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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - windows weekly</h1> <h2 style="text-align: center;">episode # 343</h2> <h2>[summary-subjects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] chit chat - snow and beer, </li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[11:00]</strong> 2013 - year in review</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] was a 'banner year' for MSFT, insanity</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[00:00]</strong> 2014 - the year ahead</strong></li> <ol> <li>] another year of insanity including </li> </ol> <li><strong>] a new CEO, the CEO shortlist = </strong></li> <ol> <li>x] Alan mulally - old almost 70, was getting ready to retire, has home in seattle, possibly for a short term, while another candidate gets groomed & mentored</li> <li>x] Sacha - </li> <li>x] Tony Bates, (skype) - currently runs bus dev and evangalism team @MSFT, </li> <li>x] Stephen Elop (nokia) - </li> <li>] ?? - </li> <li>*] eta - announcement expected in early 2014, even Jan (after CES)</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[18:00] </strong>nokia aqusition will be official</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] has been approved everywhere except ....</li> <li>x] china - worlds largest phone market</li> <li>x] adds 30k more employees to msft already robust payroll</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[22:00] </strong>windows 8.1 phone - blue - debut</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] pretty big update to windows 8.x phone</li> <li>x] notifications center gets added</li> <li><strong>x] cortana -</strong> msft's version of a 'personal digital assistant' ALA apple's 'siri' / ''google now' </li> <li>x] eta - spring ? , maybe developer preview first, </li> <li>x] developer release - maybe at build conference in 2014-04</li> <li>x] june release ???</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[00:00]</strong> windows 8.1 update 1</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] changes at the api level to align phone + 8.x, more shared common codebase, "a step along the unified platform road"</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[00:00] </strong>"windows threshold" in 2015</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] ??? - new version of win RT</li> <li>x] version that runs on both arm and intel</li> <li>x] </li> </ol> <li><strong>[25:00] "office apps" for "metro" - aka "gemini"</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] coming - "touch first" - versions of word, excel and powerpoint </li> <li>x] once its out for windows, THEN there will be "ios" and "android" tablets</li> <li>x] PAUL - this needs to happen, if they keep waiting, it will be greeted with a collective "yawn"</li> <li>x] LEO - new UI, no matter what, will get complaints, doesnt want the biforkated product (ie10 metro app VS ie10 desktop program ) its hard to get a new ui right, its hard to do</li> <li>x] office team - part of their charter is now multi platform support</li> <li>x] office > word, excel, >> access, onenote, vizio,office 365, web apps, Android versions, ios versions, </li> <li>x] 5000+ devs on office - biggest </li> <li>x] msft must have some hellacous project management software</li> <li>x] they also support legacy stuff</li> <li>x] some newer ms stuff didnt offer a fallback - ribbon team in office and win 8.x team </li> <li>x] team - they are all gone, now ? sinofsky and co?</li> <li>x] people tend to hang onto computers</li> <li>x] 3 year old ipad wont work with present os , aka no legacy support, why = because they can</li> <li>x] makes everthing so disposable, ala chromebooks</li> <li>x] Paul shows his kids the "3 stooges" tv show, they hated it, "this is stupid" </li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[40:00] </strong> new surface devices - coming soon - "surface mini"</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] 8" surface 'mini', ] qualcomm chip set, ] win RT</li> <li>x] arm OR intel(baytrail) OR both </li> <li>x] msft has changed chipset in surface pro II tablets, to a new faster intel chipset</li> <li>x] msft wants arm to succeed b/c of battery life, market is saying no</li> <li><em>x] windows threshold versions for 'intel' and 'arm' consumer focused,</em> </li> <li>] POST hal berenson on windows rt on x86</li> <li>] need desktop - pro sku - legacy apps</li> <li>] dont need desktop - core - no legacy apps</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[00:00] </strong>new - "surface 2 - with LTE"</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] eta - early 2014</li> <li>x] "a source" - people will be surprised by how much surface stuff occurs this year</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[46:00] new - "</strong>surface peripherals" - </strong></li> <ol> <li>x] power keyboard </li> <li>x] docking station - will be back in stock </li> <li>x] eta - Q1</li> <li>] the point of arm - powers a "device" (ex set top box), cant have windows dialog box popup, ruins the experience, small tablet same way</li> </ol> <li><strong>[49:00] msft - wearables / another microsoft watch ?</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] another watch - more speculation/rumours ... connected to "threshold",</li> <li>x] don't really know, devices or form factor</li> <li>LOL] maybe they will make a msft 'ribbon' or a 'paperclip'</li> <li>x] SPOT - Smart Personal Object Technology, special version of .net, .net micro, used radio(fm), </li> <li>x] ms kinect - highest adoption rate ever, than fizzled</li> <li>x] everyone wanted it at the beginning, the stopped using it, compared it to wii</li> <li>x] kinect voice technology is impressive</li> <li>* dashboarding</li> <li>x] 2014 new xbox games - </li> </ol> <li><strong>[55:00] year of the cloud for msft</strong></li> <ol> <li>] windows to the cloud ? desktop as a service</li> <li>] eta - unknown - but they are building it,</li> <li>] more of a corporate thing</li> <li>"] a system you can licence more freely across multiple devices, </li> <li>x] more enterprise services moving to the cloud</li> <li>] ex skype, outlook , hadoop</li> </ol> <li><strong>[60:00] windows users are ambivlent/indifferent</strong></li> <ol> <li>] people dont care about windows anymore, might even be better if people hated it</li> <li>] early days - wdws was 'ubiquitous'</li> <li>] these days - apps are on android, ios, NO major new apps for windows desktop</li> <li>] developers respect msft stuff, source at major software company</li> <li>] but dont see any call to have to deal with it</li> <li>] all the action is on the web/mobile</li> <li>] win 8 - successfull on the phone, NOT on the desktop, doesnt think the 'active tiles' are what people want to look at on their desktop, </li> <li>] a lot of 'tiles' dont do anything, there just giant icons, </li> <li>] worse on a giant screen, </li> <li>] see's what there shooting for but ...</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] usage stats - netapplication</strong></li> <ol> <li>] #1 tech story by major news - drone delivery - </li> <li>x] win 8.1 closes in on vista</li> <li>x] win 7 is #1 and growing > 47% </li> <li>x] win 8 + win 8.1 > 10% </li> <li>x] win XP 29% * 1.5 billion users</li> <li>x] XP talk - ...</li> <li>x] support ends in 2014-04</li> <li>x] security nightmare, hacker heyday</li> <li>x] perpetual zero day state</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] the windows 7/8 team leaders, have left the building</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] leader sinofsky - previously departed</li> <li>x] john devon - lead on win 7/8 -</li> <li>x] grant george - lead on testing - </li> <li>x] other leader, julie larsen-green, still there and currently interim co-ceo</li> <li>*] also happened after VISTA shipped, people responsible were off </li> <li>x] hall berenson post - these guys were 'good engineers'</li> <li>x] terry meyerson - now runs the show - </li> </ol> <li><strong>[85:00] windows phone - lumia 520</strong></li> <ol> <li>] lumia 520 or derivitave - 54% of all windows phones,</li> <li>] devices that have been on the market for < 6 months, < 100 phone</li> <li>"] will change everthing - apple wont play this game, -</li> <li>"] 520 is the biggest thing to happen to windows phone</li> </ol> <li><strong>[95:00] CES</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] leo wont be there :(</li> <li>x] hybrid - android + windows, hybrid devices</li> <li>x] hp chromebooks - msft version of judas</li> <li>x] no msft presences (booth or keynote appearances)</li> <li>x] CES 2014 = IOT, wearables, big TV's, cars (infotainment systems) </li> </ol> <li><strong>[100:00] chromebooks</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] reported as 20% of all sales, pc market</li> <li>x] NPD measures retail sales in the us</li> <li>x] was b2b sales</li> <li>x] 2 best selling models on amazon are chromebooks</li> </ol> <li><strong>[] syrian hacker </strong></li> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <li><strong>[] midori</strong></li> <ol> <li>] joe - leaked info on his blog</li> <li>] multi processor language</li> <li>] m# - language (derivative of c#)</li> <li>] midori moved into os group</li> </ol> <li><strong>[120:00] tips, picks & beer </strong></li> <ol> <li>] new years resolutions - tech</li> <ol> <li>security - passwords</li> <li>security - 2 step authentication</li> <li>backup - local, </li> <li>services - not being used - justdeleteme.</li> <li>use the tool that makes the most sense for you, </li> </ol></ol></ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong> </li> <ol> <li>] windows-phone update 8.1</li> <li>] windows-threshold</li> <li>] cortana</li> </ol> <li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li> <ol> <li>] surface mini</li> <li>] surface 2 (w/LTE)</li> <li>] surface - docking station</li> <li>] surface - power keyboard </li> <li>] msft watch - </li> <li>] ms kinect - </li> </ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[people]</h2> <div><ol> <li>] host - <a href="/view/person?id=230" target="_blank">Leo Laporte</a> - </li> <li>] co-host - <a href="/view/person?id=228" target="_blank">Paul Thurrott</a> - </li> <li>] co-host - <a href="/view/person?id=229" target="_blank">Mary Jo Foley</a> - </li> </ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <div><ol> <li>] </li> </ol></div> <h2>[places]</h2> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/343" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 343 | TWiT.TV</a> - show page</li> <li>] <a href="http://twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0343/ww0343.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0343/ww0343.mp3</a> - audio</li> </ol>