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What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
As always - @thurrott and @MaryJo never disappoint. They are the standard for tech journalism in my opinion because they never stint in their observations and criticism - positive or negative. They inform my perspective every dang week. They’re adversarial with Microsoft when necessary while still being fans (for whatever value the word ‘fan’ holds)
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Thanks! Appreciated! And yes, that is the (fine) line we try to walk 
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So glad to hear you guys bring up that 99.8% metric they’d been touting, it’s driving me crazy. Paul’s analogy of the graph with just a ? for comparison had me rolling 
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I listened to @MaryJo and switched to Beta
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A virtual hangout via Discord would be a very nice treat for Club TWiT members.
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Glad you like the show! I do, too - might be my favourite show on the network by now - but for reasons that have become hard to understand. It has to do precisely with what you point to in your observation above.
I think I listen for the snark. WW seems like the strongest and saltiest of licorice candies in terms of tech reporting around. With a sweet, sweet core of Capocella around Christmas time.
But, to come back to your point: what value the word fan holds. It seems more like a journalistic and audience variation of Stockholm syndrome by now. There is plenty of drama to unravel each week, a great sense of humour, but hardly any resolution in sight. Bullets flying everywhere. Explosions. Imagine Microsoft suddenly turning boring and, thus, letting our attention go free. Freedom, sure. But what a loss in entertainment.
Slight addendum: it’s not only the reporting but MJ’s and PT’s commentary that help me build a more - let’s say - discerning (really a productive “critical”) perspective of Windows. That is very valuable for me as a consumer. They are the ones to impress. Should Microsoft ever impress them, I’d buy with a good conscience.
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I think that is what being a fan means. It means you like something and you take the owners of that thing to task when they make a misstep.
Accepting everything that comes from someone/something you adore without question isn’t being a fan, that is being a disciple. Fans question, disciples accept.
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That’s a TWiT t-shirt text right there! 
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The PC Health Check app has finally returned, a mere 15 days before Windows 11 “launches”.
I’ll be curious how quickly or aggressive Microsoft rolls W11 out. Heck, Windows 8.1 was still in full support until 2018, three years after Windows 10 launched.
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@MaryJo: great news about Notepad, from former Microsoft operating systems engineer David Plummer reviewing Windows 11:
Viewer Question: “Is Notepad improved in Windows 11?”
David: Well, it’d be hard to improve on Notepad. Here’s the thing about Notepad. It could have a dark mode; that would be nice but what Notepad actually is that it’s an edit control, and a menu, and a frame window. And there’s very minimal code actually added on top. It’s a really rudimentary app, so what you’re basically seeing is whatever functionality is in the edit control.
David: Unless they rev edit control, you’re not going to see much changes in Notepad. Plus, you really can’t change Notepad much because I’m sure there are a million apps out there that make assumptions about how Notepad works and what order the menus are in and they drive it with macros and do all kinds of horrible things that are going to break immediately as soon as Microsoft makes any changes to anything that fundamental.
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More Windows 11 PCs are trickling out.
S Mode lives on, and so far, only in Windows 11 Home. Lenovo did a soft launch two weeks ago:
Will be curious to see how mainstream users take up Windows 11.
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Hi @MaryJo, @Leo and Paul . You mentioned the idea of a virtual meetup for MS Ignite 2021. May I suggest looking into an AltspaceVR event? As an MVP I attended MVP Summit in March this year which had social MVP gatherings in AltspaceVR each “evening” and it was really cool. I didn’t have a VR headset and it still felt inclusive. Check out these videos about setting up AltSpaceVR events - (80) VR Events & Event Management - YouTube
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