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  1. aka, 7 days was enough for people to binge watch the exclusive stuff
    8 points
  2. Apple will close some U.S. stores after a spike in COVID-19 cases

    Implying he thinks at all is giving him too much credit.
    4 points
  3. Our great incompetent leader still thinks it’s a hoax though.
    4 points
  4. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    They had committed to W8.1 support through to at least 2023. Were you worried they may renege on that?
    4 points
  5. Sorry, Disney+ is not available in your region. F**k you Disney. This is the message I get when I wanted to check their pricing. Whine just one god damn time about piracy and I'm gonna smack you right in the face. And I'm not even living in some African or some obscure eastern Asian country. I'm living in a freaking center of Europe. I get furious just the same every time I see Spotify. Coz they show me the exact same dumb message. I guess my € just aren't good enough compared to I don't know, German € or French €. Well, piracy it is then.
    3 points
  6. That Scrooge McDuck sized vault of gold is real.
    3 points
  7. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Not only that but some OEM PCs can't even get W10. My mother AIO from Dell couldn't run W8 or 10 without going insane. Unless that machine is WELL over a decade old, I'm calling BS on that. Most of my family is running recycled machines that I picked up from thrift stores, did a few upgrades on (usually RAM and hard drives), and all of them are running Windows 10 with zero issues. These machines are anywhere from about 2008-2012 vintage.
    3 points
  8. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Been giving Chromium Edge a run these past few days and am rather impressed. It makes me wonder why Microsoft persevered so long with the disappointing original Edge.
    3 points
  9. It's a funny world. Android users: Just give us 1 more security patch for my $1000 1 year old phone, pretty please? Windows users: What? Another update for my 10 year old OS? F you!
    2 points
  10. IMHO anyone remotely interested in FPS games should check out Titanfall 2 esp. since its now on Steam and there's a lot of new players playing. It's criminally underrated.
    2 points
  11. Windows 7 users: Finally, no more Microsoft updates breaking my setup. Microsoft: Here's Microsoft Edge, deal with it.
    2 points
  12. Apple will close some U.S. stores after a spike in COVID-19 cases

    Ugh, him and his base are just insufferable hypocrites. I’m convinced they exist just to make others miserable.
    2 points
  13. 2 points
  14. Corporate pride. You just know that it hurts someone's pride there that a large portion of the code came from Google and Apple. I don't think it has anything to do with "pride". A for-profit organization will use all possible ways to get more money. When Nadella took over, he was keen on open sourcing stuff from the very beginning. Yet it took nearly 7 years to switch to open source Chromium Edge. I believe it is more about the "sunken cost fallacy" by trying to improve their in-house product again and again to gain marketshare and win over consumers until it was not justifiable.
    2 points
  15. The term "pushing out" means something completely different to "released," that's why. To release software is to make it available for someone to obtain and install. To push it out means to actively install it on a computer from a central location. Pretty obvious stuff. It's not a Neowin thing; it's an IT thing.
    2 points
  16. Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay unveiled in a new trailer

    That TIE-Fighter HUD takes up so much screen! No wonder they are so easy to take down. 😉
    2 points
  17. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Not only that but some OEM PCs can't even get W10. My mother AIO from Dell couldn't run W8 or 10 without going insane. Windows 8 OEM machines have not been sold in almost a decade. Sounds like low quality OEM hardware is to blame
    2 points
  18. 1 point
  19. Cant delete 0 byte file Windows 10

    Are they located in a folder which can be deleted (even if it requires temporarily moving wanted files to a temp directory). What program is creating these files? What are the file names? What are the details of these files when you powershell Get-ItemProperty ? Example (fand.txt is file)... PS C:\Users\Jim\desktop> get-itemproperty fand.txt | Format-list -Property * -Force PSPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\Users\Jim\desktop\fand.txt PSParentPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\Users\Jim\desktop PSChildName : fand.txt PSDrive : C PSProvider : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem Mode : -a---- VersionInfo : File: C:\Users\Jim\desktop\fand.txt InternalName: OriginalFilename: FileVersion: FileDescription: Product: ProductVersion: Debug: False Patched: False PreRelease: False PrivateBuild: False SpecialBuild: False Language: BaseName : fand Target : {} LinkType : Name : fand.txt Length : 25 DirectoryName : C:\Users\Jim\desktop Directory : C:\Users\Jim\desktop IsReadOnly : False Exists : True FullName : C:\Users\Jim\desktop\fand.txt Extension : .txt CreationTime : 6/16/2020 18:28:42 CreationTimeUtc : 6/16/2020 23:28:42 LastAccessTime : 6/19/2020 19:14:50 LastAccessTimeUtc : 6/20/2020 00:14:50 LastWriteTime : 6/16/2020 18:28:42 LastWriteTimeUtc : 6/16/2020 23:28:42 Attributes : Archive
    1 point
  20. Disney+ ends seven-day free trial period offering for new customers

    The Disney afternoon stuff was alright like you mentioned but Nickelodeon was the best! Disney is only now catching up to some of that stuff like Gravity Falls and Star vs Evil but other than that they still can't touch the humor shows like Sanjay & Craig or Adventures of Kid Danger Phineas and Ferb
    1 point
  21. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Not only that but some OEM PCs can't even get W10. My mother AIO from Dell couldn't run W8 or 10 without going insane. Unless that machine is WELL over a decade old, I'm calling BS on that. Most of my family is running recycled machines that I picked up from thrift stores, did a few upgrades on (usually RAM and hard drives), and all of them are running Windows 10 with zero issues. These machines are anywhere from about 2008-2012 vintage. Yep, upgrade the ram and add an SSD and BAM! New machine! That don't solve everything, I tried to get an HP machine running Windows 10 and it would not run correctly, mainly due to getting the drivers, i tried Windows 8 drivers as they are the most compatible with Windows 10, but the machine would still not have it, had to go back to Windows 7 for it. Saying that the machine was as slow as hell, so sticking Windows 10 on it would have made it worse. Well, you are not going to get Windows 10 on a Pentium 4 or Pentium D. Core2Duos on the other hand... I have Windows 10 running on my Pentium D machine. It’s my legacy legacy machine for a reason but it ran Windows 8.1 (and this was upgraded to Windows 10 in 2015) like a champ when it was my primary machine.
    1 point
  22. Bloodstained is an amazing game! And Symphony of the Night fan should try it out now! It's pure awesome!
    1 point
  23. Don't forget about Xbox, we have Windows/Office/Whatever in our own language, and yet Xbox is like "there be dragons".
    1 point
  24. I can confirm this. I live in Bosnia (Central Europe) and many of the services are unavailable. So yes, f-you Disney.
    1 point
  25. No, you'll just have viruses, worms and other malware to do that for you instead of Microsoft And no, even a sensible person such as yourself who doesn't click yes or accept on any prompt they see is still vulnerable. You just have to visit a website infected with code that targets an unpatched exploit, or be served a malicious ad and boom, gotcha. Good luck with that.
    1 point
  26. Help needed will pay

    Nah, I'm not a web programmer. Just wanted to help get more information so others can help you better.
    1 point
  27. Disney+ ends seven-day free trial period offering for new customers

    as a man in my mid 30s i think Disney+ is great not just for new exclusive stuff so many classic cartons and shows from my childhood on there like Gargoyles, Recess, Chip n Dale not to mention the old marvel stuff too for the price of 59.99 for a whole year for me its more than worth it but i only got it because of the 7 day trial if there wasn't one i dunno if i would have even given it a chance its a mistake to end it
    1 point
  28. They had committed to W8.1 support through to at least 2023. Were you worried they may renege on that? Quite frankly, I hope so. More focus on Windows 10 is needed. It's time for legacy to go! Windows 8 would have done a lot better if MS did not change the start menu to a star screen, yeah I know it is a little thing, but that is what stopped a lot of people going for Windows 8/8.1 and also the awful Hybrid mobile system. Get rid of the start screen with a normal start menu, get rid of the charms and Windows 8 was a pretty solid OS. I don't believe I said that about a MS operating system. I found it better than Windows 7 in the memory management and I found it ran software much better. i wanted to keep it on this Ryzen machine when I updated, but it kept having memory management problems and blue screening, something it only did a computer of times on my old Bulldozer based machine and both blue screens was from software i installed that was beta. There were some problems with Windows 8, one of them is that you needed to unplug your machine from the net when setting up, otherwise it tried to link your machine via a Live account as it was then, but MS is doing that again with the home versions of Windows 10. But it certainly was not as invasive as Windows 10, and even now it is easy to get rid of the updates that MS put on it to collect data. Also no cortana. I did try Windows 8 again, I got it working, but I updated the video card and Windows 8 for some reason did not like displaying in 4K.
    1 point
  29. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    We had a customer last week who couldn't place an order on our ecommerce website, I soon discovered this customer was running Windows XP with IE6... i'm all for Microsoft pushing browser updates to discontinued versions of Windows, as the average person never going to upgrade their operating system or web browser unless its done for them.
    1 point
  30. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Windows 7 users: Right click, hide update
    1 point
  31. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    They had committed to W8.1 support through to at least 2023. Were you worried they may renege on that? Quite frankly, I hope so. More focus on Windows 10 is needed. It's time for legacy to go! Windows 8.1 is not and cannot be considered 'legacy'.
    1 point
  32. Disney+ ends seven-day free trial period offering for new customers

    This is news?
    1 point
  33. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Crazy how my mind goes from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It's like Windows 8 didn't even happen.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    No thanks, Microsoft. However, thanks for remembering your best operating system to date.
    1 point
  35. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    Corporate pride. You just know that it hurts someone's pride there that a large portion of the code came from Google and Apple.
    1 point
  36. It's only supported as long as Google Chrome is, so Windows 7 is still officially dead outside of extended support contracts.
    1 point
  37. Russia removes two-year ban on messaging app Telegram

    thank you for sharing your private data with us. Please install Any Online Password Manager to make us read your files easier.
    1 point
  38. Not really; they will argue that you can ship it in.
    1 point
  39. Microsoft is pushing out its new Edge browser to Windows 7 and 8.1

    The third paragraph is especially revealing. Maybe, just maybe, some of the more mature and intelligent employees at MS are finally (!) realizing that WIndows-10 isn't nearly the home run they were led to believe. WIndows-7 is very alive and well, albeit somewhat old. However, its reliability and ease of use more than fulfill many users' needs.
    1 point
  40. Apple will close some U.S. stores after a spike in COVID-19 cases

    Things were opened in spite of the statistics. Reopen based on trials and scientific models, rather than arbitrary bs. Apple like others are putting greed ahead of safety. Notice the huge spikes are in anti-mask populations that pushed to reopen early.(aka Trump Red States)
    1 point
  41. "Lord of the Rings" star Sir Ian Holm dies aged 88

    RIP
    1 point
  42. Microsoft Surface Go 2 receives June firmware update

    Says someone who probably doesn't own one and just look at specs. For casual tasks, it's more than fine. It is slower than a 4210U in my Thinkpad and that thing is sluggish AF. I have a Surface Go (1st gen, 8 GB RAM / 128 GB SSD), and it beats the socks of my Surface Pro 2 (i5-4300U). The Surface Pro 2 is super sluggish even with a fresh install of Windows 10. The CPU in the Surface Pro 2 is miles better than the Go 1.
    1 point
  43. Google takes on Pinterest with a new experimental app called Keen

    pinterest is a cancer, i said it
    1 point
  44. Hopefully it turns out better. Pinterest is a pestilence on the internet for anyone doing image searches.
    1 point
  45. In all honesty, I don't care or mind. I'd rather wait additional months if they feel they need that to achieve desired levels of quality. Sure waiting months to play most anticipated game is annoying, but nowhere near as annoying as waiting devs for months to fix issues you're experiencing while already playing the game. So, yeah, take your time CDPR. Sometimes few months of extra work can separate ultimate experience from just "good".
    1 point
  46. Google takes on Pinterest with a new experimental app called Keen

    How long till they shut it down?
    1 point
  47. Windows 10 version 2004's new feature may fix Chrome's high RAM usage

    You lost me with iTunes is great.
    1 point
  48. UK to abandon contact tracing app for decentralised model

    Apps take a long time to write especially if you're just starting out. One would assume that even the UK government know they have to employ professional app developers who already know what they're doing. That's not a given though, with this lot.
    1 point
  49. Every major cell carrier in the U.S. is having service outages today

    Maybe next time they can inject the towers with bleach.
    1 point
  50. Cant delete 0 byte file Windows 10

    Unlocker usually works on these types of files https://unlocker.en.softonic.com/
    1 point