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REVIEW - windows weekly

episode # 382

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  1. [11:00] smalltalk
    1. ] MJ F in Barcelona,Spain for teched conference
    2. ] great city
    3. ] PT single best food in existance, ham, dimarico
    4. ] also visited Belgium, for a little beer,
    5. ] happy birthday PT
    6. ] LL - upset with google B/C nexus 6 sold out online after going on sale this morning
    7. ] new oneNote version for mac/android
  2. [00:00] msft lays off another 3000
    1. ] mostly support people, human resources, sales and marketing and IT
    2. ] almost done layoffs, may be more cuts early next year
    3. ] they are close to 18,000 total to be laid off which they originally announced
    4. ]
  3. [00:00] tech ed conference
    1. ] keynote with Joe Belfiore, Jason Zander
    2. ] windows 10 talk, azure talk
    3. ] new services on Azure, Batch processing in the cloud
    4. ] next version of system server
    5. ] hyper V
  4. [00:00] windows 10 @ tech ed
    1. ] most of what talked about is not new
    2. ] NEW snap apps side by side on multiple monitors
    3. ] NEW continuum - IF keyboard disconnected, system knows
    4. ] inplace upgrade, - working to make it really easy to upgrade from win7, win 8
    5. ] wont even have to reinstall your win32 and modern apps
    6. ] most popular feature was "command prompt", job security for geeks
    7. ] appealing to enterprise audience - security, azure, single sign on, office 365
    8. ] no release date yet on windows server OR
    9. ] new services around IOT
    10. ] data factory services for combining data from multiple sources
    11. +] PT article LISTING announcements at teched conference
    12. ] office 16 - new , early 2nd half
  5. [00:00] msft turns cloud storage into a feature, not a service
    1. ] msft announced unlimited storage for office 365 subscribers
    2. ] individual price for office 365 is is $69 per year
    3. ] available to all users, individuals, businesses, enterprises
    4. ] previous allotment was 1TB,
    5. ] there are some throttling things going on with OneDrive,
    6. ] nobody else is offering this as of yet, likely only a few can compete, Google, Amazon to follow up with similar offerings
    7. ] problem for Box, Dropbox, ... lots of apps use dropbox as their cloud BUT now
    8. ] TIP - buy office subscriptions in store, $99 family version, 69 ind version, apply code and stack them up, for example multiple years
    9. ] LL - this is rocket fuel for cloud storage
  6. [00:00] windows 10 - the most audacious release in windows history
    1. ] such a big deal b/c they are bringing together 1 os across so many devices (iot, phones, phablets, tablets, 2-in-ones,
    2. ] full stack os,
    3. ] universal app - not complete baloney - a much bigger jump in that directions
    4. ] what if longhorn had really happened, instead of just a powerpoint,
    5. ] PT - the biggest deal in the history of windows
    6. ] MJF - not as convinced
    7. ] change in the way they are doing the rollout, flighting, user feedback in a real way
    8. ] so far no features changed because of user feedback BUT if and when they do, it will be a big deal
    9. ] not just a different team, its a different species
    10. ] its not a desktop/laptop version of windows, its windows for everything
    11. ] developers addressing all devices with one platform is a big thing
    12. ] common app store - windows, phone, xbox and win32 apps
    13. ] login thru __ VS having an azure active directory
    14. ] fixing windows 8 and fixing it, is great, but all the other stuff is what makes it profound
    15. ] LL - we get distracted by the UI
    16. ] LL ? - is this for me too, or just for enterprise
    17. ] OneDrive, Xbox one integration, ultimately benefit people not even
    18. ] developers with a much larger target audience
    19. ] a vision that makes sense, not just arbitrary,
    20. ] single dev environment, single target, sdk, api
    21. ] how did this happen? -
    22. ] charlie rose interview with Balmer, not a lot of apoligies, agrees on longhorn distraction, lost out on mobile, 
    23. ] cairo -
    24. ] xp
    25. ] longhorn - abandoned, awesome demos in 2003, faked aka vaporware, winFS
    26. ] vista - longest gap between os, came together in 1 year, some small pieces came from longhorn project
    27. ] who gets credit - the plan all along OR myerson and ballmer one msft thing, depends on who you talk too
    28. ] ... zip recruiter ad
  7. [00:00] surface pro 3
    1. ] windows 10 conflict - somebody said issue installing
    2. ] are wifi problems fixed - somebody said no wifi issues since last firmware update, absence of complaints may
    3. ] people using it with hyperV are still having issues
  8. [00:00] $200 2 in one laptop/tablet
    1. ] 11" version launching 10-30, attractive looking , includes office 365 (69 value) and 25 windows store gift card
    2. ] comparison to chromebook which has to be online to do most things,
    3. ] 13" version coming
  9. [00:00] office for the mac
    1. ] leaked screenshots of the next version out this week
  10. [00:00] office for android
    1. ] coming soon -
  11. [00:00] windows phone
    1. ] no new flagship phones this year,
    2. ] the only windows phone that are selling are the low end ones
    3. ] no cyan firmware updates for certain models
  12. [00:00] xbox talk - beta updates, price drop of $50 off all boxes
    1. ] lots of updates for leo, too many?? none for paul
    2. ] $350 starting price, will now be cheaper than the PS4
    3. ]
  13. [00:00]
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  14. [00:00] TIP OF THE WEEK 
    1. ] none
  15. [00:00] SOFTWARE PICK OF THE WEEK
    1. ] oneDrive - updated for iOS and android, widget support, also updates for mac 
    2. ] fitbit for windows phone - 2 big things, background synch, must be enabled in app, then will synch automatically and cortana integration, food integration - say " i had 2 eggs and 1 sausage" will ....
  16. [00:00] ENTERPRISE PICK OF THE WEEK
    1. ] 2014-10-31 - OEM version of windows 7, - NO LONGER AVAILABLE - no implication for end of support, no end date for when .., extended support (security fixes) until jan 2020, will not be able to purchase any longer
  17. [00:00] CODENAME OF THE WEEK
    1. ] athens - the next version of windows embedded - not just ...
    2. ] IOT platform
  18. [00:00] BEER PICKS OF THE WEEK
    1. ]

 

[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

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  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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