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Post by Barrington on Dec 7, 2015 13:16:00 GMT
My wife and kids are on about me getting a smart phone and I don't want Apple purely because I have PC and might want some sort of synchronicity , that 950 looks like just the right thing.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 7, 2015 16:57:21 GMT
It is for a Windows user. Superb ecosystem and sync with Windows/Office. If you don't like the cost of the 950, the current 640 or forthcoming 650 look pretty damned good, too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 17:28:46 GMT
I know I am going to be forced onto Windows 10 but Microsoft have scrapped Media player for a crappy DVD player app from information on the web. Has this been improved? Need cd/dvd for legacy software.
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Post by stanleyb on Dec 7, 2015 18:47:35 GMT
I know I am going to be forced onto Windows 10 but Microsoft have scrapped Media player for a crappy DVD player app from information on the web. Has this been improved? Need cd/dvd for legacy software. Try MPC-HC mpc-hc.orgBut as usual, keep an eye out for any crapware. So use the manual install option where possible. I have it now installed on all my laptops. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 8, 2015 8:42:19 GMT
I know I am going to be forced onto Windows 10 but Microsoft have scrapped Media player for a crappy DVD player app from information on the web. Has this been improved? Need cd/dvd for legacy software. I would use VLC, have been doing for years. Very good player, free, supports everything up to Blu-ray and all the latest file standards. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 8, 2015 8:58:46 GMT
I know I am going to be forced onto Windows 10 but Microsoft have scrapped Media player for a crappy DVD player app from information on the web. Has this been improved? Need cd/dvd for legacy software. I would use VLC, have been doing for years. Very good player, free, supports everything up to Blu-ray and all the latest file standards. What are the benefits of VLC Martin ? Advantages to me to swap from Windows Media player for sound and YouTube ? |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 8, 2015 9:12:38 GMT
As I said, VLC plays pretty much everything without the need for add-ins, Mike. Not many players play Blu-ray without a costly add-in, for instance. It's well sorted and glitch-free. We install it on every machine at work.
YouTube plays in a browser, not a player.
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 8, 2015 9:48:07 GMT
Good to know
Duh - Of course, as does my sampling
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Post by MartinT on Dec 9, 2015 12:54:31 GMT
ContinuumI've been playing with Continuum on my new W10M Lumia 950 phone, using the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter (which does Miracast). Plugged the adapter's HDMI connector (and USB on a flying lead for power) into our main theatre projector, connected the phone and got a full-screen HDMI display, different from the display on the phone. You can use both at once! I connected my small bluetooth keyboard to the phone and could use full-screen desktop-like Word to create a document while walking around the stage. More impressive was running a Powerpoint slide show while making a call on the phone. Most impressive was showing a YouTube or iPlayer video complete with sound routing through the projector. Very, very cool and the other techies thought it was pretty awesome, not something that happens too often. I'm going to use the phone to make my next presentation, with the phone on the lectern and just my tiny keyboard in my hand while walking around the stage 
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 9, 2015 13:33:03 GMT
You are such a geek ! One day I'll get a mobile, pad etc, maybe |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 9, 2015 17:41:15 GMT
I had the Continuum system up and running on my TV this evening, checking through my mail with Outlook on-screen. Then I got a phone call and could carry on typing looking at the TV while talking on the phone with a completely different display showing. The power of this phone (6-core processor) blows my mind!
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Post by MikeMusic on Dec 10, 2015 9:51:33 GMT
Quite
I think about the Itel, NAS and HDS mainframes we used to print manuals for.
Size of a truck and now massively outperformed by phones
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Post by gazjam on Dec 14, 2015 10:19:27 GMT
Been running W10 on my work machine for a few months now and apart from personal issues I have with the direction Microsoft are taking with Windows 10, I've been finding performance wise its getting progressivly slower. Despite being extremely on top of system maintenance (defrag etc) I'm finding performance has taken a dip, with lots of disk thrashing in the background despite having 32GB ram! I had assumed it was pagefile related but no, looking at the telemetry of what was "going out the door" all my hard drives were being read. No idea why...no normal indexing set or going on...but whatever it was it was slowing me down. Switched the process off in the Windows Firewall, but somehow it switched itself back on again. Hmnn.. The final straw for me was I had installed an add-on for Autodesk Inventor which W10 in its wisdom had misinterpreted as malware and uninstalled it without my permission. What!? This broke my Inventor installation and I had to reinstall, losing all my custom settings. This, the annoying mystery disk thrashing and the reduced performance, means I'm out. Its a personal computer, mine, not Microsoft's and if an OS is affecting what I do on it then its not helping me. Its been a fun experiement but Microsofts lost me with Windows 10. Going back to Server 2012 for my work machine. Each to their own though, but not for me. Ah well. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 15, 2015 11:57:24 GMT
Belatedly responding to you, Gaz. Firstly, I only put SSDs in all W10 machines both at work (180 of them) and at home. Since W10 is so optimised for SSDs and TRIM, it seems a shame to leave a rotating drive in there. I never need large local storage since everything is saved to file servers (work) or the cloud (home and tablets). However, even accepting that, I don't see any signs of disk thrashing, just the usual short accesses while operational.
One thing that can affect performance is the number of temporary files left behind. I run cleanmgr.exe (built-in) with all checkboxes ticked once a month on all machines.
Perhaps you have OneDrive, DropBox, Office 365, Google Docs or another cloud synchroniser that's eating your bandwidth and drive accesses?
Major W10 updates (where you get the big circle with percent progress) do uninstall anything not certified by Microsoft as compatible. It can be annoying, but I've only ever had a couple of utilities (like Speccy) uninstalled like this.
My overall experience is profoundly different from yours: I would never go back from W10 and W10M now. I find the performance superb, stability good and the desktop/tablet/phone ecosystem quite the best of them all.
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Post by gazjam on Dec 15, 2015 12:49:26 GMT
Thanks Martin, Should have said, have an SSD in there just for the OS, a Samsung 840 Pro. The thrashing was coming from my storage drives. Only have Dropbox installed (handy accessing it from windows explorer) but none of the other subscription services. Its' a nice OS and can see the benefit of it, but the direction its taking and the uninstall software without notification or permission is a step too far for me unfortunately.Ah well. Was always big fan of 64bit XP for work, so a minimal Server 2012 is maybe the spiritual successor to that for me. Will Dual boot my work rig with Windows 7 for gaming too, seems a shame to waste the horsepower under the boot and not have fun with it! |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 15, 2015 13:19:47 GMT
I have great respect for Server 2012 (W8 core) and 2012 R2 (W8.1 core). Fantastically stable platforms with great feature sets and really excellent bare metal recovery backups to different hardware. Just what you need when you have hundreds of users relying on it.
In fact, with Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server, it's no wonder that Microsoft have the corporate market sewn up.
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Post by Paul on Dec 25, 2015 22:43:45 GMT
Just thought I'd check for updates on my win 10 laptop, It's now reinstalling win 10. WTF is that all about?
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Post by MartinT on Dec 26, 2015 7:29:00 GMT
It's not a reinstall, it's a major update (looks like a reinstall).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 9:32:04 GMT
Finally received my Lumina 950 absolutely superb business tool blackberrys were the previous king
So much connectivity and USEFUL features
W10 for the pure music machine is proving to be a little more tricky more compatibility issues not sure I could spend all day in a Microsoft rich environment without hair loss
Rethink required on set up requirements
Progress is like watching a hard core Naimiee hearing music played unsalisburyfied for the first time and realising that the last 25 years and £60K have been an expensive journey up the non music creek without a get out of a bad sound card. Bittersweet
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Post by zippy on Dec 26, 2015 10:17:47 GMT
It's not a reinstall, it's a major update (looks like a reinstall). I found I had to re-install some of my software after the update - e.g. Asset UPnP lost its library and settings. |
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