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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - windows weekly</h1> <h2 style="text-align: center;">episode # 346</h2> <h2>[summary-subjects]</h2> <ol style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"> <li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] chit chat - technical problems with pauls mic, mic cord, maybe skyp</li> </ol> <li><strong><strong>[20:00]</strong> wzor leaks - changes for 8.1</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] pin metro apps to the win taskbar</li> <li>x] COMING run metro apps in a windowed form</li> <li>x] concessions to tradittional users, </li> <li>x] argue that it is taking windows back to your </li> <li>x] MJ - need it to get winXP, win7 users</li> <li>x] eta - 2014-04 - in sync with windows phone 8.1</li> <li>x] wzor says threshold - RTM - in 2014-10, NOT in 2015-04(quoted by Thurrott)</li> <li>x] no bits at build</li> <li>x] windows 9 - differentiating it from win 8, no FUNDAMENTAL changes, could even be named 'windows 8.2'</li> <li>x] FEATURE - close box</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] why can't ....</strong></li> <ol> <li>] metro will not be as popular as they want</li> <li>] win32 apps to get some "metro" functionality - full screen, share charm, </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] surface firmware fracas</strong></li> <ol> <li>] PRB is publicity of surface firmware fixes </li> <li>] was regular, on tuesday, </li> <li>] bad update in december, </li> <li>] PRB with updates, people who applied it, had power problems(battery life, ex from 10 hours to 2), wouldnt wake up, ...</li> <li>] some people returned machines</li> <li>] auto updates on holiday weekend</li> <li>] only people who uploaded the 'faulty update' got the update</li> <li>] then people who didnt get an update started complaining</li> <li>] PT - issue is communication, there is a link, no info at the linke</li> <li>x] 1 update labeled - "system firmware update", "system hardware update"</li> <li>x] surfaces are now back in stock</li> <li>x] also info on stock/availablity on surface 2, surface pro 2 is tightlipped, "were building them as fast as we can"</li> <li>] quarterly report coming - curious about what they will say about surface inventory</li> <li>x] surface is currently back in stock</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] arstechnica article - msft paying youtubers for xbox comments</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] PT msft does enough things wrong we dont need to make negative stuff up about them</li> <li>] assertion - machinima (youtube offering viewers $3 per 1000 views, ) for posting xbox content </li> <li>x] msft had no knowledge or approval of this scheme</li> <li>x] vloggers are supposed to 'disclose' what they are paid to promote</li> <li>x] machina agreement said they couldnt 'say, they were paid to promote'</li> <li>x] apparently, happens all the time, other companies do this, ...</li> <li>x] reflects badly on tech journalists</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] hp & windows 7</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] "by popular demand", bringing back 'windows 7' pcs, </li> <li>x] blow/slap in the face to msft OR we dont know what people want, we wil throw anything at the wall and see what sticks</li> <li>x] whitman's comments - b/c of surface, "msft not a friend, its a competitor"</li> <li>x] used to be "joined at the hip"</li> <li>x] win7 gaining in marketshare </li> <li>x] pc makers making lackluster products and adding junk to them</li> <li>x] surface was reaction to pc makers </li> <li>x] still touting windows 8 pc's also</li> <li>x] until 2014-10 OR ???</li> <li>"] PT - msft and hp deserve each other, </li> <li>x] hp is NOT the biggest PC maker, lenovo is </li> <li>] </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] hans vestburg</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] CEO candidate - rumoured - current ceo of erricsen, bought msft media room business, TV services over broadband, young(48), erricons share price up 19% since he was leader</li> <li>x] bill gates - to be more involved, NOT coming back as ceo, re itereated in bloomberg interview</li> <li>x] bill gates on jimmy fallon, </li> <li>x] promoting billgates letter</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] other news</strong></li> <ol> <li>] outlook new feature for mail rules</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] windows xp</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] NOT going to release any updates for XP after april 2014</li> <li>x] 95% ATMS running windows XP, likely embedded version of xp, eol = 2016</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] 2014-01-22 earnings call</strong></li> <ol> <li>] surface sales - ?400M last qtr?</li> <li>] office 365 subscribers - ? 2m ? subscribers</li> <li>] estimates - 23.6 billion for qtr, up 10%</li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] vs 2013 update 1</strong></li> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] new beats music</strong></li> <ol> <li>] ? YA </li> <li>] all in one service - platform agnostic(ios,android,windows), </li> <li>] most like spotify - </li> <li>] tie in w/wless operator - 5 users/10 devices $x, AT&T</li> <li>] radio streaming - </li> <li>] cloud service - </li> <li>] lot of content - curated - </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00]</strong></li> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] pick of the week</strong></li> <ol> <li>] blog post - logMeIN - killed FREE product, only PRO version, article on free alternatives (teamviewer,vnc)</li> <li>] bing apps - news, weather, finance, sports, NEWEST food, drink, health, fitness, ... updated now to windows phone INTEGRATION with other apps, services</li> <li>] hadoop - 2.0 version, released for windows, </li> <li>] windows 8 guides - for business users, customizable, </li> </ol> <li><strong>[00:00] beer</strong></li> <ol> <li>] </li> <li>] spezza - travest beer maker, first outside of </li> <li>] </li> </ol></ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <ol style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"> <li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong> </li> <ol> <li>]</li> <li>] windows-threshold</li> </ol> <li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li> <ol> <li>] surface 2 </li> </ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[people]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><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> <li>] [sponsors] personalcapital.com/windows </li> <ol> <li>] financial dashboard, </li> </ol> <li>[sponsors] itpro.tv<ol> <li>] -$57 month $570 year, offer 50% off </li> </ol></li> </ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <div style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><ol> <li>] </li> </ol></div> <h2>[places]</h2> <ol style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"> <li>] <a href="http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/346" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 346 | TWiT.TV</a> - show page</li> <li>] <a href="http://twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0346/ww0346.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0346/ww0346.mp3</a> - audio</li> </ol>