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<h1 style="text-align: center;">REVIEW - windows weekly</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">episode # 367</h2>
<h2>[subjects-summary]</h2>
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<li><strong>[00:00] smalltalk</strong></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] new amazon fire phone&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=3575" target="_blank">overview</a> - specs, features,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] &gt; amazon fire phone, ? uses 'here' maps (from nokia)&nbsp;</li>
<li>] ? bing uses here ?, benedict evans says yes,</li>
<li>] amazon has been a 'here' licensee for a long time&nbsp;</li>
<li>"] PT&nbsp;- "amazons new retail scanning wand"</li>
<li>] - 13 mp camera, quick pocket to picture time, 1.5 secs</li>
<li>"]&nbsp;LL - fire os, a fourth OS, 'theyve completely forked it'</li>
<li>] comparing stores, google play VS amazon, amzon store only has 5 apps, were google has many more</li>
<li>]&nbsp;surprised that it was&nbsp;not more 3Dish, Dynamic Perspective, not just a gimmick,</li>
<li>*] windows phone - you shake your phone to undo&nbsp;</li>
<li>*] windows phone - coming 3D features - hovering - hand over tiles, info displayed on tile will change</li>
<li>]&nbsp;coming in first update to win phone 8.1</li>
<li>] will msft promote its ecosystem</li>
<li>] msft going slightly different decoration, x platform,</li>
<li>] if use office, you&nbsp;should have a win phone ?, not necesssarily</li>
<li>] office and other consumer s/w(oneNote, Skype, ...) is&nbsp;increasingly becoming available&nbsp;is&nbsp;on all platforms, isnt the way it ways,</li>
<li>] msft realization the (mobile) market has moved on</li>
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<li><strong>[15:00</strong><strong>] win phone 8.1 update 1</strong></li>
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<li>] coming - sometime soon,( summer, fall 2014)&nbsp;</li>
<li>] the way it works, update&nbsp;'happens' then hits carriers months later</li>
<li>] shipping on some new phones already</li>
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<li><strong>[17:30</strong><strong>] micro max - announces inexpensive new windows&nbsp;phones</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;approx $160, 4" wxga, 5" model 720p,</li>
<li>] heading to india market&nbsp;</li>
<li>] real leather stitched backing on case,&nbsp;similar to samsung note,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] cyan firmware update for lumia phones</strong></li>
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<li>] firmware update coming with win phone 8.1</li>
<li>] lumia models&nbsp;to be updated&nbsp;(1520, 930, icon )</li>
<li>] enhancements include - better colors, continous autofocus, better video and low light performance&nbsp;</li>
<li>] reddit ama w/nokia camera guys explaining features</li>
<li>] carrier update starting to happen fairly soon, within the next few weeks</li>
<li>] os version already ships on some of the new phones</li>
<li>] check what version you have in Settings - extras &amp; infos&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] cortana - possibly coming to android &amp; ios<br /></strong></li>
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<li>] speculation by msft, opening the door to bringing&nbsp;'cortana' to other platforms</li>
<li>] priorty - first to get it working as 'best in class' on windows, the best, bring it to other markets(international)</li>
<li>] access to the phone os could be issue&nbsp;when launching&nbsp;other platforms,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] goal for doing would be to get more people into msft ecosystem, start with cortana, entice you to other msft products</li>
<li>] problem could be giving up 'differentiating feature' on platform(win phone 8) that needs help to grow </li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] china reveals msft licencing patents for android</strong></li>
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<li>] MSFT has patents that generate&nbsp;estimates @&nbsp;1 - 2 B in licencing fees, rumoured @ $5 device</li>
<li>] has never revealed what specifically the patents are</li>
<li>] Barnes and Noble was going to challenge the MSFT patents on 1 points but 'last minute deal' and it never went to court&nbsp;</li>
<li>] deal = b+n licenced patents, msft invested 340M in b+n nook business. likely cause was nook business was money pit</li>
<li>] b+n just signed deal with samsung to make nook branded tablets, b+n wants to get out of tablet business,</li>
<li>] mofcom revealed what the patents</li>
<li>] 300 US patents, very vague, 200 patents families</li>
<li>] some are part of the rockstar consortium, who purchsed the nortel patents,</li>
<li>] exFat file system, exchange activesysnch,</li>
<li>] applies to 50% of android devices, motorolo X phone not included</li>
<li>] <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reveals-microsofts-secret-list-of-android-killer-patents/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reveals-microsofts-secret-list-of-android-killer-patents/</a></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00</strong><strong>] machine learning as a service (MLaaS)</strong></li>
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<li>] announced new service on azure</li>
<li>] msft has taken data learned from bing, xbox live</li>
<li>] take the ml capablities and apply them to your data</li>
<li>] tools and templates</li>
<li>] predictive analytics on your own data</li>
<li>] ex predict bad credit card transactions</li>
<li>] preview avail&nbsp;in July, 50% off,&nbsp;paid service</li>
<li>] codename - pasow</li>
<li>] <a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/machine-learning/" target="_blank">http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/machine-learning/</a></li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-readies-public-preview-of-cloud-based-machine-learning-service-7000030579/" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-readies-public-preview-of-cloud-based-machine-learning-service-7000030579/</a></li>
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<li><strong>[52:00</strong><strong>] outlook VS outlook.com VS outlook web access(owa)</strong></li>
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<li>] strategy play is to get consumers to use their services (oneDrive, oneNote, outlook) and maybe that will drive adoption by businesses, which are still the primary profit drivers</li>
<li>] more consolidation needed of cloud services, may be moving in this direction as they are now part of the same group</li>
<li>] oneDrive for consumers is different then OneDrive for business</li>
<li>] 1 prb using consumer services(oneDrive, g drive, dropbox, etc), no way to be managed by business</li>
<li>] owa - has recently released android preview versio, 1 might assume it works with outlook.com or BUT it only works with office 365</li>
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<li><strong>[54:30</strong><strong>] office - bellweather for msft rapid release</strong></li>
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<li>] office is bellweather for msft rapid release, b/c it impacts everything</li>
<li>]</li>
<li>] more office apps then anything</li>
<li>] some patches have broken things,</li>
<li>] business still have reluctance to any 'updates'</li>
<li>] coming up witn new ways of testing s/w for businesses,</li>
<li>] msft listening, working with customers to meet them in the middle</li>
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<li><strong>[65:30</strong><strong>] surface pro 3 - now shipping ...</strong></li>
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<li>] has shipped units pre-ordered by customers</li>
<li>] power management bug -&nbsp;after recharging - sometimes doesnt start back up, sometimes&nbsp;date/time is wrong</li>
<li>*] these are pre-production review units PT &amp; MJF are using</li>
<li>] FIX NOW - hold down the&nbsp; - ] turn off ] remove keyboard, ] hold power button OR ] hold down 'vol up' and then the 'power'&nbsp; button for 12 seconds OR could turn off hibernation ??</li>
<li>"] LL - do you guys hear yourself??</li>
<li>"] PT - there is a fix but there is now way a normal person would know that&nbsp;</li>
<li>] CAUSE - related to power cable connection</li>
<li><strong>] THEY HAVE to FIX THIS !!!!!!</strong></li>
<li>] have implemented fix for drawing on unit, when you brush the start button, penny arcade article</li>
<li>"] PT - spending too much time on this guy,very limted demographic, he definetly provides good feedback, BUT &nbsp;should spend as much time&nbsp;on 'business users' taking notes with oneNote</li>
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<li><strong>[78:00] surface pro 2 - price has dropped</strong></li>
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<li>] msft will NOT be making any&nbsp;more sp2&nbsp;models, when they are gone they are gone</li>
<li>] dropped the price of models from $ 100 - 200</li>
<li>] further price drops possibly coming</li>
<li>] wait a bit and chances are good that price will come down further</li>
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<li><strong>[80:00] surface pro mini</strong></li>
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<li>] have units built, almost released it, last minute decision to delay b/c not differentiated enough</li>
<li>] devices could be used for parts or ???</li>
<li>] not giving up on RT arm devices, will likely be version of 'threshold' for phones and tablets&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[81:00</strong><strong>] xbox one</strong></li>
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<li>] monthly system updates released</li>
<li>] early access being provided to some users for testing,&nbsp;</li>
<li>] july update will have snap view for 'list of acheivements' for game</li>
<li>] supporting game bundles, packages of games, or game with content at a lower price</li>
<li>] adding more voice control languages</li>
<li>] adding a 'like' feature to the game DVR,&nbsp;for video clips</li>
<li>] june udate adding support for externall hdd was great feature</li>
<li>] update for FIFA</li>
<li>] ps4 outsold xbox one, again</li>
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<li><strong>[85:00</strong><strong>] xbox one + disble - kinect to get&nbsp;performance 10% improvement</strong></li>
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<li>] explained by msft - new sdk allows developers to disable certain features in their games,</li>
<li>] NOT a console level change that will apply&nbsp;to everything, but a change made by developers in their specific games&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[87:30</strong><strong>] ad company - paying bloggers to write positive thing about IE11</strong></li>
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<li>] marketing company recruited bloggers to write positive reviews about ie11</li>
<li>] ad agency approached the wrong person, michael arrington, he revealed their plan</li>
<li>] Arrington is techcrunch co-founder and former Editor in Chief - and and advocate against 'sponosred posts'</li>
<li>] msft says this is not the way they do things,terminated the program immediately</li>
<li>] msft had the same&nbsp;issue previously, with xbox one - youtube video reviewers</li>
<li>] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/microsoft-social-media-strategist-targets-the-wrong-guy/" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/microsoft-social-media-strategist-targets-the-wrong-guy/</a></li>
<li>"] PT story, was approached by marketer with similar scheme,&nbsp;he turned them down, they wrote him back offerening even more money, ...</li>
<li>] legally you can have sponsored posts, you just have to mark them as such,</li>
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<li><strong>[94:00</strong><strong>] on recommending advertisers</strong></li>
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<li>]only accepts advertisements for products he likes</li>
<li>] has a rule that he tries the adv products</li>
<li>] people blame recommender of product as much as ..</li>
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<li><strong>[98:00] TIPS - access BIOS of surface pro 3</strong></li>
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<li>] skype 4.3 for linux released</li>
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<li><strong>[100:00] APPS - PT SOFTWARE PICK OF THE WEB</strong></li>
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<li>] skype 4.3 for linux released</li>
<li>] ie developer channel - early preview releases of ie desktop version, ] can be installed alongside existing version of ie ] full featured version</li>
<li>] facebook beta for win phone&nbsp;8.0 and 8.1 - new flatter styling</li>
<li>] skype for iphone updated - making it look the same other verisons of skype on onther platforms</li>
<li>] kobo books app - on par with kindle app today, free app and free books</li>
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<li><strong>[106:00] ENTERPRISE -&nbsp;pick of the week</strong></li>
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<li>] azure pak - collection of resources</li>
<li>] using uservoice site to solicit feedback from customers</li>
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<li><strong>[107:30] CODE NAME -&nbsp;catapult -</strong></li>
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<li>] taking feild programmable gate arrays adding hw+sw layers, tested it&nbsp;by running bing on 1600 of its servers, tested very well, they are planning to roll out implementation next year, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2014/06/16/catapult-moving-beyond-cpus-in-the-cloud.aspx" target="_blank">research paper</a></span></li>
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<li><strong>[110:00] BEER</strong></li>
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<li>] colorado vix - from brazil, double ipa, not as 'hoppy' as you would expect, very malty, a balanced beer</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li><strong>[tech-sw os]</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=549" target="_blank">windows 8.x</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="/view/article?id=3549" target="_blank">windows 8.1 update</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>] windows 8.1 update 2</li>
<li>] windows 9.x (threshold)</li>
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<li><strong>[tech-hw]</strong></li>
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<li>] tablet - <a href="/view/article?id=3240" target="_blank">surface pro 3</a></li>
<li>] gaming console - x-box-one</li>
<li>] smartphone - lumia mclaren</li>
<li>] smartphone - <a href="/view/article?id=3567" target="_blank">lumia 630</a></li>
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<li>]&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>] MSFT - microsoft</li>
<li>]</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<li>]* ie 11 canary</li>
<li>* gabe surface pro penny arcade article</li>
<li>] screen savers, tech tv, twit.tv</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/367" target="_blank">Windows Weekly 367 | 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/ww0367/ww0367.mp3" target="_blank">twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0367/ww0367.mp3</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;download the .mp3 audio file</li>
<li>]&nbsp;The tool lets you capture any web page in one click and add it to your OneNote Quick Notes.</li>
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