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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - windows weekly</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">episode # 365</h2>
<h2>[subjects-summary]</h2>
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<li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li>
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<li>"] LL - tough week for msft, both apple and google have big events this month(WWDC,IO) generating a lot of press</li>
<li>"] PT - fortunately for MSFT, apple announced nothing,</li>
<li>"] PT -&nbsp;bone to pick with AAPL&nbsp;- when you&nbsp;cherry pick facts and represent them the wrong way&nbsp;= 'lying'&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;start menu&nbsp;to return in&nbsp;windows 9 ( aka threshold ), NOT in windows 8.1 update 2</strong></li>
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<li>] roller coaster - Terry Myerson preview demo'd FEATURES&nbsp;'start menu' and running 'modern apps in a window' @ Build 2014 conference, saying they will appear in a future version, did not specify which version</li>
<li>] future version is NOT going to be in win 8.1, update 2, the original plan was to do that, but</li>
<li>] now the plan has changed and it will be included in win 9 aka threshold</li>
<li>] Start Menu - known internally as 'mini start' - incorporates stuff that looks like the orig windows start menu, but also incorporates stuff from modern start screen</li>
<li>] also alternative 3rd party 'start menus' are available</li>
<li>"] MJ F my&nbsp;theory -&nbsp;i thinks the product (start menu)&nbsp;is ready, BUT that the&nbsp;'windows 8' brand is tarnished and msft is done investing in it&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>] ? = will every version of windows&nbsp;have it?, phone ? , small tablets?</li>
<li>] ? = do we even&nbsp;need it?</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] next - windows 8.1 - update 2</strong></li>
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<li>] expected fall 2014</li>
<li>] ? = what is going to be in it?&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] cloud</strong></li>
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<li>] there are no upgrades VS there is nothing but upgrades</li>
<li>] sccm incident @ emery&nbsp;university</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] breaking - goPro names Tony Bates as president</strong></li>
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<li>x] former CEO skype, was a candidate for MSFT CEO position</li>
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<li><strong>[24:00] <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/touch-first-microsoft-office-for-android-to-beat-windows-8-version-to-market-7000030162/" target="_blank">msft announces office version for the 'toxic hellstew' that is android</a></strong></li>
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<li>] toxic hellstew = AAPL description of android @ WWDC</li>
<li>] android got a version of office but its NOT&nbsp;= to appl version of&nbsp;office, it was ONLY 1 app ( oneNote)</li>
<li>] android is getting an equivalent version, touch first version of office WITH word, excel, ppt, &amp;</li>
<li>] android tablet version of&nbsp;office&nbsp;is coming out&nbsp;before the windows 8.x touch version of windows</li>
<li>] office has 'magnification' feature that enlarges</li>
<li>] windows touch first version of office will not be released until threshold</li>
<li>?] maybe more apps available in office for windows</li>
<li>] people are unhappy b/c android version available&nbsp;b4 windows version,</li>
<li>] desktop versions of office apps, spring 2015,</li>
<li>] msft has done 3 - 3.5 big things,&nbsp;(windows, windows server, office, ? xbox ), usually most successfull when release 2 at the same time</li>
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<li><strong>[30:00] leo sold on WWDC presentations, wants to get an iphone&nbsp;this fall</strong></li>
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<li>] bigger screen ??, better keyboard, extensions (interoperability between apps), homekit home&nbsp;automation</li>
<li>] DDE - msft&nbsp;tech for 'extensions', from&nbsp;wayback,</li>
<li>] engineering meeting - twit.tv using snow leopard, 4 versions back&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong></li>
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<li>] gemini - codename for the&nbsp;touch first version of office for windows,</li>
<li>"] MJF will be upset if AAPL version is &gt; msft version,</li>
<li>"] PT - will NOT happen</li>
<li>"] MJF&nbsp;- NAME&nbsp;windows 9, still not decided - &nbsp;</li>
<li>"] MJF - IDEA windows 9 NAME windows&nbsp;one - msft resets windows, MAYBE office versions included for windows users</li>
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<li><strong>[37:00] <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-shows-off-a-range-of-new-windows-phones-at-computex" target="_blank">computex -&nbsp;industry trade show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] overshadowed by WWDC</li>
<li>] google annouced its spending 1B for satellites to provide internet to the world,</li>
<li>] apple announced a 'font change' and they got all the press,</li>
<li>"] PT RANT - on appl and the press coverage it gets</li>
<li>"] its not the second coming, ever, "] forbes headline&nbsp;- the biggest 1/2 year in apples history is about to begin "] nothing wrong with what they announced, "] the coverage is ....&nbsp;] biased and unfair, "] &nbsp;driven by the media and users,&nbsp; "] world we live in</li>
<li>"] LL - we(twit) got a little bit larger numbers for the WWDC event VS the&nbsp;surface pro event</li>
<li>] computex's non coverage from Taiwan, a hardware show,&nbsp;3am PST start time, no streaming of events, all we know is from reports,</li>
<li>] read the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/speeches/2014/06-03computex.aspx" target="_blank">keynote speech</a></span> or <a href="http://www.winbeta.org/news/watch-microsofts-keynote-during-computex-2014-video" target="_blank">watch the video</a>&nbsp;85:00</li>
<li>] new models - 2 in 1's - convertibles, tablet or laptop,</li>
<li>] new processor - broadwell coming in fall, acer aspire s7 will have</li>
<li>] toshiba 7" tablet, &lt; $200, smallest tablet running win 8.x</li>
<li>] under 9", NOT free windows, BUT&nbsp;zero dollars windows, some legal thing</li>
<li>] new windows phones, NOT from hh names, YEZZ billy, PRESTIGIO, BLU</li>
<li>] YEZ billy - named after bill gates - $250 phone off contract, mid level specs, 13mP camera, colors,</li>
<li>] many devices, mid - lower end, windows phone going after low cost, high volume</li>
<li>] HTC rumored to have&nbsp;new win phone,</li>
<li>] evleaks has screenshots, w8 q3, win 8.1, boom sound(dual front facing stereo speakers), dual cameras, 2014 q3,</li>
<li>] problem - htc - announced a nice device, but never improved upon it, no iteration</li>
<li>] convertibles -</li>
<li>"] MJF - not a fan of the convergence</li>
<li>"] PT - future of the&nbsp;PC, example from the road, tablet with a borrowed keyboard plugged into a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">usb thingy</span></li>
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<li><strong>[52:00] <a href="http://m.winsupersite.com/visual-studio/microsoft-delivers-first-visual-studio-14-ctp" target="_blank">visual studio 2014 preview</a> </strong></li>
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<li>] codename is vs 2014 - not the final name, product is not going to ship until 2015</li>
<li>] version where the open source&nbsp;roslyn compiler gets built in, compiler as a service,</li>
<li>] new c# features,</li>
<li>] new vb features</li>
<li>] new c++ features</li>
<li>] asp.net vNext,</li>
<li>] tooling - ] project K - the future of .net on the server</li>
<li>"] LL&nbsp;- interesting with swift,&nbsp;promote security,</li>
<li>"] PT - maybe instead of creating another 'yet another'&nbsp;c like language, maybe they could have gone&nbsp;with an existing c like language, perhaps c#</li>
<li>] aapl&nbsp;&amp; msft are 'tight'</li>
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<li><strong>[56:00] x-box</strong></li>
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<li>"] PT&nbsp;- cant travel with xbox 1, size of a volkswagen,</li>
<li>] prev announced decoupling of xbox live gold from entertainment apps&nbsp;- apps, like netflix, hulu, ...</li>
<li>] part of june system update, apps no longer require subscription</li>
<li>] external storage</li>
<li>] 45 more entertainment apps are coming, FREE, announced&nbsp;HBO go, major league gaming, nhl,</li>
<li>] twitter integration in xbox 1 -&nbsp;into guide, ... - watch TV and tweet</li>
<li>] MSFT making its own apps free - OneDrive, IE,</li>
<li>] xbox developer requirements, ?? still expensive (100K) or getting cheaper ??</li>
<li>] E3 is next week - would be nice, develop with free version of visual studio for ....</li>
<li>] aapl didnt want to do an appstore</li>
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<li><strong>[70:00] <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/apples-updated-spotlight-search-powered-by-bing-7000030122/" target="_blank">bing - WWDC announcements, google is out, bing is&nbsp;in</a></strong></li>
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<li>] replacing google search with&nbsp;bing</li>
<li>] MJF pinged msft, did they say something about us?</li>
<li>] APPL 'spotlight' app&nbsp;on both ios8 and os x 10.10 - default search results coming from bing, not from google</li>
<li>] bing results - already used for 'siri'</li>
<li>] iCloud and Azure - no comment from either side</li>
<li>] ?? not sure ??</li>
<li>] files, developers back end servces</li>
<li>] aapl never done cloud stuff well, presumably they know they</li>
<li>] PT RANT - on Tim Cook on the "Mavericks 53% adoption" rate&nbsp;VS "windows 8 14% adoption"</li>
<li>] 80M is 5% of all pcs worldwide, 40M are using</li>
<li>] windows 8 usage is 5 1/2 * bigger than mavericks,</li>
<li>] also the&nbsp;same speil with android #'s</li>
<li>] 800M i devices, 80M macs, 7 years,</li>
<li>] ios has exploded in ways that the mac never did, ios is 'much more' successfull</li>
<li>] people asking for oneDrive for business MAC</li>
<li>] MAC is not insubstantial, don't have to dump on someone else to prove their point</li>
<li>] LL more consistent ecoystem, our users upgrade</li>
<li>] 250 million + counting using windows 8</li>
<li>] reason why mac app store hasnt taken off, you dont hear about it, 80m</li>
<li>] msft partner show - kevin turner speech - will make this one look like ...</li>
<li>] translucency - windows 'aero' features in os 10, msft took it out b/c of performance/battery life issues, previously added in ios7</li>
<li>] end to end - ecosystem play - continuity ( desktop to tablet to phone), happens here and there in the</li>
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<li><strong>[87:00] windows phone 8.1 - developer preview update</strong></li>
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<li>] no change log, some reliability and performance stuff</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] windows phone 8.1 - OneDrive - synch support for high resolution photos</strong></li>
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<li>] synch suppoort for high res photos</li>
<li>] for some phone models, nokia 1020, 1520, 930</li>
<li>] xbox 1 - improved photos experience</li>
<li>] web interface for photos - improved</li>
<li>] walgreens printing of your photos, from within OneDrive, special code in the blog post for 25% discount,&nbsp; ready in 1 hour,</li>
<li>*] walgreens may keep your photos - forever -</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] OneDrive for business</strong></li>
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<li>] document conversations - yammer social feature, have conversations&nbsp;attached to documents, collaboration feature, for users of yammer w/office 365</li>
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<li><strong>[90:00] <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/104907206809198609374/albums/6020707619435763393/6020707624374769298?sqi=116096206873779476176&amp;sqsi=cf903863-ce0b-49bb-8738-77b218e4e500" target="_blank">os market share - desktop -&nbsp;windows 7 surpasses 50%</a></strong></li>
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<li>] windows 7 - 50.6 %&nbsp;- first time, everyone standardizing on win 7, win 8 is OK</li>
<li>] windows xp - 25</li>
<li>] windows 8.1 - 6.4</li>
<li>] windows 8 - 6.3</li>
<li>] mac os x - 7.9</li>
<li>] vista - 2.9</li>
<li>] SRC = net applications data</li>
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<li><strong>[95:00] TIPS</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://winsupersite.com/xbox-one/first-xbox-one-games-gold-offerings-tap-june" target="_blank">TIPS - xbox 1</a>&nbsp;- &nbsp;</li>
<li>] in conjunction with 45 new entertainment apps announced - free 3 month subscription to hulu plus</li>
<li>] universal remote -</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] APPS</strong></li>
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<li>] google chrome 64 bit for windows - pre release versions, - canary and dev version, 25% faster, more stable, better security ?,</li>
<li>] <a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/?p=151011&amp;WT.mc_id=Blog_SQL_Announce_DI" target="_blank">HDInsight&nbsp;on Azure</a> - appache hadoop on azure, hadoop 2.4, orders of magnitude of performance enhancement, up to 100x,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-reorgs-its-office-business-to-focus-on-four-new-investment-areas-7000030127/" target="_blank">RUMOUR - re - orged the office teams</a>, </strong></li>
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<li>] WAS office client and office server, NOW ] outlook, outlook.com, exchange, office 365&nbsp;] sharepoint + OneDrive+oneDrive&nbsp;Business&nbsp;,] skype + Lync&nbsp;] oneNote - as its own unit -</li>
<li>"] MJF - re itereates the need to learn it, ( LL especially with the surface pro pen's oneNote button), i do want to try learn it, will write a post</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] BEER</strong></li>
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<li>] new belgium - wild squared - dark, malty spicy, flavored with shishandra berries</li>
<li>] avery - hog heaven barley one - very dark, intense, high in alcohol</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li><strong>[tech-sw]</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=549" target="_blank">windows 8.x</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>] windows 9.x</li>
<li>] visual studio 2014</li>
<li>]</li>
</ol>
<li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li>
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<li>] gaming console - x-box-one</li>
<li>] tablet - toshiba 7" tablet</li>
<li>] smartphone - YEZZ billy</li>
<li>] smartphone - PRESTIGIO</li>
<li>] smartphone - BLU</li>
<li>] smartphone - HTC w8</li>
<li>]</li>
</ol>
<li>]&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
<div><ol>
<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>] MSFT - microsoft</li>
<li>] AAPL - apple</li>
</ol></div>
<h2>[events]</h2>
<div><ol>
<li>]&nbsp;computex</li>
<li>] wwdc</li>
<li>]</li>
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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/365" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 365 | 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/ww0365/ww0365.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0365/ww0365.mp3</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;download the .mp3 audio file</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/blu_prestigio_and_yezz_launch_windows_phone_handsets-news-8699.php">http://www.gsmarena.com/blu_prestigio_and_yezz_launch_windows_phone_handsets-news-8699.php</a></li>
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