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I used Groove Music app when I had my Windows Phone, but I never used it much on my Windows PCs, although I have heard people talk about it positively. The sticky point for that is that no apps want people to use their product without using their front end as well. Spotify and others won't...

To the best of my memory, there is no way to force it to maintain the hotspot. If you aren't connecting another device to it, it will shut itself off to save battery.

You may have misunderstood a little. I'm not saying that Microsoft is too risk-adverse to make a new run at mobile. But look at look at the scene as it stands in 2019. The smartphone market is completely mature. The average consumer isn't going to tolerate a startup or new entry into the market...

What Microsoft needs to do is be profitable. Not having partners in carriers and literally all of the developers on board, there is no hope for a new Microsoft mobile device in the near future.

Microsoft didn't exist in a vacuum. WM6.x may have had 42% of the market, but then the iPhone happened. WM and BlackBerry were instantly old fashioned. You have to give Apple credit for basically inventing the consumer market for smartphones. But in particular, large full touchscreen phones...

My post may have come off as snarky, but that wasn't my intention. I had several Windows Phones and loved them too, but unfortunately, Microsoft was never able to achieve sustainable marketshare, and thus eventually pulled the plug on the product. I'm just not sure, looking back, that there was...

I'm not sure how it's considered a loss. So, you had your Windows phones and devices and got the use out of them while you had them? And technically, those Windows Phones would still work. But you should use whichever technology best suits your needs.

The bigger processor and more RAM will help do multitasking, running your browser with a hundred tabs open, that sort of thing. The Dell would give you a better graphics card, so it depends on which games you're hoping to run to determine which PC would better suit your needs.

I have a current gen Mac Mini sitting on my desk at work. I use it for managing our iOS devices. It is starting to feel it's age. It is feeling very slow to run just Firefox and Apple's own iOS configuration utility. I think you would get much more for your money investing in a PC with more...

I grew up listening to the alt rock era of the 90s, and I fell hard for the indie rock scene of the 2000s. But ultimately, I listen to a crazy variety of music. I find myself listening to everything including Pink Floyd, Boston, Dandy Warhols, Frightened Rabbit, Gin Blossoms, Roger Clyne & the...

Scott Hutchinson, lead singer and songwriter for the Scottish band Frightened Rabbit has died. https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/r-i-p-scott-hutchison-frightened-rabbit-frontman-has-died-at-36/

Microsoft's OS market is shrinking fast. People are using Windows less and less as "personal computing" is getting dominated by smartphones and tablets. Even if Microsoft did something revolutionary by integrating AI into Windows, it wouldn't be enough...people don't want to use desktop PCs, and...

Where do you think Microsoft should be focusing their attention? If not on AI and cloud infrastructure, where? You say keep a tight told on current businesses...which is Cloud and Windows? Desktop computing is falling away as a whole for many people. I don't see Windows going away, but it's...

I concur. Nokia's mic arrays did such a good job of recording loud live audio.

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