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  1. This update had so little end-user features added yet it keeps breaking what is already there... Seriously?
    7 points
  2. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    Makes sense since this MacOS 11 is really the beginning of combining some aspects of desktop and mobile (universal apps on desktop).
    5 points
  3. They do not take Insider feedback.
    4 points
  4. V.2004 should have been rock solid. It was "finalized" in November 2019. Microsoft had seven months to iron out the bugs. Microsoft really don't seem to be proactive with Windows 10, in any way. There is too much reliance on automated processes that aren't smart enough to duplicate human testing on actual hardware that represents what most people use.
    4 points
  5. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck? If you look for ducks then you will see ducks. So show me how is it different from Live Tiles? I don't get what is this guys problem... Lack of gray matter.
    4 points
  6. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. It was a failure for a number of reasons but their live tiles and lockscreen were way ahead of time.
    4 points
  7. I miss live tiles and lockscreen notifications of WP so bad...
    4 points
  8. Maybe offline capabilities?
    3 points
  9. A small favor to Microsoft from Amazon for killing Mixer, perhaps
    3 points
  10. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    > There doesn't seem to be anything specific about this release that would indicate such a major change that it's a whole new generation. The shift to ARM support with ARM-on-install is a huge change. They are also going to natively support iOS / iPadOS apps running on macOS 11. Apple did not change major versions when they switched from PowerPC to Intel, but I think that had more to do with Steve Jobs than anything -- a CPU architecture change for an OS is huge. Microsoft has a completely different SKU for Windows on ARM, for perspective. I am not a fan of Apple switching to ARM because I think it is more about lock-in than anything else, but I think that Microsoft should learn from Apple about how they are handling ARM. Apple has the benefit of being able to transition and leave x86/x64 behind, but the fact that Rosetta will convert to ARM64 on-the-fly for Just-In-Time (JIT) code and on-install for non-JIT code should be how Microsoft achieves a hybrid system that supports both ARM64 and x64; and just forget ARM32 even exists as a standalone instruction set. If done properly, it could even go both directions and they could support universal binaries that provide both to enable things like browsers that can optimize for either. Microsoft has had its toe in the ARM world in laptops for much longer than Apple, but this really needs to be a wakeup call to how poorly Microsoft has been handling it. For instance, I was very interested in getting a Surface Pro X for my wife, but I had zero interest in getting it once I figured out that x64-based apps would not run on it at all. Combine that with a >$1K pricetag and Microsoft's previous Windows on ARM cancellation, it's an absolute no. If it just ran some things a little slower though with significantly better battery life? It would have been a knockout.
    3 points
  11. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    11, well it's one more innit. It's not 10, it's 11. Most OS's only go to 10 and there's nowhere else to go. If you're on 10, and you need that extra push, MacOS goes to 11.
    3 points
  12. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    * look around for the people that said Mac OS X would never go past version 10 * huh where'd they go (yes people used to claim Mac OSX was the name of the OS that's why it would always be 10... until Apple dropped the X in recent years and renamed it to MacOS) Can't wait for MS to do the same thing with windows someday since they said Windows 10 was the last version number, just wait for Windows 11 :D
    3 points
  13. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck? If you look for ducks then you will see ducks. I can recognize a duck without looking for ducks... Out of curiosity, what do you think makes this different from live tiles?
    3 points
  14. Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with the big design changes

    Nothing new but what I see is a more consolidated UI and better execution compared to Windows
    3 points
  15. Microsoft's strategy for Windows Phone Mixer: Extremely late to the party, halfass the goal, wonder why no one is using it, remove it. edit: there's only one comment on the news article here, from when Microsoft acquired Beam, and it's prescient: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-acquired-interactive-live-streaming-service-beam/#comment-597540944 "Stop buying thing Microsoft, you do a ###### job at acquiring companies!"
    3 points
  16. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck?
    3 points
  17. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Live Tiles are definitely still a thing in Windows 10. And this is almost a carbon copy of live tiles.
    3 points
  18. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square?
    3 points
  19. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. This is Live Tiles.
    3 points
  20. Waiting for all those people who laughed at Live Tiles to hail widgets on the homescreen as the next best thing in UI
    3 points
  21. LOL they copied Windows phone.
    3 points
  22. iOS is looking more like Windows Phone now.
    3 points
  23. Why do you post a wall of text like that? It's painful to read on mobile.
    2 points
  24. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    MacOS11 is now iphone on a conventional monitor
    2 points
  25. Microsoft does it again. Do they even think of their reputation before they buy off such companies to shut them off after a couple of years?
    2 points
  26. What's new .. Microsoft famously known for shutting down services that they started or bought. They lack commitment, creativity and simple sore losers that can't keep up their game/competition and they are an embarrassment towards the tech world. Now LinkedIn might be next or maybe Github and wait for the surface phone which won't last a quarter.
    2 points
  27. So does this mean that the mac is basically a more expensive iphone in a bigger case?
    2 points
  28. wouldn't be an ios release if apple didn't borrow ideas from the jailbreak community who sometimes borrow ideas from android lol
    2 points
  29. Remember, folks, Apple is ONLY doing this to increase profits. By making their own chips, they'll be able to hide this cost from users/analysis as well. They won't be lowering prices, of course. This is one of the few places they were handing profits to someone else, so it was inevitable that they'd try to do this. This does lock Apple into the pure consumer space with some bleed-through into the lower end of the prosumer space. They are surrendering the professional and high end space to Intel/AMD here.
    2 points
  30. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck? If you look for ducks then you will see ducks. So show me how is it different from Live Tiles? Clearly they aren't Live Tiles because Live Tiles were dumb and failed therefore these aren't Live Tiles, duh. /s "It's not the same!" "Why?" "Because it's different!"
    2 points
  31. Massively impressed. Good luck finding the android that gets updates on time (if at all) after a couple years.
    2 points
  32. Please dont. please. don't. dont. don't intergrate facebook into windows 10 or xbox like you did with mixer. Oh god I need to buy a mac.
    2 points
  33. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck? If you look for ducks then you will see ducks. So show me how is it different from Live Tiles? I don't get what is this guys problem...
    2 points
  34. iPhone 6s? That's 5+ years of software updates!
    2 points
  35. NO lives tiles here, Windows phone was a miserable failure. This is obviously not Windows Phone. Auto-refreshing widgets, auto readjustment of other items on the home screen, 1x1 app icons living along with 2x2, 4x2 and 4x4 widgets, apps arranged alphabetically in a list view in app library. "Doesn't look like anything to me" Also, why are you so riled up when I was talking about some random people on the Internet? Are you one of them? You can keep listing features but Windows Phone is gone, it failed. It was an expensive and miserable failure for many reasons. Was it too soon, too late? Not enough? Too much? Were people dumb for not liking it? Windows Phone is very gone. Live tiles have gone in Windows. No one wanted lives tiles, no one asked for lives tiles. This is not tiles. Apparently, it is the same Live Tiles that still lives on in Windows 10. Hardly gone. So what if Windows Phone failed. Yes it did. Not denying. But why are you denying that this isn't Live Tiles? Why are you denying that Apple took *cough* inspiration *cough* from Live Tiles? Can you show me how this is different from Live Tiles? Is it because the widget is not a perfect square? It's not live tiles. Why are you insisting its live tiles? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, isn't it a duck? If you look for ducks then you will see ducks. So show me how is it different from Live Tiles?
    2 points
  36. Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with the big design changes

    basically looks like Windows now... how times have changed
    2 points
  37. Android 1.0 had widgets, so even before Windows Phone. And Windows Mobile before that
    2 points
  38. WTF!!! Oh right there is Twitch and ewwww Facebook really? Facebook or Twitter this social networking sites what could go wrong last thing I need to infect my Xbox.
    2 points
  39. wp says welcome to 2010
    2 points
  40. Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with the big design changes

    So you are confirming that Apple is following Microsoft's vision. Is that correct?
    2 points
  41. I'm amazed at how efficient Rosetta seems to be. puts Microsoft's x86 translation on ARM to shame We'll have to wait and see... I ain't biting anything until these devices come out and are properly reviewed.
    2 points
  42. So they finally get to the year 2005? Its sad how Android and Windows Phones had all this before them.
    2 points
  43. Ya, I don't see the limitation you are seeing. Also something to note... You can add/upgrade RAM on most PC notebooks, even to sizes that may have not been originally certified/tested when it shipped. i.e. The notebook I'm using at the moment, originally shipped with 16GB maximum RAM, eventually was certified for 32GB upgrade kits, and 64GB also works even though not officially certified. As for the RAM of phones, you do realize that Android requires more RAM than Windows 10 or Linux for nominal performance. Comparing RAM needs to a phone is not a good metric to use. (Android is a horrible OS model and a pig with regard to RAM needs.)
    1 point
  44. Oh, c'mon. Do you actually know anyone that is still using a 15 year old PC for Skype, or any other online work?
    1 point
  45. Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with the big design changes

    So Apple is jumping on the mid 2010s design craze now called rounded corner boxes with light shadows....... You aren't a "modern" UI design without them......
    1 point
  46. Basically, the way I see it this move, other than helping Apple boost it's margins/profits on Macs, targets iOS devs. By using the same ARM chips on the mac and the iphone/ipad, you basically have a hardware SDK to run your apps directly on. I don't see the benefit, to start at least, that you get for the every day users who aren't looking to work or make apps on ARM. Longer battery life is the only benefit, and I still think performance will take a hit regardless of what Apples marketing department says.
    1 point
  47. My iPhone SE gets to live on another year!
    1 point
  48. Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with the big design changes

    "The Big Slur"
    1 point
  49. Mixer is/was better than Twitch for the overall user experience. I think the main issue is it wasn't available on PS. So being limited to one platform hurt it big time. Someone above mentioned the name being an issue and I agree. Mixer was a terrible name.
    1 point
  50. Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors

    Windows 10X will be DoA... ARM is not the future for the average user any time soon. Windows 10X is going to be where Windows as a whole ends up, it's not going to be DoA. You'll be running it on desktops soon enough. You mean the OS that still relies on non-functioning UWP, uses built in apps that haven't been updated since 2015 and hasn't gotten an Insider build in months? IMO Win10X is dead.
    1 point