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Awesome! You are right. I just went and grabbed my son's Minecraft Xbox Controller and tried to connect it over Bluetooth to his Surface Go and it is working great. Thanks for the tip!

I just picked up the 8 GB version of the Surface Go for my son. I am hoping that he might be able to use the Xbox wireless adapter with an Xbox controller to do some light gaming on it while travelling. Has anyone tried to use an Xbox controller with the Surface Go? To confirm, there is no...

Most definitely! Live Tiles absolutely need to be included.

Use Office 365, so you can take advantage of the free 1 TB of storage you get with the subscription. I just wish there was a way for me to pay for additional storage beyond 1 TB. I love OneDrive, but am nearing the cap for my account. Looks like there is some feedback in the Windows 10...

Not sure where this came from. Reminders seem to work just fine for the most part. I just told Cortana - "Remind me every morning at 7:30 to get the kids ready for the school bus." The reminder worked without a problem. I was also able to do recurring day reminders, *but* it seems like she...

I bought an Invoke on Sunday and love it for the most part, but I can't figure out how on Earth to get the Invoke to play my music in my library on shuffle on Spotify. In fact, when I ask the Invoke to shuffle my music in Spotify, I usually end up with some kind of playlist that I have no...

Groove was a service that cost a huge amount of money in licensing and other fees. Cortana is different and does not have the same sort of overhead costs.

One thing that people are forgetting here is that the Cortana service itself is what Microsoft is producing. The hardware is being put out by Harmon Kardon. All of the products being mentioned are, by and large, consumer-focused hardware products. Microsoft seems to be focusing a lot on...

I bought a black Invoke at Best Buy today. A few hours in and I'm quite enjoying it. I've been a huge fan of Cortana since launch and love the recent improvements to the service, especially on the home automation front. There are a few things that take some work to figure out when it comes to...

I'm very sad to see Groove go. I'm just plain sad about most consumer-focused Microsoft stuff these days really. I've tried multiple smart watches and fitness bands since the Microsoft Band was killed off and can't find anything as good as the Band. 2 was. Now, I've picked up a Samsung Galaxy...

Coming back to amend my original review a bit. While I do like the Garmin Vivoactive 3 quite a bit, it is glitchy when it comes to the connection. It seems to lose its proper Bluetooth connection overnight. When I wake up in the morning, my phone no longer shows it connected in the Bluetooth...

Raycpl - The specs state that it gets 7 days in smartwatch mode and 13 hours in GPS mode. If you took a battery pack or other power source with you, I'm sure you could charge it up for a bit when you stop to sleep or while on a break eating a meal or something to get through the remainder of...

Oh, and the question about which phone I'm using the watch with, I'm using it with the Lumia 950.

MrockNroll - I am noticing that notifications only seem to work for calls and text messages. I have others like email and Cortana set to notify, but I do not get notifications for them, so it isn't perfect, but I only really want call and text notifications anyway.

I had been thinking about pre-ordering a Vivoactive 3 and just noticed that it was available at Best Buy today (9/20) for actual purchase, at least the model with the black band and silver face. I decided to run out to my local Best Buy and pick one up. I got home and started it up and...