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REVIEW - windows weekly

episode # 347

[subjects-summary]

  1. [00:00] smalltalk
    1. x] chit chat - snow and beer, 
    2. x] msft podcast guy left
    3. x] starting podcast one
    4. x] bringing the radio advertising sales model to podcasts 
  2. [00:00] earnings call for last qrt
    1. ] 24.2 B revenue record, 
    2. ] 6.x B profit
    3. ] leo notes apples profits double
    4. ] paul notes that the 2 companies arent really all that comparable, apple more consumer products, msft more business/enterprise company
    5. ] made money on business services - commercial licencing - { dynamics(arp+crm) }
    6. ] NOT on xbox, bing, 
    7. ] transistioning to devices and services
    8. ] devices and services licencing (windows, ) - 2nd biggest contribution
    9. ] commercial new language for 'business', more confusing , less confusint
    10. ] xbox did well - thanks to the strength of sales of xbox, surface - "spinning it"
    11. ] surface revenues - 893 M, no unit #'s or model breakdown
    12. ] MJ " starting small and working up 
    13. ] PT " surface means devices and accessories, 
    14. ] PT - guessing @ 1.5 million surface units, AAPL sold 26M ipads 
  3. [00:00] windows 'was' the platform, the cloud 'is' now the platform
    1. ] msft bread and butter
    2. ] running stuff locally, backwords compatability is an 
    3. ] msft slogan -  a pc on every desktop, sounds 'old fashioned today'
    4. ] windows is NOT the center of the msft universe anymore, was at the center for so long
    5. ] maybe we are overfocusing on windows 
  4. [00:00] msft cloud services doing well
    1. ] how about windows as a cloud service, 
  5. [00:00] msft windows XP
    1. ] why are people(30%) still using this ?? 
  6. [00:00] lumia 
    1. ] qtrly sales dropped
    2. ] year over year - increased
  7. [00:00] windows 8.1 update 1
    1. ] feature pack
    2. ] mouse or touch - different depending on what your working with
    3. ] context menus - 
    4. ] smaller footprint - memory and disk space system requirements
    5. ] eta mar 11
  8. [00:00] surface updates
    1. ] different updates for different devices - contain different fixes, 
    2. ] pro 2 - 1 fw update fix in jan, 
  9. [00:00] ultra book - 2 in one
    1. ] tablet and laptop, laptop with detachable screen
    2. ] PT + MJ - not convergent people - laptop, kindle, tablet, smartphone 
    3. ] dont want to accept compramise
    4. ] carbon X1 ($1500), acers s7
    5. ]  
  10. [00:00] ceo talk
    1. ] bloomberg report ericsen candidate "not interested"
    2. ] maybe the guy searching for CEO, will be CEO john thompson
  11. [00:00] skydrive
    1. ] 1drive - 
    2. ] skydrive name will be rebranded, someone else has rights to skydriv
  12. [00:00] office updates 
    1. ] onenote updates
    2. ] 'word' web app 
    3. ] PRB outlook brand - 1] its an app in office, 
    4. ] 'outlook web app' is ... web client front end to exchange server
    5. ] outlook.com - formely hotmail
  13. [00:00] office 365 
    1. ] home premium - 
    2. ] small busines premium - 
    3. ] licencing - NOW obtainable 
    4. *] 60% of fortune 500, 3.5 M consumers
  14. [00:00] cortana
    1. ] fake or real, 
  15. [00:00] msft joining arm server
    1. ] onboard with where things are going
  16. [00:00] open compute
    1. ] generic server designs - data center designs
    2. ] msft 
    3. ] fb saying it saved 1.2 B in infrastructure costs
  17. [00:00] kansas man
    1. x] runs into burning home to save xbox
  18. [00:00] bing apps
    1. ] APPS = health and fitness, finances, sports, news, 
    2. ] common navigation ] favorites ] integrated search ] 
    3. ] coolest thing - deep integration with online services
    4. ] ex healthvault - tracking wieght, exersize, diabetes, 
    5. ] can provide info in 2 directions
    6. ] data can be pushed from health and fitness app to healthvault
    7. ] finances - integrates with various services
    8. ] incredible rich resource stuff - blown away 
    9. ] even new ones, 
  19. [00:00]
    1. ] 

[objects]

  1. [tech-sw] 
    1. ] windows-phone update 8.1
    2. ] windows-threshold
    3. ] cortana
  2. [tech-hw]
    1. ] surface mini
    2. ] surface 2 (w/LTE)
    3. ] surface - docking station
    4. ] surface - power keyboard 
    5. ] msft watch - 
    6. ] ms kinect - 
  3. ] 

[people]

  1. ] host - Leo Laporte - 
  2. ] co-host - Paul Thurrott - 
  3. ] co-host - Mary Jo Foley - 

[events]

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[places]

  1. ] show url - Windows Weekly 343 | TWiT.TV - 
  2. ] show audio - twit.cachefly.net/audio/ww/ww0343/ww0343.mp3 - 
  3. ] 
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