Ask Paul: April 20 (Premium)

Happy Friday, everyone. Here's another round of Q&A to jump-start the weekend.
PWA interviews
Chris_Kez asks:
A few months ago you published an interview with some PWA guys, and around that time I seem to recall you referencing another interview that you had in the works. Is that right? I would love to see more of that type of content; you talking with people "in the trenches"-- whether it is developers or device makers or designers or whatever-- and combining your perspective with their specific content knowledge. I'm sure you'll talk to a lot of Microsoft people on and off the record at BUILD, but is there any chance you might line up a few developers or other attendees to get their perspective coming out of the event?
The interview Chris is referring to is found in my article Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Bring PWAs to Windows 10 in case you can't find it on the site. It's worth a (re)read given that this stuff is finally happening now.

Regarding me referencing another interview at the time, I don't recall that. But I agree that talking again with Microsoft and/or developers about PWAs now makes tons of sense. And Build is right around the corner. So I'll see what I can do.

Great idea, thanks.
Pixelbook + Windows?
dcdevito asks:
Paul, what are your thoughts about the recent discovery that Pixelbook/Chromebooks may have the ability to run Windows?
I am following this with great interest. I almost wrote on this topic this week, but it's not 100 percent clear what the AltOS mode is for.

I believe the rationale behind this is so that developers can use a Pixelbook. The question is whether that means "while using Windows or Linux or both." A lot of the speculation is around Windows, but that seems like a strange thing for Google to enable.

That said, the Pixelbook is a fantastic laptop/2-in-1, and despite some goofiness (like the foam padding on the wrist-rests, I really love the design. And, as terrible as it is it even contemplate this, it would give Surface Pro/Laptop a nice run for the money, so to speak.

Also, this AltOS thing could just be about Fuschia. Which would be a "sad trumpet" ending to this whole thing.
Office 365/Teams transition
helix2301 asks:
I know your company is moving over to office 365 from Google just wondering how that has been going and is it done yet?
Also, will asks:
This week you and Brad have started to use Microsoft Teams and it sounds like it has not all been "rainbows and unicorns". You mentioned in one of the FRD posts this week that now that you are using Teams is lacking and needs some serious work. Microsoft said at Ignite that they are working to get Skype for Business and Teams merged toegther by the end of the this year. With delays being more and more common with Microsoft I am guessing this will not happen by 2018. We are just started to look at using Teams for our organization so I am curious what your feedback is?
The transition is ... happening. We're using Teams now...

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