Recent content by GreyFox7

I tired a couple well regarded backup utilities. One failed spectularly with a Blue Screen VSS error the other rendered the device unbootable with Inaccessible Boot Device. now I'm being told to use DSIM for backups but IDK if that's a really good idea. The old Windows Seven image backup is...

DIT O, saved $100 on the 128GB Go and Signature Type Cover. $578.00 total.

Totally agree with this. Although Microsoft is partly at fault, they should set the minimum specs realistically but they say wink wink you can build a Windows PC with 32GB of storage, in part because they want to pretend that they are competitive on devices like this. I think the vendors...

This may be a test case or deliberate sacrificial lamb. If Apple can do it and Google can do it why can't Microsoft? If MS gets hauled into court over one MS software title linking to another MS software title to carryout a task you can bet Apple and Google will be used in their defense.

In the same vein as people could "do their entire job on an iPad" it depends on what your job is. If it doesn't require much, sure it will work. I don't expect it to work for me. Not now, not next year, not the year after that. In 4 years we'll have the Snapdragon 885... which would probably do...

After several days of testing I haven't noticed any of the lag that was present with the previous firmware version at all.

Heads up, not surprising that this Firmware update does NOT change the state of the Spectre override setting. If you previously, as advised, disabled Spectre variant 2 then you will have to enable it and reboot to have the protection from this new firmware. Performance with this firmware...

Surface Pro 3 Firmware is dated 1/24/2018 v 3.11.2350.0 I assume this is the new corrected (Spectre) Intel firmware for Haswell. There is no information on this anywhere at the moment

They can make as many "phones" as they want with a Windows flavored mobile OS the result will be the same until they address the App Gap issue. No UWP doesn't address that issue because people that want phone apps want apps that are available and successful on other phones to replace that which...

Goodbye Cortana, it was nice knowing you but Alexa is so much more.

Yes, the boat sailed without them. They haven't shown they can catchup in any markets in quite a while so you may as well put a fork in it, they are done. They keep leaving gaping holes for others/partners to fill but it just doesn't happen anymore. If they can't do it on their own and they...

While the reported (to date) performance of x86 is far from the promised near native, I'm interested in the Native Performance for a Windows Tablet. The available native apps and OS builtin apps will cover most if not all of my needs and having a thinner lighter Windows Tablet with great battery...

It's a crime these are still being sold. Microsoft unloaded them in 2013 to junk dealers and they lay in wait for the unsuspecting victims to be trapped by what might appear to be a "deal" which isn't really a deal at all. Many of the apps that used to be available are being pulled, even...

Depends on what you mean by mobile, in the traditional sense NO it wont change a thing. There might be some life in the "mobile PC" space but have you experienced what they have done with the Tablet Mode keyboard? That's one serious piece of crap and it a gigantic step backwards so there are...

The ARM powered Surface is something that will stand on it's own and doesn't need the foldable gimmick. I have been waiting for this since before the Surface 3 was released. I was very happy with the Surface 2 and a new device using a powerful ARM SoC with the enhancements of Windows 10 on ARM...