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  1. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    You don't know that at all, the container vs native is said to be pretty close. I doubt you'll notice the difference. At that point you are better with Linux and running Windows Win32 apps through Wine. A container and a emulator aren't the same thing, apples to oranges. WINE is not an emulator but a wrapper for Win32 API but I do not think you understand that. I said, better option is Linux + WINE and as far as Steam goes 80% of games written for Windows run fine. fine, WINE is a compatibility wrapper. It's still written by an open-source community to "emulate" win32 libraries. It's come a long way over the years but still has issues with various apps because it's not actually written by microsoft because the library files are closed source. It can in no way be compared to this containerized support. A closer comparison would be to running programs on a normal windows setup in sandboxy. There should be very little performance difference if any on an x86/x64 intel/amd CPU. Brandon, The point is that Windows 10x is DOA and based on all the hints coming from Microsoft and their vision of Windows, Windows 10 has no future as well. Microsoft just continues being hostile toward Win32 and the writing against their stupidity is all over the wall for the past five years. They're so hostile to win32 that they're fully supporting it on 10X, ok there man. Having it be in a container and isolated from the core OS is what many people have wanted to see for 10+ years from Windows apps. This is the best way forward for Win32 and the Windows OS as a whole. You don't see it, or just want to hate on it because you have another personal agenda you're trying to push on others.
    4 points
  2. New report suggests MWC 2020 could be cancelled

    IMO, if it cannot be moved, it should be cancelled. I can't believe that it will be well attended and those that do attend will probably be forced into a two week layover before being allowed to return home. Its a public health issue and that is more important than a some gadget with a touch screen.
    4 points
  3. I won't be doing anything more or less safe today, than I did yesterday, or that I'll do tomorrow.
    4 points
  4. It’s unbelievable how far Microsoft has fallen in quality. You’d think any patch would receive proper scrutiny, let alone the last update an OS would ever receive. Kind of like the last car of a particular model coming off the assembly line. Guess not. They can’t even issue a patch without needing a patch to the patch.
    4 points
  5. No active noise cancelling, no thanks.
    3 points
  6. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    I bet you first Win32 app you try will fail to run. This baloney is DOA, and Microsoft hostility toward Win32 needs to stop cause it ruins experience for everyone and it ruins Windows. Dear Microsoft, The writing is on the wall for the past 5 years, no one cares about UWP. Windows 10x is targeting certain devices but as I said it is DOA.
    3 points
  7. If you never installed updates on Windows 7 and have them disabled, you won't be having such ridiculous problems. No, you'll be having far far worse problems.
    3 points
  8. And the big baby is at it again It never seize to amaze me how fast you guys jump on the slightest little Windows 10 things while for example never dropping a comment when a new Linux distro is released Grow the f*ck up, babies
    3 points
  9. They should have used the resources on a new Mass Effect game.
    3 points
  10. Curious, because just about every other app with a search function that returns both local and remote results works just fine returning locating local content when it can't get online content. People aren't "being babies", Microsoft's coders are just incompetent. And they aren't going to give you any brownie bucks for attacking their critics.
    3 points
  11. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Yup. MS should have implemented this a looong time ago. Like with Windows Vista ago. They already did it's called Windows Sandbox. The article makes a inaccurate comparison, this container feature is more like Windows Sandbox, than Windows Subsystem on Linux. I don't blame the author for getting this wrong, since Mary Jo Foley herself, made the incorrect comparison.
    2 points
  12. Microsoft won't force Bing on Office 365 ProPlus users after all

    Bing works very well for image search, better than google
    2 points
  13. Out of all the things that should've shipped with 2FA as default from the get go, you'd think it'd be something like Nest.
    2 points
  14. Phones have surpassed OLED TVs
    2 points
  15. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    In the XP days, customizing the shell was huge, people that do this today, TINY, VERY TINY. BTW - This isn't for those users. (In case you didn't notice the focus and the X thing.)
    2 points
  16. Here's what's new for Windows 8.1 this Patch Tuesday

    I DID read the article but it is kind of confusing as it says "In addition to updates for every supported version of Windows 10, there's also a couple of updates for older releases" With as many editions of Windows 10 as there are, who the heck can keep up with that crap?! That line I quoted almost makes it sound like they dropped a couple patches for older versions of Windows 10 being that it's all in one sentence. Was simply asking for some clarification.
    2 points
  17. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Well, hopefully, stuff like VPN programs can still work. But no 7-zip and VScode in the context menu is a bummer. I know, jokers at Microsoft have no slight idea how people use their computers.
    2 points
  18. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    You don't know that at all, the container vs native is said to be pretty close. I doubt you'll notice the difference. At that point you are better with Linux and running Windows Win32 apps through Wine. A container and a emulator aren't the same thing, apples to oranges. WINE is not an emulator but a wrapper for Win32 API but I do not think you understand that. I said, better option is Linux + WINE and as far as Steam goes 80% of games written for Windows run fine. fine, WINE is a compatibility wrapper. It's still written by an open-source community to "emulate" win32 libraries. It's come a long way over the years but still has issues with various apps because it's not actually written by microsoft because the library files are closed source. It can in no way be compared to this containerized support. A closer comparison would be to running programs on a normal windows setup in sandboxy. There should be very little performance difference if any on an x86/x64 intel/amd CPU. Brandon, The point is that Windows 10x is DOA and based on all the hints coming from Microsoft and their vision of Windows, Windows 10 has no future as well. Microsoft just continues being hostile toward Win32 and the writing against their stupidity is all over the wall for the past five years. you keep saying DOA over and over again for a multitude of products. I haven't seen you be right yet. No offence but I'll be my own judge on if dual screen tablet devices can be useful once I can get my hands on one.
    2 points
  19. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    You don't know that at all, the container vs native is said to be pretty close. I doubt you'll notice the difference. At that point you are better with Linux and running Windows Win32 apps through Wine. A container and a emulator aren't the same thing, apples to oranges. WINE is not an emulator but a wrapper for Win32 API but I do not think you understand that. I said, better option is Linux + WINE and as far as Steam goes 80% of games written for Windows run fine. fine, WINE is a compatibility wrapper. It's still written by an open-source community to "emulate" win32 libraries. It's come a long way over the years but still has issues with various apps because it's not actually written by microsoft because the library files are closed source. It can in no way be compared to this containerized support. A closer comparison would be to running programs on a normal windows setup in sandboxy. There should be very little performance difference if any on an x86/x64 intel/amd CPU. Brandon, The point is that Windows 10x is DOA and based on all the hints coming from Microsoft and their vision of Windows, Windows 10 has no future as well. Microsoft just continues being hostile toward Win32 and the writing against their stupidity is all over the wall for the past five years.
    2 points
  20. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Did someone just teach you "DOA"? Just at a glance, you've pronounced Windows 10X, GeForce Now, and Surface Neo "DOA". I'm genuinely confused why you're even here if you don't enjoy new tech stuff.
    2 points
  21. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X: Slowly.
    2 points
  22. Microsoft won't force Bing on Office 365 ProPlus users after all

    Man I missed this backtracking Microsoft for so long!! Glad they’re back. Is this a warmup for all the backtracking that is supposed to happen after the release of next Xbox ?
    2 points
  23. Excel's new XLOOKUP function is now generally available

    Jesus Christ! Finally, a cleaner alternative to INDEX & MATCH. Anyways, I do remember once getting recommended a plugin to Excel here in Neowin (by a great Neowinian fella), but come on MS, why haven't you improved the formula bar? There should be at least a GUI window that allows you to visually add and edit complex formulas.
    2 points
  24. Firefox 73.0

    Because it's not officially out yet, the release date is tomorrow, so that's when the release notes go live... if you want to see the release notes early then use your brain, if you can't then wait until release.
    2 points
  25. Firefox 73.0

    Firefox has been my browser of choice for nearly 2 years now, but I still don't understand why it takes them so long to put up the release notes with each update. There is no reason for them not to be ready when the update is ready for download.
    2 points
  26. Comcast data cap issues

    IP? doubt it - I would think they track this by their device mac.. Since they could hand out different IPs all the time - if you talking IPv6 it could be huge amount of IPs in their assigned prefix, etc.. And IPv4 even could change all the time - depending! If the OP is saying they don't do anything that would account for such usage - I would guess its mistake, as others have stated. Its not like they have not made huge mistakes in the past.. That they don't provide you with a day to day, or even hour to hour breakdown.. And ports being used.. Yeah its BS.. If your isp is going to set some cap on your usage - it for sure behooves you to do your own accounting. So you have something to compare with.. If you don't and they say you did X.. You have no real way to say no I didn't my system shows Y. Especially if they are not going to give you some breakdown on days/hours/ports... He might have a kid or something doing p2p that he is not aware of, or misbehaving device or application. Or sure someone on his wifi doing whatever.. But since he has no local accounting of what his router did, then he has no grounds to stand on to say, hey my system shows I used X vs Y.. Its really no different than the water or electric company - when the electric company says you use X kwh, how do you say no I didn't I use only Y.. Shoot even the elec company these days give you a day/hour breakdown of what you are using.. How is it that a company that deals with moving packets, can't show you the details - and only give yous a lump some "monthly" total? If they are going to charge you for going over X per month.. they should be able to show exactly what you did and how you did it (what ports) And if you want to get picky about it to where.. You downloaded or uploaded X bytes to this IP on this port, etc.. I mean if they are going to charge you for it, why can they not show you what you did? I would think if you want to fight it you could take them to court and say prove I did this.. Show me the traffic reports where I move MBps to here, and grabbed X KB from there, etc. etc.. But you really should have something locally showing you what you did.. While I don't detail logging, I could if wanted/needed get more granular.. I have a lots of details of what amount of traffic my router moved.. And can even show that on an hour to hour basis.. So if my ISP said I moved X, over this period - I could show, no I only moved Y and here is the breakdown hour by hour, etc..
    2 points
  27. If I didn't buy a new PC and was still with my old one, I;d still be using Windows 7 too.. Damn I miss the usability of 7, how beautiful the UI was... now the UI is uglier than the early alpha builds for Windows 3.11.
    2 points
  28. They are doing this on purpose. Ever since Windows 10 launched in 2015, they've been releasing updates for Windows 7 that decreased its performance and made it worse. If everyone is planning on staying with Windows 7 or plans to install it anew, I'd advise them to find an ISO with updates up to 2016 and completely disable updates after installing it. Before Microsoft did that, Windows 7 worked better. This is all part of their plan to make Windows 7 users think that their OS is failing and to force them to update to Windows 10. Microsoft are scumbags. Maybe bigger scumbags than Google and Mozilla.
    2 points
  29. Excel's new XLOOKUP function is now generally available

    I recently uninstalled Click-to-Run Microsoft Office 365 from my laptop, after seeing amount of telemetry and services running in the background. I installed LibreOffice 6.4.
    2 points
  30. sigh, if you've taken this long to migrate from Windows 7, a dodgy patch is the least of your problems.
    2 points
  31. I only want local search. If we have to have remote search bundled in why not make it gracefully fail when it is unavailable?
    2 points
  32. Here's what's new for Windows 8.1 this Patch Tuesday

    the last microsoft os with a vision.
    1 point
  33. LosslessCut 2.8.0 [Update]

    v2.7.1 is out.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft won't force Bing on Office 365 ProPlus users after all

    good but these kind of stunts put MS in negative light. even if they back tracked that negativity still remains
    1 point
  35. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Well, hopefully, stuff like VPN programs can still work. But no 7-zip and VScode in the context menu is a bummer. I know, jokers at Microsoft have no slight idea how people use their computers. But what about all that telemetry!?
    1 point
  36. HP will offer the ZBook 17 G6 with AMD's new Radeon Pro W5500M

    hmmm it must be AMD's fault? :)
    1 point
  37. If I didn't buy a new PC and was still with my old one, I;d still be using Windows 7 too.. Damn I miss the usability of 7, how beautiful the UI was... now the UI is uglier than the early alpha builds for Windows 3.11. thing i hate maybe the most about the ui is that there is no consistency any effort to introduce that has just made things inconsistent it is a literal trainwreck. that and usability is terrible [as you indicated] like, for example, there should not be issue if server is down---should still be able to search for local files. epic fail Yeah, the best Windows 7 description I have heard so far. none of what i wrote applies to Windows 7 it was all about windows 10 the version of windows that has no idea what it wants to be or what it wants to do even Windows 8 had a vision Windows 10 has none /whoosh
    1 point
  38. New report suggests MWC 2020 could be cancelled

    This is going to be canceled. It should be. Most of the big companies have backed off there's no point in attending MWC.
    1 point
  39. can internet really be safe with the world largest 5-eye spynet ?
    1 point
  40. Mozilla launches Firefox 73 with global zoom settings

    Man, will that global zoom help my brother out! About freaking time!!
    1 point
  41. T-Mobile used to be trash. They really have gone leaps and bounds to improve themselves over the last few years. Expanding their coverage by incorporating/converting the Sprint towers will only be a good thing at this point. I was skeptical of this merger at first but now I'm quite interested to see where it takes them
    1 point
  42. Rather you than me I _am_ subscription fatigued lol
    1 point
  43. Memory upgrade Motile 141M SL

    Thanks, Steven. Forgot about that handy little tool.
    1 point
  44. Xiaomi shows off the Mi 10's design ahead of official announcement

    Curved edges and punch hole. Eww. No thanks.
    1 point
  45. Xerox raises acquisition bid for HP to nearly $35 billion

    How does Xerox have that kind of money
    1 point
  46. That's what happens when you go from testing updates on actual machines to relying on telemetry from insiders that mostly run the insider builds in VMs. I used to love getting windows updates, now I delay security/feature updates 30/180 (edit: though not sure how they go about with testing Windows 7 updates nowadays, but guess that doesn't matter anymore)
    1 point
  47. The fact this was allowed to happen is a total catastrophe of the Windows as a service model. Microsoft should be very embarrassed and need to patch Windows 10 to have offline fallbacks for all online/cloud functionality.
    1 point
  48. Project Newsbar app shows up on the Microsoft Store

    What? Foxnews is the first news source in a couple screenshots lol. But in general, most of the media is left propaganda.
    1 point
  49. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    They look pretty good. I like that they manage to have lots of ports on them, so you don't have to carry around an expensive hub with you. Too bad they aren't touch screen though.
    1 point
  50. Congratulations Mobius Enigma

    Let's send a warm welcome to our newest MVC @Mobius Enigma!!!!! They have been elected by their peers to join the ranks of Neowin MVC. mobius enigma, check your pm.
    1 point