overgryphon

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by overgryphon 9y ago
How is this remotely relevant to the ARM support announced?
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by overgryphon 9y ago
You could, but not without sacrificing many of the features that make the Surface Book unique. The pen support in Windows 7 is significantly worse, and face authentication wouldn't work. Windows 7 isn't very usable on a tablet. To
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by overgryphon 9y ago
What's wrong with remote desktop for mobile work? Online work only, but most dev environments require internet anyway.
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by overgryphon 9y ago
People are more likely to notice the inability to install traditional Windows apps than what search engine they're using.
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by overgryphon 9y ago
This is a case of legacy code left in an important attack surface. I doubt many people need a virtual floppy drive today.
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by overgryphon 9y ago
Up to 10k in vouchers. I don't even know how someone with a non-travel job would use that many coupons in a year.
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by overgryphon 9y ago
PCs do not have a standardized BIOS. BIOS configuration options vary widely, and often mean different things between different BIOS vendors. UEFI is standardized but sometimes difficult to adopt.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
There is an option to turn them off.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Device drivers run in kernel mode and can bugcheck the machine. Microsoft can certainly provide tooling and help device driver writers write reliable drivers, but the device is still responsible for it's driver.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
XP support ended years ago.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
People who use a touchscreen laptop are used to scrolling with a touchscreen. It has nothing to do with skill level of the user.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Clinton prefers a $12 minimum wage because outside of cities small business wouldn't be able to keep up with $15. Clinton wanted $15 minimum wage to be passed in cities that can handle it, and has explicitly supported people organizing
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Sounds like your friend ran into a bug. I don't see a reason to assume malicious intent unless Microsoft refuses to fix this issue.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
It's for quality and personalization, not for ads. This is Terry Myerson's blog explanation of data usage. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/09/28/priva...
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Wow that is incredibly shady. I doubt that's even legal.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Isn't that what developer mode is? A switch to set lots of settings that a developer is likely to want.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Source? Windows doesn't use telemetry for advertising.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Surface Pro and Surface Book are definitely consumer devices. As are Band, and Xbox.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Wine is fine for getting around an expected limitation, but would you run your workloads on wine in a production datacenter? It would be a disaster.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Azure runs on Windows.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Right- Office and Windows began talking to each other in 2011, when the consent decree ended. The silo structure at Microsoft was almost required by the government.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
What Comey writes is that other people in similar circumstances have faced security and administrative consequences- such as being fired, and their security clearance revoked. That sounds reasonable.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Kdnet is a faster and easier to setup than COM ports for debugging Hyper-v VMs. I couldn't find it on MSDN, but there is a blogpost here: http://withinrafael.com/how-to-set-up-synthetic-kernel-debug...
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by overgryphon 10y ago
They could have turned on an ad blocker for Edge as well.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Microsoft didn't just do a battery test, they also release statistics based on Windows 10 telemetry showing that Edge has better battery life than Chrome, Firefox: "In addition to testing battery life internally, Microsoft also lo
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by overgryphon 10y ago
They shouldn't have been using the consumer version. I can sympathize, but that business both violated their license and ignored nine months of news and popups about the windows 10 update.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
MS doesn't have such strong verticals anymore. The end of the consent decree, the "One Microsoft" initiative, and the massive reorg from a couple years ago all went a long way towards breaking down barriers internally. Window
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Windows also now supports nested virtualization. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyperv_on_wi...
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by overgryphon 10y ago
It's not typical for people to make 50k after college these days.
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by overgryphon 10y ago
Private student loans are often cosigned by older family members. It doesn't make sense to take risks when defaulting on your student loans puts your parent's housing at risk. Your comment places you likely in your early 30s, mean

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