Over all I'm pretty happy with the way it works. The medical edition does a pretty darn good job with the medical words to without any additional training.

Though one doc couldn't get the system to accept vasectomy. We had to train that one for about 3 mins, but since it's been good.

The other key is to speak punctuation. Don't bother trying to have Dragon figure it out.

@Minion-Queen said:

They do not come even close to the quality of a Mac in feeling. I have 2 separate Chromebooks here and a Mac not even close. The Chromebooks are great for what they are great for. But don't drop it. Now my Mac I have dropped about 5 times. It has scratches but it's fine.

It would be interesting to see a review where someone does exactly that, drops a chromebook vs a macbook in as similar falls as possible and see which one fails first.

Of course, if you don't do it over 1000 or more samples I guess it's not really a great test, but it would be something.

I mention this because the 'feel' can be meaningless to actual toughness. I've had cheap plasticy phones that wound up being much stronger than other better feeling devices.

Well I've reinstall the same version of PCOP - it's slow as hell, but it's working. Thought on occasion I'm now getting service is unavailable.

I changed the default for mail, checking the MAILTO option as well changing it to MS-MAIL (this picture is from my work PC - do not an exact match).

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This did not solve my issue.

I booted into safe mode with networking (damn that's a pain in Windows 😎 and left it that way all night. This morning there were no prompts to pick an Outlook profile.

I'll boot back to normal mode tonight and see if the prompts return.

I looked through the task scheduler and didn't see anything that appeared to either launch Outlook or use the MAILTO option.

@coliver said:

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Is it getting txt or is it doing something like Apple iMessager.

OK this made me think of something - Both devices are AT&T devices. I am using the AT&T messaging app on the S4. There doesn't seem to be any AT&T specific apps on the Windows Phone.

I wonder if the AT&T messaging app can have a data connection to AT&T's SMS system somehow and pull copies off? in this way it would sorta act like iMessage...

It's possible. I use Hangouts as my SMS client, but you can still go into the default Android app at any point and all the messages that are SMS for my cell phone number are there. Hangouts just gets a copy. This is likely what's happening.

Yep, this is what happens for me as well (with Google Voice). Hangouts acts as the iMessage-esque client for Android. If I have Hangout on any of my phones I can get the SMS message that comes into Google Voice (although that may be different for the stock SMS messenger).

Yup, exactly, and with Hangouts, that includes the PC, for Google Chat and Google Voice messages. For your actual cellphone SMS messages, they are just copied into Hangouts.

Yeah I figured this was how it worked.
Thanks

More than just removing Exchange from the iPhone I also run CalCheck.exe against the users Exchange profile from a workstation.

Our users calendars are extremely messy. The physicians calendars are managed/edited/etc by nearly everyone in the office. Those who need it have the required delegation rights.

The biggest time we notice problems is when someone changes or moves an appointment. Exchange appears to maintain the same calendar entry ID and this causes the iDevices to not make the needed change, as they consider there to be no change. To solve this we've told staff that they can not change/move an appointment, instead they must delete the old one, and create a brand new appointment. This seems to have reduced our problems significantly.

For me, once the Exchange logs indicate that the single entry is stuck, syncing never works again. Removing Exchange and re setting it up seems to resolve it quickly. If not, running the CalCheck hasn't failed me yet.

Yes I would. The device does everything I need it to do. I can only hope that developers will continue to add real useful things in the future.

Are there problems, sure. But my Galaxy S4 wasn't super awesome either.

I think with a more powerful device some of the small amount of lags (very rare though) will be solved.. i.e. the podcast player will be better I think.

I see this sometimes too.

@Dashrender said:

WSUS are a type of offline updates.

Well, not really. WSUS can be used if the client is offline from the Internet but not if it is offline from the network or turned off.

One of the obscure things I like about Windows 8 is the ability to easily create an app that uses a Windows 8 mode on IE with pre-configured settings. I see this being the way of the future.

We have a call center that just helps our members with Online banking. The call center isn't technical so we run into browser issues all the time. It would be great to have everyone that owns a Windows PC with Windows 8 or higher to just download an app with our preconfigured settings. No more which version of IE, Chrome, Opera, or FF are you using and all the variables that go with it.

Yeah, you have to sync the WHOLE notebook. No picking and choosing like boogers in your nose. 😛

A sales person being wrong about something technical. I've never seen that before 😉

There's no benefit to my company to replace 100+ VGA monitors. As they die they can be replaced with whatever is usable at the time.

That said - the HP 800 G1 SFF comes with one on board VGA and a display port. So if you want to use DVI, you're stuck buying a Displayport to DVI convertor or installing a video card.

@Hubtech said:

I've not been finding much interesting content up on here these days. Frequenting it less. this is not me being mean, just sayin.

The holidays really slow things down. There are very few people working so very few work related posts coming up. Should start picking back up tomorrow, I am guessing. Today was Cyber Monday, in the US, so a lot of people still shopping and not working and those that are working are just getting back into the swing of things.

Looks like I need to upgrade to iCloud Drive from iCloud.

Currently there are only backups in my iCloud, the pictures aren't synced to iCloud Photos, from what I can tell.

@Hubtech said:

not if they went to scott's back yard. from what i hear....

Depends on who you ask...him or @Dominica ... 😛

@Dashrender said:

And I have to assume the version of Windows running on it is RT, and we still don't know if MS is going to be making Windows 10 for ARM.

It's dual processors, obviously. They two OSes run at the same time and one runs in a way that can be disconnected. All of the devices like this are dual procs. That's what makes them work. ARM for Android because it needs to be low power and AMD64 for Windows because it doesn't run on ARM.

RT would be completely useless as, it just is. Android can run on AMD64 but not at the same time that Windows is.

Good to know! Thanks!

Interesting idea, at least.