train_wreck

Pretty easy to get to 75 million installs in 30 days when you were upgrading people’s PCs “automagically�

I mean, if i HAD to choose I’d pick Panos over Steve…

Paul, habéis aprendido nada de español desde tomasteis la decisión mudar al Mexico? (Have y’all been lear

I don’t think you mentioned it here, but RT supposedly stood for “Runtime”, for reasons I definitely don

Those are Dr. Evil numbers.

Cross your fingers!!

Steve Jobs was a genius, but he was also an a-hole. People who think they’re the next Steve Jobs are usually

So what, exactly, is that a picture of?

“fix it ‘til it breaks!” 😁

I remember a hilarious video of Chris Pirillo’s dad trying to use Windows 8. He clicked the tile to go to th

That feels like an “over my dead body” kind of thing. Stranger events have happened of course…

Oh wow I had forgotten that event with Swisher & Mossberg… ranks up there with the 2013 XBox E3 demo for

I had a kids piano like that 20 years ago….. hardly “AR”

I’m 33 and every few years I still fire up an emulator and play through Ocarina of Time or Majora’s Mask.

N64-era Rare was a massive part of my childhood. When MS bought them I remember thinking at the time “damn,

That’s an exec, not a developer. Spewing stuff like that is one of the few things they do well.

I mean, they had just lost the trust of a lot of developers with the Longhorn debacle. Is it really that surpr

Reading your account of Allchin giving this presentation I can’t help but compare the situation to Sinofsky

My best friend and I reached peak nerd circa 2002-3 carrying our iPaqs around using them in class. We’ve com

It’s worth remembering that these were squarely the “bad old days” times. MS made a lot of enemies then

Was gonna say exactly that. Idiotic patents like this should have never been approved. Seriously, “changing

I agree with Mary Jo when she says all of this Edge strongarming is to artificially inflate Edge’s usage num

Surely they’ll walk that back. Seems to be an MO of sorts lately.

The argument “other people do it too” is pretty weak IMO.

So you’re saying the company isn’t making enough money to be able to reliably push ads that don’t crash

I never trust Google for store/restaurant unformation, even here in the US. Sooo many times i’ve been screwe

I would love Gartner or someone to do a cloud reliability report. Rank the major cloud providers based not onl

I have a client of mind who is looking quite seriously at bringing back some of their on-prem servers because

I would love to see a stats company compile a list that ranks cloud provider reliability. It could include of

In reply to proftheory:That’s Panasonic, I believe.

I’m guessing the neighbors car was totaled....

In reply to Nic:I don’t really think either one of them truly want to buy TikTok, just as Paul mentioned Tik

In reply to Nic:The Verge is saying they got word from Apple directly that they are not interested.

Was interested to hear your take on this Paul, and I for the most part agree.I have yet to hear anyone from Mi

Paul, have you used the Flex in work scenarios long enough to get an estimate on battery life? Apologies if th

So what would you recommend as a decent “beginner” language? Python would probably be a good choice I supp

In reply to dftf:What about domain-joined Pro? I remember they were excluded from naggings at one point.

In reply to red.radar:For as long as your software keeps working, the hardware it’s running on keeps working

I recall Paul speaking pretty highly about the Concept D machines earlier last year. That ultrabook in the lin

Would love a Surface Laptop AMD!!

Yo dawg, we heard you like email...

In reply to yoshi:I mean, phones are specifically where these services are targeting. Microsoft even shows thi

Soltero’s “betrayal”? Ha. Nice characterization.

In reply to MikeGalos:They set 2 dates. Did you read the article?

“Digital twins”?

OK, what the hell is that picture? ? I’m gonna guess it’s from an Apple ad?

wtf, “capsules”? so Bixby’s got an opiate problem now?

They actually did name the partner. “LyricFind”.

In reply to SvenJ:-32GB is roughly 25% of the total capacity of the drive. I personally think that’s excessi

I don’t run Windows, but on my main machine’s 120GB SSD, i have 29.8GB free.32GB seems like an awful lot t

In reply to robincapper:Yeah Im right there with you. I’ve seen far too many instances of users being shafte

In reply to hrlngrv:Yes, that’s how consumers get screwed.

So you’re calling people who bought books through this service “fools”?(btw, this is just another exampl

In reply to pecosbob04:Probably content. Posts don’t usually get deleted for punctuation or style.

lol is that an official Supreme shirt? nice.

Awesome. I’m sure the costs of this patent litigation won’t be passed down to the consumer. That never hap

And what if the rollback fails? ?

Let's Build Together.... with Google

In reply to techsalot:One of the clients my work helps consult with is looking to put their on-prem email/doc-

“Oddly, Google doesn’t cite Samsung as a competitor in assistants either, despite its bundling of Bixby on

In reply to karma77police:So I just had my Premium subscription lapse, and all I can see now are the "Standard

Congrats Brad! Though if you do buy the electronic version, make sure not to read it in Edge! ??

In reply to trparky:Even though November is the 11th month of the year, not the 10th?Makes sense ?

The parallels between Microsoft and Google really are astonishing. In the 90s, Microsoft did this exact same t

Gotta say, the mental gymnastics being employed by some people to somehow spin this as anything other than an

In reply to wright_is:What do you mean about this method being "not supported"? As far as I can understand, th

In reply to lvthunder:Nope, wrong. They caused the data loss here. It may not be their fault if you don’t ha

In reply to smartin:This, so much. At any other company the executive of engineering would be fired over this.

In reply to SvenJ:Yep, he's only got till tonight. The clock's ticking! Seriously, the victim shamin

In reply to Dan1986ist:Wow, that seems like a pretty crazy convoluted process. You’d think they could just,

Not being snarky here, how is it possible for a Windows update to delete user data? Particularly those files s

So you guys sort of glided past the whole "1809 is deleting some people's documents" thing.This is bad. L

About the only reason someone might want Pro is to be able to slow/defer updates. The track record of success/

In reply to prjman:Microsoft has really made an art form out of releasing products early on in a new category,

Now we just need a Dreamcast Mini, and my childhood gaming nostalgiafest will be complete ??

One thing that I don’t see mentioned in the relentless tirade of “but Google does it too” posts.... Goo

OK, what on earth does that title graphic mean??? ??

In reply to Jeffery_Commaroto:I personally think you’re glossing over the 30% bit. That’s a big deal and a

Once again, fitting promo graphic. That gentleman's facial expression exudes "I am skeptical of your atte

In reply to paul-thurrott:Like, I honestly think there’s a certain (tiny) percentage of people who feel pers

This game is "Mario" hard. Like "Tubular" in the Special World of SMW hard.

In reply to thea2_:Can these things even be recycled at all? Without significant damage to internals?This is a

My god they copy almost everything about Apple’s packaging here, don’t they?Not that plenty of other manuf

Gotta say, I’m enjoying watching people grasp onto the hope that Microsoft will “re-enter” the mobile sp

So is this “Surface” store any different inside than their other Microsoft stores? It isn’t just Surface

I’ll point out that when they say “20% less problems with instability”, they are tacitly admitting that

I recall during Windows Weekly that someone mentioned that HP would be releasing firmware updates that would a

In reply to ph-sth:Oh, i didn’t know that about Google Play “matching” uploads instead of just taking th

Good on them. I knew more than one person who was burned by this. Kind of surprised they’re initiating a rec

In reply to amrish.tandon:Ah, good to know its all Pauls fault since you had no problems on 3 computers. Thank

In reply to hrlngrv:Long live the Dvorak layout! ?

In reply to karlinhigh:Nah, Win 7 was released in 2009. 2007 was XP and then Vista (and there certainly was ne

Meanwhile, how’s Cortana doing? ;)

In reply to hrlngrv:Cant upvote this enough.... see Microsoft/Ford Sync, et al.

So even if a heavy x64-based “traditional” program could eventually be compiled for ARM64, I wonder what p

Great article. I usually don’t post comments here, but the way you were able to bring a novel, heartfelt and

If anyone is wondering about how Samsung might support that stupid Bixby fridge, just look at how they royally

9/10 much humor. Minus 1 for Rick Springfield.

No savings on the Surface Studio, i see ;)

So are the "hot bag" & sleep-related problems REALLY fixed?