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I bought my wife a Lenovo i7/512/16 for mail/browsing. Should have lasted for years. But the plastic craptasti
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My Plan B was to start trying some "compatible" non-HP drivers. I'm showing my age as I fondly recall laser pr
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Please tell me I am wrong, but it seems that support for the HP Laserjet 4 ended recently. A lovely discovery
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Google is fully aware of the behaviors that will elicit fines in the EU. The cost of "business as usual" in th
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It's perfectly clear EVERYTHING in D.C. is politically-motivated.That surprises people?
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This military Hololens variant will jack into the nearest Abrams tank and allow Bitcoin mining during lulls in
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In reply to hrlngrv:So you’re saying there’s a chance?
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Not having any significant issues with WU, I'd instead ask how something as infinitely complex as Windows
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It is worth $9.95 to see "on-premises" used properly and consistently. Maybe even $14.99.
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In reply to nbplopes:Bill 2020--News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining CodeGoogle it while you
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In reply to mrlinux11:Chrome is a Chromium Project-based browser, as is the new Edge.
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Very simple--wipe it or replace it. I'd do the latter.And never give remote access to strangers. Never.
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Well keep posting and saving...Porsche has several models that can scratch your electric itch. And as one of y
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I frequently experience delayed SMS message delivery on WP and iPhone, both on AT&T.That's beca
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This on the day I got rid of all the obsolete autocomplete addresses offered when you type into the TO field o
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How many trillions vs. our business-friendly weak-kneed politicians? Can I place my bet through Amazon?
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Sounds great. And since the press has ceded the future to low-power ARM, Intel might as well go the other dire
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HDMI into the TV works every time. Put the notebook/camera next to the popcorn bowl unless you really don'
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In reply to AnOldAmigaUser:I hear "AI" and chuckle...the AI in the Microsoft mail client speller doesn't
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In reply to msorrentino:Life isn't long enough to list all the ways "the market" is not free. Just anothe
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In reply to solomonrex:OK, you want literal: this impacts the troops. And they will not function optimally unt
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Americans will tolerate most any misbehavior when it includes free shipping. Imagine--sending a box 40 miles f
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So all of these folks are filling boxes and swapping offices. Meaning at least 6 months of confusion and lower
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Let's see--a pair of Nokia 920's and a hinge. Hinges are cheap, and 920's even more so. And les
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You know--Google: The Hardware Company. And at the point that users can “review, move, or delete their data"
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In reply to jgraebner:I think he meant trillions...
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Bott normally is on target. But my Invoke just recited his Wikipedia creds (damn quickly I must add). So not s
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So Google and Amazon have simply updated the inside-information advantage of the church confessional. Will the
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So let's search for the title of Paul's article, above, on the day of publication, today. Let'
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Don't worry, they got the "special" chips so we can spy on them spying on us spying on them.That's w
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Yet another example where being clueless has undesired consequences.Most recent instance was 11/8/16. It was a
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Am I being unreasonable to expect there to be ZERO issues with this release on Surface hardware, given the ext
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In reply to yoshi:Don't worry...Skype will be fine. To give it added visibility I donated a Lumia 1520, 9
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Right now 5G is like 8K television--nice idea but not really needed. Short-wave transmissions have serious, co
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In reply to kd5hiy:Mid-eyeroll is when I drop their phone into the garbage disposal. Works instantly, every ti
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In reply to Winner:As Paul laments elsewhere, these monthlies are a death of a thousand cuts if you don't
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Have used UWP and W32 Skype regularly for multi-person video conferencing without an
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Anything can be compromised with unrestrained direct physical access. Yet another reason to pull motherboard m
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In reply to Stooks:Login NOT required...this issue arises WAY before that point in the boot process.
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That is the AI-informed estimate of how long a standard employee can hold their breath. Just a beta...
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Most privacy benefits are illusory. Your ISP will still have total access to your browsing activity through rD
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In reply to jimchamplin:I can provide all sorts of Windows Phones to those still interested. You'll have
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This on the heels of yet another round of Play Store bogus app culling. One would expect the purity tests woul
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Must be waiting for bezel-less? And surely anything new rolls up for transport. Just because.
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Anyone wonder why Google is looking for privacy lapses in Apple's products? And if they revealed all of t
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Ah...reading the comments (30-deep at the moment) and one thought comes to mind: Microsoft Consumer Product--g
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Many automotive versions of the Bluetooth "package" (F*rd, [email protected]) are demonstrably wonky, likey due to being
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In reply to Michael_Jones:This is why she hates you, Dad ;0
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Biggest complaint with Windows Store: there is no logic to the presentation of apps. Search for "GPS" and you
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In reply to bluvg:Agreed. All a numbers game. In the U.S., toilet paper is classified as Double-sized, Big, Ju
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As usual the excuse of these companies is “oops”. We need to legislate a $100/occurrence/user fine for the
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No one on staff to manage next big thing? Wuz up with that?
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Just installed seconds ago...works well enough to post, apparently. Will worry about missing files, etc, anoth
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A quick check of Lenovo's site on 10/10/19 (13s): i7+16GB+512GB is $989.40Pretty sweet, Paul
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In reply to Thom77:Jeez, Thom77, I warned you elsewhere about coffee and sleep, but here you go again...BTW, w
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In reply to GetEdumated:Maybe the NeXT thing is a cube, with six screens, in a big ole gimble. Just spin to se
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In reply to Thom77:Too much coffee, not enough sleep. Been there...All I want to know is if the Intel chips in
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I refuse to buy one until the price reaches $4000, having been bitten by the transient snob appeal of "merely"
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I put some Clean Coal in my tank and nothing happened. And my wind turbine keeps hitting the overpasses. I fee
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Perhaps getting off your dead ass and flipping a light switch is an alternative? And what couch-potato eats ai
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I've been eating his pasta and bread for the last year or two. He gives it to me free.
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Letters "ell", "eye", "oh", and numbers One and Zero are my pet peeves, and Cascadia addresses them quite well
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In reply to glenn8878:As I suspected...cord-cutting requires a 50-foot cable!
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I suspect owners will experience better battery life because they are actually working all 40 hours per week t
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"...means that automakers can get access to precise and reliable navigation and driving behavior data easily"S
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So I rounded up the two Invokes I placed in my elderly parents home because "that lady's out-of-nowhere v
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I do appeciate all the high-level analysis, but I'll suggest a much simpler reason Windows Phone was not
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In reply to Jules_Wombat:The optional tumescence sensor toggles caps-lock, unless you're over 60.
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In reply to dontbe_evil:You CAN comment for $0.14/day...Apple quality is decent. Policy of forcing hardware up
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As we wait for DT to stumble his way through Govt 101, there is an obvious solution: reallocate all that money
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If I were the net admin I would log him out. Laziness on the user's part is wasting electricity, provides
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In reply to TL_Lives:I don't care about relative speed comparisons sans total clairty about which fixes a
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All arguments about which country spies the most, us or "them" (answer is ALL of the above), is irrelevant to
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In reply to Rob_Wade:Sure you know--STATUS. Dr Dre's "Beats" brought snobbery main-stream, and anyone is
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6FA is the way to go...give 'um your cell number, highest-limit credit card, SSN, checking account, stree
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The most encouraging thing about The Store, whether it lives or dies, is how useless it is for finding apps. I
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Samsung is certainly my go-to early adopter mfgr. And why do WE need this? Only because they say we do...had n
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In reply to Waethorn:Well, the local client device COULD recognize a single trained activation word--shouldn&#
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In reply to skane2600:Of course these companies deny the story because everyone would stop buying their stuff.
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In reply to skane2600:No need for ALL of the 5G infrastructure components to be compromised, just some of them
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The issue is the recent copyright ruling which gives songwriters an increase in their paltry streaming revenue
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End-to-end encryption? The Nazis will be thrilled...
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Only thing more opaque than USB 3.x is Charmin toilet paper: UltraStrong, Mega, Sensitive, UltraGentle, Giant,
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Still use Windows Phone, use Cortana, and search with Bing. So I will be the judge of when my tech is kaput. A
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In reply to Waethorn:Too bad you had to listen to hours of John Dvorak's right-wing pablum to score that
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In response to the UPDATE...it seems Apple's desire to hold the high ground was short-lived. Way to gut i
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As the last remaining Windows Phone user and multi-Invoke owner, hope springs eternal:"Hey Siri, ask Google to
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Since the majority of these "most popular articles" have nothing to do with Android or iPhones, I'm hopin
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To demonstrate their financial prowess, people happily pay way too much for Beats and Bose ("Doctors" never wo
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Call me a caveman, but it seems a lot of work to avoid simply adding larger batteries to devices. I do not wa
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Why would anyone continue using a service whose founder makes it clear he doesn't really give a damn abou
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Verizon prints money in the data-moving realm. So no urgency or requirement to be creative. Apple is bumping i
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In reply to Kevin_Costa:While downloading and installing from pirate sites has appeal for some, it's easi
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Just curious how many of the longer posts here were generated under desktop Windows, versus a phone? I for one
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Ordinary market behavior is questioned as "fake news" is assumed because reality isn't interesting enough
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In reply to matsan: Never really sold for more than $99. Was worth that...
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So just as Facebook is getting spit-roasted by the press and congress over the evils of their ad-supported ent
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So I must ask how many people purchased the Alcatel Idol 4S Win 10 phones? Relevant here because they also hav
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I have several notebooks sidelined by their 4GB memory limit. So kinda shocking to not see 8GB on a $1k-plus n
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S.O.P. for retailers: Tell everyone something desirable will be in short supply for the holidays. Drives custo
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In reply to maglezs:Why would you beg for a recitation of OneDrive horror stories? Three guesses who wrote and
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The blog post I read, explaining the loss of data, blamed users for storing data in other than the "well-known
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So the spam comment with 6 down-votes appears way before the one with 11 up-votes, which is dead last. Appare
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Don't get it. I've an Asus Q324 w/i7-7500U, 512 SSD, 16GB, foldable touchscreen, that cost $999 USD.
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Bought 3 @$99 a year ago (nobody paid $199, ever) for my home and for elderly parents (who have manageable Cor
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In reply to Bats:Actually, no. I am still happily running a trio of Alcatel Idol 4S Windows phones and have a
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Google offers "Confidential Mode" -- ROFL!
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In reply to smithduluth:If your credit card dribbled the number of location fixes a smartphone can/does, it wo
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In reply to offTheRecord:I too have tested several low-end devices (2-GB ram, assorted Atom and Pentium varian
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Was going to trademark "Lint Sucker" and start selling them. Then I checked the Urban Dictionary. Now convince
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The performance on low-spec hardware will be terrible. And it will be perceived by uninformed users that Windo
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Not enough ram or storage for even mediocre performance. Will convince users that Windows is terrible. Which i
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I join Paul in praising these machines. If you can forego the Thinkpad sticker it gets even better: I bought
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In reply to ecumenical:Microsoft should have put one big button on the front of each Nokia 920, and charged $2
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In reply to pecosbob04:Hang in there. A nice package of stickers is coming our way as an attachment.
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In reply to X911ty12:RAM is there to be used. I simply refrain from running multiple networked virtual machine
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In reply to Maktaba:Exactly. With every click we make being recorded and warehoused for eternity, why would I
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Serif's Affinity Photo for iPad is here now. So who needs to wait?
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In reply to skane2600:I have two 4GB Acer notebooks languishing in the Goodwill-or-bust box that say NO.
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In reply to bluvg:FWIW -- Firefox has allocated 640MB for this page. I never have issues with it, and wonder w
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They are going to use up those rolls of Alcantara® if it kills them.
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In reply to scoob101:As was mine, until, just out of warranty, the "phantom touch" and related display issues
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In reply to karma77police:No, that would be the Arc Mouse, followed by the Lumia 1520, with defective internal
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In reply to karma77police:You obviously never supported or sold into Win 3.x environments. It was an utter nig
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To borrow Paul's engineering term, I'd "shit-can" the second screen entirely (eliminating a world of
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In reply to karma77police:I've been in IT since computers started with toggled-in bootstrap loaders, and
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Yet another reason to avoid Chrome. If you wasted a day and looked at all of the data-mining code associated w
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In reply to JohnGalt1717:The IBM story is quite different, with their election to leave the non-business space
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In reply to JohnGalt1717:One word--inertia.Large organizations, in particular, hate change. Until they are una
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In reply to Purian23: Dude--please forward copies of YOUR publications so we can compare w/Paul's list.No
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Aware of the likelihood of taking on water in the post-Jobs era, Apple had the foresight to design the new hea
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So welcome to the bean-counter world of software development--throw out a piece of crap and see which platform
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Has been working fine 5/2/18 all afternoon EST. OTOH, Verizon has multiple bugs in their DVRs which haven'
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Linux--sure, makes sense, but don't bury the lede: "...certificate-based authentication of ALL communicat
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My parents have an all-Apple house--phones, tablets, and computers. When I heard HomePod was on the way at $35
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In reply to dontbe_evil:First--didn't down-vote anyone, although someone down-voted my original post, whi
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In reply to skane2600:Truth hurts, and clicks are cheap. Welcome to the world of anonymous critics.
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In reply to dontbe_evil:If "he" is me you are mistaken. Everyone can have all the votes their egos desire, but
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In reply to skane2600:nCorrect. And I was probably being generous. CISC has significant performance benefits o
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Quick...make a list of x86 apps that you'd love to run at 20% of desktop speed.Neither can I...
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In reply to karma77police:The entire internet is data-mining, battery-eating garbage.So we will miss you.
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In reply to SvenJ:Since it seems this entire "major update" is mostly bug fixes, I vote for NO update...just k
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"...this build continues to include a bunch of good bug fixes Insiders will enjoy.”The Bad Bugs are being sa
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In reply to hrlngrv:As a former computer dealer, and IT pro going on 40 years, I'll suggest you will some
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In reply to skane2600:I've lost track of the number of Store apps that did not function properly from day
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Microsoft's marketing seems stuck on v2.0, and we all know nothing gets sorted until v3.0
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This is preparation for Trump's mandate of Kaspersky as the "Made in the Homeland" solution.
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I've owned multiple Acer and Asus notebooks that have NEVER failed, and my last notebook to have any issu
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In reply to Michael Loughry:It sounds like someone in the team has Class A voting rights. Does this explain "f
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In reply to MikeGalos:Wow, you actually listed the matrix. What a waste of time given that we understand the p
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In reply to FalseAgent:When you're stuck in Win 7, they're a highlight.
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In reply to Waethorn:Very good advice, and quite true.
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Being the only guy still running WP 10, I awoke to a Lumia 640 hung at the Windows logo during the presumed au
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If you are lucky enough to reach a ripe old age, you'll look back and wonder why you WASTED so much of yo
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An expensive, sophisticated device is worth extra money when design effort is expended to make it repairable A
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In reply to Spineless:And that is a good thing. Logitech makes great stuff.
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In reply to Waethorn:But it eliminates the danger. Perhaps the passenger can do something other than be connec
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:Every smartphone can sense that it is moving, and could thereby be programmed to re
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In reply to blaktron:And this change is likely to cause the ad content that is generated to be forwarded to Sa
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In reply to Daekar:Leo has caused me to drop a phone in the toilet. But that was on purpose.
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In reply to Jeff Jones:Unfortunately, it would cost $3000. And would look like a SAM rocket transport case. Bu
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Sounds reasonable. But he missed the chance to implement a chassis that protects the screen from face-plant dr
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Fool me once, shame on Microsoft. Fool us twice? Nope. Not getting back on the "maybe" train.
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I wonder how many of the huge number of machines in China that were hit were running pirated XP?Microsoft gets
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In reply to jwillis84:Ah yes, Viewmaster...made those hours-long trips to grandma's house fly by. Unlimit
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In reply to hrlngrv:As my Lumia 640 (yeah, I'm the guy) memory-leaks itself to uselessness, it's nic
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ZZZZZzzzzzzz.......
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If there was ever any question that Microsoft regards hardware as a nuisance rather than a serious product seg
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I love the padlock providing the appearance of security.
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In reply to Ugur:The quick answer to "why don't they...?" is that every Friday, the plan changes. Meaning
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In reply to euskalzabe:While they could expend great energy and make things like the registry be self-healing
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Fool me once (Zune/Windows Phone), shame on you. Fool me twice (trust us -- all the PROGRAMS (not "apps") orga
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In reply to Roger Ramjet:Right now, they have an army of engineers writing Android and iPhone apps. The other
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They are going to crush the 4-8 year old market with this. So for those wondering why basic features are still
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In reply to rameshthanikodi:When Edge insists on making spaghetti barbed-wire out of common sites, which happe
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If I was restricted to store apps, which mostly feel like programmer's summer camp projects, I'd mov
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In reply to rameshthanikodi:This is where the EU gets my support.
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In reply to wright_is:Google could block malware and trick ads delivered through their CDNs. They've made
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As someone who has a sticker over my webcam, this "always-on" microphone is concerning. Until we have a full a
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"To Do" already exists as an app in the Microsoft Store, and I suspect in Apple and Android stores, too. So t
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We are seeing the products of a conflicted and confused company. Rather than conquering Android and Apple at a
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While your IT folks are fine-tuning this website, maybe this: a macro function that cut-n-pastes these comment
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As one hobling along on a 640 because I don't want to pay $200 to fix a 1520 with phantom-touch issues, I
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I've been stifling a yawn since the Studio announcement. I now have reason to let'r rip...This would
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...and another thing (while I'm shouting to myself in this now-empty 2-day-old comment section):Another W
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In reply to bbold:Edge is amazing if hung websites are amazing. Firefox is NEVER challenged by these problem s
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In reply to Lars lalaa:Agree that lens flare is serious on the Pixel, meaning cheap optics. The differences in
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:In your full review, it would be nice to know if DASH charging results in a warmer p
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In reply to lordbaal1:Every source is biased -- some to the left, some to the right. So most people select the
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I still use my Zune HD. That's why they cancelled it.Also still use my Windows Phone. You can fill in the
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One word -- Verizon
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I found him extremely knowledgeable. hehe...
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In reply to jimchamplin:A perfect example of the problem, Jim...your comment has the only upvote in this threa
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I would hope any spam button also indicates who pressed it.
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One would expect the already-present "Tablet Mode" button to do that. Nope! But they're working hard on t
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Not an Edge problem per se, as Firefox does the same thing. Right click/copy is advised before committing a lo
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In reply to FullyLoaded:They will call the button "Privacy and Telemetry", just to mess with you.
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See all of the BLANK comments...that's because editing now deletes everything. Nice...
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So once again, the useful feature (server-side notifications) is delayed while Microsoft instead works to perf
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I expect that tax prep is one of the notable remaining uses of desktop PCs. Rolling out this major update just
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In reply to HoloLensman:Careful. You're enrolling yourself in the clueless group...
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In reply to Narg:Do you really want your earlier Viagra and Cialis searches documented in your file explorer?
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In reply to Barry Kennedy:Yes we are. And we are the shiz, too.
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In reply to DrDrTed:They used the time-proven "hide it below the scroll line" tactic in an unexpandable dialog
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In reply to evancox10:And a price never hurts. If this Dell is as overpriced as some other Ultrabooks, I'
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In reply to jimchamplin:PDP-11--sweet! These young sprites will never get to know the joy of successfully togg
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:As I commented in Brad's HoloLens article: Lack of a roadmap does not support t
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Asus Q324U: i7-7200, 16GB, 512 SSD, 10-point touch, finger-print reader, 2.8lb, excellent construction. $999.
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"...Our commitment requires no roadmap"Wrong. Commitment implies discipline, and that's what roadmaps and
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In reply to skane2600:At 12:25am EST, your comment is listed as happening "in 30 minutes" Which means you'
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In reply to Daekar:In Hell, former telecom execs (and select politicians) get to watch the communal TV in 5-se
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In reply to YouWereWarned:50 total comments, 20 visible. Waiting for Uber-Super-3D-membership announcement. Re
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Testing "improved" commenting...
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In reply to skane2600:...they were making space for me, so here goes:As I contemplate getting the flakey touch
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In reply to karma77police:
I have to ask WHY, OH WHY, do you use any Microsoft software? If it is simply to co
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In reply to TheFerrango:
I'm the other person using it. Our little secret...
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In reply to RM:
Flash has run in various "sandboxes" for years. Did very little for its security reputation. A
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In reply to lordbaal1:
At least "on-premiss" seems to be fading from use.
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In reply to karma77police:
If your active user profile has R/W permissions to the NAS, why would those files b
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In reply to KStokes:
A wider lens will show less apparent shake than a normal or telephoto. So wide is good.
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In reply to Daekar:
If you have any cloud synchronization enabled when trying to "manage" Outlook contacts, yo
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In reply to Vidua:
Agree. Affinity Photo is available, finally, for Windows. A crazy-capable package for those
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Asus Q324UAK 2-in-1: i7-7500U 3.5GHz, 512GB SSD, 16GB ram, Precision touchpad + Hello fingerprint reader, USB
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I suspect one of the advertising networks embedded in the page is having issues "down under". Unfortunately, m
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In reply to evox81:
Agree about the Giant. And lookie what performance you can get from a lowly i3-6100, for $
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T-h-u-r-r-o-t-t, and perhaps a wee bit less coffee. Carry on...
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In reply to MikeGalos:
I'll suggest everyone experiencing uncontrollable Studio geargasms simply buy one of th
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In reply to BoItmanLives:
Agree. Imagine how freaking fast PCs would be today without all of the sync'ing, tel
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In reply to AlexKven:
So they can now easily update Edge on phone so it actually renders full web pages withou
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Given the importance placed on camera performance, a testing methodology "...which basically amounts to auto-e
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Gee...lonely in here. I'll toss this bottle into the abyss anyway.
Could anyone believe there are 10K le
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In reply to offTheRecord:
THAT'S how to keep the SurFone86 cool. Don't use it. Mission accomplished!
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
I'd like the Zune HD, and then the 1520, when you get to those. Please.
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In reply to lwetzel:
Well, they certainly make hardware, but the 3rd-time's-a-charm syndrome still haunts Redm
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In reply to lordbaal1
This is about as new as the Studio, which would have been new 12 months ago. They are cr
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In reply to paul-thurrott:
This is a continuation of Microsoft's tick-tock-TICK strategy, but they no longer h
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In reply to Pbike908:
You need to realize how amazing those mundane tasks are: you've replaced the US Postal S
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In reply to karma77police:
You seem to suggest that no one had experienced "a true VR experience" until last J
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In reply to karma77police:
Paul said: "Microsoft is the clear leader in augmented reality..."
Augmented. Your
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"...an almost tear-inducing reminder of the Lumia 1520"
What I find tear-inducing is the phantom-touch wonky s
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In reply to CompUser:
I suspect that HBO Now and Hulu pay handsomely for that premium placement. Your convenie