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    One postitive thing in 2020…
    By wright_is, 1 week ago
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    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 1 week ago 7 Replies
    AzureAD 99.99% uptime for 2021…
    By wright_is, 2 weeks ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Cloud
    wright_is Microsoft Cloud 2 weeks ago 2 Replies
    iPhone SE 2020
    By wright_is, 1 month ago
    7 Replies
    Forum: Apple
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Apple Hardware 1 month ago 7 Replies
    Path or filename too long
    By wright_is, 11 months ago
    17 Replies
    Forum: Support
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Support Windows 2 months ago 17 Replies
    Panasonic HDMI 2.1 boo-boo – dark times for Xbox Series X & nVidia users
    By wright_is, 3 months ago
    11 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Microsoft Hardware 2 months ago 11 Replies
    2004 and Thunderbolt
    By wright_is, 7 months ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 7 months ago 1 Reply
    Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design?
    By wright_is, 10 months ago
    10 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Google Hardware 9 months ago 10 Replies
    Outlook for Android sorts alphabetically, finally!
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    wright_is Microsoft Office 1 year ago 0 Replies
    Lenovo ThinPad X1 Fold
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 1 year ago 0 Replies
    Huawei – not just phones
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    0 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is General Discussion Hardware 1 year ago 0 Replies
    New icons, again…
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    13 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    wright_is Microsoft Office 1 year ago 13 Replies
    XBox Game Pass Ultimate 56% off @ Amazon
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Games
    wright_is Microsoft Games 1 year ago 4 Replies
    Streisand effect Hauwei?
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Google Hardware 1 year ago 3 Replies
    Chinese made Androids with malware pre-installed
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Google
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Google Hardware 1 year ago 1 Reply
    Huawei Android Updates
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    3 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is Google Hardware 1 year ago 3 Replies
    Which Navigation method?
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Google
    Category: Mobile
    wright_is Google Mobile 1 year ago 1 Reply
    Germans buy more with plastic than cash for the first time
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    13 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Uncategorized
    wright_is General Discussion Uncategorized 1 year ago 13 Replies
    New icons on Windows
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    9 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    wright_is Microsoft Office 1 year ago 9 Replies
    Facebook loses to hairdresser, has to pay 50,000€ fine
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    13 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Uncategorized
    wright_is General Discussion Uncategorized 1 year ago 13 Replies
    Windows Store installing apps…
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 1 year ago 6 Replies
    New Icons on Android
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    12 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    wright_is Microsoft Office 1 year ago 12 Replies
    Windows 10 19h1 Tip: transparency effect on login
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    1 Reply
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 1 year ago 1 Reply
    Chrome fails to install
    By wright_is, 2 years ago
    11 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Google Windows 1 year ago 11 Replies
    Average speed cameras in Germany illegal under GDPR
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    12 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Uncategorized
    wright_is General Discussion Uncategorized 1 year ago 12 Replies
    Not spying, honest…
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: Google
    Category: Internet of Things (IoT)
    wright_is Google Internet of Things (IoT) 1 year ago 4 Replies
    Hauwei Watch GT-843
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    4 Replies
    Forum: General Discussion
    Category: Hardware
    wright_is General Discussion Hardware 1 year ago 4 Replies
    Why can’t Windows 10 Control Panel deinstall applications?
    By wright_is, 1 year ago
    6 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 1 year ago 6 Replies
    MSN showing malware ads
    By wright_is, 2 years ago
    12 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 2 years ago 12 Replies
    Disabling Windows 10 Telemetry
    By wright_is, 2 years ago
    7 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Windows
    wright_is Microsoft Windows 2 years ago 7 Replies
    Office 365 reduced Ribbon
    By wright_is, 2 years ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Office
    wright_is Microsoft Office 2 years ago 14 Replies

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:That's my point. People keep saying ARM is better, because the x86 architecture

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:ARM is also archaiac. It dates from the mid to late 80s. I had one of the original ARM m

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    In reply to joferm:Except that they are now ahead of the game. Huawei has more 5G patents than anyone else. Yo

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Add in that the US has been blocking Chinese chip fabs from buying production line equip

    Posted 4 weeks ago on The Great PC Renaissance of 2020 (Premium) – 38 Comments

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    In reply to EnterpriseT:I haven't noticed any steep price increases in PCs. But webcams shot up. Logitech

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    In reply to JE:It is a mixture of the two. People who didn't have a PC before suddenly needed them. But t

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    In reply to RobCannon:We replace on an 8 - 10 year cycle. We had just finished a major refit last year (over 2

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    In reply to JerryH:It was the business models we couldn't get hold of. Instead of Latitudes or ThinkPads,

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:Traditionally, employees needed to be in the office, so they had desktop PCs. This

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    In reply to UK User:No, this has nothing to do with Nadella and a shift in the position of Microsoft.People we

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    In reply to navarac:If he needs Adobe and Autodesk software, Linux will be a non-starter for him. Even less of

    Posted 4 weeks ago on I’m returning my M1 Mac Mini – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Saying, "because corruption is normal" isn't a valid answer. The US political system is

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    In reply to ebockelman:It is great for devs to see what is possible, but it isn't really a solution for t

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    In reply to Greg Green:Why should they have to bribe US representatives in order to do business?

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    In reply to atimms:No, the US has banned companies world wide from delivering to China. If they ignore the san

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    Amen. Corona was a more minor disaster for us this year, compared to other things. Here is hoping that things

    Posted 1 month ago on Merry Christmas! – 21 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:Yes. I'd expect at 32GB to 64GB for that price, but, as you say, they are up front abo

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    In reply to erich82:It is an email newsletter for Premium members.

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:There is a developer preview VDX virtual machine image of WoA.Surprised me as well.

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    In reply to peterc:My Galaxy S20+ fits in my jeans pocket...The quality of the SE is great, but it just feels

    Posted 1 month ago on iPhone SE 2020 – 8 Comments

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    In reply to sammyg:In 2020/2021 I am not sure why anyone runs Windows on a Mac anymore???Outlook is a prime ex

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    This has always been the case, since I started in computing, back in 1980. You always buy the best platform th

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past – 14 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:Or even in 2021. Apple have only released entry level MacBooks and Mac minis so far. Those

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past – 14 Comments

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    iPhone SE 2020

    The last iPhone I used was an iPhone 3GS. My company Huawei P20 was just replaced, today, by an iPhone SE 2020 (the management decided that as there were only 3 people using non-iPhones in the company, that it would go all-in on iPhone, no choice any more. I had the option between an iPhone 8 or the SE 2020, so I went with the latter, because it should get updates for longer.

    I was surprised by how small it was, compared to even the "small" P20 - my private phone is a Galaxy S20+. Then, I was caught by how little had changed between 2009 and 2020. The design is "almost" the same. The same rounded corners, the same "home" button, the same small screen stuck in the middle of a, relatively speaking, huge case - given that the P20 is only about 1.5cm longer and 0.5cm wider, the whole iPhone SE 2020 is the size of the screen on the P20, with the 1.5cm being the chin for the sensor on the P20. What is really surprising / shocking is the forehead on the SE 2020. I've not seen that much space above the screen in several years, on the Android side.

    It really gives the SE 202 a retro feel, it really feels like a thinner iPhone 3GS to look at.

    Without a power adapter to charge it, the packaging is a lot thinner than it used to be. Luckily, I have a laptop with USB-C at work, so I could charge it up. We have a lot of old Apple power adapters for old iPhones, but they are all USB-A, the cable with the iPhone is USB-C to Lightning. I have USB-C cables and I have USB-A charging adapters - I have a couple of USB-C adapters at home, so charging at home won't be a problem, but why couldn't they have just done USB-C to USB-C, like everybody else? That would be so much simpler.

    I set up my email easily enough and installed Teams, so now I'm all set, but I couldn't delete all of the Apple apps I don't need, but at least you can remove them from the home screen in iOS 14.

    For a bit of telephony on the move and checking emails when not at my desk, it should be fine. But it is a real retro design.

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    In reply to Harrymyhre:I used laptops for a while, but with my 2016 Spectre X360, I realised that I was using

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    In reply to SvenJ:Its what the pot on the stove does, when you cook vegetables... :-S

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    In reply to RonV42:Hmm, maybe Apple cares about its employees' & customers' wellbeing?

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Closes Its Stores in California – 13 Comments

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    In reply to rh24:We are stuck with 4GB for desktops and 8GB for laptops at work... I switched to 32GB for my l

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    I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Tell me it ain't so!Oh, wait, we are talking about Google and Face

    Posted 1 month ago on Report: Google and Facebook Colluded on Online Advertising – 7 Comments

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    I don't use the Google or Samsung apps. I just de-install or deactivate all the Samsung apps I don't

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Which is why I said that it is fine that Apple is applying defaults and making it automa

    Posted 1 month ago on Future of the Mac – 8 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Yes and no. I agree with you in general. It is the fine detail where I think I beg to di

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    In reply to james.h.robinson:Generally pretty poor. They don't have the remote management and configurati

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    In reply to whistlerpro:It is the same in most of Europe, although France and Austria went into hard lockdowns

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Closes Its Stores in California – 13 Comments

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    In reply to CasualAdventurer:Hmm, maybe they actually care about their employees' and their customers

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Closes Its Stores in California – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Dan:All Shops, Restaurants, Bars etc. are closed here. Only supermarkets and chemist's are op

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Closes Its Stores in California – 13 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:And nobody in their right mind would try and get an exemption in the current situation.

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Closes Its Stores in California – 13 Comments

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    In reply to straker135:Because Apple has a poor track record, when it comes to long-term support. You move to

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    In reply to JE:My current Dell has 3840x1440 @ 34", which is about the right size for 100% scaling for my eyes

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    In reply to Geoff:One external display is 1920x1200 (16:10), one 1920x1080 (16:9) the other 3840x1440.16:9 jus

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    In reply to dstrauss:The power button being in "the middle" of the keyboard is the only thing that bothers me.

    Posted 1 month ago on HP Spectre x360 14 First Impressions – 73 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:Yes, I went from 2 displays to an ultra-wide on the desktop. Best move I ever made. I'm

    Posted 1 month ago on HP Spectre x360 14 First Impressions – 73 Comments

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    It looks like a great laptop. It is a shame it took so long and I'm no longer looking for a laptop.I stil

    Posted 1 month ago on HP Spectre x360 14 First Impressions – 73 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:They have been making ARM chips for around a decade. This is the first one that has been scal

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:There would be no point to that. The reference designs are slow, slower even than Qualco

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:We use Teams for 90% 1-1 calls and chats.I would say, Teams is the business solution a

    Posted 1 month ago on Why should Skype go away? – 29 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:Skype has been on mobile for the best part of a decade. I used it on my Windows Phones a

    Posted 1 month ago on Why should Skype go away? – 29 Comments

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    The problem with the path length isn't just NTFS or ReFS support, applications often have fixed sized var

    Posted 1 month ago on Ask Paul: December 18 (Premium) – 20 Comments

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    In reply to Username:The market is too small for Qualcomm to really get excited about and make the necessary i

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to ecumenical:The ARM license won't bring them anything useful, on its own. They need the expert

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:Qualcomm didn't invest heavily enough in the laptop chips, because the market is t

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:I think this can only succeed if Microsoft makes the SoC or its design available to its OEM

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:ARM has a lot of scope for use in datacentres. If it becomes popular there, it could fi

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft is Reportedly Designing Its Own ARM Chips – 76 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:There is also WhatsApp, signal, telegram, Threema, Facebook Messenger and several other ap

    Posted 1 month ago on Why should Skype go away? – 29 Comments

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    In reply to mcerdas:Every company I've ever worked for has had a business device, business data, private

    Posted 1 month ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, December 17 – 14 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:I agree and disagree. I've only seen some YouTube first looks, but it does look amaz

    Posted 1 month ago on Sony Removes Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store – 17 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:DRM or video driver problem were my first thoughts as well. I've never seen the problem

    Posted 1 month ago on Odd screenshot issue – 4 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:I create a new photos folder for each import I do, which is "PhotosRAWS & Originals202

    Posted 1 month ago on What I Use: Suggestion, File Organization – 10 Comments

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    Depending on how old the code is and how low-level it goes, Apple does a fairly good job.But if you have an ol

    Posted 1 month ago on VMware Remote Console 12.0 for M1!! – 1 Comments

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    In reply to Dan:Because it is already there... Chrome and Edge use the same code-base, which means that 90% of

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Edge Heads to M1 Macs in Preview – 27 Comments

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    In reply to sscywong:And, if it stopped Google, it would stop Microsoft, as it is the same base code...

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Edge Heads to M1 Macs in Preview – 27 Comments

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    I agree with you 100%. I'm not a big Apple fan, but when it comes to this sort of privacy and making sure

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Fires Back at Facebook – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Given the government had their plans for the Bundestrojaner thrown out by the const

    Posted 1 month ago on Germany Approves Huawei for its 5G Networks – 8 Comments

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    In reply to jchampeau:Not such a problem these days. My last 2 Hauweis and my Samsung Galaxy S20+ had Facebook

    Posted 1 month ago on Facebook Attacks Apple in Newspaper Ads – 54 Comments

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    The thing is, Docs, Sheets etc. are business tools. Business users are often not tech savvy and freak out if t

    Posted 1 month ago on Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX – 24 Comments

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    Like the first Buds, that looked like a pair of Oral B toothbrush heads sticking out the ears), these look hor

    Posted 1 month ago on AirPods Max Reviews – 12 Comments

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    I currently use LastPass, but without a Windows client, the MS Authenticator solution is useless, to me. I nee

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Authenticator Gains Password Management and Autofill Capabilities – 40 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:My guess is Office for Windows is a completely different code base then the Mac version.

    Posted 1 month ago on Firefox 84 Brings M1 Mac Support – 15 Comments

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    In reply to Scsekaran:Well, about 12 hours, anyway.

    Posted 1 month ago on Firefox 84 Brings M1 Mac Support – 15 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:Are they going to make one binary for Qualcomm, another for Samsung and a third for AMD?T

    Posted 1 month ago on Who will win the ARM race? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:You develop directly on the ARM servers. They are more powerful than a desktop or laptop

    Posted 1 month ago on Who will win the ARM race? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:The problem is, when you work day-in-day-out on such a system and, as management, i

    Posted 1 month ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, December 14 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Here is a review of the M1 Macs, with the question, is it ready and should you buy?https

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Yes, it all depends on the software. In our case, much of it is Windows only and the cou

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple M1 Mac vs Surface Pro X – 28 Comments

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    In reply to Truffles:And around me, it is the other way round. My eldest daughter has a MacBook Pro and she is

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple M1 Mac vs Surface Pro X – 28 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:This is, unfortunately, the default. I keep getting ads for Disney+ and Netflix series,

    Posted 1 month ago on Amazon Fire TV Now Has 50 Million Monthly Active Users – 8 Comments

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    Fujitsu are winning it at the moment. There latest supercomputer is around 3 times as fast as the AMD machine

    Posted 1 month ago on Who will win the ARM race? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to txag:I know many reputable journalists who write for Forbes... Several award winning tech journali

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple MacBook Pro 13” M1 Review- Why You Might Want To Pass – 13 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Silicon Valley way always hypocritical. They've been selling cloud solutions, so that

    Posted 1 month ago on Google is Working on a Post-Pandemic Work Schedule – 18 Comments

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    In reply to melinau:The problem is, Qualcomm sees making a competitive laptop or desktop chip as a waste of ti

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    It looks like they sent everyone home and locked the keys in the building today, with everything being offline

    Posted 1 month ago on Google is Working on a Post-Pandemic Work Schedule – 18 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Mac sales also increased because many people who VPN into work - run Macs at home (Windo

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple M1 Mac vs Surface Pro X – 28 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Apple's gen 1 devices after switch were always going to be exactly the same machine

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple M1 Mac vs Surface Pro X – 28 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:Given there are no drivers to use the hardware... AFAIK, a developer got it running unde

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:If you need "real" MS Office, you need either a Mac or a Windows device.The Web and

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to ianbetteridge:Leo Laporte gave a whole list of macOS applications he regularly uses, which don

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:The problem isn't so much Microsoft as Qualcomm and users. Microsoft's biggest ma

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:Given that the WoA devices are woefully underpowered and can't compare with an

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to hlbuck:The drivers are only available in x64 code and the drivers have to be native. The x32 and x

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I think he is referring to you being positive about WoA, for a change. ;-)

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:The problem is that WoA has been a minor distraction for Qualcomm so far. It is very l

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    In reply to wright_is:One of our trainees, 20, forgot her laptop the other week and we had to give her a deskt

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:In Germany it is also mainly Windows and iPads in schools. Cloud services, like Google or M

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:I agree with you for the most part. Or users are non technical and couldn't c

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:That option is deactivated in our Windows here by policy.This is new behaviour in O

    Posted 1 month ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul For Friday, December 11 – 13 Comments

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    Is there any way to disable the "advertising" in Office 365?This week it has started popping up a strip below

    Posted 1 month ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul For Friday, December 11 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to staganyi:If you are using the business subscription, you can use the manual installer with a confi

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    Damn, so not a news reader, but a private news feed...I was excited for a minute, I thought I could drop Thund

    Posted 1 month ago on Brave Adds an Integrated News Reader – 6 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:What was really scary was that many banks, here in Germany, were using OS/2 until ar

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    Oh, no, not again! Every time they change the interface, my other half moans that it has changed and she can&#

    Posted 1 month ago on Amazon Announces New UI for Fire TV – 10 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Two wrongs don't make a right.Just because they didn't look closely at it and

    Posted 1 month ago on U.S. Government, Most States Seek to Break Up Facebook – 38 Comments

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    In reply to Truffles:It is only available, here in Germany, for a minimum of 1,000 devices. Germany is a count

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    In reply to peterc:We have two different markets here. We have business, which won't change its software,

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:They did try to license Mac OS in the 90s to third parties, it almost bankrupted the

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple’s M-Series Mac Roadmap Leaks – 30 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:I use CaptureOne and Affinity Photo for my process. CaptureOne isn't cheap, but it is a

    Posted 1 month ago on Adobe Lightroom is Now Available on M1 Macs and Windows 10 on ARM – 16 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:It is my daily bread-and-butter.Most of our mission critical stuff is WIndows only.A

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to james.h.robinson:Only if it can run the legacy software that runs the business (i.e. badly written

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to james.h.robinson:Also, market share is usually given in "active" devices (i.e. from devices that r

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to SAPaleAle:Yes, the warranties from PC manufacturers are often the winning argument against Apple.W

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Except that the proposed Apple Silicon GPU is about 3,000 cores behind a high-end discre

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple’s M-Series Mac Roadmap Leaks – 30 Comments

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    In reply to Greg Green:Most of the software I need on a daily basis is Windows only, so Rosetta 2 or no, the s

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Yes, but Alcatel, UniFi, Swyx, RSW, Siemens and all the other hardware and software supp

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to shameer_mulji:And the desktop market is somewhere between 1.2 and 1.5 billion PCs in total, includ

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:What do you consider a small number of staff? We are around 300 employees and we h

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Let us not talk about Windows implementation of HDR and scaling in regards to 4K - that

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to jm2016:Audio, I buy from companies renowned for good audio quality, or I buy cheap. Expensive from

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Announces AirPods Max – 86 Comments

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    At that price, I hope they have better sound than Beyer Dynamic's reference headphones...

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Announces AirPods Max – 86 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:I agree. It isn't that much of a problem for ordinary users. But they are a s

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:I can only assume this was meant as sarcasm. ;)Yup!

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:Yes, I don't like some of the decisions Apple have made with macOS over the y

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    In reply to Usman:Yes, on mine, it does the update in the background and if I don't restart Edge within a

    Posted 1 month ago on Bravo Microsoft – you have proved your point! – 4 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Agreed. It is part of the price calculation that you make when manufacturing and selling

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple to Replace Faulty iPhone 11 Displays – 9 Comments

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    For a upper-midrange device it is great.My ideal phone would be my current Galaxy S20+ with polycarbonate inst

    Posted 1 month ago on Google Pixel 4a 5G Review: The Best Value of 2020 – 21 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I agree. I think it is because people are used to fully functional applications and

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to fishnet37222:Yes. I have all data on SSD mirrored to HDD on my PC, then mirrored to my NAS, synced

    Posted 1 month ago on Spotify is Testing Local Music Support on Android – 17 Comments

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    In reply to fishnet37222:That's a lot of music! Mine is only around 80GB, but worked nicely with OneDrive

    Posted 1 month ago on Spotify is Testing Local Music Support on Android – 17 Comments

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    In reply to DaveHelps:I use HiDrive. The Android client can play audio and videos from my cloud drive, but onl

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    In reply to paradyne:I agree, except that a lot of the code can be written in assembler. If that is the case,

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:No, C is an absolute delight, compared to JavaScript

    Posted 1 month ago on JavaScript Turns 25 – 24 Comments

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    In reply to coeus89:Yes, your professor sums it up nicely. JavaScript is the devil's spawn, but it is eve

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    Brendan Eich has a lot to answer for! I don't know if 25 years of penance are enough! :-D

    Posted 1 month ago on JavaScript Turns 25 – 24 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:Except consumers are a small part of the market. Industry is slow to change - and supplier

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:Applications are important. The processor and operating system are only needed to run that

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to matsan:I don't have a problem with Apple moving the key assignments, that is annoying, but yo

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to JeffKirvin:For those that build there own, battery life is irrelevant.I have an HP laptop, I used

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    Privacy view offers "100 nits in the higher end"? Do you mean 1000, or 100 more than the standard?

    Posted 1 month ago on HP Elite c1030 Chromebook Enterprise First Impressions – 5 Comments

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    The best bit is where they bring the grenade back! :-D

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft’s Holiday Commercial is for the Dogs – 12 Comments

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    In reply to matsan:It is the same with German keyboards. In fact, Apple is very developer unfriendly, their ke

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to shameer_mulji:Except I don't want to use macOS. If I clould put Linux on it, I'd buy one

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:The point I was making in a nutshell.

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:So, about 15% better than my 2016 HP Spectre x360... I get around 8 - 9 hours out of it wh

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:It depends more on how quickly the game studios abandon Windows and make their titles macO

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:We are moving to more and more terminal servers, with people working from home.They

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:I agree with you, up to a point.The Intel Mac can be upgraded. Buy it with 8GB and later

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Yes, the threading on the forum keeps breaking at the moment.

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to Jeffsters:Alcatel CTI (only runs Intel and only runs in the same bitness as the host OS - i.e. on

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Exactly, And AMD has been at 7nm for a couple of generations of Ryzen and Epyc now and a

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:But, why should I sell my old device at a huge loss for, what, $80 of extra RAM?Our cons

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    If it was bought in a bundle (i.e. Pro + keyboard cover in one package or sold together at a discounted packag

    Posted 1 month ago on probably my last surface purchase – 7 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:I agree with you generally. But Linux started to go "macish" about 2 decades ago. I remem

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:The point is, you said that it "copies" the way some UNIX and Linux systems work, that is

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Word is a bad example, I think. If I "open" word multiple times in Windows 10, I still h

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:And the Lisa predates both.

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    The menu bar and the close button aren't hold overs from Unix, they are still there from the original Mac

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Jeffsters:My first sentence asked what comes next... Not sure how asking what the successor to the

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:How is it with archiving? It is a legal requirement in Germany, for example, that all mes

    Posted 1 month ago on Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion – 32 Comments

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    In reply to basic sandbox:No, Qualcomm gave up on optimizing the ARM design they were licensing about 5 years

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:You are forgetting Fujitsu, they currently make the fastest ARM chips, I think each with

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:The real question is, how will the M1 successor work with a Mac Pro, where you can plug in

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to Daekar:At the end of the day, no matter how fast Apple makes it, if it can't run the software

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:Just to ram the point home, I got to work this morning and our Azubine (apprentice) call

    Posted 1 month ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 30 – 8 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:If they had made it an Intel laptop, that wouldn't have put any pressure on Intel.Th

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:I agree. My wife and daughters are very insecure, when it comes to using tech. My eldes

    Posted 1 month ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 30 – 8 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:A lot of scientific equipment and manufacturing equipment is Windows only, or also Linux,

    Posted 1 month ago on I’m done with Windows – 56 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:I think it is also the audience. The majority of Microsoft's customers are conservati

    Posted 1 month ago on I’m done with Windows – 56 Comments

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    In reply to SWCetacean:But LTE is hardly something new. Most of our business laptops have had 3G / 4G modems i

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to EndoftheRoad:That will always be the case, the web apps can be updated whenever the developer want

    Posted 1 month ago on Android Apps on Windows, Again (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    I usually find myself glancing at the Android apps on my phone and deciding to put off responding to the messa

    Posted 1 month ago on Android Apps on Windows, Again (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Except that HTTPS certificate revocation is pretty much ignored by Chrome/Chromium and I

    Posted 1 month ago on I’m done with Windows – 56 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:If it regularly (every day, every 4 hours or whatever) checked for new revoked certificat

    Posted 1 month ago on I’m done with Windows – 56 Comments

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    Apple seem to be taking away a lot of what made macOS macOS and are trying to turn it into a desktop version o

    Posted 1 month ago on I’m done with Windows – 56 Comments

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    In reply to txag:Being a philanthropist who invests in medicine didn't make him a medical expert. He has

    Posted 2 months ago on Bill Gates Looks Back on “The Road Ahead” – 19 Comments

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    The bigger issue is that it is opening up your network to strange devices you have no control over and are an

    Posted 2 months ago on Sidewalk is Amazon’s Latest Creepy Service – 43 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:I agree. My granddaughter came out of hospital yesterday and we get our first look at he

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 23 – 10 Comments

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    In reply to Bob_Shutts:Hmm, I did reply earlier, but it seems to have disappeared. The basic mini costs 760€

    Posted 2 months ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:It is basically just a Snapdragon with a few tweaks that Microsoft asked for. They didn&#

    Posted 2 months ago on A hint of MS Surface’s team looking at designing its own silicon – 29 Comments

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    In reply to Bob_Shutts:The base model costs 778€ ($920 at the current exchange rate).

    Posted 2 months ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to melinau:Yes, I've just "upgraded" my mobile contract. I was with Vodafone with an "up to 500m

    Posted 2 months ago on Pixel Imperfect (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:1,000 chip designers is a hell of a lot of chip designers, when you think about the tota

    Posted 2 months ago on A hint of MS Surface’s team looking at designing its own silicon – 29 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Because x86 is proprietary. They'd have to buy patent licenses from Intel and AMD,

    Posted 2 months ago on A hint of MS Surface’s team looking at designing its own silicon – 29 Comments

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    In reply to Truffles:More likely between the PC manufacturers and Intel and AMD - although AMD seems to have m

    Posted 2 months ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:80% of the software I have to use on a daily basis is Windows x86 only, 15% has x64 equiv

    Posted 2 months ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Except Apple uses its own custom method and they issue the master keys for the signing, n

    Posted 2 months ago on Running Windows natively on M1 Macs – 32 Comments

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    It doesn't change anything to start with. Until it can run all legacy windows x86 software, it is useless

    Posted 2 months ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    Microsoft is more into FPGAs and the new integrated replacement for TPM. The RoI for designing their own ARM s

    Posted 2 months ago on A hint of MS Surface’s team looking at designing its own silicon – 29 Comments

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    In reply to Alastair_Cooper:That doesn't help though, it isn't official and you won't be able t

    Posted 2 months ago on Running Windows natively on M1 Macs – 32 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Windows for Snapdragon doesn't run on the raspberry pi. That is Windows 10 for Io

    Posted 2 months ago on Running Windows natively on M1 Macs – 32 Comments

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    In reply to Alastair_Cooper:It comes down to the investment and the return on it. They will need, probably a c

    Posted 2 months ago on Running Windows natively on M1 Macs – 32 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:Thanks, I tried again at Samsung, that showed coupons, but none of the shopping sites

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Edge 87 is Now Available – 29 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Interesting, going to a shopping site shows no coupons, going to Samsung does show

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Edge 87 is Now Available – 29 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:Although the shopping doesn't seem to do anything.

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Edge 87 is Now Available – 29 Comments

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    Just updated. No microphone on the new tab page and not seeing a way to change between office and private mode

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Edge 87 is Now Available – 29 Comments

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    In reply to BigM72:Or he has locked it down, so that his personal passwords aren't stored on the work PC.

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 20 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to bschnatt:Money only helps so much,Apple has hundreds or thousands of people working on the ARM bas

    Posted 2 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, November 20 – 18 Comments

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    They aren't really comparable. The trackpad on the SP7 is an "emergency" pointing device, it is too small

    Posted 2 months ago on trackpad scrolling (Edge on Windows vs Safari on macOS)? – 4 Comments

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    What were you doing at the time? What applications were open? Was it trying to access something on the network

    Posted 2 months ago on Troubleshooting Win10 performance issue – 1 Comments

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    In reply to Dashrender:But GDPR stated that the data had to be stored on servers in the EU or a country with e

    Posted 2 months ago on Thinking About Google Photos (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Me too. I had to support a couple of dBase II systems running on them.At one point,

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 16 – 18 Comments

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    I hope they keep beavering away. I would have thought RAW support was fairly critical, considering their audie

    Posted 2 months ago on Photoshop Comes to ARM on Windows and macOS – 24 Comments

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    In reply to DaveHelps:The problem is, the data still lands on Microsoft's servers...HiDrive is also very

    Posted 2 months ago on Thinking About Google Photos (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    In reply to tghallin:My father worked for a company with a tube/valve based computer in the 60s. The valves us

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 16 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:At my first job, they had just gotten rid of the 300-baud acoustic coupler modem and mu

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 16 – 18 Comments

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    I found computing in school a doddle. Our teacher announced, in the first lesson, that he would also be taking

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 16 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to staganyi:Only if you are only using an outlook.com email address... If you have multiple email acc

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Improves Notifications in Edge – 16 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:COBOL isn't in retirement yet. There are still hundreds of millions of lines of c

    Posted 2 months ago on Gears 5 Developers Saw Massive Performance Benefits with Visual Studio 2019 – 4 Comments

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    In reply to lwetzel:I live in Europe and using onedrive is now a problem, due to the US Government reneging on

    Posted 2 months ago on Thinking About Google Photos (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    I never used Google Photo, but I do agree with you on the use multiple services bit.I currently have all my ph

    Posted 2 months ago on Thinking About Google Photos (Premium) – 29 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:The problem is, the WoA project was a wake-up call to Intel, it wasn't an all

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:Price? Not for the drivers, per se, but that the new drivers are bound to the refr

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:The problem is, Windows on Qualcomm is too niche for Qualcomm to really invest in it. Th

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:Microsoft only needs WSL to provide the *NIX tools for Windows developers. Apple h

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to matsan:The problem isn't that Apple has made it so easy for developers to go to the new platf

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to codymesh:Qualcomm could also scale up, if they wanted... But it is a niche that wouldn't brin

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:Part of the problem is that it is a "side project" for Qualcomm, with limited sales,

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    The problems are manifold, but there are a couple of key ones that need to be addressed:Drivers (and applicati

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to jwpear:It depends, my 2007 iMac was still getting Windows 7 updates until last January. The same f

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Finally Opens Up on Surface Support Lifecycle – 22 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:The problem is if bugs in the firmware or drivers cause problems with future versions

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Finally Opens Up on Surface Support Lifecycle – 22 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:It will come down to whether there are features in the drivers or firmware that stop them

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Finally Opens Up on Surface Support Lifecycle – 22 Comments

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    They had already announced at the WWDC that it was translated to native ARM instructions on first launch, so t

    Posted 2 months ago on Everybody can calm down about Rosetta 2 performance now – 13 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:2 vCPUs means 2 cores, generally. You always count the total number of cores, that

    Posted 2 months ago on Musing about Cloud PC – 7 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Yes, I think this is typical and deliberate marketing. Misdirection through omission.

    Posted 2 months ago on USB 4 / Thunderbolt 3 ‐ no royalties to Intel – 5 Comments

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    Until the US Government sort out the legal situation with the cloud, it will be a non-starter in Europe.As lo

    Posted 2 months ago on Musing about Cloud PC – 7 Comments

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    It seems unlikely that Microsoft will have Macs in the cloud. Apple only lets its OS on official Mac hardware.

    Posted 2 months ago on Musing about Cloud PC – 7 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Yes, but even before that, I thought the Tom Hanks' version was an abysmal film. But

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 13 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:I don't know, Taxi (with Queen Latifah), Assassin (Bridget Fonda) and many others hav

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 13 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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    In reply to avidfan451:I agree. I rushed out to watch Hannibal, when it was released. Anthony Hopkins was, aga

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 13 (Premium) – 36 Comments

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    It took Microsoft something like 3 - 4 years to transition from PowerPC to Intel - most of Excel's formul

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft Updates on Office on Apple Silicon-Based Macs – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Pierre Masse:Low end is relative, a low-end Porsche is low-end, in terms of performance and featur

    Posted 2 months ago on Lies of Omission (Premium) – 104 Comments

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:But Macs have always needed lots of memory, when handling large media files.There is

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    You also missed out that in the past hackers have managed to social engineer replacement SIM cards out of the

    Posted 2 months ago on Microsoft: Stop Using SMS for MFA – 27 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:The problem is, there are too many developers and too many businesses for Microsoft to move

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:Yes, but the M1 SoC supports a maximum of 16GB of RAM. If you already have a device with

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to truerock2:Apple's true advantage is its complete disregard for its users and developers. They

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:Not really. Qualcomm has had 2.5 generations of mobile chipsets for Microsoft behind it a

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to toukale:There are plenty of example, like the daiper company that Amazon forced into bankruptcy.Th

    Posted 2 months ago on EU Files Antitrust Charges Against Amazon – 20 Comments

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    In reply to fishnet37222:I'd probably have to do the same then... I have a black background (no wallpaper

    Posted 2 months ago on macOS Big Sur Is Coming Later This Week – 9 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:They bridged mobile to portable. The Mac mini has traditionally also used Intel mobile (lap

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to TallGuySE:One problem at the moment, with the first M1 is that it supports a maximum of 16GB RAM (

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to jfgordon:It can mean whatever Apple wants it to mean, until the devices actually become available

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    Aha, the RAM is integrated into the SoC, which is why it was only put in low end devices so far, 16GB is the m

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:There have been Intel based laptops that run for 24 hours or more for a couple of years

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to Rycott:Exactly. Show me it running head to head running Linpack against the new Ryzen 5000 series

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to toukale:They had around 30% in 2016, it has grown significantly since then, it looks like its mark

    Posted 2 months ago on EU Files Antitrust Charges Against Amazon – 20 Comments

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    In reply to toukale:Yes, but traditional stores aren't in such a dominant position, generally. Also, they

    Posted 2 months ago on EU Files Antitrust Charges Against Amazon – 20 Comments

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    In reply to hecticpolecat:Wow, what was the exchange rate like, back then? The ZX80 cost around 70UKP-80UKP, I

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 9 – 10 Comments

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    I never really got into FPS games. I played Doom briefly on a friends PC. I did own Quake II, but never really

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 9 – 10 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:I really think they need to get rid of the Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise definitions.I want W

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:The Store will always be a problem. At every company I've worked at, since Windows 10 wa

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to Alastair_Cooper:I suspect firmware, although it was running the latest (at the time) Asus firmware

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Agreed, but that is being pedantic. For this discussion, DSLR is an abbreviation for "an

    Posted 2 months ago on Inconsistency (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to Tim:SMS was cheap or free, MMS cost a lot of money, then, from 2008 on there was some sort of IP b

    Posted 2 months ago on Google Fi + iPhone = no MMS – 14 Comments

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    In reply to Alastair_Cooper:I had installed the official nVidia drivers.

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to bleeman:That looks nearly identical to the Ikea standing / height adjustable desks.

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 6 (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to navarac:Yes, I tried to go over to Linux in Q1 this year, but I have a Ryzen 1700 with nVidia 1060

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to StevenLayton:The US will have to gets its legal house in order first... Until the Cloud Act, Patri

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    Until the US sorts out its data protection and jurisdiction overreach, there is no real future for "Cloud Wind

    Posted 2 months ago on What is the "future of Windows" ? – 37 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Yeah, I have an Ikea standing desk, with hand crank, and it is very sturdy. It was also rem

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 6 (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:I bought another Ikea height adjustable desk (not sure which one). The hand crank is fi

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 6 (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    Apple controlling both the hardware and the software: This makes it easier to optimize its own platforms, beca

    Posted 2 months ago on Ask Paul: November 6 (Premium) – 27 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:SMS: yes, I knew SMS was popular. But over here MMS never gained a foothold.

    Posted 2 months ago on Google Fi + iPhone = no MMS – 14 Comments

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    Up to 26% over Ryzen 3... Hmm, my Ryzen 1 is still going strong, don't tell me how much faster the 5000 i

    Posted 2 months ago on AMD Launches Ryzen 5000-Series Desktop Processors – 15 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:It was a side discussion. I was just surprised that MMS was still a thing.

    Posted 2 months ago on Google Fi + iPhone = no MMS – 14 Comments

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    Looks good. Were you able to test, whether Microsoft have found a workaround for the HDMI 2.1 chipset bug that

    Posted 2 months ago on Xbox Series X Review – 54 Comments

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    The stores handle the social distancing inside, but if hundreds turning up outside and jostling for position (

    Posted 2 months ago on There Will Be No PS5s in Stores on Launch Day – 19 Comments

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    Why should it affect dust and water resistance? If it is part of the design, it shouldn't have any effect

    Posted 2 months ago on Pixel 5 Display Gap is By Design, Google Says – 21 Comments

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    In reply to Tim:No idea, everybody I know uses Telegram, Signal or WhatsApp. I've had about half a dozen

    Posted 2 months ago on Google Fi + iPhone = no MMS – 14 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:Ah, so 5G won't bring me more than the 0.001mbps that I currently get at work?

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple iPhone 12 Review – 31 Comments

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    In reply to exharris:Only if it has been compiled for Apple Silicon.

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:I guess I am almost the opposite of yours. I am most interested in 'ARM' as th

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:Except they are running on a stripped down OS which limits background tasks etc. T

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to blue77star:Given ARM already powers the fastest super computer in the world currently, I would say

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to Lordbaal:They have already shown off the Apple mini cased dev version running x64 apps in emulatio

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Maybe they think the performance is that good, that that is exactly what they want to promot

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    Interesting. MMS never really caught on over here. I sent an MMS to see how it worked back in the early nought

    Posted 2 months ago on Google Fi + iPhone = no MMS – 14 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:And Apple's repair policies are very poor as well.If an Android phone dies, I ca

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple iPhone 12 Review – 31 Comments

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    In reply to beewacker:You can get them at Coronaries 'R' Us. :-D

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple iPhone 12 Review – 31 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:Don’t get me wrong, I’m still in a lust affair with my Intel chips. But dismis

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Yes, I never understood why people felt it was cool to walk around with a pair of Oral B ele

    Posted 2 months ago on OnePlus Buds Z Wireless Earbuds are Now Available – 7 Comments

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    In reply to retcable:There is an adapter available, so you can lay it flat.

    Posted 2 months ago on Raspberry Pi Launches a $70 PC in a Keyboard – 38 Comments

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    In reply to solomonrex:You'd think... Our desktop users still get 4GB, the laptop users 8GB, because Dell

    Posted 2 months ago on Lenovo ThinkPad X13 (AMD) Review – 13 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:And Qualcomm call it Snapdragon... ARM sells the underlying architecture and instruc

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple November 2020 event – 26 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:Exactly. The big question (which should be answered in the coming weeks), is whether App

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to davidl:They won't be able to boot Windows at all. Bootcamp won't be available.The questi

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to blue77star:I am also more interested in the AMD processors, but this is still a very important mom

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    It will be interesting to see what Apple does with the processors, now that they aren't constrained to th

    Posted 2 months ago on Report: Apple Preps ARM-Based MacBook Pros, MacBook Air – 77 Comments

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    In reply to sekim:Surely discrete ear buds are better, when you only listen in one ear? You leave the second o

    Posted 2 months ago on OnePlus Buds Z Wireless Earbuds are Now Available – 7 Comments

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    I never "did" consoles. I was ill in late 2001 and was laid up for 4 months. I had just sold my house (intendi

    Posted 2 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, November 2 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Surely it would be ARMbook, not Powerbook? They aren't using PowerPC chips...

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    Panasonic HDMI 2.1 boo-boo - dark times for Xbox Series X & nVidia users

    (For anyone who frequents the TWiT Discussion community, I posted this there as well)

    I was just reading the current issue of c’t (the leading German language computer magazine). They had been doing tests with the new Xbox Series X and nVidia RTX30xx series cards. The problem is not with the Xbox or the nVidia chips.

    The problem come from Panasonic. They developed the HDMI 2.1 chipset used in many amps, from Onkyo, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony, Marantz, Denon, Yamaha & Co. and, possible Samsung TVs.

    TLDR; connect the Xbox Series X, nVidia RTX30xx directly to a HDMI 2.1 capable TV and you will be fine, connect it through a current generation HDMI 2.1 AV receiver or other “switcher” and you will (probably) get a black screen. The problem occurs mainly in 4K 120Hz mode and especially with HDR.

    The problem shows itself when using 4K120 HDR or 8K120 HDR. The problem seems to come with the switch from TMDS (Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling) to FRL (Fixed Rate Link) in 2.1. The signal from the Xbox and nVidia chips uses a certain pattern (*correctly*), but the Panasonic chipset interprets is incorrectly and you are left with a black screen.

    c’t was testing Dirt 5 on the XBox Series X and everything was working fine, when directly connectd to an LG CX9 TV. As soon as they put it through a Denon AVR-X2700H HDMI 2.1 capable AV Receiver, they just got a black screen.

    The PS5 is allegedly not affected, while it doesn’t use this specific pattern when generating images.

    There is a weak point in the new HDMI 2.1 specification, but also a further bug in the Panasonic chip used by most AV Receiver manufacturers.

    It seems it is a combination of FRL and DSC (Data Stream Compression) that leads to the problem in the Panasonic chipset. According to the c’t article, a firmware update for such devices is not possible. Microsoft is aware of the problem, but the first batch of Series consoles are using finalized hardware. c’t will test again using a retail example, not the preview model they received for testing.

    Now they are looking to see how Microsoft and the receiver manufacturers communicate and deal with the problem. The most likely effects will be a motherboard swap for affected AV receivers or delayed release dates for receivers that aren’t already on the market, to correct the problem.

    It might also be possible to use TMDS mode to generate 4K120 images with reduced defintion (TMDS has a maximum transmission speed of 18gbps, FRL runs at around 48gbps), which isn’t in the HDMI standards committee’s specification.

    Another problem, with the specification, is that there is no defined standard for transmission, devices can used compressed or uncompressed feeds as they wish. Some receivers however don’t support uncompressed feeds – Xbox Series X, PS5 and nVidia RTX30xx all use uncompressed feeds.

    The original article is behind a paywall, here is another site’s report on the original article (German):

    https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2020/23/2028412014308611632

    https://www.computerbase.de/2020-10/hdmi-2.1-bug-av-receiver-konsolen-grafikkarten/

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    In reply to proftheory:The Le Sabre is a good example of what I mean. Up to the 1968 Le Sabre Custom Convertib

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, September 14 – 26 Comments

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    A12 and Lightning, A14 and USB-C... Make up your mind!If the new iPad had a modern processor and USB-C, I migh

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Announces New iPads – 37 Comments

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    Typical marketing. Apple releases 3 products called "One"... One implies, you know, that there is just ONE of

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Launches Apple One – 27 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:On the other hand, I use my smartwatch for sleep tracking and top up its battery when I

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 6, SE – 23 Comments

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    But, have they improved the battery life? That was the one thing that swung me on FitBit and the Huawei Watch

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 6, SE – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Ajay213:The laws for data within the country are even stricter. Schäubler even got rebuffed for t

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to tbtalbot:Growing up in the UK, the classic US barges from the 50s - 70s always fascinated me, but

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, September 14 – 26 Comments

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    In reply to Ajay213:I agree, but... The German Constitutional Court decreed that it was illegal for the German

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    My parents brought me up like the woman in your story. The only "valid" credits are the mortgage for the house

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, September 14 – 26 Comments

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    In reply to navarac:That is certainly how the EU sees it, when looking at their own relationship with Microsof

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Ajay213:Now imagine a foreign entity could access that data any time they wanted.That is state nor

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Rcandelori:The problem with the last bit of your argument is that, for example, Huawei have been r

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    The United States has charged that ByteDance/TikTok, as a Chinese company, is “answerable to Chinese intelli

    Posted 4 months ago on A Final Look Back on Microsoft and TikTok (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to crunchyfrog:The Bastard Operator from Hell summed it up nicely:“Analogy-wise, paying someone in

    Posted 4 months ago on Google Eliminates Carbon Legacy, to be Carbon-Free by 2030 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:Motorola had similar phones and Nokia hat a T-phone, back-in-the-day. Palm Roteo as wel

    Posted 4 months ago on LG Announces Wing 5G Smartphone – 30 Comments

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    Visual Studio Code is Microsoft’s lightweight, open-source, and cross-platform code editorVS Code is a bloat

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft Brings C++ Support to Visual Studio Code – 11 Comments

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    In reply to feedtheshark:This is to make up for them losing Jedi deal. :-P

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft is Not Buying TikTok – 25 Comments

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    It looks like Oracle have "won" the poisoned chalice... They will "partner" with Tik Tok for the US operation,

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft is Not Buying TikTok – 25 Comments

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    In reply to RM2016:That will still leave Apple users in the lurch... They use the iPhone for a reason and they

    Posted 4 months ago on App Store Revisions Are a Middle Finger to Microsoft (Updated) – 124 Comments

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    In reply to jfgordon:To be fair, this is the way that Apple Arcade works as well: you download individual game

    Posted 4 months ago on App Store Revisions Are a Middle Finger to Microsoft (Updated) – 124 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:Apple is still dragging its heals in the old world. It is scared of losing its app-store

    Posted 4 months ago on App Store Revisions Are a Middle Finger to Microsoft (Updated) – 124 Comments

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    On the other hand, Android has been through more major changes in 9 and 10, so 11 is dotting the 'i'

    Posted 4 months ago on Android 11 … It’s Complicated (Premium) – 31 Comments

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    In reply to PanamaVet:In London after inquiring about health care we were advised not to seek medical care bec

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 31 – 30 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:We went with M365 E5, because it was cheaper, in the long run, than buying a new versio

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft 365 First Steps: Understanding the Value – 36 Comments

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    In reply to rusty chameleon:Microsoft 365 is a lot more than just Office, as the article describes... It is li

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft 365 First Steps: Understanding the Value – 36 Comments

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    In reply to JerryH:Agreed, but on the other hand, the Google G-Suite can't offer features to match, so th

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft 365 First Steps: Understanding the Value – 36 Comments

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    We also get Windows 10 Enterprise with our subscription (an E5, I think). Another advantage is CALs for file a

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft 365 First Steps: Understanding the Value – 36 Comments

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    At first, it seemed a bit like an unscheduled vacation, and we believed—foolishly, as we now know—that it

    Posted 4 months ago on SMB Tip: Secure Your Remote Workforce with Microsoft 365 – 6 Comments

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    In reply to miamimauler:Yes. This needs to be marketed as a corporate device for some vertical markets. As lon

    Posted 4 months ago on Surface Duo: What are you expecting from the upcoming reviews later this week? – 32 Comments

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    In reply to Usman:The last is the killer for me. At that price, it is a replacement for a smartphone, not an a

    Posted 4 months ago on Surface Duo: What are you expecting from the upcoming reviews later this week? – 32 Comments

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    In reply to Harrymyhre:I do agree, but as a counterpoint, they do have local offices in many countries to deal

    Posted 4 months ago on Italy is Investigating Apple, Dropbox, and Google – 4 Comments

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    In reply to RoundaboutSkid:Outlook 365 on Windows, Outlook.com in browser and Outlook for Android. I'm se

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft stole all our Family Calendars! Class action suit in the making? – 19 Comments

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    It is still visible on my devices, although I've never used it...

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft stole all our Family Calendars! Class action suit in the making? – 19 Comments

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    In reply to ken_loewen:I get 0.02mpbs at work on my phone, so the cloud is next to useless for me.At home, I h

    Posted 4 months ago on Dell XPS 15 (9500) First Impressions – 20 Comments

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    In reply to Markus_Mobius:Which EU case? There are something like a dozen investigations into different parts

    Posted 4 months ago on Premature Regulation: DOJ to File Antitrust Charges Against Google – 20 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:It does if it means they have to cut corners on the evidence gathering and wording on

    Posted 4 months ago on Premature Regulation: DOJ to File Antitrust Charges Against Google – 20 Comments

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    In reply to zhackwyatt:It is 1 billion a year, a rounding error for Amazon's corporate entertainment allo

    Posted 4 months ago on Pentagon Sticks with Microsoft for JEDI Contract – 20 Comments

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    In reply to will:Why? Microsoft has the better record worth government cloud contacts.

    Posted 4 months ago on Pentagon Sticks with Microsoft for JEDI Contract – 20 Comments

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    In reply to shameer_mulji:Except that Apple bought a chip design company a decade or so ago, so even if Micros

    Posted 4 months ago on Qualcomm Officially Unveils Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for PCs – 40 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:Easier said than done. Especially for stuff written in older versions of tools. You can&

    Posted 4 months ago on Qualcomm Officially Unveils Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for PCs – 40 Comments

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    In reply to Jhambi:Because Microsoft controls the desktop. ChomeOS is well under 1% marketshare. If ARM can su

    Posted 4 months ago on Qualcomm Officially Unveils Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for PCs – 40 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:The problem is the software, not the OS itself... A lot of it is legacy and not maintai

    Posted 4 months ago on Qualcomm Officially Unveils Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for PCs – 40 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:I agree, but it isn't as simple as that. The ARM instruction set is the same, but

    Posted 4 months ago on Qualcomm Officially Unveils Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for PCs – 40 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Most of the experts here said, from the beginning, we would be living with this until at

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 31 – 30 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:I use an A4 company project book - hard covered, bound notebook with company branding - and

    Posted 4 months ago on Thinking About Foldables (Premium) – 56 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Yes, they have been talking about the back-to-school experience since May here! Fina

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 31 – 30 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Our schools are going back. My wife works in a Kinderhort (the nearest in English is

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 31 – 30 Comments

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    It is funny, apart from the lack of going on holiday (we spent 2 weeks at home instead), this year hasn't

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 31 – 30 Comments

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    Regarding zoom, even the Samsung Galaxy S20+ doesn't zoom well. Anything over 3x is pretty useless and t

    Posted 4 months ago on Google Pixel 4a Review: A Budget Winner – 23 Comments

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    I have a Galaxy S20+ and I would love it, if it had a polycarbonate back, instead of soapy-glass slipperiness.

    Posted 4 months ago on Google Pixel 4a Review: A Budget Winner – 23 Comments

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    In reply to TallGuySE:why Apple and Goole should charge Epic less than Sony / Microsoft / Nintendo for in-app

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Terminates Epic’s Developer Account – 63 Comments

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    In reply to TallGuySE:Fine, walk down to your local electronics store and count the PS4 and Xbox titles on the

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Terminates Epic’s Developer Account – 63 Comments

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    I thought the court had said that they couldn't terminate the license while the case is pending? And that

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Terminates Epic’s Developer Account – 63 Comments

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    In reply to lilmoe:Yes, or wait 3 - 4 months. The S20+ was €1,299 when new, it is now available for €749 o

    Posted 4 months ago on Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra First Impressions – 29 Comments

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    IDE and UI designer? Luxury, absolute luxury! When I was a lad, we went down the pit with nothing but vi and b

    Posted 4 months ago on Google Releases Early Version of Jetpack Compose – 1 Comments

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    In reply to jdawgnoonan:It will support 3 version upgrades of Android from now on, which hopefully means up to

    Posted 4 months ago on Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra First Impressions – 29 Comments

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    In reply to bschnatt:I used navCIS as my Compuserve offline reader. It made CIS actually pleasurable to use.I

    Posted 4 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 24 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Whoosh... Who are Luke and Laura?

    Posted 5 months ago on Report: Microsoft Talks with TikTok Turned Into “Soap Opera” – 20 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:They were successful long before they brought Fortnite to iOS. They are a major gaming compa

    Posted 5 months ago on Judge Issues Split Decision in Epic v. Apple – 55 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:I've been using it for a couple of years on Android and it has been very stable, I h

    Posted 5 months ago on Mozilla Begins Rolling Out New Firefox for Android – 13 Comments

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    In reply to ZeroPageX:Mine updated yesterday, I haven't noticed any problems so far, but I only use NoScr

    Posted 5 months ago on Mozilla Begins Rolling Out New Firefox for Android – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Stoicjim:Just don't feed them after midnight!

    Posted 5 months ago on First Ring Daily 890: Fans of Noise – 3 Comments

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    Well, I would say that the judge is talking sense and summed it up pretty nicely.Sent both sides to the naught

    Posted 5 months ago on Judge Issues Split Decision in Epic v. Apple – 55 Comments

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    In reply to bschnatt:I had a batch file set up that would switch between configurations for different applicat

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 24 – 19 Comments

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    I think it is too late. We've had alternatives for over half a decade now. Most people have already settl

    Posted 5 months ago on The time for Teams? – 5 Comments

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    In reply to Andrew_Graham:I agree on the 5G, just in this price class, it is expected.But NFC, I use it every

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo: The tablet that can replace your phone? – 55 Comments

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    In reply to Odinson:So long as any US entity owns Facebookr, Instagram or Twitter it's a defacto US Gover

    Posted 5 months ago on TikTok Sues the U.S. Government – 28 Comments

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    In reply to 1speed:Yes, it is so easy to hide those explosives in a steel rod, or is it terrorists? I forget.

    Posted 5 months ago on TikTok Sues the U.S. Government – 28 Comments

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    In reply to hidp123:Yes, but even my wife's 250€ Huawei P-Smart from 2017 had NFC! For a sub-$1,000 dev

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo: The tablet that can replace your phone? – 55 Comments

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    In reply to irfaanwahid:I agree, but the specs are all over the place. No NFC and no 5G? in 2020? And no NFC a

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo: The tablet that can replace your phone? – 55 Comments

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    In reply to jlv632:It is like the took the Acer Iconia and replaced Windows 7 with Android and hit it with a s

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo: The tablet that can replace your phone? – 55 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:As has been said hundreds of times already on this site, there is no problem with

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft Backs Epic in Fight with Apple – 47 Comments

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    TC: "Hmm, we are being investigated for abusing our position. What can we do make it look like we aren't

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple’s At It Again, This Time With WordPress – 74 Comments

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    Now all they need to do is sort out the bug, where administrators don't have access to the new settings,

    Posted 5 months ago on Windows 10 Insider Preview Build Brings New Disk Management UI – 27 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Probably because you aren't used to it. You get it all the time in the news here, w

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Hits a $2 Trillion Market Cap – 45 Comments

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    In reply to warrickdean:I was in school through the 70s until mid 80s and we were taught long-scale and the BB

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Hits a $2 Trillion Market Cap – 45 Comments

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    In reply to ErichK:Maybe you need a better example, Edison is still well remembered and was taught in history

    Posted 5 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, August 21 – 12 Comments

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    In reply to brettscoast:The OnePlus Nord is also worth a look. It is faster, the battery lasts longer and it r

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Pixel 4a First Impressions – 34 Comments

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    It is funny how things change. A few years ago, people would laugh at a 5.8" screen as ridiculously large and

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Pixel 4a First Impressions – 34 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:No, but rm -rf / will, when you are root.

    Posted 5 months ago on Edge Update from Windows Update needs a reboot? What the dealio? – 24 Comments

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    In reply to joeaxberg:Yes. Whether you like Apple or hate it, whether you like Tim or hate him, he took Steve&

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Hits a $2 Trillion Market Cap – 45 Comments

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    (pokes head over the parapit) That is 2 billion dollars in real money! Darned cheapskate Americans! :-P :-DI n

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Hits a $2 Trillion Market Cap – 45 Comments

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    In reply to DaveHelps:Given the public image fallout that would accompany this deal, I think Oracle is a shoe-

    Posted 5 months ago on Now Oracle is Considering a TikTok Bid Too – 14 Comments

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    My last laptop was an HP Spectre X360 and it has B&O speakers. I wouldn't put them up there with real

    Posted 5 months ago on Speakers – 1 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Not just Amazon Basics. They have something like 40 "house brands", just like Aldi and Lidl,

    Posted 5 months ago on Canada and Germany Add to Amazon’s Antitrust Woes – 12 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:I agree totally. In conjunction with PayPal, fleaBay and ScamPal seem to ensure that if you b

    Posted 5 months ago on Canada and Germany Add to Amazon’s Antitrust Woes – 12 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:Yes, but are you getting a good deal? It isn't just about convenience, it is also ab

    Posted 5 months ago on Canada and Germany Add to Amazon’s Antitrust Woes – 12 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:And Samsung have been offering that on their non Android One devices for at least a couple of

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to ebraiter:It depends. Over here, there is little to no point in getting a contract phone, it isn�

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to gartenspartan:Good to hear. Someone over at twit.community stated that the carriers were delaying

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to mclark2112:The problem is that a lot of payment services rely on NFC and refuse to run if the phon

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:Yes, if I remember to search, I get them on the 1st or 2nd, if I forget, they are pushed

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to chrishilton1:What is more important is that they get the security updates out within a couple of d

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to JerryH:My wife's S10 and my S20+ get the monthly security updates pushed to them within 2 - 3

    Posted 5 months ago on Samsung Commits to 3 Generations of Android Updates – 35 Comments

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    In reply to karlinhigh:I think it is superior in this area. The rivalry between the clans and the Omni was fie

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 17 – 16 Comments

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    In reply to jfgordon:luxury handbags that cost many times the money it takes to design and make them, etc.Yes,

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Retaliates Against Epic – 108 Comments

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    In reply to jfgordon:If developers judge that publishing on the App Store costs too much, they do not publish

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Retaliates Against Epic – 108 Comments

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    I used to play Anarchy Online on the German server. It was a great experience, everyone was friendly and they

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 17 – 16 Comments

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    In reply to richardbottiglieri:For in-app purchases, where they don't have to deliver anything, don'

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Retaliates Against Epic – 108 Comments

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    In reply to MartinM:That's a nice battle royale franchise you have there. It would be a shame if somethin

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Retaliates Against Epic – 108 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:My Mate 10 Pro and P20 received the monthly Google updates about 20 days behind the of

    Posted 5 months ago on Expired – 15 Comments

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    So, do I write to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for compensation, because my phone has become a danger and can'

    Posted 5 months ago on Expired – 15 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Most of it is certified for IE6 and can run in IE11 in legacy mode.

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft Says Goodbye to Internet Explorer, Legacy Edge – 21 Comments

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    In reply to anderb:Does Xbox allow an application to be installed from the Microsoft Store that can then insta

    Posted 5 months ago on How many consoles support different payment systems? – 20 Comments

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    In reply to paull90:at no point was any developer forced to move forward with either or both.So, how do I inst

    Posted 5 months ago on How many consoles support different payment systems? – 20 Comments

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    In reply to GCalais:This isn't extra income, it is keeping an existing income source. The job cuts are pa

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Deal Should Keep Mozilla Afloat for Years – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Pierre Masse:The CEO is taking a salary cut this year, so they won't be getting the full $2.5

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Deal Should Keep Mozilla Afloat for Years – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Harrymyhre:I use multiple windows on my home PC, usually half-screen width (I have an 34" Dell UW

    Posted 5 months ago on Ask Paul: August 14 (Premium) – 30 Comments

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    In reply to Igor Engelen:My PS2 broke in around 2006 and I never replaced it. Mainly because I only ever playe

    Posted 5 months ago on Ask Paul: August 14 (Premium) – 30 Comments

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    Huawei, and I believe Oppo, also have their own app stores on their phones. Have had for at least 3 years.

    Posted 5 months ago on First Ring Daily Live: They’re Just Guidelines – 10 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:No, no one is talking about the Apple App Store (and Google's) should be a charity,

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Who is taking about making it a charity?People just want a fair deal and 30% is by no st

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Not doing too hot a job of it then, are they?

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to Truffles:Epic explicitly states that they don't find this so egregious, because the consoles

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to BrianEricFord:I believe that Apple's rules also state they can't charge less outside the

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to irfaanwahid:Apple was the power behind Handigo, the Nokia Store and other platforms in the late 90

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to cavalier_eternal:that their respective legal teams fee they are in the clear when it comes to anti

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues Google Too, But with a Twist – 27 Comments

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    In reply to prifici:I agree with the first part of your statement, but the EU doesn't like punishing US c

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to TallGuySE:A little bit different. If you sell through Best Buy and then advertise an offer that yo

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to jwpear:If you already have your own payment system that takes 2-3%, why would you agree to pay App

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:I use Firefox on mobile - mainly because I can use NoScript (and other add-ons) with it.

    Posted 5 months ago on Brave Completely Redesigned Browser Data Sync – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Skolvikings:The only way for a manufacturer to sell products to Costco members is for Costco to fi

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    Epic's 1984-esque video parodying the original Apple 1984 advert is very well done and absolute genius.

    Posted 5 months ago on Epic Sues After Apple Removes Fortnite from App Store – 129 Comments

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    In reply to GarethB:The Tardis phone, comes with complimentary Sonic Screwdriver!

    Posted 5 months ago on Features I’d like to see become more-standard on smartphones – 26 Comments

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    OPTICAL-ZOOM - Sony tried that way back with an early Android phone, but nobody bought them, because, why woul

    Posted 5 months ago on Features I’d like to see become more-standard on smartphones – 26 Comments

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    In reply to Pungkuss:I totally agree with you, which is why the figures are so annoyingly useless. It doesn�

    Posted 5 months ago on Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S. – 59 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Yes. And these stats are less than useless, as they stand. They are comparing apples and

    Posted 5 months ago on Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S. – 59 Comments

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    In reply to Stooks:At the moment, only those tested positive for COVID-19 are included in the statistics. All

    Posted 5 months ago on Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S. – 59 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I don't think we were trying to criticise you, I certainly wasn't, we were

    Posted 5 months ago on Living with a Laptop: Docking (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to StevenLayton:No, the information is meaningless. Unit sales? International sales? The percentages,

    Posted 5 months ago on Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S. – 59 Comments

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    Actual number and international sales?

    Posted 5 months ago on Chromebook Sales Growth Outpaced Laptops by 3X in U.S. – 59 Comments

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    Google announced last week that the 4/4XL is done. They don't have any more stock and if you find any sto

    Posted 5 months ago on Pixel 4a or 4? – 5 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Which is sad really, when they don't even know which products belong to their o

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo … or Surface DOA? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    Erm, Teams, OneNote and Outlook are MS Office as well.

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Duo … or Surface DOA? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:It just happened again. :-( I made a post on the forum post about the Duo, but the w

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    In reply to alamfour:I've been using a laptop open and closed for years in a dock and never had any real

    Posted 5 months ago on Living with a Laptop: Docking (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Yes, we have Kaspersky corporate AV at work.

    Posted 5 months ago on New entr in the settings –> system – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Exactly. I have one screen with my Outlook and management windows on it, a second with r

    Posted 5 months ago on Living with a Laptop: Docking (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to davidl:That is how DuckDuckGo started out.

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Prevails in Song Lyrics Scraping Case – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:For our fleet (~400) Windows PCs, I would guess we spend less than 15 minutes per d

    Posted 5 months ago on New Dell Latitude Chromebook Targets the Enterprise – 13 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:It is appearing on all my machines with June or later patches for 1909 or 2004 - ju

    Posted 5 months ago on New entr in the settings –> system – 11 Comments

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    It seems to be what I said. Mine is now showing symbols for each protection category.

    Posted 5 months ago on New entr in the settings –> system – 11 Comments

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    In reply to richardbottiglieri:I think a standard web engine would be a good thing, overall.I think having div

    Posted 5 months ago on Mozilla’s Downsizing Continues – 36 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Thanks for the update. The answer to the ticket, from Brad, implied that he thought

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    The industry needs to match features with Firefox, before I'll swap.

    Posted 5 months ago on Mozilla’s Downsizing Continues – 36 Comments

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    It means that Windows Defender or an alternative is active and is protecting the pc, I would assume

    Posted 5 months ago on New entr in the settings –> system – 11 Comments

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    We had a power outage a month or so back and we had no internet, when the power came back.I checked the usual

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 10 – 22 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:No, the comment was meant to point at a small minority of Apple users who buy every new

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:The question is, were you one of those customers that lined up every year on release day

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Everything I posted, on all forums and stories, on Sunday disappeared. I sent a tic

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    Given that the laptop is probably more powerful than the NUC, especially in the graphics area, it is hardly a

    Posted 5 months ago on Living with a Laptop: First Steps (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:I haven't seen anyone say they are. They certainly weren't in the 80s and

    Posted 5 months ago on Apple Bashing Now Okay? – 36 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:It just streams an image. The work is done on the Xbox of in the cloud.

    Posted 5 months ago on Hubris, Thy Name is Apple (Premium) – 126 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:It streams the "display" from the console or virtual machine that is actually running th

    Posted 5 months ago on Hubris, Thy Name is Apple (Premium) – 126 Comments

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    In reply to melich13:But you can't download a game on these apps, it is streamed to the device in real ti

    Posted 5 months ago on Hubris, Thy Name is Apple (Premium) – 126 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Unless you have a 100% ChromeOS organisation and you have 1 or 2 users that also need a Wi

    Posted 5 months ago on Parallels is Bringing Desktop Virtualization to Chrome OS for Enterprise – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:On the other hand, I have 3 BT keyboards and 2 BT mice in my cupboard, so additional cost

    Posted 5 months ago on Need Mac Purchase Advice/Tips – 43 Comments

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    In reply to yaddamaster:If you don't need portability, it is over priced and, if you are using it at a de

    Posted 5 months ago on Need Mac Purchase Advice/Tips – 43 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:No, it will get you a decent computer to attach to a decent screen, which will probably l

    Posted 5 months ago on Need Mac Purchase Advice/Tips – 43 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:I expect that it will be like WhatsApp, that the data will have to be guaranteed not to

    Posted 5 months ago on Google Reiterates Fitbit Data Pledge as EU Launches Major Investigation – 2 Comments

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    I agree with you completely. It sounded like a bad idea, eben I heard it on Friday.

    Posted 5 months ago on Damned if You Do (Premium) – 60 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:It depends, my brother in law and his wife replaced their Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 min

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    In reply to Minke:I worked for a company back in the 80s, their factory was hit by a lightning strike. Next ti

    Posted 5 months ago on No FRD today, Paul’s house got hit by lightning – 11 Comments

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    In reply to navarac:They are going stir crazy, I think. The strike fried their cable modem.

    Posted 5 months ago on No FRD today, Paul’s house got hit by lightning – 11 Comments

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    In reply to SRRLX1986:I had it on a couple of Windows Phones, my Nexus 6x and a couple of Android phones, but

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:*shudder* No, it is a torture.One guest managed to screw up his invitation. Trying

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft Announces New Teams Features – 15 Comments

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    In reply to mclark2112:Hmm, you might want to get some professional kit then! :-DRunning it on my Lenovo Think

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft Announces New Teams Features – 15 Comments

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    This warning has been in place since March. Generally it takes only a few minutes, but I've seen it take

    Posted 5 months ago on Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!? – 13 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Don't forget the US prices are without sales tax, so you need to remove VAT from the UK

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    I have as much of the "critical infrastructure" plugged into surge protectors.The last internet outage was whe

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, August 3 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to retcable:Can my banking app use the NFC on the iPhone for payments? No.Can my Yubikey Neo be used

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    In reply to jbinct:Exactly. It is a budget/mid-range phone with good features for the price - plus the killer

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    Ford. Any colour, as long as it is black.That said, a majority of users probably stick it in a case and never

    Posted 5 months ago on The Problem with the Pixel 4a (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:There wouldn't be much point in getting the 4G one here either. I get Edge 120bps, i

    Posted 5 months ago on Google’s Pixel 4a Arrives August 20th for $349 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Except the sale of ARM Holdings has the restriction that the licensing model has to stay

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to bkkcanuck:The last macOS version to support 32 bit was Snow Leopard released on June 9, 2008 and t

    Posted 5 months ago on Need Mac Purchase Advice/Tips – 43 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Having been caught out by exactly this, with the change from PPC to Intel, I'd sa

    Posted 5 months ago on Need Mac Purchase Advice/Tips – 43 Comments

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    It depends, for sites like this, I don't bother logging out. For anything financial, I log out every time

    Posted 5 months ago on Logout or close – 1 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:I see it now. It was so subtle, I didn't even notice it without your prompting

    Posted 5 months ago on Activate New Startmenu in Windows 10 20H1 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Ah, okay, I don't have any tiles, I'll look at the icons later.

    Posted 5 months ago on Activate New Startmenu in Windows 10 20H1 – 9 Comments

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    I don't see any difference to what I already have? :-SWhat am I supposed to be seeing?

    Posted 5 months ago on Activate New Startmenu in Windows 10 20H1 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Given that one of the stipulations of sale from the UK Government was that the licensing

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to DataMeister:They already make good ARM chips.The problem with any chip manufacturer buying ARM is

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:nVidia already do their own ARM chips.

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:No, but anything they do in ARM Holdings would leave them in the samd position they

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to BigM72:Not if the UK Government has anything to say about it. One of the stipulations for sale of

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to aelaan:ARM sells a license to its RISC ISA, as SWCetacean says. The companies, like Fujitsu, Amper

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to SRLRacing:One of the stipulations for the sale of ARM from the UK Government is that the licensing

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    In reply to VMax:Have you looked at the current supercomputer lists? ARM is doing pretty well, including the m

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    You don't mention that one of the stipulations from the UK government on the sale of ARM is that the lice

    Posted 5 months ago on Nvidia is in Talks to Acquire Arm – 35 Comments

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    Great artwork, as ever Paul. You have a real nose for coming up with some really great headline pictures for t

    Posted 5 months ago on Microsoft is Killing Cortana on Mobile, Invoke, and Surface Headphones – 67 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:As far as I understand it, the experts are in the back room and doing the real work, t

    Posted 5 months ago on Big Tech CEOs Appear Before Congressional Antitrust Committee – 22 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Except that a big part of the original EU hearing, back in the 90s, wasn't to d

    Posted 5 months ago on Big Tech CEOs Appear Before Congressional Antitrust Committee – 22 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:Except that Apple gets to keep the 30% of their transaction fee and they get the profit f

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to Pbike908:Yes, Ford wouldn't be where it is today if its cars crashed into trees every few hou

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to esp476:Except that Steam isn't exclusive. If I buy the game at a shop, on Amazon or directly

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Either more app stores, which won't necessarily make iOS less safe, but it does giv

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:That is one of the questions being asked, at least in Europe.

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Corporation Tax is the biggest. At the moment, it is funneled to the cheapest (from a ta

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:Who is trying to make competition illegal? They are trying to level the playing field,

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to overseer:The problem is that US big tech are the biggest offenders and they often more blatantly i

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Apple isn't very US heavy, at least not tax wise, that all goes to tax paradises, wher

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to JH_Radio:This isn't just about Big Tech, it will affect all companies doing business in Europ

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:It is what the US would call sales tax.The idea wil be to have the tax rated at the point of

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Welcome to the club. I'm really angry about the US deciding what I can and can�

    Posted 5 months ago on EU Proposes New Laws to Rein in Big Tech – 74 Comments

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    In reply to Simard57:You should try watching the Terry Wogan Show, where Loretta Swit was a guest. She told hi

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, July 27 – 26 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:But all of the HP, Lenovo and Dell machines have Windows pre-installed - and a pre-r

    Posted 5 months ago on Copy, Acquire, Kill (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    In reply to wolters:Bixby didn't both me, when I got my S20+, I just disabled it in settings, along with

    Posted 5 months ago on Report: Google Wants More Control of Samsung’s Handsets – 39 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:Exactly what I thought. You are up in front of the anti-trust commissions around the world...

    Posted 5 months ago on Report: Google Wants More Control of Samsung’s Handsets – 39 Comments

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    In reply to jblank46:We have an S10 and an S20+, each gets the monthly Google security updates in the first 5

    Posted 5 months ago on Report: Google Wants More Control of Samsung’s Handsets – 39 Comments

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    Comedy is a very delicate thing. Just yesterday, I was over on the TWIT discussion forums and Leo posted a vid

    Posted 5 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, July 27 – 26 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Our PLC management software was Windows 7 only until about 18 months ago. It is now certif

    Posted 5 months ago on All about the legacy – 16 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:But that is the problem, as long as the old Windows is there, the software will have to

    Posted 5 months ago on All about the legacy – 16 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:Well, it wouldn't even work. The ARM instruction set is only one small part of the

    Posted 5 months ago on Lenovo Flex 5G Review – 25 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:ARM is not ARM. It needs to be specifically tailored for the actual chip and supporting ha

    Posted 5 months ago on Lenovo Flex 5G Review – 25 Comments

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    In reply to alsorun:They have, multiple times. The problem is getting software companies to re-write their sof

    Posted 6 months ago on All about the legacy – 16 Comments

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    The problem is, most business software is Windows only and not even Windows 10 software. In fact, I'd say

    Posted 6 months ago on All about the legacy – 16 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I pin my most used apps and know exactly where they are. With a centred dock, they a

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 24 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    I would guess that the number Skype is using to call from is somehow on a block list somewhere - probably used

    Posted 6 months ago on Skype call to phone showing as restricted? – 2 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:If I want to zoom somebody, I grab my DSLR camera...

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 24 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Yes, Microsoft were so quick to hype up Teams, that they dropped it on customers and started

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 24 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:That said, I deinstall/deactivate nearly all of the Google functionality and all of the Go

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 24 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to DocPaul:I upgraded from a 2017 Huawei Mate 10 Pro to a 2020 Samsung Galaxy S20+ this year. When I

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 24 (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Our users panic if Office automatically switches to the relevant ribbon tab at the moment,

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Teases Its Next-Generation Productivity UX – 49 Comments

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    A flexible ribbon that progressively discloses contextually relevant commands at the right time just where you

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Teases Its Next-Generation Productivity UX – 49 Comments

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    Our experience with Teams so far is that the sales and purchasing departments use it heavily to have video con

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to Gedisoft:Yes, it was just quicker and simpler to tell the AV software to block the exe on all PCs,

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:I agree, I was just pointing out how the commission works.,not how it relates in th

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:We did deinstall the system wide installer, it kept coming back. And we do have a c

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Not really, just many large US companies seem to have a penchant for ignoring EU law and

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to mejason83:We have had M365 for nearly 2 years. We started rolling out Teams in May to about 10% of

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to Maciek:I've been doing Teams training for the last 3 months. It takes about 45 minutes to an

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:I agree, apart from the EU. The commission in the EU looks at customer choice in th

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    If you have m365 and you tell the installer, that Teams should not be installed, it installs it anyway. If yo

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    And Microsoft has been doing this type of product for, what, 20 years? They bought Skype and then Lync, which

    Posted 6 months ago on Slacks Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft – 78 Comments

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    In reply to Harrymyhre:I'd be happy to have 3G here. I have an LTE contract, but get Edge with 0.001 mbps

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Cloud PC is Coming in Spring 2021 – 76 Comments

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    You said it was noteiceably faster at compiling your Visual Studio projects. Can you quantify that. Is it 10 i

    Posted 6 months ago on HP Envy x360 13 Review – 29 Comments

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    We've rolled it out to around 30 test machines, plus my home machines, everything from 10 year old laptop

    Posted 6 months ago on Latest Cumulative renders computer unable to boot – 3 Comments

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    In reply to Pierre Masse:Having used thin clients for over 20 years, I'd rather keep my own PC locally an

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 17 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:The question isn't if ARM runs in parallel, but if Microsoft were to drop Intel...

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:The restrictions on licensing wouldn't suit Apple. Part of the terms from the UK gover

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 17 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:I agree, I have an "up to 500mbps" 4G contract with Vodafone. I get, maybe, 40mbps at home,

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 17 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:Just an update, the desktop wallpaper on my home machine is still there.

    Posted 6 months ago on Missing wallpaper after latest patches – 2 Comments

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    In reply to ggolcher:Theoretically, store the data in the EU should be enough, but you have to consider the Pa

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 17 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Skolvikings:It depends, Ireland is a member of the EU and there are some restrictions on what they

    Posted 6 months ago on Ireland Wins Appeal of Apple Tax Case – 28 Comments

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    In reply to Skolvikings:The EU will probably go into revision and see what the next instance says.

    Posted 6 months ago on Ireland Wins Appeal of Apple Tax Case – 28 Comments

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    In reply to ggolcher:That is probably a wise move. As long as the company isn't covered by US law (i.e. n

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 17 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to ErichK:It has been happening and not happening since the 1980s.I worked for a company that, betwee

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, July 17 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to blue77star:Neither, it is an Electron app.

    Posted 6 months ago on Skype 8.62 Arrives – 17 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:That is the difference between a corporate product (Zoom) and a private, free product (S

    Posted 6 months ago on Skype 8.62 Arrives – 17 Comments

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    In reply to bluvg:Yes, and Microsoft Teams seems to be eating Zoom's lunch, at least in terms of numbers,

    Posted 6 months ago on Skype 8.62 Arrives – 17 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Probably, the thrust is that the way the data is being stored isn't GDPR compliant

    Posted 6 months ago on Now the EU is Going After Voice Assistants, Smart Devices – 22 Comments

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    In reply to Skolvikings:Not exactly. It is more like working in, say, Germany or France, but paying income tax

    Posted 6 months ago on Ireland Wins Appeal of Apple Tax Case – 28 Comments

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    Surely this falls under GDPR? They can't store the data for longer than it is needed to carry out the act

    Posted 6 months ago on Now the EU is Going After Voice Assistants, Smart Devices – 22 Comments

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    Not here, but I only have a solid grey background...Edit: Although, come to think of it, my background at home

    Posted 6 months ago on Missing wallpaper after latest patches – 2 Comments

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    Interesting, looks like SoftBank is trying to get ARM to push up their licensing costs, which will make ARM ev

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:C2R on 10 machines (O365 current branch), msi on another 4 (O2016).

    Posted 6 months ago on No reporting on Outlook crashing on startup, Jul 15? – 7 Comments

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    In reply to lezmaka:No, but if the US Gov. made an exception for you, so that you paid 75% less taxes than eve

    Posted 6 months ago on Ireland Wins Appeal of Apple Tax Case – 28 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:In general, no. In the details, yes. A majority of businesses can and will probably

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:Except email was already supported in Exchange. But getting 30 year old assembler code runn

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    I've updated my machines yesterday morning and was in Outlook all day long, without any problems - Outloo

    Posted 6 months ago on No reporting on Outlook crashing on startup, Jul 15? – 7 Comments

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    In reply to pesos:Yes. The reason to go with Citrix over RDP in the past was that it was much more efficient.W

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Partners with Citrix on Virtual Desktops. Again. – 9 Comments

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    In reply to jchampeau:That is the point. They didn't say that Apple had done wrong. They said that Irelan

    Posted 6 months ago on Ireland Wins Appeal of Apple Tax Case – 28 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Why fork out 10-20K on a new printer, when the old one still works?

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to c.hucklebridge:Correct, the formulation "businesses, where use of cloud services is banned" means

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:Not having to run as administrator was a huge move forward, and one that should have

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to stephenf:We still have a printer who's software only runs under MS-DOS and not in virtualizat

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:They licensed the core technology off Citrix, back in NT 3.51 days and RDP is essentially a b

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Partners with Citrix on Virtual Desktops. Again. – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:Hopefully not cul-de-sacs!

    Posted 6 months ago on Windows 10 Version 20H2 Inches Towards Completion – 14 Comments

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    In reply to nerdile:The original article from Paul for the Beta showed an XP theme in the screenshots, which m

    Posted 6 months ago on Stardock Curtains is Now Available – 18 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:Legacy. They have developers who have grown up on Windows, they have extensive librar

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:Apple has a very low usage outside the US, so, from my experience, the Apple users here ten

    Posted 6 months ago on Let’s Chat About Signal (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:I sort of agree. I went all-in on Apple in the late 2000s, getting a 24" iMac and, a

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to compunut:I agree, although my last couple of laptops (HP Spectre X360 and ThinkPad L480 and T480)

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:Precisely. And tax data is even more strict. In Germany, you need a to apply for spec

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:It is in ours...

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to nine54:Signal is an iOS messaging service as well. As are WhatsApp, Telegra, Threema etc. Well, th

    Posted 6 months ago on Let’s Chat About Signal (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    In reply to lilmoe:The future of productivity is the cloud - Azure. You will be able to do all of your Office

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Haven't you heard, they can't fly...

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Flight Simulator Launches August 18 on PC – 32 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:Embedded assembler? Old libraries and source code no longer available.Code obfuscatio

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to tghallin:But Microsoft apps are but a small part of what keeps a business running.You won't f

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:They can't do that because their core customers in business believe in running eve

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to ulrichr:Agreed, an if the laptop can achieve a days work and recharge over night, do you really ne

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to peterc:Apart from ultra-lightweight mobile devices, the processor doesn't really matter, at t

    Posted 6 months ago on The Passing of Wintel? (Premium) – 88 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:I have a browser open all day on my desktop at work, for monitoring tech news.I actually

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:ESU? Updates? Nope. The stuff is abandonware. If you want a patch or to run it on a c

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:Yes, we use Telegram and Signal. But it is fairly popular, at least in the circles I am in. A

    Posted 6 months ago on Let’s Chat About Signal (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    The sollte reason for its use and popularity in the EU is that it doesn't store names and numbers in the

    Posted 6 months ago on Let’s Chat About Signal (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:The problem is, businesses have a hard bargaining position. Especially if Microsoft&

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:Except, people want consistency. They want to use the same OS at home and work, they don&

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:And those users running Excel queries off the back of databases are also the miniroty of u

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    In reply to rob_segal:Except, in business, you have assets being written down over 25 years, which are being c

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    Exactly. Apple has never really courted corporate customers. They are used in the "coloured pencil" department

    Posted 6 months ago on Line of business software – 26 Comments

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    The numbers could probably have been much higher. We needed a bunch of laptops and desktops in Q2, but we are

    Posted 6 months ago on PC Sales Rose 7.1 Percent in the Second Quarter – 18 Comments

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    In reply to naddy69:Except the fastest computer in the world at the moment is ARM based, several companies mak

    Posted 6 months ago on Steven Sinofsky says the Mac will be the ultimate developer PC within 2 years – 111 Comments

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    In reply to Anlong08:Thunderbolt was co-developed by Intel and Apple, not sure if it was Windows Weekly or TWi

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 10 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Yes and no. They should and, theoretically, can be long lived. But a recent report in Germ

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 10 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to jwpear:Yes, the news in the UK is certainly populist these days and I totally despair about US rep

    Posted 6 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, July 10 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:XPS is prosumer. We use a lot of XPS laptops at work, all with Windows Pro.Likewise, all of

    Posted 6 months ago on Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Mcgillivray:Yeah, I had a beige tower back then, I took it out the back and sprayed it matt black.

    Posted 6 months ago on Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop – 35 Comments

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    In reply to wunderbar:Or older IBM ThinkStations.

    Posted 6 months ago on Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop – 35 Comments

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    Stunning and modern? From the image, it looks like a 10-20 year old IBM ThinkStation at first glance... :-SWha

    Posted 6 months ago on Dell Announces Stunning New XPS Desktop – 35 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:Because Qualcomm sells mobile chipsets. Apart from Microsoft, it has never been ask

    Posted 6 months ago on A Tale of Two Laptops – 28 Comments

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    In reply to behindmyscreen:It is the problem that Qualcomm makes low powered chips designed for smartphones an

    Posted 6 months ago on A Tale of Two Laptops – 28 Comments

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    Not many now. I've cleaned up a lot.2018 Ryzen 7 desktop (my main PC)2016 HP Spectre X360 (my wife's

    Posted 6 months ago on How many PCs do you use/maintain at home? – 29 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Huawei's Kirin as well. They are all in the same ballpark, for each generation.I

    Posted 6 months ago on Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865 Plus – 12 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Its PCIe transfer is twice as fast as TB3. It should also have built in DMA protection (

    Posted 6 months ago on Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4 – 47 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Thunderbolt is an Intel proprietary technology. It doesn't work on non-Intel hardware.

    Posted 6 months ago on Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4 – 47 Comments

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    In reply to Sandy:penultimate bullet point: Requires Intel VT-d DMA protection.https://software.intel.com/cont

    Posted 6 months ago on Intel Announces Thunderbolt 4 – 47 Comments

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    In reply to anderb:Now that it is so late, maybe they will skip the 4a altogether and rebrand it the 5a, for a

    Posted 6 months ago on Android 11 Beta 2 Arrives – 3 Comments

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    Looks like a pair of older Samsung Galaxy devices, cut square on one side and stuck together...

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Acquires 60 Employees from Surface Duo OS Partner Movial (Updated) – 23 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:But a phone doesn't help, if you need to re-code something ASAP, because the s

    Posted 6 months ago on The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home – 14 Comments

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    I started my portal this morning, not seeing it here, yet.That said, we don't use the portal anyway. But

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft is Refreshing Office.com – 13 Comments

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    In reply to iantrem:To an app written in Swift? Unlikely. It is the app, not the website.

    Posted 6 months ago on LinkedIn Caught Copying Data from iOS Clipboard – 28 Comments

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    In reply to lloyd2112:I agree, up to a point. Enterprise will take a long time to get away from Windows on the

    Posted 6 months ago on Move Slowly and Fix Things (Premium) – 65 Comments

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    In reply to VancouverNinja:They might have been working towards unifying the UI, but it is still a debacle. Se

    Posted 6 months ago on Move Slowly and Fix Things (Premium) – 65 Comments

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    I agree with the rest of what you have written. We need something that works and works reliably. We don'

    Posted 6 months ago on Move Slowly and Fix Things (Premium) – 65 Comments

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    desktop applications to a broad set of cross-platform apps and services that literally received dozens of new

    Posted 6 months ago on Move Slowly and Fix Things (Premium) – 65 Comments

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    In reply to elessar25:Over at TWiT , Jason Howell has upgraded from 65t's to 75t's, I think, and Ant

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: July 3 (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    I would always split them into different categories, but from an installation and running point of view, there

    Posted 6 months ago on Terminology: .NET apps vs Win32 apps – 9 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:I agree, but without the BSD bit, nothing would work. It is the core, hence the name K

    Posted 6 months ago on Steven Sinofsky says the Mac will be the ultimate developer PC within 2 years – 111 Comments

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    I came across the first problem with the Store... The latest MS patches for a Code security hole is only avail

    Posted 6 months ago on Does anyone actually use the Microsoft Store? – 84 Comments

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    Defender is built in and is the default on a new install...

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft should treat anti-virus software the same way it treats browsers – 3 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Virtualization and remote desktop are absolutely the way forward.As Apple have state

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    In reply to ewanmakepeace:Because "ARM" isn't ARM. Every SoC is slightly different and not 100% compatibl

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    Why Alt+Tab for tabs in Edge? What is wrong with the age-old Ctrl+Tab?I generally have a few dozen tabs open,

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Refreshes the Start Menu in Latest Windows 10 Insider Build – 56 Comments

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    In reply to JF-NYC:Probably not. This is the one thing most businesses will want to avoid for data security, i

    Posted 6 months ago on Microsoft Improves OneDrive for Consumers and Businesses – 43 Comments

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    In reply to toukale:Except you have to take into account your costs. How much does payroll, licensing, server

    Posted 6 months ago on Spotify Adds a Premium Duo Subscription for Couples – 13 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:Thanks. I'll give it a look.

    Posted 6 months ago on Automatic Edge Rollout to Expand to Education, then Businesses – 11 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:Very true. It is the discipline and it is also, as you say, your company. If you sl

    Posted 6 months ago on The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home – 14 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:I thought Chredge IE tabs didn't support ActiveX plugins... Maybe I read that

    Posted 6 months ago on Automatic Edge Rollout to Expand to Education, then Businesses – 11 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:But, if they are going to make a desktop, they will use desktop TDPs, so a 200W App

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:You are making the assumption that the A12z(?) from the iPad is the only and most p

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    I'm glad you can change PowerToys Run to not use the most useful and critical key combination!Alt+Space i

    Posted 6 months ago on PowerToys 0.19 Arrives with Improved Zone Editor and Remap Updates – 5 Comments

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    In reply to Pgiftos:It depends. We are monitoring it on a few machines, but our production line machines won&#

    Posted 6 months ago on Automatic Edge Rollout to Expand to Education, then Businesses – 11 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:Firmware and driver updates. They should come through the normal update process.

    Posted 6 months ago on Windows 10 Version 2004 Makes Its First Usage Share Appearance – 16 Comments

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    In reply to yuanyasmine:Huawei generally has better cameras on their top end phones, and the P30 and P40 are e

    Posted 6 months ago on iPhone 11 camera – 12 Comments

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    In reply to SiBrowne:I suspect you are correct. The question is how reliable that is, with code obfuscation te

    Posted 6 months ago on WOA X64 emulator for ARM – 19 Comments

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    In reply to Daishi:A container is a way of isolating code from interfering with other programs or the core OS.

    Posted 6 months ago on WOA X64 emulator for ARM – 19 Comments

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    In reply to dstrauss:Yes and no.It isn't an ARM re-write, it is, probably little more than an ARM re-comp

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: June 26 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    WOA vs. macOS on Apple SiliconRegarding this, I agree with Paul for the most part. Two things spring to mind

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: June 26 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    I think part of the problem is that Big Sur and Windows 10X just aren't comparable. They have different a

    Posted 6 months ago on Ask Paul: June 26 (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    In reply to kitron:Scary, but realistic. Emulated performance is always going to be disappointing, compared to

    Posted 6 months ago on WOA X64 emulator for ARM – 19 Comments

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    Emulation is only ever a crutch. What is needed is for developers to start releasing native ARM binaries.

    Posted 6 months ago on WOA X64 emulator for ARM – 19 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Except that Office is the Microsoft "showcase" software for such a new platform. If

    Posted 6 months ago on The Grass Is Always Greener (Premium) – 112 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:Microsoft dips its toe into the water of change but doesn't follow through and fin

    Posted 6 months ago on The Grass Is Always Greener (Premium) – 112 Comments

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    In reply to pierre_masse:Yeah, my nearest one is in London, England, about a 12 - 14 hour drive from here.

    Posted 6 months ago on Throwback: Microsoft Store (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    In reply to SenorGravy:It is like there are two companies. There is the corporate business selling Windows, Se

    Posted 6 months ago on Throwback: Microsoft Store (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:The latter. All the time they are running emulation, it is never going to be an optimal

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    In reply to shark47:Not Microsoft, Qualcomm... It is a comparison of Qualcomm vs. Apple silicon.

    Posted 6 months ago on First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X – 73 Comments

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    I think it is to be "consistent" with Teams... Why Teams couldn't be consistent with the rest of Office i

    Posted 6 months ago on The new Outlook search – 2 Comments

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    Until you can get corporates to re-invest millions for their legacy software, they aren't going to go awa

    Posted 7 months ago on With WSL 2, has Windows merged with Linux? – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Bill_Strong:Microsoft already has HyperV under Windows for virtualisation and it has Docker and Ku

    Posted 7 months ago on With WSL 2, has Windows merged with Linux? – 11 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Apple's developer documentation states that "Virtual Machine apps that virtuali

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple’s Advantage (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to alsorun:They are constantly fixing problems. There will be a glut of new features at the beginning

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Insider builds with no new features or meaningful changes – 17 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:You are probably stuck waiting for new VirtualBox drivers and tools for Windows clients...

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Insider builds with no new features or meaningful changes – 17 Comments

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    I have no problems with that. And no new features hopefully means they aren't wasting time on new bling b

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Insider builds with no new features or meaningful changes – 17 Comments

    Forum Post

    2004 and Thunderbolt

    Just for information...

    One of the stoppers for the rollout of 2004 was it not working with Thunderbolt. I updated my ThinkPad on day one anyway, even though I used Thunderbolt and it ran reliably. It was only docking/undocking that could cause problems and I always shut down my laptop at the end of the day, before unplugging it.

    Earlier this month, I received a Thunderbolt update from Lenovo and today I had to do some training and undocked and re-docked the laptop and there were no problems.

    Posted 7 months ago on 2004 and Thunderbolt – 1 Comments

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    In reply to Harrymyhre:The other side is corporate use. That is probably by far the biggest desktop/laptop use

    Posted 7 months ago on Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers. Please. (Premium) – 150 Comments

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    In reply to Skolvikings:It used to. I don't know when they changed it, but that was definitely a "thing"

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On with the New iOS 14 User Experience – 55 Comments

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    In reply to gabbrunner:Updates - one restart a month, the rest of the time, my PC and laptop just sleep when n

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:A lot of our users use terminal servers, so a memory hog like that isn't very w

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Saarek:That is what I suspected. Use it for what it is designed for and it will be fine... But you

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On: Apple MacBook Air (2020) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:That used to drive me crazy with iOS, one of the reasons I dropped it. I'd lay out

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On with the New iOS 14 User Experience – 55 Comments

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    In reply to Michael_Johnston:Yes, I've read reports as well, that the thermals cause the chips to not run

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On: Apple MacBook Air (2020) – 25 Comments

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    It is a shame you couldn't have waited another year... Now you'll need to splash out for the ARM ver

    Posted 7 months ago on Hands-On: Apple MacBook Air (2020) – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Simard57:Thanks, I missed that somehow. Probably because I was looking for Arm...

    Posted 7 months ago on ARM based supercomputer – 6 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:I found a different article, something like 7.5 million processors. IBM Summit has aroun

    Posted 7 months ago on ARM based supercomputer – 6 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:That is one of the big questions I have. Raw performance is one thing. How they actu

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to MartinusV2:If you use the Microsoft version there is less likelihood that your phone will be accus

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Defender ATP for Android is Available in Preview – 4 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Oh, I agree that they will have been working on it long before they announced it. The th

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:A difference between British English and American English? In British English it mea

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple’s Advantage (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to ids:VS Code is very nice, but it uses about 300-500MB more memory on start-up than such an editor

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:The audio set-up works reliably for us, we haven't had any complaints about it forge

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    Unfortunately, there is absolutely no information about how powerful the machine is (processor generation, die

    Posted 7 months ago on ARM based supercomputer – 6 Comments

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    In reply to overseer:Doesn't work in Firefox either. About one storey in five let's me like the comm

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:But, according to apple's own words, they've been working on this for a decade

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    Any word on pricing for the Enduro T5?

    Posted 7 months ago on Acer Announces a Tsunami of New Hardware Products – 6 Comments

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    In reply to lezmaka:I rest my case.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:It makes going cross-platform lazy and bloated.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Consolidates Skype on Windows – 48 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I understood the message, the answer was supposed to be tongue in cheek, hence the s

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 22 – 14 Comments

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    In reply to gabbrunner:In my experience, Windows is just as reliable as macOS, or rather, macOS is just as unr

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to BigM72:You lose some compatibility and there are some rendering differences between Office on macO

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    Anecdotally, according to you, people use the cloud and the web browser these days.Anecdotally, in my experien

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 22 – 14 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:That is not practical. For the first couple of years, there needs to be a way to transi

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple’s Advantage (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to Shmuelie:Recently? My iMac 24" was dropped like a hot potato with Lion, because it was a 64-bit pr

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple’s Advantage (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    The Apple docs seem to explicitly say that x86_64 VMs will not be supported. x86_64 native code will be, so "o

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple’s Advantage (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:No, MAC = Media Access Controller and is the basis for modern networking.

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:and it appears that Apple's approach is the better choice.It depends on where yo

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:That's the whole point of what I said. MS don't cut off anything, if they can a

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    Android welcome iOS to the 21st Century.Widgets (or the lack thereof) has been one of the things that drove me

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Announces iOS 14 with Widgets, PIP, Threads, and More – 34 Comments

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    The problem is that the personal chat with "civilians", i.e. non-Microsoft 365 users, is about half a decade t

    Posted 7 months ago on Personal Features for Teams Are Available in Preview – 15 Comments

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    That is the problem. Apple will force its developers to go ARM. Microsoft never cuts off legacy platforms. Tha

    Posted 7 months ago on Game, Set, Match? (Premium) – 141 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:Just remove it from Windows Features and deinstall the store app that was the Linux distr

    Posted 7 months ago on How to Install and Update Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Premium) – 21 Comments

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    In reply to brianlee:It isn't being pushed to normal Windows 10 yet.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Pushes Edge to Windows 7 and 8.1 – 24 Comments

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    In reply to fishnet37222:As a Linux die-hard that has to use Windows, I'm very happy about WSL2.Some of w

    Posted 7 months ago on The Future of the Windows Subsystem for Linux – 27 Comments

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    In reply to fishnet37222:It didn't, when WSL came out.Edit: And I don't just use WSL for SSH, I do u

    Posted 7 months ago on The Future of the Windows Subsystem for Linux – 27 Comments

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    Which Ubuntu are you using? I have Xenial and Focal on WSL2, everything is updated, no holds.

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Subsystem for Linux (held back Ubuntu updates) – 4 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:It depends, I have both. WSL is a lot less fuss, when you need to quickly do something.

    Posted 7 months ago on The Future of the Windows Subsystem for Linux – 27 Comments

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    As I’ve noted elsewhere, the notion that any developer would start a Windows-only app here in 2020 is, of co

    Posted 7 months ago on Reassessing Project Reunion (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    In reply to proftheory:I started with Spyglass Mosaic...

    Posted 7 months ago on Edge Memory Usage Improvements are Coming to Chrome Too – 16 Comments

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    In reply to mikebaz:It wasn't link re-writing, it was auto-completing manually entered URLs with affiliat

    Posted 7 months ago on Edge Memory Usage Improvements are Coming to Chrome Too – 16 Comments

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    In reply to Igor Engelen:Firefox is using ~1.1GB for 28 tabs at the moment on my Windows system.

    Posted 7 months ago on Edge Memory Usage Improvements are Coming to Chrome Too – 16 Comments

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    In reply to OldITPro2000:At the time, Brad said that he would post more information about the problems, once t

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 19 – 17 Comments

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    My Surface Pro 3's battery failed and you can't power it from the mains when the battery is dead!?!?

    Posted 7 months ago on my next laptop – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Simard57:Huawei have a Surface Pro alike with a 3:2 screen, for example.

    Posted 7 months ago on my next laptop – 13 Comments

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    In reply to reefer:No, but SWCetacean said he preferred WSL, because Cygwin is a mess.I've used Cygwin in

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Releases First Build of Windows 10 21H1 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to red77star:Me, for a start. I've been using it in processes since day one.

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Releases First Build of Windows 10 21H1 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to pierre_masse:Licensing, probably, or the TomTom data is more current.Here was sold to BMW, Daimler

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Releases First Build of Windows 10 21H1 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to MartinusV2:He is going through a lot of technologies at the moment and writing a series of article

    Posted 7 months ago on Flutter Sees Desktop Progress, Wants Microsoft Partnership – 13 Comments

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    'I purchased Affinity Photo from the Windows Store, I thought it was one of your recommendations a few ye

    Posted 7 months ago on First Ring Daily 850: Apple Punching Bag – 4 Comments

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    In reply to skramer49:I think we only have 1 Apple iPhone user left in the family, all the rest are Android.Ev

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Is At It Again – 59 Comments

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    In reply to dcdevito:Well, you can, as long as you give Apple their 30% pound of flesh.

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Is At It Again – 59 Comments

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    The e-book and audiobook retailer in the complaint is Rakuten.

    Posted 7 months ago on First Ring Daily 849: Apple’s Court Date – 3 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:The problem is, so many people have become used to the "selling your personal informatio

    Posted 7 months ago on HP Envy Pro 6400 Mini-Review – 20 Comments

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    In reply to JE:But you have, theoretically, already paid for the ink in the cartridges you currently have in t

    Posted 7 months ago on HP Envy Pro 6400 Mini-Review – 20 Comments

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    For a company that is already using Microsoft products, I don't see what the advantage is. Their Windows

    Posted 7 months ago on Parallels will Bring Windows Apps to Chromebook Enterprise – 28 Comments

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    The updates aren't showing up here. I just checked our WSUS and it checked for updates about 4 hours ago,

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Delivers Fixes for Windows 10 Printing Issues – 6 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Apple Pay is considerably more expensive for the merchant and the bank in Europe. I thin

    Posted 7 months ago on EU Announces Two Antitrust Investigations of Apple – 16 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:2. means that they NFC would be opened up for other purposes, not just Apple Pay. The

    Posted 7 months ago on EU Announces Two Antitrust Investigations of Apple – 16 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:"The United States will not cede leadership in global innovation"I would say that that bo

    Posted 7 months ago on U.S. Steps Back a Bit from the Huawei Cliff – 8 Comments

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    In reply to BigM72:When I went to college in the 1980s, that was all we could afford, I couldn't afford t

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 15 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:That is how digital lending already works. It is a case that the Internet Archvie suspen

    Posted 7 months ago on Internet Archive is Ending National Emergency Library Program – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:Take a look at Strato's HiDrive offering, it has been going for a decade now and the

    Posted 7 months ago on Reviews that are a blast from the past. – 5 Comments

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    In reply to BShaw:But that is not what the article is saying, just the opposite, "It then scans the books and

    Posted 7 months ago on Internet Archive is Ending National Emergency Library Program – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:What priinter do you have? We have a bunch of Maxifys and I haven't had any pr

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Acknowledges, Will Fix USB Printer Flaw in Windows 10 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:If it is a VM, running under Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox etc. yes. If it is a direct sandb

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Sandbox hast no Internet connection while host ist using a VPN – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:It is making people think twice about using Android and US based products and services in

    Posted 7 months ago on Reviews that are a blast from the past. – 5 Comments

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    In reply to nobody here:Interesting, we have several Canon Maxify MFCs and they aren't showing any proble

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Acknowledges, Will Fix USB Printer Flaw in Windows 10 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Why would you wear a corona mask in a video conference?

    Posted 7 months ago on Teams Gets Custom Backgrounds, More – 15 Comments

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    In reply to crunchyfrog:We have clean, custom corporate backgrounds. It makes a lot of sense, when you are hav

    Posted 7 months ago on Teams Gets Custom Backgrounds, More – 15 Comments

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    We've been using this for about a month and a half - two months. We have also been adding our own corpora

    Posted 7 months ago on Teams Gets Custom Backgrounds, More – 15 Comments

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    In reply to codymesh:I agree. And looking at it from a non-American point of view, I'd say that most of P

    Posted 7 months ago on To much politics – 4 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there. After I posted, it was shown properly under

    Posted 7 months ago on Zoom is following China’s orders. – 22 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:There is also Visual Studio Community Edition, but professional developers still have to for

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Announces Its WWDC 2020 Lineup – 14 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:When everything is running without errors... We get the odd 10 minutes here and the

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 12 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:They are doing a re-structuring. Firefox is currently reporting that parts of the s

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 12 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:German TV has been showing US TV coverage of the looting and rioting... Strange that US m

    Posted 7 months ago on Zoom is following China’s orders. – 22 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:No. But if in the West the government says that is illegal and any accounts on a service

    Posted 7 months ago on Zoom is following China’s orders. – 22 Comments

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    Microsoft botched the "send as..." functionality in Outlook 365 with on-prem Exchange in the April patch. The

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 12 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to eeisner:Just as a pointer, I had a Samsung Galaxy S3, when they were first released. That received

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, June 12 – 17 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Agreed. On Microsoft's platforms, anyone can be a developer. For Apple (and Google)

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Announces Its WWDC 2020 Lineup – 14 Comments

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    Have fun at Qualcomm! It has been good to have some news appearing "during the day" on Thurrott.com and not ju

    Posted 7 months ago on Moving Forward – 122 Comments

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    In reply to Thretosix:No, it is a new version of the App written using a more efficient technology, so it shou

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Dumps Electron Version of Xbox App for Windows 10 – 18 Comments

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    In reply to stmorr82zw5zml:Electron is a bloated lard bucket of a system and the code it runs is HTML5 and Jav

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Dumps Electron Version of Xbox App for Windows 10 – 18 Comments

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    I've said for a long time that Electron is a lardy fail of a system.Hopefully they will look at doing the

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Dumps Electron Version of Xbox App for Windows 10 – 18 Comments

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    Because activists in China took part in the June 4th remembrance conference and that is illegal in China. Doin

    Posted 7 months ago on Zoom is following China’s orders. – 22 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Correct, the only thing they have in common is the BIG.little core allocation, the instr

    Posted 7 months ago on Intel’s Newest Processor Family is Aimed Squarely at ARM – 49 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Most laptops and desktops probably spend 90% of their time idling, unless they are being

    Posted 7 months ago on Intel’s Newest Processor Family is Aimed Squarely at ARM – 49 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Except that companies like DDG weren't started to make money, they were started

    Posted 7 months ago on The Opportunity for Apple (Premium) – 56 Comments

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    In reply to darkgrayknight:The house was built in the 1970s, so I was a bit late, in 2010, to put it in when t

    Posted 7 months ago on What I Use: June 2020 (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    It wasn't redirecting searches, it turns out. It was just offering URLs to sites typed into the address b

    Posted 7 months ago on Brave Caught Revising URLs with Affiliate Links – 15 Comments

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    In reply to HellcatM:As others have said Android One handsets get updated relatively quickly.I've been su

    Posted 7 months ago on Google Sold Just 7.2 Million Pixel Handsets in 2019 – 28 Comments

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    I get about 80mbps with my 1.2gbps pair (old wiring), which link my router to my firewall and internal network

    Posted 7 months ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: Powerline Networking (Premium) – 31 Comments

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    In reply to plm:He walked out over facial recognition, not the Flloyd killing. Facial recognition has been a c

    Posted 7 months ago on Amazon Sues Google Over New Hire – 10 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Interesting, the Nissan system (standard feature on my Qashqai) monitors the front a

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 8 – 21 Comments

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    Apple, with its installed base of over one billion active devices, should acquire DuckDuckGo and sever its fin

    Posted 7 months ago on The Opportunity for Apple (Premium) – 56 Comments

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    Apple has the advantage of having done this twice before, when they moved from CISC chips from Motorola to the

    Posted 7 months ago on Apple Planning to Announce ARM Shift for Macs at WWDC – 24 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Yet people trusted the USA... Its industry was built-up on IP theft, until they started

    Posted 7 months ago on Report: Huawei is Now “in a State of War” – 9 Comments

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    In reply to SWCetacean:With Windows 7, Microsoft decided not to use the usual translation staff in Germany, th

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 8 – 21 Comments

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    In reply to GarethB:Interesting, my Nissan (European) has front sensors and they are used for driving forwards

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 8 – 21 Comments

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    The car is close to the back wall of the garage, and if I were to move forward, I could hit it. But the car is

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 8 – 21 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:The 10M from the router to my firewall is through a reinforced concrete floor, I am

    Posted 7 months ago on What I Use: June 2020 (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    I still use a Natural 4000 keyboard at work. I was using my Surface Ergonomic, but a new policy came in and I&

    Posted 7 months ago on What I Use: June 2020 (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Yes, I have Devolo power line kit and it is rated at 1.2gbps, I'm lucky to get

    Posted 7 months ago on What I Use: June 2020 (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:The single language (American English) for such a large number of potential users is one o

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: June 5 (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:I have my own DNS server "in house". That means:I can access all my equipment by nameI can se

    Posted 7 months ago on Favorite DNS over HTTPS provider? – 8 Comments

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    entire business model is considered #problematic by many in the tech press.I've not seen anything about t

    Posted 7 months ago on Beware Brave – 6 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Well said.Like @Karlinhigh, I grew up in a predominantly white town. When I was a c

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Promises More Diversity and Inclusiveness – 18 Comments

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    I block DoH at the firewall and use DNS over TLS, the way it should be done. I use Quad9 at the moment.

    Posted 7 months ago on Favorite DNS over HTTPS provider? – 8 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:why couldn't a European provider offer localized versions of their services, j

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: June 5 (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Outside of Britain and Ireland, there probably aren't enough that can speak English c

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: June 5 (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to ahajra:RE: COVID tracking data - that is held, anonymized on the phones, if someone centrally stor

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: June 5 (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:Yes, we use that at work, it works very well. For private use, it is free.

    Posted 7 months ago on Ask Paul: June 5 (Premium) – 47 Comments

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    In reply to Kenneth_Burns:Yes, it is an extension to 8.1 Pro, you need an original 8.1 Pro license to activate

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, June 5 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Kenneth_Burns:The Media Pack was "just" an add-on to Windows 8, so not a full Windows 8 license.Us

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, June 5 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to mrhnet:The same with Skype, Skype for Business, Teams and Kaizala.

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, June 5 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:In Germany, it has been my experience that people and companies are reticent to use

    Posted 7 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, June 5 – 23 Comments

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    In reply to CompUser:New Edge does not install as part of 2004, you still have to manually download it. 2 mach

    Posted 7 months ago on The New Edge is Rolling Out via Windows Update – 23 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:It might solve the immediate problem, but getting to the bottom of the GPO conflict

    Posted 7 months ago on The New Edge is Rolling Out via Windows Update – 23 Comments

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    In reply to brad-sams:Hi Brad, that's what I assumed. Glad to hear you are working on long-term stability

    Posted 7 months ago on RSS feed not working – 4 Comments

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    “We strongly dispute these claims, and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them"So, Chrome's pr

    Posted 7 months ago on Google Sued for Tracking Private Browsing – 29 Comments

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    In reply to miamimauler:AMD Ryzen 1700 home-build, Spectre x360 2016 and a ThinkPad T480 (but that was pushed

    Posted 7 months ago on If a tree falls in the woods… – 23 Comments

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    It depends, there are known problems with some hardware, if your device has Thunderbolt, for example, the upda

    Posted 7 months ago on device not ready – 11 Comments

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    Got it on all of my machines...

    Posted 7 months ago on If a tree falls in the woods… – 23 Comments

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    The site was 502ing from Cloudflare this morning. I'm guessing it fail-whaled again sometime last night.G

    Posted 7 months ago on RSS feed not working – 4 Comments

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    Hey, you were sort of rugged handsome back then! :-DI used CIS and MSN back in the day. In the UK, CIS was, fo

    Posted 7 months ago on Throwback: Inside MSN (Premium) – 8 Comments

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    In reply to darkgrayknight:Yes, web browsers were never designed for this and it has been tacked on with littl

    Posted 7 months ago on The rise of React – 6 Comments

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    In reply to jrswarr:In my collection, I have Mozart, Beethoven etc., Verdi, Gershwin, Glen Miller, Elvis, Nat

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 1 – 22 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Yes, it works out as a couple of cents on the price of most products. The other side is, h

    Posted 7 months ago on Throwback: Not the Future We Want (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:I had a car accident when I was a teenager - I was stopped in a traffic jam and a Volvo

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 1 – 22 Comments

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    In reply to srgroves:I'm 52, my oldest daughter is getting married in a couple of weeks and I'm abou

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 1 – 22 Comments

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    In reply to lwetzel:It is funny, I said goodbye to my wife as I went to work this morning, and as I walked out

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 1 – 22 Comments

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    I was of an age, where video consoles were too expensive to be Christmas or Birthday presents.I saved up my po

    Posted 7 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, June 1 – 22 Comments

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    Their reply only makes the situation more murky. Their solution uses a different technology, but does essentia

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Ignores Allegations of Theft – 37 Comments

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    In reply to zeratul456:It depends. We only use VPN to access the company network, so the last thing I want is

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows Sandbox hast no Internet connection while host ist using a VPN – 17 Comments

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    I'm not defending Microsoft here, but, I have been saying for over 15 years that Windows needs such a pac

    Posted 7 months ago on AppGet Creator Says Microsoft Stole His Product – 51 Comments

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    In reply to Kralizek:It was there on my Mate 10 Pro and my P20 - 2018 through 2020.

    Posted 7 months ago on Revisiting the Huawei P30 Pro – 9 Comments

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    In reply to TheJoeFin:Electron is my biggest problem at the moment. It is causing bloated apps to become the n

    Posted 7 months ago on Programming Windows: We Fought the Web and the Web Won (Premium) – 61 Comments

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    It is interesting, there is all this talk of the web, yet I use my browser mainly for thurrott.com, TWiT'

    Posted 7 months ago on Programming Windows: We Fought the Web and the Web Won (Premium) – 61 Comments

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    Just a minor niggle, the rise of UNIX was in the 70s, before DOS was a twinkle in the pocketbook of Microsoft.

    Posted 7 months ago on Programming Windows: We Fought the Web and the Web Won (Premium) – 61 Comments

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    You musn't forget that in 2019 a lot of corporates were busy replacing hundreds or thousands of old Windo

    Posted 7 months ago on Gartner: Device Shipments to Fall 14 Percent in 2020 – 8 Comments

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    Worked fine for me. Although, like red.radar, it still had old-Edge after the update. I thought it would updat

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 10 Version 2004 is Now Available – 51 Comments

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    An iPhone that once again fits within our company budget... We are supposed to have iPhones as company phones,

    Posted 9 months ago on Apple Announces New $399 iPhone SE With A13 Bionic Processor – 63 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:Try watching it with the sound turned on. ;-)

    Posted 9 months ago on iPad Pro’s New Magic Keyboard Now Available Earlier Than Expected – 18 Comments

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    I think you meant the coming Pixel 4a, not the Pixel 4And "Google has come under first for" come under fire?

    Posted 9 months ago on Revisiting the Google Pixel 4 XL – 16 Comments

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    In reply to Hawaiianteg:The problem is the high price combined with the perceived short lifetime of the device

    Posted 9 months ago on OnePlus Has a Problem. A Pricing Problem (Premium) – 24 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:The problem is, 99% of users have no concept of what security is and have no idea about t

    Posted 9 months ago on Non-preemptive multitasking – 23 Comments

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    In reply to DriftSK:There are a couple of very good writers on there, but in general, yes. Pick out the good w

    Posted 9 months ago on Update KB4541335 – 7 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:There are some very good writers on Forbes, like the multi-award-winning Davey Winder, b

    Posted 9 months ago on Update KB4541335 – 7 Comments

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    In reply to coeus89:Yes, my initial thought was, that they were extending the deadline for EOL on SMB1 again.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft is Hibernating Its SMB Efforts Because of COVID-19 – 9 Comments

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    That is good news. I've moved all of our 1803 and previous users to 1903 and 1909, now I have time to upd

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Extends End of Service Date for Windows 10 Version 1809 – 5 Comments

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    Surely save data would be the most important data to want to be able to backup?(I don't use a Nintendo, b

    Posted 9 months ago on Nintendo Switch Update Adds Ability to Transfer Data to SD Card – 4 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:They aren't really related. In fact, the less multi-tasking a processor does (regard

    Posted 9 months ago on Non-preemptive multitasking – 23 Comments

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    At a guess, if the rumours are true, I'd say that it is based on the Exynos line of chips that are used i

    Posted 9 months ago on Google is Designing its Own Processors. Of Course It Is (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    In reply to techreader:Why? If they are such small tiles, how can you possibly see what people are doing? The

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Teams Now Shows 9 People in Participant View – 17 Comments

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    In reply to jaredthegeek:As a Samsung and Huawei user, I can only agree. What works at home doesn't work

    Posted 9 months ago on Your Phone Update Enables Drag-and-drop Support for Samsung Devices – 10 Comments

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    In reply to RoHo:Are you still getting monthly security updates? That is impressive.

    Posted 9 months ago on Revisiting the OnePlus 7T – 11 Comments

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    Are you talking co-operative, as in Windows 3, task switching (as in Mac System pre OS X) or do you mean a rea

    Posted 9 months ago on Non-preemptive multitasking – 23 Comments

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    In reply to red77star:Win32 is an old platform, written for a time before real security and the Internet. It h

    Posted 9 months ago on The Windows 10X Problem (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:It is a single win32 container . All modern apps will run in their own container.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Reportedly Changes Windows 10X Plans, Won’t Launch Surface Neo This Year – 35 Comments

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    In reply to red77star:That is the whole point. Your 7zip example, that'll force the developers to come up

    Posted 9 months ago on The Windows 10X Problem (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    In reply to red77star:Running in a container or through the hypervisor isn't a real performance hit - jus

    Posted 9 months ago on The Windows 10X Problem (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    People are losing jobs or not earning full money at the moment and the future is uncertain. Add in the launch

    Posted 9 months ago on The Windows 10X Problem (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    In reply to dcdevito:That is what Paul reported on Windows Weekly. It was always planned to have the bottom le

    Posted 9 months ago on Google Makes Stadia Free for 2 Months – 7 Comments

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    Zoom is banned here, has been for a while.

    Posted 9 months ago on Google Bans Employees From Using Zoom Amid Security Concerns – 9 Comments

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    I've been using pinned tabs for a while in Firefox - Feedly (with feeds for Thurrott, Register and Petri)

    Posted 9 months ago on Browser Workflow: Another Approach to Web Apps (Premium) – 16 Comments

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    I think you mean 5G compatibility and not 5GB. ;-)

    Posted 9 months ago on OnePlus 8 Series Specs Leak – 4 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:The in-screen ones don't seem to be very reliable at the moment either - probably t

    Posted 9 months ago on Google Updates Pixel 4 to Require Open Eyes for Face Unlock – 3 Comments

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    In reply to drjohnnyray:Thanks for the explanation of the situation. I'll be interested to see how that w

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, April 6 – 25 Comments

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    Interesting middle-click or control+click on an item in the address-bar dropdown still opens it in a new tab,

    Posted 9 months ago on Firefox 75 Brings Redesigned Address Bar for Faster Searching – 11 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:Yes, the Dunkelstatistik, as they say in Germany (dark statistic), from self-isolat

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, April 6 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Patrick3D:Hotels are closed down over here. There is a 5,000€ fine for any establishment found l

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, April 6 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to drjohnnyray:I have a friend, who is a GP in England. He did his first video consultation last week

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, April 6 – 25 Comments

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    The reports on the news yesterday were about eating and drinking, funnily enough. The main point was that home

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, April 6 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:Not yet, I haven't had a chance.

    Posted 9 months ago on In-Chredge-ulous: Microsoft’s New Browser is Number Two? – 24 Comments

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    In reply to TheJoeFin:Except you usually wear a headset, so if you have a BT headset or USB headset, you still

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Reminds the World That Skype Exists – 42 Comments

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    I'm guessing they are having to combine the numbers (Edge + Chredge) to get the desktop number that high.

    Posted 9 months ago on In-Chredge-ulous: Microsoft’s New Browser is Number Two? – 24 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Given that Tencent is a Chinese company, taking 11%, I would guess that it includes at l

    Posted 9 months ago on Report Claims There Are 358 Million Music Service Subscribers – 20 Comments

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    Doesn't that assume that the microphone is halfway decent in the phone?

    Posted 9 months ago on Dolby Brings Its Dolby On App to Android, Adds Twitch Support on iOS – 2 Comments

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    Are they suspending interest or only the payment of the balance? The story is a little unclear on what exactly

    Posted 9 months ago on Apple Lets Apple Card Owners Skip April Payments – 5 Comments

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    Still showing up as angular for me. The logo passes better to new Edge and Office logos.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Bing Is Testing a New Logo – 13 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Yes, I was hoping for a Windows 10 Enterprise equivalent that allows some sort of A

    Posted 9 months ago on Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Era – 39 Comments

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    In reply to richardbottiglieri:I use Firefox as my default browser on all platforms, including Android. I like

    Posted 9 months ago on Academic Study About Browsers is Wrong About Microsoft Edge – 16 Comments

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    In reply to dbrueck:I've done this several times in my life and do it regularly at a smaller scale. Never

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 30 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to earlster:I am so sick of COVID news, that I find the podcasts and my audio books a blessed relief.

    Posted 9 months ago on Coronavirus Causes Dip in Podcast Listening – 15 Comments

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    My listening habits haven't really changed. 5 podcasts from TWiT and then FRD from here.

    Posted 9 months ago on Coronavirus Causes Dip in Podcast Listening – 15 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:I usually have the browser taking up half the width of the screen.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Edge Is Getting Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy, More – 26 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:He's been a real messy in the last half-century or so. It'll take more th

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 30 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to kevinbouwman:It is similar for me, we work in the chemical industry, providing essential raw mater

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 30 – 13 Comments

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    In reply to crmguru:I'm stuck in my office at work, alone. Doing a lot of learning at the moment, between

    Posted 9 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 30 – 13 Comments

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    UWP, like WPF, doesn’t provide a Font dialog... UWP does apparently provide a Color picker,Ah, so its was d

    Posted 9 months ago on The UWP Files: First Steps (Premium) – 12 Comments

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    The vertical tabs will please Steve Gibson, he has been moaning for years that he can't get on with Chrom

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Edge Is Getting Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy, More – 26 Comments

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    In reply to per.steinar:Teams and OneDrive are a lot more interesting and useful, to me, than music streaming.

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Announces Consumer Version of Microsoft 365 – 37 Comments

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    In reply to thegooner:New Huawei devices are affected (Mate 30 and P40 series), the older devices are still wo

    Posted 9 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design? – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Sprtfan:Zoom sends all of its data (user information and the contents of meetings) to advertising

    Posted 9 months ago on Ask Paul: March 27 (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:We have to turn up, because there is no other option.Some jobs just can't be d

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Details Impact of Coronavirus on Cloud Services Usage (Upated) – 11 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Partially. Teams had a couple of wobbles in the first few days, with several hours of ou

    Posted 9 months ago on Microsoft Details Impact of Coronavirus on Cloud Services Usage (Upated) – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:The Bixby button is no more. All the buttons are on the right now. The first thing I did wa

    Posted 9 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Review – 23 Comments

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    In reply to JG1170:The camera app on my Huawei has the habit of blowing up people's heads, so that they l

    Posted 9 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Review – 23 Comments

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    In reply to SAPaleAle:My wife has given up on the fingerprint scanner on her S10. It work maybe 1 in 10 attemp

    Posted 9 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Review – 23 Comments

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    That is pretty much the same conclusion I have come to with the S20+ (I started a thread on it over at TWiT:ht

    Posted 9 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Review – 23 Comments

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    In reply to solomonrex:The TV news over here, in Germany, is still 100% Skype, from what I've seen.

    Posted 10 months ago on Zoom Silently Sends Data to Facebook – 18 Comments

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    It wouldn't work here, at home (my firewall blocks all external DNS and DoH, except for my internal DNS s

    Posted 10 months ago on Zoom Silently Sends Data to Facebook – 18 Comments

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    The Pro+, is that the one with extra caffeine?

    Posted 10 months ago on Huawei’s P40 Series Is All About the Cameras – 5 Comments

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    Also, don't forget that 1909 is essentially 1903 SP2, so a lot of people aren't updating. We have ar

    Posted 10 months ago on Windows 10 Version 1909 Nears 30 Percent Usage – 11 Comments

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    In reply to tghallin:I have disabled or deinstalled Google (Search and news pane), Gmail, Fotos, Maps, Chrome

    Posted 10 months ago on Goodbye Fi, Hello Mint (Premium) – 49 Comments

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    In reply to will:They need to get the new settings to work reliably first! About half of our machines say that

    Posted 10 months ago on Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19592 Heads to Fast Ring – 13 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:We've not experienced any problems with slow down of the Internet here. Vodafone di

    Posted 10 months ago on Goodbye Fi, Hello Mint (Premium) – 49 Comments

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    Why is data so expensive in the USA? The Mint prices seem very high, but the Google prices are downright extor

    Posted 10 months ago on Goodbye Fi, Hello Mint (Premium) – 49 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:I thought the pictures of the right side in this article were "good enough", although part

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Spectre x360 13 (5th Gen) Review: Honey, I Shrunk the Convertible – 13 Comments

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    In reply to Phil_Adcock:Microsoft's mitigation for Windows 10 doesn't work on any of the machines I&

    Posted 10 months ago on Hackers Are Exploiting Previously Undisclosed Windows Vulnerability – 4 Comments

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    In reply to PhilByPond:Exactly. The bad guys aren't in lockdown - or if they are, they are using the extr

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft to Pause Optional Windows 10 Updates Starting May 2020 – 13 Comments

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    Our government seems to be looking at closures until at least June at the moment.Funny that they aren't s

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft to Pause Optional Windows 10 Updates Starting May 2020 – 13 Comments

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    What is confusing is that it is rated as critical on all versions of Windows 10, yet the affected library isn&

    Posted 10 months ago on Hackers Are Exploiting Previously Undisclosed Windows Vulnerability – 4 Comments

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    In reply to Lewk:Was amazed to see the gardeners at the house opposite my office today, they were pouring ceme

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 23 – 14 Comments

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    In reply to txag:We have a dog, I have to walk, whether it is raining or not. ;-)

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 23 – 14 Comments

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    I work in IT, as a system administrator, so I have to go to work every day at the moment - I have to ensure th

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 23 – 14 Comments

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    What I don't understand is, if they can't guarantee that 81 and 82 will be worked on reliably enough

    Posted 10 months ago on Google to Skip Chromium 82 Because of Coronavirus – 9 Comments

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    How do you internationlise the XAML? Do you dynamically change the text properties of the generated objects at

    Posted 10 months ago on The WPF Notepad Project: About Box and Edit Menu (Premium) – 4 Comments

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    In reply to gvan:No, it isn't a breach of net neutrality, they decided to throttle it themselves, because

    Posted 10 months ago on Story Ideas for Paul and Brad – 12 Comments

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    In reply to Tiny:The problem is, it still works, but there is no definite word from Microsoft if the upgrade i

    Posted 10 months ago on Story Ideas for Paul and Brad – 12 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Apple is very secretive about such things. One would hope they are also doing such thing

    Posted 10 months ago on Google Officially Cancels I/O 2020 for Good – 11 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:I think part of the problem is people working from home and using their data for th

    Posted 10 months ago on YouTube and Netflix to Reduce Streaming Quality in Europe Due to Coronavirus – 6 Comments

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    No word about Amazon yet. I was still getting smooth HD and 4K streaming on Amazon last night.My boss has Netf

    Posted 10 months ago on YouTube and Netflix to Reduce Streaming Quality in Europe Due to Coronavirus – 6 Comments

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    What is with the new "log in with a Microsoft account" full screen blockers on Windows 10 PCs that use a local

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 20 – 12 Comments

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    In reply to MartinusV2:On the other hand, if you don't need the heavy duty graphics and processing during

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, March 20 – 12 Comments

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    In reply to James_B:Yes. I looked down the list, there wasn't anything that I'd call useful or essen

    Posted 10 months ago on Star Dock software Bundle – 11 Comments

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    For the Post-PC era, I need something that will run all the legacy software that keeps the XP and Windows 7 PC

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Finally Gets Serious About the Post-PC Era (Premium) – 56 Comments

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    :-O I can remember playing a bunch of them on my Amiga!

    Posted 10 months ago on Tip: GOG is Giving Away 25 PC Games for Free – 4 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:The Outlook desktop application used to have a view that did what you want, short o

    Posted 10 months ago on Office Application – 6 Comments

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    The Alps is a hot spot. Apres Ski... People coming back from there have have to self-quarantine in Germany.

    Posted 10 months ago on COVID-19 Changes The World – What The Tech Ep. 467 – 2 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:The press release says in 30 countries around the world.

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Unveils Upgraded iPad Pro With Trackpad Support – 40 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:DOH! User error. It was fairly dark and I hadn't noticed that there were left and r

    Posted 10 months ago on Hands-On with Samsung Galaxy Buds+ – 10 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Not really an excuse. That is an online press release! If Apple had made the decision th

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Unveils Upgraded iPad Pro With Trackpad Support – 40 Comments

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    I always find it funny, that the first time I hear about these companies is either when they get taken over or

    Posted 10 months ago on Fox to Acquire Tubi for $440 Million – 2 Comments

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    As I said in the thread on Twitter with Paul, it looks like Apple's marketing department is unaware of it

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Unveils Upgraded iPad Pro With Trackpad Support – 40 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:The case was properly packed in the Samsung carton and that was in a large carton wi

    Posted 10 months ago on Hands-On with Samsung Galaxy Buds+ – 10 Comments

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    Tried them out last night and this morning, walking the dog. They sit fairly good and are relatively comfortab

    Posted 10 months ago on Hands-On with Samsung Galaxy Buds+ – 10 Comments

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    My free buds came in the post today... They are loading at the moment. What I didn't like is that the hea

    Posted 10 months ago on Hands-On with Samsung Galaxy Buds+ – 10 Comments

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    In reply to red77star:No. Anybody can get it, regardless of their immune system.Whether you will have serious

    Posted 10 months ago on Crisis – 54 Comments

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    And in the UK, panic buyers were raiding the charity trolley at one supermarket in Hove, where people put thei

    Posted 10 months ago on Crisis – 54 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Yes, the WHO is advising against taking Ibuprofen if you have an infection.

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Shuts All Its Retail Stores Worldwide Amid Coronavirus Concerns – 7 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:As far as I understand it, SAR-CoV-2 is "just another" 'flu strain. But it is suppos

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Shuts All Its Retail Stores Worldwide Amid Coronavirus Concerns – 7 Comments

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    In many countries, it is a legal requirement that they close anyway.Over here, only pharmacies and food stores

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Shuts All Its Retail Stores Worldwide Amid Coronavirus Concerns – 7 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:You can set prices for your own product in your own stores. You can set wholesale prices

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Fined a Record $1.2 Billion by French Antitrust Body – 6 Comments

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    As far as I know, price fixing has been illegal in France for a long time. Likewise, so what if it was "nearly

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Fined a Record $1.2 Billion by French Antitrust Body – 6 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Because those additions are where the money is, additional services and advertising...

    Posted 10 months ago on Yes, Google Should Stop Making Flagship Handsets (Premium) – 22 Comments

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    Thanks Paul. That seems to one of the problems with reviews these days. They concentrate on the camera and the

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: March 13 (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    In reply to wolters:The holiday flat we had last summer had a Lenovo tablet set up with all the local news sou

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: March 13 (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:Excessive washing and disinfectant can cause the ridges to be softer or change shap

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul: March 13 (Premium) – 13 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:You don't have to create a GMail account to use Android. You need a Google account

    Posted 10 months ago on Google’s G Suite Now Has More Than 2 Billion Monthly Active Users – 19 Comments

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    Moving goal posts. Wasn't G-Suite the name for the corporate version of Google's services? Now they

    Posted 10 months ago on Google’s G Suite Now Has More Than 2 Billion Monthly Active Users – 19 Comments

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    I posted elsehwere my problem with the Galaxy S20+. Generally, it is a fine phone, but it hasn't had that

    Posted 10 months ago on Ask Paul for Friday, March 13 [CLOSED] – 3 Comments

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    In reply to StevenLayton:It is like paying to receive SMS, nobody would think that is a good idea and no provi

    Posted 10 months ago on Call of Duty: Warzone Goes Live Today – 8 Comments

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    Overall, it isn't giving the wow feeling that my Mate 10 Pro did. The screen is nice, but the OneUI is no

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design? – 9 Comments

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    To be honest, I wouldn't expect a 120Hz display on a device in this price category at this time. I expect

    Posted 10 months ago on Google’s Pixel 4a Detailed in New Leaked Video – 6 Comments

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    In reply to GT_Tecolotecreek:Yes, and 0.3 mbps is a lot worse than the 15 I get with my old phone

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design? – 9 Comments

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    Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design?

    My S20+ finally arrived today (2 days early) and I've been busy setting it up.

    My wife said to me last night, that her S10 was getting a poor signal, compared to her old Huawei P-Smart. Looking at the S20+, it seems like this is a "standard feature" of the S-series?

    The S20+ is getting 1 bar at home, on my Mate 10 Pro I was getting full bars. I'm also getting (4G) 0.3mbps down and 0.0 up - I usually get around 5 - 15mbps on the Mate 10 Pro.

    Does anyone else have experience with Samsung S series, compared to other phones?

    I really like the S20+, although some of the widgets don't display propery (Audible and PocketCasts), but if I can't get a signal, there isn't a lot of point keeping it!

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S(20+) poor antenna design? – 9 Comments

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    2010 Sony Laptop, never reset.2016 HP Spectre X360, never reset2017 Ryzen 1700 desktop, never reset.I don'

    Posted 10 months ago on Reset Your Computer Once a Year for a Happier Life – 5 Comments

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    In reply to tonchek:I document all methods, properties etc. automatically with the recommended format, for C#,

    Posted 10 months ago on The WPF Files: The End is Near (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    In reply to North of 49th:one-size fits all t-shirt gets us a consistency of fit.i.e. it doesn't fit anyo

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 9 – 31 Comments

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    In reply to exmsde:I went to DD once. I was on secondment in Birmingham, in England. That is the only DD I eve

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 9 – 31 Comments

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    In reply to kevinbouwman:I had a great experience on Amazon yesterday. And no, no sarcasm.I had a faulty devic

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 9 – 31 Comments

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    Well, at least he didn't ask if you want fries with that! /Robin Williams.

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 9 – 31 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:The last 4 fitness trackers I had have had sleep tracking, FitBit, Garmin and Huawei.

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple’s watchOS 7 Could Include Sleep Tracking, Tachymeter, More – 9 Comments

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    In reply to FaustXD9:Im guessing the bulbs will still work, that it is just the bridge. But the point remains,

    Posted 10 months ago on First-Gen Philips Hue Bridge Exits Support in April – 24 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Better, the manufacturer should be required to put a support end date on the box. This s

    Posted 10 months ago on First-Gen Philips Hue Bridge Exits Support in April – 24 Comments

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    The original bridge has had 8 years of life, which isn't bad for IoT, and if I'm reading this right,

    Posted 10 months ago on First-Gen Philips Hue Bridge Exits Support in April – 24 Comments

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    In reply to ndelena:It is the camera software. Their sensors and lenses aren't better than the others. It

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: Quick Camera Check-In – 15 Comments

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    The built in refresh, as rob_segal says, should be fine.That said, I've never re-installed Windows on any

    Posted 10 months ago on Surface pro 4 – clean install? – 6 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:While I appreciate that, it is always good practice, even when it is rough-and-ready

    Posted 10 months ago on The WPF Files: The End is Near (Premium) – 18 Comments

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    I ordered a Spigen Air case and a leather "wallet" style case for my S20+, both arrived last week, the phone i

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: Quick Camera Check-In – 15 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Used Outlook and Word this morning. Neither showed the ad.

    Posted 10 months ago on Ads in Office 365 Home – 10 Comments

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    The "good" part is that you need a piece of additional hardware installed on the pc that boots faster than the

    Posted 10 months ago on Security Researchers Discover New ‘Unfixable’ Flaw on Intel CPUs – 19 Comments

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    In reply to ponsaelius:You mean the tips on how to disable notifications will mysteriously disappear. ;-)

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Will Now Allow Apps to Send Ads Via Push Notifications – 13 Comments

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    In reply to paradyne:It is an advert for desktop users to try and get them to download the new mobile Office a

    Posted 10 months ago on Ads in Office 365 Home – 10 Comments

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    In reply to Shane:Income and interest are also a big factor. For many people, tech is just an object of utilit

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 2 – 19 Comments

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    Interesting, I haven't seen that yet. I'll keep an eye out.

    Posted 10 months ago on Ads in Office 365 Home – 10 Comments

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    In reply to HellcatM:That is the point, it is a last Hurrah! by Xerox to try and make some money for Icahn, be

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Rejects Another Xerox Acquisition Offer – 15 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Yes, this is purley about Icahn stacking his pyramid has high as it can and selling

    Posted 10 months ago on HP Rejects Another Xerox Acquisition Offer – 15 Comments

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    Wrong direction. Apple should have stopped using it that way themselves.

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple Will Now Allow Apps to Send Ads Via Push Notifications – 13 Comments

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    In reply to kshsystems:I've already had to take out android TV offline, because it hasn't received a

    Posted 10 months ago on Walking Back My Google Smart Home Ambitions (Premium) – 44 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Thanks for clearing that up.

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    In reply to will:Yes, by those fees, you have to ask, how many thousands of lawyers, for how many decades, wer

    Posted 10 months ago on Apple to Pay Up to $500 Million to Settle iPhone Class Action Lawsuit – 20 Comments

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    In reply to rmlounsbury:I've always replace my phones on a 2 - 3 year cycle. My current Mate 10 Pro is no

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    In reply to bhatech:What is the difference? I only know the Huawei gestures, swipe from left or right to go ba

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    After saying that I wouldn't buy a new phone at release again (the last one was the iPhone 3GS), I actual

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 2 – 19 Comments

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    I have one question, coming back to Samsung for the first time, since the S3, can you fully deactivate Bixby?

    Posted 10 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G First Impressions – 24 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:That was my first thought as well; although until now most laptops and smartphones have just

    Posted 10 months ago on Here’s What’s New in Chrome OS 80 – 4 Comments

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    In reply to North of 49th:Exactly. We bought a new dishwasher last year. We bought a high quality one, but one

    Posted 10 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, March 2 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango:UUIDs and IP addresses are most definitely considered personally identifiable information

    Posted 10 months ago on Edge privacy worse than Chrome – 47 Comments

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    It's not even about printers. It is just about lining Icahn's pockets, before his latest pyramid sch

    Posted 10 months ago on The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges – 4 Comments

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    In reply to darkgrayknight:And the other factor is, with cloud computing and virtualization in general, one co

    Posted 10 months ago on Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared – 3 Comments

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    Maybe the market for fart apps isn't as big on the Mac...Seriously, I think there are two problems that n

    Posted 10 months ago on Devs on What Works, What Doesn’t, in Mac Catalyst – 2 Comments

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    In reply to Hal9000:That was what I thought as well, either the monitor's USB hub or an external hub. For

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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    In reply to infloop:At my previous company, we used them as netboot Linux workstations (they used PXE boot to

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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    SDXC card slot where there was previously a smaller microSDXC storage card slotThat is a big, and welcome, cha

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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    In reply to davidl:Paul already covered that. It isn't possible, if you are using .Net Core at the moment

    Posted 10 months ago on The WPF Files: Fun with Fonts (Premium) – 31 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango:UUIDs are considered personal information, as is the IP address under GDPR.

    Posted 10 months ago on Edge privacy worse than Chrome – 47 Comments

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    If you actually read what they are doing Chrome is worse, but it doesn't use a UUID, if you aren't l

    Posted 10 months ago on Edge privacy worse than Chrome – 47 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:I have yet to find a mobile device that is compatible with Cortana. The iOS version refus

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Reiterates Cortana’s Role in Windows 10 – 30 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:I deactivate Cortana when I set up new PCs, apart from shouting at me when I run th

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Reiterates Cortana’s Role in Windows 10 – 30 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:It has always been this way. It was the same with Windows Phone, the biggest markets (n

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Reiterates Cortana’s Role in Windows 10 – 30 Comments

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    Azure isn't even on the cards over here. Because of GDPR most companies I've worked with won't

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft killing off MCSE, MCSA, MCSD certifications – 12 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Sister site, Petri, did a series of articles on using Chocolatey and Puppet last year.

    Posted 10 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for Friday, February 28 – 16 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:This is about Google loosing its 85%+ market share in Europe, Africa, Asia and South Ame

    Posted 10 months ago on Google Wants to Be on Huawei Devices – 19 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Ah, you mean living the American Dream is only for American companies.The US got its sta

    Posted 10 months ago on Google Wants to Be on Huawei Devices – 19 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:If? They already sell in China without Google Services. An Android phone with Google ser

    Posted 10 months ago on Google Wants to Be on Huawei Devices – 19 Comments

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    In reply to simont:And if you only use Linux, why would you want to boot into Windows and start a VM?

    Posted 10 months ago on laptops – 11 Comments

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    If you are a Linux user, you don't want to run it as a VM...Linux users aren't just cheapskates, som

    Posted 10 months ago on laptops – 11 Comments

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    The question is, how well do they support those languages.In the past, Google Translate German/English transla

    Posted 10 months ago on Google Translate Gets Support for New Languages After Four Years – 2 Comments

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    In reply to colin79666:Running a native IE in a tab is not moving LOB solutions away from IE. But I suppose it

    Posted 10 months ago on Microsoft Begins Testing the Automatic Rollout of the New Edge – 12 Comments

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    In reply to orlbuckye:A friend of mine wrote a head-hunter system in Visual FoxPro, I believe it is still in u

    Posted 10 months ago on Old Programs You Still Use? – 53 Comments

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    FRD appears, mainly daily, as its name suggests.The other podcasts are once a week and, yes, if you look at th

    Posted 10 months ago on Too many video links – 2 Comments

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    In reply to MarkPow:I always have an image of Homer Simpson in my head, when I read about DoH...

    Posted 10 months ago on Firefox Begins Rollout of Encrypted DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) – 10 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:Yes. If the external DoH lookup fails, it is supposed to fall back to the "real" DN

    Posted 10 months ago on Firefox Begins Rollout of Encrypted DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) – 10 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Parallel port. And direct hardware access, it doesn't work in a VM.

    Posted 11 months ago on Old Programs You Still Use? – 53 Comments

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    As Mozilla explains, the Domain Name System (DNS) used by all Internet sites and services is insecure because

    Posted 11 months ago on Firefox Begins Rollout of Encrypted DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) – 10 Comments

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    I'd never really looked at the old icons, to be honest. To be honest, they look better than the old ones,

    Posted 11 months ago on New Windows 10 icons – 17 Comments

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    FHD+ is 2160x1440 (3:2), yet you quote 21:9, so which is it? And 21:9 should surely be written as 7:3?

    Posted 11 months ago on Sony Reveals Mid-Range Xperia 10 II With Triple-Camera Setup – 1 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:This has more to do with Intel's perceived falling star. They are years behind in pr

    Posted 11 months ago on Apple Reportedly Planning ARM-powered Mac for 2021 – 32 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Macbook Air, sure. Nobody will take an ARM Mac Pro seriouslyAt first, sure. ARM will h

    Posted 11 months ago on Apple Reportedly Planning ARM-powered Mac for 2021 – 32 Comments

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    Apple has the advantage that they already did this in reverse, going from PowerPC to Intel, they re-defined ex

    Posted 11 months ago on Apple Reportedly Planning ARM-powered Mac for 2021 – 32 Comments

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    DOS based sign printing software, because the sign printer (prints to metal or perspex shields). The old print

    Posted 11 months ago on Old Programs You Still Use? – 53 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:Not a lot, considering the cases of pre-installed malware over the last couple of years.

    Posted 11 months ago on Google Warns Huawei Users Not to Sideload Its Apps – 9 Comments

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    In reply to Minke:I have a Mate 10 Pro and its AI seems to go overboard in portrait processing, for example, m

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs other brands. – 5 Comments

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    Huawei seem to have the crown at the moment, with the P30 Pro and that is a high bar to reach, but with the pr

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs other brands. – 5 Comments

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    I've had the Explorer icon for ages (UWP Explorer icon), Terminal is already there with Terminal Preview.

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Previews New Windows 10 Icon Design – 60 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/office-365-essentials-and-joining-

    Posted 11 months ago on Confused about login – 7 Comments

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    In reply to ivarh:We have since received a couple of stores, but they are at least 3-4 hours drive away.

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Admits to Surface Laptop 3 Display Cracking – 34 Comments

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    I've never used Essentials, we have MS365 E5. But I'm guessing it needs the username to be a registe

    Posted 11 months ago on Confused about login – 7 Comments

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    In reply to mattbg:Why, if I may ask? I have it on Android and like having it all in one place. I just put the

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft’s Unified Office App Comes to iPhones – 19 Comments

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    In reply to t-b.c:It is an all-in-one. I think the download was just under 100MB. Android reports the app itse

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Reveals Upcoming Editing Features for Office on the Mobile Devices – 4 Comments

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    My workflow is similar to yours, just I don't use the desktop, the files are stored directly in their des

    Posted 11 months ago on The New Office Experience: Embracing the New Workflow (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    In reply to JustMe:Or a VoLTE driver/app or a SIP app and a cloud SIP provider.

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows Phone Lives Again? – 21 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:Yes, that is also the standard repair procedure for Macs and iPhones as well, excep

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Admits to Surface Laptop 3 Display Cracking – 34 Comments

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    In reply to anderb:The way they are dealing seems reasonable, by the information provided here. They are asses

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Admits to Surface Laptop 3 Display Cracking – 34 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:The battery on my Surface Pro 3 failed after 18 months, Microsoft sent a replacement the

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Admits to Surface Laptop 3 Display Cracking – 34 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:If your wife is at home, why do you need to worry yourself with the doorbell? :-S

    Posted 11 months ago on Amazon’s Ring Now Requires Two-Factor Authentication – 9 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Changing your phone number shouldn't be a problem. You should never use your phone

    Posted 11 months ago on Amazon’s Ring Now Requires Two-Factor Authentication – 9 Comments

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    In reply to melinau:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayana

    Posted 11 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, February 17 – 20 Comments

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    In reply to slbailey1:Not that I could see.

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft’s Unified Office App for Android Now Available to Everyone – 21 Comments

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    Germany has very strong feelings about the war, the last couple of generations less so, but up until around th

    Posted 11 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for Monday, February 17 – 20 Comments

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    In reply to dgg4:If you go back through the archives, you will see that Paul does use Outlook.com, but he has

    Posted 11 months ago on What Tracking Protection Can’t Protect Against (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to jdawgnoonan:Amazon is the worst, buy through them and they still bombard you with ads for what you

    Posted 11 months ago on What Tracking Protection Can’t Protect Against (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:No idea, if you can read the instructions, it is fairly easy to install. But you need to

    Posted 11 months ago on What Tracking Protection Can’t Protect Against (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    I just use GMail as a spam box. I use it solely to register on sites I don't care about or whose correspo

    Posted 11 months ago on What Tracking Protection Can’t Protect Against (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    Is the dictionary supposed to be commented out in the code example you give?

    Posted 11 months ago on What I Learned Porting .NETpad to … UWP? (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to madthinus:Exactly, this is just a marketing ploy by Samsung to get people to replace perfectly goo

    Posted 11 months ago on RCS Messaging Comes to Windows 10’s Your Phone App – 19 Comments

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    In reply to jaredthegeek:I've never used the desktop to store files. It used to slow machines down (Windo

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:I think he means more, when he creates new files or downloads research material, it lands on

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:The whole point of a container is that it doesn't need to duplicate the Kernel and d

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:All it takes is holding down a [Window] key and pressing D.And then you have to restore al

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to PhilipVasta:I'm not sure it is still an issue today. But the more there was on the desktop (n

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to Lewk:Interesting, do you know what they are using as a launcher? The standard Microsoft launcher a

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to thalter:The server versions can already pretty much do this, and have for a while. You can use Doc

    Posted 11 months ago on Ask Paul: February 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    Xioami announced their Mi 10 Pro yesterday. Snapdragon 865, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, 108MB rear camera, plus u

    Posted 11 months ago on Ask Paul: February 14 (Premium) – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Stooks:At the end of the day, Russia bad, China bad, USA bad, nearly every country on the Earth ba

    Posted 11 months ago on U.S. Charges Huawei with Racketeering, Trade Secret Theft – 34 Comments

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    In reply to delicieuxz:That would be a Swiss company (Crypto AG), which they co-owned with the BND, through a

    Posted 11 months ago on U.S. Charges Huawei with Racketeering, Trade Secret Theft – 34 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:That would be career suicide.On the other hand, not doing what the Orange One says, or c

    Posted 11 months ago on U.S. Charges Huawei with Racketeering, Trade Secret Theft – 34 Comments

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    The US Government is like the child that cried WOLF!They have made dozens of allegations over the last couple

    Posted 11 months ago on U.S. Charges Huawei with Racketeering, Trade Secret Theft – 34 Comments

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    It sounds like there are two absolutely huge changes in 2004. Moving it over to Core OS and moving WSL to a "r

    Posted 11 months ago on What’s New in Windows 10 Version 2004 – 33 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:Git! I wanted a 2500 or, later a 4000, but I could only afford the A500 and the A12

    Posted 11 months ago on What mobile phone should die next? – 30 Comments

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    An iPhone? :-PI hear Pixels are good... And the new Galaxy S20 as well.I used to be like that. Bought a VIC=20

    Posted 11 months ago on What mobile phone should die next? – 30 Comments

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    I'm still leaving the group policy forbidding this in place...

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Backtracks on Plans to Force Bing on Office 365 Pro Plus Users – 9 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:I think effective size is around 12MP after processing.

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Introduces Galaxy S20 Line – 4 Comments

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    In reply to christian.hvid:It will have to wait until Azure can be hosted locally. ;-) Regulatory and company

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10X is the Next NT (Premium) – 107 Comments

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    This what you and I have been saying for nearly a decade that Microsoft needs to do.I think this will be the l

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10X is the Next NT (Premium) – 107 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Oops, my bad... I didn't notice that he was using the basic version, with no local of

    Posted 11 months ago on Can I combine and use Office 365 Home with Office 365 Business Essentials? – 7 Comments

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    Samsung's website says they come with the Exynos 990 processor, an 8 core processor with 2 M5 cores with

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Introduces Galaxy S20 Line – 4 Comments

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    In reply to UbelhorJ:I get this all the time with Amazon Prime. We started watching Profiling Paris, the first

    Posted 11 months ago on Subscription Fatigue (Premium) – 62 Comments

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    You can't "combine" them, per se, but you can run them in parallel on the same PC - one note, you should

    Posted 11 months ago on Can I combine and use Office 365 Home with Office 365 Business Essentials? – 7 Comments

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    We have to pay 17,50€ a month for radio, TV and Internet. This is the federal Rundfunkbeitrag, you need to

    Posted 11 months ago on Subscription Fatigue (Premium) – 62 Comments

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    Better still. Huh.Of course, this is a report about consumer trends for big business. Of course spending more

    Posted 11 months ago on Subscription Fatigue (Premium) – 62 Comments

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    In reply to mdreinders:I think it has to be split focus, because Office 365/Microsoft 365 is untenable in many

    Posted 11 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for today, February 10 – 42 Comments

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    I think one of the biggest issues at the moment is "everything going cloud", whilst the regulations or busines

    Posted 11 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for today, February 10 – 42 Comments

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    I haven't tried it myself, but I'm guessing that it is a quick build to test something and throw awa

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows 10 development environment VM – 2 Comments

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    IBM's 350,000 customers? I thought it was employees?

    Posted 11 months ago on IBM Adopts Slack for All 350,000 of Its Employees – 23 Comments

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    In reply to j5:I gave you an up vote, but I think you meant "I think it doesn't make sense to spend $50 a

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows Defender good enough ? – 24 Comments

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    In reply to GarethB:Burying it in a block of cement works wonders for security as well. ;-)

    Posted 11 months ago on Windows Defender good enough ? – 24 Comments

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    I use a cloud backup (Carbonite on my PCs, Backblaze on my daughter's MacBook Pro - Carbonite stopped wor

    Posted 11 months ago on Backups – 5 Comments

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    In reply to mclark2112:Yes. Multiple screens can be good in some situations. I do a lot of work where I have t

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Surface Duo Spotted Out in the World (Now with Video) – 58 Comments

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    In reply to brduffy:I have the Falke atlas in my car door pocket.

    Posted 11 months ago on Google Maps Turns 15, Gets New Features, Icon – 7 Comments

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    In reply to Brett_B:Robocopy might copy the files, but it doesn't get around the problem. If the files ge

    Posted 11 months ago on Path or filename too long – 17 Comments

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    Hmm, YouTube is guilty of all 3 of them... I often get pre-rolls that can't be skipped, then mid-roll ads

    Posted 11 months ago on Chrome’s Ad Blocker is About to Get Useful – 22 Comments

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    In reply to darkgrayknight:Just get rid of the settings dialog. It doesn't work anyway.Most of our PCs an

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Reorg Puts Panos Panay in Charge of Windows – 19 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:In this case, it is the user using very logn file names over an SMB share.

    Posted 11 months ago on Path or filename too long – 17 Comments

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    Thanks to Ian for the suggestion. The post is more a cry of why the heck Microsoft haven't sorted this ou

    Posted 11 months ago on Path or filename too long – 17 Comments

    Forum Post

    Path or filename too long

    Here is one that would fall nicely into Ask Paul on Friday, but I'm currently frustrated!!!

    I'm currently moving user profiles from one partition to another (department changes) and Windows keeps complaining that it can't read the files, because the path name or filename is too long!

    Why the fragging* heck did Windows Server allow the files to be written in the first place, if the names are too fragging long?

    So, now, I'm going through nearly 1,900 folders and 11,000 files looking for 350 files whose names were too long to be read, then manually renaming them to something shorter and copying them across!

    The source and destination path depths are the same, so it isn't that they are going to a deeper level that messes them up on the destination, they are "illegal" names where they currently are!

    Windows can fire truck** right off!

    * fragging: from Babylon 5, to allow characters to express themselves on a show to be aired at prime time.

    ** fire truck: from Jodi Taylor's "Doing Time", to allow the book to be aimed at younger readers, whilst also providing hilarity for older readers.

    Posted 11 months ago on Path or filename too long – 17 Comments

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    In reply to cayo:And Sonys. My daughters 2019 Bravia has already been dropped from support, Amazon Prime stopp

    Posted 11 months ago on Apple TV+ Comes to 2019 LG TVs – 5 Comments

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    The high end flagship phones are there for prestige, but the real sales are in the low-to-mid-range arena.Now

    Posted 11 months ago on Is the Google Pixel Failing? (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Markld:The same for me, with my 2 year old Huawei Mate 10 Pro. That is equivalent in performance t

    Posted 11 months ago on Is the Google Pixel Failing? (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Chris Blair:Thunderbolt, multiple big displays, full speed Ethernet - most of these devices nowada

    Posted 11 months ago on Is the Google Pixel Failing? (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to lwetzel:Yes, I've never stopped learning either.The biggest change was moving to Germany and

    Posted 11 months ago on From the Editor’s Desk for today, February 3 – 20 Comments

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    As long as the display is not the "hinge", i.e. as long as the display needs to be mounted on a hard backboned

    Posted 11 months ago on Should We Be Worried About Surface? (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    In reply to reefer:A lot of corporate software is developed in Java, unfortunately.Our ERP, DMS and a few othe

    Posted 11 months ago on Developing for Windows – 13 Comments

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    In reply to JustMe:Over here, you need a professional driving license in order to carry people for hire and yo

    Posted 11 months ago on Fake Tech – 32 Comments

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    Most Windows development was Win32 and/or Jave, not many people moved to UWP and it never took off. I'm g

    Posted 11 months ago on Developing for Windows – 13 Comments

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    Not noted anything like this, either on my desktop (Ryzen 1700) or my ThinkPad (Intel Core i5-8xxxU). Both go

    Posted 11 months ago on KB4532695 (W10 Version 1909) waking-up from sleep problem – 3 Comments

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    The first thing I do is turn that pane off, when I set up a new phone.

    Posted 11 months ago on Are all launcher feeds crap? – 6 Comments

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    In reply to harmjr:I like the Huaweis, they are delivered with a clear silicon case. That is all I have used o

    Posted 11 months ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, January 31* – 14 Comments

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    Apple sells more Macs then iPads in post pc era?Probably not. Look at the average selling price for both lines

    Posted 11 months ago on Surface Revenue – 6 Comments

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    In reply to jbinaz:Supply chain, for a start. A lot of stuff comes out of China, plus flights and travel are b

    Posted 11 months ago on Samsung Neck-and-Neck with iPhone in Q4 – 11 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Yes, my domain has been hosted with Host Europe for nearly 2 decades, no way I'

    Posted 11 months ago on Some info on "Outlook Premium" custom domain being replaced by Office365 home this Feb. – 4 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:That is always the argument, free software is free as in ideas, not free as in beer.

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to illuminated:I reported a bug in the first Microsoft Visual J++ / JRE release in 1996. The bug was

    Posted 11 months ago on Forbes – Biased? – 15 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:The .aaaX formats have the advantage that they can't contain macros. That means that

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Our ERP software (the software 90% of our users use day-in-day-out) is only available (in

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to RonH:ZDF, RTL, Der Spiegel, The Register.

    Posted 11 months ago on EU Recommends Limiting Huawei, Not Banning It – 7 Comments

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    I think the 2 biggest problems with moving from VB6 to the .Net world were that "nothing worked" - it was simi

    Posted 11 months ago on What I’ve Learned About C#, Visual Basic, Windows Forms, XAML, and WPF (Premium) – 31 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:It depends, my previous employer was a security company. They rolled their own Gentoo ser

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Not quite. They had reviewed the code, there was no backdoor/national security angle, bu

    Posted 11 months ago on EU Recommends Limiting Huawei, Not Banning It – 7 Comments

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    In reply to sgbassett:Yes. And here, you can't generally record, and if you do, you have to state for wha

    Posted 11 months ago on Android’s Phone App to Get Built-in Call Recording and Transcription – 9 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Office 365, EDraw, AutoCAD, WinCC, Octopus or Swyx VOIP telephony software, DIBAC ERP³ an

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:Microsoft Windows on Linux. It lets them stop developing and maintaining a legacy k

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to Ezzy:It is free, as in freedom, not as in beer, that most people like about it.Plus its toolset. I

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    In reply to Ezzy:To be fair, Android is only open source to manufacturers. It's not like the end users ca

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    Many if not most Linux users on the desktop, for example, would likely drop that platform in a heartbeat to ga

    Posted 11 months ago on Thinking About an Open-Source Windows (Premium) – 54 Comments

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    @Brad, don't worry, we bought a dishwasher from Amazon last year, it only took them 6 months to realise t

    Posted 11 months ago on First Ring Daily 758: Digital Assistants Aren’t so Great – 6 Comments

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    In reply to t-b.c: Jeff Bezos never headed the CIANo, but Amazon is based in America and is therefore bound by

    Posted 11 months ago on Britain Will Limit, Not Ban Huawei from Its 5G Network – 13 Comments

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    In reply to t-b.c:And this is the exact same fear that we have about US kit, apart from the fact that it has b

    Posted 11 months ago on Britain Will Limit, Not Ban Huawei from Its 5G Network – 13 Comments

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    And that is the difference. The NCSC conclude the kit is cheap and buggy, but okay for non-critical parts of n

    Posted 11 months ago on Britain Will Limit, Not Ban Huawei from Its 5G Network – 13 Comments

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    Most of these changes, however, have so far been under the hood.And although these changes are quite important

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Is Bringing One of Edge’s Tab Management Features to Chrome – 12 Comments

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    These days, Google is an advertising company first and foremost, that is where their revenue comes from, "sear

    Posted 11 months ago on Google to Rethink New Search Redesign Following Backlash – 16 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:Yes, but think of the poor Google shareholders, what will they do if the advertising rev

    Posted 11 months ago on Google to Rethink New Search Redesign Following Backlash – 16 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:They really do need it for performance, especially with 3D. You have to switch contexts al

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 24 (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:When you buy the ticket, it says you should turn up 2 hours before the flight to ensure yo

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:1- 1.5 hours to the airport, 2 hours wait, 1 hour flight to Stanstead, train to London and

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    Windows NT was originally designed to be a core operating system with an interchangeable graphic layer, but th

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 24 (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    In reply to jchampeau:And the very busy and hassled Microsoft Licensing Guru sitting in the corner, with a lon

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:But it is still very expensive for a new battery, which probably costs $10. If there w

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    I guess the point is moot for me. The nearest Microsoft Store is about a 6 hours, by air, away. Apple have ope

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    That is the problem though, they can't just swap out the battery. That would be a lot cheaper and a lot l

    Posted 1 year ago on At the Apple store yesterday – 43 Comments

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    In reply to Mehedi:You != the whole worldExactly, which is why he was asking if it was popular. I've ofte

    Posted 1 year ago on Samsung Is Making Its Own AirDrop Alternative for Galaxy Devices – 19 Comments

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    In reply to lvthunder:But then Samsung couldn't collect all that information on you, from the files it is

    Posted 1 year ago on Samsung Is Making Its Own AirDrop Alternative for Galaxy Devices – 19 Comments

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    I had already seen this coming, it is SoP for the Internet of Trash. When intelligent lightbulbs came out, it

    Posted 1 year ago on Sonos and the smart home – 2 Comments

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    The Finanzamt in Lower Saxony, Germany has been using UNIX and then Linux since the 1980s. There is uproar tha

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 754: The Age of a Stapler – 6 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:I agree. It is a typical example of the waste in technology. We tack "intelligence" onto

    Posted 1 year ago on First Ring Daily 754: The Age of a Stapler – 6 Comments

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    Exactly, I've never understood why Uber and Co. are so "sexy" and "tech", it is just a glorified taxi boo

    Posted 1 year ago on Fake Tech – 32 Comments

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    Over here (Germany), all business related communications have to be held for 10 years. That is a legal require

    Posted 1 year ago on Recommended Retention Period for Teams, Hangouts Chat, Slack? – 21 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:You can disable the Telemetry by disabling the DiagTrack service. That stops all telemetr

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft’s OS Nightmare. – 55 Comments

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    In reply to evox81:The 300 plus Windows 10 PC I look after also suggest that it isn't unusable... I'

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft’s OS Nightmare. – 55 Comments

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    In reply to dc696969:Tell me about it! I still have a few Windows 7 and Server 2008 machines hanging around wa

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: The Dream is Over (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    I had a real throwback today. I had to get one of our legacy Windows XP PCs back up and running - the user had

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: The Dream is Over (Premium) – 17 Comments

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    In reply to mrlinux11:Yeah, strange. The B3s also comes with 64GB eMMC storage in the base Celeron model, alth

    Posted 1 year ago on Acer Announces New Chromebook and Windows Notebooks for Education – 6 Comments

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    In reply to DataMeister:https://www.thurrott.com/music-videos/227961/rethinking-whole-house-audio

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio: IKEA Symfonisk Wi-Fi Bookshelf Speakers – 35 Comments

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    In reply to ken_loewen:You still don't need the location to do that. You can do it over the ISP external

    Posted 1 year ago on Little Tech Takes on Big Tech in Boulder – 10 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:I'll compromise and say 16:10! :-D

    Posted 1 year ago on Full Specifications Leak for the Samsung Galaxy S20 – 19 Comments

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    Why? Why, if the user wants/needs a smaller display do they have to suffer with an "inferior" camera (at least

    Posted 1 year ago on Full Specifications Leak for the Samsung Galaxy S20 – 19 Comments

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    In reply to North of 49th:You are correct, but in Big Tech, especially the likes of Amazon or Google, they hav

    Posted 1 year ago on Little Tech Takes on Big Tech in Boulder – 10 Comments

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    In reply to redstar92:That is funny, I was listening to the first couple of chapters of Shoshana Zubhoff'

    Posted 1 year ago on Little Tech Takes on Big Tech in Boulder – 10 Comments

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    Why does Spotify need location data? It is playing music, there is no need to know where I am.The other claims

    Posted 1 year ago on Little Tech Takes on Big Tech in Boulder – 10 Comments

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    It is the snow season, here in Germany, but we had 15°C this week (59°F)! It is supposed to be a bit cooler

    Posted 1 year ago on OT: The Big One Came – 7 Comments

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    I like the flat theme of Windows 10, it does what it should do. It doesn't get in the way, it doesn'

    Posted 1 year ago on The Biggest Problem with Windows 10 – 10 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Because Windows 2000 was "true" Windows, 95/98/ME were "just" a shell on DOS. They weren'

    Posted 1 year ago on Another 10 things I’d like to see in Windows 10 – 28 Comments

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    Don't you mean Facebook? WhatsApp is a Facebook property.

    Posted 1 year ago on Ads for WhatsApp? – 5 Comments

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    Windows updates - I think they only stopped Windows 2000 updates a couple of years ago and Windows VIsta and,

    Posted 1 year ago on Ask Paul: January 17 (Premium) – 15 Comments

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    I use it because I like it, well, it is the least bad version of Windows.Only the telemetry gets on my nerves,

    Posted 1 year ago on Liking Windows 10 – 16 Comments

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    In reply to robinalexandria:Have you looked in the installed updates* section to see if the 2020-01 updates ha

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 1 17? – 20 Comments

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    In reply to Bart:I would think when they get feature parity (especially the syncing issues). For enterprise cu

    Posted 1 year ago on Questions for 1 17? – 20 Comments

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    It is a shame, but the new offerings don't seem to offer enough, compared to existing products and just a

    Posted 1 year ago on Mozilla Lays Off 70 – 9 Comments

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    In reply to gregsedwards:You could also disable Bluetooth on your phone, whilst you are in the conference, the

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio: Bluetooth Adapter – 47 Comments

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    Maybe that is a difference between you and me. We turn the speakers off (and therefore their Bluetooth receive

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio: Bluetooth Adapter – 47 Comments

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    In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:Unless a zero day appears, in essence, it is "safe" for another month, but the offi

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: It’s the End of the World as We Know It (Premium) – 14 Comments

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    In reply to Dbarjim:Initial reports were that it would be coming via update today. But listening to Windows We

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Launches the New Edge – 54 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:16 & 17 - I wasn't saying I am every user in the world. I just said that I can'

    Posted 1 year ago on Another 10 things I’d like to see in Windows 10 – 28 Comments

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    In reply to jimchamplin:The other thing is, I believe Windows 10 recognises an SSD and it will adjust its pagi

    Posted 1 year ago on Another 10 things I’d like to see in Windows 10 – 28 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:The updates come late at night / early in the morning, so they are "appearing" when I firs

    Posted 1 year ago on Things I’d love to see in Windows 10 – 39 Comments

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    In reply to train_wreck:Domain joined PCs get the warning, unless as @dftf says, you have installed the extend

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Delivers the Final Windows 7 Updates – 28 Comments

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    In reply to BeckoningEagle:Yeah, our CIO in America bought a new laptop at the end of last year and it came wi

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:I read the article. Unfortunately we can't move to 64-bit Office, the main add-ons we us

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    In reply to red.radar:We still have some XP machines to run plant and lab equipment. As long as they are isola

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Delivers the Final Windows 7 Updates – 28 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:If you go into add/remove software, you can remove IE11 from a Windows 10 PC.

    Posted 1 year ago on Another 10 things I’d like to see in Windows 10 – 28 Comments

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    12 - takes less than half a second for both on my laptop, my desktop is even quicker.13 - Microsoft can only o

    Posted 1 year ago on Another 10 things I’d like to see in Windows 10 – 28 Comments

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    In reply to openmisere:Exactly, my 2016 laptop is still going strong and I'm not even thinking about repl

    Posted 1 year ago on The New Normal (Premium) – 39 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Thanks, I'll google that later. Interesting change of policy.

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    My first 2 Windows 7 PCs were a 2004 Acer Pentium M laptop and my 2003 AMD Athlon 64 desktop.The first one I b

    Posted 1 year ago on First Windows 7 Laptop (or desktop) – 2 Comments

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    In reply to Vladimir:Yes, we had to replace our dishwasher last year. We looked around. Nearly all the high en

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium) – 90 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Microsoft now recommend system admins install 64-bit Office as-default now (as of Office 2019

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I think my comment above, about buying dumb devices, is especially pertinent to you.

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium) – 90 Comments

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    I generally agree with you, and in this matter I most certainly do.ChromeOS is one are, where I disagree with

    Posted 1 year ago on From the Editor’s Desk – Monday, January 13 – 26 Comments

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    I didn't like the transparency rubbish, but apart from that, it didn't get in the way much. It felt

    Posted 1 year ago on First Impressions of Windows 7 in 2009 – 3 Comments

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    In reply to marshalltm:Except Paul stated part of the move was to avoid the giants, Apple, Amazon and Google..

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium) – 90 Comments

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    I think you are moving in the right direction. Good quality speakers are something that will last you years, d

    Posted 1 year ago on Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium) – 90 Comments

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    In reply to IanYates82:Or IoT devices or poorly configured home router or visiting devices from friends or fam

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Edge to Follow Chrome Support Schedule on Windows 7 – 8 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango:The German data protection organizations advise companies not to use windows 10 home or p

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:Microsoft added telemetry to Windows 7 in April 2015, 3 months before Windows 10 was

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:It wasn't just for blue screens. Having the drivers in the Kernel like they we

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango:Telemetry - put simply, it makes zero difference to me. I have it set to basic and then I

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In reply to djross95:Each year, I think more and more about going back to Linux as my main desktop, because of

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    It is interesting, I find the cleaner look of Windows 10 better than the "play" Aeroglass look. That said, Vi

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In box-telemetry.That actually started with Windows 7, it has just gotten more extreme over the years.

    Posted 1 year ago on Living with Windows 7: And Now, The End is Near (Premium) – 73 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:Not the same thing, if you are using it for testing. It needs to be a consistent environme

    Posted 1 year ago on Things I’d love to see in Windows 10 – 39 Comments

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    In reply to codymesh:What we need is for MS to sort out what they are doing now. We don't need new featur

    Posted 1 year ago on Things I’d love to see in Windows 10 – 39 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:Except that it isn't all going web based. We are currently upgrading our ERP softw

    Posted 1 year ago on Things I’d love to see in Windows 10 – 39 Comments

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    This is an app and shouldn't be part of the OS. That is part of what is wrong with Windows 10, they are c

    Posted 1 year ago on Things I’d love to see in Windows 10 – 39 Comments

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    In reply to crp0908:I know the IT manager of a local factory, they have an old XP-based CNC machine, it should

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    In reply to branpurn:This has nothing to do with China. The other employees for Apple, Amazon and Google were

    Posted 1 year ago on Report Claims Major Skype Privacy Lapse – 10 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:Because it is an administrative pain. They are doing it for big customers who either a) have

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:They will work on Windows Pro or Windows Enterprise, depending on which key you get.

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:The last time I got anything from Microsoft, it was an MSN T-shirt and a copy of Bi

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to crp0908:Yep.

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:heise ran a series of articles into it towards the end of last year. Even getting i

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to Kevin_Costa:Yes, my WSUS-Offline updater currently runs to nearly 4GB of patches for Windows 7, th

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SherlockHolmes:Same here.Out of interest, have you seen the cheap Windows and Office licenses bein

    Posted 1 year ago on Windows 7 updates after 14 Jan 2020 – 25 Comments

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    In reply to crp0908:You are lucky that you can run it on Windows 10! We have a lot of lab kit that only runs o

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    With all the talk on dual screens, did you ever look at the Acer Iconia Windows 7 dual screen laptop, back in

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, January 10 – 10 Comments

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    You can create any folders you want on OneDrive. Those are just the standard folders.You could simply have Rob

    Posted 1 year ago on Backing up to OneDrive – 6 Comments

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    In reply to TriplePlayed:Especially as this is Google's punishment for its anti-trust violations.

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to feek:The latter and yes, ergh! When a customer chooses one of the alternatives, they pay Google. T

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Daekar:That is what it sounds like. But Bing has a record of being poor in non-English search and

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to sonichedgehog360:Because it isn't a major player. They have less than 15% market share, so th

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Chris_Kez:Exactly, this is supposed to be a punishment, not a money-grab for Google.

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Patrick3D:Hardly anyone knows about Bing, let alone that they have a rewards program. Only those "

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Pungkuss:No, it isn't fair. This is supposed to be punishment for Google, not another way to

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Untitled1:And Google shouldn't be making money out of its punishment.

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Sprtfan:That they have to pay Google, when it is supposed to be Google's punishment seems ver

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    I think it is disgusting that Google decided to let its competitors bid for position and that the EU didn'

    Posted 1 year ago on Bing Loses Big in Android Search Provider Auction – 48 Comments

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    From my post on twit.community:Paul was talking about a warning in Office 365 about the end of support for Win

    Posted 1 year ago on I Hate Products, She Hates People – Windows Weekly 654 – 8 Comments

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    In reply to drewidian:I totally agree. I have a similar usage scenario.As to two screen, did you ever look at

    Posted 1 year ago on I Hate Products, She Hates People – Windows Weekly 654 – 8 Comments

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    There are still a lot of 32-bit only machines out there. A lot of Windows tablets are 32-bit only, as are a lo

    Posted 1 year ago on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 – 38 Comments

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    In reply to xperiencewindows:It is nearly 10 times the size... That is way bigger in my book.

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    In reply to txag:How old are you laptops? I had my 2010 Sony Vaios running Windows 10 until a couple of weeks

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    In reply to djross95:I'm with lwetzel. I've been using Macs since 1987. Compared to early Windows th

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    In reply to lwetzel:TWiT was interesting in Sunday. I can't remember who said it, but they were talking a

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    In reply to MikeGalos:Windows 2000? XP was a disaster and it wasn't until SP 2 rolled around that it was

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    I agree with most of what you say, but PCs are a mature market now, so sales are pretty pointless, as a metric

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    In reply to tboggs13:I posted on the Premium comments, Xiaomi said it was a change in their caching software f

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    try the new Microsoft Edge in Windows 10.I think you might mean in Windows 7?

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    Posted 1 year ago on Samsung Sold Over 6.7 Million 5G Smartphones in 2019 – 5 Comments

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    In reply to Bob_Shutts:According to Xiaomi it was a glitch in a planned server update.

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Disables Xiaomi Access to Assistant, Home, and Nest – 8 Comments

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    Xiaomi's press statement said they made some changes to the cache system on their server for people with

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    In reply to hrlngrv:We have that problem on Windows 10 and Server 2019 as well. Nothing to do with getting you

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    In reply to dave0:Exactly, an operating system's sole job is to allow you to easily run the applications

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    It is funny, I never really liked Windows 7 Aero Glass look. It was a huge leap forward, compared to the Fish

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    When setting up a new machine, I always use WSUS-Offline, a free tool that downloads all the updates in advanc

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    Just a minor quibble, "If I did it" should fall under fiction. It is providing a fictional dialogue based of r

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    In reply to xamzara:You make my point for me. Just because Huawei isn't charging a fortune for its produc

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    In reply to xamzara:I always find it interesting that people judge how well a company does not on its products

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    In reply to lvthunder:The problem is, the USA has shaken confidence in US products, especially tech. A lot of

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    In reply to brduffy:Given that it is the number 2 smartphone producer and is a leader in 5G technology, it cer

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    In reply to lvthunder:You mean like how the US established itself through IP theft from Europe in the 18th and

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    In reply to Waethorn:The Pi4 has moved on from USB2 for the network and IO, so, yes, it has eased some of the

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    In reply to infloop:We had some attempts to log into our corporate VPN in November and early December. One of

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    Hi Paul, thanks for the tip with the command line. No dice, the Administrator (local, domain and a totally new

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    In reply to Waethorn:ARM hardware was built for the Acorn Archimedes (ARM = Acorn RISC Machine) and it took ov

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    In reply to christian.hvid:ARM stood for Acorn RISC Machine, when it was first released in the late 80s, and t

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    In reply to ErichK:https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11It is a re-creation of the DEC PDP-11

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    In reply to christian.hvid:I had the later version, the Acorn Electron, it was a cut-down version of the BBC M

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    The PETs in the UK were pretty much all with the built in display and cost a lot more than $425! But they were

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    Windows 10 Settings is failing on some of our PCs (10%). We are logged in as either local administrator or dom

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Ask Paul for this Friday, December 27 – 12 Comments

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    I have a pair of 3B+ and my colleague, here in the office, has a 2GB Pi 4 (the 4GB wasn't available at la

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    According to the administration page for Office 365 Home, you can install it on up to 5 PCs (Windows or Mac) a

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    Ich auch, ich auch!!Merry Christmas Paul and Family and all at BWW

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    In reply to red.radar:And for a phone in the $200 - $500 range, that is perfectly acceptable. We are talking a

    Posted 1 year ago on Motorola Delays Its Much-Awaited Razr Reboot – 11 Comments

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    In reply to hrlngrv:DCL plays no noticeable role in Windows. All the VMS influence is behind the scenes.Yes, u

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    In reply to TEAMSWITCHER:It wasn't revolutionary, it was copied from the Xerox PARC WIMP system, Altos, I

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    In reply to TheJoeFin:Where do you think the advice of your elders comes from? They have been through the same

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:Funny, it was big news around IFA this year, in an interview the Consumer Protection

    Posted 1 year ago on Amazon, Apple, and Google Partner to Standardize the Smart Home – 36 Comments

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    Yeah, UNIX has been behind a lot of advancements. It isn't the best OS ever, at least from a user view po

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    In reply to Dashrender:The German government want to change the consumer laws, here, to ensure that manufactur

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    In reply to simont:And support them... One of the biggest problems with "smart" home devices is that they are

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    In reply to zbecka:I very much doubt it. So far, Adobe has only brought Fresco to ARM, as far as I know.

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    But probably rolled out to a lot of developers and testers, because they will force the download, and they are

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Fixes Chrome for Android Bug That Led to Data Loss – 1 Comments

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    They also removed the "www" from the world wide web - if you go to "www.thurrott.com", Chrome will now display

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    In reply to ommoran:Signal is what you want, end-to-end encrypted, protects privacy and is cross platform.

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    We have the same problem with Teams at work.We have Office 365, but Teams is disabled globally and for each us

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    My 2016 X360 is still going strong and still feels very responsive.The only problem I've had with it is

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