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The 2020 XPS line is drop dead gorgeous.



And your poll is showing most people here run Windows.


Currently the poll is 56%. It's barely a majority. My original commenting, say "many" don't use Windows, seems quite reasonable. Granted, this poll shouldn't be considered authoritative.


The rest is split between two other operating systems.

It's OK to admit you're wrong, you know.


My company just switched from Slack to Teams.

I think it is hard for cost conscious organizations with o365 to justify slack.


I use Teams in a very large org. Sometimes, the lack of integration and capability is a benefit. People don’t message me unless they actually need something.


At some level Mors law is the ultimate driver of tech growth. It's not looking so hot.


I think AMD figured it out with chiplets actually... most software isn't even written yet to take advantage of cheap massive parallelism. That is an entire direction to grow after single thread performance flatlines.


Same


+1 for Bad Blood and Shoe Dog


They tried that with edge.


Edge had other problems - most notably, having its own engine that was neither quite IE nor WebKit/Blink nor Gecko, it had to be specifically tested. So there was a chicken and egg problem there - getting web devs to support it was hard because there were no users, but getting users to adopt it was hard because many websites didn't work quite right.

Problem is, at this point it would be hard to convince people to try Edge again.


I think it all comes back to two major issues. First, Microsoft jumped into Edge way too fast when it really wasn't in a position to complete thoroughly enough with Chrome or Firefox. For users interested in the touch interface (I prefer the slightly larger buttons, context menus, etc, even when I'm on keyboard and mouse/trackpad), it was acceptable and had more usable features than the rest, but the actual site rendering, options, and extension support was completely missing, so users went back to what made them comfortable: Chrome.

The second issue is that Microsoft (and it's not just them, here) is terrible about advertising their new features. It's hard to get users to go through walk-throughs and tutorials when they first set up a device, because most users just want to jump to actually using the devices, but I'm a big fan of the 12-15 tab slideshows that Mac devices show right when you first update. It's not thoroughly intrusive (it's pretty similar to Microsoft's "Tips" app), but it's got animations and really shows how useful the features could be.

Microsoft has to get better at showing off new features, and they REALLY need to get better at making extensions available to users. The Microsoft Store just doesn't feel like the best place for Edge Extensions as it is right now.


They may have to rename the browser again.


A small one.

Surface pro 6: 8th gen cpu. Better screen. Available in black.

Surface laptop 2: 8th gen cpu. Better screen. Available in black.

Surface studio 2: Gpu bump (1060/1070). Better drive (no longer hybrid). Better screen.


They really are underselling these events. I suspect that this is because of dissatisfaction from other OEMs.


Yeah, UWP not supporting win7 pretty much killed it.

Might not be an issue in 5 years, by then MS will probably has a new new framework .


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