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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>
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<li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;NO surface mini @ device announce</strong></li>
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<li>] delayed, NOT enough differentiation</li>
<li>"] PT - reliable source, last minute decision to delay release,</li>
<li>] knew earlier, but didnt want to&nbsp;potentially out&nbsp;his source, surface&nbsp;'guys' are incredibly sensitive about leaks&nbsp;</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 &amp; Elop, 11th hour decision, its another me too device</li>
<li>"]&nbsp;MJF -&nbsp;<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&rsquo;s not going to have Windows RT as <span class="GramE">an exists</span> today continue.</span> <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0;">They&rsquo;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 -&nbsp;Nadella said&nbsp;- "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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t exactly the same kind of thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>] ? re OEMs -&nbsp;hp spectre = macbook air clone, already has dr beats</li>
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<li><strong>] NEW msft SURFACE 3</strong></li>
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<li>] new 12" screen VS previous 10.x"</li>
<li>] new 3:2 screen ratio on surface3&nbsp;</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>]&nbsp;pt uses tablet for consumption only ( screen too big, mini tablet does the trick for that )</li>
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<li><strong>] - mj -&nbsp; why NOT a laptop - portability&nbsp; / LAP - ability</strong></li>
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<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&nbsp;on a desk</li>
<li>] MJ need/likes&nbsp;( hinge, keyoard, flatbase)</li>
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<li><strong>x] </strong><strong>SURFACE 3 - </strong><strong>PRICE POINTS - includes Surface and Pen, no keyboard</strong></li>
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<li>[price USD] - [SSD] / [Ram] / [Process]</li>
<li>$800&nbsp; -&nbsp; 64/4/i3</li>
<li>$1000 -&nbsp; 64/4/i5&nbsp;&nbsp;</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>
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<li><strong>x] SURFACE 3&nbsp;- quotes,&nbsp;notes&nbsp;]&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] quality is&nbsp;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>
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<li><strong>x] SURFACE PRO 3 - NEGATIVES </strong></li>
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<li>x] still only 1 usb port</li>
<li>x] NO LTE</li>
<li>* aside DEVICE - octoport with ethernet/</li>
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<li><strong>x]&nbsp;SURFACE PRO 2 - the previous generation</strong></li>
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<li>x] will sell out the&nbsp;current inventory ( smaller screen, different pen)</li>
<li>x] discounts ??? - TBD</li>
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<li><strong>x] What about the surface RT - </strong></li>
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<li>x] not dead, maybe replaced with a&nbsp;surface mini when it releases</li>
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<li><strong>x] interview w/Mark Russinovich&nbsp;- Technichal Fellow @ Azure, </strong></li>
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<li>] founder @sysInternals, which was aquired by msft</li>
<li>] works @msft on azure</li>
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<li><strong>x] now also an Author&nbsp;of "Rogue Code"</strong></li>
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<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,&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>x] no news on xamarin</strong></li>
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<li>x] looking like its less likely that it will happend</li>
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<li><strong>] final draft for script writing</strong></li>
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<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>
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<li><strong>] new msft digital inking strategy</strong></li>
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<li>] leaked video, on research site,</li>
<li>] 1 msft -&nbsp;&nbsp;different teams working together on 1 product,</li>
<li>] common gestures, common</li>
<li>] 1 pen to rule them all</li>
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<li><strong>] china bans windows 8</strong></li>
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<li>] b/c xp is no longer being updated</li>
<li>] NSA</li>
<li>] related story =&nbsp;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>
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<li><strong>] SAP </strong></li>
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<li>] hard times, layoffs,</li>
<li>] working with msft to move their apps to be available on ...</li>
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<li><strong>x] XBOX one update</strong></li>
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<li>] many msft products have regular updates, many tied to a specific time, update tuesday, ...&nbsp;</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&nbsp;id VS gamer name,</li>
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<li><strong>] this WEEKS Tips, Picks and beer</strong></li>
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<li>] TIP bing news app - hiqh quality sites, select your content, sycnh&nbsp;content&nbsp;across devices, &nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;SW assassins creed pirates - web - touch enabled</li>
<li>] big enterprize&nbsp; -</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&nbsp;+ jaguar, cougar, panther, and&nbsp;stippy,</li>
<li>]&nbsp;BEER - speakeasy spiced payback porter - &nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]</li>
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<li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li>
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<li>] surface mini</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]</li>
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<li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=3240" target="_blank">surface-pro-3</a>&nbsp;-</li>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=230" target="_blank">Leo Laporte</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] co-host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=228" target="_blank">Paul Thurrott</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] co-host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=229" target="_blank">Mary Jo Foley</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] guest - Mark Russinovich</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<h2>[places]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;SHOW - PAGE&nbsp;url&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/363" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 363 | TWiT.TV</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;watch the live video of this episode</li>
<li>]&nbsp;SHOW&nbsp;- audio&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0363/ww0363.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0363/ww0363.mp3</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;download the .mp3 audio file</li>
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