Is there a changelog somewhere that might give some of the benefits of updating?
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Hopefully in time they'll allow keyboard & mouse control as well as game pad.
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200 million people pay for the privilege of being able to use a shop slightly quicker.
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Have to say my initial response was "I hope they don't Skype this up".
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Modders already did this a year ago. Search github for Half-Life-Alyx-novr and enjoy.The consensus was that th
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This could be a serious issue for E3 and similar shows. The big hitters may find that running their own virtua
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A day late and a dollar short. Apex Legends, PUBG and Fortnite have the market sewn up.
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"We have seen a similar feature where you can stream games from your Xbox console to another device, PC gamers
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Another solution is present of Firefox but I don't know if it's available on Chromium based browsers
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A rave review for an excellent product. The only worry for me is that every HP review on this site is a rave r
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In reply to Jippa Wip:Maybe Europe too. If you don't have a domestic alternative (and only the USA does,)
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Chromium and Mozilla based browsers both have access to the "user agent switcher" add-on/extension which allow
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Woop, decent prize!
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In reply to Mike2thel73:I don't hate Google, just don't like disengenuous statements. My house was b
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Obligatory XKCD on standards.Also: “Google’s use of IP dates back to the launch of Nest Learning Thermosta
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I don't mind new shortcuts replacing the old but surely if the old have been removed it should respect th
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If you want a bit more background on this an interview with Christopher Scott (a MS employee and Linux user,)
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So have MS decided to revert to the service pack style of update every 6 months? Essentially a rollup of the p
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So what's the benefit over just having a bookmark?
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Surely you don't need to use Amazon's own speakers with it, any soundbar/2.1 system should do the tr
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So reading between the lines: Teams active user count is padded by the fact it's bundled with Offices so
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I wouldn't want to be around when it hatches.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Hard pass from me then, I'll continue to use GPM to play music I own.Not intere
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It's not new, first release was 2014. It is however very good.
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I predict this will be just as successful as Google Glass was.
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Holiday season? It's September!
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I don't care about major version uodatesz they sometimes do more harm than good in older devices anyway.
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Bad North, Dead Cells & Enter the Gungeon have all reviewed well and been enjoyed by fans of their respect
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Alternative headline: Google wants to continue eating cake while also having cake.
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As mentioned in premium comments Mac/iPhone has done this for ages, but also so has Android/Linux via KDE conn
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I understand the motivation for the original tinkers (it's a challenge,) but don't see why anyone wo
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In reply to WP7Mango:It may very well be better than Slack, I don't use either. But no matter how good it
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This is a great example of how monopoly power (in this case MS Office,) can be used to beat competition. It do
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Red Hat + Big Blue = Purple Hat?
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In reply to codymesh:Being a loyal customer lets you be shafted. Loyalty shouldn't play a part in purchas
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Nearly as good as the KDE Connect integration Linux has had for ages then.
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Seems they've priced it the same as the Premium tier of EAs Origin Access. I'm just not sure they ha
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In reply to MikeGalos:Have they said somewhere that the existing library will all work on Scarlet then, I can&
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So for clarity, if all of that is going to be in the new app what is the old one supposed to be used for? Or i
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They're getting very close to price parity with the BBC licence fee.
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I hear MS stores are expensive to run because every few months they have to fix the windows.
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In reply to paul-thurrott:In all seriousness it'll be Windows RT with added containerisation to try to be
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Cometh the hour, cometh the penguin.With a TIFKAM overlay obviously.
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In reply to ecumenical:If you were only stopping them in the US that would be akin to the Chinese ban in forei
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Pi-Hole is your friend.
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In reply to vincedchart:There's a trick to that. A new and debateable change is made to software, in the
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In reply to James_Wilson:Which GUI? There are at least 8 well known ones.
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John Lewis is a relatively high end UK department store, so yes they sell a bit of everything. From memory the
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I think people are misreading this. The EU haven't said Huawai are great, they've said that they see
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In reply to skane2600:This. And you turned up late to the world wars you did help out in.
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Sounds like a potential security nightmare. If it comes to exchange/outlook I'm sure many sys admins will
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Crucially the update also includes fixes to some quite serious bug fixes that shouldn't have to wait for
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In reply to Waethorn:Data Protection legislation that's worth a damn (GDPR)The Working Time Directive. It
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In reply to beatnixxx:It'd be worth clarifying if MS are also depreciating the API that allows music to b
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In reply to TriplePlayed:I'm always amazed consoles pay for online gaming. As for this, it sounds like th
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In reply to ghostrider:FireOS is still going. Lets be honest it'll be a fork based on AOSP like Fire is a
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"Facebook won’t be storing data in countries that don’t respect the user’s privacy"Wow, shutting off the
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In reply to bookgrub:Really? Because being dumped ad hoc suggests limited mouse support, limited options (no g
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In reply to dontbe_evil:Your pc isn't much use without apps, word, excel, Firefox, chrome etc are all app
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Good luck to them, and those who use them. They won't be crossing my threshold though.
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Between this and the office downtime a couple of weeks ago they it's only February and it's already
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Given the reviews I think free is a fair price.
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In reply to Rob_Wade:Showing my age but I read the abbreviations in that post and wondered what Team Fortress
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"Office 365 includes fully installed Office applications"And for some reason insists you have ALL of them i
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Slightly odd article in that you almost entirely ignore the current dominant pc based platform (Steam,) and th
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I suppose it makes the branding work will be all done and dusted for whoever buys the Xbox division then.
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HaveIBeenPwned and various password managers that use its API already do this.
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In reply to James_B:Its market share is falling, that doesn't mean its userbase is. If its users grow by
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How can File Explorer be a "legacy application" when it hasn't been replaced by anything? It's not l
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In reply to lrunejensen:Agree with this. All it would take is a slight amendment to the headline, adding "in t
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The premise is wrong. The FCC can't kill the internet. It also doesn't have authority over the inter
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In reply to JVarde:If you can't then many places still sell it for about the price of a beer. Both GOG an
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Bonus points for not so mg $1=£1 either (it's £26.99.)I'd imagine it's selling well overall b
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Surely the beta version of the new edge is Chrome?
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45% faster than what?
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"This should dramatically impact the stability and reliability of Intel display drivers in particular."To be f
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In reply to chaad_losan:That only works if you're someone who thinks all movies are equal. You just want
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In reply to locust infested orchard inc:There is still a monopoly. There will only be 1 place to watch Star Wa
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In reply to DataMeister:Grab a Paperwhite, download Calibre and you're sorted regardless of where you get
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Am I right in saying that it won't do it without installing the Google app/channel?Don't want it hap
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In reply to jmwoods301:Out of curiosity how many trackers is it showing that Thurrott.com tries to use?I would
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In reply to matsan:How many American (potential) spy-devices were sold in the same period?
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"And as is always the case with Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility titles, this was achieved without requiring th
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In reply to warren:Just googled what that means. Can't say I've ever had reason to use it, hence my
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In reply to Glassman1234:What was snip it?
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Finally! I think the only one of those apps that'll survive the cull for me will be Calculator. That said
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In reply to SvenJ:What stopped them before is that if you wanted to make such a device, you couldn't sell
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In reply to karma77police:Absolutely. The sooner all PC games are only available from one store the better. I
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In reply to maethorechannen:If you read my whole post I stated as such. But there are several games played by
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In reply to Skolvikings:So it seems the comments don't like me posting links but if you Google "Steam Li
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In reply to Tunrip:The market leader is the pc. Steam alone was reporting 125m active accounts three years ago
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So then Google AND Microsoft can scrape your messages and sell your ad profile to the highest bidder! Progress
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Given the September builds are going to be the ones that have extended support for businesses it's fair t
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:Actually you can "pause" the collection of data, at which point they don't delete
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If MS haven't sanctioned this expect it to be lawyered out of existence with extreme prejudice.
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So a news article to tell us that news in news articles elsewhere isn't really news?Newsecption!
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Agreed. Americans don't work too hardz they work too long.In my experience over
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Which (if any!) solution did you use in the end?
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I don't mind leaving it open in the background, but a "close browser when final download completes" optio
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I can't see how it matters to anyone other than Microsoft to be honest, and even then only to their marke
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It's not a new thing, within tech or any other industry. A few years ago there a lot of devices were call
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In reply to meek_teef:Google is being sneaky. If they want to use and store the data when you use their servic
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Musicbee is pretty popular, but for simplicity I prefer Dopamine.
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In reply to Stooks:Won't help you, Firefox has been flagging http as insecure (which it is,) for over a y
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Was hoping that the PC version of the 2 year old Forza Horizon 3 would finally be reduced to a good price.Gt e
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Even more sexier? Nice grammar.
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Is a shame they won't give home users the telemetry free version (LTSB) even for a fistful of dollars.
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Steam has had groups for yonks, not seen a pc game that does the fast start thing though, that could be handy.
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In reply to hrlngrv:I agree, but my point still stands that if they were really serious about privacy they wou
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"It's your device. You deserve to know what's happening on it."proof that they still don't get
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That's not what they meant by Intel Inside.
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Maybe they've decided VR is the new 3D tv?
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In reply to fbman:You misunderstand me, I'm not annoyed that I would need to find a workaround, I'm
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It is, but what isn't is being greeted with: "Tubi is the largest free movie an
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We have something like this in Europe already, it's called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) and it combines
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Doom pretty much invented the multiplayer death match and then it was populised by Q
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Will SwiftKey work with the accessibility on-screen keyboard or is it touch only? The prediction abilities cou
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The market is:TwitchYoutube GamingEverything else. If you're not one of the big two, give up now.
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US only?
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In reply to lvthunder:It doesn't have to be a money making scheme to fall foul of GDPR. If it isn't
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So does site filtering only work in Edge? If it does it's a pretty trivial workaround to use Chrome for t
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I'd be astounded if this wasn't just forced upon them to ensure GDPR compliance and they threw in a
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"But the fact remains that COD has dominated the first-person shooter market—and, pretty much all of video g
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Makes it very clear that new COD = best bits of popular games last year. The wall running stuff was to counter
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This may be the first feature added to Win10 since launch that I actually use.
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In reply to karma77police:Of those I've mentioned all are still running except OnLive.
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In reply to karma77police:This isn't just an MS move. Several cloud gaming platforms already exist, PlayS
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I'd be interested in Paul's views on the rumours circulating in the gaming press that Black Ops
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Im slightly confused by what market segment this device (and the iPad Pro,) are aimed at. If it's a devic
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Do the privacy settings all still revert to their defaults every time you do an update?
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Does the Xbox support Twitch or is it locked in to Mixer?
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In reply to My Hell baby speaking:I didn't say that all of the reviews were for that. I haven't look
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In reply to My Hell baby speaking:Some people will review bomb it purely for Windows store only. Others don�
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It'd be good to add support for this, and the tweets seem to show games can segregate so death match A ha
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:Devices and services were about half of 2012 revenues according to their account
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Point of order: The decision didn't kill Nokia. Nokia the company is fine and has carried on making infra
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I can give you 4 letters which explain why this isn't in any European markets: G D P and R.
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I'm confused, Microsoft don't develop PUBG so why are they trying to take credit for the success gen
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If they could stop excluding windows users ASAP that'd be great. Be good to no longer be second class cit
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This would be helpful, even if it was just a US only tag. Often shows up when deals in the MS Store or new fea
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Surely sponsored content/direct copy-paste from press releases should be highlighted as such?
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In reply to mikiem:I'm not sure a class action based on loss of performance will work. Their argument wil
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For those of us outside the USA what does K-12 mean?
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In reply to david.thunderbird:No it won't. Chromecast is proprietary to Google and they won't allow
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They're going to have to be pretty certain they know when you've moved by May 25th next year. Using
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In reply to karma77police:I assume you mean drop x86 from phone? Because dropping x86 from Windows is suicidal
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"Google was able to reveal that it has once again has the best camera of any smartphone: With a score of 98/10
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In reply to MikeGalos:I understand & accept why it exists. I just wish they did a "Win10 only" version too
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Configuring mods? I didn't think modern apps allowed for mods so that's an unexpected bonus. This is
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To truly make it cross platform it should be buy once, play anywhere. MS is a bit ahead of the curve on that w
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I'd argue that COD is exactly a pick up and put down game. Maybe not 2 weeks but certainly short term. Th
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In reply to Stooks:Agreed. The article mentions this rebadged Kaby Lake nonsense is "because Intel." In realit
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Media centre was never removed from any version of Windows it shipped with. They just stopped putting it in n
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I was waiting for the inevitable "US only" line but didn't see it. Can I get excited or is it only availa
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As a Brit, this just shows just how odd the American Internet & TV markets are. In every other country I&#
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In reply to euskalzabe:That's why I said I he's going to do it. You're right, wireless is cheap
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I'd seriously reconsider putting off wiring for ethernet. If you're going to do it, doing it before
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In reply to DocPaul:Buy one of the stores apps. Assuming you don't own them both already.
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This won't sell as well on PC as the original still works on modern hardware & is still on sale. That
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An exodus implies it was popular to begin with. That said I think Paul is right about use case, even if I do w
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In reply to illuminated:They're getting quicker: it took Control Panel years to become a mess, Settings h
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In reply to MikeGalos:Very true. Particularly as GOG (Good Old Games,) on PC and Nintendo on all their console
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One point to clarify, does it offer any improvements to existing games if you don't have a 4k TV? Improve
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WINKEY + G does nothing for me in the games I've tried (Football Manager 2017, World of Warships & Th
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:I agree it's a choice, and that is a good thing for the consumer. It may not be
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So here is a prime example why Xbox Play Anywhere titles will actually harm Microsoft's attempts to convi
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Wow there's some revisionism in here. Most importantly though, while these new phones are only Nokia branded t
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Play Anywhere is only an advantage if you're primarily an Xbox player, as you're getting two copies of a game
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If you've been playing COD (or any FPS,) without a mouse you've been a 2nd class citizen since day 1.
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