Podcast 1518: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10?

 

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Show Notes

Hour 1: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10? Ready or not here it comes!

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Microsoft aims to have Windows 10 on 1 billion devices.  Will yours be one of them?

Shane Hamelin, CompuQuest Tech ExpertShane Hamelin works at CompTech Services in Sterling Heights, MI and day by day he deals with the complaints and fears about changing from aging, broken down, corrupted Windows XP machines to new computers often because of the horrible reputation that Windows 8 has justifiably earned.

In today’s show,  Shane and his fellow tech experts Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson  tackle some of the big issues that may determine Microsoft’s future:

Getting over the fear of windows 8

Learning to love Windows 10…it will be everywhere!

The Cloud? What is it, why is it important.


Microsoft Doubleheader

In the last 30 days Microsoft has held two conferences that are potentially the key to their future.

 

BUILD

The Build Conference, San Francisco, CA

Like WWDC for Apple and the Google I/O Conferences, this was Microsoft’s pitch to developers to get them designing applications that would take full advantage of the new Windows 10 substructure across all devices from PC’s to IoT (Internet of Things).  If the developers bite, this could be the key to Microsoft’s future.

Four Things We Learned About Windows From BUILD



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The Ignite Conference, Chicago, IL

Microsoft has long owned the enterprise market with both its operating systems and its Office productivity suite and along with a host of IT applications that have kept businesses humming worldwide.  Ignite was their opportunity to sell enterprise on a new Microsoft based heavily on their Cloud based giant: Azure.

Everything Microsoft announced at Ignite 2015


Hour 2    Live Listener Question and Answer

2014 full Crew

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Brand new website for our co-branded  MiTechNews Newsletter

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