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REVIEW - windows weekly

episode # 343

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[00:00] smalltalk

x] chit chat - snow and beer,

[11:00] 2013 - year in review

x] was a 'banner year' for MSFT, insanity

[00:00] 2014 - the year ahead

] another year of insanity including

] a new CEO, the CEO shortlist =

x] Alan mulally - old almost 70, was getting ready to retire, has home in seattle, possibly for a short term, while another candidate gets groomed & mentored
x] Sacha -
x] Tony Bates, (skype) - currently runs bus dev and evangalism team @MSFT,
x] Stephen Elop (nokia) -
] ?? -
*] eta - announcement expected in early 2014, even Jan (after CES)

[18:00] nokia aqusition will be official

x] has been approved everywhere except ....
x] china - worlds largest phone market
x] adds 30k more employees to msft already robust payroll

[22:00] windows 8.1 phone - blue - debut

x] pretty big update to windows 8.x phone
x] notifications center gets added
x] cortana - msft's version of a 'personal digital assistant' ALA apple's 'siri' / ''google now'
x] eta - spring ? , maybe developer preview first,
x] developer release - maybe at build conference in 2014-04
x] june release ???

[00:00] windows 8.1 update 1

x] changes at the api level to align phone + 8.x, more shared common codebase, "a step along the unified platform road"

[00:00] "windows threshold" in 2015

x] ??? - new version of win RT
x] version that runs on both arm and intel
x]

[25:00] "office apps" for "metro" - aka "gemini"

x] coming - "touch first" - versions of word, excel and powerpoint
x] once its out for windows, THEN there will be "ios" and "android" tablets
x] PAUL - this needs to happen, if they keep waiting, it will be greeted with a collective "yawn"
x] LEO - new UI, no matter what, will get complaints, doesnt want the biforkated product (ie10 metro app VS ie10 desktop program ) its hard to get a new ui right, its hard to do
x] office team - part of their charter is now multi platform support
x] office > word, excel, >> access, onenote, vizio,office 365, web apps, Android versions, ios versions,
x] 5000+ devs on office - biggest
x] msft must have some hellacous project management software
x] they also support legacy stuff
x] some newer ms stuff didnt offer a fallback - ribbon team in office and win 8.x team
x] team - they are all gone, now ? sinofsky and co?
x] people tend to hang onto computers
x] 3 year old ipad wont work with present os , aka no legacy support, why = because they can
x] makes everthing so disposable, ala chromebooks
x] Paul shows his kids the "3 stooges" tv show, they hated it, "this is stupid"

[40:00] new surface devices - coming soon - "surface mini"

x] 8" surface 'mini', ] qualcomm chip set, ] win RT
x] arm OR intel(baytrail) OR both
x] msft has changed chipset in surface pro II tablets, to a new faster intel chipset
x] msft wants arm to succeed b/c of battery life, market is saying no
x] windows threshold versions for 'intel' and 'arm' consumer focused,
] POST hal berenson on windows rt on x86
] need desktop - pro sku - legacy apps
] dont need desktop - core - no legacy apps

[00:00] new - "surface 2 - with LTE"

x] eta - early 2014
x] "a source" - people will be surprised by how much surface stuff occurs this year

[46:00] new - "surface peripherals" -

x] power keyboard
x] docking station - will be back in stock
x] eta - Q1
] the point of arm - powers a "device" (ex set top box), cant have windows dialog box popup, ruins the experience, small tablet same way

[49:00] msft - wearables / another microsoft watch ?

x] another watch - more speculation/rumours ... connected to "threshold",
x] don't really know, devices or form factor
LOL] maybe they will make a msft 'ribbon' or a 'paperclip'
x] SPOT - Smart Personal Object Technology, special version of .net, .net micro, used radio(fm),
x] ms kinect - highest adoption rate ever, than fizzled
x] everyone wanted it at the beginning, the stopped using it, compared it to wii
x] kinect voice technology is impressive
* dashboarding
x] 2014 new xbox games -

[55:00] year of the cloud for msft

] windows to the cloud ? desktop as a service
] eta - unknown - but they are building it,
] more of a corporate thing
"] a system you can licence more freely across multiple devices,
x] more enterprise services moving to the cloud
] ex skype, outlook , hadoop

[60:00] windows users are ambivlent/indifferent

] people dont care about windows anymore, might even be better if people hated it
] early days - wdws was 'ubiquitous'
] these days - apps are on android, ios, NO major new apps for windows desktop
] developers respect msft stuff, source at major software company
] but dont see any call to have to deal with it
] all the action is on the web/mobile
] win 8 - successfull on the phone, NOT on the desktop, doesnt think the 'active tiles' are what people want to look at on their desktop,
] a lot of 'tiles' dont do anything, there just giant icons,
] worse on a giant screen,
] see's what there shooting for but ...

[00:00] usage stats - netapplication

] #1 tech story by major news - drone delivery -
x] win 8.1 closes in on vista
x] win 7 is #1 and growing > 47%
x] win 8 + win 8.1 > 10%
x] win XP 29% * 1.5 billion users
x] XP talk - ...
x] support ends in 2014-04
x] security nightmare, hacker heyday
x] perpetual zero day state

[00:00] the windows 7/8 team leaders, have left the building

x] leader sinofsky - previously departed
x] john devon - lead on win 7/8 -
x] grant george - lead on testing -
x] other leader, julie larsen-green, still there and currently interim co-ceo
*] also happened after VISTA shipped, people responsible were off
x] hall berenson post - these guys were 'good engineers'
x] terry meyerson - now runs the show -

[85:00] windows phone - lumia 520

] lumia 520 or derivitave - 54% of all windows phones,
] devices that have been on the market for < 6 months, < 100 phone
"] will change everthing - apple wont play this game, -
"] 520 is the biggest thing to happen to windows phone

[95:00] CES

x] leo wont be there :(
x] hybrid - android + windows, hybrid devices
x] hp chromebooks - msft version of judas
x] no msft presences (booth or keynote appearances)
x] CES 2014 = IOT, wearables, big TV's, cars (infotainment systems)

[100:00] chromebooks

x] reported as 20% of all sales, pc market
x] NPD measures retail sales in the us
x] was b2b sales
x] 2 best selling models on amazon are chromebooks

[] syrian hacker

]

[] midori

] joe - leaked info on his blog
] multi processor language
] m# - language (derivative of c#)
] midori moved into os group

[120:00] tips, picks & beer

] new years resolutions - tech

security - passwords
security - 2 step authentication
backup - local,
services - not being used - justdeleteme.
use the tool that makes the most sense for you,

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[tech-sw]

] windows-phone update 8.1
] windows-threshold
] cortana

[tech-hw]

] surface mini
] surface 2 (w/LTE)
] surface - docking station
] surface - power keyboard
] msft watch -
] ms kinect -

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] host - Leo Laporte -
] co-host - Paul Thurrott -
] co-host - Mary Jo Foley -

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] Windows Weekly 343 | TWiT.TV - show page
] twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0343/ww0343.mp3 - audio

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