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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - windows weekly</h1> <h2 style="text-align: center;">episode # 363</h2> <h2>[subjects-summary]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <li><strong>] NO surface mini @ device announce</strong></li> <ol> <li>] delayed, NOT enough differentiation</li> <li>"] PT - reliable source, last minute decision to delay release,</li> <li>] knew earlier, but didnt want to potentially out his source, surface 'guys' are incredibly sensitive about leaks </li> <li>] initial event invitation even said a 'small'</li> <li>] speculation about why 'the mini' was delayed or even if it is cancelled</li> <li>] Nadella & Elop, 11th hour decision, its another me too device</li> <li>"] MJF - <span class="SpellE">Neilsen posted msft may have already mfg 15-20k units</span></li> <li><span class="SpellE">"] MJF - asked Panos Pany(surface division head) - 'still believes there is life left in the 8" form factor"</span></li> <li><span class="SpellE">] never quite made sense was the fact that it was going to run Windows RT because it was ARM based. We already know that <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">Microsoft’s not going to have Windows RT as <span class="GramE">an exists</span> today continue.</span> <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">They’re reworking the operating system and merging the phone operating system and the Windows RT operating system in some way so that will be a new sku probably about the time of Threshold next year</span></span></li> <li>] gemini touch first apps were not ready either</li> <li>"]PT - Nadella said - "we are NOT going to compete with our OEM's", isnt that exactly what Surface is doing, competing with their OEMs, lots of 8 in devices that could be used as a note taker, competing with the OEM’s. Not to put them out of business but to show them how Microsoft felt these devices should be</li> <li>] new plan is for them to make a "differentiated devices" that can sit in the market alongside competing devices that aren’t exactly the same kind of thing. </li> <li>] ? re OEMs - hp spectre = macbook air clone, already has dr beats</li> </ol> <li><strong>] NEW msft SURFACE 3</strong></li> <ol> <li>] new 12" screen VS previous 10.x"</li> <li>] new 3:2 screen ratio on surface3 </li> <li>] same aspect ratio as piece of paper, more natural than 16x9</li> <li>] laptop ? tablet</li> <li>] 96% of tablets owners have a laptop,</li> <li>] pushing for commercial sales, business customers, businesses paying for 3 devices (laptop, tablet, phone</li> <li>] pt uses tablet for consumption only ( screen too big, mini tablet does the trick for that )</li> </ol> <li><strong>] - mj - why NOT a laptop - portability / LAP - ability</strong></li> <ol> <li>] students, journalists USE CASE is different than business users use case, more portability required, LAP ability</li> <li>] business people use laptops/tablets differenlty, ie mostly on a desk</li> <li>] MJ need/likes ( hinge, keyoard, flatbase)</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] </strong><strong>SURFACE 3 - </strong><strong>PRICE POINTS - includes Surface and Pen, no keyboard</strong></li> <ol> <li>[price USD] - [SSD] / [Ram] / [Process]</li> <li>$800 - 64/4/i3</li> <li>$1000 - 64/4/i5 </li> <li>$1300 - 256/8/i5</li> <li>$2000 - 512/8/i7</li> <li>$130 keyboard</li> <li>pricing is inline with macbook air prices, a premium product at a premium price</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] SURFACE 3 - quotes, notes ] </strong></li> <ol> <li>] quality is astonishing thin-ness</li> <li>] kickstand is great</li> <li>] pen is new( not wacom, now ntrig)</li> <li>] button is linked to onenote,</li> <li>] some controversy re pen change, old wacom pen had 1000+ pressure sensitivity levels to 256, difference in pp is non existant to most users</li> <li>] lance ulanoff on mashable, drew a portrait, amazing</li> <li>] no eraser on pen, different actions,</li> <li>] trackpad, attach a mouse,</li> <li>] touch it, its instantaneous, its beautiful</li> <li>] feels way bigger</li> <li>] ratio may make it seem even bigger</li> <li>] i7 hyperthreaded, minimal batter differences</li> <li>] cool feature - snap 3 apps - side by side</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] SURFACE PRO 3 - NEGATIVES </strong></li> <ol> <li>x] still only 1 usb port</li> <li>x] NO LTE</li> <li>* aside DEVICE - octoport with ethernet/</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] SURFACE PRO 2 - the previous generation</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] will sell out the current inventory ( smaller screen, different pen)</li> <li>x] discounts ??? - TBD</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] What about the surface RT - </strong></li> <ol> <li>x] not dead, maybe replaced with a surface mini when it releases</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] interview w/Mark Russinovich - Technichal Fellow @ Azure, </strong></li> <ol> <li>] founder @sysInternals, which was aquired by msft</li> <li>] works @msft on azure</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] now also an Author of "Rogue Code"</strong></li> <ol> <li>] book on the 'stock exchange' and how it works now</li> <li>] WHAT IF malware was operating on the SE to make money</li> <li>] method 1 - q jumping</li> <li>] method 2 - backing out of orders</li> <li>] example of 2010 incident where market lost 10% value in 20 minutes, computerized trading, high frequency trading</li> <li>] Michael Lewis book, zero day,</li> <li>] steve gibson, says book is fabulous, PT/MJ likes it too, </li> </ol> <li><strong>x] no news on xamarin</strong></li> <ol> <li>x] looking like its less likely that it will happend</li> </ol> <li><strong>] final draft for script writing</strong></li> <ol> <li>] windows handwriting recognition</li> <li>] search of</li> <li>] handwriting is first class citizens, can search ,built into OS,</li> <li>] voice recogition</li> </ol> <li><strong>] new msft digital inking strategy</strong></li> <ol> <li>] leaked video, on research site,</li> <li>] 1 msft - different teams working together on 1 product,</li> <li>] common gestures, common</li> <li>] 1 pen to rule them all</li> </ol> <li><strong>] china bans windows 8</strong></li> <ol> <li>] b/c xp is no longer being updated</li> <li>] NSA</li> <li>] related story = us gov accusing chinese officials of spying</li> <li>] large % of 400m exisiting XP users, high percentage of those are pirated</li> <li>] only to gov purchases of new PCs</li> </ol> <li><strong>] SAP </strong></li> <ol> <li>] hard times, layoffs,</li> <li>] working with msft to move their apps to be available on ...</li> </ol> <li><strong>x] XBOX one update</strong></li> <ol> <li>] many msft products have regular updates, many tied to a specific time, update tuesday, ... </li> <li>] small update for this week</li> <li>] coming in june, a major update, answer many common complaints,</li> <li>] new FEATURE of increasing capacity of system with external usb storage</li> <li>] new FEATURE option of real name id VS gamer name,</li> </ol> <li><strong>] this WEEKS Tips, Picks and beer</strong></li> <ol> <li>] TIP bing news app - hiqh quality sites, select your content, sycnh content across devices, </li> <li>] SW assassins creed pirates - web - touch enabled</li> <li>] big enterprize -</li> <li>] biztalk services 'bridging' between privace cloud, public cloud,</li> <li>] codename - win 95 WAS chicago but it also had codenames for different components of it including + jaguar, cougar, panther, and stippy,</li> <li>] BEER - speakeasy spiced payback porter - </li> </ol></ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong> </li> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li> <ol> <li>] surface mini</li> </ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[objects]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong> </li> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="/view/article?id=3240" target="_blank">surface-pro-3</a> -</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> <li>] guest - Mark Russinovich</li> </ol></div> <h2>[events]</h2> <div><ol> <li>] </li> </ol></div> <h2>[places]</h2> <ol> <li>] SHOW - PAGE url - <a href="http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/363" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 363 | TWiT.TV</a> - watch the live video of this episode</li> <li>] SHOW - audio - <a href="http://twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0363/ww0363.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0363/ww0363.mp3</a> - download the .mp3 audio file</li> <li>] </li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;"> </h1> <h1 style="text-align: center;"> </h1>