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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

    Really?? I thought Windows 8 was the OS that didn't know what it wanted to be? A Desktop OS or a Tablet OS, I can't decide! How times have changed. I remember 8/8.1 got a LOT of bashing on this site, and now people like it? That's crazy. To be honest I didn't mind it personally, at least on a tablet (I have a first gen Surface RT), though I never really used it on a desktop. But sometimes the disconnect between the start screen and the desktop is weird. I ended up spending most of the time on the desktop (granted I used a lot of the open-source desktop apps compiled for ARM vs store apps). Thankfully Windows 10's tablet mode is so better. The switch is seamless, and both modes are visually similar so it doesn't seem like it has a split personality like 8 does. And I especially don't like how they handled Windows on ARM with the intentionally hamstrung Windows RT. Again, Windows 10 ARM Edition rectifies most of those mistakes. I do not miss the Windows 8/RT vision.
    1 point
  33. What they don't tell you is after you migrate your Nest account to Google, you'll lose the ability to login to the Nest app on Android TV with no ability to roll back. Yet, they keep rolling out updates to the Nest app with no Google account support 🤔
    1 point
  34. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Office in a nutshell: The installation changes file systems, also it adds stuff to the system folder, to the registry (outside of the software folder) and install more stuff, the it creates more service, plus it adds schedule and startup tasks. Also, it adds an add-ins for internet explorer. win32 apps according Microsoft: No, you can't because your application is too intrusive. DAFUNK! Microsoft is (again) playing the game of "I can but you can!". Why UWP failed? Simple, because the whole container nonsense. If you want a container, then browse a website!. And it is the same bull-💩 of Modern Application. I forget that Office was the only application "free of rules" that was able to runs without restriction in Windows RT.
    1 point
  35. 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. Sure, but the 80% of games includes 0% of games running on DX12 or using newer rendering technologies. Using this logic, why even both with Linux, just run Windows XP - it also runs 80% of the games. How do people in the 'technology' community that hate progress exist? There wouldn't be anything more than receipt paper and maybe a few punch cards everyone got stuck on old technology. FFS
    1 point
  36. Damn these updates take a long time to install, even on an SSD. I pitty the foo's who have spinning hdd's.
    1 point
  37. Microsoft won't force Bing on Office 365 ProPlus users after all

    Bing does not find a squat when you search something for.
    1 point
  38. Microsoft explains how Win32 apps will work on Windows 10X

    Those are different things. 32-bit and 64-bit apps are both supported.
    1 point
  39. Xerox raises acquisition bid for HP to nearly $35 billion

    Between you and me, if Xerox goes under after digesting HPQ (and thus HPQ goes under with it)... it would be a grand gesture to save humanity. HPQ needs to change their business practices (see: print subscription horror stories) and die a quick painful death.
    1 point
  40. Memory upgrade Motile 141M SL

    The memory stick is smack dab in the middle ... beneath a flappy sheet thing. Don't confuse the nvme or wireless card for the memory. ...about two minutes into this video.
    1 point
  41. 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. To each his/her own I guess. Now that I've used Windows 10 for a few years now I'm fine with the UI and 7 now looks rather dated to me. Same thing happened when I which to 7 from XP. I'm not saying either were bad, it's just a perception thing. I still don't get the "usability" comments people make about 7 vs 10. Both are usable to me, and I don't struggle with 10, or switching back and forth (still have a few odd 7 machines at work).
    1 point
  42. Firefox 73.0

    "Firefox has been my browser of choice for nearly 2 years now" Hell, it's been pretty much the all around best browser since it's initial release. It WAS the best. Before they decided to ruin it twice. Once with version 4.0 and once with Quantum. Firefox went from 32% market share to 4% in 10 years. In another 10 it won't even exist if they keep ruining it. What they aren't telling you is that Chrome counts in the installs on mobile phones too. It comes pre-installed and set as default browser to these without any consent. This is why chrome ranks high. Why do you say it is ruined. Currently it is the best browser in town. Enjoy it while it is still an option and support it before others eventually own your internet and your opinion on it. 1. In version 4.0 they started chasing Chrome's tabs on top GUI layout and bloated their whole browser to the point where it was unusable for at least a year and a half. 2. In version Quantum they removed the old add-ons and limited even more the way you can customize the browser. So many websites don't work properly in Firefox. If I want to download something from Mega and I use Firefox, I have to download another browser for that. Firefox' shortcomings and limitations increase every day. In comparison to what it was back in 2009 with version 3.6, Firefox is now hundreds time worse. It just desperately tags along Chromium-based browsers, it's hardly "the best". Haven't ever had a single issue using Firefox on any site, myself. What is that Mega site you mention? Are you talking about this site, https://mega.nz/login ? I don't have any issues with that site either. I don't like it, but don't have issues. FWIW, not getting this new version when manually checking for updates.
    1 point
  43. We are in the minority. This will sell millions of units anyway.
    1 point
  44. Excel's new XLOOKUP function is now generally available

    INDEX/MATCH already replaced VLOOKUP & is still superior to XLOOKUP.
    1 point
  45. Hello

    Welcome to neowin. have fun...
    1 point
  46. hello Abhay Venkatesh. I think you need to also read this blog as well: https://borncity.com/win/2020/...-shutdown-restart-feb-2020/ "Addendum: It seems to me, that an Adobe CC update from early Feb. 2020 (or for similar software) is causing this behavior. I’ve rewritten parts of the ‘Adobe service’ section, to make things a bit more clear. And there are signs, that Bitdefender Total Security 2020 may cause also this behavior – hope that helps." and this specific Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f0120d/dont_have_permission_to_shutdown/fgvlmfc/ apparently a service called ‘Adobe Genuine Monitor Service’ might be causing the Win7 shutdown bugs.
    1 point
  47. They fixed that bug 2 weeks ago. If you still have that issue then you have not updated your system in 2 weeks. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4532695" rel="external nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4532695 no I'm on the latest build with all available patches, there are still cases where this issue occurs
    1 point
  48. That was my feedback to that problem in the post mentioned here.
    1 point
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  50. Dopamine

    Yes indeed: 3.0 is the multi platform rewrite. Supported on Windows and Linux. Theoretically also on Mac. Although someone else would have to build and test it (as I don't own a Mac). I'm interested too. I haven't done all the research yet. But seeing as web technologies have a lot of multi-media capabilities, I see a promising future for Dopamine. With version 2.0 out of the way, development on 3.0 should get a boost. Edit: Dopamine code and issues were moved to https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine-windows This is the Dopamine 3.0 GitHub: https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine For all feature requests, please log an issue over there. I don't always guess right how people like to listen to their music. So if anyone has suggestions, don't hesitate to create issues via GitHub.
    1 point