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  1. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows has sure come a long way. A little inconsistent here and there but they're getting close.
    7 points
  2. I first read this as a butthole flaw. Yes I am immature.
    4 points
  3. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    If you mean Cortana, she did talk back then, unless your sound card driver was not installed. She went away in the recent releases. But then again, badmouthing Cortana is standard ranting cliche here in Neowin.
    4 points
  4. AWS adds new Amazon Fraud Detector to fight fraud

    20 years of fraud detection expertise, but they still can't detect and remove fake reviews.
    4 points
  5. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    I picked up a 950 to use to replace my 640 for note taking on the go. The keyboard on Windows Mobile was amazing and nothing can really compare to it. The best part of WP IMO was its Driving Mode. I love how it would automatically switch on when paired with your car radio and automatically read texts and such allowing you to reply via voice completely hands free. Even today I haven't seen a native or 3rd party Car Mode on either Android or iOS that works as seamlessly for this portion.
    3 points
  6. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    ...Microsoft, assuming that this was all a part of some grand plan to refresh the Windows phone device landscape... Well, this was accurate at the time. The 950/XL was to be a faster release with the Surface phone to follow in late 2016 or early 2017. Windows 10 Mobile at design planning was well positioned, but along with the 'fast' release of the 950 hardware, features got throw out with the intent to add them in the next generation of devices. On paper WM10 was really good. Android App support in a subsystem with NT's faster video drivers and better memory management and scheduling - leaving room to be as fast if not faster than Android native devices. UWP was a good framework that spanned desktop and mobile features properly, unlike WinRT's bastardization originally. Microsoft also designed in modular carrier drivers, so that they no longer had to even talk to ATT or XZY carrier to issue updates. (Which is why WM10 easily got updates every month until the end a few months ago.) Compatibility was designed in, and even though Microsoft didn't release WM10 to WP8 generation devices, there was only a couple of devices that didn't work. There were also issues outside the WM group, as UWP was delayed, not shipping until the 1511 release of Windows 10 - making the WM10 release and the desktop update a massive release. WM10 1511 was slow as crap and buggy. When ripping out features to make the deadline, the speed and stability was compromised. Going back to an Oct beta before 1511 with the Android App subsystem, stability and performance were good. 1607 Anniversary brought the UWP fixes and performance and stability that 1511 should have had for both the Desktop and WM10. Even the first Lumia 920 WP8 devices ran better/faster on WM10 1607 than they did with the original WP8 and WP8.1. Sadly, Microsoft decision to not rollout WM10 to devices automatically was dead. There was a huge shift inside Microsoft over the Summer/Fall of 2015 - with MIcrosoft finally listening to the 'brainy' people of how to fix the Win8 crap and build for the future. However, this fell apart was people were lobbying to get WM10 cut down to make the deadline. Anyone paying attention to this time, Joe Bel. left for vacation Oct 2015 - which was either him getting away and not having to look at the mess or Microsoft sending him away so they could chop things up. This sidelining of Joe and others in Microsoft was more of a change than people like myself realized, as we were still hearing Surface Phone, and things were still happening, etc. However, on all direction shifts, managers were able to kill WM10, almost kill UWP, damn near kill Win32, and destroyed the unified UI aspects, that are JUST NOW THIS YEAR back on track, and catching up. The plans and technologies that flew through Microsoft during the past 5 years was both amazing and sickening as they had no priority. Even Windows 10X was essentially coming together, then a group of 'idiots' cobbled it a whole new direction, either ignoring or being ignorant of the technologies in Windows NT. Now here we are in 2020, and Windows 10X is fixed and being rebuilt to work like the first round design. ------ I never had faith in Microsoft, but I had faith in some of the brilliant engineers, and thus the technology Microsoft put out was often so far ahead, the significance was lost on the industry. Right now, the only consumer use of Microsoft's development that people kind of recognize are things like RT (DXR) WinML, and several other 3D and performance technologies that are being seen a bit in the Xbox Series X. The Xbox One also had a chunk of new technologies, but somehow Microsoft couldn't get anyone to listen. And yet ironically, the PS4 adopted many of the technologies, and the ones that weren't possible are in the PS5. Even now with what little recognition and use of the Xbox Series X and DirectX technologies Microsoft has introduced, many are not well understood and not being used, even by Microsoft own game studios. Ironically, one company that really gets these technologies is Epic and as we have peeled back how Unreal Engine 5 works - most of it comes directly from Microsoft - and the funny thing is Sweeny isn't too proud to take money from Sony, and talk up the PS5. The Xbox Series X hardware and technology difference is so vast compared to the PS5, we literally have Gabe Newell flat out saying the Xbox Series X is the best. And he ######ing hates Microsoft. - Although that ice might be thawing a bit with Microsoft OSS movement and handing of technologies to Valve for Proton and Vulkan, etc. - which is ironic because Sony has been doing very little for the OSS community the last two generations of consoles. TL;DR Rich and us other Windows Phone fans weren't wrong at the time, as that was the plan and direction, but massive changes happened, and things went in the darkest direction many times, based on internal political and manager ignorance of Windows.
    3 points
  7. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Windows 10 solidified my move away from Windows as my daily driver OS. I couldn’t deal with the inconsistencies, botched updates (both cumulative and feature), and constant beta testing feeling. As soon as they axed the majority of their QA in favor of agile and public betas, I knew the quality would tank. Other OSes also follow the agile model, but have a far better track record for consistency. Windows 10 may be better in its development cycle now, but I’ve already left and see no incentive to come back.
    3 points
  8. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    5 years and it is spyware, 5 years and the UI is still a mess and inconsistrant, 5 years and the settings is still a mess, split between the control panel and the settings, 5 years and Ms still have no idea what they are doing, the store is still full of rubbish, and very little worth bothering with and now MS is pushing more people to use their Ms account which offers very little. Updates still muck up and every update seems t o have some sort of problem and those problems are getting worse and yet they still offer nothing for the majority of people. So in all the updates and years, windows 10 is still no better, in fact sometimes it is worse
    3 points
  9. Apple's Tim Cook plans to tell the committee that the Cupertino firm “does not have a dominant market share in any market where we do business. That is not just true for the iPhone, it is true for any product category.” In his prepared testimony, he wrote that before the App Store was launched, software developers paid a hefty 50-70% fee to distribute their work, which has now been "vastly" lowered. It is not true. The first app store on Iphone was Cydia and it was free (free as in speech and free as in beer). And Apple destroyed it.
    3 points
  10. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    Lenovo phone? What? Why?
    3 points
  11. Not trolling, genuinely curious. Why would anyone still be on 8.1?
    2 points
  12. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Many of us hated the pre-release builds, we hated the initial launch version & hated every release up to and including 2004. I was only using my Macs part time before Windows 10 but Windows 10 pushed me fully over to macOS. I still use Windows 10 now and then as I stupidly bought a Surface Laptop 2 when it was on sale but it’s so painfully bad and I fully back the criticisms mentioned above and elsewhere. I still don’t think Microsoft know what they are doing with Windows and it’s plain to see. It’s horrendous. Why are all the settings STILL all over the place? Why does Control Panel still exist? Why does Windows still eat up so much space and why is it still so painful to manage in an enterprise environment? It’s a stinking turd.
    2 points
  13. Lets see...it was a piece of garbage when released, and now its evolved into a piece of ######. That about sums it up.
    2 points
  14. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    * grabs popcorn *
    2 points
  15. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    This is the first time I've heard of this Windows Update issue and I manage some 4,000+ computers. The extra OOBE steps are just bringing privacy features to the users attention and still people complain about it despite Windows being more transparent than ever with its privacy options. Even the "beloved" Windows 7 sends data back to Microsoft with no central location to easily turn all of this off.
    2 points
  16. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    I miss 1507 where on a clean install and the first boot, the bitch doesn't start talking you.
    2 points
  17. It's like one step before a possible legal trial where it's the US vs Company X etc. If they're not happy with what the CEOs say and show, then they push for a full blown trial. This also leads to any changes in regulations and laws in the future. So while they might not take them to trial, they might not like what they're hearing and tack on more regulations.
    2 points
  18. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    You do realize why only OLED phones have AOD, right?
    2 points
  19. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    Too little, too late. I sold all my OnePlus phones and moved to Lenovo which has a nice notification LED yet all the features I wanted in a modern sleek looking phone. AOD was Samsung's bad idea and everyone copied it and ditched the very-useful notification LED.
    2 points
  20. Downloaded, thank you. All running well on my iPhone
    2 points
  21. AWS adds new Amazon Fraud Detector to fight fraud

    they can add it to amazon vendors.
    2 points
  22. The outside diameter of the cable(s) is quite large, but will vary in size depending on the armoring, shielding, strength members, fibre counts and any additional wiring within it. The weight per meter is fairly heavy so the traditional method has been to roll off hundreds of meters of cable and allow it to sink to ocean floor. They will anchor the cable periodically to help it maintain its route and not become a casualty of ships. Because optical signals degrade like others (much less, of course), there are key points along the route that will have a form of repeater in-line that will help propagate the signal great distances. Typically, these repeaters are EDFA lasers meant to re-amplify the optical signal. The planning that goes into charting the best route, or path of least resistance is also critical to the cable(s) installation. Because we're talking about the Atlantic ocean here, the depths can be prohibitive, so they'd likely look to ocean-floor geography to keep the installation as consistent as possible throughout. Source: I design/plan outside plant systems for an ISP.
    2 points
  23. Biden's campaign bans TikTok from employees mobile devices

    As if a Chinese company wouldn't lie to keep its business. FTFY.
    2 points
  24. I know one person who had this then got rid of it, honestly, how many people use this service and like it? honest question
    2 points
  25. Why do they do this? Announce something that gets people excited then let them down? This is no way to build a loyal fan base.
    2 points
  26. Biden's campaign bans TikTok from employees mobile devices

    As if a Chinese company wouldn't lie to keep its business.
    2 points
  27. Glad you actually realized the purposeful intention of the flaw name by similar people. lol
    1 point
  28. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    I picked up a 950 to use to replace my 640 for note taking on the go. The keyboard on Windows Mobile was amazing and nothing can really compare to it.
    1 point
  29. SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-2: US returns to crewed launches (mission)

    Go Navigator just moored up NAS Pensacola......
    1 point
  30. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    5 years of incompetence and i'm being kind, i didn't count the years of windows 8 fiasco what's gonna be new in 5 years from now? a new icon? lol nothing has changed, at all people who defend this trillion $ company are delusional
    1 point
  31. IIRC, Microsoft wanted to buy Moon, but they refused (probably because the founders came from pretty big companies and made their own company for a reason). It could also be that the contract they had with Microsoft was only good for Ori and Ori 2 so there's that. We'll see if Private Division will go the Epic exclusivity route like with The Outer Worlds for this one, but I sure hope not. I think MS buys studios with specific game types in mind, like RPGs or racers or shooters. I think they look at what they're missing in their 1st party lineup and fill the gap. If Moon was going to make another game like Ori I think MS would've published it, but they want to go to something bigger it sounds like, I'm interested either way.
    1 point
  32. Android Auto now available for eligible BMW vehicles

    Oops, fixed it
    1 point
  33. Share if your Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) is blocked

    Not a game I've played so I can't say if it's the game, the OS, drivers, or some mix of things. I've been killing time playing Madden 20, yeah I know, but I miss football. And it's running just as well as it did on 1909. I'm about to drop it though and play something else, dunno what's up next from my backlog but maybe Watch Dogs 2 since I just got it for free. We'll see how that one goes.
    1 point
  34. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    I like how they copied iOS 14's home screen widgets, still not enough to save them though.
    1 point
  35. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    It is weird how you gloss over 1803 when it introduced significant features such as Near Share. 1703 will always be my favourite version, however. In the meantime ... R.I.P. Wi-Fi Sense from 1507. R.I.P. Sketchpad from 1607. R.I.P. Windows Ink app suggestions from 1607. R.I.P. Draw functionality for Mail released around 1803. R.I.P. Data Usage functionality killed in 2004. And this is not even mentioning all of the significant features of Windows heritage that have since been removed ( I am looking at you, PNRP ). And really ... none of the principal or significant Windows 8.1 features are here anymore. There is no real, substantial, tangible effort to bridge the divide between devices such as that operating system intended. The deprecation of significant Windows Ink platform features is what is most jarring to me. There is no real reason to remove Sketchpad. Draw functionality in Mail, or even Windows Ink Workspace app suggestions. There is no vision. I see a lot of features, some with great potential, and some which fall by the wayside, but there is no vision with this operating system.
    1 point
  36. If anyone, and I mean anyone can explain U.S. (any) LAW and keep it short in this context, please, let me know. I want to meet this human in person. As has been mentioned, its a necessary precursor to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
    1 point
  37. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Oh this is gonna be an interesting comment section.
    1 point
  38. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Well said. This is to be expected when young kids are let loose without mature supervision having actual worldly experience, coupled with minimal testing before being unleashed to an unsuspecting world. MS should not have been so hasty to "kill" Windows-7 until they had a truly worthy successor. (Yes, businesses got a multiple year reprieve, but what about individual users for whom Windows-7 is a much more suitable OS?)
    1 point
  39. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    Reading this just reminds me of how much new-MS is "Remove working feature/app. Wait until people stop complaining. Put back in half baked replacement for feature/app so they can talk about their 'new' feature/app".
    1 point
  40. Big Tech CEOs release opening remarks before congressional hearing

    Why is Congress investigating the superheroes of America? They're using their mighty capitalist superpowers to lift the US market up during this crisis. Congress should give them the Congressional Gold Medal and more tax cuts instead of vilifying them so unjustly.
    1 point
  41. Never do it Samsung for the sake of humanity, Google wants to dominate, there are multiple negative perspectives of this. BTW Google also limiting sideloading process.
    1 point
  42. That would work out pretty ###### for Samsung. The vast majority would just 'choose' the standard Google apps and Samsung would move from 'All the ad revenue from its own apps when people use them' to 'Practically none'.
    1 point
  43. you just did and millions will. Thank you.
    1 point
  44. I don't like the UI for open/libre office.
    1 point
  45. Biden's campaign bans TikTok from employees mobile devices

    Good - another pointless, unnecessary piece of junk social media app that should never have been invented.
    1 point
  46. Microsoft and PepsiCo announce a five-year cloud partnership

    Very slowly, with individual standalone apps. Anecdote: My org used G Suite and Webex, then Zoom happened. Hangouts Meet and Webex out, Zoom in. Your org was okay with all the issues around Zoom? Just to save a buck? Yep. It took me by surprise. We were about to go all in on O365 before the pandemic happened. Lots of initial hiccups (waiting rooms, who's hosting and what not), but seems to have settled down. Hey, its better than Webex We're a Webex house for video conferencing, and moving from Jabber to Teams for chat/email replacement. Haven't had any issues with Webex tbh. Jabber, though....
    1 point
  47. Sounds like you need a better internet connection.
    1 point
  48. Microsoft publishes the release schedule for its Edge browser

    Oh good, another schedule for them not to meet
    1 point