Nuvia is using the Arm ISA, so it will be binary compatible with Arm's own processors. They have a different m
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Only the arm64 parts of programs will run at native speed. The x64 parts will run with the emulation penalty.
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Just turn on Intel Platform Trust Technology (or whatever it's called) in your BIOS. Every processor made in t
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So I actually don't need a new TPM module on my desktop computer. I have a Ryzen 7 3700X on an MSI B450 Tomaha
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At some point, if the security features they want to include in Windows 11 require the use of a TPM, then that
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Nothing in the documentation seems to indicate the need for a dedicated SSD. DirectStorage works on the new Xb
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Yup, this looks to be directly in response to the current Apple vs. Epic kerfuffle. Now Microsoft can say "Loo
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Looked through the docs a bit more and found the full list of requirements for DirectStorage:1 TB or greater N
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What do you mean gotcha? I really don't understand what there is to be worried about. Of course, not all SSDs
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It looks like all of the technical upgrades that were meant for Windows 10 21H2 (auto HDR, direct storage, and
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I've not seen this issue on my end with any of my computers at any point in the last 10 years. With Windows 10
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On the Qualcomm front, it seems they're getting serious about laptop computing. They recently acquired Nu
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In reply to LT1 Z51:Just because some words don't mean anything to you, doesn't mean that it doesn&#
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Makes sense to me. The "warmth" that people say vinyl has is mostly just distortion
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It's a bit involved, but there's a software called "Equalizer APO". It's a system-wide parametr
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I'm familiar with Paul's wife's sense that "quality improved the last time we added a nice thin
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In reply to mattbg:No, that was just a Metro skin for IE11. The rendering engine was all IE11, rather than the
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In reply to Vladimir:It's mostly down to the Surface form factor. My wife is now looking for a new PC sin
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Huh, there is significant overlap between foods that you will eat and foods that I will eat, though I am not a
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I wouldn't mind seeing the new Action Center coming to regular Windows 10. In particular, the addition of
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:I had several Windows RT tablets, and the performance on them was not much slower i
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In reply to hrlngrv:The school district I was working in was seriously considering deploying Windows RT tablet
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Windows 10X would probably be a good fit for those Snapdragon 7c and 8c devices that were announced for the ed
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In reply to sammyg:I much prefer the pace of Battlefield to Call of Duty. CoD was always a bit too fast to me,
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In reply to sjgibb99:I'm not sure if Paul would like Battlefield as much. I never played Battlefield V ot
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A lot of reporters and pundits out there are positing that this is in competition to Apple's M1 desktop A
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In reply to shameer_mulji:Audiophile headphones can go well over $1000. My Stax SR-L700mk2 is almost $1600 if
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In reply to jblank46:No, WOA is not all JIT, and it does have a caching service to save translations for re-us
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In reply to Scsekaran:So I discussed the difficulties of translation vs emulation with my wife, and we both th
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In reply to Scsekaran:Microsoft Office on Arm works using hybrid executables, which are really interesting in
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In reply to JG1170:Windows has a similar-ish mechanism called the XTACache service. It caches Arm translations
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I think it was mostly as an "aspirational" sort of hardware release. That's why they were focusing on LTE
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The games on Game Pass do rotate from time to time. There's no set length on how long each game will stay
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I've had 4 Surface devices (Pro 2, Pro 3, Pro 4, Pro X) and none of them had any major issues with their
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In reply to lvthunder:Windows 10 on Arm already does some of that. There is a service (XtaCache) that caches t
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I think it's something along the lines of the "all of the above" option. Detachable PCs necessarily invol
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In reply to proftheory:Nah, the CISC vs. RISC debate died out in the 90's once micro-ops became a thing w
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In reply to Winner:AnandTech has benchmarks on the A14 (the iPhone version). It's quite competitive with
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I think it's more that everyone is supply-constrained right now. There are a lim
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In reply to cfxram:It's already been done by a third-party. Digital Foundry did a teardown of the Series
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In reply to bluvg:The removable SSD is in the current Surface Pro X as well, so it's not that big in term
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In reply to Jacob-Bearce:$100 for 1 TB is unreasonable, especially for a PCIE 4.0 drive. The cheapest I could
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In reply to anderb:It was taken out of Chrome, but Microsoft could have kept it in Edge.
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In reply to F4IL:But why should they focus on Windows-specific development? How would Windows-specific develop
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In reply to MartinusV2:.Net 5 is releasing in November. They already announced that months ago.
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In reply to Buzzmodo:After 2 years, the Game Pass Ultimate subscription expires, so you need to resubscribe to
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Perhaps in branding and advertising, but Microsoft has Windows running on Ampere eMA
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In reply to thalter:The advantage of this system is that you use the same app data as you would have on your p
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In reply to ErichK:What's the rest of your system? The manufacturer recommended power supply rating are a
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I didn't watch the stream, but I read AnandTech's live blog on it, mainly since AnandTech provides m
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Having read the leaked specs last week, I don't feel bad about jumping on the Motorola Edge at launch rat
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In reply to aelaan:No, Arm is an Instruction Set Architecture that is licensed out by Arm Holdings to customer
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Not sure what's going on there. Open in new tab works fine in the background for me. Edge 86.0.592.0 (cur
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In reply to paul-thurrott: Agreed. And they didn't even use UFS 3.0.
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In reply to Simard57:Apple's own Arm chips do perform significantly better than Qualcomm's. Qualcomm
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I suspect the UFS storage plays a big role in the performance problems. I have a Sur
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It would not be my choice for my only phone, but I could certainly see it as a work phone. The main issue with
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In reply to BigM72:There are plenty of benefits for businesses. No legacy support means that the attack surfac
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In reply to alsorun:For Edge, they recompiled everything for arm64, and made the necessary code changes to ens
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To some extent, I believe most Win32 programs already do what Office does to a degree. All of the Windows libr
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I'm pretty sure the Lockhart will be an upgrade in some respects. All rumors on the Lockhart say it will
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Recently I've tried downsizing my computer collection. I used to have a primary custom-built gaming deskt
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In reply to BrandonMills:Nvidia mostly stopped developing Tegra for PC/tablet-class devices though. Other than
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This result, while unfortunate for the SPX, isn't surprising to any Android fan. Apple's chips have
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In reply to mattbg:It's about control and integration of their silicon. Apple was burned multiple times b
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Regarding the performance-per-watt metric, that's actually more important than you are giving it credit f
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In reply to bschnatt:The advantage of Windows is that you can put it on so many different machines. Microsoft
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In reply to joeaxberg:Arm servers have the Server Base System Architecture that they can adhere to for interop
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This announcement and this article point out the differences in how Apple and Microsoft handle tech transition
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Wow, this is the first time I've ever been excited about Macs. Apple products have always been the most v
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My midde/high school used Novell for its login system for a long time. I did an internship with the IT guys th
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In reply to red77star:I think it's the best feature added to Windows in years. Anyone who works regularly
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Regarding Microsoft Launcher, I'm in the preview of the app and this week it got a pretty significant upd
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In reply to dftf:Part of why games are so large is because they duplicate assets. Current consoles are based o
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In reply to yoshi:I'm an Xbox + PC guy myself, but I'm lucky to have a wife who is also really into
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That's a nice looking design! Very sleek and svelte. Though it most likely looks a lot better vertically
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In reply to BeckoningEagle:My wife has a funny localization story. She worked with someone who was from Croati
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In reply to harmjr:It looks like the HP Pavilion RGB mouse pad. It's a mouse pad with RGB lighting on the
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Cute cat!
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In reply to dftf:The main problem I have with using the YouTube website is that there are the recommendations
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I get quite a bit of software from the Microsoft Store. Drawboard PDF (I much prefer it to Adobe stuff), Music
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:Not much in terms of front-facing features, but there was a significant amount of i
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In reply to brisonharvey:I do not heavily use x86 apps, the most commonly used one being MusicBee, which is ex
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I recently got a Surface Pro X and I'm really enjoying it thus far. I got the Pro X to replace a ThinkPad
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In reply to bpech:I'm not Paul, but I would recommend Python and JavaScript. I know Python and it's
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In reply to proftheory:Qt uses C++ and Python, so if you're coming from a C# background it's a lot m
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In reply to hrlngrv:On the other hand, I've found that for productivity and multitasking, ultrawide monit
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In reply to Michael_Babiuk:I would also be interested in how quickly Mac developers move to adding ARM builds
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In reply to kshsystems:I read that they never got the system to work well. Like it could work, but it leaked m
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In reply to Waethorn:Where is your info coming from? The Series X is also using RDNA 2, just like the PS5.
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In reply to WP7Mango:VB seems to me to be from a different era. As a young programmer who started in Java arou
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I've tried several times to get into Windows application development, mainly in WPF/UWP, and every time I
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In reply to glenn8878:For reference, the Nvidia GTX 2070 Super provides around 9 TFLOPS of compute at around $
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From my experience, W10 2004 runs smoother than 1909. My main gaming desktop is running it and I found that th
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It's an upstream Chromium bug that Edge picked up (Dev and Canary). The edge team got the fix for it last
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There is an update history page for every Surface device (for SL3: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/45
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Regarding filesystems, I think ReFS supports data deduplication, or perhaps some limited form of it. But I als
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Happy New Year everyone! And thanks for doing this giveaway!
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This doesn't seem very confusing to me. Fast ring becomes similar to the Canary ring of Chromium, or the
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I don't doubt it. The Jaguar architecture is, like all pre-Zen AMD CPU architectures, not that good in te
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As an American, I totally overpack for every trip. I was able to travel over Thanksgiving break with just my b
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It's a known issue with sync in the new Edge. Not sure when it will get fixed or if there is any workarou
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In reply to harmjr:Still in Insider testing. It's part of 20H1. And I think it's for Pro and up.
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I wouldn't mind signing into a Microsoft account by default if only they allowed you to choose what the n
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In reply to C_J_Martinez:That's news to me. Before today I never even thought that history sync would be
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Perhaps the field of view is too low? I generally need to widen the field of view setting in PC games or else
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I would really like to see a series where you develop a Windows application. I'm a software engineer, but
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In reply to ErichK:Yes there is a 64-bit Steam client. You will need to reinstall Steam, and some games might
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In addition to the greatly increased complexity of emulating x64 on arm64, I've also read that there is a
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Definitely more of a collaboration sort of thing. I'm going to guess that Microsoft went to Qualcomm and
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I think Microsoft's developer strategy with making UWP APIs available to all frameworks is the right step
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I did not watch the presentation, so I need to ask: is the X in the name pronounced like the letter X, or "ten
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I'm most excited for that Omen X27 monitor. As far as I know, it is the first QHD 240 Hz monitor. There a
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I'm also going to say that it's a hardware issue with either the dock you're using, or the Surf
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In reply to Waethorn:Exactly this: I don't want my User folder to be named after the first 5 characters i
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The story I read about Xenix was that it was eventually dropped because it wasn't a home-grown platform.
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In reply to christian.hvid:I think Mehedi was trying to pun off of the phrase "across the board". I think the
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Congrats on the new monitor! For me, going above 60 fps was the big upgrade. While I didn't notice the ma
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In reply to jgraebner:Certain programming languages (like Swift I think) support the use of emoji as names. Al
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You'd have to go to each game's website or forums where a list of patch notes is almost always poste
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I use the Start menu a lot for pins. I only have 4 things pinned to the taskbar: Edge, File explorer, Store, a
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If you want OneDrive music, I would suggest CloudPlayer as it can sync (and stream from) your OneDrive collect
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For the 2080, does being among the first to experience the ray-tracing tech matter to you? Like yes, the RTX 2
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A big new feature of RS5 is the revamped Windows Console (actual PTY support and such). I'm looking forwa
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I have never heard of a browser that keeps downloading files after its closed. iDownload Manager is exactly th
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I use Groove, but I've read about a player called Dopamine that looks pretty good.
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I think the people who made the ISO were assuming it would be used on a USB, probably because the devices they
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I've used macOS for a bit since a professor that I worked for had an all-Mac lab, so I have some experien
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The nice thing about iTunes, or Apple-provided music in general, is that it's very good quality. I use an
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Huh, looks like it could be a good device for my dad. He is a huge fan of Windows RT; he bought the Asus table
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By that logic, no program can be sandboxed, because all programs run in an OS and use its facilities. Any grap
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On my machine (desktop running Windows Insider preview 17101), Edge with Thurrott.com, Neowin, and Youtube ope
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I had that problem too. It never happened before the 1801 version and it used to always update to each Office
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My main browser on all of my Windows computers is Edge. I keep Chrome installed for some websites that don
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In reply to hrlngrv:These variants are ONLY for OEMs. If you're building your own PC, you can buy either
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In reply to yaddamaster:The issue with this example is that the consumer never has to choose. The variant they
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I haven't noticed anything on my personal Windows 10 machines. But on those machines all I do are web bro
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I agree. I just installed build 17074 on my home desktop this afternoon (coming straight from Fall Creators Up
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I really wish Nvidia would announce its next generation of consumer GPUs as the current Pascal ones are almost
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I've never owned a Windows Phone, only Android phones, but I've also been using Microsoft apps more