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by scholia 10y ago
> I still end up using a dedicated client for such things whether on the phone or on the desktop. Yes. That also lets you use multiple mailboxes with no extra overhead. Another option is to keep a separate browser for Google sites, and
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by scholia 10y ago
An amusing exercise is to compare running one document in Google Docs with running the three main applications from Microsoft Office. Even if you use blank documents, the contrast is striking.
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by scholia 10y ago
Every website you use -- especially every Google and Facebook site -- is doing data-driven development where security and UI updates are made on a continuous basis. So are a lot of other programs, including browsers. Welcome to the modern w
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by scholia 10y ago
> You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email. I double-checked to be sure. My "free" 15GB of storage in Gdrive is actually 0GB (ie zero, nada, nothing) beca
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by scholia 10y ago
If you're shooting 4K with an iPhone then obvioulsy you'll use iCloud (also 5GB) not OneDrive. Good luck with that. If you're a normal person then you'll probably use 200MB (my wife) to 1.5GB (me) shooting jpegs. I check
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by scholia 10y ago
OK, many thanks! Just had a look at my Windows 10 Pro with suggestions turned off and there aren't any ads like that. Or maybe it's because I've never downloaded a game. However, if I had found one, it doesn't seem like
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by scholia 10y ago
> I think you may have picked up on the tiniest possible detail to dispute there, while missing the multiple elephants in the room that I had mentioned just before... That was the only simple way to be helpful, if you actually needed i
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by scholia 10y ago
For a very tiny proportion of the population....
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by scholia 10y ago
I haven't seen the keyboard problem. The main one I saw was a disappearing mouse pointer, which was fixed by removing and re-attaching the keyboard. Weird. You could try a software reset for the performance problems, bearing in mind th
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by scholia 10y ago
> "Microsoft made Windows 10 exactly the same as Mac OS, iOS or Android" ...which is precisely what a large portion of the userbase who chose Microsoft did not want. Do you have any evidence that it's a large proportion
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by scholia 10y ago
> My problem is that they are coupling security updates and user-interface updates. Welcome to data-driven software development. Good luck turning back that tide....
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by scholia 10y ago
Never seen one.
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by scholia 10y ago
You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email. OneDrive also compresses Office documents so they take up less space, and it automatically de-duplicates files. It's a ver
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by scholia 10y ago
Sorry, don't want to get into a big argument about what are basically your own opinions. > It still doesn't have as much support for playing media as previous versions. Download a media player that plays DVDs. It's not h
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by scholia 10y ago
Surface Pro range, Surface Book and Surface Studio are at the high end of the consumer market. They're all impressive (and expensive). Couple that with a backlash against Apple over the non-pro MacBook Pro, and its failure to update mo
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by scholia 10y ago
"Paid advertising" is where you take money from somebody, and the person you take money from controls the content. I don't see how Microsoft suggesting that you try Edge or OneDrive (which are free, and which you already have
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by scholia 10y ago
On the contrary, they appear to be doing better than ever at the high end of the market.
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by scholia 10y ago
You are, of course, absolutely correct. I suspect that's not going to be a very popular approach ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
The share price has doubled, Office 365 is a success, and more than 400 million people are on Windows 10. Windows 10 has also improved dramatically over the past 18 months. Under the previous system, you'd have been using worse code fo
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by scholia 10y ago
> I think using ad-based monetization Can you give me some examples of ad-based monetization, please? I'm on Windows 10 Pro with suggestions turned off, so all I've seen is a popup that suggests using Edge. I don't see t
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by scholia 10y ago
The Windows 10 upgrade was officially free for a year to encourage people to upgrade, which they wouldn't normally do. Microsoft made Windows 10 exactly the same as Mac OS, iOS or Android: you pay for it when you buy the hardware and
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by scholia 10y ago
> Microsoft tried as much as it could to avoid being locked into Intel. ... while Intel kept looking at Linux and anything else that might help it avoid being locked into Microsoft ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Actually they were better than that. Users loved them (check out the star ratings on user reviews) and some are still in use. The design was fundamentally flawed for other reasons, but they performed reasonably well compared to rival tablet
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by scholia 10y ago
Great points. It is an odd fact that Microsoft generally avoided writing operating systems on or for Intel x86 processors [1], and started the development of both NT and CE on Risc processors. Meanwhile, Linus had a PC with an Intel 386 pro
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by scholia 10y ago
They are, but ARM probably wouldn't exist in its current form without Apple. ARM was developed in the 1980s by Acorn -- a small, mostly struggling British company -- as the Acorn Risc Machine. They wanted a simple 6502 replacement with
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by scholia 10y ago
While you're there, tell Intel to ignore HP and forget Itanium ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
> And you'd probably do better if you weren't condescending towards other people's experiences and preferences. It was simply intended as good advice. If you think about it, there are good reasons for moving settings to
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by scholia 10y ago
Thee are a lot of settings, and it would have taken too long to move them all at once. The Control Panel remains because a lot of hardcore Windows users would have bitched if Microsoft had removed it. As usual, Microsoft would have been cri
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by scholia 10y ago
It makes settings more accessible to more people.
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by scholia 10y ago
> Just give me a control panel. The old Control Panel is still there. > Trying to disable things like Cortana never works right. Cortana is a settable option. There's no reason to try to disable it. *> Now we have "Se

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