Darren, Jesse and Stuart return with the seventh episode of WTF Tech show. We discuss the Wanna Cry attack, IBM’s new work location strategy. We also touch on the Jive acquisition and the new Surface Pro. Oh, and Tech Nostalgia. (Recorded Wednesday 24th May 2017).

For starters, sorry about the audio quality (particularly Stuart’s track). We were hit by a Chrome bug that incorrectly detects the audio sample rate. We did investigate re-recording the episode, but with vacations imminent, felt it was better to get it out ASAP. We’ve cleaned it up as best we can, but you’ll still hear the occasional dropout and artefact. Sorry about that!

Show notes:

Chitchat

* Jesse heads to Europe for Engage.ug

WannaCry attack

What is it (Wikipedia)?

Should folks still be running Microsoft XP? Is there any excuse?

NSA responsibility

IBM’s work from home/office colocation strategy

Press coverage

Inc. Magazine

Forbes

The Register

Yahoo’s similar policy from 2013

Jive acquired by ESW Capital/Aurea

Last of the E2.0 startups to go (apart from Atlassian possibly)

Press coverage

Techcrunch

Forbes

ZDNet

Jive to be folded into Aurea Prime

Microsoft’s new Surface laptop

Microsoft’s announcement

Microsoft going head to head with Apple on vertically integrated systems

* Very normal laptop design, not convertible tablet/laptop

* Material covering is a bit weird?

“Surface Laptop provides the perfect blend of texture, subtle details, and clean, elegant lines — plus the luxurious touch of our Signature Alcantara® material-covered keyboard.”

What will this do to Microsoft OEMs?

Tech Nostalgia

First computer/arcade game played (or remembered)

J: Dark Castle

http://macintoshgarden.org

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_mac

D: Some variant of pong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

http://www.ponggame.org/

S: Asteroids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command