1. YES
We are not far enough to do everything via Skype / Teams / Slack / WA
2. A bit
It needs a camera with enough quality to take photos of whiteboards for office lens. So it doesn't need to be top notch, level of current Mid-Ranged Androids is enough for my needs.
Still, Lumia 820 camera...
I'm just going with my Amazon Basic DSLR backpack. It's waterproof, besides my Dell XPS, my Nikon and one or two lenses i can fit a lot of cables, headphones, lunch organized in the separators ment for lenses.
After now i am 8 month on Android, while my Dad has my old L950, and my Mom a L550. Got back to them last weekend to do some IT maintenance, and had a hard time giving the L950 back. It's just so much better in every aspect.
Forcing Edge? No. Forcing the rendering Engine behind edge? Maybe on Win10s. Would prevent lot of security gaps in Chrome and Firefox used by "Computer Experts", whose computers i need to fix because i'm related to them.
I switched from good old Opera 12 to edge somewhere arround christmas.
Also tried Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox.
I just hate how Firefox is rendering fonts on high-resolultion screens (e.g. on TV) and the tabs don't look like Windows 10.
Opera ... is ok. But not touch-friendly on my Convertible...
Cortana itself would be better from the Launcher. However, the launcher itself (like most Android Launchers) waste so much space without showing any information. Just like the Windows 95 desktop some icons.
This is why I use Squarehome. No real livetiles, but close to it. Showing notification...
As an music enthusiast i use both, Spotify and Tidal. Tidals "close to lossless"-Streaming is worth gold on my home speakers, only the Radio function is deeply broken. When starting a playlist for Rammstein (German Metal band) i got some songs of David Hasselhoff and some German "Schlager" (bad...
I now have my 3rd Windows Tablet (and before one Crapdroid). I started with Lenovo Miix, where i had some performance issues. 3 years ago i switched to a Surface 3 (non-Pro) and also used this for work when off-site. I retired my Laptop completly.
2 weeks ago now i did a double switch: Surface...
I'd take a refreshed Lumia 820. 4,3", IPS instead of crap AMOLED in Lumia950, and best camera in price range (which i would say is on level of the current iPhone).