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You can do that yourself, if you want. It's a feature that you can repair and restore the Surface Pro very easily. You can save 20GB if you are willing to make it harder for yourself. If you copy the 20GB restore partition to a microSD card
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Want to bet on that?
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Upgrade business isn't really a big source of funds compared with pre-installs. This time Microsoft offered a cut-rate deal that it said (last October) would last until January 31. I suspect that PC makers like Microsoft having a high retai
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A Facebook screen is packed with information, which is one reason why it's much more useful than a G+ screen. Both Reddit and HN also pack in a huge amount of information: 30 entries per screen here. Is that bad? Would you rather have just
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"Infinite scroll" is unutterably stupid and incompetent on Twitter. The inability to skip back x pages just ensures that the vast majority of data -- including tweets and follower details -- can never be accessed. The solution is to use ht
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Late entry but it's a strong contender for Most Stupid Video of 2012....
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There's a Quora answer http://www.quora.com/Massachusetts-Institute-of-Technology/W... Also http://www.sourcemap.com/and the world's most beautiful computer, Danny Hillis's Connection Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Mac
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Maybe. I find serious system engineers tend to ignore the childish fanboy squabbling. They have jobs to do.
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Yes.
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The notion propagated by fanboys is that Microsoft software is the least secure on the planet, and if you believe that then you might well expect Microsoft to occupy many if not most of the top 10 places. The point of the headline is that i
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But there is a Mac version of WinAMP (tho I've nver used it) http://www.winamp.com/mac
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I've talked to some OEMs about this. (1) They find that offering one Linux isn't much of an advantage even for Linux users, since so many people have a different preferred distro. Even people who buy a laptop running Ubuntu are likely to re
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I don't think the idea behind offering you the PDF option is to "prevent" you from using it.... In fact, it was Adobe that tried to prevent you from saving to PDF. It threatened Microsoft with legal action (especially in Europe) for trying