marypcbuk | My tweets

Wed, 13:25: Must not laugh; the cat just said, slowly & distinctly "miaow miaow miaow" to tell me we ran out of cat food ;)
Wed, 13:59: RT @elbetzio: I've said it before and I'll say it again; #opensource is no guarantee of #security at all - http://t.co/6xplvzEr5b #Emperors…
Wed, 14:08: I just tried to type that Google is trying to disembowel Sandroid and autocorrect made it disembowel. Now I come to think of it...
Wed, 14:11: The desktop was *never* going away in Windows because Microsoft never believed the PC was dead, just that it could scale down as well as up
Wed, 14:11: RT @bellinghwoman: Saw this on a car - most amused :-) @SimonsCat http://t.co/8PwU0tLIBv
Wed, 14:15: Which other cloud vendors rely so much on patterns not just for extra functionality but for sales as Microsoft does? an advantage - or not?
Wed, 14:17: The quantified baby; technology is catching up with my half-written predictive blog posts
Wed, 14:37: The Microsoft/HP exchange; HP got some great product people, Microsoft got one of the few HP people who loves Windows? Shifting companies
Wed, 14:39: 81% of CIOs planning Windows tablet rollouts? Anyone see where that stat came from? #wpc14
Wed, 14:43: So Monday was TechEd reprise day, today is Build reprise day at WPC?

Wed, 14:53: Best bit of the #wpc14 keynote so far; seeing 3rd-party integration into #Cortana; I want to be able to eg turn on a Sonos by asking Cortana
Wed, 14:56: Prophet pitching Windows Phones and tablets at Android prices that iOS can never match; that's certainly where the volume is
Wed, 15:01: Those tablets make the Lumia 1520 look *tiny* ;)
Wed, 15:05: Yes; if you lock down phones too much, people will opt back out of MDM #wpc14 I've explained this w Lego in the past http://t.co/gI5ri6HvUU
Wed, 15:07: My, BlackBerry Assistant looks like a bit of sincere flattery for Cortana http://t.co/lXBMczMFKj
Wed, 15:10: paper on glass; that's a nice way of describing a pen tablet #wpc14
Wed, 15:10: RT @jkendrick: PR flacks who email me with a story pitch “call me and we’ll discuss our deadlines and what we’d like to see in the review” …
Wed, 15:12: RT @rupertg: @marypcbuk "If you lock stuff down too hard, people will work around it" remains #1 unlearned lesson in securty. For the 30th …
Wed, 15:17: This is Satya doing his version of Ballmer's PARTNERS PARTNERS PARTNERS!!! dance ;)
Wed, 15:50: This is a great demo of what Azure ML is good for; predictive maintenance is going to be HUGE

Wed, 15:52: RT @maryjofoley: CEO Nadella vows that MS will stay at forefront of input/output (gestures, touch, voice) w. Windows going forward. Key dif…
Wed, 15:55: Building an app that uses the camera is a clever way to show off an interface but keep the presenter on screen to keep you watching them ;)
Wed, 15:56: RT @gcaughey: This: Productivity isn't just work. It's about getting more done at home too...and on any device. #wpc14
Wed, 16:14: Project Siena is a perfect example of the trends @sbisson & I call BYODev over at #citeworld http://t.co/vxPHzxx1UF
Wed, 16:25: Declaring 'roofnote' a success; sunny roof terrace, iced coffee, streaming keynote and successful pigeon scaring combined ;)
Wed, 19:53: RT @BBCTwo: Followed immediately after at 9pm with how the Crossrail #FifteenBillionPoundRailway is being built underneath London http://t.…
Wed, 19:57: RT @tomwarren: Interesting Verge comment from a Microsoft employee on Apple / IBM http://t.co/qLpxLh8Mqd
Wed, 19:58: RT @markrussinovich: Ouch MT @InTheCloudMSFT: with some reluctance im sharing: outtakes from tomorrow's Hybrid cloud webcast w/Mark & me. h…
Wed, 20:03: I think of this as chainsaw testing; if you're really confident, take a chainsaw to your production system to test it http://t.co/vxPHzxx1UF
Wed, 20:16: RT @MSCloud: Why Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning is such a big deal via @CITEworld http://t.co/niIt8XsPQx

Wed, 20:21: Could Microsoft/Nokia/someone kickstart this please!? Charging your phone with sound http://t.co/80HJi07brw
Wed, 20:23: Samsung hedging its IoT bets, I see http://t.co/iSH7D3q9GM
Wed, 20:46: @charlesfitz I can't DM unless you follow me BTW
Wed, 20:48: This is almost exactly the approach I've been taking on passwords for years ;) http://t.co/3IteUWHY1j
Wed, 23:51: wow; no seats on flights into SFO with @VirginAtlantic at the end of July AT ALL; having to get creative & go via Vancouver