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by asyncwords 12y ago
IE10+ is already evergreen by default and should automatically update to IE11 (assuming the user didn't turn off auto-update).
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by asyncwords 12y ago
Do you have any plans for a Windows Phone app? The SMS backup works well, but an app would be ideal; it's one of the few things I'm still missing after switching from Android.
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by asyncwords 12y ago
I'm in the same boat, living in a small town in Iowa. We pay $57.95/month for the fastest package — 12M down and 512K up. If my ISP ever gets uppity, I have the "luxury" of switching to the only other provider at $39&#x2
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by asyncwords 12y ago
Your screenshot is out of date. Here's what actually happens when you search Facebook on Windows Store: http://i.imgur.com/crP7LDd.png
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by asyncwords 12y ago
As somebody that rarely uses illustrator or other graphical software, spending $30 or $50 for something neat like turning my code into a poster that I can hang on the wall is easily worth it — despite how little time it might take someone e
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by asyncwords 12y ago
Actually I think he is on the current Windows 10 build. Right now there's a button at the top-right of the start menu that switches it between full-screen and regular mode. This [1] is what it looks like on my system when full screen
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by asyncwords 12y ago
This is a good point. Few developers would care about Windows Phone if they can just build for Android and do a lazy port to WP (if they port at all). But what if Microsoft instead wants to make Windows apps work on Android? Microsoft is ch
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by asyncwords 12y ago
This is offtopic for the acquisition, but it looks like Microsoft has a tutorial ready to go for building a forecasting service with R and Azure Machine Learning: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/arti
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by asyncwords 12y ago
I think Microsoft feels it needs to provide a better browser because the popular alternative is controlled by their competitor. Chrome itself does its best to make sure you get pulled into the Google ecosystem - you need a Google account ju
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by asyncwords 12y ago
Curious that they're calling it a 'new' rendering engine at all. I could have sworn they said somewhere that it was still the same Trident engine, but without the legacy IE bits. Also, according to Paul Thurrott [1], the brow
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Microsoft's new browser and the Windows 10 January preview build(blogs.msdn.com)
42 points by asyncwords 12y ago|28 comments
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by asyncwords 12y ago
For those wondering, the app is called "Translator". I've also found the translation to be pretty good, though it tends to trip when it comes to handwriting. https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/
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by asyncwords 12y ago
I can't speak for the other two, but I believe Chocolatey is being integrated (or vice versa) with OneGet, the built-in package manager for Windows 10. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chocolatey/a
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by asyncwords 12y ago
Bing provides search results for Siri and powers Cortana. I'm sure somebody noticed.
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Final Root Cause Analysis of Nov 18 Azure Service Interruption(azure.microsoft.com)
198 points by asyncwords 12y ago|70 comments
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by asyncwords 12y ago
If it helps, the debugger points to an invalid ʹ character in 01135560588655f631606d051ab4cd4df545eead.js. I circled the character in blue [1]. Beyond that I haven't the foggiest idea. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/WgiitFj.pn
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by asyncwords 12y ago
I'm getting the following error [1] every time I try to open the page with IE11 on Windows 8.1. It prevents bootstrap.js from loading, which then prevents everything else from working and just shows a blank white page. Might explain wh
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by asyncwords 12y ago
This submission (and several others) were all merged into one big post here [1], along with all of the comments. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905
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Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux(hanselman.com)
400 points by asyncwords 12y ago|4 comments