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How is this remotely relevant to the ARM support announced?

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…

What's wrong with remote desktop for mobile work? Online work only, but most dev environments require internet anyway.

People are more likely to notice the inability to install traditional Windows apps than what search engine they're using.

This is a case of legacy code left in an important attack surface. I doubt many people need a virtual floppy drive today.

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.

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 diff…

There is an option to turn them off.

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 sti…

XP support ended years 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.

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 ha…

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.

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...

Wow that is incredibly shady. I doubt that's even legal.

Isn't that what developer mode is? A switch to set lots of settings that a developer is likely to want.

Source? Windows doesn't use telemetry for advertising.

Surface Pro and Surface Book are definitely consumer devices. As are Band, and Xbox.

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.

Azure runs on Windows.

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.

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…

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-synt…

They could have turned on an ad blocker for Edge as well.