What percentage of app purchases do Apple/Google really need to maintain the app store and make enough of a pr
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I've been running a pi-hole for years. The only issue I've had is the SD card can fail. I've had that happen a
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I think the phone integration works just fine on Pixel devices. Of course I don't have a duo or samsung device
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It's still way better than everyone except the walled garden of iOS. Non-pixel Android devices won't be gettin
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All those shiny buildings aren't going to justify themselves by looking pretty.
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How are they going to audit any purchase that don't happen within their system? They going to spy on the spawn
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From the tech side of things, mRNA vaccines have been in development since the 70's, so the base process is ex
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To Echo other responses, All of them. They said it could very well be like the seasonal flu vaccine and even b
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On the list of things you won't see? Xbox Series X. Seriously I'd LOVE to have it be a case of MSFT holding ba
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Now if only I can find an Xbox Series X to play this on without paying 2x
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Yep It's the Even/Odd issue that is tied to Star Trek Movies and Daniel Craig Bond films. Here's hoping six is
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anything that keeps my family, friends and myself out of the hospital is a good thing. I really don't need to
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If only a Series X were available in stores...or purchase anywhere without camping out ahead of time...
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Having just watched Fast 9, if CoD is the game equivilant, it's no longer redeemable. No one should spend mone
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Sure would be nice if I could actually GET a Series X so I could see this for myself. Resolution and frame rat
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Yes this was started in 2020. New JS engine as they found the limits with Electron and Angular pretty early in
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I'm dreading going back to the office. Burn 3 hours of my day to sit in the same office as two out of my five
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We have Dolby Vision & Atmos on a console that is out of stock everywhere. At least this isn't going to dr
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96/24 opens things up past to what 99.9% of us can hear, but it does open up compared to compact disc.
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HD Audio is only as good as the worst part of the the whole system between recording and into your ears (yes e
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My tinfoil hat theory on Xbox Series X is they are holding back inventory for Halo Infinite Launch
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For cars part of it is Reneas who had a fire at one of their larger facilities. https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone
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Microsoft looking at telemetry as the decision point for keep or not.
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uBlock Origin for Firefox or just suck it up and setup a Pi-Hole that does the same thing. Oh and don't u
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Well it's another thing for Epic to put on their pile of evidence. iMessage, FaceTime, so many lock in ex
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I don't expect the NYT to mention MS Edge let alone something like uBlock Origin or a Pi-Hole. The latter
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Just get a Pi-Hole and add some common lists. uBlock Origin is an option as well, but none are going to be 100
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Looks like they're clearing out the Surface Pro 7s making room for the 8. I'd wait for the next gen
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Long Live the Spartan! (rendering engine) it was good in concept, but as MSFT quickly realized, it took a lot
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Yep tried to get Cortana to set a timer this morning and all I got was the "update to remove Cortana is coming
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For some reason this is a bit difficult to believe. Even as I look at the nineteen different JavaScripts embed
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Only way to be sure of having purchased media stay purchased is to own a physical copy.
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In reply to madthinus:All of the protcols designed in the 80's for an open trust driven internet need to
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Yeah, the Big Shot on top of the Stratosphere is no joke. I'm acrophobic as it is so yeah that didn'
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In reply to mattbg:They do know that IE 11 is End of Life and that Microsoft will no longer be supporting IE11
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Despite Google with it's 150 side projects, they're learning that running a game studio is competiti
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Not surprised at the timing, kind of surprised at the idea they only sold half the number of PS5s though. I�
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Control is the first game I completed with all achievements in YEARS. Great story and the DLC is well worth th
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Or they could leave it as a live tile, just sayin'.
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In reply to red.radar:I don't even know that it's AMD, but fab availability at TSMC. All these vario
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In reply to jfgordon:All those are consumer. With the exception of Xbox, Microsoft doesn't do consumer ve
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In reply to jwpear:Yep, I hear the same thing from my GP. My BMI being 32 which in some circles counts as a CO
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In reply to Patrick3D:I use it for my personal browser because I haven't found a NoScript Replacement for
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After using an Pixel 2XL for three years and seeing the reviews of the 4a and 5, plus realizing 5g still needs
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In reply to shark47:The intel powered Macs will still be manufactured for my guess is at least a year or two.
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In reply to danmac:Yes, at least 3 years worth. Someone else said 5, but I'd like to see that in writing.
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Based on the fact that I couldn't get a pre-order and the massive backlog of 360/One/One X games I curren
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Well it wasn't important enough for me to set a reminder and when I finally remembered it they were all g
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In reply to kzrystof:you should have used Windows key + . to insert ? instead of going for the old school asci
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In reply to simont:Would having both TicTok and Zoom on Oracle Cloud impact stability?
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In reply to dcdevito:A place to leverage the bing ad service
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They probably could ship this year, but it would be a buggy hot mess with a cascade of updates. I think folks
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Well I hope they keep the ruse up for a while. I for one appreciate clean mobile OS even if it needs a bunch o
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In reply to OldITPro2000:Microsoft Scheduler is like magic and it's Cortana based.
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I miss Microsoft Signature... Sure there was still a little crap, but nothing like this.
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IF it happens there will be one ad company making a lot of money and a lot of other businesses that impload be
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In reply to Harrymyhre:Not everything in a smartphone needs to be this year's design. There are some core
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Product in search of a market. Bring back KIN!
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In reply to Simard57:I second the MicroSDXC card. I've got a 400GB SanDisk card in my Surface Go that
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The only way the selling of one's privacy is going to ever register for those that are currently blissful
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In reply to webdev511:I stand corrected. Apparently this has been happening for over a year and it was just a
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Nice stock bump from that news too. The reality is IBM probably got a sweet deal on Enterprise Grid, but even
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High praise indeed. The i5 w/ 16GB of RAM is a tempting configuration. Little less power maybe the battery las
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In reply to will:I think that has (mostly) been the target all along. HP, Dell, Lenovo, et. al. make devices t
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Which is why I will keep using my 2013 Air until the new keyboard comes to more mode
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In reply to willc:I don't know what you use a Windows PC for, but no, Chrome OS is about a decade away fr
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In reply to Pungkuss:You think Google would get sued by the EU for allowing consumer choice? If implemented it
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In reply to madthinus:Yep it's the careful balancing act of more stores = more sales vs exclusive and con
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Well It's going to sell as well as the price will allow. So very well initially (pent up demand) and then
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In reply to anderb:Yeah the shopping button in Edge mobile doesn't seem to correlate with any type of ent
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Yeah gonna stick with the Pixel 2XL until the long term P4XL evals are in.
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In reply to Bart:It would be another exercise of moving a web service from AWS to Azure as well as ramping up
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I went from my Nexus 6p to a Pixel 2XL only to discover that it wasn't really neccessary. All I really ne
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In reply to dstrauss:I have a Pixel 2XL on Google Fi, it is essentally a Surface Phone. MS Launcher, Cortana,
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I had that book and used it too. Got me started with ASP 1.0 page development which I rode all the way to ASP
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All these years later and with a new battery, my Nexus 6p is still a very good phone. I didn't have the p
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In reply to will:If I'm going to lug around a Surface Book 15 I want it with 32GB.
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In reply to digiguy:The CPU capabilities of the Ryzen 3k with the 7nm process itself should be an eye opener.
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How many other parts that are now Alphabet would die off if they didn't have the Google Ads subside money
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In reply to Slvrgun:Based on the fact that there are 218 Xbox One X enhanced games and a total of right about
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When you push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back...hard.
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In reply to RossNWirth:The only con is for the people too stupid to realize that you shouldn't wear them
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In reply to lvthunder:Apple is borderline acting like MSFT did with IE. The complaint data isn't very end
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Three Months? How about offer two weeks or less. I don't care how it impacts the user experience. My data
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In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:If iOS were more open I bet there would be more work being done on it. At the momen
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In reply to Skolvikings:Well with Xbox One MSFT did add external storage that actually is functional and in so
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In reply to RossNWirth:You can stack 3 years. I believe it's the same for Xbox Live Gold as well.
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And like Surface Headphones they probably won't be Teams Certified devices either.
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I think I'd rather have the power for a solid 4k 60+fps over 8k, but release specs are more about future
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In reply to saiko:R&D for follow on models isn't zero but it's nothing near what the Xbox One co
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I thought the 360 won that gen or did they eventually get passed by PS3?
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Thanks to web developers, I let google run the minimal amount of scripts required to make a page run and alway
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No, just no. why in the heck would you have a dedicated assistant button and NOT a dedicated camera button? WH
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In reply to ggolcher:Continuum was genuinely useful. The HP device in its dock with a mouse keyboard and monit
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except for the price...well no the price kind of kills it.
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I know the team in the hardware division is working hard on the next version of XBox One, but 240FPS with no d
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Not really a whole lot different than the default landing page when you log into Office 365...
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Oh, well they can TRY to make me believe my data is safe, but let's face it, once it's posted on FB
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Huh. Who could have possibly known that it would turn out like this? I mean aside from pretty much everyone.
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I don't see myself switching off of FireFox anytime soon. For me NoScript is a critical part of my approa
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In reply to christian.hvid:Yes, 100% sure that Windows 7 will no longer be supported unless you're a very
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Good to know. It's obvious now that this year's updates were almost all limited to new silicon on ex
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:The omission of Kinect and it's dedicated port on Xbox One S & X. People d
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I agree on the way too restrictive upgrade choices. I'd like an i5 with 256 GB m2 and 16GB of ram. I can
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In reply to jimchamplin:I admit, I am not up to speed on Adobe subscription model, but I have to think at some
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In reply to wolters:Probably more likely that it remembers but has a huge stack of data indicating it IS spam.
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It's too bad that Apps have to leverage Google's tracking and can't do it without letting the G
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I also do and don't trust Google, I use a Pixel 2 XL, but have neutered it as much as possible while stil
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A classic and repayable because it has a near perfect balance of interactivity during game play and OMG the st
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Well this will be great right up to the point where it falls flat on its face because iPad Pro doesn't ha
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In reply to leops1984:go to fi.google.com to see prices. Pixel 3 64 GB is $799...
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For consumers yes, but I'd put money on them having contractual obligations to keep it up and running for
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In reply to karma77police:Yeah for an extra $150 you can get a 12 core 2720 when they're released at the
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Yep, I won't be getting it on my Ivy Bridge-E Xeon workstation because the August & September Intel M
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I actually started this on Friday (pre-ordered) and OMG even on a 1080p DLP (triple LED no colorwheel) set it
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It was a very good portable gaming device. Proprietary memory didn't do anything to help adoption. the ba
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In reply to Remtiwk:I've been using it as a primary since Windows 7. If Microsoft Edge supported NoScript
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Well it wasn't because they didn't make very good well selling games. Sounds like higher ups spent m
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In reply to wolters:I have this speaker in my kitchen. It's my french press coffee timer, News reader and
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In reply to kshsystems: Cortana in stand alone home devices? I don't disagree. Cortana as an enterprise a
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Just make Edge better by decoupling release cycles from OS release and oh I'd REALLY love NoScript for Ed
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The $359 off is a pretty good deal, but I don't know that I would call this a fire sale, but then I want
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In reply to lvthunder:Yes, the original Surface Book with dGPU running under load would use 100% of the power
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I don't think the fact that Windows 7 is on its way out has sunk in yet....
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My first thought is why it's taken this long for established apps to abandon the "store tax" Even Microso
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In reply to MartinusV2:At least it will be sooner than anything on verizon.
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Well we do hear about lemons more than we hear about people who have fine/okay devices. I haven't had any
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In reply to Bart:Yep, in 15 months, Microsoft Teams has made in roads on Slack, so it's not surprising th
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If they can't run it off of a single code base, it won't happen. There are already some builds done
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Nothing interesting to see here this month. Move along....move along....
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In reply to Chris_Kez:I suppose it could but at this point, why? The Xbox team hyper tunes the hardware to do
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In reply to thalter:All the changes have been rolling out since after 2016 RTM'd, so if you're on O3
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Given that Xbox One is just a task specific Windows 10 PC. Obviously hyper tuned hardware, but architecture wi
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Had to check if I even had this on my Pixel and I didn't. Doesn't matter as I use a Fiio X5 when I w
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In reply to will:If they go full PWA, then it won't really matter will it? Oh wait, does Mac OS have PWA
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Edge needs to be decoupled and put on it's own cadence. How many times does Firefox or Chrome get updated
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In reply to PhotM:If you stream everything on the day it happens, you reduce the value of your event to networ
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And I have big, like fortune 50 big, companies that saw Delve and their reaction was to completely disable Del
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In reply to harmjr:Well the transition of Acompli to Outlook Mobile from AWS to Azure wasn't exactly quic
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I know too many people that even with most recent events aren't going to do anything related to FB hygien
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Oh maybe they're kicking the can down the road to make sure Intel chips have the Specter and Meltdown fix
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In reply to DaddyBrownJr:It would never get approved on Verizon anyway. Oh you want updates, security updates
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Well I suppose that means Apple fans can kiss a next gen Mac Pro Workstation goodbye.
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Have I seen oddities with my Pixel 2 XL? Yep. Strange things every now and then. Has it been as flawless as my
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I tried to be a mouser, but it was hard to get right. Instead I used a MadCatz Panther XL. Basically a mappabl
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I've dropped 20 since mid-December. I knew I was too heavy (getting harder to button pants is a dead give
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In reply to jimchamplin:Enterprises go into total freakout mode when new features appear. They do so even afte
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Or you can buy 3 1/2 Harmon-Kardon Cortana speakers for the same price as a single Home Pod.
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Yeah I'm thinking it's long odds that Asus (or anyone) will be updating Bios for the Intel x79 based
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In reply to dcdevito:No reason to use it unless you travel internationally. Then Fi blows all the domestic car
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Apple needs to partner with someone else for hardware. How many years between Mac Pros? How many PC iterations
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Hmm, do they play SACD? I mean that's the only reason I still have a PS3 hooked into my home entertainmen
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In reply to redstar92:As someone who makes a living off of O365, please don't. There are some things that
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We recently moved into new buildings at work. They are much closer to the train station than the old campus wa
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This is a beautiful device. If it delivers then it might have the potential to start a wave. Or it could be Wi
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Looks like it's overkill for video transcoding too. The future is available for those that can afford it.
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Yeah, I met some folks that work at Xamarin that have the new Mac Book Pro and they said verbatim that there w
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In reply to paul-thurrott:My mom actually told me there is a way to use the liquid from a can of garbanzos int
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Good info for sure Paul, thanks for sharing. I take bits and pieces from various sources. I liked Alton Brown&
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I'd like to know if the One X makes a difference or if it's an issue in the port.
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My wife and I have been on Fi for just under 2 years. Best decision I've made in years.
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There was a recent write up in the NYT that boiled down to "The more cooked or processed something is, the mor
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Yep, the last of the hold outs will be moving the week of December 8th. We'll be working from scattered l
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I got a black one because because I always put a case on my phones. That said my Nexus 6p is sliver because th
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In reply to Michael Rivers:Give it a shot on Redbox. That's what I'm doing, but OMG the 9GB "update"
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In reply to UbelhorJ: The back of the phone is perfect for one handed secure login and use.
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I too have a Pixel 2 XL on pre-order, but now have serious thoughts about cancelling and just sticking with my
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In reply to glenn8878:Cortana is already in cars....
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I'd be fine with an "easier" mode with no achievements. Make those points worth something again. :D
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In reply to matsan:Surface as it is today is a long way from the Surface RT boondoggle. On one hand they HAD t
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Fun fact. The vast majority (like 99.999%) of Allied troops didn't wear cammo during WWII, but then Sony
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Satya already said that there would be a Surface Pro with LTE I think back at Inspire or even during the Surfa
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In reply to EdTittel:It's its own flavor of Windows 10, so you won't see Chrome on it unless Google
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In reply to m.rubino:Yep. Same here. I have a 6p and it will get Oreo, so will be good for another year, or at
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This the Hot Wheels expansion is silly fun. And I do mean just flat out silly. Physics? Oh you want Forza 7, t
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I guess we'll see what drops next month. If they're still kind of "meh" devices I'll just keep
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Apple-vs-Qualcomm-news Patent royalties. Qualcomm says Apple owes money, Apple isn'
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In reply to LordPhantom:It's one of the reasons why when I switched from Windows Phone to Android I got a
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In reply to petvas:Except that an Xbox One S is also a 4k Streamer AND plays 4k UHD blu-ray, something that�
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It's a sale this week, but once the Xbox One X is released, I'd expect the 500GB "S" will settle at
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In reply to KingPCGeek:This was written by Brad who may cancel, but no Paul won't.
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Throw in the fact that Bing is also leveraged for a lot of threat protection used in the enterprise security s
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Since I have a Nexus 6p I can be part of the 0.00001% of Android devices on 8.0, when release of course.
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I wouldn't be surprised one bit if going forward Surface Book with dGPU = Performance Base. I'd like
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What no option for chicken? I guess I'll just pre-order at the company store.
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We dropped cable four years ago. OTA antenna on the roof, pointed in the right direction, Windows media center
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In reply to will:I disagree. There are people that are always going to want a dGPU and the built in Intel GPU
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I don't think I would have used "Real" & "Fake". Hit and miss would have been more appropriate. If th
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Even today you can't talk about one with out the conversation bringing in other components. E.g. Can'
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I really loved my Windows Phone when I had it, despite the fact that I was on Verizon the entire time. the HTC
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In reply to Awhispersecho:I hope someone with influence reads your post just in case there is a component they
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I can see a use for this in places where you can't use a webcam for login. That said we already have opti
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Well DUH. Why would you download 4k assets if you can only play them at 1080p? Hopefully compression will help
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In reply to SIAShotgun:Yep, works great on a Surface Hub. I could see it being useful if you've got a Sur
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There's also the fact that this could be the first production wave & they're going to see how th
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My co-worker bought the i7 version and it is a thing of beauty. Too bad repair means calling in to support and
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At this price isn't it one of the least expensive combination UHD Blu-ray player & 4k streaming devic
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I'm all for Xbox Scorpio One S (Home US Launch Edition) because it's not a Microsoft product until t
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Well I'd bet good money that the NEXT version of Surface Pro/Book/Notebook/Studio will have Thunderbolt 3
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Carrier stupidity is one of the reasons that when my wife & I switched from Lumias we went to Nexus on Fi.
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In reply to jbinaz:Yeah, I bet they get walked out because it's not hard to track this stuff down. In fac
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Yes, it should have been decoupled at RTM or the very latest TH2. While Windows 10 may use the Edge engine to
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In reply to IT:Shared Workstations are covered in O365 Pro Plus via the Shared Computer switch in Office Deplo
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Another Blast from the Past. Better suited for Throwback Thursday though, isn't it? I no longer have my c
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Blast from the Past. I Might still have my copy of the "Visual Quick Start Guide to VBScript by Paul Thurrott"
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Now I just have to hope I can figure out how to prevent it from supplanting Cortana. Every time there is a Chr
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Well it WAS working and then it just kind of disappeared which was a bummer. I don't miss it mostly becau
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In reply to Chris_Kez:My guess (and it's only that) is that there wasn't any value in a v2 with the
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Yeah, I think you might have gone back to the WRONG TIME. Why no love for Win95 OSR2?
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C# is going to be THE compiled language of choice, but we have to keep an eye on JavaScript. I've never taken
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In reply to SherlockHolmes:
I think he uses both Outlook.com & Gmail. You know gotta keep an eye on all t
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I'm with you Paul. Coming from a Lumia Icon I've been VERY happy with my Nexus 6P on Fi. I still miss live til
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Reminds me that I need to do some serious research on the best wheel pedal setup for my Xbox One.
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And don't forget Google+ is also the "Enterprise Social" component of Google's "G-Suite"
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The Xbox One S really is an excellent console. I'm going to have to take it over to the neighboors who have a
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Yep, apart from being the DRM mechanism seems like Xbox One games on disc are mostly a way to transport 50 GB
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In reply to TravisGreuel:
Yep and use the deployment tool to make sure things like publisher don't get install
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I use a Seiki Pro SM28UTR 28-Inch 4K monitor with my Surface Book at work with MiniDP via Surface Dock. It's n
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Typo in the last paragraph. I think you meant the 3rd word to be OneNote, not Outlook...
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Some of the newer editing features in Word have gotten some new writing aids that I've found helpful. Granted