I think realistically they have already lost two generations of devs. The Web generation and the mobile genera
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They might be stretching the brand a little bit far. Sure, 'Thinkpad' really means 'Lenovo that doesn't suck'
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Condolences.
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The lack of a Windows 11 number is not great. It's looking more and more like Windows 10: Intel edition.
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Yes! And Microsoft’s constant remakes, retreats and redos of the netbook market really resemble the “Detro
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Ridiculous idea. But it does give us an opportunity to point out that Office 365, Surface and Windows On ARM a
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Well, inflation is a thing. They do make cheaper phones.
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Very funny. Everyone knows that Windows 11 is the last version of Windows, ever, forever, Amen.
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Well, no, not yet they aren’t. They are incredible machines but there’s no top end GPU yet or a full deskt
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I suspect that they are slowly embiggening the MBA to drive people to the clearly inferior but more profitable
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No, I'm not giving you that. Apple made ARM chips that run x86 software faster than the x86 chips. Microsoft n
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Nailed it! This is the correct take. MS’s quest for the white whale of affordable mobile computing has achie
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I thought that was the case, too. I regularly checked those sales and this new Surface is a big bump up - unde
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Their Galaxy phones are unimpeachable as hardware. 4 years and the original battery was fine, there were no re
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winget
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It was literally updated in 2019. Now that they’ve started tinkering with it, they’ll never stop.Glad ther
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Intel has the same issue!It's related to the security mitigation 'fixes' for the CPUs, and as long as that fea
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I think the price raise on the base Surface is a lot easier to accept than the keyboard price increase. It has
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It's just a like-for-like price comparison, we're all well aware that you can purchase other accessories.
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It's notable in particular that removing 'drag and drop' functionality doesn't really simplify anything, since
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Microsoft would be thrilled if you played this on Xbox Cloud Gaming, no gaming PC or Xbox required.
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For all that thickness and venting I'm not sure it will outperform an m1/m1x ipad, are you?I think we need to
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Well, they closed the stores I enjoyed. That must make you thrilled.
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Well, you know what you're doing and clearly MS could give you a 'Windows Industrial' or 'Windows Kiosk' or ev
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Left unmentioned above, the tablet PC starts with a Pentium and 4gb of RAM. MS is ruling out various gaming PC
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There was clearly a SoC supply issue this year, which is also why it's an older chipset, and a single size as
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Yes, virtualization can be inefficient, except on ARM-based Macs. One wonders, also, why the Quallcomm devices
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A bug in an ad can't reasonably be expected to crash your system unless a mistake was made. The current Window
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16:9 would be awful except for how small this is, it really reminds me of the original MBA. Obviously a differ
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I just want to know why they went through so much pain and trouble to force everyone and their mother onto Win
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Indeed, I think everyone expects chromebooks to operate only online, and how many people can do office work of
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I'd love to have a collector's Windows 95 version of Windows 11 when it comes out. Start me up!
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Can we get an update on the ARM x64 compatibility? Another mini-review perhaps?
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Pretty sure you can generate those, how do you think hobbyists are going to continue to build PCs? This is lik
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That's a lot of PC in fourteen inches.
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Announcing Android Apps, but with an Amazon/Intel partnership of all things, was really offputting. Much like
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Ahem. There will be silent, background updates. I assume the not-annual security updates?
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They've also hinted at a huge App Store makeover. I'm not sure what that means, if they don't merge with Valve
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Nonsense. People change their mind all the time, and most everyone using Windows has no choice, anyway. Never
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IE is also formally tied to Windows 10 by name. There are probably other instances where they can drop support
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There's no chance that this will be a major change. The name change will be for branding. They tried to embrac
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They always had custom, user created, cloud-based challenges, and add in the ability to build track, basically
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So, what is the state of ‘inking’ on Windows? App deprived? Fine? Depends?
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I think windows is less demanding these days. Certain applications aren’t, but windows is fine.
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Productivity apps for MS have become like Linux distros: Too many to count, every tinkerer has one, and almost
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Not just equivalent Intel chips. This device costs twice as much as an overpriced iPad Pro, but has worse perf
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Android and MacOS do the same, of course, and it should be considered industry standard to default to store ap
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The last Galaxy books (Galaxy Book S Arm and Intel versions) were just an amazing design and beat the Macbooks
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In reply to MikeCerm:I’m not sure. I wirelessly charged my Galaxy s8 and it still has plenty of juice. Certa
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In reply to bettyblue:Sure, but it's a silly post anyway. This thing can play anything an Xbox One or Swi
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In reply to Username:MS doesn't need the branding assistance, first, and, second, half of these are AMD l
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All of Dell's biggest news seems to be financial engineering nonsense. Took themselves private, took them
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In reply to yaddamaster:The Wintel laptops still did not improve until Intel funded MBA style designs with the
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In reply to bluvg:What do you mean? They're already outsourcing, it was announced last year. That's
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In reply to MikeCerm:"Bad product has good availability" you don't say?
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They've dropped gold as a requirement for certain free games, they've run out of good free games for
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It's really tough to assess Wintel notebook performance right now. Clearly business focused laptops can&#
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I assume the publishers of sports titles can do this because they've moved so much of their profit to add
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They need to get back to support the basic needs of users. Supply basic built-in apps that competitors current
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In reply to shark47:It's a valid competition, esp when MS runs ads directly against Macs, when Macs compe
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In reply to nbplopes:Arguably the TV is the weak link, both the streaming service and the hardware. Both are w
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An I've never listened to this before and Brad sounds just like a spreadsheet come to life. "Interpolatio
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In reply to b6gd:Agreed. Left unsaid by Paul is that there were two major entry level surface models released
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I'm really glad Paul choose a Razor, really like their designs, but it's hardly comparable in specs,
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It is weird not so much the price jump - that's dumb more than weird - but that there are any changes at
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The single window seems prescient really. We all have multiple devices, screens are cheaper and bigger every y
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This is such a cynical hijacking of our security apparatus solely to make Biden and Democrats look bad if they
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In reply to Adlton:Apple has run two OSs in tandem for years now. MS has always had multiple major versions of
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I'm not surprise they were released early, given that last year's phones underperformed due to being
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"Sparkling Black"? ~groan~
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I remember posters insisting that MS was just 'showing OEMs the way' to quality PCs or something wit
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In reply to Truffles:No, it's a good point, it's easier on iphones and ipads for example. We don
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In reply to nbplopes:A Mac Mini set up for remote access would make a ton of sense, but also he reviews tech f
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In reply to beholderseye:Because they need to? This isn't hard.
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In reply to SvenJ:No, I don't think so. Project is in the MS365 cloud, and Access is not long for this wo
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In reply to RobertJasiek:They also got better battery life and displayed video better in the pre-ipad/3 giant
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Don't be afraid to do a version 2.0 if MS continues forever with 10. And no need to philosophize publicly
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Hulu always suffered by comparison to Netflix because the content was so unreliable in availability - it start
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In reply to Waethorn:No more trials, it was in the news a little while ago. Everyone is doing away with it, ye
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I think they could very easily sell out a more expensive sku with more storage. It's not just inflation t
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In reply to Nickel:The international market is far more important to them, and most everywhere else in the wor
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Whoa, look at those pictures! The only IT worker in America leaving the house.I will argue one point: I also h
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In reply to the escalation:So much this. It's a shame that there's no pointing device built-in. But
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In reply to TucoToby:That's not egregious though, RAM requirements have been pretty static for the Window
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In reply to blue77star:Intel has already admitted that they have to use other people's fabs, so they won&
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Being able to upgrade ram and storage is almost worth getting a huge 15" laptop. It's really a smart dire
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Clearly, Paul, the solution for you to obtain a new Xbox Series Something this holiday series is for you and y
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In reply to truerock2:I think that's a little extreme. I love a pocketable phone for outdoor activities
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In reply to Minke:The pricing lie is beneath Apple. They have a virtual monopoly in the US, they don't ha
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In reply to wright_is:They already had all the money and all the data. This was to benefit Youtube, but was ex
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In reply to kb923689:Most people listen to old music, even kids. But it's so much easier to use a streami
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In reply to scovious:They won't be in the music business much longer anyway. They were always a also-ran,
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I knew they were moving me to 'youtube music' and hoped that the transition would last long enough t
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In reply to Daekar:I'm not sure what you're objecting to. It's still Qi charging, compatible wi
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In reply to solomonrex:As I recall, it was better on data and battery, too, but that hardly matters for me in
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I had switched a year ago, got annoyed (I'm old, it happens) and switched back to Google News. Which the
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This was a seriously low key, predictable keynote. Really the only surprises were disappointments - the SE is
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In reply to krusador:Easter colors are fine? Do we have to complain about choice?
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In reply to sevenacids:This looks like a classic right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. The
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That is tiny. I'm hoping it's at least a One X inside, anything less would be disappointing.
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This is a tough announcement to make after they Osborned it by announcing a collaboration with other fabs. I&#
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In reply to millicentpartridge2:It's $100 more to equal storage, but I think you're right. Add in th
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In reply to wright_is:I have an 'old' s8 and unfortunately they switched to quarterly updates!? The
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I believe you're thinking of where it's manufactured? Taiwan would then be
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In reply to Saarek:They're fine for children, and will be for years. Even smartphones aren't improvi
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Because Apple will support it for 5+ years, not just 3 or so.I think Microsoft has
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In reply to paul-thurrott:They should ship something, though.If the new model is, you know, Forza Horizon 4, a
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In reply to saturn:I used it as a music locker for free, as well, and I can't figure out why they're
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In reply to JG1170:Except they spiked that concept when they ended the Xbox One X instead of making it cheaper
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In reply to Silversee:That part is not hard, obviously it's difficult because it's almost the same n
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Ultimately, people but the iPhone SE because it's the Toyota Camry if the phone world or because of the a
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In reply to JG1170:I don't know how serious you are, but I would like to see a mobile+cloud plan from the
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In reply to YouWereWarned:Everyone is already home though?This is mostly at the top level, as far as I can tel
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In reply to CompUser:It's normal for companies to reorg every couple years, for normal companies. At the
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In reply to jumpingjackflash5:You really need to shelve that. There have been bumps, but some of us have been
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So it's a little off-putting to see MS fall into the reorg trap a bit, but their business is transforming
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Where's the antitrust lawsuit? An app store for a billion devices is a monopoly.
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With MS getting into more mobile tablets and closing their stores and scaling back mobile Cortana, I really wo
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Probably their best phone from a design angle, and with a fingerprint reader, will avoid the last debacle. The
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Oh, and I forgot that for Samsung, this comes after MS shut its stores down, a minor outlet for selling Samsun
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While Samsung's services are a no-go outside Korea, I'm sure many people have at least tried MS serv
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In reply to proftheory:Which they do? They've made Apple chips from time to time, and Apple being extreme
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In reply to blue77star:That is ridiculous. The 14nm fabs at Intel are all established and paid off. This is th
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As small as Apple's market share is, they have a large share of profitable high end Intel chips, and this
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In reply to toukale:You don't need to root for them. With this admission, it's a lead pipe cinch loc
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In reply to reefer:Don't spread misinformation. The worst issues of those two vulnerabilities were Intel-
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:That is a complete 180 to Intel's business model, involved a lot of disrupti
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In reply to pierrelatour:America is going to lose its last chip making facilities because Intel had no competi
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:MS as a tech giant will generally benefit from recessions, but also specifically
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Look, everyone, there's complaints when he's negative, now complaints when he's positive. He�
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This feels unnecessary. Like, trying to push a disc post bluray. Just like 3d went nowhere and VR hasn't
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What I would like to see here is a new vision. I'd like to see less of a Netflix, and more of a apple arc
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In reply to SvenJ:If a macbook can't handle producing an IOS app, I'd say they can't ditch Inte
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In reply to shameermulji:That is certainly the short term plan and obvs that is the current situation. But the
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In reply to Stooks:I think you've missed the part where this stopped being a toy for middle class childre
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These sorts of things wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had minded their knitting and kept Skype functi
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In reply to Thretosix:I don't understand how 'Play Anywhere' died when Halo is on PC again, and
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In reply to train_wreck:Python is all I ever see, but I do data work.
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False warnings about security are bad for security! Use Firefox!
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In reply to m_p_w_84:I'm really surprised about this, esp given that they have so many form factors and c
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This is such an obvious OS-level feature, but I can't deny that o365 is where it belongs, fundamentally.
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This makes so much sense for mobile, it's really the right direction. I do wonder what the strategy for t
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They really need to change their approach. Anything as deep and obscure as GPU settings should be hidden in se
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I really appreciate this specific information - and it sounds like the right direction. But before buying a Su
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Picking a shooter title, even one with a story and strong theme, with no online play, is a bit off for Xbox Li
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This is hardly a surprise, since they've been handing out free three month trials during the busiest shop
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This makes no sense. Every other platform has a store, and if the current model doesn't work, then they n
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In reply to ghostrider:I don't know. MS Word wasn't the best WP when it was released. Xbox was in th
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In reply to dontbeevil:Indeed, it rose from the dead in three days and will come again to judge the quick and
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In reply to robincapper:It's especially weird to remove the old version, considering that they still offe
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I believe this is Paul Thurrott, but it doesn't sound like his 'voice'. Was he writing it in a
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I've seen Windows 10 deployments' Win10 apps lose too much data so I wonder if that has anything to
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In reply to dontbeevil:This isn't the place for this bro. If you like WindowsCentral, go to WindowsCentra
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I wish they would offer a cheaper version without the additional pieces, just a higher quality gamepad. For th
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In reply to Stooks:Microsoft's official policy for fixing bugs is to complain on the internet, so don
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Not only did Trump pardon ZTE (Save Chinese jobs!) and fail to land a hit on Huawei (revenue surge), but our c
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I'm baffled that they abandoned what was probably the best laptop design in history, with the original pi
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It's not like MS doesn't do this. Defender, Xbox, Office obvs, but regardl
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Why do they keep trying gray? It's good to shake things up, but not that. Thinkpads are defined by their
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These sorts of programs should be limited to new features and UAT type stuff, and QC teams should do basic har
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In reply to SvenJ:Agreed, 128 is fine for fleet laptops and secondary devices. We're not storing music an
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In reply to SWCetacean:Don't listen to Apple. It's always X. We don't speak latin and things li
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"$249 Surface Earbuds that promise to offer 24 hours of battery life and…Office integration."That's ...
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I would have gone with Wampus, but that's me.
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In reply to Bill_Russell:Of course it won't. Are they improving Google Play Music? No. They'll just
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In reply to lvthunder:Absolutely right. And the chip can be faster in larger devices because of more efficient
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In reply to lvthunder:But they don't offer a 'full' small phone for sale every year, which is c
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In reply to Jason.Watkins:Exactly, finally I can plug in all my Lightning thumb drives and move photos around
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In reply to Hypnotoad:Tekken and Hitman are big names at least.But you're right, the strategy is getting
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I'm not sure this is actually the outcome voters had in mind. Has Trump capitulated to China yet? How man
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In reply to remc86007:Exactly. I don't think building a PC would have been any harder, even if many of hi
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One challenge of the HomePod that other companies don't have is that Apple's vertical purchasing is
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In reply to MikeGalos:Our Windows IT shop here seems to think we are, they keep dropping off and getting other
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What is the browser situation for win10 on ARM? Edge during this transition has become quite unreliable, and n
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In reply to solomonrex:And the constant death of macbook keyboards. Sigh.
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In reply to skane2600:Not with LTE built-in. Not that thin. Not with a fingerprint reader.It's definitely
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In reply to StevenLayton:Yes, this. Candy Crush is indefensible, but Word, Excel and PPT on your phone is pret
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Facebook's app on every platform drains the battery and sends tons of data. There's no downside here
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Perhaps someday I will even be able to download my own photos to my own PC.
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In reply to PeteB:Umm. That's really not a good idea. If you don't trust the platform vendor to secu
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In reply to BrandonMills:Consoles have always been sold on that razors/razor blade model, including by Sony. T
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In reply to Waethorn:If Intel is withholding chips, then that would confirm that the shortage is 'mythica
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I would like to win a Huawei Matebook 13.
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I'm willing to be wrong, but I thought that the entry level MBP, while ridiculous in overlapping the MBA,
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The ability to code something quick in Excel is still amazing.On the minus side, it hasn't changed in mor
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In reply to JimP:It's surpassingly strange. Apple doesn't remove Siri from iphones and they're
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In reply to MikeGalos:Yeah but still. $1500. And it's really just an Intel kickback thing, no one really
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They don't need more apps, they need an online portal for purchased music. The Mac isn't really any
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Everyone forgets that Apple's home button doesn't move. It's been a touchpad with haptic suppor
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In reply to Atoqir:They can't. Apple has that functionality locked down to MacOS. Third parties can'
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In reply to red.radar:'Delighters' is a real low point in corporate buzzspeak, instant membership to
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In reply to reefer:I'll be shocked if it isn't Chromium built on Azure. They're signaling heavi
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The keyboard mic lag is really curious considering that didn't lag on much older phones, and this is actu
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In reply to nbates66:The Pixel team relies a lot on HTC/HTC's splinter cell google group. It makes Google
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In reply to Markld:So I've been back and forth on this on my own Galaxy. Bing search isn't nearly as
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In reply to skane2600:The thing is, it's going to be dumbed down by MS itself. The cloud is going to grow
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In reply to regex021:I think Paul's diet is probably fine. I did the same thing (less red meat thoug
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They have been trying to crack this for years now, but refuse either to remake youtube or to separate fully fr
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I can't remember a time when Apple didn't announce this many announcements. I wonder if they're
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What really got me about my (plain old no-light but very light) kindle, which is only 3 years old or so, is th
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In reply to JustMe:I didn't have any trouble with lag on my gaming PC, but I'd be more afraid of dat
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In reply to Hassan_Timite:Well, I have bad news if you like Microsoft. They're cloud gaming pioneers and
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So many thoughts.First, the timing. This is at least related to the EU finding to let OEMs install other OSs.
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I'm guessing something to do with the Asian market, piracy and secret payments via WoW Gold stuffed into
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Keep in mind, so far at least, Plays Anywhere titles have to be purchased from the MS Store digitally and
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Researchers in the burgeoning field of Google Messaging Products History predict that soon Google wi
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In reply to TriplePlayed:So it boils down to three options for a robust AAA Halo future:Charge for XBL even on
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In reply to evox81:You can drive away an audience with complexity and muddled messaging. There's a reason
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In reply to tsangmanfai:This isn't true though. A lot of people rely on it for Blurays, too. Or have
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In reply to gunbust3r:I can't imagine why people think Paul is cranky sometimes. It's not like he�
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In reply to gardner:Looks just like my shop teacher. I had flashbacks.
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In reply to Rob_Wade:Even if it's impact and distribution are limited to enterprise business usage, you s
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I think unfortunately someone else will have to popularize this tech. I find Echo and such invasive, but many
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It's very much like the Kindle, where so much of their money comes from services and content, that the ha
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I had a real disappointment when trying to use the new smartphone integration in Windows 10 - it's WiFi o
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In reply to Cassius_Clae:Sometimes it seems like Google and Microsoft compete to see who can screw up messagin
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I appreciate this 'long term' review, something that car magazines/blogs have long had but I rarely
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In reply to WaltC:Microsoft invented this for xbox! They just didn't follow through. Kinect, Cortana, Bin
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About your first topic, the only possible shortage would seem to be in low end Celeron chips for Chromebooks a
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Surface Go.
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This is the worst part of Samsung phones, easily. Just got shouted when it announced that it was installing &#
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Xbox Game Pass
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In reply to glenn8878:Paul forgets that server installs need notepad the most and they don't get the stor
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Microsoft owns the platform, they set the system requirements, they have Windows hello and Skype. They have to
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The Xfinity announcements are always ridiculous. It's really only available to the 3 people that pay the
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I'm really confused about why the Xbox One S AND the Xbox One X need successors. It should be a single sp
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The big news was how they were doing it - by mix and matching chips from different nodes. "10nm-based" I think
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Splitting up Bing, Cortana and Search even on their own devices really makes no sense.They do need to fix the
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In reply to Greg Green:This is a standard that should be moving up. Just like we didn't keep cars below s
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In reply to Bats:Of course you can regulate prices. We do it all the time with agriculture, stamps and in the
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In reply to curtisspendlove:There are ARM chips and then there are ARM chips. These aren't the RockChip C
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In reply to FalseAgent:Right? Unless it's a specific avoidable app/scenario, I don't get it. I want
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In reply to veermaharaj:This is something they need to be making reliably, every year. Their hardware was so p
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In reply to jgraebner:It's not mature enough. For media tablet purposes, Android is still the way to go.
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This is kind of stunning. They owned this space for so long. They put IE on the Mac and then took it off.Edge
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In reply to rkpatrick:The mobile browsers use the native engines, as far as I know. And since the UI has to be
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In reply to ghostrider:It's certainly less popular, but there are still plenty of 'kids' that a
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This is a bit harsh. Windows 7 is well-loved while conservative while Windows 8 was wild and poorly conceived
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In reply to karma77police:Or just allow xbox one x to run Windows. Consider xboxOS like Windows S with a paid
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In reply to plettza:That is a crazy list of 90s software I had forgotten about. I think this is Mary/Paul'
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In reply to SYNERDATA:Agreed, it's a senseless way to cut costs/differentiate models. They should be all-
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I think the loss of Windows S is bad, because that was really a 'free' copy of Windows Pro. Now, for
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This is getting very interesting now. If they can be persistent and iterate, I think they'll find ways to
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In reply to MikeGalos:Absolutely this. They are Toyota now, not interesting. But when someone does a real inno
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In reply to Daekar:Well, I don't doubt that you're right about Bing's strengths. I use Google a
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In reply to karma77police:Remembering a new 30 character password every two months (best practice absolutely e
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In reply to Maktaba:No, it means you don't need a memorable password - so it can be more secure. The msot
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In reply to wright_is:This is the equivalent of a car key, not nuclear codes. People and dogs are still the ul
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In reply to hrlngrv:The yubikey is also NFC, though.As for backup, see the screen above, there is still user i
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I'm really glad to see this, I just received my yubikey from ars and I was a bit underwhelmed with using
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In reply to dsharp75:It's a bad analogy though. Burgers are here today, gone tomorrow. And the laptops ar
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I used Microsoft Launcher for a while on my Galaxy, and I'm sorry, Google search still is very much the b
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In reply to rupertholmes:I really hope they add an option for usb drives (data on thumbdrive, still verify onl
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I think this makes sense. The sustained performance, notably during setup, is where the fanless designs will s
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I think I like the idea of this device more than the device. It's like a concept car that way, only usabl
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In reply to John_Craig:What you're missing is exactly what Apple hinted at in their quarterly results: as
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In reply to jwilcoxson:There's a real issue looming: Comcast data caps. The digital future will be held b
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In reply to tonkatoy:All their games are digital. This already exists. But the prices are usually worse, and y
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In reply to hrlngrv:You can do Edge only updates, it's hardly impossible. Security updates are every mont
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Now if only Teslas came with 100 USB ports, Musk could make his intercontinental self-driving dreams come true
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Dark themes, light themes, in the old days you could pick any color.We had hot dog theme. That was a them
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In reply to james.h.robinson:It lasts a long time for $1200, though. You do get 'Genius Bar' support
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Whether or not this is a widespread issue that has a huge effect, it's a terrible sign that the process h
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It's a shame with the extra expense that they're not as reliable as most of the Nexus were
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In reply to paul-thurrott:They still sell an ereader, and the beauty of a 10" tablet ereader is comics and mag
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In reply to FalseAgent:Fingerprint reader, reliable bluetooth and thunderbolt is not nothing.
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In reply to rmlounsbury:There's still plenty of money in supporting the OS and in jobs built around the O
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In reply to robsanders247:Ok, I'll bite. You can say a lot of things about MacOS. It's sleek, stutte
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It seems like madness to eliminate the bezel on such a large device, but I'm sure, as with phones, everyo
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"On the high side" Yes, the price is a little on the high side, isn't it? Like the federal debt, Snoop Do
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In reply to skane2600:That's ok, the kindle app was discontinued on Windows anyway.
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In reply to bzakharin:And Calibre will convert them, too, though if they're paid DRM, you might need to d
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In reply to skane2600:Don't let them fool you: they make money on the hardware, too. It's not a game
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Anyone know how to launch sticky notes on bootup on Windows 10? This is driving me crazy. They're not rea
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Most likely they shifted a fab to something else, like modems, since 1.6% isn't much, esp with Ryzen sell
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In reply to glenn8878:I don't think spending $8 billion is the same as an "$8 billion business".
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It's very curious to do this now, between back-to-school sales and Black Friday. For the business, I real
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I don't understand why skype isn't as easy as old MSN messenger. There was nothing that I missed, an
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In reply to Michael_Goff:Good point, but this IS the Android 'tablet' OS going forward.
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In reply to RM:Windows 10S is too new to recommend I'd say. It's a big drawback not to have apps lik
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In reply to karma77police:There is nothing as dead easy to use and maintain as a chromebook. It's not eve
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5 years of disappearing controls and poor application support. whee.
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In reply to VancouverNinja:Is Surface a traditional PC? Of course not. It's a 'crossover'. The
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A one year old Galaxy would cost about the same, though, and be very comparable and have more accessories, if
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In reply to MikeGalos:But from what base? Mobile is already 2/3rds internet traffic and the vast majority of a
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In reply to karma77police:Analysts do count the white box market, and they do count new chips in brand new mac
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Is there really a niche between a phone and a device that fits a full size keyboard - that isn't a low co
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Not the 'usual spec bumps' at all. Double the cores and the RAM maxes out at 32gb, ddr4. Unannounced
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In reply to glenn8878:For consumers, the touchscreen and the stylus are better value-adds than a bigger SSD. W
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This is an actual good predictive feature, unlike the times they would move my actual bookmarked content aroun
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Paul is really damning with faint praise here, but it comes down more to what you're used to. In the ente
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In reply to hrlngrv: A lot of people pay a lot of money for Windows. I don't think some spring cleaning i
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In reply to glenn8878: He should call Skype out specifically. This is the era of always-on constant communicat
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The news about the xbox one gold games is disappointing. I wasn't familiar with the difference, either, a
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In reply to ghostrider:This x1000. A console's interface, unlike an iphone or a laptop, is supposed to la
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Man, woof, woof. I'd rather see some repeats thrown in for people who just joined. Maybe throw in some no
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I assume this information would leak because it was going to be canceled. I'm not sure what I think about