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REVIEW - windows weekly

episode # 371

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[00:00] smalltalk

"] technical issues setting up show at remote location
] from DC, worldwide partner conference, 16K attendees

[03:00] Satya Nadella's foretells msft future in open memo to all employees

] in a long 3000+ word cryptic memo sent to all msft employees
] an analysis by jean louis gasse analysis, (former Apple president) on nadellas memo, saying its somewhat of a CYA memo
] interpretation is that the memo signals layoffs are coming at msft
] msft is top heavy, it has too many layers of management
"] PT ultimately it is the right thing to do
"] MJF - memo was not just about signalling layoffs, laying out a high level vision of what this company could be,
] there has been no announcements as of yet
] the last msft layoff was 2009 due to recession, was approx. 5800 people
] prediction is that it could be > 5000 people this time
] they just added 25K employees with nokia purchase, some redundancy there
] Gasse wrote what he thinks Nadella should have said ... good news + bad news, old devices and services wont work, ive determined we will never make money in tablets or smartphones, should we continue to pretend that were 'all in' or pull our resources and focus on battles that we can win"
"] PT "Devices + Services" == "mobile first, cloud first"
"] MJF i dont think anyone should be listening to Jean Louis Gasse about microsoft, he doesnt know anything about microsoft
] memo was NOT saying that they were dumping windows phone
] Nadella specifically calls out xbox and windows phone, saying he is dedicated to both
] he also talked about first party hardware, to light up, differente what makes windows better
] is 'windows' no longer the primary focus? are we in a post windows world? NO
] partners show conference slide that shows msft at only 14% share of all/any device types (mobile phones, tablets, pcs)
] but still has 90% market share on desktop software
] memo was high level platitudes, not answers
] nadella went through it at partner show, but didnt really provide any additional insight
] ? CYA mode
] bad news coming in qtrly results, because of nokia purchase, 1 time
] wall street is loving the layoff news, stock price is already higher
] productivity and platforms (new mantra)
] many things lumped into it, it doesn't just mean office, included cortana, mdm, development tools, analytics tool,
] were going to focus on what were good at it,
] platform is not just OS, OS + cloud + apps, the msft ecosystem
] IBM mobile apps can get you connected on-the-go
] Microsoft's differentiation plan: A suite of 'experiences' on any device

[22:00] partners conference

] for msft resellers, oems, hardware vendors, developers, held in washington DC
( msft doesnt really have a large direct sales force, its products are sold through these partners)
] announced low end PC's to compete with chromebooks
] because chromebooks suck, they do have 2 things going for them, cheap, simplicity
] msft plan to compete on the price part of it,
] $99 7 - 8" tablets, Toshiba,
] 2 new PC's coming, $249 each, 1 from Acer, 1 from Fujitsu,
] free version of windows for screens under 9" help these devices compete on prices
] win RT could have been a competitor for chrombooks, still waiting on touch first office for windows
] nobody talked about office for android or ios

[30:00] office 365 - confusion

] talked on last weeks show about the upcoming replacements for current office 365 skus(product versions)
] msft was trying to hide the complexity of why it will take a year to roll out all the products
] changes are all 'good news', but it was not communicated in a good way
] a msft product guy played the windows weekly podcast from last week to his team, conclusion was 'if these guys have this much trouble understanding how is a normal consumer supposed to understand it'
] what if your calling in for support on your office 365, over 60 versions of office 365 products and addins, what do you do?
] too many versions, is a dark side, the trade off between choice and complexity

[36:00] azure

] a lot of announcements, a lot had been previously announced as preview or beta
] one of the big ones, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
] Scott Guthrie did keynote,
] and the example he used of setting up a sharepoint farm in a virtual machine, not too many in audience had done that yet
] right now, its a lot of steps and complicated
] putting some of msft's own applications in the VM's, to make it quicker and easier for users to setup and configure
] originally when thinking of moving from on premise to cloud services, you were thinking of remove and replace
] now there can be a combination of on premise and cloud services, used together, if desired
] on prem service could failover to azure, instead on to another machine
] hybrid cloud, a unique strength for msft
] msft is certifying apps for use on azure,
] conference swag - some sessions got '8" dell tablet', others got discount of -229 on surface pro 3
*"]LL - we(twit) are replacing our mac pros with windows machines, getting windows threshold when it comes out

[48:00] apple and IBM form partnership, for enterprise verticals

] LL + PT - discuss their respective smartwatches, neither overly impressed, LL(G watch), PT (Samsung Gear Live) ,
] LL says all android watches are the same hardware, processor,ram, etc, thinks google did that on purpose, so the companies would focus on design
] PT says the 1 killer app for watch is turn by turn directions for walking
... moving on...
] have trademarked "mobile first"
] they have teamed up before, on taligent, pink OS was also a previous partnership between the 2 companies
] working together to secure the position of iOS devices in the enterprise
] IBM/Apple partnership is going to develop, 100 vertical focused apps, (retail, banking, travel, ...)
"] LL - VS microsoft ? does MSFT has the (enterprise) story now?
"] PT the idea of IBM creating mobile device managment software, writing mobile apps ... is ludicrous
] when you look at their 'mobile enterprise' software now - ibm sametime, ibm connections, lotus notes, flex system manager, content navigator, business process manager, notes traveller,
] on the plus side - 100K sales consultants pushing apple hardware,
] apple doesnt make any enterprise grade mobile device management software
] IBM is the weak link in this deal
] does MSFT have 'the story', on enterprise mobility,
"] PT - MSFT has the best story
] apple/ibm - a strategy aimed at android, Samsung, a defensive move agains msft, an agressive move against android
] partnered because they dont compete in the same space, (ibm doesnt make hardware, )
] samsung enterprise features is not about selling enterprise management, its about buying more samsung devices
] lotus notes was a nightmare, unless you ever used another email client
] IBM is trying to show their "cloud presence", they are making aquisitions but they dont currently have cloud offereings on par with msft,google,amazon, ..., they are consulting company
] msft has an enterprise mobility suite which is ... pushing a lot in the year ahead
] i dont know what established mdm players are going to do about it
"] LL nobody ever got fired on
] LL - talks more about going with msft for their new hardware setup, got volume windows licences, main reason for using windows was SMB3(network protocol), they want to have a 10gb ethernet network, SMB3 not supported by apple, apple has abondoned their xserve filesystem, can go with SAN and fiber optics for MAC compatability, but is 3 to 4x the cost of windows setup, approx 80k worth of equipment windows

[63:00] threshold - w/guest Brad Sams w/neowin

] said they were going to talk about it, but they said nothing about it
] listened to enterprises, listened to consumers, everything that is in the playbook for threshold is going to be fantastic
] showed the same stuff that they showed at build conference, BUT, ...
] cortana is in the taskbar
] desktop background in a fantastic place, but not used very well
] building on the live tile idea, in the taskbar,
] windows 9 could be free for windows 8, paid for windows 7 users
] stigma around windows 8 branding, msft wants to distance itself
] http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-threshold-a-distinctive-new-look-and-a-home-for-cortana

[71:00] windows phone 8.1

] everyone(carriers) still testing 8.1, rolling out ....
] also 'cyan' firmware update for lumia devices, most fixes/features around camera functionality
] lumia icon 920(icon) for MJF, 1020 for PT

[73:00] windows phone - lumia 635 available at AT&T in August

] launched on Tmobile in july, ] coming to at&t, priced at $99 thru gophone(?website) w/no contract - $129 @ At&T instore/online but includes additional cover,
] no external camera button on this low end phone,
] low resolution screen 800x480, 8GB storage, has micro SD
] 8.1 handles external storage extremely well
] problem is its 512mb ram, not 1GB, quad core 1.2ghz processor
] has "sensor core" stuff, allows it to act like a fitbit, so applications that do fitness tracking, count steps,movement,calories ... can use the data recorded on the phone, no need for a seperate watch/band/etc
] replacement for the 520 which were the best selling windows phones made so far
] review to come

[77:00] office 365 subscribers, NOW getting 1TB of free storage

] coming in July, it's here !! Office 365 Home and Personal Subscribers Get 1 TB of Free OneDrive Storage Starting Today

[78:00] windows for the internet of things

] an embedded version of windows for devices
] SDK - is (subset) of win32 api's, c++ code
] now most windows development is C#, managed code, CLR,
] will support the 'universal apps' paradigm in a future version of the SDK
] one of the coolest demos at the conference, showed off a service for IOT, service running on Azure, called Azure Intelligence System Service
] coupled that with a machine learning service, named
] example - elevator company doing 'predictive analytics' through the cloud, enabling 'predictive maintenance', can see ahead to 'this elevator is likely to fail as such an such a time, ....
*] MJF - takeaway - they are going to do the SDK at the low level, but the real action($$$) is going to be in the cloud with value added services like the above
* PT - takeaway - demo provides a big picture view of how companies can make use of all the info gathered by all the sensors out there
] everything is going to have sensors, everything is going to be connected to the internet

[83:00] kinect for windows, available for developers

] kinect for windows, not kinect for xbox
] $200, preview sdk available,
] for developers only, there are no consumer apps available at this point
] use/recognize gestures with your pc, voice recognition
*] examples - interestin

[86:00] free skype group video calling now available for skype for modern windows

] feature has been available free for other versions of skype(desktop PC, MAC), but not the modern version
] modern skype is the version used on (win 8.1 touch devices, win RT, arm based devices)

[89:00] questions from audience

"] PT story about MJF - outburst at conference, simealtaneously when stadium volume turned down, because of ...
? the 1 TB of free storage, is that for how many users?

] 1 subscriptions, 5 users, all 5 get 1 TB of storage

? when will you be speaking in Boston area

] no plans, will be in las vegas for dev connections, mid september, hotel aria

? msft stock hit all time high today, how much is attributed to layoff, how much due to Nadella memo?

] "MJF 90% due to layoff, 10% due to plan

? whats happening to win phone and win RT

" we think they are building a single sku, will run on both ARM based phones and tablets, will probably resemble windows phone more then windows RT, no desktop in this version, no more RT as it presently exists, usage may be determined by device screen size, tablets > 9 get win, < 9 get the new win phone ver

? will msft ever fix phantom mouse scrolling problem....

PT next question

?any indication about visual studio

PT didnt talk about it specifically, did say Visual Studio and TeamFoundationServer was core to the productivity mission, nothing about the next release, talked about Project Sienna, - tool to write windows 8 apps without having to program

? any indication about xbox music/oneDrive integration

] leaked today, on chinese rumor site livesiknow ( he's good)
] no, nothing talked about, this has been long rumoured
] since the orig version of xbox music with win 8.x, service was missing some key features
] example 1] album match - if the store doesnt have the album, you can upload it, 2] synch to cloud (via OneDrive)
] some have added a 'music' folder to root of OneDrive, and it appears in Xbox music automatically, but it doesnt sync to cloud,

? which is the better picture of CEO's walking togher, Nadello + Elop, Cook + Gini

] obviously, Nadella + Elop was a classic

? any rumors or news about the next build conference?

] was hoping that if they did a developer preview for threshold in the fall, the would also do a build conference

[100:00] Beer picks of the week

] MJF - on the wings of armageddon, dc brown - robust, double ipa , with tons of hops, delicous
] PT - Peppercorn Saison - 3 Stars Brewing Company - clear crisp, a bit of spice too it, not peppery

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[tech-sw os]

] windows 8.x
] windows 8.1 update
] windows 8.1 update 2
] windows 9.x (threshold)
]

[tech-hw-tablets]

] tablet - surface pro 3

[tech-hw-gaming]

] x-box-one

[tech-hw-smartphones]

] smartphone - lumia 630
] smartphone - lumia 635

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] office-365

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] host - Leo Laporte
] co-host - Paul Thurrott -
] co-host - Mary Jo Foley -
] MSFT - microsoft
] msft ceo - Satya Nadella

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