The Talk Show

00:00:00 ◼   ► again to power and John career kind of a curveball show this week I was out in [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► San Francisco for of all things Microsoft's build developer conference [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► moral assets Microsoft's version of WWDC we talked about that show but one of the [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► things that that I got offered Microsoft offered to give me a room in the [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► conference Thursday afternoon to do a live audience episode of the talk show [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► and it kind of came together not quite last minute but but closed and I took it [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► as an opportunity to have a new gas cuz I met you know some people from the [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► other side of the fence to cover microsoft more than Apple and so at-bat [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► whose coverage of Microsoft I've been following for a long time many years big [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► fan of his Twitter account to never met him in person before though so took the [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► opportunity to invite him on the show that's what you're going to hear so this [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► was recorded in moscow knee last the people in the audience were all [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► attendees of the bill developer conference and he came off ok you'll [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► hear from me I didn't do any sponsor reads during the live event so I [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► recording those in post which is unusual usually I just do them right in the [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► middle of the show but it didn't seem right with the live audience so I'll pop [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► again probably three more times with interesting information from these shows [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► great sponsors and enjoy the show I think it came off pretty well I think I [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► had a good time the party start one more thing we're not sure what happened I [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► don't know what happened but the audio file that we got from Microsoft cut it [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► clipped a few minutes from the end of the show I think it was exactly seventy [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► four minutes our best guess is that maybe they were recording it right to a [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► CD and there's a 74 minute time limit so they're not much got cut off the show [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► didn't go much longer than that [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► but I actually yeah you know the actual event I did like a nice thank you to [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► everybody who showed up and dad and and then wrapped up rather neatly whereas [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► when you're going to hear here and a bit abruptly but the good thing is it kind [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► of worked out because it ends in a very Microsoft and way [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► easily number one question I've been asked this week is why are you here and [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► it's very easy I'm here for the free Xbox how are we all everybody got their [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► free xbox so I got from my case so I'm here this is the talk show this is my [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► podcast I'm John Gruber so many people here probably from my guest this week is [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► baat hai jaan thank you for joining me long time how long you've been covering [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► Microsoft is a full time since 1992 [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► right long as I've been following your byline and stuff on Microsoft I can't [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► remember when I don't either so it is very different than an Apple conference [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► I'm I'm a foreigner here you know I go to WWDC just about every year this is my [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► first Microsoft Developer Conference that I've attended very interesting [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► similar and certain fundamental ways but very different I can't think of a better [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► obvious answer is that everybody who came to this conference but 5,000 [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► attendees on day one was told hey guess what you're getting an Xbox one that was [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► called Xbox Xbox one that's it [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► which was very popular at Apple conferences one time like 11 years ago [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► they gave away [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► amounts [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► this year they had a broken mouse was featured in in one of the demos that [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► they were they were doing it was kind of it was it was supposed to be a typical [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► enterprise app that that that someone in the audience might develop for their [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► company and so they used one of the great Microsoft fake company names [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► fabric am and and they built a mobile app and so he was able to report that he [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► was giving a keynote address in his mouth was broken he could take a picture [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► of the meadows and and then you know said that the facilities in facilities [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► could bring him a new mouse and the interesting thing about that app was [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► that they demonstrated it on an iPhone right now that's very true so very weird [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► times I've had several people this week remind me of that scene from [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► Ghostbusters you know dogs and cats living together mass hysteria and and I [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► think you know I think they expect fireworks here and I think in a way [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► they're going to be disappointed because what what we really have here is two [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► guys who understand their respective worlds and those worlds have been far [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► apart for a long time and you know and and there was just this sort of an [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► diagram where you had this little slice in the middle and now those worlds her [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► you know their their overlapping significantly more than they ever have i [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► mean I have to acknowledge it because everybody I mean not acknowledge that I [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► was actually featured in the keynote today wearing my mother had not the [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► daring fireball had but you branch the software company I work out with my [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► colleagues brenton they iphoneonly right now and we're using as your we've [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► announced today for our backend sink and and they were nice enough to ask us if [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► we would do a little promotional video and talk about it and say why and did [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► you know awful lot of white holy shit I like watch TV I don't get to see the [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► video before I why I was in the keynote I watched videos I look like a big axle [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► in production values she's super nice and and the message was exactly the [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► truth you know it wasn't like you know here's the lines to give it they asked [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► questions and Britain I gave honest answers and that's where they put the [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► video was great and I've gotta check Twitter I believe the first tweet that I [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► saw after that video ran the somebody said hell froze over very good and [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► they're awful lot of them with pictures to its very weird for me I am NOT used [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► to browsing my Twitter replies and seeing my picture of her usual for me [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► but interests but I also think fundamentally you know you said with the [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► Venn diagram with ever increasing overlap between Microsoft and Apple [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► world's is that it's the truth there's an honesty to what I'm hearing from [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► Microsoft not just without your but a lot of things that when they say it's a [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► multi-device multi-platform world that they mean that there they there's like [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► an acceptance that it's not going to be 95 percent of all computing devices [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► running Windows anymore that's all you know how do you stay out of the house [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► Microsoft stay relevant and successful and grow in that world will one way is [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► by spending I think its 3.2 billion dollars in capex this year to build out [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► as ur you know and you know putting basically you know large chunks of the [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► Visual Studio Visual Studio development environment into that cloud so that it [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► will run into any browser on any on on any device [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► mean that that kind of of expenditure you know it is really specific evidence [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► money talks I think that especially with the people who read my stuff and are [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► coming from a more alcohol more interested in Apple perspective I think [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► that Microsoft's efforts in that as your direction you know I didn't even know [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► that number 3.2 billion capex but that's that's a huge number i mean there are [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► very few companies in the world that he could spend 3.2 billion dollars I mean [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► that's that's a really short list that's because it's a raid that that's [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► one-sixth of a whatsapp the difference there is a Microsoft isn't as to how [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► much cum company is operating in a world where their capex expenditures come from [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► actual profits from actual revenues and not from facebook.com money money and [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► there's an ROI on that capex too because you know you're going to be paying [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► presumably for that for those has your instances and all that stuff and there's [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► a lot of of you know not just startups but fortune 500 companies that are using [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► that data infrastructure as well the other thing about about Azure when you [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► go I'm I mean as your user myself have a MSDN subscription so I get like 50 bucks [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► of credit each month and you say you know what can you get for 50 bucks the [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► shocking thing is that I can run my website on it and I think that uses like [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► seven dollars worth of credit [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► you know over the course of a month and I couldn't you know just incredible [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► flexibility on it but when you go to that as your portal and start poking [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► around you see ok well im gonna create a virtual machine in the cloud now and you [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► look at all these Windows servers and and wait a minute there's like this long [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► list of Linux distros as well that I could do you know if so I could do to [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► enterprise and Red Hat and open seeing all these you know [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► all these things and and you know yet another example of where you know if you [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► could get the time machine and and go back a decade or so and and have someone [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► say yeah you know Microsoft you're going to be selling your largest competitors [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► operating system [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► largest competitors server operating system in a you know in a cloud-based [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► service they you know they wrap you up in a way we ourselves are using as [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► you're in a very non Windows the way we're not running Windows operating [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► system we're not using the Windows SQL Server we're using it in a very open [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► source unit exceeds sort of way [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► alright but I think bryant would agree with me though [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► Reds Brent Simmons by my colleague the guy did all the work but it's true or [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► not true not we haven't become Windows developers by adopting as you we're [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► still totally iOS developers and doing this network cloud stuff in a very open [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► source non event databases you've gots generic storage the you can configure [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► just about any way you want you've got messaging services available to all [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► sorts of other mobile services that are available to you and none of them are [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► our windows in fact what's you know what's really fascinating and kinda [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► weird for me as a guy who has covered windows for twenty-plus years is that [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► you know they changed the name of a juror from Windows Azure Microsoft Azure [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► that's on one level that symbolic but on another much more important level it's [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► it's a reflection of how both the company and the products changed [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► completely agree [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► another thing I definitely noticed and I saw a lot of people coming on Twitter [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► you and i talked about a pre-show [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► but during the keynote today an awful lot of the demos were running on [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► non-microsoft devices there were iPhones that were being used in demos they I i [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► thought i pad in a couple right there was a demo camera in my dressing rights [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► and remember it's amber and demo was running with an IDE running on a Macbook [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► and there is Mac OS 10 up the you know actually felt at home with Safari with [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► Safari Safari yeah so you know this same thing and I think I tweeted this today [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► as well and a lot of the slides [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► you know there was clearly a conscious effort to to be very inclusive about [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► platforms but you know so they would there would of course be the entire [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► Microsoft range going from xbox through the various windows form factors and and [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► then down to Windows Phone but then there were Android phones and tablets [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► and iPads and iPhones and then Kindle Fire yesterday was also you know that at [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► one point they said and we've added notification support 22 Kindle Fire and [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► you know it's they way you talk about competition [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► you know the fascinating thing is that Amazon Web Services and a juror could [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► not be more direct competitors yes absolutely [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► direct competitors and yet you know you have if you're going to play this we [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► want to be on as many devices in as many platforms as possible you can't say well [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► we don't like that company so you know the fire gets its excluded it's you know [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► it's gonna be there and I think there's also something when you go around you [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► talk to the people with the Microsoft name tags here there is much less of the [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► hold your nose factor when you're talking about those other platforms will [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► we have to support them I think there's some actual genuine enthusiasm now about [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► you know it it's almost like it's you know how many boxes can we take off on [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► this checklist here [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► yeah I mean obviously note no question about it walking through the hallways [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► here and just watching and observing you see very high or higher than anywhere [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► else I've ever seen percentage of people using Windows Phone devices no question [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► about it makes sense you know the bill developer conference but a lot of people [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► with iPhones yep you know and it's weird and so there's one of these ways where [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► you know you close your eyes for a decade and you you can miss these sort [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► of tectonic shifts but that Apple community developers users everything is [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► far more of a technical monoculture today than the Microsoft community right [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► right I mean I honest I mean I'm not and I'm not even saying anything other than [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► inevitable that with the success that Apple's had and and you know the quality [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► but you got to WTC and try to find somebody was not using an iPhone you're [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► gonna have a hard time you'll find somebody there's somebody with an [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► Android phone because they're they're just too right [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► Mac apps or something it's not like nobody had a neck I will also be wearing [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► Google glass yeah we just saw one guy at WBC this year with Google glass glass [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► and and [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► and Galaxy S six problem you'll find somebody had a five thousand person [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► conference using everything but I took a picture at WTC this year I saw a guy so [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► I mean little you'll find somebody that was actually the next iPhone very [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► cleverly disguised they've they've learned after that or Gizmodo things we [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► gotta make the disguise is better [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► nobody's gonna steal that one it was the date was day one and they had announced [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► the new Mac Pro which is very pretty machine and it looks very different than [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► every thousand had them of course behind glass can't touch spinning around and [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► everybody was like looking at it and there's this guy taking a picture with [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► his foot and I thought and I'm like looking around and other people are my [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► this is way more interesting than his he's like you know its performance art [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► is it had to be like Andy Kaufman has returned in this is doing that thing but [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► you know so it is true you know inclusiveness platforms and everything [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► and yet there is still a lot of windows here oh [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► a whole lot of windows and and and a lot of pride and investment in in in what's [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► happening in in those platforms and not just the sort of generic PCs but in some [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► of the more interesting form factors and especially the phones you know well the [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► other thing too is the developer tools and Microsoft has always had a golden [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► reputation for the quality of their developer tools and training and in ways [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► that you know even people like us who have been only really developing all [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► products for decades even have always been in the back of the head by that I [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► mean they're there I D plus you know our stuff away their debugging [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► get up and even you know so it makes sense though that there's so much [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► windows here because you've got to be on Windows using those developer tools but [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► they showed some really cool stuff that caught my eye and I guess you knew about [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► this crystal you tweet but I forget what its called but its thing where you can [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► go into the open a webpage going to develop promote and everybody you know [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► browser link so you can see the sea CSS and HTML behind the page and you can [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► tweak it and all the major browsers have had this reaching you can test like a [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► color change that's where they don't change the color of the bed but with [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► this browser link it hooks up to the IDE and it'll actually change the source [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► file as you change their yes yes so instead of just changing it on the page [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► and seeing it and seeing how it looks [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► it's actually you know you can make the change in the IDE and see it reflected [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► instantly in the browser or you could change in the browser and see it [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► instantly reflected in the I D which is pretty mind-blowing actually and again [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► in keeping with sort-of ecumenical theme of the whole thing they demoed that in [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► chrome yeah that was that was it I thought the same thing I thought that's [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► a really cool feature but you gotta use I had that thought and it works [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► yeah I think the answer to this is going to yes but do you you perceive the same [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► sort of sea change in attitude you know about lack of a better word the rank and [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► file it at Microsoft in terms of yeah I think it is a new Microsoft and [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► unmistakably so I think what's interesting though is that for outsiders [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► there's a temptation to look at microsoft today and and think that this [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► change is relatively recent and sudden and its related to things like unabomber [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► leaving right for example you know or or or this or the success of Android or [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► something and actually you know one of the one of the interesting things about [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► having covered this for so many years is that a lot of the things that we're [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► seeing today are things that they were talking about at the equivalent of this [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► show five or six years ago in 2008 and [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► they were basically describing the world that we saw in yesterday's and today's [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► keynote and there were some skepticism from people you know about you know are [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► you going to be able to tip tip all this stuff off and so you know you know about [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► dragged out my notebooks from from some of those events I think you'd see wow [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► they they did that they did that they did that they shouldn't have any didn't [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► do that one you know but there's a there's a tremendous amount you know [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► back then they called it three screens in a cloud [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► I think I think they might have gotten the number of screens wrong there's more [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► than you know there's a little more than three but they basically said you know [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► phones and PCs / tablets they didn't they didn't think of those two separate [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► categories and and the TV we're all going to be important and they all [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► needed to be connected to services that were capable of running anywhere [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► because they're gathering data from in synchronizing with cloud services [TS]

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00:23:32 ◼   ► show now back to the show [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► so you do you think it's fair to say the gist of what I'm hearing there is that [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► you get the casual observer is going to want to draw a direct cause and effect [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► where we've got Steve Ballmer announces his resignation as a search and then [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► sixty days ago or so they said okay here we got a guy and he's like loud guy [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► right and he's the new CEO and everybody boards behind a bill gates behind and [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► Steve Ballmer's behind them now Steve Ballmer's retired CEO and Satya Nadella [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► and all of these changes are all going to be attributed to Satya Nadella new [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► CEO has changed the company in 60 days right and that is sort of how it's going [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► to play from the from the outsider's perspective that's exactly what it looks [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► like and yet when you think you know we're you know you're talking about some [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► apple related stuff about how long it takes to build these these things you [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► know that the iPhone didn't come into existence in 60 days it took years for [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► it to be developed years when nobody knew anything about it and all the [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► things that we're seeing today have you know pretty much you know a year to 35 [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► years for a lot of this stuff to Asher stuff you know that goes back a decade [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► has to because although I mean how many data centers does your running we have [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► an answer that one I don't know the answer to but somebody out there can [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► look at nine so yeah so you don't build out nine like massive world-class doing [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► dollar data centers you know sixty days what do you think that's telling though [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► that they did I mean you I i do I think that is very telling that they [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► effectively pick the as your guide to be the CEO of Microsoft oh yeah I mean [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► that's the direction that it was going is it was the right choice and I think [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► it was the right choice to make [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► to you know if you brought in an outsider [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► you get added a random element right to it and and you've created basically then [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► you created a level of uncertainty [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► bringing such an as the as the CEO says basically this train is not slowing down [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► it in fact you know will we might speed up a little bit but the name of the game [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► basically is growth they gotta find somewhere where they're going to grow [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► and as your that whole area of cloud services it's going to grow is clearly [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► somebody's gonna you know it's like the old saying if somebody's gotta make [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► money might as well be Microsoft right to somebody's gonna I mean there's no [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► doubt whatsoever I don't think anybody would disagree no matter how they [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► observe the industry cloud computing is gonna grow from here forward so there it [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► just seems like the most likely source for Microsoft have significant growth [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► well look at office for iPad which is really when you get right down to it [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► it's a cloud product the only way yes you can yes it's a free app you can [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► download a nine-year on your iPad and you can view documents and you can [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► present a presentation you created somewhere else and you can save files [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► locally but the the the thing that unlocks the real value of the of those [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► apps which are what your lovely absent I and I think they're going to iterate [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► them pretty quickly that the thing that unlocks their value is a subscription to [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► office 365 which runs in as user and you know on consumer end and business side [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► it's a more or less like step one in the whole concept of the iPad Office apps is [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► how do you get your documents there and it's clearly the you know there might be [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► thought you might be able to find workarounds for other things and you can [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► open an email attachment but it's clearly designed to use the one Dr one [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► drive as the way that you're going to product previously noted SkyDrive what's [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► the deal with that why did they change that [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► Rupert Murdoch is the short answer the long answer is BSkyB the British [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► television giant owns the sky trademark and they actually have some cloud [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► services at their own so they sued Microsoft in in the UK for trademark [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► infringement won the first battle microsoft said rather than appealing [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► this in potentially losing more expensively they they signed an [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► agreement to to change the name [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► 21 drive reminds me of what happened to them with the Metro name for the new [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► user interface where they had this seemingly perfect name for this thing [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► that needed a name right and then some kind of trademark lawyers dot dot dot [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► you want to know and now it's like the new interface they haven't been very [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► transparent about that one that was a German company Metro AG I think and they [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► I think they're sort of like you know german Walmart or something they have [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► you know groceries in computers and it was one of those they they caved they [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► caved on that one in and since [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► and ever since they caved on that one every discussion of apps that are [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► written for Windows 8 for the native environment in Windows 8 becomes his [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► awkward thing where you say well he's modern Windows Store at Metro apps thing [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► where there was who who owns the trademark to iPhone in 2006 Cisco right [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► and and they even came out with a product in December 2006 like four weeks [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► before Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone and it was remembered Gizmodo totally [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► you know hats off to them for doing but they're like here is the iPhone [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► and it was and it was called the iPhone but it was like the Cisco iPhone and it [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► was like some kind of stupid like regular phone but it somehow you could [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► put on IP network it was like clearly somebody at Cisco who is in his these [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► these trademark negotiations with Apple was like we be in a better position if [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► we had a product using this stake in the ground does anybody have a phone and [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► they die they just took one of the phones and just cut the cable and [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► they're like somebody putting even if you look at it closely it's actually a [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► Sharpie that drew iPhone on the back and then I remember on stage when he when he [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► announced that he and he said you know it's a phone and a communicator and you [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► know whatever the other iPod widescreen video iPod and yes we're calling it i've [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► and you can almost hear you want to say fuck you Cisco and they say another [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► thing I have here with apple and and Steve Jobs demon and and it kind of goes [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► back to the nineties and there is the famous Macworld Expo in summer ninety [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► seven when you know jobs was the ice CEO interim CEO and they announced 250 [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► million dollar investment from Microsoft and Apple and the crowd boom [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► Boston rates yet and the giant you know like seventy-foot Bill Gates on video [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► behind Steve Jobs and there's two things about that I have been thinking about [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► this week I just saw somebody else [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► a lot of people think that that hundred and fifty million from Microsoft saved [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► apple literally like kept them out and they were close to bankruptcy but the [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► hundred and fifty million wasn't anywhere near as big a deal in terms of [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► same name as the commitment to keep making office for mac because that kept [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► the stock up because it was like well at least it's somewhat that was well way [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► bigger deal than 250 million in cash it also kept developers from defecting as [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► they said you know if the office is available there then that means that the [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► biggest developer of productivity software in the world is still committed [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► to it so we can we can draft with them we can ride the coattails hundred and [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► fifty million investment was really symbolic and and you know and I mean [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► that you know I'm not a financial expert but Apple had been losing billions and [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► go from where Apple was in the early nineties where they were flying high [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► to be teetering even mentioning the word bankruptcy meant they were losing [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► billions 350 million you know you're losing billions price 250 million you [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► just lose that Vegas it was the commitment to office that really was [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► like you know Microsoft still with us in the Microsoft deal with this you know [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► maybe you should be till but the thing that number is that and they got booed [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► like you said you know they booed this and people wanted to fight and Steve [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► Jobs said paraphrasing but I can get a quote [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► close is we have to let go this notion that for Apple to win Microsoft has to [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► lose probably win Apple just has to make great products and other companies want [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► to help us that's great we'll take it we want friend but if we have to do it [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► ourselves we do and we're gonna sink or swim loser die by are we gonna make [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► great products and I think that's exactly where Microsoft is today it's [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► significantly better balance sheet right now and that's it it's a huge advantage [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► right so Microsoft Apple was actually in trouble Microsoft is not in trouble i'd [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► say what [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► the problem Microsoft has gotten into is more or less like they were in the [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► doldrums [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► they were in the doldrums and you could also see certain product lines that had [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► whatever the inverse hockey stick curve is you know where there was a potential [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► they could just go you know the thing and and and go down and drop off a cliff [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► and anybody who's who's looking at that the desktop software market for example [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► used to be that you could get you a developer could sell a Windows program [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► for thirty to fifty dollars fairly easily [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► people people would pay that for a very complex product you you know you might [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► get a hundred $200 and then an Adobe and Microsoft to charge a lot more than that [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► today you know the idea I mean the idea of someone paying $30 for a program is [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► is almost laughable [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► you know people if you if you asked for $10 for a nap now if we're gonna ask too [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► expensive you know $5 they you know $5 they might consider it but many better [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► be good and I don't want to see a single four-star review in there and everything [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► else is $0.99 or you know or a buck 99 and so you know I think anybody who [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► looked couple years ago at where the you know just post iPad [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► and with the App Store in in in full swing [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► you look at that and you said our business is dependent on desktop [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► software and windows licenses that cost more than $30 we better figure out how [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► how to let that business degrade and find the one that's going to keep [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► growing [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► I think it's true I i really do I think that even when companies get truly big [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► and Microsoft has a huge company Apple is a huge company but there's a certain [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► DNA that always dates back to when it was founded and you know without really [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► does go back to this DNA that when it was you know the two Steves in a garage [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► for Microsoft part of that DNA to me is the whole idea of selling soft as I get [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► the seventies there's this nascent personal computing mark and anybody who [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► was like us and was in the computers that time was can't wait I have a [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► computer in my house and there was I want to write people wanna write [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► software for it and people would write the software and they would just publish [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► it in the source code and anybody can do it and Bill Gates's thing what you have [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► a letter that he published just thinking of that one you know homebrew computing [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► stop stealing software pay for it right [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► his idea what you know everybody was saying everybody was saying we could [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► write software for personal computers Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer dunno [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► together and and and pollen pollen their idea was we can write software for [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► personal computers and we can sell it [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► right and people thought they were not right there were people thought he was [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► absolutely nuts and when you wrote the letter that said stop sell you know [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► stealing it we're trying to you know if if everybody still that we will not be [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► able to keep making it never liked when nobody's gonna pay for software and you [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► know it was right but that's their DNA and the world is really kind of shifting [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► away from you know well the other thing the other interesting thing about the [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► DNA of the company and its unique 22 Microsoft was what happened in 1997 to [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► 2001 with the the antitrust trial that resulted in you know that the big [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► settlement agreement settlement decree and then that was followed by a couple [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► of of antitrust suits in Europe and so I think the other that the interesting [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► thing about Microsoft is they still have that sort of founders DNA in them but [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► they also have this you know they were brutalized by those lawsuits they were [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► forced to change you know just about every business practice that had made [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► them that it made them successful some of them it's a good thing that those [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► business practices were changed because they were you know of abusive monopoly [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► power in other cases they were things that we take as commonplace today and [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► operating system is a browser is right but but the you know the consent decree [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► said you have to separate the the browser from the operating system and [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► you have to provide a mechanism for alternate browsers or malware [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► Microsoft's argument at the trial that that the browser belongs as part of the [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► operating system which was widely mocked expect you know but critics well and [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► they and they made the they made the argument in a very happy [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► handed fashion terrible demo by by Jim Allchin you know who it was a it was a [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► video tape deposition and they discovered afterwards and they the [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► government and David Boies in his team found that they had placed you know they [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► had cut things out of this video and when they got to see the whole thing it [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► you know it it kind of changed the story and and and even made them look worse it [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► made them look dishonest like they were trying to hide something when they there [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► was actually a legitimate story that had the truth on their site had the truth on [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► their site and they but the but the but that early DNA was win at any cost which [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► is what got them in trouble and I think so I think now a lot of people still [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► have the belief that Microsoft this is cutthroat [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► win at any cost company and they have this this image of the you know the [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► hard-charging rule busting Microsoft of the nineties but the the Microsoft that [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► I know from [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► in the last eight to ten years is one that is hypersensitive to rules and [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► legal processes and will bend over the other direction to avoid the appearance [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► and even then they still get nailed in the EU for things that they thought they [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► had covered [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► one of the ways clearly that Microsoft is different from Apple and that this [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► conference is very different from WBC is that just the mere fact that you're [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► still here this is day two of the conference there's a couple of press [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► from Drexel recording the show and one of the president's but there's a press [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► room next door in the press room next door so you been here for two days right [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► here all day at WWDC when you have a press badge you come to the morning [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► keynote which is only 90 minutes Microsoft yesterday's keno could have [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► been I think they could have cut the the that the big sequence with Joe Belfiore [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► playing the the giant piano connected to a telnet window that was you know a [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► little weird but you the press comes in there's a ninety-minute keynote that is [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► largely devoid of technical information they date segregate there is like it's [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► they don't call it a keynote but there's affectively after lunch on day one hears [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► the tech keno and here's where we're going to show Xcode and we're going to [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► show source code and we're gonna do nerdy stuff but the morning keynote is [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► very very layperson consumer II and they flush Moscow me that mean you're out I [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► keynote is over everybody's out including badge holders everybody's out [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► and that's to make sure all the press her out and then you don't you can't get [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► back in once that morning keynote is over and you go down the escalator your [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► have paid for a developer's badge right and you can go into the sessions right [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► so that's why I i last couple of years I've done that but I paper is not [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► included in a press badge for you develop a relationship and you get in [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► for free but to come to anything else the rest of the week you need a paid bad [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► and then fact you know and if anybody suspect that maybe they help me or [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► something I think that they don't like it when press people buy them cause I [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► don't you know you're under NDA everything's under Indiana but the you [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► know what they think what's the point why the press coming into these things [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► unless they want to write about it we don't want to write about it [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► get break yeah I mean there there again is a difference in to sort of the [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► institutional mentality of the of the two companies so the interesting thing [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► about WWDC I've never been to one but you know if watchdog I watched them the [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► light streams of them [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► Apple is primarily a consumer company and so that keynote is almost a [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► commercial you know and you know take you take place specially when steve Jobs [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► was was doing the things and then the developer stuff is like don't look [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► behind the curtain stuff you don't you don't really want consumers to know [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► about this stuff because you wanted to be magical microsoft saying first of all [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► it's primarily business-focused although it you know if they would like to know [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► Xbox of course is is a great consumer success and they would like the new PC [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► form factors to be consumer success as well but when you get right down to it [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► most of the developers here are writing software for business users for you know [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► sometimes for internal enterprise apps and stuff and so that you get their [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► consumers versus business thing you also have the open persist secret thing and [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► Apple thrives on you know it's it's consumer business is one of its key [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► strategic advantages is its ability to keep a secret and you know Microsoft has [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► tried that in the last couple of years and it's backfired [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► you know you really and so will one thing that we have seen this week here [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► is more of a willingness to talk about the future to outline roadmaps even if [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► they don't have dates on them at least you know this is going to continue to be [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► supported this thing is coming in in a future update to Windows but we want to [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► tell you exactly when but you can look forward to it and so you're seeing a [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► little bit more of that now and that's really you know it has to be especially [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► for that cross device cross-platform [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► world you have to be have to be more open secrecy just isn't going to work so [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► you know best example of some Microsoft came to me and they knew that was coming [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► for the thing with Vestberg and said hey would you like to do your podcast here [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► and you know people will give you a room will give you Mike will give you beer [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► and there is no other strings attached it wasn't like here's what we want to [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► talk about it is what you can do what they like the odds of Apple to see what [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► they offered to me but the odds that like they're gonna say would you like to [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► do it from within 30 Wednesday of every day VDC [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► I'd say that's when the meteor hits disco light and humid you should [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► immediately call your broker in short Apple because clearly something [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► seriously wrong [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► yeah just fundamental differences very different now a word from our Sponsors [TS]

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00:46:35 ◼   ► worldwide from students and teachers to Hollywood actors and screenwriters have [TS]

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00:46:46 ◼   ► an awesome support identity has become the productivity app of choice for [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► entrepreneurs and executives as well no start no surprise to me that it's an [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► iPad app I think if there's one area where the iPad really stands out is it [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► just a tremendous device it's about you know compared to iPhones and even max is [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► for reading PDFs because it is in your hands it's like the size of a piece of [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► paper and PPT pdf you know sort of any now by 11 or those of you in your up [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► with you guys call it a day for roughly that size device and it just is like a [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► natural fit for PDF so no surprise to me that an app like I am dirty is such a [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► big hit with iOS iPad in particular users branch fire the team their hard [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► work on an exciting new mobile and desktop product called folia fola [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► you can find out more by following branch fire on Twitter that's at branch [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► fire there on Facebook too and you can go to www.brandtmorain.com [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► / get a note 8 branch fire dot com slash get I annotate to see the current app in [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► action a great app you use PDF seen you have an iPad you've got to check it out [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► really good at my thanks to branch fire [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► now back to the show so let's talk a little bit about some of the news from [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► this week I think to me that thing that stuck out the most is the most [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► intriguing to me is Windows Phone 8.1 right and I said well just short and [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► sweet has taken out of my phone but that to me it looks like from Windows 8 8.1 [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► has more new stuff than Windows 7 to Windows 8 yeah and what's fascinating [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► and I agree with that assessment completely and what's interesting is if [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► you I suspect if you went and talked to someone on the Windows Phone colonel [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► team they would be happy to explain to you why the kernel changes and [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► architecture changes from seven days where where where different effect they [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► broke compatibility [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► they you know they angered people with that one and so that was it it looked [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► like almost nothing from the user experience said but it was it was huge [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► from the kernel site but once you have that and again this is one of those [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► things they were talking they were talking about this three or four years [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► ago and now the user interface stuff is was made possible the rapid iteration in [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► user interface stuff was made possible by the work the kernel work that they [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► did back then and so the fact they're there now you know bringing the API's [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► together for iPhone and Windows tablets and Windows desktops and even Xbox so [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► that I think I think the official numbers like 92% in the API is her are [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► are common for those so basically you know the the pitch is that you can write [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► a nap [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► you know it's it's not exactly the old write once run anywhere thing but it's [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► right once and have a relatively easy time of porting it to other members of [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► the same family but the only differences are things that are obviously different [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► the screen is much bigger or if it's for the Xbox it's not touch it's going to be [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► you know an Xbox controller [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► and you have a cellular radio and one device its most likely not in any of [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► those other device if the actual differences in the devices that and so [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► and so one of my favorite one of one of my favorite apps I think you know when [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► it hits it should be a showcase app for Windows 8 in fact is one called tweety [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► i'm ok tweet team and written by a guy named Brandon panic just an amazing app [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► and I noticed he had taken his Windows 8 app yesterday he got the Windows Phone [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► 8.1 bits in the in the SDK and today he was showing a running version of 20 a.m. [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► on Windows Phone a point one which is so I mean it's kind of a 88 validation of [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► their story clearly a flagship featured big big part of the keynote yesterday a [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► lot of the news is Cortana which of course inevitably was immediately [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► headlines everywhere serial killer which is the worst that killer that everybody [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► killer should be one of those words were if you did your CMS if you put it in the [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► headline it should immediately like auto corrected just zapped it just goes away [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► actually I think there should probably be you know low-voltage electric home on [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► the keys and it and it just gives you a shock so that you know it's like one of [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► those colors you know keeps you from keep your dog from running outside your [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► your property line to keep you from not typing that word again right you really [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► should not be able to put killer and a headline unless you can have your bike a [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► police report that shows the shock and anyway and I think that's a 2006 if you [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► look at it for 10 seconds you might say no serious court time well they're both [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► sort of pulsing thing on the phone and and and a female voice but but really [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► court on what's interesting about Cortana is that it's sort of a fairly [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► artful mashup [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► of Siri and Google now because it has the you know a lot of it is you're [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► you're giving you you can give Cortana permission to access the you know your [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► schedule your email your text messages your your phonebook in in addresses and [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► on and on and on your browsing history and all of that stuff and and so you can [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► get Google now type smart notifications that you never you never had to [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► explicitly ask for delivered through a series like interface so that's kind of [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► you know that that i think is really the the innovation in it is is not it's [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► neither one nor the other yeah I think that it inevitably happens that whoever [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► the ship's first [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► can can claim to be ripped off going forward but the idea of voice driven [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► computing is not new and you know 60 series ship before Cortana and you know [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► Google now shifting between Google had something else [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► 2001 ran and war games as you know as prior art one of one of the things that [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► that I thought was interesting about Cortana though and not a hundred percent [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► you know but I think my understanding the way it works though is that Cortana [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► runs largely or maybe even entirely on the device [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► correct which is a very [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► get Siri but compared to Google now where it's here's all of your [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► information sent to Google and most of the computer happens with Google Cloud [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► stop looking at your data and figuring this stuff out whereas with Cortana it's [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► on your phone and your emails and especially with the email thing so [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► Cortana is only allowed to read email on your phone and that cannot be [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► transmitted to the service and and so it's a fundamental [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► you know really a fundamental difference between the two services as you know [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► google says we want all of your information we wanted you know your [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► Google account allows you to put all of this on our servers and we will [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► aggregated and then and then and it's a black box at that point the other cause [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► the other interesting feature about Cortana that I'm not sure made it into [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► too many of the stories there is that there is an interface called court on [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► his notebook I saw that and quite so court on his notebook is taken from the [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► idea that apparently the developers of Cortana interviewed a bunch of actual [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► personal assistance of you know executives and said how do you keep your [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► boss looking smart and on schedule throughout the day and they said well we [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► have a notebook where we have all this stuff about him that we know about him [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► or her and and so they say they've they've replicated that thing there but [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► the the most salient feature of court on his notebook is the ability to say [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► remove that or include this thing that you didn't see so you have control over [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► the stuff that's in there now with most products like this where you give the [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► customer the ability to to tweak the thing you know we know from experience [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► that eighty to ninety percent of the people who use it will never look at [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► that but for the 10 percent or 15 or 20 for whom that's important it's really [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► important and the idea you can go in there and say I don't want you know I [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► just don't I don't want you to have that information at all I don't want that to [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► be part of my profile and you can do that [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► yeah it seems like a big difference and I'm really intrigued to see once it gets [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► out in the real world how people's reaction is to it because clearly that [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► that you know for better for worse than the story was serious [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► it was announced and it looked really cool and it ship and a lot of people [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► found clearly found that it didn't quite work as advertised [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► I think it's gone a lot but I think it's one of those things where yes clearly [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► they they pitched it in the nicest life but are you don't get it you don't get a [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► second chance to make a first impression exactly it's gotten noticeably better [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► over the last two years but in little tiny you know the way that that but you [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► know cloud stuff gets better [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► little bit here but they're a little bit faster here you know the big you know [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► they call it series but the series really the personal assistant but Apple [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► cause it's eerie when you do the text to speech or speech to text [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► dictation that works so much better than it did when they ship like when I'm in [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► its winter in my hand is cold and I'm walking in philadelphia and I want a [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► quick dictator text to my wife or something works so good it really does [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► but it's like too late they don't get credit for it now because you know I [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► think the other difference between the two things and you know another thing [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► that probably didn't make it into too many of the news stories today is that [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► Cortana is extensible so so third party apps can look into court on it and and [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► so you know there's API is for you know for a nap to be able to have Cortana as [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► a as a friend and right and so it's officially beta they're calling it betta [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► they're launching it is in beta right when the ship as part of a one right now [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► it's cuz Apple called Siri beta 2 I think it's just a way of saying look [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► this stuff might not work great too we have a couple months under are well I [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► think you know Google did how long with Gmail Google is your Google searches [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► don't [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► but they're going to definitely going to be able to developer extensibility [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► because Syria's not developer sensible at all there is no there is no [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► integration with third-party apps so even if Apple announces it at WWDC this [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► year they just say it's gonna be first week in June that's not gonna ship until [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► the new OS comes out which is probably going to be on the phone you know if [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► they stick to the same schedule as last year in September [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► you know and you know your time is gonna be out before then and there you know a [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► virgin this sort of idea Voice driven right personal assistant but they're [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► gonna your Microsoft gonna have third-party integration before out and [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► that's if Apple does it this year [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► you know and and there's another thing that Cortana has that that that syria [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► doesn't that Google now does and it's kind of it's kind of a big punch in the [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► nose to everyone who all these pundits who were saying Microsoft needs to get [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► rid of being being just a drag just a drag on the business basically being is [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► you know Cortana is sits on top of being in being is not just a search engine [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► that delivers a list of results it has that you know there's a there's a [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► tremendous amount of semantic knowledge in the in the back end so if you ask for [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► you know what's the best restaurant that's within a 10 minute walk of me you [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► know it can pull that up from Yelp in in in in give you that answer if you you [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► know it has it has access to a lot of sources of data [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► you know the kind of things that appear in the infobox of the search results [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► page that it can also use as answers to the question that you asked it and so [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► those become very competitive advantages that are there because of the of the [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► so-called losses that Microsoft [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► on paying for all these years if you think of being as you know being dot com [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► purchase google.com those losses if you think of that as a sort of product a [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► consumer product that was sort of helping to pay for the incredible [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► investment in information on the back in that was ultimately going to drive a [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► service like Rotana then it's not a loss it's an investment it's all you know [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► seems like science fiction until we have it and it seems boring and we complain [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► about it but you know that that you said how from 2001 1968 you know we're [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► getting there you know we're getting there would you just talk to the [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► computer and the computer gives you answers and having something like being [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► as gives Microsoft a serious leg up over apple doesn't have bet and doesn't want [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► to use Google to do it right i mean Apple has already demonstrated with maps [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► that it wouldn't it would like to sever potentially life-threatening connections [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► you know because because if you know maps are such a crucial component of a [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► mobile device Apple does a little bit they're not totally going it alone [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► Syria has integration with wool from Alpha for a lot of stuffs AVIC reflect [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► stock quotes I think she goes to Wolfram Alpha maybe not sure might just go to [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► the widget but I know you just do math if you just ask him a few questions she [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► goes to Wolfram Alpha results come back from them but I can't help but think it [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► is one of the thoughts I've had the last two days here at building again to like [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► the iPhone introduction in 2007 and you know Steve Jobs introduced it was [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► amazing the audience was blown away and they said now an invite some friends up [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► there in this first friend to come out with Eric Schmidt then borden how did [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► each other and they're laughing and it was all smiles [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► and you know the gist of what Steve Jobs said is a Google they're great friend [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► and may do some amazing things we do totally different amazing things we [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► build these great little devices with really beautiful user interface they do [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► search and they've got maps and they've got this YouTube thing so it's just you [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► know use them for all that stuff that we don't worry about it [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► kumbaya right and then you know you all know how that worked out but I can't [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► help but feel like I'm the bill this week like you said that you know go back [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► to the Venn diagram thing like I know I cannot but think that there's like a no [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► harm done like Apple you can concentrate on what you do best if maybe you went to [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► your house at Microsoft the wall I don't think that such a bad idea [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► there's a little bit of the enemy of my enemy is my friend in there you know and [TS]

01:03:46 ◼   ► apple and microsoft were insufficiently different worlds and both faced you know [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► really brutal competition from Google and so there's always been this it's [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► always been remarkable to me as much as the tech press in our readers might like [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► to think that there's this you know blood war between the two camps it's [TS]

01:04:12 ◼   ► really that that has anything for a long time and I think but I think it is in [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► like you said in very different ways it is true though between both companies in [TS]

01:04:20 ◼   ► Google I mean any enemies may be a strong word but you know if we want to [TS]

01:04:25 ◼   ► use that analogy sort of go little over the top it's true many nights I think [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► Google's or Apple's biggest enemy as Google and Microsoft's biggest enemy is [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► Google well on the Windows platform google has been obstinate about refusing [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► to support Windows 8 there is exactly one Google app for Windows a Google [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► search it has some other stuff embedded in it so you can use it there but [TS]

01:04:54 ◼   ► there's no Gmail app there's no to there's no YouTube if there's a whole [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► you know you could write a sitcom about the whole YouTube [TS]

01:05:03 ◼   ► controversy their Google cannot ignore the Mac and it cannot ignore the iPad [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► because the overlap between their two audiences are you know it's it's people [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► use Apple branded hardware and Google branded services and that's you know [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► there's a huge influential and wealthy portion of the population especially in [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► the united states that that that that defines but you know so Google can't [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► afford to alienate Apple users too much but they can afford to piss off when [TS]

01:05:41 ◼   ► does she is and hopefully drive them you know they pay its not a lot of ways it [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► seems largely spiteful like part of the sitcom you describe is that microsoft [TS]

01:05:52 ◼   ► said ok we'll write dia and they wrote a YouTube app and then Google you know [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► found an excuse the API's way and said no even though there was you know we're [TS]

01:06:04 ◼   ► not even asking them to do the work we made yet [TS]

01:06:06 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

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01:06:52 ◼   ► great features and it's really really easy to set up and use they have [TS]

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01:07:02 ◼   ► more everything you need is built in and everything is social so your team can [TS]

01:07:08 ◼   ► just collaborate you want to share files you can easily share file when I have a [TS]

01:07:11 ◼   ► little twitter-like private conversation just your team easy they've got those [TS]

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01:07:24 ◼   ► comment on it rate it like it even manage versions the ideas to get your [TS]

01:07:28 ◼   ► whole company communicating better your company has a legacy internet or [TS]

01:07:33 ◼   ► customer community built on SharePoint in particular you should give it a try [TS]

01:07:39 ◼   ► they have a report on our website you can look for it [TS]

01:07:42 ◼   ► igloo software 2.com and they've been linked to it and it outlines the five [TS]

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01:08:46 ◼   ► the other interesting thing about Windows Phone 8.1 is and I found this [TS]

01:08:51 ◼   ► little surprising I guess it's a shocking but surprising is that [TS]

01:08:54 ◼   ► Microsoft announced that on nine inch tablets and smart phones it is now going [TS]

01:09:00 ◼   ► to be free [TS]

01:09:01 ◼   ► where there is a version of it yeah that's the one I you know I need to go [TS]

01:09:04 ◼   ► back in and read the transcript and watch that again because it might be one [TS]

01:09:08 ◼   ► of those things where the devil is in is in the details there I think I think [TS]

01:09:12 ◼   ► they said something like there's going to be a you know will make a Windows [TS]

01:09:17 ◼   ► that will be free [TS]

01:09:19 ◼   ► you know that I think $0 was what they put on the on the slide on the screen [TS]

01:09:24 ◼   ► and it was one of those were you say it the right way and and everyone you know [TS]

01:09:30 ◼   ► the classic magician's trick misdirection focus on the $0 out there [TS]

01:09:33 ◼   ► and miss the cabinet there it may be that this is the ad-supported version of [TS]

01:09:39 ◼   ► Windows that that they've talked about talked about through the years but you [TS]

01:09:47 ◼   ► know whether it's that or whether it's something else [TS]

01:09:49 ◼   ► the fact is that they've basically that is a direct shot across the bow of [TS]

01:09:54 ◼   ► Android right that is nothing to do with Apple and the iPhone and everything to [TS]

01:09:59 ◼   ► do with Android and to me it's one of the biggest mysteries and all of [TS]

01:10:03 ◼   ► marketing any field tech or whatever but certainly texts were obsessed over more [TS]

01:10:07 ◼   ► is is when certain products either seemingly get a lot more traction than [TS]

01:10:15 ◼   ► they seem to deserve or the flip side when there's a product that doesn't seem [TS]

01:10:20 ◼   ► to get the traction it deserves in two ME Windows Phone absolute might just [TS]

01:10:26 ◼   ► saying that cuz I'm here to build I really do think it's a far better [TS]

01:10:29 ◼   ► product than its market share [TS]

01:10:32 ◼   ► indicates like not even close and it just seems like the phone market is so [TS]

01:10:37 ◼   ► weird and and even on just the Android side alone just Android it just like HTC [TS]

01:10:44 ◼   ► makes what are clearly to me the most beautiful Android phones and they're [TS]

01:10:49 ◼   ► just getting killed by Samsung and even if it's you know you could make an [TS]

01:10:54 ◼   ► argument that Samsung for technical reasons and design [TS]

01:10:58 ◼   ► ins and whatever deserves a market share lead-in and write it just seems to me [TS]

01:11:02 ◼   ► that on the merits it whatever the market share lead a deserved it is [TS]

01:11:07 ◼   ► nowhere near what they have which is pretty much all of the profits and Amber [TS]

01:11:11 ◼   ► yeah they've basically Apple has has most of the profits in the mobile market [TS]

01:11:16 ◼   ► and then Samsung has the rest is a Windows Phone get so what what do you [TS]

01:11:27 ◼   ► think the problem is life why do you think it isn't more successful well so [TS]

01:11:33 ◼   ► there's three there's actually three phone markets in the world there's the [TS]

01:11:38 ◼   ► United States which is dominated by you know and and oligopoly of of carriers [TS]

01:11:46 ◼   ► and is is driven by carrier subsidies and and and weird agreement so there's [TS]

01:11:53 ◼   ► no means is actually a disincentive for people to buy unlocked handsets they're [TS]

01:11:59 ◼   ► expensive and you still have to pay the exact same amount for the for the [TS]

01:12:03 ◼   ► service anyway so there's the us- market and then there's the developed market [TS]

01:12:08 ◼   ► and rest of the world where most phones are unlocked and you have your choice [TS]

01:12:12 ◼   ► but there but they're fairly expensive and then there's where the next billion [TS]

01:12:16 ◼   ► phones are going to come from in the emerging markets have you know India [TS]

01:12:20 ◼   ► China Africa Brazil you know all those all those places where there's no small [TS]

01:12:28 ◼   ► dollars per device and razor thin margins but the volume is so huge you [TS]

01:12:33 ◼   ► can make large amounts of money they're so basically in the you s all the market [TS]

01:12:38 ◼   ► forces have been distorted by the complete dominance of the carriers which [TS]

01:12:44 ◼   ► you know steve Jobs was able to actually break that somehow with it [TS]

01:12:49 ◼   ► thing that nobody else has ever been able to to duplicate and then in and and [TS]

01:12:55 ◼   ► so as a result you have [TS]

01:12:58 ◼   ► you know Apple and Samsung basically have all the deals with all the carriers [TS]

01:13:03 ◼   ► here and that's the us- then you get to you get to Europe for Windows Phone has [TS]

01:13:08 ◼   ► actually been fairly successful in in in in the UK its I think over 10% Italy in [TS]

01:13:17 ◼   ► Italy it's it's you know dominant in you know Romania several of the Eastern [TS]

01:13:24 ◼   ► European country singers pockets there where the the phones they sell for [TS]

01:13:30 ◼   ► significantly less than an Apple product of course and and there a better quality [TS]

01:13:37 ◼   ► than a great product and so the market says okay and so they they reward that [TS]

01:13:42 ◼   ► there and then the real battle field is going to be in the emerging markets now [TS]

01:13:47 ◼   ► where you know I think and I think Apple's just gonna say if I will skim up [TS]

01:13:52 ◼   ► that up with the wealthy buyers in these markets will you know will buy will will [TS]

01:13:58 ◼   ► pay they're the same ones who were coming to the us- buying the products [TS]

01:14:04 ◼   ► and then bringing them back home will finally be able to buy them directly [TS]

01:14:07 ◼   ► there and then you'll have this you know basically a battle royal between [TS]

01:14:12 ◼   ► manufacturers who are building phones based on Android and those who are [TS]

01:14:18 ◼   ► building phones based on the Windows operating system and now that it's free [TS]

01:14:23 ◼   ► the competitive landscape for them will change significantly so do you are you [TS]

01:14:29 ◼   ► optimistic about Windows Phone but well optimistic is hard words isn't it I [TS]

01:14:34 ◼   ► don't think it's you know I think they're going to get to double-digit [TS]

01:14:39 ◼   ► market share worldwide that its you think it's gonna be disproportionate [TS]

01:14:43 ◼   ► around the world it's it's going to be disproportionate around the world [TS]

01:14:46 ◼   ► yeah I think it's going to be you know Microsoft it's Steve Ballmer used to say [TS]

01:14:52 ◼   ► you know the one thing about Microsoft as we keep coming to keep hammering at [TS]

01:14:58 ◼   ► you we won't let you know we we don't quit we don't give up and so you know [TS]

01:15:03 ◼   ► there's a lot of people out there saying you know Microsoft just fold its tent on [TS]

01:15:06 ◼   ► this phone [TS]

01:15:07 ◼   ► incas there you know they went from two and a half percent to 4 percent it took [TS]

01:15:11 ◼   ► like two years you know if you if you grind out the market share like that you [TS]

01:15:17 ◼   ► know you're you're never going to get back here your investment that thing [TS]

01:15:20 ◼   ► well no Xbox maybe proves otherwise [TS]

01:15:24 ◼   ► Xbox lost money big money for 47 years and now it's a you know it's a [TS]

01:15:33 ◼   ► successful device it's profitable on its own and has an ecosystem around it and [TS]

01:15:38 ◼   ► it has the same halo effect that Apple's always counted on for you know for [TS]

01:15:44 ◼   ► people to buy an iPod and then an iPhone and then maybe a Mac you know him become [TS]

01:15:49 ◼   ► a full member of the family that Xbox has played that role there so I don't [TS]

01:15:54 ◼   ► think that Microsoft is going to give up on on the Windows Phone thing you know [TS]

01:15:59 ◼   ► it's really a lot of institutional barriers to them getting significant [TS]

01:16:06 ◼   ► market share quickly and it is a weird to me like historical tables have turned [TS]

01:16:13 ◼   ► where two ME Windows Phone is the classic Mac OS from like the late [TS]

01:16:19 ◼   ► nineties when there's people who really love it [TS]

01:16:23 ◼   ► for the design you know and that they can speak very eloquently I really just [TS]

01:16:27 ◼   ► like the way it works it clicks in my brain which is how I felt as a magnet [TS]

01:16:32 ◼   ► for all that time and yet you're like the 3rd or 4th platform that developer [TS]

01:16:38 ◼   ► acts hits when they're shipping an app that sucks right yeah so you know if you [TS]

01:16:43 ◼   ► wanna call and over in San Francisco you're not going to do it on your [TS]

01:16:47 ◼   ► Windows Phone I didn't even know that so they don't even have an uber now you [TS]

01:16:51 ◼   ► know there's a think you have to go to the mobile site and calm [TS]

01:16:56 ◼   ► well welcome to they would have made a lot of money this week [TS]

01:17:00 ◼   ► I think being a Mac user 1998 exactly as you know I'm feeling whatever the [TS]

01:17:08 ◼   ► opposite of schadenfreude his but I sympathize and I do I i think it's you [TS]

01:17:14 ◼   ► know I even saw on some of the the demyans and the press room there's a [TS]

01:17:17 ◼   ► beta of Instagram and smooth I mean that's one thing Microsoft has always [TS]

01:17:22 ◼   ► done well as make things run fast and they're totally hitting that you know 60 [TS]

01:17:29 ◼   ► frames per second [TS]

01:17:30 ◼   ► really nice animation no lag no like and like you stop and get it stops it you [TS]

01:17:36 ◼   ► know it just has that iPhone qualities scrolling and and stuff like that which [TS]

01:17:41 ◼   ► I have never seen one hundred CSO one of the interesting things was looking at [TS]

01:17:46 ◼   ► some numbers when I was on the plane coming up here the most recent Gartner [TS]

01:17:51 ◼   ► projections and and so if you take they did you know phones tablets PCs and [TS]

01:18:00 ◼   ► hybrid devices ok so we take pics phones out of there cuz it's a billion and it [TS]

01:18:07 ◼   ► ended weirdly distorts the market because in in some of those emerging [TS]

01:18:10 ◼   ► markets the only device that people have a bit cheap smartphone but take take [TS]

01:18:17 ◼   ► that out of there and you actually see you think you know the the PC is dying [TS]

01:18:20 ◼   ► but but what's actually happening is that the you combine tablets and [TS]

01:18:27 ◼   ► conventional desktop and notebook PCs in these new hybrid things which ever you [TS]

01:18:32 ◼   ► know it's a tablet and then you took a keyboard on to it and it's a laptop and [TS]

01:18:37 ◼   ► then you disconnected and it's a template again and if you combine those [TS]

01:18:40 ◼   ► three things you get between 2013 and 2015 you get a market that's growing at [TS]

01:18:47 ◼   ► about three to five percent a year which is not an unhealthy [TS]

01:18:51 ◼   ► we've got News two things growing at at hyperspeed but that's not an unhealthy [TS]

01:18:56 ◼   ► growth rate but what's interesting is that the boring PC segment is the one [TS]

01:19:02 ◼   ► that shrinking and the tablet segment is growing [TS]

01:19:06 ◼   ► but much more modestly than it did after the the iPad's initial success and the [TS]

01:19:14 ◼   ► category that seems to be growing fastest this going to garner at least [TS]

01:19:18 ◼   ► says will will grow fastest in that time is this category of hybrids touch-based [TS]

01:19:24 ◼   ► devices that you know like like the surface but also like the HP Envy or [TS]

01:19:29 ◼   ► Asus Transformer t100 in these things and you know that to me that so 21 [TS]

01:19:36 ◼   ► million of those sold in 2013 sixty-plus million of those will be sold next year [TS]

01:19:43 ◼   ► that the story I've heard it's one of those things where it's all you can make [TS]

01:19:48 ◼   ► up the store you can't prove it but the story I've heard on that is you know [TS]

01:19:51 ◼   ► what wire tablet sales seemingly not as fast as like iPhone in an iPhone like [TS]

01:19:57 ◼   ► smartphones why is that the sales graph different and I think the just a bit [TS]

01:20:03 ◼   ► that I've heard I believe it it it it rings true is it's two things one the [TS]

01:20:07 ◼   ► phone market is so distorted by the contracts you know you buy for two years [TS]

01:20:14 ◼   ► and it's at a ridiculously low prices your contracts out there like the money [TS]

01:20:17 ◼   ► with $199 and get a brand new you know or ninety 90 you know and why not and [TS]

01:20:24 ◼   ► you tend to abuse your phone more thing you know it's a small US most likely get [TS]

01:20:29 ◼   ► dropped it does get dinged up and you might argue know a lot of people even if [TS]

01:20:33 ◼   ► they take reasonable care of it might actually need a new one for the battery [TS]

01:20:36 ◼   ► might have died hold as much of a Chargers with tablets people treat em [TS]

01:20:41 ◼   ► like they treat PCs which is more or less a day by one and use it till it [TS]

01:20:44 ◼   ► breaks right knee replacement cycle if if they're like PCs people are going to [TS]

01:20:49 ◼   ► think of them as a five-year purchased and the the the iPad hasn't even the [TS]

01:20:57 ◼   ► original iPad's aren't even five years old yet know there are they might not [TS]

01:21:01 ◼   ► even be four years old yet [TS]

01:21:03 ◼   ► 2010 yeah it was at 11 2010 yeah my parents to have an original one and get [TS]

01:21:11 ◼   ► a new in early spring [TS]

01:21:12 ◼   ► knew it works ya na na 350 person it's the last thing I wanted to talk about is [TS]

01:21:19 ◼   ► I noticed yesterday when I saw an impression that you were working on one [TS]

01:21:24 ◼   ► of these devices and I you know actually two of them right you worry if you are [TS]

01:21:28 ◼   ► upgrading but and I thought that was interesting [TS]

01:21:33 ◼   ► you know that it's you know you don't just cover microsoft and I i'm you know [TS]

01:21:36 ◼   ► from knowing you from reading your work I don't think you're using one just [TS]

01:21:38 ◼   ► because you know that's what might decide it seems that you are a proponent [TS]

01:21:42 ◼   ► of the surface tablets [TS]

01:21:44 ◼   ► well like I you know it's it's an interesting device part of my decision [TS]

01:21:50 ◼   ► it's it's funny you ask that because when I came out here remember Mission [TS]

01:21:55 ◼   ► Impossible series so at the beginning of Mission Impossible the series he you [TS]

01:22:02 ◼   ► know Peter Graves when it opened this manila folder filled with pictures and [TS]

01:22:08 ◼   ► he you know bring them out and put it was always the same ones that he chose [TS]

01:22:12 ◼   ► but he'd set the ones that he chose a side so when I was on my way here had [TS]

01:22:17 ◼   ► this big lab bench in my office and had about eight devices on there to choose [TS]

01:22:23 ◼   ► from and had a ship which ones am I going to bring with me as I have they [TS]

01:22:28 ◼   ► were like 48 inch tablets and a couple of notebooks and a couple of circus [TS]

01:22:34 ◼   ► family devices and and then this Nokia this Nokia tablet so i said im only [TS]

01:22:42 ◼   ► gonna bring to see you know I want to see how they work and so they you know [TS]

01:22:48 ◼   ► the surface is especially the surface Pro two is you know it's a classic [TS]

01:22:56 ◼   ► example classic Microsoft thing you know they get it right on the 3rd generation [TS]

01:23:00 ◼   ► this is the second iteration and it's so much better than the original but it's [TS]

01:23:06 ◼   ► still you know there's just that there's a few things they can do so I think this [TS]

01:23:10 ◼   ► I think there's going to be a new rendition of it this year and [TS]

01:23:14 ◼   ► and that will be one where you go out they finally figured everything out and [TS]

01:23:18 ◼   ► they and they fixed it and I had an iPad there too and I was sorely tempted to [TS]

01:23:23 ◼   ► bring the iPad and trying new things in office for the office for the iPad but [TS]

01:23:29 ◼   ► it didn't it wound up in the coal pile and you think part of it too is more [TS]

01:23:34 ◼   ► than just hardware though it's it ties in with Windows 8.1 which you know key [TS]

01:23:40 ◼   ► feature is a renewed focus on keyboard and mouse and met by mouse I mean [TS]

01:23:46 ◼   ► trackpad you know anything that moves the cursor around mouse yeah whatever it [TS]

01:23:50 ◼   ► it you know it really deals with that that what were they thinking kind of [TS]

01:23:56 ◼   ► objection to the original one where they just tried to hide all signs of the [TS]

01:23:59 ◼   ► desktop even though it was there and and and and greatly improved yes its members [TS]

01:24:05 ◼   ► pro to basically I've been using it almost exclusively as if it were a as it [TS]

01:24:12 ◼   ► were a laptop but it is you know it is kinda nice it went on and on the plane I [TS]

01:24:17 ◼   ► can just attach the keyboard from it and send it in and watch a movie on it I [TS]

01:24:22 ◼   ► think the goal of those hybrid devices you know the theoretical goal is that [TS]

01:24:28 ◼   ► instead of having to carry a MacBook and an iPad you can just carry one and it [TS]

01:24:35 ◼   ► becomes it it it it changes personality to suit that the task that you know I'm [TS]

01:24:40 ◼   ► laughing because that's packed the church of course look at ya and tell the [TS]

01:24:45 ◼   ► idea the idea is that you know that it you if you had something if you had an [TS]

01:24:50 ◼   ► iPad that could you know magically run OS 10 it had a keyboard attached to it [TS]

01:24:55 ◼   ► when you take it off and it's you know and it's running iOS so what did you [TS]

01:25:00 ◼   ► have in the keynote when you were in the keynote hall what did you using a laptop [TS]

01:25:06 ◼   ► or were you using I was using the surface primarily because it has the [TS]

01:25:11 ◼   ► things they fixed in version to that made it better than version one is this [TS]

01:25:15 ◼   ► thing called the tape cover the cliques in and it has an illuminated keyboard in [TS]

01:25:20 ◼   ► its usable on a laptop that's why I asked [TS]

01:25:24 ◼   ► you know what the press well first of all the press had they gave us tables [TS]

01:25:28 ◼   ► they never give us give us they gave us tables and wired Ethernet connections in [TS]

01:25:35 ◼   ► in [TS]

01:25:36 ◼   ► I think there is like free beer and everything but but no but I have been [TS]

01:25:43 ◼   ► using that on with the with the type cover it actually does work on your lap [TS]

01:25:48 ◼   ► as a as a laptop with the first version the first edition which only had one [TS]

01:25:52 ◼   ► stop for the little hinge that comes out from the back there [TS]

01:25:57 ◼   ► you know you sort of head to play statue if you if you sit just right and you [TS]

01:26:04 ◼   ► don't move you can actually type on this thing but it was it it flexed and and [TS]

01:26:10 ◼   ► and it wasn't a comfortable experience this is more so it actually feels a lot [TS]

01:26:14 ◼   ► like feels a lot like a laptop if I'm at home I will either have a tablet which [TS]

01:26:21 ◼   ► you know could be a Windows tablet or an iPad if I'm you know sitting on the [TS]

01:26:25 ◼   ► couch or a notebook I want you know the surface doesn't know I won't use the [TS]

01:26:30 ◼   ► service in that mode I haven't heard a word you said last three minutes cause [TS]

01:26:34 ◼   ► all I can keep thinking about is how nice of you to have a table [TS]