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This appears to include ReFS on Windows (although with the creation of ReFS volumes being limited to enterprise-targeting editions of Windows 10, perhaps this won't affect too many…

Not sure I can say. On a positive note, it's given us an opportunity to focus on performance improvements :)

I don't mind Facebook crawling pages as long as it respects robots.txt, but for the last few weeks we've been hammered by requests from Facebook-owned IP addresses (millions of hit…

Indeed - hotpatching support was removed in Windows 8. Apparently it was only ever used in a few updates, and some unscrupulous folks took advantage of the capability: https://arst…

The usage share was 0.97% at the end of 2015, 0.87% at the end of 2016 and 0.75% in the latest survey. This might still translate to a growing absolute number of Linux users, but i…

Given that the percentage of Steam users running Linux is declining, I'm not as optimistic as you. http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hwsurvey-Febr...

Only the Fitbit Surge has built-in GPS (the first generation Charge and Charge HR didn't). The Charge 2 does cost more at retail presently, however.

Edge 14 in the Anniversary Update actually brings back ClearType support for at least some text, so there's still a glimmer of hope that Microsoft will work to improve text renderi…

Office 2013 introduced these animations. Sadly, it also ditched ClearType in most of the UI.

These days .NET 4.0 is probably a better target for maximising compatibility - Windows 8 and above don't come with .NET 3.5 installed by default, and a lot of Windows XP/Vista/7 ma…

Do you need to target versions earlier than Windows 10? If so, you'll have to rule out a Universal Windows Platform app (which might otherwise suit your needs, though you wouldn't …

It's a combination of what you mentioned and incompatibility with APIs like Direct Manipulation. Raymond Chen explains it here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2015012…

Meanwhile Microsoft has basically given up on sub-pixel smoothing: it's missing from Windows Store/Modern/Metro apps (including Edge) and IE10 and newer and is mostly absent from O…

Triskaidekaphobia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia ). The same thing happened to Microsoft Office - Office 2007 was version 12 internally, yet Office 2010 jumped t…

I hope you're right. On the other hand, the 'power of youth' works both ways - it seems like a non-negligible percentage of youth in the West favour more censorship, not less - wit…

South Korea is a good example of how the proliferation of technology doesn't necessarily entail increased political freedom. They might have great internet connectivity, but it com…

The author described Windows 10 as 'kind of gorgeous', which was somewhat surprising. Until now the most generous thing I've heard someone say is that it's not finished. (Seriously…

Sadly Microsoft is in a rush to embrace the 'hamburger menu' in Windows 10 (mobile and otherwise), basically because it's common on the dominant mobile platforms: http://www.window…

Speaking as an occasional pedestrian in Japan, it would be nice not to have to deal with cyclists hurtling down the sidewalk at great speeds as happens today.

WPF font rendering was fixed in .NET 4 back in 2010. IE10+ on Windows 8+, Office 2013+ on Windows 8+ and the Modern/Metro/Immersive environment on Windows 8+, on the other hand, ar…

Fixed relative to what's in build 10036, undoubtedly, but I'm struggling to see how it will end up being an improvement over the Windows Vista/7-era version as far as desktop users…

That's really soon, which fills me with dread. The UI as seen in the most recent pre-release builds is atrocious and it seems to be getting worse, not better, with each build. Just…