amatwl

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Microsoft Phone (Part 1)(hal2020.com)
2 points by amatwl 9y ago|1 comments
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by amatwl 9y ago
The Groove/ music app appears to be staying. It will still support playing music from OneDrive and local files (apparently the iOS/ Android apps won't be going anywhere either). The things that are going away after Dec. 31st
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by amatwl 9y ago
Ah yes. The ol' "Communism has never been implemented right" argument... Oh please.
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by amatwl 9y ago
The description of the "Alexa, Open Cortana" or "Cortana, open Alexa" voice commands as "awkward" makes it sound like this evolve over time. Funny thought: isn't this how the plot for the movie "Her&q
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by amatwl 9y ago
Here is why air conditioning is important: it's estimated nearly 70,000 died in Europe during the 2003 heat wave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
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by amatwl 9y ago
It goes earlier than that. Here's a bit from a presentation that Tony Williams (considered the "co-creator of COM") gave once about the Registry: http://i.imgur.com/52YiK2Y.gifv Essentially, the Registry was
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by amatwl 9y ago
I wonder if that is part of the reason why Transactional NTFS is being deprecated. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh8... I've heard that NTFS has been pretty much in mainte
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by amatwl 10y ago
App compatibility was also an issue with OneDrive placeholders (some apps couldn't handle placeholders). I wonder if Dropbox is going to run into similar issues with Project Infinite/
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by amatwl 11y ago
UAC in Vista essentially introduced the idea of a "split token". Administrators get two access tokens: a full access token, and a filtered access token. The filtered access token essentially is a standard user token and used by de
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by amatwl 11y ago
UAC is not a security feature/ boundary (even according to MSFT themselves). It was aimed to help stop ISVs from writing software assuming admin privileges. Vista had A LOT of security improvements overall, but UAC shouldn't be co
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by amatwl 11y ago
And the FUD surrounding Windows 10 continues.
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by amatwl 11y ago
Um, no. Not all pre-release builds of Windows 10 have that watermark. I'm talking about the "Activate Windows" message. Also, the final version of Windows 10 has been released (and the video was recorded after the final versi
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by amatwl 11y ago
I actually think Microsoft's change is better in regards to user choice. Either way, it still seems simple to me to change the default web browser in Windows 10. Here's a gif I made showing another way to change the default web br
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by amatwl 12y ago
Hopefully Redmond will give hell to Lenovo for this. Also, apparently this is just the start for crapware on new PCs - Paul Thurrott said on the podcast Windows Weekly about a week ago that crapware is going to get a lot worse this PC cycle