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Comin up on Windows Weekly, Mary Jo
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explains CShell to those of us, me
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included, who don't know what it is, yet.
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while Microsoft is trying to become more like
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This is Windows Weekly, episode 521, recorded
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Wednesday June 7, 2017.
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Welcome to Windows Weekly, this is the show
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where we talk all things Windows.
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Leo Laport is on vacation this week, so you've
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got me. But of course you've got your regulars
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Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thorot. Thank you
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so much for coming and sharing your
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Windows wisdom, Mary Jo and Paul.
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--Wow. Wit and wisdom.
--Windows, wisdom! That's W,w,w,w.
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Yes, wit and wisdom and Mary Jo, you just
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got back from Japan
-- I did.
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-- you posted some lovely pictures, how was
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it?
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It was really good. I had a great time.
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I barely worked which was unusual
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for me on a vacation.So that was good.
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--What devices did you bring?
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I brought the HP laptop that I've been
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using. And my Android phone, my Nexus 6P
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and that's it. No other devices.
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And those both worked ok?
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-- Yep.
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Awesome.
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-- Yeah I was using - Paul had talked up
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GoogleFi which is a network service
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you can use overseas and not pay exorbitant
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charges for, and so I used that with
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Google Translate and it was really great.
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Both made the trip way easier.
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And Paul held down the fort for you.
-- He did.
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--Yep.
Did you have a lot of jealousy at all
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of the Instagram pictures, Paul?
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Well, yeah, I actually - I think I said this
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to Mary Jo last week but you know the big
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difference for me, because she went to
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Japan before and she's been to what, like
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Thailand or Vietnam, sorry
--Cambodia.
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Yeah. You know because she can get online
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now she can post photos, so when she
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goes to these awesome places that I want
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to see it's like, well "take some pictures"
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And it's just great that she was able to
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post them. So I had to live vicariously
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but...
--They were perfect.
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And there wasn't the kind of annoying
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#LoveMyLife, hashtag [laughs]
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--Yeah not like she totally does.
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-- Yeah I do that a lot, super annoying
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Alright, we should get into the Windows
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news. Let's start with Windows 10 and
CShell, Mary Jo, you wanted to talk about
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CShell and I'm sure everyone watching this except me
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knows what CShell is so in case there's other people
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who don't know what CShell is, maybe you can
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tell us first what it is.
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--Well I'm not sure everybody does know
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because it's kind of a new concept
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There's been a lot of back and forth
about it on the Web
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over the past few months, I guess.
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I think it was Windows Central who wrote
the first story about it
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but CShell stands for Composable Shell.
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At first some of us thought that it was
Cloud Shell, but no.
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It's Composable Shell and it's basically
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an evolution of the Windows shell.
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So, the Windows Shell as probably
everybody listening
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to this podcast knows is the part of Windows
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that handles a lot of the systems
management parts of the
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operating system, so things like
the Start, Activity Center, Settings
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so that's what Shell is. So composable
shell is this new version of
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the shell that Microsoft's been building
that is going to make it easier
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for them to have a consistent shell across
all the different flavors of Windows 10.
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You know, we know that Windows 10
has the common core right now
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across all the different versions, like
the Xbox version, the HoloLens version
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Windows Phone version but what it
doesn't have is the common shell
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across all of those. And this is what
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this CShell effort is all about
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The reason it's interesting - there's a
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couple reasons it's interesting.
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One is Continuum as Microsoft's described
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it with Windows Phone doesn't really work
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that well right now. But based on some
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of the recent leaks from Leaked Builds,
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it looks like Continuum is going to get
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a lot better because of CShell
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CShell's gonna let you have more consistent
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things like context menus across all the
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difference versions of Windows now
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which I guess you don't have right now
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if you have Windows phone.
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Fast App Switching, so a lot of
the things that Windows Phone
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has been missing, are going to be
coming to it thanks to CShell.
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And if you've been following along
with all the rumors about what
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Surface Phone, or whatever the
next Microsoft mobile platform
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is going to be - CShell is one of the
pieces of this that's going to make
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it possible. So we don't really know what
the operating system flavor is going to
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be in whatever's next for Microsoft.
My speculation is Windows 10 on