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i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for friday, december 20th. dive into the latest tech developments: microsoft embraces ai: integrating chatgpt into the office suite by end of next year, transforming productivity tools like word, excel, and outlook. meta's strategic pivot: cutting back on metaverse investments, shifting focus towards ai-driven services due to cost concerns and lower user engagement. rivian's production woes: experiencing setbacks linked to supply chain disruptions, resulting in a 15% drop in shares amid broader industry challenges. netflix explores live sports: negotiating rights for major league sports, potentially revolutionizing the streaming landscape by entering the live sports arena. that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow!

20241123 Basics With BITS Originally Broadcasted November 23, 2024, on ACB Media 5   Participants joined BITS, as we get down to basics, and provide a gentle helping hand to assist you in becoming more confident when using your technology. This time, Jeff Bishop introduced Microsoft's One Note, a component of the MS Office Suite. Learn what this powerful note-taking utility can do, and how you can take advantage of what it has to offer.   Sponsored by: Blind Information Technology Specialists Find out more at https://acb-community.pinecast.co

File Storage, Video Conferencing, Calendar, E-Mail, Office Suite, and... AI. Seriously. Nextcloud has an A.I. Chatbot built into it now. Wild. Oh, and Nextcloud now supports Federating. And you can run it on a Raspberry Pi. Which. Also wild. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lunduke.substack.com/subscribe

Ransomware Record Highs, North Korean Exploits, Toyota Data Breach, and Mac Security Flaws - Aug 21, 2024 In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love discusses the latest cybersecurity threats and incidents making headlines. Topics include record-high ransomware payments in 2024, a sophisticated malware exploit by North Korean hackers, a significant data breach at Toyota, and newly uncovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Office Suite for Mac users. Stay informed on these critical issues and more. 00:00 Record-Breaking Ransomware Payments in 2024 02:38 North Korea's Advanced Malware Exploits Windows Zero Day 04:53 Toyota's Massive Data Breach Exposed 06:37 Mac Users Beware: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Suite 09:03 Show Wrap-Up and Listener Appreciation

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Randy Kroszner, University of Chicago Booth School Professor of Economics, and Jeff Rosenberg, BlackRock Portfolio Manager of the Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund, discuss the softer-than-expected October US jobs report. Gene Munster, Deepwater Asset Management Managing Partner and Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Technology Senior Analyst, recap Apple's sluggish 3Q earnings report. Terry Haines, Pangaea Policy Founder, discusses the rift in Washington over government spending and aid to Israel.Get the Bloomberg Surveillance newsletter, delivered every weekday. 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 This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane, along with Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. Join us each day for insight from the best and economics, geopolitics, finance and investment. Subscribe to Bloomberg Surveillance on demand on Apple, Spotify and anywhere you get your podcasts, and always on Bloomberg dot Com, the Bloomberg Terminal, and the Bloomberg Business App. What you need on Jobs Day more Newtonian calculus. We'll do that with Randall Krosner of the Bus School, Chicago, of course, the former Fed governor, one of our great and giant financial economists in America. What's the second derivative of the jobs market look like? Randy? When it moves? Does it move? Ah? And that's the key question exactly what you were talking about. What does this pretend for the trajectory going forward? Certainly we're seeing a slowing pace over the last few months downward revisions. And then the question is will this be nice and smooth or will this pretend something that is going to be As at LISTA mentioned before, nonlinear, very difficult to predict any nonlinear moves and things. But I do think it's consistent with a somewhat softening labor market. I think the FED will certainly be heartened by the wage growth coming down a bit over time. I think this takes the wind of the sales of those who wanted to go further. I think it makes it much more likely that we will just hold where we are for a while. But so far, there's nothing in this to suggest that the FED is going to be eager to cut or be even talking about cutting anytime soon. Do you think, Randy is some people are pointing to manufacturing as a point of weakness, that that is a leading indicator in the way it has been in previous times, just because of how many people were hired during the peak of the pandemic. It is certainly one area that there was a lot of bounce back, because of course people want to things, but now people want services, and so the services part is still extremely important. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on any one particular sector. I think you have to look over overall, and as Mike had said, you know, we're seeing a little bit of slow down broadly, but not enormous amount of slow down. But I do think that is consistent with in somestance where the FED wants to go. They want to see the uneployment rate go up a little bit, not too much. They want to see wage growth come down a little bit, but not too much. And I think it's just going to be tougher to be hiring people going forward. Until just a few months ago, real wages were not growing, they were actually negative. Real wage growth was negative. Now real wage growth is positive, so it gives less of an incentive for firms to hire. Real interest rates are now positive. They had been negative for a very long time. That combination is probably going to lead firms to be less eager to hire, less eager to invest, and I think that's going to be leading to what I think is potentially a hard ish but not hard landing. This is an important jobs report. This November report of the October data just absolutely extraordinary. Randy Krasner, thank you so much, Professor Krasner with the Boost School the University of Chicago. If you're not part of the global Wall Street gang, you've got to understand it's hard to look at the Bloomberg screen and frame it out from where we were two weeks ago, which gets us to canes and when the facts change, I change. Jeffrey Rosenberg studied as Maynard Keynes at Carnegie Mellon. He's a black Rock portfolio manager systematic multi strategy fund for all of us. Jeff Rosenberg, are the facts changing? Great question, Tom. You know, the narrative is changing and the facts are driving that. And so Lisa asked the kind of the key question, You know, how do you rally in front of a slowing labor picture? And that's because it's where we are. Equity markets were weaker while the economy was strengthening, and that was really about the rise in the denominator, in the discount rate and the interest rates. So as you ease off the pressure in terms of the interest rates, there's a little window here where the narrative changes and there's relief because the discount raid is expected to be a bit lower, and you see it in the bond market. But that's about horizon and so the near term horizon narrative will shift, but the longer term horizon about that hardish landing that Randy just mentioned. That'll be for future conversations. Right now, the market's pretty excited about lower discount way, Jeff Rosenberg, people would say, Blackrock is part of that wall of money that's out there. Okay, we got a short cover here, a short cover there, I got futures up eighteen. Rosenberg knows the numbers better than me. Are we underestimating Jeff Rosenberg? How many people here are off sides and need to get in and play? Now? Yeah, you know we talked about this after the FMC. You know, the near term volatility is all about technicals and positioning, and so you're going to have that and you're going to see you're going to see those moves. The longer term positioning is going to be about trajectory and fundamentals. But certainly, you know, after a report that you know pretty much convincingly across the board, as you highlighted earlier, you know, this is a report that helps to support the narrative of slowing in the labor markets, slowing in wage inflation, even though that's a mixed shift probably in the AH number, but across the board, especially with the revisions, you know, it just looks like this is coming in slower, and so that helps to feed the near term narrative that you get to the soft landing. You know, as Randy said, whether it's soft landing or hardish landing or hard landing will remain to be seen. When do you go with groupthink and when do you push back? Right? I mean, when do you go with the crowd if sentiment is shifting and you're seeing people go into risk, if you believe that essentially bad news will be bad news for risk acts. Yeah, you know, it's a lot about kind of what's in the looking at what's in the price, and how much cushion you have against the consensus move and where the asymmetries lie. So I think right now the momentum and the sentiment around soft landing is going to be pretty hard to push back against. But you know, as we see successive waves of data, we got a couple more here in terms of before we get to the December FOMC, there's going to be a little bit of momentum here around the easing off of financial conditions, the easing off of tightening from the FED, and I think that's going to provide a little bit of a tailwind for a short horizon trap. And definitely the momentum tends to overshoot, and there is this feeling that this does set the market up for more fragility heading into a print that could be a big surprise on the downside. Jeff, how much is that sort of the play right now is to lean into the momentum, go at the flow, soft landing. Sure you can celebrate, but the music will stop eventually, and each one of these economics prints are going to have that much more heft and importance in markets. Yeah, and you know, the main issue here is really about long and variable lags. And Tom, I know you hate when every time I say that, but it is where do you see that pressure coming in? Randy talked about the pressure in terms of easing off of hiring because real wages are no longer negative, it's more expensive. You talked about funding costs, and maybe there's a little bit of an opening up in terms of the bond market, but I think you got to remember here, these are much more expensive funding costs. And so if you don't have to issue that debt because you've termed it out, you don't want to issue that debt. And so even though the market may be open, it's at a much higher cost. And that lagged effect of tightening in terms of interest expenses something you know, the market is still going to have to figure out where are the vulnerabilities, and there are vulnerabilities to that impact on Bloomberg Television and radio. Jeffrey Rosenberg with us is Blackrack really timely, and of course we thank him forst fed work as well well. He's going to stay with us at right now, I can't do it to complete data check because Jeff Rosenberg is too important. But Lisa, there's some real nuances here. Futures up nineteen continue to advance down, futures up one thirty nine. Can I get to a VIXA fourteen, I'm not there yet fifteen point two six. As Bramba mentioned, folks a two year yield in thirteen basis points, we continue to see lower yields and a higher prices ten year in his stunning eleven basis points. And just you know, outside the box here, I got weaker dollar, I got euros through one oh seven. I've got yen dynamics, but euro yen. What does the Japanese institutions do this weekend? Off what Jeff Rosenberg says? Because I got euro yin one sixty point zero one. If they're not going to act now, Lisa, when are they going to act. That does raise a good question and Jeff to that point, does the move that we're seeing in the US a sigh of relief open up possible monetary disruption elsewhere hint hind Bank of Japan that could be disruptive on the other side. Yeah, I mean that's a big global story and one we've been talking about for a while waiting for. We got a little bit of it in terms of changing the definition of yield curve control, and there's an expectation that there's going to be more. And there's an incredible amount of fiscal stimulus coming out of Japan that is really going to push the BOJ even further. And so that's been a global impact. It's dampening term premium It's part of the term premium steepening story. You know, the refunding you know, certainly is pushed back on that and positioning you know, a bit off sides for that surprise somewhat surprise refunding. But really the big story there is going to be global term premium steepening and that's I think long term going to come back to the US. But near term this is going to be about softish landing and slowing of the Fed, and the market is going to run with that. We're looking right now at two year yields just tanking. I mean, honestly, this is quite a move fifteen bas points nearly from top to bottom in this trading session as people parse through this, Jeff just want to finish up with the Fed's reaction function, this concept of what it takes for the Federal Reserve to cut rates. Right now, there is base into the markets in real time, a sense that they will be cutting rates in much sooner than they're saying. Do you think that's accurate that the bar to cut rates has somehow come in as a result of just the general feeling and the public and the lack of willingness to tolerate much higher on employment rates. Well, it's tricky, Lisa. I mean, I think the reaction you're getting right now pricing out the kind of probabilities, the limited probabilities of the last hike. Right. So, you know, you go back to Wednesday, and you know you remember the question, and you know you talked about we're not even you know, talking about cutting rate now. Obviously the market is because the market is looking forward here. I think you got to see a lot more development on the inflation side before you get there. And then the other the problem we're going to talk about, I think is the reflexivity. I think you mentioned it is that you know, well, we the FED could do less because the market's doing more. But the more the market does more in terms of using financial conditions, the more then the Fed has to do. So you kind of get yourself chasing your own tail around that story in terms of whether they can cut. So it will come back to does the inflation really fall fast enough to that two percent level that gets real interest rates high enough that gets them concerned that they're too tight where they really need to deliver those cuts, and that I think is still way out into the future. And Lisa, where do you get to show where jeff Rosenberg channels George Soros on reflexivity. I mean, there's nowhere else in the world you can have this much fun. Jeffrey Rosenberg, thank you so much for joining us. That's the way it works, folks. The street only focuses on revenue dynamics, and if they're brave, they go down the income statement and they'll find that and then it's what I call concept concept concept China, worry, worry, worry, yep iPhone worry where iPads omg and thank god. Gen Monster, with all of his work on Apple and technology, says, you know, maybe they're rock solid. Maybe they're running this thing for profit. Gene. I saw a record third quarter gross margin. I saw the persistency of services maintained, and critically, I saw cash generation in the gloom of Apple this morning. The second guessing, is there free cash flow growth going to EBB. No, Tom, I think it's just going to flow and flow higher. And ultimately they showed, as you said, some of the most impressive margins, most impressive gross margins that they've ever printed a mikeed environment where component costs are rising, of labor costs, shipping costs, all of that, and they've been maintaining price that shows operation efficiency. That's what drives free cash flow. And you said it right. One big X factor around free cash flow that we've observed with big tech over the last nine months is they all say we're going to be investing more into AI. Tim Cook talks about that but says he wants to do it responsibly, which means he wants to protect margins and do that that is a unique perspective. John from his house, looking down on the Helix and New Jersey emails in and says, is it a time to buy Apple? If there's all this worry about legitimate things like China, is gene monster saying load the boat. So this is not investment advice, but I do think that this is a time to own Apple. And ultimately is you have to play this picture forward for one, two and five years. And what we've seen in the near term is that the importance of their devices in our lives are central and that shows up and effectively. The guidance I think it's misunderstood is for seven percent growth, up from one percent last quarter. So that's the baseline. The second is just the opportunity that they have to continue to sell that engage base more products. And third is that they have opportunities to go into new markets, whether it be spatial computing or what potentially could come out of automotive. And so I think when you put all this together, this is a unique dynamic and I think that this will power shares higher in the years to come. Paul, you know this. I mean you've lived this where you're like, is it a twelve week quarter, thirteen week quarter of fourteen week quarter. I mean it's like death exactly. Hey, Gene, you know, going into the quarter, the pundits were saying, you know, the primary focus is going to be China. So let's approach that from the perspective of competition. Talk to us about the Huawei phone. How much of a competitor is that. How much is a concern about nationalism weighing on potentially future demand for Apple products. So the first is the Huawei phone that's picked up a lot of traction during the quarter, a lot of speculation this was going to weigh on the China numbers, and China was down two percent year over year, at a similar rate that it was down back in March when before the new Wuahwei phones came out. It was down seven percent December of twenty twenty two, and so it fluctuates as the bottom line, China's up and down, and I don't think that the Huawei phone is having an impact. Apple gained share in China in the September quarter, and Huawei may have gained share too, But Apple is gaining share, and so I think that it is not having an impact on their business. And if you look at their China business, and I look at this on excluding the FX on a constant currency basis, it was up four percent. I'm reluctant to do that because I want to give but it's worth noting that China's doing okay for Apple. Yeah, Paul, Code of the day, Aniograna genius. Apple has eighteen percent one eight eighteen percent of the unit installed base. And yet you just heard g monsters say they're gaining share in the training share. All right, let's go to the other side of the income statement. There a gene on the cost side here. I guess you know, when I look at the operations of Apple, I just don't see any scenarre where the d couple from China. Now, they can, I guess, reduce to some extent their dependency on sourcing and manufacturing in China, but they really can't decouple. So did how do investors, long term investors like you get comfortable with that side of the equation. I don't think you do. And I think that I mentioned everything is good in China. I was talking about on the consumer side. I think on the production manufacturing side, it's a different story. And the story is that Apple needs to get out of China or at least reduce its exposure. Right now, we estimate that about forty to forty five percent of their revenue is manufactured in China. Now it's down from sixty percent a few years ago, so they've been reducing their exposure there. But the bottom line is that I don't think investors until that number gets down to twenty percent, I don't think investors are going to rest easy because this is as a geopolitical element to it and is a wild card when it comes to some of the confidence that investor have in the company's ability to produce products to meet this sensational demand and gene does a company have a strategy or are they articulating any confidence that they can in fact get down to that twenty or twenty five percent exposure they do, it's predominantly India. India's right now about two percent of their production, and they've talked about ramping production there and so it'll go tell a lot of other areas, even like you probably will see something in Mexico in the next five years too. Jane, quickly here services up sixteen percent. It's a persistent vector. Do you have a terminal rate on services or does it just grow out, you know, until Frozen eight comes out for Disney. I mean, you know, does it just go out forever. It's gonna keep going out forever because they have pricing leverage. It's not just in what they've raised the pricing with Apple TV Plus, but they raise pricing with the storage. You get those notifications. They raise it at buck a month. You don't think much about it, but that's a fifteen percent increase. And so I think that this business is generally a ten percent growing business for the foreseeable future, which can put three to five years ten seconds. Gene Monster, what's your terminal some of the parts on Apple right now? Some of the parts some of the parts is two forty And I think that's based on as we think about just ultimately what they can earn in twenty twenty five, Gene Munster. Not investment advice, but that's where we're at. It's not investment advice. But Tucker's got his by order out right now. G Muster, thank you so much. Luke Vencha. Well, let's say the show now. You can always do that with anarog Rana. He is truly expert on the cloud and has a partial interest in an Apple computer as well, Anna Regan, why you to explain to the audience how a tech company runs their company for profit versus running it just at the top line. To me, Apple is a profit cast generating juggernaut. Why is that so odd, so strange? Yeah, I think that goes back to the foundation of the company. It really believes in having high margin products. It does not believe in gaining market share. You know, even after all these years, it has only eighteen percent of the unit market share of smartphones around the world. It can completely change that overnight if they drop the price of the phone, but they will never do that because they believe in gross margins more than anything else. Over time, they will gain enough market share in every market. But this is not something that they do is try to gain market share just for the same It's the journey on a rag. As you know. Before we start talking about lower prices, can we talk about the absence of higher prices? Have they lost pricing power? No? No, I don't think so. The problem over here is people are keeping their phones for a longer period of time. If you are keeping it, let's say for an average three point six years before, you're probably keeping closer to four years. So what that does is it just elongates the time it takes for you to refresh your phones or for that bat at any other product. So I don't think it has nothing to do with the pricing power. The Promax is unbelievably expensive compared to the older models, and it's doing very well. Clearly the revenue mixed growth shift is moving towards services and IRAQ. How does that change your approach to value in this company? Yeah, I mean it has been a true surprise to see that number grow still in double digits. I expected that to be back into the high single digits by now. It has a high gross margin. It has a seventy percent plus gross margin compared to products, which is in the thirties. So over time, when you see the revenue mix shift towards services, you can expect the overall company gross margins to trend up inch, you know, inch by inch growing up, and we have seen that already in the last few years. Anor do you think that analysts are overplaying or underplaying the declines that we saw in China? I think you have to sit down and think what kind of company this is and I think this is really evident, and you know, I've discussed this with Tom and Paul many times, that this is not a company that's going to grow sales in double digits. This is at best, at this point, you know, mid to high single digit company. And I think people are getting used to that fact. Yesterday when they guide it for December quarter, which the estimate was it's going to grow about five percent, they said about flatish sales, and that's when the stock drop. I think people need to come to that point that you know, refresch cycles are going up and it's going to be a time before things are going to grow at that same pace, which then leads to a question of how much growth, how much future growth is baked into the valuation of the company that's seen a thirty seven percent rally. You're todate, Yeah, I think valuation is something that we talk about a lot with investors, and you know, sometimes you have to really ask yourself is this a technology company or this is a consumer stables company, Because if you take the heart of a consumer stables company, you know, something like a Coca Cola or a Costco, then you see things with a very different lens because those companies also are not growing, you know, eight to ten percent top line. Ana, I want to look at something beneath the radar. This week, it's a Friday, and in the world of Microsoft is a different Friday. It's a copilot Friday. What is the importance of this announcement that Microsoft's making where we actually do AI with a modeled marketed program for global corporations. What does co pilot mean to Microsoft? So, copilots is basically an AI tool that goes with your original software package. In the case of Microsoft, it's launched that with their Office Suite, which started setting yesterday. It's about thirty dollars per user per month, and they're hoping that, you know, the serious worker in the office that's probably somewhere in one hundred and fifteen million to two hundred million people around the world that currently use the Office Suite will opt some portion of that will opt for this particular feature to help gain productivity. Copilot can also be used in writing software. So it is just a tool that everybody has. They are the first ones to come out with it at such aggressive face. What's your prediction on this? I mean, come on, you've nailed the cloud. You got a cloud view out three years or five years, which is just absolutely remarkable. What is your prediction on how copilot will will do? I think, and I argue it's going to be very slow and steady because the thirty dollars per user, you know, per month is a very steep price. We think, you know, adoption rate is not going to be more than three to five percent in the first year of coming out, so you know, perhaps at two to three billion dollar upside on that. On the on the software coding side of it, which is getthub co Pilot, we think the adoption rate is going to be very high, you know, close to seventy five percent, because I don't see any developer out there that can afford to right code without this tool right next to them. And Rex, thank you, sir. In Washington, Terry Haynes joins US now founder of pengea policy Terry with great cheer for the exhaustion of our secretary straight. Does Shuttle diplomacy for Blincoln work like Shuttle diplomacy worked for Kissinger? I think it's very different for a couple of reasons, one of one of which is kind of bubbling under here. You know, Blincoln's mission this time, as opposed to the last few times, is designed to try to get to try to convince the Israeli government of some kind of pause or humanitarian something like that. And it calls into question a couple of things. It calls into question the degree to which the United States continues to support the current Israeli government. The Biden aids are running around Washington briefing against net Nyau right now. And Secondly, it calls into question whether or not and to what extent the US still supports the Israel's war aims in Gaza, and that's a concern. All this also complicates the Israel the Israeli aid package, because Congress is not going to pass the Israel package if they don't clearly understand what administration policy is. So we've got a lot of a lot of problems here that complicate Lincoln's mission. Terry, unfair question, but I got to go there. It isn't the zeitgeist end of the weekend as well. Then you were there with Lord Kitchener and Mark Sykes when they divided up the Middle East after World War One. I understand that all of a sudden we're talking about a partition of God, we saw a partition of Vietnam, a partition of Korea. Is that the easy way out here is whatever this word means, A partition of the Gaza strip. Yeah, there's a partition, and you know, it's kind of international administration or all the phrases that go together. These are phrases that go back, as you quite quite rightly point out to post World War One League of Nations mandate style governance, and and they tend to bury the harder realities, which are then the nature of the terrorist organizations, the nature of their funding, and you know what sorts of proxies they are, and they tend to bury, you know, kind of kind of regional responsibility for the problem. And all those are going to have to be dealt with, and you know, we haven't even started to deal with any of those yet. Terry, what do you make about the strife within the Republican Party stemming from Senator Tuberville of Alabama, this idea that he will stall with the affirmation the confirmation of some of the military promotions at a time of expanding conflict overseas well. You know, I'd give you two points about that. One is that it is obviously providing some strife within the military. And at the same time, the Senator says directly, and to my knowledge, has never been countermanded, that he wants to have a dialogue with the Department of Defense about all this stuff and come to some sort of resolution, and that he's not got it. What I think is going to end up happening is this gets resolved somehow in the defense spending legislation that comes up by about the end of the year. One way or another, this is going to get dealt with in the next two months. There was a resolution that passed the House offering support to Israel, but also tying it to cuts to the IRS, which some have suggested would actually cause a bigger deficit because it would reduce tax revenues that the US government gets. Does this progress the issue or actually push it back in terms of the debate, Well, two things. One is that the you know, only in Washington, would the I R S get beyond being rough here, would get eighty billion more dollars and then have it cut by fourteen and have that considered by anybody to be a cut in IRS spending. You know, But there you are Secondly, I think the funding is the help is really is funded is almost beside the point. The bigger problem that we have right now really is this. You know, you ran Admiral Kirby and your lead in Admiral Kirby says that the administration has four priorities and they all need to get dealt with together. Well, these are Biden's priorities. These are Biden's foreign policy. Biden's going to have to get all this stuff done and in a way that funded properly, and right now, whatever else Secretary Blincoln's doing. The apparent change in Biden policy towards Israel is making that more difficult because now Congress doesn't understand exactly what Biden's foreign policy is. Hey, Terry, great to get your input as always, Terry Hanks there of Panchaea policy. Subscribe to the Bloomberg Surveillance podcast on Apple, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Listen live every weekday starting at seven am Eastern. I'm Bloomberg dot Com, the iHeartRadio app, tune In, and the Bloomberg Business app. You can watch us live on Bloomberg Television and always I'm the Bloomberg terminal. Thanks for listening. I'm Tom Keen, and this is BloombergSee 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Vorige week was daar dan toch ineens GPT 4, een nieuwe versie van het GPT-model met meer mogelijkheden dan zijn voorganger. Naast het genereren en analyseren van tekst kan GPT nu ook beeldmateriaal analyseren. Ook was er recent de introductie van Microsoft 365 CoPilot, Einstein GPT en diverse AI-tools binnen Google Workspace. In deze podcast duiden we de meest recente GPT innovaties.De ontwikkelingen met AI en dan vooral rondom GPT gaan in een sneltreinvaart. We kunnen wel stellen dat GPT een echte hype is. Het begon met de chatbot van OpenAI, ChatGPT, maar inmiddels heeft GPT zijn weg gevonden naar menig toepassing. Zo zal Microsoft  365 CoPilot worden toegevoegd aan de Office Suite. Om sneller teksten te schrijven of e-mails te beantwoorden. Gaat Salesforce Einstein GPT toepassen in vrijwel al zijn oplossingen en komt Google met Smart tools voor zijn Workspace-oplossingen, grotendeels gelijk aan CoPilot.Voor ontwikkelaars zijn er ook ontwikkelingen, GPT 4 kan namelijk nog beter omgaan met programmeertalen en door het analyseren van afbeeldingen kan het zelfs een schets op een bierviltje omzetten in een werkende website. Ook kan je grote stukken code met generieke functionaliteit eenvoudig laten programmeren middels GPT 4. De vraag is natuurlijk waar de grenzen of de limieten liggen. Tijd voor wat duiding. 

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https://youtu.be/p3L7bLYz-mkhttps://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Libreoffice:5Microsoft's 365 Office Suite was recently banned in Germany over privacy concerns. Should you be using a more private office suite instead?Microsoft Office is one of the most used suites of programs worldwide. They have become so common that their programs have worked their way into our daily vocabulary, and they set the standards for document formats. It turns out that they collect a lot of data from their users, both when used online via their collaborative tooling, and "offline" with their downloaded software. Microsoft is also very closed lipped about the details of their data collection. We dive into a report that recently came out of Germany looking at the privacy of Microsoft. We also look at a privacy-focused office suite alternative, LibreOffice, and how it compares.00:00 Intro00:42 What is Microsoft's Office Suite?01:37 Online vs Offline Products03:08 Connected Experiences04:27 Microsoft's Data Collection Practices07:20 Telemetry and Diagnostic Events Explained08:52 Types of Diagnostic Data Microsoft Collects10:05 Aria11:22 LibreOffice13:48 Other recommendationsRemember, your privacy is largely in your hands, and you can choose not to use products and services that collect all your data. If you have alternative products that you like and think we should check out, let us know!If you're looking for online, collaborative alternatives to Google Docs and Microsoft 365, watch:https://youtu.be/-4MpHf4XOMwBrought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Sam Ettaro, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell.To support NBTV, visit https://www.nbtv.media/support(tax-deductible in the US)Sign up for the free CryptoBeat newsletter here:https://cryptobeat.substack.com/Beware of scammers, I will never give you a phone number or reach out to you with investment advice. I do not give investment advice.Visit the NBTV website:https://nbtv.mediaSupport the show

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Chelsea Miya is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the SpokenWeb research team at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching interests include critical code studies, nineteenth-century American literature, and the digital humanities. She has held research positions with the Kule Research Institute (Kias), the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), and the Orlando Project. She co-edited the anthology Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers 2021), and her article “Student-Driven Digital Learning: A Call to Action” appears in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center (MIT Press 2021).Guests:Tunde Adegbola is a Research Scientist, Consulting Engineer and Culture Activist. As Executive Director of African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-i), Ibadan, Nigeria, he leads a team of researchers in appropriating human language technologies for African languages. In this regard, Alt-i partnered with Microsoft to localise Microsoft Windows and Office Suite for Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. A Chevening Scholar, Honorary Fellow of the Linguistics Association of Nigerian (LAN), former Council Member of the West African Linguistics Society (WALS), former board member of West Africa Democracy Radio (Dakar, Senegal) and recipient of various academic and professional awards, he has published many papers and journal articles in local and international scientific journals in the area of Human Language Technology (HLT).Oana Avasilichioaei's practice interweaves various areas, including poetry, translation, photographic and moving image, sound, and performance. Oana often explores various means of translating between these areas, bringing aspects of one area into another as a way of putting pressure on the very meaning, conventions, structures, and genres of these fields. Some ideas she engages with include language as trace and resistance, polyglot and polyphonic poetics, phonotopes (intermediary spaces between words, sound and image), and transformation. Oana regularly performs her work and gives talks/presentations on poetics and translation in Canada, USA, Mexico and Europe.Matt Russo is an astrophysicist, musician, and sonification specialist who teaches physics at the University of Toronto. After completing degrees in jazz guitar and astrophysics he began to merge his two passions by founding the sci-art outreach project SYSTEM Sounds. His work has been featured in the New York Times and he frequently collaborates with NASA to make astronomy more accessible to the visually impaired. He is also a scientific consultant, having worked on Netflix's Umbrella Academy. Matt's TED Talk "What does the universe sound like? A Musical Tour" has been viewed almost 2 million times.Peter Olálékan Adédòkun is a master of the Yoruba Batá “talking” drum as well as a drum maker and trainer, performer, and gospel artist. You can follow his work on Instagram: @lekan_drums_intl, @adedokun_peter_olalekan, @drumsvoice_of_Jesus, @iluyoruba_yorubadrums; and Twitter: @Drumsvoicej, @lekanadedokun1

In this episode of Best Health, we discuss all things gut health.    What does a healthy gut do for us?  And do prebiotics, or probiotics really help?    Dr Suraia Barclay, Bermuda's leading gastroenterologist is in the studio to put the record straight when it comes to separating gut fact from fiction, and why it is so important to check your sources when it comes to medical advice.    For further information, you can contact Dr. Barclay at:  Office Suite 310, The International Center, Par-La-Ville Rd or by calling (441) 295-6994.    This episode of Best Health has been sponsored by Lindos.  Why go anyplace else?   Enjoy this episode? Check out our other episodes of Best Health and catch a new episode out on the last Friday of each month.   Get social with us on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: @RGMags @TheRoyalGazette #RGBestHealth     Sponsor – Lindos  SM: @LindosBermuda   Web: https://lindos.bm

On today's episode, we sit down with Tristan Davis, Product Manager at Microsoft for the Office Platform. That's right, the person in charge of the team in charge of extensibility and advancement of the Office Suite of programs shares some insight and exciting news about the current path and the future of the most commonly used platform.  You will hear about security, advancements, and maybe even a secret reveal or two from the upcoming BUILD announcements.  Exciting news is coming for increasing both productivity and security in the new virtual workplace of Office 365. (Here is a hint: Have you seen the new Automate Tab in the Excel web app?) Most importantly, we learn about the future of VBA as Microsoft looks to revamp the process for added security, leaving the good but reducing the opportunity for evil, viral usage. Additionally, during the course of the conversation, Rob and Tristan revisit the Bedlam email as well as the current method of preventing future occurrences.  This episode is full of trivia and innovation. You won't want to miss it! Also on this episode: James Olenik Dataverse episode Wazzu Virus Brian Jones Episode The Bedlam Email Storm: Microsoft Reply All Storm Fix BUILD Mark of the Web: Macros disabled

### Reasons to switch to Linux - Linux developers patch security holes faster than Google, Apple, and Microsoft. - Linux security holes are patched in an average of 25 days. - Apple 69 days - Microsoft 83 days - Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-project-zero-finds-linux-developers-patch-security-holes-faster-than-anyone-else/ - You can still use a lot of the tools that you use in Windows - or there is a comparable alternative. - Microsoft Edge even runs in Linux. It's actually one of my favorite browser for using in the corporate world. You can sync your bookmarks/passwords, etc to your corporate account. You also sync them to a free Microsoft Outlook or Hotmail account, for example. - It's free - and doesn't have ridiculous licensing enforcement/greed that MS/Apple have. - You can run the "latest" version of Linux on just about any computer - Microsoft is about to enforce some terrible restrictions on even their "Pro" version of Windows 11 - and that's that they will not allow account creation without have a Microsoft account. This is pretty tyrannical. You realize that you own your computer, right? This is bullshit and nobody should put up with this. This means that in order to use your computer, Microsoft has to know about it first or else you can't use Windows 11. - Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/new-preview-build-adds-microsoft-account-requirement-to-windows-11-pro/ - You have a package manager. - Go ahead on your Windows computer. Think of a piece of software you'd like to install. Go to the website, find the download area, save it to your computer. Run the installer, complete the install, delete the installer file - By the time you thought of the piece of software you wanted to install, a Linux user was already able to install it, no cleanup needed. - Linux distributions, since I can remember over the last 15 years, have always had this, sort of, App Store. The difference with this "store" is that everything in this repository of software is free. - Your downloads folder won't be full of bloated installers that you forgot to delete like on your Windows machine. Sure MacOS reminds me to delete installers, often. Package installing is still easier in Linux distributions that have a repository, which is most of them. - Useful apps are already preinstalled. - In Windows and MacOS, you don't typically start out with a fully-functional Office Suite installed. In Linux distributions, you do. - Every Linux distribution and every spin or flavor of those distributions have their own software selections that their creators chose. - You can Run most Linux distributions off of a USB stick (Try before you buy). - This is how I started using Linux in 2005. It was on a CD Rom, though. But, since i couldn't write to that CD Rom, I couldn't save data to it. It was enough to play around with Linux to then decide if i wanted to install it to my hard drive. On the CD Rom, there is an Install launcher that made it so simple! Follow our Podcast - If you're a new listener to the Manly Hanley Podcast, we would love to hear from you. [Visit our website](https://randyhanley.com/) and leave a comment. Send me an email with any questions or comments. - Follow [Randrums](https://twitter.com/randrums) on twitter

Heute gibt's auf die Ohren. Im positiven Sinne. Im Gepäck dabei haben wir OneDrive und Microsoft Lists mit neu veröffentlichten Features, aber auch neue Reports für Power Apps und Power Automate sind im kommen. Nicht nur das, auch Microsoft Teams bekommt ein Update (wen wundert's) und auch die Office-Suite ist heute mit Outlook und Word vertreten. Das alles wie gewohnt in aller Kürze und mehr auf afrait.com

This is a suite of songs proposed by Lena Greenberg that explore the frustration of working in the world of climate focused nonprofits. The tendency…

Damals, als ich noch jung und Computer noch groß waren... damals waren Tabellenkalkulationen noch ein echtes Milliardengeschäft mit einigen Platzhirschen. Der etablierte Goldstandard war für einige Zeit eine Anwendung namens Lotus 1-2-3 und so etwas wie der Vorgänger der modernen Office-Suite.

Happy Holidays and it's that time of the year when Fraud kicks up. So we are here to let you know how to spot the scams. Retail SCAMS Customers EMV card does not work. Buying items using a card and asking for cash when they return items. Splitting up the charge on 2 or more cards. The Card Declines and they show you their bank account with money in it. Large transaction or buying a lot of gift cards. Non-Card Present - phone order Scams The order is larger than your usual order. The customer does not answer the phone when you call to verify. The customer is using a "virtual phone number". The address is a mailbox store or Office Suite. They ask you to give the merchandise to a freight forwarder. Verify - before you ship! E-commerce Scams Large orders The shipping address is to a mailbox store or office suite. You call to verify and the customer does not call back only uses email. You can call customers and get a signed authorization form and a copy of their credit card and driver's license. Some companies only ship to the exact billing address if they are dealing with luxury items. Shut off the ability for the buyer to change the delivery address of the package - some of the companies. allow the consumer to log in and change the delivery address - you can tell them to not allow this. The scammer will change the address to a mailbox store. End Result of Scams Are loss of merchandise and chargebacks! Keep an eye out - we get calls daily and we know you want to make sales but at the same time, you have to make sure you are not taking losses.

Better On Blockchain explores how companies or business models benefit from decentralization. In episode two, Reach CEO Chris Swenor and CTO Jay McCarthy discuss whether office suites like Office 365 and Google Workspace would be better served on blockchain. SlideShare: https://bit.ly/3ycODch Read the Transcript: https://bit.ly/2WkvYxQ Read Medium Article: https://bit.ly/3De8taC Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lADC5Ut-e_Y   ⛓ REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE...please and thank you. Learn how to build faster, safer DApps with Reach by subscribing to our channel and joining the conversation on social media! Website | Documentation | Discord ⛓ KEEP IN TOUCH #️⃣ Twitter 

Welcome to MICRO BREAK Season 2! On this episode of MICRO BREAK (Episode 52), we conclude our retro journey through the 1980s! We take a look at the top stories, entertainment, science, and technology of the year 1989! What happened in 1989? 1989 In Technology the 486 series of microprocessor is released by Intel opening the way for the next generation of much more powerful PC's and Microsoft releases it's Office Suite including Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Database and Presentation Software which today still dominates in office applications. Following Massive protests against the Berlin Wall bringing about the collapse of The Berlin Wall and the East German Government both are dismantled which leads after many years to the reunification of East and West Germany. PodPage: https://www.podpage.com/dashboard/micro-break/ Social Media: Twitter: @micro_break Facebook: @MICROBREAKPODCAST YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkIz31v8MDiADis4-9Y-GYQ Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/microbreakInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/microbreakpodcast Consider being a guest on a future episode of MICRO BREAK. Email microbreakpodcast@gmail.com and tell me your story! Resources: http://www.liketotally80s.com/2007/08/80s-capsules-1989/ https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1989.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/microbreak/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/microbreak/support

Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines History of FreeBSD - Part 3: Early Days of FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-part-3-early-days-of-freebsd/?utm_source=bsdnow) In this third part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we start tracing the early days of FreeBSD and the events that would eventually shape the project and the future of open source software. A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard (https://www.tumfatig.net/20201202/a-mesh-vpn-using-openbsd-and-wireguard/?utm_source=bsdnow) WireGuard is a new coming to OpenBSD 6.8 and it looks like a simple and efficient way to connect computers. I own a few VPS (hello Vultr, hello OpenBSD.amsterdam) that tend to be connected through filtered public services and/or SSH tunnels. And that’s neither efficient nor easy to manage. Here comes the wg(4) era where all those peers will communicate with a bit more privacy and ease of management. News Roundup Foundation Sponsors FreeBSD LLDB Improvements (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-blog-foundation-sponsors-freebsd-lldb-improvements/?utm_source=bsdnow) With FreeBSD Foundation grant, Moritz Systems improved LLDB support for FreeBSD The LLDB project builds on libraries provided by LLVM and Clang to provide a great modern debugger. It uses the Clang ASTs and the expression parser, LLVM JIT, LLVM disassembler, etc so that it provides an experience that “just works”. It is also blazing fast and more permissively licensed than GDB, the GNU Debugger. LLDB is the default debugger in Xcode on macOS and supports debugging C, Objective-C, and C++ on the desktop and iOS devices and the simulator. Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-12-14-cryptpad-openbsd.html) In this article I will explain how to deploy your own Cryptpad instance with OpenBSD. Cryptpad is a web office suite featuring easy real time collaboration on documents. Cryptpad is written in JavaScript and the daemon acts as a web server. Beastie Bits OPNsense 20.7.7 Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-7-released/?utm_source=bsdnow) Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Webinar - Jan 20th @ noon Eastern / 17:00 UTC. (https://klarasystems.com/learning/webinars/webinar-introducing-openzfs-2-0/?utm_source=bsdnow) BSD In Die Hard (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/kk3c6y/merry_xmas/) Managing jails with Ansible: a showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD (https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/bsdcan/dengg-managing_jails_with_ansible/) BSD Hardware (https://bsd-hardware.info) New WINE chapter in FreeBSD handbook (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/wine.html) *** Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. *** Feedback/Questions scott- zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/scott-%20zfs%20question) Bruce - copy paste on esxi (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/Bruce%20-%20copy%20paste%20on%20esxi) Julian - an apology for Allan (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/Julian%20-%20an%20apology%20for%20Allan) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

In this Weeks TechtalkRadio Show, Justin, Amanda, and Andy kick of the show with a talk getting outdoors and enjoying some time with his family in a rented camper and fishing with his son. Acronis True Image 2021 is now available! There have been a great number of enhancements to the program which in the past has allowed users to backup and image hard drives. These features are still available but now, Acronis has enabled all type of security and protection for these backups. Friend of the show and COO Gaidar Magdanurov chats with Andy Taylor of these new features for Consumers and Business. Justin decides to upgrade his system with the purchase of a new water-cooling system. An upgrade of this will require him to purchase a new case. Justin decides on a Fractal Design case. Justin talks about the rumors of the upcoming Pixel5 Smartphone and how he would want to upgrade. Amanda talks about her recently upgraded Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Justin has the upgrade woes after recently purchasing at RTX 2080 Graphics Card with the recently announced RTX 3090. Andy has some issues trying Office 365 after using Office 2007 since its release. Amanda and Justin both give praise and recommendations to the latest Office Suite and Edge Browser. Getting the latest on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and finding info on the aircraft in the Sim. Amanda tells us about resetting her SteelSeries Artis7 Wireless Headset. We also learn a little more about Minecraft EDU. Our Website of the Week is presented by Amanda, https://www.immersiveminds.com Connect with us on our Social Media sites. Facebook @techtalkers Twitter @TechtalkRadio Instagram techtalkradio Web: TechtalkRadio.Com

Ahead of WhatsApp for Web standalone, three new features arrive beta. Twitter is testing a new feature too and Microsoft may release a new installable Office Suite. Find out more in this episode.

[22:06] Many businesses are finding themselves in an emergency state and are desperately looking to ensure smooth continuity.  In this episode, Greg speaks with Chandrashekar LSP, Head Evangelist for the Zoho Corporation in Canada. Chandrashekar shares his observations on this new unprecedented business landscape and gives us an insight on what people and businesses can do and tools they can use to shift from typical office environments to the new reality without recreating the wheel Working from home for over 15 years, he also offers his personal take on this subject as he currently has three kids under five years of age at home 24/7 and with his teams in India, and clients, partners, analysts and media in North America and around the world. You’ll hear about Zoho’s Cloud-based business services for all departments in an organization including their new Remotely bundle consisting of 11 of their 45  applications in four categories, including: Internal/External Communications, Project Management, Remote Assistance and a collaborative Office Suite, which Zoho is offering at no charge for a limited time through their Small Business Emergency Assistance Subscription Program to help businesses get through the pandemic. (zoho.com/remotely) Chandrashekar LSP is based in Montreal and has been with Zoho Corporation, a 24-year old privately held company for almost two decades. He can be reached at: lsp@zohocorp.com

Today we're going to cover the software that would become Microsoft Office.  Microsoft Office was announced at COMDEX in 1988. The Suite contained Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These are still the core applications included in Microsoft Office. But the history of Office didn't start there.  Many of the innovations we use today began life at Xerox. And Word is no different. Microsoft Word began life as as Multi-Tool Word in 1981, when Charles Simonyi was hired away from Xerox PARC where he had worked on one of the earlier word processors, Bravo.  He brought in Richard Brodie, and by 1983, they would release it for DOS, simplifying the name to just Microsoft Word. They would port it to the Mac in 1985, shortly after the release of the iconic 1984 Macintosh. Being way more feature-rich than MacWrite, it was an instant success. 2.0 would come along in 1987, and they would be up to 5 by 1992. But Word for Windows came along in 1989, when Windows 3.0 dropped. So Word went from DOS to Mac to Windows.  Excel has a similar history. It began life as Multiplan in 1982 though. At the time, it was popular on CP/M and DOS but when Lotus 1-2-3 came along, it knocked everything out of the hearts and minds of users and Microsoft regrouped. Doug Klunder would be the Excel lead developer and Jabe Blumenthal would act as program manager. They would meet with Bill Gates and Simonyi and hammer out the look and feel and released Excel for the Mac in 1985. And Excel came to Windows in 1987. By Excel 5 in 1993, Microsoft would completely taken the spreadsheet market and suddenly Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) would play a huge role in automating tasks. Regrettably, then came macro viruses, but for more on those check out the episode on viruses. In fact, along the way, Microsoft would pick up a ton of talented developers including Bob Frankton a co-creator of the original spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Powerpoint was an acquisition. It began life as Presenter at Forethought, a startup, in 1983. And Robert Gaskins, a former research manager  from Bell Norther Research, would be brought in to get the product running on Windows 1. It would become PowerPoint when it was released for the Mac in 1987 and was wildly successful, selling out all of the copies from the first run.  But then Jeff Raikes from Microsoft started getting ready to build a new presentation tool. Bill Gates had initially thought it was a bad idea but eventually gave Raikes the go-ahead to buy Forethought and Microsoft PowerPoint was born.  And that catches up to that fateful day in 1988 when Bill Gates announced Office at COMDEX in Las Vegas, which at the time was a huge conference. Then came the Internet. Microsoft Mail was released for the Mac in 1988 and bundled with Windows from 1991 and on. Microsoft also released a tool called Inbox. But then came Exchange, expanding beyond mail and into contacts, calendars, and eventually much more. Mail was really basic and for Exchange, Microsoft released Outlook, which was added to Office 97 and an installer was bundled with Windows Exchange Server.  Office Professional in that era included a database utility called Access. We've always had databases. But desktop databases had been dominated by Borland's dBase and FoxPro up until 1992 when Microsoft Access began to chip away at their marketshare. Microsoft had been trying to get into that market since the mid-90s with R:Base and Omega, but when Access 2 dropped in 1994, people started to take notice and by the release of Office 95 Professional it could be purchased as part of a suite and integrated cleanly. I can still remember those mdb files and setting up data access objects and later ActiveX controls! So the core Office components came together in 1988 and by 1995 the Office Suite was the dominant productivity suite on the market. It got better in 97. Except The Office Assistant, designed by Kevan Atteberry and lovingly referred to as Clippy. By 2000 Office became the de facto standard. Everything else had to integrate with Office. That continued in the major 2003 and 2007 releases. And the products just iterated to become better and better software.  And they continue to do that. But another major shift was on the way. A response to Google Apps, which had been released in 2006. The cloud was becoming a thing. And so Office 365 went into beta in 2010 and was launched in 2011. It includes the original suite, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams for chatting with coworkers, Yammer for social networking, Skype for Business (although video can now be done in Teams), Outlook and Outlook online, and Publisher. As well as Publisher, InfoPath, and Access for Windows.  This Software + Services approach turned out to be a master-stroke. Microsoft was able to finally raise prices and earned well over a 10% boost to the Office segment in just a few years. The pricing for subscriptions over the term of what would have been a perpetual license was often 30% more. Yet, the Office 365 subscriptions kept getting more and more cool stuff. And by 2017 the subscriptions captured more revenue than the perpetual licenses. And a number of other services can be included with Office 365.  Another huge impact is the rapid disappearing act of on premises Exchange servers. Once upon a time small businesses would have an Exchange server and then as they grew, move that to a colocation facility, hire MCSE engineers (like me) to run them, and have an amplified cost increase in dealing with providing groupware. Moving that to Microsoft means that Microsoft can charge more, and the customer can get a net savings, even though the subscriptions cost more - because they don't have to pay people to run those servers. OneDrive moves files off old filers, etc.  And the Office apps provided aren't just for Windows and Mac. Pocket Office would come in 1996, for Windows CE. Microsoft would have Office apps for all of their mobile operating systems. And in 2009 we would get Office for Symbian. And then for iPhone in 2013 and iPad in 2014. Then for Android in 2015.  Today over 1 and a quarter billion people use Microsoft Office. In fact, not a lot of people have *not* used Office. Microsoft has undergone a resurgence in recent years and is more nimble and friendly than ever before. Many of the people that created these tools are still at Microsoft. Simonyi left Microsoft for a time. But they ended up buying his company later. During what we now refer to as the “lost decade” at Microsoft, I would always think of these humans. Microsoft would get dragged through the mud for this or that. But the engineers kept making software. And I'm really glad to see them back making world class APIs that do what we need them to do. And building good software on top of that.  But most importantly, they set the standard for what a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool would look like for a generation. And the ubiquity the software obtained allowed for massive leaps in adoption and innovation. Until it didn't. That's when Google Apps came along, giving Microsoft a kick in the keister to put up or shut up. And boy did Microsoft answer.  So thank you to all of them. I probably never would have written my first book without their contributions to computing. And thank you listener, for tuning in, to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so lucky to have you. Have a great day. 

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The Open Source Initiative kicks a co-founder from its mailing lists, OBS faces backlash for receiving support from Facebook Gaming, and Collabora launches its version of LibreOffice for mobile.

Today we're going to look at an operating system from the 80s and 90s called OS/2. OS/2 was a bright shining light for a bit. IBM had a task force that wanted to build a personal computer. They'd been watching the hobbyists for some time and felt they could take off the shelf parts and build a PC. So they did.. But they needed an operating system. They reached out to Microsoft in 1980, who'd been successful with the Altair and so seemed a safe choice. By then, IBM had the IBM Entry Systems Division based out of their Boca Raton, Florida offices. The open architecture allowed them to ship fast. And it afforded them the chance to ship a computer with, check this out, options for an operating system. Wild idea, right? The options initially provided were CP/M and PC DOS, which was MS-DOS ported to the IBM open architecture. CP/M sold for $240 and PC DOS sold for $40. PC DOS had come from Microsoft's acquisition of 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. The PC shipped in 1981, lightning fast for an IBM product. At the time Apple, Atari, Commodore, and were in control of the personal computer market. IBM had dominated the mainframe market for decades and once the personal computer market reached $100 million dollars in sales, it was time to go get some of that. And so the IBM PC would come to be an astounding success and make it not uncommon to see PCs on people's desks at work or even at home. And being that most people didn't know a difference, PC DOS would ship on most. By 1985 it was clear that Microsoft had entered and subsequently dominated the PC market. And it was clear that due to the open architecture that other vendors were starting to compete. And after 5 years of working together on PC DOS and 3 versions later, Microsoft and IBM signed a Joint Development Agreement and got to work on the next operating system. One they thought would change everything and set IBM PCs up to dominate the market for decades to come. Over that time, they'd noticed some gaps in DOS. One of the most substantial is that after the projects and files got too big, they became unwieldy. They wanted an object oriented operating system. Another is protected mode. The 286 chips from Intel had protected mode dating back to 1982 and IBM engineers felt they needed to harness that in order to get multi-tasking safely and harness virtual memory to provide better support for all these crazy new windowing things they'd learned with their GUI overlay to DOS called TOPview. So after the Joint Development agreement was signed , IBM let Ed Iacobucci lead the charge on their side and Microsoft had learned a lot from their attempts at a windowing operating system. The two organizations borrowed ideas from all the literature and Unix and of course the Mac. And really built a much better operating system than anything available at the time. Microsoft had been releasing Windows the whole time. Windows 1 came in 1985 and Windows 2 came in 1987, the same year OS/2 1.0 was released. In fact, one of the most dominant PC models to ever ship, the PS/2 computer, would ship that year as well. The initial release didn't have a GUI. That wouldn't come until version 1.1 nearly a year later in 1988. SNA shipped to interface with IBM mainframes in that release as well. And TCP/IP and Ethernet would come in version 1.2 in 1989. During this time, Microsoft steadily introduced new options in Windows and claimed both publicly and privately in meetings with IBM that OS/2 was the OS of the future and Windows would some day go away. They would release an extended edition that included a built-in database. Based on protected mode developers didn't have to call the BIOS any more and could just use provided APIs. You could switch the foreground application using control-escape. In Windows that would become Alt-Tab. 1.2 brought the hpfs file system, bringing longer file names, a journaled file system to protect against data loss during crashes, and extended attributes, similar to how those worked on the Mac. But many of the features would ship in a version of Windows that would be released just a few months before. Like that GUI. Microsoft's presentation manager came in Windows 2.1 just a few months before OS/2 1.1. Microsoft had an independent sales team. Every manufacturer that bundled Windows meant there were more drivers for Windows so a wider variety of hardware could be used. Microsoft realized that DOS was old and building on top of DOS was going to some day be a big, big problem. They started something similar to what we'd call a fork today of OS/2. And in 1988 they lured Dave Cutler from Digital who had been the architect of the VMS operating system. And that moment began the march towards a new operating system called NT, which borrowed much of the best from VMS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2 - and had little baggage. Microsoft was supposed to make version 3 of OS/2 but NT OS/2 3.0 would become just Windows NT when Microsoft stopped developing on OS/2. It took 12 years, because um, they had a loooooot of customers after the wild success of first Windows 3 and then Windows 95, but eventually Cutler's NT would replace all other operating systems in the family with the release of Windows 2000. But by 1990 when Microsoft released Windows 3 they sold millions of copies. Due to great OEM agreements they were on a lot of computers that people bought. The Joint Development Agreement would finally end. IBM had enough of what they assumed meant getting snowed by Microsoft. It took a couple of years for Microsoft to recover. In 1992, the war was on. Microsoft released Windows 3.1 and it was clear that they were moving ideas and people between the OS/2 and Windows teams. I mean, the operating systems actually looked a lot alike. TCP/IP finally shipped in Windows in 1992, 3 years after the companies had co-developed the feature for OS/2. But both would go 32 bit in 1992. OS /2 version 2.0 would also ship, bringing a lot of features. And both took off the blinders thinking about what the future would hold. Microsoft with Windows 95 and NT on parallel development tracks and IBM launched multiple projects to find a replacement operating system. They tried an internal project, Workstation OS, which fizzled. IBM did the unthinkable for Workplace OS. They entered into an alliance with Apple, taking on a number of Apple developers who formed what would be known as the Pink team. The Pinks moved into separate quarters and formed a new company called Taligent with Apple and IBM backing. Taligent planned to bring a new operating system to market in the mid-1990s. They would laser focus on PowerPC chips thus abandoning what was fast becoming the WinTel world. They did show Workspace OS at Comdex one year, but by then Bill Gates was all to swing by the booth knowing he'd won the battle. But they never shipped. By the mid-90s, Taligent would be rolled into IBM and focus on Java projects. Raw research that came out of the project is pretty pervasive today though. Those was an example of a forward looking project, though - and OS/2 continued to be developed with OS/2 Warp (or 3) getting released in 1994. It included IBM Works, which came with a word processor that wasn't Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet that wasn't Microsoft Excel, and a database that wasn't Microsoft Access. Works wouldn't last past 1996. After all, Microsoft had Charles Simony by then. He'd invented the GUI word processor at Xerox PARC and was light years ahead of the Warp options. And the Office Suite in general was gaining adoption fast. Warp was faster than previous releases, had way more options, and even browser support for early Internet adopters. But by then Windows 95 had taken the market by storm and OS/2 would see a rapidly declining customer base. After spending nearly a billion dollars a year on OS development, IBM would begin downsizing once the battle with Microsoft was lost. Over 1,300 people. And as the number of people dropped, defects with the code grew and the adoption dropped even faster. OS/2 would end in 2001. By then it was clear that IBM had lost the exploding PC market and that Windows was the dominant operating system in use. IBM's control of the PC had slowly eroded and while they eeked out a little more profit from the PC, they would ultimately sell the division that built and marketed computers to Lenovo in 2005. Lenovo would then enjoy the number one spot in the market for a long time. The blue ocean had resulted in lower margins though, and IBM had taken a different, more services-oriented direction. OS/2 would live on. IBM discontinued support in 2006. It should have probably gone fully open source in 2005. It had already been renamed and rebranded as eComStation first by an IBM Business Partner called Serenity. It would go opensource(ish) and openoffice.org would be included in version two in 2010. Betas of 2.2 have been floating around since 2013 but as with many other open source compilations of projects, it seems to have mostly fizzled out. Ed Iacobucci would go on to found or co-found other companies, including Citrix, which flourishes to this day. So what really happened here. It would be easy, but an over-simplification to say that Microsoft just kinda' took the operating system. IBM had a vision of an operating system that, similar to the Mac OS, would work with a given set of hardware. Microsoft, being an independent software developer with no hardware, would obviously have a different vision, wanting an operating system that could work with any hardware - you know, the original open architecture that allowed early IBM PCs to flourish. IBM had a big business suit and tie corporate culture. Microsoft did not. IBM employed a lot of computer scientists. Microsoft employed a lot of hackers. IBM had a large bureaucracy, Microsoft could build an operating system like NT mostly based on hiring a single brilliant person and rapidly building an elite team around them. IBM was a matrixed organization. I've been told you aren't an enterprise unless you're fully matrixed. Microsoft didn't care about all that. They just wanted the marketshare. When Microsoft abandoned OS/2, IBM could have taken the entire PC market from them. But I think Microsoft knew that the IBM bureaucracy couldn't react quickly enough at an extremely pivotal time. Things were moving so fast. And some of the first real buying tornados just had to be reacted to at lightning speeds. These days we have literature and those going through such things can bring in advisors or board members to help them. Like the roles Marc Andreeson plays with Airbnb and others. But this was uncharted territory and due to some good, shrewd and maybe sometimes downright bastardly decisions, Microsoft ended up leap-frogging everyone by moving fast, sometimes incurring technical debt that would take years to pay down, and grabbing the market at just the right time. I've heard this story oversimplified in one word: subterfuge. But that's not entirely fair. When he was hired in 1993, Louis Gerstner pivoted IBM from a hardware and software giant into a leaner services organization. One that still thrives today. A lot of PC companies came and went. And the PC business infused IBM with the capital to allow the company to shoot from $29 billion in revenues to $168 billion just 9 years later. From the top down, IBM was ready to leave red oceans and focus on markets with fewer competitors. Microsoft was hiring the talent. Picking up many of the top engineers from the advent of interactive computing. And they learned from the failures of the Xeroxes and Digital Equipments and IBMs of the world and decided to do things a little differently. When I think of a few Microsoft engineers that just wanted to build a better DOS sitting in front of a 60 page refinement of how a feature should look, I think maybe I'd have a hard time trying to play that game as well. I'm all for relentless prioritization. And user testing features and being deliberate about what you build. But when you see a limited window, I'm OK acting as well. That's the real lesson here. When the day needs seizing, good leaders will find a way to blow up the establishment and release the team to go out and build something special. And so yah, Microsoft took the operating system market once dominated by CP/M and with IBM's help, established themselves as the dominant player. And then took it from IBM. But maybe they did what they had to do… Just like IBM did what they had to do, which was move on to more fertile hunting grounds for their best in the world sales teams. So tomorrow, think of bureaucracies you've created or had created to constrain you. And think of where they are making the world better vs where they are just giving some controlling jackrabbit a feeling of power. And then go change the world. Because that is what you were put on this planet to do. Thank you so much for listening in to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so lucky to have you.

Message Notes January 12, 2020 | Teacher: Ken Wilson Finding the Will of God (Part #2 - The Practical Dimension) Message SlidesMessage Resource - Jen WilkinMessage Resource - Impressions (Schreiner) Review: God’s Will is that we are… • Saved (1 Tim. 2:3-4; 2 Pet. 3:9; John 6:40) • Sacrificially Living for Him (Rom. 12:1-2) • Supporting His Work (2 Cor. 8:1-5) • Spirit Filled (Eph. 5:17-18) • Serving Well at Work (Eph. 6:5-6) • Set Apart—esp. Sexually (1Thess. 4:3-8) • Speaking to God Continually (1 Thess 5:18) • Steadfast in Endurance (Heb. 10:36) • Submitting to Authority (1 Pet. 2:15) • Suffering for Doing Right (1 Pet. 3:17) The Process• Fall deeply in love with Jesus (Proverbs 3:5-6; John 15:1-8)• Read and obey the Bible (Psalm 119, esp. v. 105 2 Timothy 3:15-16)• Engage community who love Jesus and know the Bible (Proverbs 1-9, esp. 1:5; 12:15; 15:22; 19:20; Hebrew 10:24-25)• Consider practical wisdom (Proverbs, esp. 1:1-7)• Allow God to guide directly Illustration:• I am deeply in love with my wife.• When I get a list I work on it.• I hang out with people who love their wife.• I try to be smart and read books and listen to podcasts. • I pay attention when she tells me directly what she wants.Next Steps • I will read my Bible this year in order to fall in love with Jesus. • I will make sure I obey the clear commands of scripture. This Week’s Growth GuideGod’s Word is both central and critical to your spiritual growth. We invite you to utilize the Growth Guide during the week to further your application of the Truth from the message.• Monday - Proverbs 3:1-6• Tuesday - Proverbs 1:1-7• Wednesday - Proverbs 2:1-11• Thursday - John 15:1-8• Friday - Psalm 119Home ChurchOur Home Churches meet weekly to facilitate quicker relational depth, study the same passage taught Sunday to help apply Scripture in the context of community, and pray with one another. Home Church helps our body seek God’s best for one another. Home Church Questions • Read Romans 12:1-2. • What was the main point of the message this week? • Was there anything new, interesting, insightful, or even unclear from the message? • What was your main takeaway from this week’s message? • Which is more difficult for you; determining the will of God or doing the will of God? • Some decisions are simple and we make them quickly, e.g. where to eat if you are going out. What issues in your life rise to the level of “What is God’s will?” • How helpful was last week’s message that set forth the clear passages that describe God’s will? What was helpful about that? • Explore the illustration of marriage as a parallel to finding God’s will. Where does the illustration work? Where does it fall apart? • If someone read Jen Wilkin’s handout, have them share what they took away from it. • How have you tried to determine God’s will for you? • What are some areas where you are trying to determine God’s will? How can your Home Church be a community that helps? AT FELLOWSHIP Ministry Center Warming Center | January 12-18 Fellowship once again has the opportunity to minister to Faulkner County’s homelesspopulation in partnership with the Ministry Center. We will do this by providing a meal every evening, as well as have two women and two men spend the night with those who are taking shelter during the evening. To register go to https://tinyurl.com/roda246 or stop by the Connection Center. Home ChurchHome church is Fellowship’s small group ministry where believers can come together in a safe and comfortable setting while building deeper relationships. Groups, consisting of 10-16 people, meet weekly for prayer, study, and service. You still have time to join! Find more details at fellowshipconway.org/homechurch or come to the HC display Get Equipped - For all equipping opportunities go to fellowshipconway.org/equipping • Financial Peace - January 20, 2020 at 6 pm (cost $99). Childcare provided. • Art of Parenting - January 20, 2020 at 7 pm (cost $12). Childcare provided.Fellowship 101 | January 26Get to know Fellowship better by understanding our mission, values, and ministries. Sunday, January 26, join us in the Conference Room (Office Suite) during the first service (9:00 a.m.), to hear about how God is moving at Fellowship and how you can be a part. You will meet some of our ministry leaders as well as be able to ask any questions. Register at fellowshipconway.org/register. Girlfriends Ministry | Childcare provided by RSVP to Shann@conwaycorp.net for alL • “David: Seeking a Heart Like His” by Beth Moore. Tuesday nights, January 21 - April 7th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Team Room #100 (Office Suite). Register at the Connection Center. • “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn, a 7 - week DVD study and discussion. Tuesdays, January 21 - March 3, 12 - 1 pm, Fireside Room. Register at the Connection Center. • Girlfriends Gathering - Join us Thursday, January 23, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at #3 West Point for a night focusing on the topic of Communication - facilitated by Charlotte Strickland. Refreshments served.Men’s Book clubTuesday evenings, beginning January 14, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. men will gather in the Fireside Room (2nd floor) for fellowship and discussion to sharpen one another. The book will be chosen by those attending the first night. Email Andy at men@fellowshipconway.org for more information. Welcome John MollWe are excited to welcome John Moll to the Fellowship staff. John will be our full-time accounting manager handling the finances. After two years of searching, we are thankful for God’s provision of John and his family.FinancesWeekly budget 25,650Giving For 12/29 26,388Giving For 01/05 29,907 YTD Budget 718,201 YTD Giving 709,202Over (under) ( 8,999) Generations CampaignTotal Pledge 1,580,962Received-to-date 1,305,416Click Here if you would like to give a gift.To make a gift or a commitment to Generations, you can click Here.

Message Notes January 5, 2020 | Teacher: Ken Wilson Finding the Will of God(Part #1 - The Biblical Dimension) Message Slides Introduction: The Process• Fall deeply in love with Jesus • Read and obey the Bible • Engage community who love Jesus and know the Bible • Consider practical wisdom • Allow God to guide directly God’s Will is that we are… • Saved (1 Tim. 2:3-4; 2 Pet. 3:9; John 6:40) • Sacrificially Living for Him (Rom. 12:1-2) • Supporting His Work (2 Cor. 8:1-5) • Spirit Filled (Eph. 5:17-18) • Serving Well at Work (Eph. 6:5-6) • Set Apart—esp. Sexually (1Thess. 4:3-8) • Speaking to God Continually (1 Thess 5:18) • Steadfast in Endurance (Heb. 10:36)• Submitting to Authority (1 Pet. 2:15)• Suffering for Doing Right (1 Pet. 3:17) Next Steps • I will read my Bible this year in order to fall in love with Jesus. • I will make sure I obey the clear commands of scripture. This Week’s Growth GuideGod’s Word is both central and critical to your spiritual growth. We invite you to utilize the Growth Guide during the week to further your application of the Truth from the message.• Monday - Romans 12:1-2• Tuesday - 2 Corinthians 8:1-5• Wednesday - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8• Thursday - 1 Thessalonians 5:18• Friday - Hebrews 10:36Join a Home Church Home Church, Fellowship’s small group ministry, is all about three things – relationships, spiritual growth, and serving. Returning the week of January 12th with 27 small groups, containing over 350 people, Home Church has a place for YOU! Home Church is all about Serving Together. Our Home Church Ministry values deep relationships as well as spiritual growth and here at Fellowship we believe that one of the best ways to foster this is through serving together. As people are serving together and building a common passion for others two things take place: those serving grow closer as they are on mission with one another, and our local community is impacted for the sake of the gospel. Our Home Churches serve our own body through many avenues and volunteer with our local ministry partners in various ways throughout the year. Serving is a key piece as we build community in the body of Christ. Fellowship’s desire is that everyone who calls Fellowship home connect relationally in a Home Church. For more information stop by the Connection Center after service or online at fellowshipconway.org/homechurch. AT FELLOWSHIP Ministry Center Warming Center | January 12-18 Fellowship once again has the opportunity to minister to Faulkner County’s homeless population in partnership with the Ministry Center. We will do this by providing a meal every evening, as well as have two women and two men spend the night with those who are taking shelter during the night. To register go to https://tinyurl.com/roda246 or stop by the Connection Center. Home ChurchHome church is Fellowship’s small group ministry where believers can come together in a safe and comfortable setting while building deeper relationships. Groups, consisting of 10-16 people, meet weekly for prayer, study, and service. Home Church launches January 12, 2020. Find more details at fellowshipconway.org/homechurch or come to the HC display. Get Equipped - For all equipping opportunities go to fellowshipconway.org/equipping • Art of Marriage - January 5, 2020 during the 10:45 am service (cost $12). • Disciplines of Grace - January 5, 2020 during the 10:45 am service. • Financial Peace - January 20, 2020 at 6 pm (cost $99). Childcare provided. • Art of Parenting - January 20, 2020 at 7 pm (cost $12). Childcare provided.Fellowship 101 | January 26Get to know Fellowship better by understanding our mission, values, and ministries. Join us Sunday, January 26, 9:00 a.m., in the conference room during 1st service, to hear about what God is doing and where He is taking us. You will have a chance to ask questions, and meet some of our ministry leaders. Contact Michael at mharrison@fellowshipconway.org. Girlfriends Ministry | Childcare provided by RSVP to Shann@conwaycorp.net for all • “David: Seeking a Heart Like His” by Beth Moore. Tuesday nights, January 21 - April 7th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Team Room #100 (Office Suite). Register at the Connection Center. • “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn, a 7 - week DVD study and discussion. Tuesdays, January 21 - March 3, 12 - 1 pm, Fireside Room. Register at the Connection Center. • Girlfriends Gathering - Join us Thursday, January 23, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at #3 West Point for a night focusing on the topic of Communication - facilitated by Charlotte Strickland. Refreshments served.Men’s Book clubMen’s Book Club is back! Enjoy fellowship and great discussion as iron sharpens iron through reading a book. Starting January 14, we’ll meet Tuesday evenings from 6-8:00 p.m. for 8-12 weeks (depending on the book that we choose). Everybody who shows up January 14 will get a say in what book we’re going to read. Email Andy at men@fellowshipcownay.org for more information.Perspectives Kicks off January 20, 2020Spend the semester seeing the story of redemption weaved through the Bible as the Creator pursues His creation. For more information go to the Perspectives table in the Atrium this morning.FinancesWeekly Budget 25,650Giving For 12/22 41,935 Giving For 12/29 26,388YTD Budget 692,551YTd Giving 679,295Over (under) (13,256)Generations CampaignTotal Pledge 1,580,692Received-to-date 1,297,701Click Here if you would like to give a gift.To make a gift or a commitment to Generations, you can click Here.

Operating as Blume Design, Laurie’s process involves assessing client’s current marketing status, evaluating creative and business marketing goals, developing long-term strategies, design conceptualization, presentation and execution of digital and conventional assets. Proficient with current Adobe Creative software, PowerPoint, and MS Office Suite; layout technique, technical printer expertise, typography and layout, social media campaigns, copywriting. Her projects range from strategy development and presentation, corporate branding, brochures, annual reports, newsletters, books, advertisements, website and digital campaigns, interior and exterior renderings/illustration, signage, exhibits, and proposals and presentations.   Connect with Laurie Blume:  Website: https://www.laurieblume.com Twitter: @laurieblume LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/laurieblume/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/laurieblume   Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.co

As Malaysia celebrates its 62nd year of independence, MSP looks at some of the milestones in technology and science since 1957.We're a little behind in posting episodes, so please enjoy the multiple feeds this week! EPISODE EXCERPTWith his authoritarian nature we’re not entirely sure it was a good idea to ask Matt to put together a list of tech and science advances and breakthroughs to celebrate the 62 years since Malaysian Independence. But MSP is a show that takes risks. And Matt has promised to keep today’s content WHO compliant. Unlike many of his business ventures.How are we going to do this? Chronologically?I thought that that would be a bit boring.As riveting as listening to me reciting a list of facts for 25 minutes would be, I thought jumping about might make it a bit more interesting. Because it’s also about looking at the way those discoveries are interconnected.How one breakthrough leads to another.And how they might appear to be unrelated. Which means you have to give us an example…Happy to.For the benefit of the listeners, I asked Jeff and a few other people to share some of their favourite moments in tech history over the last 60 or so years. One of the things that came up on both our lists was Photoshop.The image processing and manipulation software released by Adobe back in 1990.Can you imagine? Photoshop is almost 30 years old. I guess we’ll have to dedicate an MSP Ikons show to it at some point.Obviously, we’re celebrating it as a breakthrough, but isn’t Photoshop one of those love to hate it inclusions?Yes, of course.I think most of the big software breakthroughs - including milestones like Microsoft Word and the Office Suite - are very much in the love hate category.And designers have horror stories about early versions of Photoshop.Many of which are more about the state of computing back in the 90s.Buggy machines that would hang. Graphics cards and processors that couldn’t handle the load.Slow data transfer and rendering speeds.The number of times I used to get stuck in the office because a page of a magazine was crashing the zip drive.It used to take hours to download things. Yet Photoshop is still a transformational tool?Yes. For all its complexity.It helped to transform desktop publishing. We’re talking media industries. Fashion. Advertising. It made it possible to easily manipulate photos. Colour correct them.Give them a distinct look and feel.That’s a legacy that we carry over into products like Instagram and its photo filters.We take it for granted, but to do what Instagram does with the click of a button, used to take many minutes if not hours on early versions of Photoshop.And those same tricks could take a designer days to do manually with physical photos and negatives. All those clean looking social media posts against lily white walls. We owe those to Photoshop.

WordPerfect hasn't been the dominant word processor since the 1990s, but Corel's development efforts for the past 23 years and WordPerfect's long-time killer feature (Reveal Codes) make it exactly the right choice for some users. In Short Circuits: Sometimes a new application doesn't install properly. When that happens, finding a workaround starts with reading and understanding diagnostic messages. The Google Local Guides feature is handy for finding store hours, movie theaters, and good restaurants, but it can be much more during a crisis. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Capital One, a Virginia bank with a huge on-line presence, suffered a data breach that exposed credit card application information from 100 million people. Fortunately, this incident isn't quite as bad as it sounds. • Sometimes Windows takes far too long to shut down. There's a solution, but it involves a Registry edit and it's a change that might cause other problems. Let's take a look.

On today’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast, our host Tom Fox has the pleasure of speaking with Alex Zlatin. Alex is the author of “Responsible Dental Ownership: Balancing Ethics and Business Through Purpose”, a book about how small business owners should think through the purchase of a technology upgrade. Upgrading: is it a Must? Alex explains how a lot of technologies such as Office Suite or even Windows are coming to the end of their lives, and so many companies are starting to look into upgrading their software to the next new thing. Alex points out that although such an upgrade can be beneficial, business owners have to ask themselves: is it an absolute must? Does it fit within the company’s budget? Is there a specific deadline the company needs to meet for every software to be upgraded? He adds that it is important to evaluate all of the options and weigh the pros and cons of which software upgrade to go with. Balancing Ethics and Business Through PurposeT om goes deeper into some points found in Alex’s book, and asks, what are the necessary tools for operating a successful practice? Coming from a business background, Alex shares how a lot of his experience actually revolves around the dental world: a lot of dentists have so much experience in their profession, but they don’t have the experience in the business aspects of their practice - HR, being a landlord, and customer service to name a few. Alex also points out that as a corporate leader, you have to find your company’s purpose and then, make your entire business revolve around that purpose once you do. An Open Letter to the Industry Alex explains how every week, he and his marketing team have a brainstorming meeting, and during one of these meetings, they had the idea to share their values with the world via a letter, or as he puts it, “scream out who they are, what they represent and why they do what they do.” He adds that the reason they decided to do it was to build trust with their clients. In order to build a relationship you have to show vulnerability, and that’s what they tried to do. Resources Alex Zlatin Responsible Dental Ownership: Balancing Ethics and Business Through Purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we dive into the the Front-End Developer Roadmap by Kamran Ahmed, going through all the technologies you need to learn from the basics, through the mastery phase of your career. Segment 1 - Roadmap Discussion We discuss the 18-20 main points of the developer roadmap Source: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap Segment 2 - Update on HTML All The Things Authentication for admins was added to edit the site Pagination with infinite scroll was added Major code refactoring Created components out of reusable code Got rid of redundant variable setting Deployed database and server authentication on our Digital Ocean docker setup Messed around with nginx configuration files Web News - Microsoft Office vs Google Docs Microsoft Office has a premium paid-for desktop experience in the form of the Office Suite (main programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint) they also have a free Office Online counterpart that work at a basic level for editing, and allow people to view documents online This plugs into OneDrive (desktop app, web app, and mobile app) Both versions talk and work with each other Google Docs has a similar offering, however, it is free. Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are the main programs within this suite. Integrate well with Google Drive and have collaboration features They have desktop “apps” if you're using Chrome, as well as Chromebook apps and smartphone apps. You can find us on... Facebook | Twitter | Instagram   RSS | Spotify | Reddit Medium | YouTube | GitHub Patreon

In today's podcast, we hear that Facebook continues to investigate its breach, and says it's not found any evidence of apps compromised through Facebook Login. Irish authorities open a GDPR investigation of Facebook. Bogus offers of Zoho Office Suite are malicious. A big botnet hits Brazil's banking customers. Home routers found vulnerable. Google and Adobe patch. A DGSI officer is arrested in France for dark web trafficking. FEMA tests its emergency text system. Fortnite cheats are bad news. David Dufour from Webroot on security issues in video games as they become social networks. Guest is Michael Feiertag from tCell with results from their Q2 incident report. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/October/CyberWire_2018_10_03.html Support our show

John Tedesco is a man with many roles. Founder, CEO, Creative director, chief designer, and all things digital of Jam Graphics, a New Jersey web development and digital marketing firm. Jam Graphics is hub spot certified as a digital agency.During this episode, John discusses passion driving the business. Learn about his experience grinding to get by, which eventually turned into committing full time to his business.Links:Jam GraphicsFacebookQuote: “Be very patient. That's really, REALLY important” -John TedescoTime Stamps:1:57 - How John chose web development 2:44 - The gradual climb 4:14 - Starting small and getting by 5:16 - The evolution of the business 7:35 - John's great (New word) advice 9:39 - John's craziest entrepreneurship moment 12:08 - Rapid fire questions! 14:42 - Entrepreneurship trivia!Want more? Visit Fearlesswithcory.com

Damals, als ich noch jung und Computer noch groß waren... damals waren Tabellenkalkulationen noch ein echtes Milliardengeschäft mit einigen Platzhirschen. Der etablierte Goldstandard war für einige Zeit eine Anwendung namens Lotus 1-2-3 und so etwas wie der Vorgänger der modernen Office-Suite.

Lawyers now have the option to purchase Microsoft Office 365 for their small, medium, or big law firms. Microsoft Office 365 is a collection of products and services that can be purchased individually or in bundles known as stockkeeping units (SKUs). The products available include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync, Yammer, Office Suite 2013, and Matter Center. These provide everything from document management, email and contacts, voice and text communication, to a corporate social network. How might these services benefit a law firm and what questions should lawyers be asking? In this episode of The Digital Edge, Sharon Nelson and John Simek interview Microsoft expert and technologist Ben Schorr about the Office 365 services and products as they pertain to use in a law firm. Schorr answers some of the often asked questions concerning the difference between Office 365 and Office Suite 2013, cloud based information storage, collaboration and sharing, and the way that Microsoft's pricing differs from other software providers. He wraps up the interview by explaining the differences between SharePoint and Matter Center for document management and advises lawyers and legal professionals to do online research and work with a Microsoft partner before deciding on products for a firm. There are many options to pick and choose from for a firm of any size, from solo to big law. Ben M. Schorr is a technologist and Chief Executive Officer for Roland Schorr and Tower, a professional consulting firm headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona with offices in Hawaii and Oregon. He has been involved with management and technology for more than 20 years and a Microsoft MVP for more than 15. He is the author of several books and articles on technology including "The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook," "The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Word," and "OneNote in One Hour." Special thanks to our sponsor, ServeNow.

Windows 8.1, due out this fall, will bring back the Start button, but without the Start menu. Which is right for you -- Google Apps, Zoho, Office 365, Office Suite, or Libre Office? In Short Circuits: Samsung might have out-sold Apple in May, hacking into an Iphone in one minute. and more videos for Amazon Prime members.

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This first podcast episode provides a brief introduction to AlwaysOnPC App for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. With this app you can run Chrome, Flash player, Office, Dropbox & more on iPad iPhone and iPod Touch. http://ipadiphonepodcast.xformcomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/AlwaysOnPC-Intro-for-Podcast-test.mp4

Bio: Nathan is a business development strategist with over 17 yrs of experience in Technology Sales, Marketing, and Logistics. A native of Arizona, Nathan's career in technology began when he moved to Seattle, WA and took a position in global product logistics at Microsoft in 1994. He was part of a small team that managed the launch of Windows 95, the first Office Suite and Encarta around the world. As Nathan's career took a sales path in 1998, he joined tech-savvy entrepreneurs to begin promoting what would eventually become a billion dollar industry in display and banner advertising. In 2002, Nathan moved to Portland, OR to launch a technology startup that provided enterprise solutions, digital imagery and asset management for eCommerce platforms. And in 2006, Nathan was on the leading edge of mobile marketing and engaging audiences through SMS "text" technology. Over the course of his career, Nathan parlayed his experience to work at some of the most dynamic interactive marketing agencies on the west coast, and he has conceptualized and executed scalable web and social media marketing campaigns with these notable clients: Microsoft, Intel, Ubisoft, T-Mobile, Nike, Adidas, Quiznos, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Outrigger Hotels, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Starbucks, Kroger and Costco. Nathan holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and is a Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm (1988 to 1992). Nathan is currently the VP of Business Development at ArmedZilla, a technology startup that connects veterans on a social platform headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. www.armedzilla.com Presentation: Was recorded at the University of Advancing Technology Tech Forum Spring 2012

A number of sites, including Google Apps, Zoho, Microsoft, and others, offer a set of standard "office suite" programs – word processing, spreadsheets, presentations – in an online format. We've seen some solos and small firms experiment with using Google Apps. Now, we've learned that a 200+ employee law firm has launched a major Google Apps implementation. Are we at the beginning of a new trend? In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss this new initiative, the potential impact for the legal profession and whether an online office suite might play a role in your future. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis' co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

Discussion and update on Second Life, short takes from Oprah's Book Club to Throwing Home Schooling Parents in Prison, Getting Our Heads Straight about SCIENCE Education, a review of S Suite's FIFTH ELEMENT free Office Suite, and a free Fair Use Check List. Another 21st century learning episode is packed with not-to-be-missed help for the educator who wants to be in the know! A new generation ofEdTech professional development. Contact us at teacherspodcast@gmail.com or comment at the website/blog. We appreciate our great audience and fans as we provide them with More Ed Tech You Can Always Use Today and Tomorrow. Telephone message line: 201-693-4935. Produced and copyrighted by Transformation Education LLC, Gura and King, 2007-2008. Let us know your teaching and learning needs.

Here's the latest podcast from Philadelphia, PA, especially for you.It's time to share the glamour of the road, travel and checking inearly because the bus can't stay....Intro (stunted)Get off, go in, get confused."Rock Me Right" by Susan TedeschiSmoke Free, Bed Free, Coffee FreeStolen camerasVictory!The City of FirstsWorking across the country, one load in at a timeBoston: old home hour, cold, wet and windy"Can't Stand The Rain" by Lowell GeorgeMore BostonThank yousBand businessFlickrWhat's In Your Bag?What's In My Bag? (warning! not typical roadie bag-load; AEM can't travel light...)"This Is Boston, Not LA" by the Freeze"My New Haircut" by Freak Kitchen"J&B Boutique" by The Prophet OmegaWrap up...Office Suite, part one by The Matthew Showunderlaid- The Marvelettes, Django Reinhardt