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  1. Murphy's Law hey Microsoft. I really don't like defending MS but let's be honest. While definitely embarrassing for MS this type of issue is inevitable from time to time given the millions of different set ups and user generated changes to settings. Apple and ChromeOS should thank their lucky stars that they don't have the dog's breakfast of configurations to deal with that MS has to deal with.
    11 points
  2. Why would you buy a gaming PC... and then want to use a cloud service that is pretty much designed for people who don't have a gaming PC?
    6 points
  3. They are not lucky, they anticipated these issues and built a clean ecosystem It's messy work vs carefully designed work Microsoft is showing it again, windows team is POORLY managed And the head is clueless and blind What? No... The difference is Apple and Google control the HARDWARE on those platforms. That was not an option for Microsoft in the 80's when Windows came on the scene.
    4 points
  4. Congrats you're a Microsoft alpha tester
    3 points
  5. Update isnt working, tried at least 10 times, reboot etc., but nothing. Couldnt install, try again later.
    3 points
  6. some people in this Ten forums thread are having problems installing the new KB5001649 update for Win10 2004/20H2: https://www.tenforums.com/wind...-870-v20h2-19042-870-a.html it would fail to install. yup another update screw-up by MS
    3 points
  7. so this basically allows me to purchase games for full price on stadia to play them for three months and stream them to my new GAMING laptop ... and after those three months i will have to pay for the privilege to continue streaming and not using the hardware in the GAMING laptop i purchased? come again?!
    3 points
  8. Stopped reading after the first sentence. That was enough to know there was nothing intelligent being said.
    3 points
  9. Amazon Prime Video lands exclusive NFL broadcast rights

    Not merely that; viewership of professional sports dropped overall during COVID-19 - not due to the virus itself, but mixing sports and politics is NEVER a smart move - and far too many sports - especially the NFL/MLB/NBA, did exactly that.
    3 points
  10. Amazon Prime Video lands exclusive NFL broadcast rights

    No big deal to me. I gave up on professional sports years ago. Pampered spoiled brats to some degree.
    3 points
  11. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    Super Heavy BN-1 says "HI!"
    3 points
  12. Windows 10X reportedly delayed once again

    You want to kill a product you haven't seen yet and won't have to use anyway?
    3 points
  13. Oh absolutely. The company should not even need to THINK about protecting itself in any way. Its just that today parents seem to need an excuse for either bad parenting or their child turning out bad regardless of their upbringing. I class myself as a good parent, yet if my son turned out to be a rapist, I wouldn't blame myself as I have taught him right from wrong. I also wouldn't blame cartoons etc. IMO there is no one to blame but himself. He knew right from wrong and chose the wrong path, those are on his back and he has to deal with the fallout from that, not me and certainly not a company who makes cartoons! The thing that I also find crazy is that in SOME cases where the parents ARE to blame, for example if they simply haven't taught their child right from wrong (the type that would hit a teacher because they gave their son bad grades etc.), those are the ones that also go on to blame everything and society for their Childs issues later in life, instead of admitting the fault lays firmly with themselves.
    2 points
  14. Ive been playing it since it came out. Love it. Sometimes I do take a couple of weeks break but always come back for more lol
    2 points
  15. Amazon Prime Video lands exclusive NFL broadcast rights

    "should help reach a younger audience" - Nope...not with everything confusing as to what games are on what streaming services. People will just pirate the streams as normal - This is a dumb move by the NFL and shows they are just trying to copy their existing TV deals to streaming, but it won't translate like that. If they really wanted a "revolutionary deal", they should have just created an NFL add-on for ALL streaming services and you just added it on-top of YOUR streaming service. But no, they are still going the anti-consumer route.
    2 points
  16. Amazon Prime Video lands exclusive NFL broadcast rights

    ESPN never showed Thursday night games, they only ever had Monday night games.
    2 points
  17. wdym? Use the Microsoft update catalog and search KB5001649: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx
    2 points
  18. Just what i was holding out for /s Also, how dumb is it to offer a game streaming service with a gaming laptop.
    2 points
  19. 2 points
  20. YouTube introduces YouTube Shorts beta in the U.S.

    When is youtube quibi coming out
    2 points
  21. My monitor is the same size as it was in 2019 - I didn't observe any growth at all.
    2 points
  22. The Fall is free to claim on the Epic Games Store this week

    You cannot play a video game with graphics requirements from 20 years ago?! DirectX 9 was originally released in 2002 (for Windows XP). i think he missed the /s or you just choose to ignore it was
    2 points
  23. Windows 10X reportedly delayed once again

    You want to kill a product you haven't seen yet and don't have to use anyway? Product I have seen, tried and don't want Windows to go that way. It's hard to imagine that there are still people at Microsoft that haven't learned the Windows RT, 10 S, and S mode, which also didn't let users run what they wanted (at least with S mode you can upgrade to full Windows 10). Why they keep trying to develop a half-baked Chromebook "killer" seems like insanity, when Windows 10 with a little more love and QA attention, so far fewer random bugs (like this months printing bug) are seen. I've had many customers that have grown to dislike Windows 10 due to having been hit with one or more random bugs that wound up costing them money to have fixed. 10x will join this list soon "Windows RT, 10 S, and S mode" why dont they just concentrate on windows. remove all duplicate app to begin with and unify the design language. some of the icons in windows 10 are still from windows 7
    2 points
  24. Windows 10X reportedly delayed once again

    Lets face it. Windows 10x really isn't for anyone on Neowin. It's for education and business (I really don't see any businesses switch to it as their main OS. I can see it on mobile devices, not phones of course). The only thing I hope comes from Windows 10x is that some of the UI improvements come to Windows 10 which really needs it.
    2 points
  25. After a 5-year battle, Uber recognises drivers as employees

    Uber didn't agree, they were forced to. Don't give credit where no credit is due.
    2 points
  26. Microsoft releases additional updates to resolve some more printer problems

    Really? Everyone knows! It's a cumulative update, so it contains every update Microsoft has ever released to this date. Ten years ago, we used to refer to this kind of update as "service pack". and those cumulative updates are great, but can't windows 10 be smart enough to see that you already have all the updates and just give you a micro update? People already complain that it takes too long to install CUs. You now want MS to build a scanning utility that will determine what is eligible and not, and cherry pick what's needed only? There would be tons of complaints. I guess MS could go the way of Linux and offer 234982348792348921389712390123 individual updates. Well, how about a version number check. If you have 19042.867 (example) then you have the last cumulative update installed. Then have this small update. If you have anything but that number you get cumulative. That is a really, really bad idea. A version number should be informative, but not authoritative for differential updates.
    1 point
  27. OnePlus Watch design revealed ahead of launch event

    Galaxy Watch Active 2. Chinese brands <3 imitation. Never surprised.
    1 point
  28. Dynabook has a new 2.5-pound 11.6-inch laptop for students

    It is $289 at retail not 1500. Where are you getting 1500 from? I think he mean 1,500 ultra books are running arm?
    1 point
  29. Microsoft releases additional updates to resolve some more printer problems

    Really? Everyone knows! It's a cumulative update, so it contains every update Microsoft has ever released to this date. Ten years ago, we used to refer to this kind of update as "service pack".
    1 point
  30. It's messy work vs carefully designed work And this is an ignorant comment vs. a well-informed and researched comment.
    1 point
  31. That's the thing. I would have no problem with my children watching this. They know right from wrong and they are mentally mature enough to understand that cartoons are slapstick and entertainment value only. They have been taught from an early age the right and wrongs of interaction of any type with other people and no cartoon violence will suddenly make them believe its normal to behave that way.
    1 point
  32. wdym? Use the Microsoft update catalog and search KB5001649: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx" rel="external nofollow">https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx Yepp, thx, used the same "offline" method Works with ChrEdge/Edgeium only, on my mashine at least. Works with Firefox and Opera down here. I've never heard of a browser called Charge anyway.
    1 point
  33. Error 0x80070541? I got it too. It is just my guess, but I think It means a bad connection to WU servers. The standalone update from Microsoft Catalog got installed without fuss.
    1 point
  34. wdym? Use the Microsoft update catalog and search KB5001649: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/home.aspx Yepp, thx, used the same "offline" method Works with ChrEdge/Edgeium only, on my mashine at least.
    1 point
  35. I wonder how many people read and understood what is happening here. Initially I was jumping on the "OMG THEY ARE CHANGING THE PAST" brigade, but after reading again, I see they are simply moving the content and allowing parents to make the call on weather their child gets to watch it. This makes sense as in todays world companies are taken to court for silly things and their child watching Dumbo, when the parent feels it was inappropriate could easily end up in a legal case. This way those who are happy for their child to watch it can let them and those who are unhappy can simply not allow them to watch it. Takes the onus of "blame" away from the company and firmly in to the hands of the parents, which is sensible. If they were outright saying they were removing the content and never letting anyone watch it again, that would be a different thing altogether, but this seems like a sensible move to protect the company from future legal proceedings.
    1 point
  36. Windows 10 version 21H1 is now available for pre-release validation

    Thousands of MS programmers have been working for months on a...version number change? And this is the same company that expects us to "love Windows"? Win10 hasn't really changed at all since 1511, after that just patches. Windows 10 was supposed to be a OS as a service, with fast updates. Instead we got an ugly colorless stangnant OS with buggy patches that usually fix one thing partly and then break two new things.
    1 point
  37. Facebook announces new measures to keep groups safe

    Most of that is pushed by the corporatocracy to further their power. Like how the election in Ecuador was illegitimate. Sound like a bunch of Trumpers on CNN and MSNBC and Fox and etc, all of corporate media. No sense of irony in their hypocrisy. considering those calling Trumps claims of fraud fake are those who cried fraud for 4 years with less evidence? I'm not sure you see your own irony and hypocrisy...
    1 point
  38. Justice League (2017) / Snyder Cut (2021)

    Apparently it's something to do with IMAX formatting, which is a poor excuse IMO, especially as the trailers were widescreen. Anyway, my take on it. He definitely improved on the original, but a polished turd is still a turd, sorry. It flowed reasonably well, but the end scenes just don't really make any sense. They really should have just eliminated the ruined Earth dream sequences completely (they made even LESS sense than the original cut), and the final bit with the additional character who I shall not mention because spoilers was just... very badly shoehorned in and made bugger all sense to the narrative... Best part of the whole movie is a LOT more backstory for Cyborg. That was neat. All in all, the Snyder Cut moved my rating of Justice League from 5/10 for the original cut, to 7 out of 10. Also, to add... Being in the UK the only way to watch this legally was on Sky Cinema, so I subbed up to NowTV (thankfully on a 7 day trial), and at 7am this morning, I was greeted with "Sorry, but the scheduled movie has been replaced with (something else that's a pile of hot stinky poo)" and they showed some crappy Christmas romcom instead... Needless to say I was apoplectic with rage! It took about 90 minutes for NowTV to have a streamable version available and THAT was rather pixelated from compression artefacts in places... Not exactly the best streaming experience I've had... Should have given it to Netflix.
    1 point
  39. lol, wasn't it Intel's Ultrabooks and Macbook Airs that pushed us into this age of dongle everything? I'm not a fan of any of it honestly. Give me a beefy laptop with battery and I/O and I'm good! Ummmm No... Intel doesn't make Macbooks Airs. LOL Never said they did, don't be dumb. My point is that both companies have pushed us to this dongle universe.
    1 point
  40. I know people are going to hate, because it's intel. I'm still pretty interested to see what they can do in the high end gpu sector.
    1 point
  41. Windows 10X reportedly delayed once again

    X64 emulation is already fully functional though, I see no reason to delay it. They're just fixing bugs. It'll still be released with 21H2.
    1 point
  42. Neowin has a newsletter

    Revue only lets me send one a day, (yesterday's was pushed manually by me just after midnight March 18) so I have had to schedule it for 00:10 CET which is an hour and 25 mins from now. I will skip Saturday's so I can schedule it for 10pm CET / 2PM PT / 5PM ET each day from Sunday onward.
    1 point
  43. What to test? It's an enablement package that changes the build number.
    1 point
  44. YouTube introduces YouTube Shorts beta in the U.S.

    Welcome to googles 3rd tried at this. First it was YouTube Reels back in 2018, then it went to YouTube Stories. Now youtube shorts. I can see this failing again.
    1 point
  45. Apple's Green Bond is helping to create 1.2 GW of clean energy

    No doubt a fair amount of land being cleared for these projects but the trees were simply in the way
    1 point
  46. 1.21 Gigawatts!
    1 point
  47. He was not digging the "Dongle Book"
    1 point
  48. Intel is rebooting Apple's Mac vs PC ads with the "I'm a Mac" guy

    Yep, exactly like Apple was when they did the Ads. Except intel isn't flat out lying to people, so that is new.
    1 point
  49. After a 5-year battle, Uber recognises drivers as employees

    i cant find results for 2020 yet, but they lost $8.5B in 2019. They arent making a profit. There's no "pure profit" or greed here. https://www.theverge.com/2020/...et-loss-revenue-profit-2019
    1 point
  50. 1 point