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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well "The Interview" certainly ranks right down there.

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

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

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

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

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