it's lunchtime and mrs. Bradley versus lunch break I get invited to attend tech
event all the time in Las Vegas and whenever I can I like to make the quick
trip from Redmond and meet with other tech leaders and learn about what
they're doing today I'll be eating the role of Paul Sturrock
longtime tech journalist author the co-host of two tech podcast and
apparently in insomnia I want this to be the episode where we get in an accident
we've got American steel we're going to be ok where are we still cleaning up
short people would you sniff that where's Microsoft okay we are PL
Microsoft software in Indiana where it is kind of short
honestly that it's funny because this has been a pet peeve of mine
maybe this entire time and it's not just like ok ok it's what I call finishing
the job and I think there's a culture and software development I know it I
know to be true Microsoft if it recognizes hand where you get credit for
shipping something new for the big release but the follow-up work never
gets the credit and it's I suspect it seemed as almost career limiting I think
that's a mistake because that Microsoft or any other company will ship some
major software leastly little updates over time but those are never the focus
and so there's often a lack of quality or reliability or just follow-up it's
something that a lot of really good ideas are expressed very well in a 1.0
product but the follow-up discussion how exactly you're saying I'll tell you
what delivery makings of cloud service enables us to do that yes better than we
couldn't ask us right so easy to go update it up tomorrow the next week the
week after that one thing instead of 101 where the architecture actually allows
us to be very precisely what we're updating yeah and even the way you folks
service things like windows an office you know traditional kinds of software
in a way that is much like a cloud service that's right that's actually
Omegas things how to be how to be fast like all of these traditional on-premise
private home think about windows think about fixing manager we could be
sacrified to be plotted able to purchase remarkable I can't believe what your
expenditure by the way yeah and it's even funnier that we're in a car with no
air conditioners you in Vegas and it like you know it got so hot the cameras
shut off okay here's the next game tech reporter and dictator okay suspicious
and multinational conglomerates both all right this is where the hunter becomes
180 all of a sudden accuses a lot of people are treated and I've actually
made that accusation but I'm probably gonna go dictator all right but you were
leaning towards both I you know I'm on Twitter quietly make several trips to
Vegas every year both
this not being taken seriously baby we're known for our thin skin have an
anonymous Twitter account used for arguing control could be both of you I
want to be clear I do not evidence that was actually the fishing right here I
trying to see if you're going to admit to that no no I do that right out in the
open what's the advice you would give to everyone in IT to prepare forefront
professionally and personally for the next 10 years well actually this is one
that I practice and always have I think it's and again it this is not
necessarily tech focused it's important for everybody but it's just to keep
learning I have a very distinct memory of a tech head several years ago pre
show that I did windows IT pro at the time we had two groups of people that
with developers and there were IT admins I had the IT I have been proud we were
talking about moving to the cloud so over in the developer room ever working
was like a conga line they were so excited like yeah we get to write more
software in my room we hit the guy with the microphone sang so let me get this
straight you're saying my final act is exchange administrator is going to be
signing over my stuff to the cloud the amount of it and isn't like what 2013
yeah maybe even if your restore it yeah not that long ago no not that long ago
my response to that person was simply like look you need to need to remember
when you got this job that you were all about change you were all about learning
who were all about new things you have posted no because you went from exchange
2003 to 2007 and now we're hitting on exchange I Victoria 30 maybe was the
version of the time whatever was and but now people talking about onto the cloud
and you're freaking out and I'm sorry but you forgot that this industry is
always about change and can moderate yeah you cannot sits them all we learn
always and then and then lean in to these changes that are you cannot be
stopped I mean they're there right artists but
they're stoppable be smart about it you know they're it's possible the periscope
is not going to be the next big IT infrastructure there but yes but
understand what's going on in the world
well thank you for having this hot car in Vegas thank you to the others yeah
it's cool thank you sir I think Paul all right take care
next time on Brad Anderson lunch break so the next year same conference we
hired Michael Dorn who played with his agent called and said Michael wants to
know if he needs scoring extra bosss night thanks now that's who we are
overact were those people did you use to manage the factory where they fritos in
Memphis no but how cool would that be up there the Dajjal who did that did you
get a degree in theater from northern Michigan University I got no degree
you