Universal Windows Podcast

0:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show Today's Hosts Colin , David, Cortana Smith Word of the Week "Canada" We are part of the Tech Podcast Network 1:15 – News 2:00 Office 365 datacenters now available in Canada Data residency is now available in Canada.

1:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show Today's Hosts Colin Smith, David Smith and our special guest Joel Rushworth We are part of the Tech Podcast Network Word of the Week is "McLaren" 2:00 – Interview with Joel Is there really a good reason for Microsoft to create an Atom based phone? Is the iPhone a Life Style Company or a technology company? Would you hack your Windows RT Tablet to run Windows 10 Mobile? McLaren - Nokia 1030 - The Phone that never was BOGO "Buy One, Get One", Lumia 950 XL comes with a free 950 Neither of us are tempted to get one Should drive Windows Phone sales up! Cortana talks to a Canadian "Can't get it in Canada" Monthly guest of Radio Show "Tech Talk" in Victoria Joel loves SMR Podcast Let's Meet Joel First Computer - Commodore 64 one of the very first ones! Current Job - Territory Manager for Confectionary Company Daily Phone Lumia 950 Daily Computer Surface Pro 1 Favorite Sandwich - Montreal Smoked Meat on Rye and Crispy Crunch for Dessert! Favorite Feature of Window

1:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show Today's Hosts Colin Smith, David Smith and Cortana Smith We are part of the Tech Podcast Network New format is weekly releases with a cadence of "Interview" one week and "News and Rumors" the next. Word of the Week is "Update" 3:00 – News BOGO "Buy One, Get One", Lumia 950 XL comes with a free 950 Neither of us are tempted to get one Should drive Windows Phone sales up! Acer is now Jade Primo A Windows Phone with Continuum Not shipping in Canada or US yet We have asked for an evaluation unit when available Surface Phone Rumored for 2017 New Snapdragon 830 added to Windows Mobile Support Microsoft finally puts Surface Book, Surface Pro, Power Woes Some camera woes Surface Dock updates too Android Apps coming to Windows, OSX and Chromebooks Microsoft Wordflow Keyboard announced for iOS Not in Canada – just to piss off Colin Microsoft Q3 Earnings - Heavy on the Cloud Skype Universal Windows App Skype Universal Windows Program All-in-one (again)

  1:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show Special guest Pierre Roman from Microsoft, Senior Technical Evangelist We are part of the Tech Podcast Network Word of the Week is "Open" 4:00 – News Microsoft Signature Type Cover is announced FYI: It is not made with Rich Corinthian Leather 5:30 – Interview First Computer TI-99 First Job – Data Entry – University of Ottawa 1:30 – Introduction to Pierre Let's Meet Pierre Promote the "Platform". First Portable – Toshiba First Mobile Phone Current Go-to PCs – Surface Pro 3 i5s What is Pierre Up to? Microsoft deploys Docker Instances. Nano Server reduces patching Microsoft and Canonical bring Ubuntu Linux binaries and Bash Shell to Windows 10 Live writer is now open source Pro-Tip – use a Surface as a Whiteboard using OneNote 41:00 - Outro - Call for your help with the podcast, please… Connect with Pierre @CanITPro and http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/ Follow and Re-tweet, @SurfaceSmiths Facebook www.facebook.com/SurfaceSmithsPodcast Listen www.

00:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show All Nude News Podcast – more episodes, more concise, more fun! We are part of the Tech Podcast Network Word of the Week is "Build" 4:00 - News Microsoft still has no idea what to do about phones - or Did Microsoft just kill Windows Phone? Terry Myerson Said …. "We're fully committed to that 4-inch screen, there will be a time for it to be our focus, but right now it's part of the family, but it's not the core of where I hope to generate developer interest over the next year." "If you wanted to reach a lot of phone customers, Windows Phone isn't the way to do it," Windows Bridge for iOS. – Create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code The Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and Objective-C code. Centennial Bridge coming to Windows Insiders with the next build The bridge wi

00:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show We are part of the Tech Podcast Network Word of the Week is "Dave" 02:00 – Follow-up to David's "Broken SurfaceBook Rant" It was replaced with a brand new (and upgraded) Surface Book in 5 weeks 02:45 – Tip of the Week – Windows 10 Mobility Center A Windows 10 Utility to manage all your Mobility Settings! Run, or create a short-cut Create a shortcut to %SystemRoot%\System32\mblctr.exe 4:00 - News Former Intel CEO and chairman Andy Grove dies at age 79 BTW – Intel was founded in 1968 – Way to Go Colin! Apple Event Monday March 21st, 2016 9.7" iPad Pro $599 ($799 CDN) iPhone SE $399 ($899 CDN Unlocked)Correction – Now $529 CDN Unlocked on Apple.ca Apple iPad Air 2 price reduced 399 ($499 CDN) What's coming in Redstone? Removal of control panel Location and facial recognition search in photos SP4 biometric Keyboard is available in Canada but only in black 11:00 – Special Guest – David Lewis Government web communicator Non-Windows Fan Boy! Favorite Sandw

00:00 - Intro Welcome to the Show We are part of the Tech Podcast Network Word of the Week is "Support" 01:30 - Tip of the Week – Saving Battery Lower brightness, disable radios not being used like WiFi and Bluetooth Disable Turbo-boost 02:45 – New of the Week Microsoft pushes back Windows 10 'Redstone' 2 to Spring 2017 to line up with new Microsoft device wave Microsoft is buying mobile tool vendor Xamarin Microsoft to start shipping $3,000 HoloLens developer kits on March 30 Microsoft expands Cortana support, features in new Windows 10 'Redstone' build Microsoft hones MVP program to focus on developers, IT pros Microsoft releases Class Notebook add-in for OneNote 2016, brings new distribution methods Microsoft needs to fix whatever is going on with Windows 10 Mobile right now HP just made the 'Surface Phone' and it's called the Elite x3Correction: Phone does not contain an Intel Atom processor, rather a Qualcomm Snapdragon Surface Pro 4 Type Cover with Fingerprint ID now available for pre-order in

Episode 028 – Mostly Marius     Account             The Surface Smiths Podcast   For this episode, Colin is alone in the studio The Word of the Week is “Technology” 02:00 News of the Week Microsoft finally fixes power woes on Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 May introduce new issues for some     Surface Book Firmware Manual Installer Download   You can now purchase Microsoft's Surface Book in the UK and Europe       Surface Pro 4 wins Best Mobile Tablet at Mobile World Congress 2016   Surface Hub makes news studio debut with Seattle's KING 5 news Also used at Ferrari’s F1 press conference       Surface tablets and Surface Book are now certified for use by U.S. Department of Defense     New Microsoft patent filing shows a stylus with a tip that can 'sense' colors      Redditor modded Surface with a Lego plate and can attach accessories to it. Will try to get him on the show     06:35 Tip of the Week Using Surface Pro 3 with a Pro 4 type cover or Surface Book Two finger tap = right click. Three finger tap =

Introduction Who's in the studio - David, Colin, Matt and special guests Kyran and Kaz. News 2:50 - X86 and ARM64 version of Windows Mobile 6:15 - Ignite registration is open 11:00 - Microsoft Invents a New Rechargeable Pen & Docking System that could end-up Integrated into a Future Surface Book 12:30 - Is it okay that Joe Belfiore is using an iPhone? 14:00 - Microsoft says it's not the Surface's fault your team lost 15:45 - Microsoft to include TripAdvisor in Windows 10: Microsoft to Pre-Install other apps 17:40 - New data: Apple's iPad Pro outsells Microsoft Surface tablets in debut quarter 21:30 - email from listener – Ali Qushery Topics 38:00 - What's new in Windows 8" tablets - Kyran 44:10 - Rant on the Surface Book 4 - David 51:45 – Product Review- Accell UltraAV Docking Station First Impressions 5 Portability 3 Build Quality 4 iExpected Reliability 3 Ease of Use 2 Value 5 Gets Surface Ethos 2 Overall Score 3.4 1:06:10 - Kyran Pimps vBrisket Prime Cuts Podcas

Special Guest – John Marshall 0:00 – Introduction 3:15 – Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Updates John Marshall Visio MVP Sean Kearney PowerShell MVP Colin Smith Dual MVP – Enterprise Mobility (System Center Configuration Manager) / Windows and Devices for IT 8:00 Word of the week is Visio 8:45 John Marshall interview News of the Week 16:30 CES News – Acer Jade Primo 18:00Alcatel Lucent One Touch fierce XL 18:30Google will be using Oracle’s java API for the next android. 19:45Microsoft & Cyanogen announced the integration of Cortana into Android 21:15Remix OS 22:45Microsoft discontinues Windows 8 support 24:15Transatel & Microsoft join to sell universal SIMs 26:15 Updated Surface App for Surface Pro 4 29:00 MVP Days Feb 28 Toronto March 2 Ottawa March 4 Montreal 30:00 Colin switches to iPhone 6sPlus 47:15 New Year’s Prognostications 51:45 Studio renovation update 55:10Powershell Saturday #10, March 19 in Tampa. Florida- Sean will be there 55:45Raspberry Pi Zero. 58:30 Listener Swag

Basic show notes for now.  Complete Show notes coming before the New Year Intro Tech Podcast Network Ask Colin about Aluminum Pole Festivus - December 23rd - We have the rights to use the song https://youtu.be/6nAaYubpBgI Airing of Grievances Skylake Shortage MS Apology http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-a8pologies-to-surface-owners-2015-12 OneDrive Reversal Peter Henry Lumia Feats of Strength Dell Latitude Tough Urban armour gear rogue Festivus Miracle MS Sales Revenue October outpaced iPad  http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-makes-progress-against-ipad-2015-12 Crossover - 12 Surface Tips for the 12 days of Christmas Swipe from the left to list open applications Train your surface to recognize your handwriting better Win+P for Presentation mode - PH How Do I use CTRL+Fn keys like I do on a normal keyboard?  Press the Fn key at the same time as the function keys to have them act as normal function keys. You can also toggle them between special/normal by pressing Fn and CapsLock. Enable D

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While David, Matt and Sean were busy recording episode 22, Colin recorded a segment in Barbados but it never made it into the episode.

00:00 – Introductions – The Surface Smiths Podcast is a member of the TechPodcast Network. Word of the week is Lappable. Colin is still away so this week Sean Kearney is a guest host and Matt is here to help out 01:25 – David asks and Sean explains about the MVP Summit 03:56 – Discussion of extended warranties 05:40 – Is a tub of rice as good as an extended warranty? 06:55 – Be nice to you Tech Support and don’t lie to them 07:33 – Dave unveils the Latitude Rugged Tablet military spec device that Dell has lent to us for evaluation. It even has a stealth mode for covert operations. The boys talk about the unit and the use cases it serves. 15:25 – Dave is looking for ideas to really put the Dell Latitude Rugged Tablet to the test and make a video. Please send your suggestions to us. 16:20 – Matt tells us about the SlowMo Guys on YouTube 18:55 – David unveils his Surface Book – Here is Sean’s 20:50 – Dave addresses the lapability issues with the Surface Book among other issues 22:05 – Ejecting the clipboard