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REVIEW - windows weekly

episode # 377

[subjects-summary]

  1. [00:00] smalltalk
    1. ] Mike Elgin's home made pizza, 
    2. ] skype, interenet issues
    3. ] napa california earthquake, 30 miles away
  2. [00:00] threshold enterprise preview release confirmed event date for 2014-09-30
    1. ] windows enterprise preview announcement event confirmed for Sept. 30
    2. ] announcement of preview release version, maybe the software itself will be released at the same time or shortly thereafter
    3. ] will be a subset of the features that are in windows 9
    4. ] also expecting a release preview in january/feb of 2015 for new "munged" together version of windows phone / windows 
  3. [00:00] threshold will be called windows 9
    1. ] need to get away from the perception of "windows 8", perception is that it is a failure
    2. ] msft acknowlege that "real people" have problems with using it
    3. ] tough problem to solve, tablet/touch OS and desktop OS in one
    4. ] features - notification center
    5. ] the OS will adapt to the hardware that it is on, a tablet will have a different exerpiences, than a phone or a desktop
    6. ] defaults will be provided for each, may be customizable
    7. ] will also be a preview of windows server threshold
  4. [00:00] dropbox price lowered
    1. ] they can't compete with msft
    2. ] the price is the same as the price for msft office 365 which includes 1 TB of storage and
  5. [00:00] msft azure document db, 
    1. ] noSQL database, built by msft
    2. ] SDK's are open source
    3. ] full text search service
    4. ] app develope can use service to provide search service within their app
  6. [00:00] new prices announced for azure db services 
    1. ] was initially announced for september, now they have been cut in half
  7. [00:00] surface pro - heating issues with i7 models
    1. ] some models are, reportedly only a small percentage
  8. [00:00] windows phone update
    1. ] lumia 1520, 1020 and 920 now have update 8.1 available with the Cyan firmware update
    2. ] issue with phones that have developer preview versions of win 8.1 installed, these phones can't install the official release version of software and get the CYAN firmware updates
  9. [00:00] Huawai has abondoned windows phone
    1. ] company has little presence in USA, windows phone has little presence in china
    2. ?] company partly owned by chinese government, maybe part of chinese gov attack against msft
  10. [00:00] Spotify is free on windows phone
    1. ] ad supported, no downloads, not the highest quality stream
    2. ] other platfroms got this feature 9 months ago
  11. [00:00] California kill switch law in effect
    1. ] MFG must provide an option to remotely disable the smartphone
    2. ] the bill has passed in California, as CA goes, so goes the nation
    3. ] function is coming in the next version of windows phone
  12. [00:00] htc one m8 (windows)
    1. "] PT - has recieved a review unit, will be reviews forthcoming in the weeks ahead
    2. "] PT - mostly interested in the camera and its features
    3. ] has yet another blinkfeed flipboard type app
    4. ] phone feels really nice
    5. ] weighs as much as the icon and it is talller, but the HTC feels better
    6. ] lumia phones are "dense", feel like "holiday fruitcake"
    7. ] using it for a couple of weeks, 1 wierd thing, when using pictures taken on the phone then inserting picture with app, picture is turned sideways
    8. ] icon images are much better, htc camera is much faster  
  13. [00:00] china hopes to have its own OS by october
    1. ] 83% of internet users still access via a pc
    2. ] ie and windows would still be major players
    3. ] blast from the past effect 
    4. ] chinese are xenophobic
    5. ] will be a few years to a stable, mature OS
    6. ] want to develop a "mobile" version as well
  14. [00:00] TIP OF THE WEEK 
    1. ] surface 2 - the time to buy? - 1 year ago, original "surface RT" price drops started, intially $500, then dropped to $350, now surface 2 is $350(32GB) , $450(64GB), 580(64Gb with LTE), comes with office(desktop version), but doesn't include the keyboard($129), limited time offer
    2. ] notepadconf.com - notepad conference - in minneapolis, mn, a kickstarter to try and raise money,  
  15. [00:00] SOFTWARE PICK OF THE WEEK
    1. ] chrome x64 - compatible with most everything, opt -in, 
  16. [00:00] ENTERPRISE PICK OF THE WEEK
    1. ] RMS - Rights management Services(RMS) - azure and client, - establish policy on how users can set rights on documents, lock down sharing, printing, forwarding of documents. ex protected pdf cabablitiy. osX support, RMS migration toolkit. private preview of azure rms connector. lengthy msft blog post  
  17. [00:00] CODENAME OF THE WEEK
    1.  cosmos - service inside the company, massively paralell storage and compute service, collecting data, which ads people click on, ... 5K people have access to data and can do mining.Could be turned into a publiclly facing service, 
  18. [00:00] BEER PICKS OF THE WEEK
    1. ] barvola (TO, ontario) -solstice deta -  sour wheat beer with cherries, beautiful pink color, delicous

 

[objects]

  1. [tech-sw os] 
    1. ] windows 8.x 
    2. ] windows 8.1 update 
    3. ] windows 8.1 update 2
    4. ] windows 9.x (threshold)
    5. ]
  2. [tech-hw-tablets]
    1. ] tablet - surface pro 3
  3. [tech-hw-gaming]
    1. ] x-box-one
  4. [tech-hw-smartphones]
    1. ] smartphone - lumia 630
    2. ] smartphone - lumia 635
  5. [tech-software]
    1. ] office-365

[people]

  1. ] twit tv - windows weekly
    1. ] host - Leo Laporte
    2. ] co-host - Paul Thurrott - 
    3. ] co-host - Mary Jo Foley - 
  2. ] MSFT - microsoft
    1. ]

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