glad the EU has recognized this. However, I still side with Google and the First Amendment. If you ha

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Wins Key “Right to be Forgotten” Ruling – 37 Comments

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    God was that UI horrible. Those blocky buttons, horrible gray and lack of tabs. I'm so glad we've mo

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Hello, HTML – 12 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:Agreed. First of all Chromium is open source. And as @wright_js has said, Google won

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Internet Strategy Workshop (Premium) – 9 Comments

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    Another great piece of the story.It's funny, but in the 30+ years as a Software Engineer (recently retire

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Hello, JavaScript (Premium) – 3 Comments

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    Those were the days. Thinking back to how much the "embrace ,extend and extinguish," phrase would come back to

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: The Internet Tidal Wave (Premium) – 3 Comments

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    "As always history is written by the victor..."That's an old bon mot that is known to be false to student

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Cairo, a Road Not Taken (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    I have to say I was following this all until I was suddenly triggered by the abbreviation: 'KEI'That

    Posted 2 years ago on Intel’s Project Athena is “Engineered for Mobile Performance” – 18 Comments

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    Ya, well. What is Andromeda? I haven't heard of it, but I've mostly been in working on Cloud based s

    Posted 2 years ago on Whatever Happened to Andromeda ? – 27 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango: "Someone doesn't have to work for a company to ask for value-for-value. If you wo

    Posted 2 years ago on Make No Mistake … The Major Tech/Gaming Companies LOVE Borders … – 33 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Actually its a reason we should all want a much much smaller government in general. Defen

    Posted 2 years ago on Make No Mistake … The Major Tech/Gaming Companies LOVE Borders … – 33 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:Wow that's crazy. I mean, that anyone is still using J++...

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Java (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    continues: Java takes over most of the internet, on top of Linux based servers. Still in use by the majority o

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Java (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    I think there are two main points of your article that reveal Gates', and therefore Microsoft's, fun

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: Marvel (Premium) – 9 Comments

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    It's an interesting read, I was only marginally aware of this story as I was on another path back then. M

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows: The Windows NT Death March (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    Why I was so happy to get my new Pixel 3XL on the Fi day anniversary earlier this year, at a 50% discount. I g

    Posted 2 years ago on Told You So? Nope (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    In reply to PeteB:It's not just a matter of preference, it's a matter of holding the OS vendors resp

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Is Slowly Moving Away From the Windows Defender Branding – 25 Comments

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    Certainly an interesting idea for a series. I like that you will include the mobile failure of Windows in the

    Posted 2 years ago on Programming Windows, the Series (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    The only force that can change this is market force. So called green energy has to become plentiful enough and

    Posted 2 years ago on Amazon Shareholders Rejected Proposals on Climate Change – 46 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:That is to say, someone has been trying to convince you of that for your entire life. Ho

    Posted 2 years ago on Amazon Shareholders Rejected Proposals on Climate Change – 46 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:File system operations in Windows are still sluggish and slow. Traversing large git re

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 to Include a Linux Kernel for WSL – 62 Comments

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    Pricing is yet to be announced because they are still trying to revive the first people they told the price to

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    Been a Roku user for years, and currently use Roku 4s in Family Room and Bedroom. I have both Apple TV and Chr

    Posted 3 years ago on Roku Now Has 27 Million Active Users – 26 Comments

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    Probably won't allow multiple computer setups. Advantage of the Personal(?) Edition of O365 is I can inst

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Reportedly Working on a Consumer Version of Microsoft 365 – 61 Comments

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    Oh you mean DVD driveless XBox. When I read the title I thought we were talking about streaming game consoles.

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 – 68 Comments

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    The process needs to reflect more than "how many people reported the problem." This bug is in the category of

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Has A Software Quality Problem – 114 Comments

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    Ok, this is the indefensible bug. Deleting user data is and will always be unforgivable. Microsoft needs to fi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update – 76 Comments

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    In reply to Stoffel:Sounds like you have a custom theme loaded. Go to settings->theme and reset to default

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Chrome Gets New Design, Smarter Suggestions, Increased Security – 20 Comments

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    Sounds like my Pixel 2XL resolves this issue in a simpler way.Just sayin'

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pulled the Android Launcher I Just Recommended from the Play Store – 12 Comments

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    As Paul stated Microsoft didn't bring these charges. The Feds did. In addition, not one, but two judges c

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Under Fire for Role in Counterfeiting Case (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    In reply to Siv:Paul has correctly pointed out that this is a Cloud/iOT move, not anything to do with the Desk

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Moves Aggressively to Secure Its Future (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to djross95:You are in luck. The perfect desktop OS has been around for years, is stable and robust a

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Moves Aggressively to Secure Its Future (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    The nails in the coffin of the once dominant OS grow by the day. The Windows proprietary kernel has been marke

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft’s Next OS is Based on Linux, Not Windows – 89 Comments

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    Good points, and as you say, quite predictable. I suspect a big piece of this comes from the old days where re

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft, Please Pay Attention to What Apple is Doing with iOS (Premium) – 44 Comments

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    Obviously and irrefutably.This is the kind of statement that makes me love Paul, and many journalists. No need

    Posted 4 years ago on Barcelona Will Be the Next Major Open Source Failure (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    I have to agree that the cycle of upgrades is slowing. As a developer and hard core gamer I was astounded to f

    Posted 4 years ago on PC Sales Have Now Fallen for Six Years (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    Still working fine here:"Ok Google. What song is playing?"Mayhaps Microsoft just doesn't want the desktop

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft (Kind Of) Kills Cortana’s Music Recognition Feature – 35 Comments

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    Comparing the Windows store to the iOS or Android stores is pretty brazen, and laughable. However if Apple doe

    Posted 4 years ago on Apple Follows in Microsoft’s Footsteps. Again (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to ChesterChihuahua:That's true, as long as we ignore a few things. Like being able to state the

    Posted 4 years ago on Hands-Free Calling Comes to Google Home – 13 Comments

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    Microsoft seriously needs to learn from Linux and loadable modules. Very few changes should require a reboot.

    Posted 4 years ago on Microsoft Updates the Shipping Versions of Windows 10, Again – 61 Comments

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    A lot of options here for Apple. And being as stealthy as they are I wonder where they are in comparison to th

    Posted 4 years ago on Apple CEO Admits to Autonomous Car Project – 28 Comments

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    If Timeline would mean I could save windows associated with a desktop in some way, so I could just start up wi

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Announces the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – 31 Comments

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    I couldn't agree more. In the mind 90's when Apple was teetering on the brink they decided to abando

    Posted 5 years ago on Microsoft Cannot Afford to Lose the Education Market – 121 Comments

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    I had three things I wanted to see in a new MacBook Pro last year. Thirty-two GB of RAM, better graphics proce

    Posted 5 years ago on Apple Says Its Sorry. No, Really (Premium) – 50 Comments

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    The only update I might be interested in is the Game performance improvements. What exactly are those?Given th

    Posted 5 years ago on It’s a Date! Windows 10 Creators Update to Ship on April 11 – 44 Comments

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    The real problem is that we're still stuck with using passwords for authentication in the first place. So

    Posted 5 years ago on LastPass Quickly Fixes New Vulnerabilities – 22 Comments

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    Perhaps CoD: Vercingetorix vs. Julius Caesar. Nothing like ancient siege warfare to slow the action down.

    Posted 5 years ago on Activision Admits Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Failure – 18 Comments

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    Why does anyone care about UWP or UWP like apps? Those were all killed off by the horrid apps that Microsoft m

    Posted 5 years ago on Project NEON is an Important Step Forward for Windows 10 (Premium) – 34 Comments

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    Well "The Interview" certainly ranks right down there.

    Posted 5 years ago on 2016 Year in Review: My Top Tweets – 13 Comments

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    So using your maths: 1Million voice queries/day * 7 days/week / 5 queries/user = 1.4Million AU's or there abou

    Posted 5 years ago on Dissection: A Closer Look At Cortana Usage, Growth And Competitors – 20 Comments

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    In reply to GeneCrispr: Wow, I bought that i5 8GB/256GB for $1299 from local MicroCenter a few months back, bu

    Posted 5 years ago on 12 Days of Deals Winds Down with Surface Pro 4 Sale – 3 Comments

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    Hate is a strong term for a screen ratio. I think the move to 16:9 seemed like a cool idea because of video co

    Posted 5 years ago on 16:9 Screens. Why the hate? – 14 Comments

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    Ok, I see the arguments for High End content creators and creative types needing some newer hardware than Appl

    Posted 5 years ago on Surface Studio: Aspirational or Delusional? – 91 Comments

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    Honestly, Microsoft got themselves into trouble when they started confusing the OS with the GUI. The two are d

    Posted 5 years ago on Windows 8 Was My Fault – 69 Comments

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