Recent content by MBY

Wow, could hardly disagree more! While yes, I have some small issues with notifications, touch, and performance, the app has actual features. Mail & calendar was barely usable. It wouldn't open emails with actual HTML in them or at least not display them right. No integrations with plugins at...

It seems like almost all of what they showed here could be achieved through an updated MS Launcher with Windows 11/12 design language. That would be great to get. But MS seems to not be updating the launcher at all...

@Daniel Rubino they way you talk about using WordPad is the way I and probably others use OneNote: a series of semi-formatted notes for saving and sometimes copying/pasting into other places.

Zac talked about the new backup & restore app. I just tried this with a new PC. I backed up my old PC, which told me it worked - although only partially for my apps, with no explanation as to why. When I did the Out of Box experience on my new PC, it recognized this backup and I selected it...

This is so frustrating. If their back-end approach is storing multiple copies of the photo, that is really dumb. If this is such a big problem, just give us tagging and filtering instead of "albums". 🤬

So irritating. Surface Go with ARM could finally be the small windows tablet that Intel chips couldn't make happen.

I agree with Zack Bowden - this isn't Windows Copilot, it's Edge Co-pilot, or really kind of just Bing Chat. If Windows Co-pilot were a smarter, more proactive Cortana, it could be awesome. But I really have no interest in Bing Chat.

My favorite minor thing about WhatsApp for windows is that the notifications and unread indicators sync between the mobile and desktop apps almost instantly. Read a message on on -> it clears on the other right away. Given that Phone Link can't do this (unless you use the inferior Samsung...

I was one of the people who didn't like the new "0" indicator because it was hard to visually distinguish it quickly in the corner of the screen, with no change in the presence or color of the indicator. So I like that part. But I'm not sure why it required taking away the number. I feel like it...

That's pretty disappointing. I'm really not interested in Bing Chat, but an assistant for Windows that surfaces helpful insights could be nice. A bit like Cortana was, of course.

Maybe this will suggest that I turn off the Phone Link notifications, since those never actually work to bring up the app and show the message. 🙄

Eh, after seeing Android widgets, Live Tiles are clearly inferior. Widgets could be a better replacement. If they build them out and put them where people can access them, while keeping a clean UI.

I get that they want to increase engagement with widgets, which makes sense. But to do this, why not add them where people already go, which obviously seems to be the Start menu! I feel like that is self-evident from the Window 10 Live Tile design, but I think MS is currently so allergic to...

Thanks for the suggestion. I did manage to get logged in at some point after unplugging everything. After that, it has pretty consistently correctly displayed the desktop. As I slowly over time started adding back devices, I found that it seemed like the culprit was my Bluetooth adapter. This is...

Thanks. I can't find explorer in the list of processes, which does seem like a problem. When I run explorer.exe I get this message: "This app can't run on your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher."