{"id":13679,"date":"2012-10-30T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2012-10-30T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:08:17","slug":"build-2012-notes-from-the-keynote-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13679","title":{"rendered":"Build 2012 \u2013 Notes From The Keynote Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am not a Build. It sold out in minutes and I wasn\u2019t quick enough <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Sad smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wlEmoticon-sadsmile.png\" \/> Let\u2019s find out if everyone there is getting a free WP8 handset and\/or Surface.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Out comes Steve Ballmer and his pink themed WP8 advert.&#160; In just the last 3 days, 4 million Windows 8 upgrades have been sold \u2013 this is not the misleading Software Assurance number.&#160; Stevo wants to show us Windows 8 on Windows 8 generation hardware. Oh <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13674\" target=\"_blank\">if only these tablets and touch laptops were available in the stores<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p>He demos Windows 8 on the 82\u201d Windows \u201cSlate\u201d, Perceptive Pixel touch TV. Nothing new \u2013 the same keynote demos as always. Once again, Acer is highlighted. Shouting about Surface ruining life for partners really pays off <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wlEmoticon-smile3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a while later Steve Guggenheimer DPE comes out. Hmm, Xbox (for PC) gaming controller plugged into USB port in a Surface and used to play a game. Lots of other stuff we\u2019ve either seen or heard many times before.&#160; I would not have highlighted the ESPN app at all.&#160; It\u2019s the same boring screen of squares and is nothing special \u2013 in fact, it\u2019s pretty dreadful.&#160; Plenty of nicer apps out there, such as Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Steve B is back. Twitter bringing an official app to Windows 8, along with SAP and DropBox. The big names are coming. 400,000,000 devices will be sold with Windows 8 in the next year if PC sales were to stay flat.&#160; More marketing coming, including for Surface.&#160; MSFT has to do that \u2013 the h\/w partners have let the side down and MSFT has to pick up the device slack IMO.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Every Build Attendee will get 100 GB Skydrive storage for free, a Surface RT (as expected). Bast*rds!<\/p>\n<p>Phone stuff after that *tunes out*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a Build. It sold out in minutes and I wasn\u2019t quick enough Let\u2019s find out if everyone there is getting a free WP8 handset and\/or Surface. Out comes Steve Ballmer and his pink themed WP8 advert.&#160; In just the last 3 days, 4 million Windows 8 upgrades have been sold \u2013 this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Build 2012 \u2013 Notes From The Keynote Stream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[176,109],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventnotes","tag-eventnotes","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}