EP 58: The Microsoft Pivot

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  30 September, 2016 - 11:18 am

  <p>Office 365 is a fabulous product, it’s just that most people don’t need or want it</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 11:48 am

  <p>I’m liking this new MS, no longer a lumbering giant it would seem. Having said that though their PR Department could do with a shake up. Brad, you said the future plan for&nbsp;WMobile is to make it more like the desktop. Now that’s a pivot if ever I’ve seen one.&nbsp;</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 12:22 pm

  <p>Thanks, Brad. I totally missed this week’s Ignite news/events.</p>

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  02 October, 2016 - 8:22 pm

  <p>Thanks for listening!</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 12:38 pm

  <p>Just read on Windows Central that MS have confirmed Ignite is in Florida next year and are already taking bookings.</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 2:19 pm

  <p>Encryption in Office documents: dunno about the others, but it only exists in Excel workbooks which have File-Open passwords. If encryption requires passwords, that raises the question how to transmit passwords securely. MSFT has an app for that?<br /><br />More fundamentally re Office, can only Office 365 detect threats in Office documents? Well, maybe so in password-protected encrypted ones which would have to be opened to be scanned, but if the document is already open, wouldn’t that mean one level of potential threat had already been realized? For unencrypted files and e-mails, is there any reason servers couldn’t scan for threats rather than needing to push e-mail and files along to client machines before threats could be detected?<br /><br />Also, does this mean Office 365 just can’t run on application servers and have I/O fed to client machines’ browsers via Citrix Receiver or equivalent? Office 365 (or equivalent) could only run under nonserver Windows SKUs?<br /><br />I’m not convinced that by, say, 2020, there really would still be the need to run more than a browser on immobile client machines in the office. Laptops may still need to work disconnected, so still need locally installed software, but tower PCs could be replaced by Chromeboxes or similar thin clients. The only reason Windows on client machines would be more secure would be because MSFT designed other configurations not to be as secure.</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 3:57 pm

  <p>Brad,</p>
  <p>Glad to get a better idea of where Microsoft is taking us.</p>

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  30 September, 2016 - 4:37 pm

  <p>Microsoft have at least done a Windows 10 Mobile session at ignite. It’s alwaysa struggle for them these days as no one at Microsoft uses a Windowsphone.</p>
  <p>From what you are saying, and the post on Thurrott today, Continuum has been improved and the they will continue to support their own mobile platform by using a command line option to build it when Windows 10 is updated. Not so much a strategy rather the cheapest option they could fine to at least say they have a mobile platform.</p>
  <p>Their technique for reducing losses of the mobile division by reducing sales to zero seems to be on target at this point. They should do a meetup with Blackberry, Palm and WebOS in the "iphone killer lounge" in Las Vegas.&nbsp;</p>
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