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• Have a Surface Pro X? Want to upgrade to Win10 2004? There’s a convoluted way….

  Posted on July 30, 2020 at 09:03 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  No, I don’t recommend that you install Win10 version 2004.

  But if you have a Surface Pro X (which I don’t recommend, either) and you really really want to move to Win10 version 2004, it can be done, in spite of the notification that says “This PC can’t be upgraded to Windows 10.”

  It involves installing the update, and in the middle – at just the right moment – disconnecting your internet connection.

  Full instructions from ScottGillis on the Microsoft Answers forum.

  Thx @barbbowman

  Surface, Windows 10 Releases Surface Pro X, Win10 2004

• Surface Pro X review embargo just lapsed

  Posted on November 5, 2019 at 03:15 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you look around, you’ll see a flood of reviews of the Surface Pro X, which apparently went off embargo around 10 pm Redmond time. That’s how the hardware review business works: Publications line up to get free first-run machines, promising to hold off on reviews until a specific date and time. Looks like the alarm just went off.

  Of course, Microsoft doesn’t send me review units. (You thought otherwise?) So I just read the reviews like anybody else. Of course, given the Surface support history and the fact that it’s an ARM-based machine with all the compatibility headaches that implies, I would never buy one. But still it’s cute seeing Microsoft’s response to the iPad.

  Part of a natural ARM progression: Windows RT was a joke. Surface RT died a horrible death. Windows 10 in S Mode was an embarrassment. Now Surface Pro X. The review practically writes itself — although Microsoft will assure you ten ways from Tuesday that the Surface Pro X is better and different because it’ll run Windows desktop apps.

  Yep. Pull the other finger.

  Dieter Born at The Verge: MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO X REVIEW: HEARTBREAKER

  Brad Sams at Petri: Surface Pro X Review: A Classic Look For The New Mobile Worker

  Cherlynn Low, Engadget: Surface Pro X review: Gorgeous hardware marred by buggy software

  Sam Rutherford for Gizmodo: Microsoft’s Surface Pro X Goes Full Batman

  Dan Ackerman at CNet: Surface Pro X review: A Surface evolution, but the software hasn’t caught up yet

  Jacob Krol, CNN: Microsoft’s Surface Pro X is for many, but not everyone yet

  And on and on…

  Just in case you were wondering, yes, absolutely, Microsoft vets their reviewers carefully. For example

  https://twitter.com/zacbowden/status/1191699134375481345

   

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