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  1. There is a Microsoft Store?.
    5 points
  2. The omission of a $30 charger is a deal breaker when considering a $700-1100 phone?
    4 points
  3. Pakistan bans TikTok citing 'immoral, indecent' content

    These apps make the youth act and seem dumber than they actually are, probably a good move to ban this app and others that glorify idiots and challenges
    4 points
  4. New $129 Nest Thermostat with gesture controls launching soon

    I had an overbearing and thrifty father, we also didn't touch the thermostat
    4 points
  5. Microsoft outlines 10 app store principles in a jab at Apple

    Wait, people distribute on Windows Store? Haven't noticed...
    4 points
  6. Microsoft outlines 10 app store principles in a jab at Apple

    I disagree - I don't think it's these principles that make the Microsoft Store bad. It's honestly the freedom on a Windows PC to install executables that make the Store not necessary. The Microsoft Store has gotten a lot better. For PC's, I'd compare the Microsoft Store to the App Store on Mac OS.
    4 points
  7. Microsoft's first Xbox Series X commercial wants to Power Your Dreams

    How is it woke? I know Yahoo and TMZ shut down their comment sections, but do you really need to post your crap here?
    3 points
  8. Record some 4K footage and you'll know.
    3 points
  9. Like the american dream, you have to be asleep to believe it
    3 points
  10. I hope this doesn't affect the Win32 Outlook client because otherwise it's time to uninstall it. I cannot stand a "webbified" app on the desktop. What happens to existing Outlook plugins, rich object model, automation, nice usable Win32 controls?
    3 points
  11. Microsoft's Edge browser is getting price comparisons and more

    and so, the bloat begins. I probably wouldn't even be mad if it worked in my country but Bing can't even give me results in my country to buy stuff even if I search for it. I don't hold high expectations for this. Just leave it as an extension so they can quietly kill off in a few months.
    3 points
  12. oh no, I hate this slow and heavy web frameworks trend ... bring us back native apps
    3 points
  13. Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently

    The article on The Verge covers this quite well: "While Microsoft employees will be allowed to move across country for remote work, compensation and benefits will change and vary depending on the company’s own geopay scale. Microsoft will be covering home office expenses for permanent remote workers, but any that decide to move away from Microsoft’s offices will need to cover their own relocation costs." Thats...not reduced salary?
    2 points
  14. iPhone 12 lineup leaks, including pricing and availability details

    So it's a $100 price increase for the iPhone 12 vs last year's 11? That's kind of unfortunate. At least give it 128GB minimum to try to justify it better.
    2 points
  15. I would first need a reason to use YouTube. The ads are working well to keep me away.
    2 points
  16. Ugghh, Aren't the ads enough? And besides, if this pushes you to their own Google shopping system or w/e isn't that sort of seen as possibly being anti-competative? Right now, streamers show off products and link directly to the product pages, if in the future this just pushes you to a google shop of sorts, so they can take a cut of the sale, I'm not interested in it.
    2 points
  17. A Youtuber finds a product that they think will sell to their subscribers and so buys amount of the product. Google takes the product and stores it in their warehouse, and then the Youtuber goes on to their channel and streams their advert. Subscribers place an order and it gets shipped to them, with Google taking a percentage of the sale? I don't know, I don't like the idea of YouTube turning towards shopping any more than it already does.
    2 points
  18. What??? You dont already have 100 charging bricks laying around the house?
    2 points
  19. I don't get why we still need three different memory configurations on phones. With the convenience of cloud storage across multiple services you can choose the 128GB option and never run out of available storge. They could just offer a 128GB version and call it a day.
    2 points
  20. Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently

    As a former IT guy, even though I like Home Office, if you have a lot of interaction with your teamates working in the same location space gets the job faster . Typing is nowhere as fast as calling the guy 2 spaces beside you. Say for example ticket solving to clients If your proyect doesn't need interaction with teammates, then home office is enough.
    2 points
  21. we have nests at my house, and no one touches the thermostat anymore
    2 points
  22. But how are you supposed to know it’s for gamers?
    2 points
  23. "The Battery Health Manger in the BIOS helps the laptop manage battery charging patterns to avoid overcharging that could result in the swelling of the battery or overall degradation." That is some next level shockingly ###### hardware design from HP right here, why does software need to do the job your hardware should do? No surprise it's from the same company that introduced charging for BIOS updates... Rot in hell
    2 points
  24. Are these definitely real SSDs? WD lies so much these days it's hard to trust them anymore.
    2 points
  25. Show us your PC Setup - Bonus points for RGB

    Since my local retailer is indicating my Asus ROG STRIX 3080 won't arrive for at least another month... I bought a temporary video card to complete the build. Not to monopolize the thread, but here's my current cable routing
    2 points
  26. Should I get more RAM?

    I just came back to let you all know that I finally installed the 32GB in my system and it's flying! I love it. It feels so much better!!!
    2 points
  27. lol at those insane prices...
    2 points
  28. GameStop wont be around for multi-years ha
    2 points
  29. As more and more companies start pulling their stuff off Netflix to start their own streaming companies Netflix starts increasing prices. Sounds Legit.
    2 points
  30. Microsoft outlines 10 app store principles in a jab at Apple

    I don't think Anyone should take advice from Microsoft on how to run an app store. Like Dave, Ramsey says you wouldn't take financial advice from your broke uncle.
    2 points
  31. There's a lot misinformation in these comments, and I wouldn't worry about that, I don't think this is referencing the desktop apps becoming web wrappers or electron apps or anything. The Outlook clients are being rebuilt with 'React'. However, 'React' itself, at its core, is not actually bound to the web. It's a library / framework based around JSX (its own language that is basically a combination of javascript, and xml), and what React does is provide a quick way of declaring components and then updates them when their props change. While React is commonly used in web apps to handle updating the components of a web app, it doesn't necessarily have to be. React Native is a project that lets you declare and code your UI in jsx, and then when you build it, it will compile your javascript / xml components into native C++ components for whatever platform you want to build for. In that way React Native is like an abstract UI language that lets you code once but produce native applications for multiple platforms. React Native for a long time has predominantly only support Android and iOS, however, over the last year or two Microsoft has picked up development of React Native for Windows & MacOS. That's what the new Xbox Apps are coded in, and have seen massive performance improvements. I think it's safe to assume that Outlook will similarly be going down this React Native path.
    2 points
  32. Microsoft outlines 10 app store principles in a jab at Apple

    These principles are what make the Microsoft Store so bad. It wouldn't be in this sad state if they had followed Google's and Apple's greedy principles.
    2 points
  33. Hopefully this means an updated look to the boot from flash drive/dvd menus. using old vista/7 era UI.
    2 points
  34. Microsoft is changing the way it handles Windows release notes

    Thank you for posting your question to the Microsoft Support Community site. I understand that your issue is regarding the site. Run the following: 1. DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth 2. Sfc /scannow And reboot your system. Please mark this as an answer if it helped you. Thanks! Note: all opinions posted here are mine alone, not of Microsoft and are not endorsed or affiliated with it.
    2 points
  35. Google looks at Amazon affiliate links from videos, and see money and information that they are missing out. Patreon was a similar eye-opener for Google, that pushed Google to offer internal subscriptions for creators. I get this is business, but the dark/###### side is that Google are isolating any and all platform partners and tangential partners. Sponsor and companies that work with YouTube content creators, should be worried, because if they have success, Google will claw their way in and take over their business model as well. Google is an observe and predatory model, in that they don't create or innovate anything, instead they see trends and find where others are successful, and then take them over. Going back to lawsuits in the 00s, this is what Google Search was doing with every off beat website, and when a new product search system or site search technology was introduced, Google quietly added this technology to Google Search and took over that product and company's work, while also de-listing them from Google results. The only option for companies has been to tightly lock their content sites from Google, and also try to find ways to get customers through Google results anyway. Go back to Yelp and Amazon lawsuits against Google, and there are tons of other services like flight and car and apartment and property services that have had to sue or break Google from coming in and taking over their services, while yanking them off of Google search. There is still a number of things that appear on Bing, that Google buries a few pages down. Along with vertical and horizontal search technologies still slowly being rolled into Google Search. So for YouTube creators and their 'partners' outside Google, be prepared to find alternate methods to keep the links and relationships going. Well established creators are already branching out to subscription platforms, just for the day when YouTube digs more into their sponsor and sales models. Google just sucks, and far more than the traditional corporate greed crap we see happen.
    1 point
  36. Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently

    Maybe it's just me but working from home is horrible... So many distractions, especially when you have kids
    1 point
  37. Yeah I have to admit, Youtube is getting worse now with its ads, on average now we are seeing two ads for the price of one, back to back and we are seeing more of them. I won't shift away from Youtube yet but if it continues to get worse, I'll look at other alternatives which ironically will be an opening for rivals to take advantage if the service of Youtube gets worse.
    1 point
  38. New $129 Nest Thermostat with gesture controls launching soon

    Tado advocate here, but that's a good price for Nest. A lot of UK energy providers offer Nest plans.
    1 point
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  40. Microsoft could launch xCloud on iOS next year via the web

    I fully expect some pushback from Apple but I just don't see how they could rephrase their policies without sounding anti-competitive as heck.
    1 point
  41. Computer does not boot

    I just bought one of these boards and was having the same issue. I wanted to give a big thanks to the spikey richie, I switched my gpu to the other slot and it's working normally
    1 point
  42. The Expanse

    1 point
  43. React?? Are you crazy? What happened to using Microsoft’s own MAUI?
    1 point
  44. UPS Battery life

    He needs to keep on top of it--you don't want it to go bad and not know it. Been there, done that too.
    1 point
  45. Microsoft's Edge browser is getting price comparisons and more

    More bloat, leave the unnecessary features to extensions. Feature creep will make Edge just as bad as Internet Explorer.
    1 point
  46. Microsoft's Edge browser is getting price comparisons and more

    I have been really liking the new Edge and it's replaced Chrome on my desktop as my secondary browser. This is from a guy who has avoided Microsoft browsers for almost two decades. Saying that... This is NOT a "feature" I need built into my browser. Good grief!
    1 point
  47. 19% IPC uplift over Zen 2, that's crazy. RIP Intel.
    1 point
  48. This is an exciting time since computational photography is enabling some amazing things in upgrades to these good old lines of software. And I am glad they aren't subscriptions. Adobe is too late though to add GPU acceleration to their apps. It should've come long ago.
    1 point