Recent content by MSurfaceWA

Thanks All for the updates. Sounds like there were growing pains with the OS on the Surface 2, but they have cleared up for the most part. Once everything settles in the battery life appears to be on par and you get a much snappier OS speed plus the better screen over the RT. Appreciate the...

WillysJeepMan, thanks for the in-depth response! Even though it is early, you have somewhat confirmed my suspicions that it would be difficult for a thinner lighter unit with a higher resolution screen to yield better battery life. I have tried to find specs on the Surface 2 battery (the RT is...

Thanks for the links, I did check those out. In them was some talk about why people were upgrading, and their plan to upgrade, but I wasn't really able to see any real comparison between Surface RT and Surface 2 comparisons. I am really wondering about battery life with the higher res screen...

I tried looking around but didn't see this topic so sorry if its been asked before. I am a Surface RT user and have been very happy with it. With 8.1, its starting to show some aches and pains with speed and fluidity, especially when using Outlook, but overall its still a great functional...

That seems to be the only issue. Its been like this for the last couple of months, the sharing function does not work. Always says try later, can't figure it out.

Is anyone else experiencing the share feature no longer working for them? I come across an article I want to share via email and every time I try via the share feature using Mail, it says something went wrong with the app and it cannot share at this time. It used to work well but now it never...

It's a terrible design with many customer complaints. The slightest nudge and the light will turn off and you won't be charging but think you are. It's a great concept and idea (Apple made it popular I think with their "magsafe" design) but the execution was poor. I don't understand how...

Hi all, I was slow to update and I noticed recently that the flip ahead feature seems to be working better, like it uses page caching vs. before when it was reload the whole page. Anyone else noticing that? Additionally, I find it only works when going back to the page I was viewing. I...

Thanks, this worked. Always pays to ask!

Not sure this can be done, but is there any way to change the default search engine in IE to something other than Bing? It's akin to asking to change the default search engine in Chrome to something other than Google, but I thought its worth a try. Anyone?

I agree 100%. It was intentional to have a magnetic power cord, but not intentional to make it work as badly as it does. Additionally, like el777 noted it makes it really easy to scratch the unit, which I have. Maybe this is some rookie quality control being Microsoft's first shot at a...

Mine averages about a 1 also. Once interesting thing is if you look at the source you can identify any apps that are constantly having issues and remove them. I installed the Allrecipe app and it constantly kept having issues in the sources, so I removed it. Nice information to have.

I second J515OP, you really can't screw anything up badly by "messing with" the whitelist. It's text editing a file in notepad, and all you are doing is adding a url, its very easy and makes the browser a lot more functional. Check out this link, it explains it very clearly and easily -...

Correct. The goal is to stop spreading viruses it may find vs. protecting the RT platform. Nice to know we're protected though.

I think what I often forget, and maybe what others do too, is that most of us are technically inclined enthusiasts and understand the nuances in the tablet devices you are describing. I would argue that most of the general public is not, so the lowest common denominator rules. Maybe this is...