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I'd say Windows 10 is the second worst Windows ever (after Windows 8). When Nadella took over I really hoped that he would clean up the mess that Ballmer had created with his iPad paranoia. Unfortunately, Nadella doesn't have the guts for that and so we have to live with this modern app nonsense. Just look at this forum thread. This modern apps platform is the second worst failure in the entire history of all operating systems (first comes Windows Phone).

You are right about the Apple arrogance. I've been bashing Apple for this many times. However, I think things have changed a bit since Tim Cook took over.

I also often claimed that Apple's devices are overpriced. I mean Apple's profit margin is insane. The thing is if you are so much better than the rest of the pack, you deserve a bonus.

macOS did not overtake Windows. It is iOS + macOS. This means that Apple's operating systems run now on more devices than Microsoft's. Microsoft is loosing more and more ground in the OS market simply because they are doing a lousy job.

The point is not just that macOS is much better than Windows. What surprised me the most when I moved from Windows to macOS a few years ago is that the software from third-party vendors is so much better than under Windows. In the Apple ecosystem it is all about quality wheres in the Windows ecosystem it is all about quick and dirty. But the main reason why I could never go back to Windows is because the applications that I need for my work are not available for Windows.

Well stated Michael. I meant that 10 was the best Windows version yet, bloated though it is. I'm pleased to hear that MacOS has overtaken Windows, but have never been a fan of Apple's arrogance and deadly market practices. Major MacOS revision every year ... new, overpriced devices every month! PLEASE STOP! That said, Apple does make great stuff, software and hardware.

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Solution: Verity that “Netlogon” is running and set to auto start after restart

Hard to believe, these are my first days without Outlook for ages. (I've been using Outlook since the very first release.)

I am currently testing a combination of Apple Mail (connecting to Office 365) with Daylite, a great CRM application for macOS/iOS that integrates itself well in Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Reminders of macOS. All I can see at this point is that I am so thankful that Microsoft still didn't fix this serious bug after months even though Microsoft's official Outlook support can reproduce the flaw.

Without this bug I would have never made this move. Apple Mail is so much better than the mail component of Outlook. It is amazing how though-though this application is. The same applies to Daylite which is incredibly well-designed and which I now use for my contacts, tasks, calendars, and much much more.

I literarily boosted my productivity by dumping Outlook.  Thank you Microsoft!

If you have a service agreement...You can also ask in a MS forum. The thing is if the only information you can provide is that it is not working, you probably won't get helpful replies. You first have to analyze the problem and this means that you have to invest time.

David, that's easy to understand. Microsoft is not a customer centric company like Amazon or Apple. Microsoft is a manager centric company. This means managers get rewarded when they appear to be successful. In the case of Windows 10 this means managers need to show that many users have the latest updates installed because this makes Windows 10 appear to look great.

The thing is Microsoft's engineers are totally clueless of how to add features that users really want. Thus, managers need to force the updates on their customers otherwise nobody would install them which would make the managers look bad. When nobody wanted to have Windows 8 Microsoft's managers had this great idea to no longer give users a choice if they use the latest Windows version or not and Windows 10 with its new update strategy was born. This made the managers look great and the users have to suffer under countless bugs and not thought through features. This works fine as long as customers believe that they have no real choice anyway.

For the record, Windows 10 is not the best desktop OS in town, macOS is. iOS/macOS is now installed on more devices than Windows. Yes, Windows, once the undisputed OS king is now only on the third place (Android is first). I think this says something about Microsoft as an OS maker.

can you do a nslookup to the DC?

Sound like a DNS issue