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  1. The hilarity continues.
    8 points
  2. They've always had the worst, most confusing naming scheme for their console. Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox again? Why couldn't they just name them Xbox 2, 3 and 4? It would make so much more sense. Now they are making it even more confusing with this Series stuff.
    7 points
  3. Rodney Dangerfield: Instagram said I was so ugly that I got tagged as "offensive".
    6 points
  4. It's not in the spirit of the holidays, it's in the spirit of social marketing. I'd imagine it's because sales of their useless service and controller aren't doing so hot.
    4 points
  5. Windows RE (Recovery Environment) no longer requires an administrator password to access recovery tools. No, just no.
    4 points
  6. What a touchy-feely society we live in.
    4 points
  7. Amazing how many people are whining about this... Are people going to accidentally buy the wrong product due to the name? Of course not. So stop complaining about something that's so trivial and meaningless. It's just a product name and even a monkey could distinguish it from the current and past generations...
    3 points
  8. wish this would be pushed for in the US as well. phone locking really is such an underhanded process only meant to make carrier switching more painful to dissuade users from doing so ...
    3 points
  9. I'd like one Xbox please! Xbox One? No, one Xbox Series X. Xbox One X? No! Xbox SERIES X! Oh! You want an Xbox! Got it.
    3 points
  10. Since the original Xbox released about the same time as the Playstation 2, they would always seem to be a generation behind. They do not want that...
    3 points
  11. The Windows Phone Store shuts down today

    RIP Windows Phone!
    3 points
  12. A Galaxy Note without the BS rounded edge is a dream phone for me.
    2 points
  13. You can now link your Reddit account to Xbox Live

    Why does this sound like a revolutionary bad idea?
    2 points
  14. Defender Control 1.6

    It's fairly obvious why they made that decision. The same people who permanently disable it (meaning those who don't know what they're really doing) are the same people who then complain about malware on Windows. Antivirus software is just a placebo effect. This program right here shows it perfectly. You see a green picture with a checkmark on it - everything is nice and dandy. You see a yellow picture with an exclamation mark on it - you better eat your vegetables or the Boogeyman will get you when you go to sleep! You see a red picture with an X on it - that's it man, end of the road, you might as well jump off the roof at that point. The only thing important is how one person uses their computer and access the internet, if they click on suspicious things and download and run/install whatever, they will get viruses. They need proper education and do some thinking rather than some automated stupid tool (that alters for false positives 99% of the time, as part of the placebo effect) to do the thinking for them. I haven't used an antivirus since around 2009 or 2010 and never had a virus since then. Great for you. Not ideal for your average user though.
    2 points
  15. Defender Control 1.6

    It's fairly obvious why they made that decision. The same people who permanently disable it (meaning those who don't know what they're really doing) are the same people who then complain about malware on Windows.
    2 points
  16. While they might not flat out pull the older models out of stores come holiday 2020, they're going to be very limited. In my opinion it makes sense for them to quickly move to kill the lower end Xbox One S models to clear stock and make room for the new stuff. I'd expect to see the older One S/X moved to the back while the Series X and maybe S are front and center as you walk into the shops. With the word "NEW" plastered all around. Plus this thing looks radically different and will cost at least $100 more than the One X.
    2 points
  17. I thought the fact they used "series" in the branding made it clear they're going to release more than one version again, and maybe right from day 1 so they can attack sony at the high end performance wise and at the low end on price. I have to wonder if it would have been better to name it Xbox : X Series, instead of Series X? Flipping it might have been better. In the long run though I figure they expect the conversation to go along the lines of. Friend A: "just got the new Xbox." Friend B: "Which one?" Friend A: "Series X." Or Series S, or just call it X or S or whatever other letter they use. In the future they'll just keep it going and say the Series X2, X3...
    2 points
  18. Microsoft releases its first Windows 10 vNext build to the Fast ring

    This is new! Settings > System > About > Windows specifications > Experience My 19536.1000 build shows: Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 119.32900.0.0 Interesting!
    2 points
  19. this comment is offensive to me =(
    2 points
  20. Instagram will now warn users before they post something offensive

    Nobody is regulating your speech. Grow up! They are protecting their financial investment by making their site as inclusive as possible but SUGGESTING that what you are sharing may offend. And it’s emotionally underdeveloped for someone to take offence? I argue that it’s emotionally underdeveloped for someone to post offensive content without consideration for others. I don’t think either of us are 100% correct.
    2 points
  21. The Windows Phone Store shuts down today

    So much promise, such a waste of time and money.
    2 points
  22. You're not the only one to turn her on this weekend.. /sarcasm
    2 points
  23. Disagree. If all people are gonna do is post derogatory comments, Instagram is well within their right to at least curb some of that junk. Think about it: we get along pretty well on Neowin as it stands without having to call people names. Such posts are just low quality/effort trash to read, let alone store somewhere indefinitely. If YouTube did the same, maybe it wouldn't be such a cesspool. None of this would take away from one's ability to call someone out either as far as I can tell. I'm still very much in favor of people being able to voice their opinion on a public platform.
    2 points
  24. Well, you can choose not to use their services. They are just trying to safeguard themselves.
    2 points
  25. Instagram will now warn users before they post something offensive

    Ah yes...facebook/Instagram/twitter should have a say in what is morally correct... Trying to turn internet into a "safe space" is laughable at the very least.
    2 points
  26. The Windows Phone Store shuts down today

    For someone so against MS, you sure do like to spend your time taking about them.
    2 points
  27. Talking about the curved glass? I wholeheartedly agree! It even looks better as a whole too! Edge to edge don't mean squat if you can't hold the damn thing, and the Note series is already hard enough to hold for the size.
    1 point
  28. That would put Verizon clean out of business. :)
    1 point
  29. You can now link your Reddit account to Xbox Live

    Isn't the whole point of Reddit is to be anonymous?
    1 point
  30. I don't think it's too confusing, fast ring is an endless beta, while slow ring becomes more important, as does release preview. That's a good thing. Adding 10X as being a different version might throw people off but it's device specific for now so it doesn't really matter. Besides I fully expect most, if not all of the stuff they add in for 10X to find it's way to 10 at some point.
    1 point
  31. Are you the guy still on iOS 12? 13 has been fine since October, and the minuscule remaining issues I've had on my iPhone 11 were completely corrected with 13.3.
    1 point
  32. good to see it progressing steadily
    1 point
  33. Inventing a problem, I agree.
    1 point
  34. Must have been a bit echoy when he said that. But yes this is a good move.
    1 point
  35. Android apps in Fedora 31

    the snap commands will be same regardless of distro type as that's universal. only the kernel module installation would differ slightly as that's using the native package installer of the particular distros so that's why I posted the 2nd guide as that may work better since there's no extra kernel install that I see
    1 point
  36. Microsoft is now accepting submissions for Edge Chromium extensions

    Chrome extensions only work on paper. Most of the time, they're either bugged or completely broken. Where did you see that? All my extensions on latest Canary are installed from the Chrome store and work perfectly. They are 1)Google images restored 2)Iridium for YT 3)Stylus 4)Violentmonkey and 5)uBlock Origin.
    1 point
  37. The 4x the power is likely based on the cpu alone, on the gpu, it's not going to be 4x the power of the One X lol, if they are lucky, maybe double the power but even that might be pushing it It's all about the cpu, that's what they will focus on as that is the biggest upgrade over what this gen has got. Still, it will be interesting to see how much power it will have but I would hope it's got more than 16GB of memory because that seems a bit low considering 3GB of that is likely tied up by the OS and the rest of the memory is shared as system and gpu memory, it looks quite low then when you consider how cheap memory is getting now. The Xbox 360 had 8x the RAM of the Xbox, the Xbox One had 16x the RAM of the 360, so the new one has to have 32x the RAM of the One making a total of 256GB right? :P But yeah only doubling the RAM doesn't sound like enough especially if they're serious about 8k games. 32GB seems unlikely but to be fair, memory prices are dropping in price now and I got 32GB for me PC a few months ago for how cheap it was going for. Anyway, 16GB seems low, I have 40GB in total on my PC, 32 system memory and 8GB gpu memory, I think the next gen of consoles could go for something like 24GB of memory, that would be a worthwhile upgrade over the One X which is already 12GB, having 16GB seems quite low to me when they are going to push better visuals and higher resolutions. On the other hand, having fast M2/SSD performance could change how games are designed, if they can stream contents in and out of memory fast enough, might not need as much memory, same would be the case for the PC version of the same games. I'll be interesting to see what the much faster storage and cpu power can do for games. If it's sharing the RAM with the GPU and they take a good chunk with the OS and always-on video capture/streaming capability and whatever else is going on then 16GB will be on the small side for sure. True, if we just look at it from how PC games use the hardware, games can use around 6GB to 8GB even at 1080p, then throw in vram which can use around 4GB to 6GB at 1080p. With consoles, you have about 2GB or 3GB locked down by the OS, then what's left is shared from system and video memory and considering they are going to be native 4k and gamers are expecting games to be better and bigger next gen, 16GB seems quite low to me. 24GB is the minimum to me but there is an unknown with storage speed, if that works out well enough where games that shift information from the hard drive to memory, fast and on the fly, games might not need as much memory as we are used too because games could stream contents as you play. Still, I get the feeling that if it is 16GB, that is going to be the biggest weakness of the next gen of consoles, more so with how cheap memory is getting on the PC.
    1 point
  38. Xbox Games with Gold & Deals with Gold, December 2019

    It is almost Christmas, wouldn't surprise anyone.
    1 point
  39. Large companies trying to crowdfund should be banned. They've earned profit, they should be the ones that risk their profit investing in new ideas, not risking the public's money in seeing if new products can be made or not.
    1 point
  40. Xbox 20. Released in 2020, 15 generations ahead of the PlayStation
    1 point
  41. Never heard of those games. Actually I misread it at first, thought it was Portal and clicked, then I noticed Valve would never let that. Of course it's fine when Valve does, but everyone loses their minds when Epic does.
    1 point
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  43. Microsoft is now accepting submissions for Edge Chromium extensions

    Discoverability. The Chrome Web Store is not integrated into Windows or Edge, so if developers want their extension to be discovered by Edge users, they'll have incentive to port it.
    1 point
  44. Instagram will now warn users before they post something offensive

    No, instagram. You will not regulate my speech. Just because someone else is offended doesn't mean everyone is. Emotionally underdeveloped lemmings will not dictate what I can and can't say. Thanks for playing.
    1 point
  45. I still do not see any need for me to change to Edge,
    1 point
  46. Instagram will now warn users before they post something offensive

    Actually read that in his voice...
    1 point
  47. Agreed. If iOS or Android were half as good of an OS, I wouldn't be so bitter about having to use this iCrap phone. Access to the apps I need for work is nice though. Windows Mobile just seems 10+ years ahead of iOS and Android every time I use it.
    1 point
  48. Lenovo Yoga C940 15 review: The rare workhorse convertible

    That sticker though
    1 point
  49. Don't you love how homosexuality is more and more promoted and paraded around like it is perfectly normal. Of course, even though I disagree with homosexuality, I do not by any means hate homosexuals. But, even sharing my opinion is probably considered "hate speech" by some. Sigh... You don't hate homosexuals, but you're complaining about it being paraded around. hmm...
    1 point