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Showing content with the highest reputation on 29/07/20 in Posts

  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. Google One app now includes free phone backups, and heads to iOS

    Two things: 1) Apple's free storage tier is 5 GB, while Google's free tier is 15 GB. I wish Apple offered a bit more for their free tier. 2) I have much more faith/better experience in the backup/restore process from Apple. I've had less than stellar experience with Android's backup/restore, where certain apps don't restore at all (it's a surprise if an app restore properly).
    1 point
  28. sounds like it may be an issue with Feedly itself and how it's manipulating the urls within the rss feed. if you look at the raw rss page in the browser there is no 'feeds.neowin.net' on anything, all the URLs just point to the actual 'www.neowin.net'
    1 point
  29. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    I'll update the paper build again tonight to see if that improves stability. it's probably a combination of things at fault since it's new major version of Minecraft. could be one of the plugins that haven't updated yet too; I'll see what the error log says if it's still up.
    1 point
  30. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    Neowin should just have a separate section for comments
    1 point
  31. Windows 10 turns five years old today: Mobile edition

    sadly. I wish they would have given it more love as I personally still think it was a superior system that just needed some buffing out. The biggest issue with WP since WP7 was how they managed the store; it was absolutely filled with crap and fake apps. The store on the desktop Win10 isn't much better ...
    1 point
  32. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    5 years on and search still sucks, albeit it is getting better, but still far behind Spotlight which came out in 2005.
    1 point
  33. Google Play Console listing confirms Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+ specs

    My Tab S4 is still getting regular updates after two years. Have to see what happens moving through August into September to see if the security updates keep coming as year three kicks off. My Tab S2 did receive a full three years of security updates. Not nearly as long as an iPad but the iPad doesn't allow easy, free development and side loading.
    1 point
  34. The people that I know that buy Samsung phones buy it for the Samsung Experience. When I used Android I also had Samsung phones and used most of the Samsung apps because they are just better and better optimised for their phones and battery. Also no ads like in Gmail and Photos. Samsung their browser had plugins, AdBlock, NightMode etc for ages. Their e-mail app had rich text formatting before Gmail etc. Also using the stock apps has a nice and consistent feel of UI with the rest of the OS. Samsung will never agree to this anyway. People who want a 'pure Google' experience buy a Pixel anyway.
    1 point
  35. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    You do realize why only OLED phones have AOD, right? Yeah, and while it doesn't use as much battery it's not like it doesn't add a little bit of extra to it. Besides, I don't need yet another bright screen on all the time, there's no reason for it in my opinion. The amount of battery it uses is negligible, it that day to day you probably won't notice. I think you need to see what AOD looks like, it's definitely not bright. It's useful for at a glance notification. I feel like features like this are like features in a car. You get so used to life without them that you don't see the benefit, but as soon as it becomes part of your life, you can't think of a phone/car without it.
    1 point
  36. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    Wait holdup. You are telling me that OnePlus phones, despite shipping with OLED displays since OP3 still do not have Always on Display?!
    1 point
  37. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    Not interested in this, just another way to drain your battery faster. While my OnePlus 6T doesn't have a notification LED, I honestly don't need that thing blinking all the time either, a simple tap on the screen shows me what I need to know without unlocking the phone or even looking at the full lock screen.
    1 point
  38. Lucifer (TV)

    I think the trailer is pretty much most of the first ep and not that far into the season.
    1 point
  39. OnePlus teases support for always-on display in OxygenOS 11

    Must admit I like the notification LED also, only custom roms seem to implement it how it should work in my opinion though. I set the colour per app so i know if I have an email, missed call, WhatsApp and so on. I'm still perfectly happy with my OnePlus 5T, the design of that is modern enough for me and has the notification LED. I wouldn't say i'm against an AOD either, Nokia's Symbian S60 smartphones did this in the 2000's and it worked well for me.
    1 point
  40. AWS adds new Amazon Fraud Detector to fight fraud

    Stripe fails miserably at fraud detection. We are currently in a lawsuit with them over this.
    1 point
  41. I have an E5 subscription through work from my Visual Studio Professional account. It's got everything - SharePoint, Power BI, plus Office apps for 25 people. They have good products - certainly better than the feature poor junk that Google offers through their G Suite.
    1 point
  42. Biden's campaign bans TikTok from employees mobile devices

    It’s literally about a political candidate banning a Chinese owned app. We’re pretty on topic here... Considering the reply mentioned nothing about tiktok and commented just on political issues, no...not on topic. Other comments here, on topic sure. This is about how tech can cause security issues and leak/steal private information. Not whether or not Biden's foreign policy will differ from the current admins. The OP mentioned nothing about foreign policy/gov current/future actions and focuses on the issues concerning tiktok.
    1 point
  43. *cough* AirPower. What?!
    1 point
  44. Newegg 9900k on sale, but is it somehow different?

    Intel stopped selling the 9900k in the dodecahedron a month or so ago. Edit: Source https://qdms.intel.com/dm/i.aspx/5ECED248-C344-4D18-8381-4A8AB48292FB/PCN117611-00.pdf Regarding the stepping ... no idea. I would assume that the 9900k in the box are the newest ones off of the line ...
    1 point
  45. Not sure why you think that's funny or a joke... ?? I can't remember the last time I pulled the keyboard off my Surface and I didn't want it to switch to tablet mode. Having it do that automatically makes sense to me. But maybe I'm wrong and I'll end up not liking it doing that after all, so it's good the functionality is configurable. tablet mode is a joke. absolute joke. can't even really use it in a multimonitor setup or snap more than two apps at a time. unlike Windows 8.1 which should have been continued ... and not abandoned ... To each his own I guess. I much prefer Windows 10's tablet mode to Windows 8. Not sure why I'd want it in tablet mode with a second monitor hooked up, but maybe there is a situation I can't think of. I don't snap apps all that often, and on a small screen it seems more than two would make them all pretty small. Of course, I never used 8.1, only 8.0 on my Surface RT, so I guess I'm not missing snapping more than two. The problem 8.0/8.1 had was that the tablet environment was exclusive to store apps (i.e modern apps, winrt apps etc). Windows 10's tablet mode is simply a UI change, and the same apps run in either mode. That's why I prefer it; I can seamlessly switch back and forth between modes without having to open a whole different set of apps. And after using both extensively I'm not a fan of the disconnect between the desktop environment and the tablet environment on 8.x. It worked ok on my Surface RT, but eventually I found myself using the desktop environment most of the time and mostly ignoring modern ui and apps. But there may be pros and cons to both approaches Maybe you should submit feedback on it in the feedback app? Perhaps Microsoft will increase the number of apps you can snap in tablet mode in a future update. I cannot imagine why you would ... it has so many regressions. I could spend quite a long time talking about features that it does not have ... Well, for snapping more than two, it would depend on your resolution ... Windows 8.1 is intelligent in this regard. I understand Metro was exclusive to WinRT ... but ... the only fundamental difference is that apps were always fullscreen. That is it ! Tablet Mode multitasking is horrible on my tablet and computer with a touchscreen. Switching apps, for example is a horrible affair. With Windows 8.1 it is just swipe from the left and switch to an app ( or optionally open the app switcher ) but in Windows 10 there is this weird in-transition before and after opening Task View ... Even using the taskbar to switch between open apps on a tablet is an unintuitive affair ... another example ... app bars in Windows 8.1 are genius contrasted with the stupid hamburger menues in Windows 10, which clearly are designed for mice only. I submitted feedback for more app snapping over two years ago ... Microsoft does not care about tablets. I tried
    1 point
  46. uTorrent 3.5.5 Build 45724

    It's grown of course, the main executable has been UPX packed for a while, but it sits around the ~2 MB mark if I'm not mistaken. It's just that they now use some AdAware installer instead of their own so the actual uTorrent/BitTorrent executable is inside of it along with other stuff. Fair enough it's grown and I used to remember it growing by a few k every couple of version but from like 160k to 4.8megs, I suspect most of that is the installer and other fluff. One of the main reasons I used to use Utorrent in the past was because it was lean, light on resources and small compared to a lot of others at the time. Just checked, so these are the details for this release: - Installer as is: 4,963 KB - Actual installer inside of it (which coincides with the program itself): 2,047 KB - Since it is compressed with UPX, when decompressed it ends up at: 5,036 KB It' certainly has grown. I think it was always UPX compressed to keep it small and since the decompression happens transparently on launch there's no appreciable delay, but damn... So out of that AdAware wrapper of an installer, the real one is just 41.25%. And you can bet it can install itself using the real installer bypassing the AdAware thing, for those interested the file is called Carrier.exe inside of the whole package. I suppose with the hardware we have today, it doesn't really matter much but I've always liked seeing what developers can do in such a small size or little resource usage, it would be nice if we saw a lot more of that in the industry because I get the feeling a lot of them are very wasteful on the resources because it's too easy to be.
    1 point
  47. *cough* AirPower.
    1 point
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  49. @PTechC What's the URL of the feed you're using?
    1 point