Episode 332 – Astronomicon, Fundraiser for Wildlife in Australia

Well, it's almost time for our first con of the year, so let's dive in with the Astronomicon crew to talk about their third annual event, and then there's a fundraiser for Australian wildlife threatened by the fires Friday night over at Whiskey in the Jar... Astronomicon is at https://www.astronomicon.com/ The Outback Give Back is at https://www.facebook.com/events/2495538064053334/ Wave's invoicing solution is at http://www.waveapps.com/ITintheD The BankUnited $54,000 giveaway can be entered by following  @BankUnited on Twitter and tweet @BankUnited your answer to "what would you do with 54 thousand dollars?", using the hashtag #GoForMore54 CapitalOne is at http://www.capitalone.com Hey, welcome to episode 332 of the it and the D show a strap on your seatbelts. This one's going to be a fun one. We got Mike and Dustin in the house talking astronomic on coming up. February 7th and eighth at the Wyndham garden in Sterling Heights. The all star lineup of guests that's coming to this thing is sick and this is one of the, literally my favorite comic con of the year. We're going to talk a lot more about it and we've got August gets like in the house. Uh, he's got a cool a benefit they're doing called Outback. Give back, uh, helping out, uh, people affected in Australia. We were going to a steakhouse. Yes. Cool. Bio bloomin' on you get 15, 15% get dedicated, uh, donated to Australia. Um, you know what on that? No. You may fire when ready? Welcome back. Thanks for hanging out with us. This is episode 332 of the one and only IT in the D show. Broadcasting live here. Studio one in podcast. He tried and beautiful Royal Oak, Michigan. This is Bob the sales guy. Hey, always hanging out with Dave, the geek Ranee I do the Twitters is doing the Twitter's finding us online it in the d.com and do us a favor. Give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold, right. So what do we got? We got a, we got the Ann Arbor event coming up on the fourth. Well first off I went, I want to thank Detroit Detroit city distillery. That was our first time going there. Yeah, last week. Last Thursday. Um, and it's the perfect bed. We've packed the place. Holy crap. Well it's the perfect venue for what we do. Uh, I think we, we brought in about 50 ish people. Uh, not that person all there at five o'clock. Holy crap. It was weird. They were all there at five o'clock. It's in right in Eastern market. Uh, it's the perfect venue. I've do, I've gone ahead and booked once a quarter for the rest of the year for that place. I've, I look forward to going back there and I thank you to the staff or the parking lot. No. Great. Everybody loved it. And again, it was one of those things where people were like, Oh my God, I've never been here before. Keep hearing about it. Keep meaning to go here. Yeah. I love it. I think the only, cause that's kind of the, one of the sidewalls of our meetings and I think the only complaint I heard was that some people's nav took them the wrong direction on Rio poll. Oh, that's fine. Yeah, fine. Whatever. Uh, but no, so, uh, the fourth, uh, is the Anarbor event. Uh, principal probably pretzel, but I was gay. Uh, so, yep. And uh, and then, Oh geez. And after that we will be at go figure astronomic con, uh, the following weekend, uh, or actually that weekend. Uh, and then our next event, uh, in Metro Detroit is going to be at the Woodward troub on the 20th. And yeah, that's the scoop. That's my story. I'm sticking to it cause I remember to set it up for the third Thursday. Not the fourth Thursday. That's fine. It's fine. It's like saying I put him on the pepperoni pizza. I'm so stupid. Or put him on it to meet on the pizza. Just deal with it. Still felt dumped. My um, one of it is my favorite article of the week and this one hit home didn't hit home, but you read it and you're like, and it's basically called the day Microsoft office turned into malware and Microsoft, if you're not lucky dude, I'm trying to figure out, you're going to screw the pooch with this one. This is, this falls squarely into that whole like do they not remember 15 years ago will antitrust thing? Probably not. Well here, let me, let me start. Let me start. What's going on? Is it yesterday? Basically we got a office three 65 message center notifications by email and here was a change coming to the future version of pro plus. It's basically roadmap number five, nine nine one seven for those keeping score at home, extension of Microsoft searching Bing to be installed to office three 65 pro plus customers. Basically it's starting with version 2002 for old three 65 pro plus. They're going to automatically and without your consent, install a browser extension in Chrome and Firefox. It sets your default search engine to bang. Yup. And you I can kiss my ass cause and for those who you know, who might not remember about 15 years ago, there was the whole antitrust litigation, uh, because Microsoft forced you to install internet Explorer wouldn't have any of the other browsers yet. Eight yada. And like basically everybody knew the running joke was you fired up. I, he once went and downloaded Chrome. Uh, and then you never used IEE ever again back then you downloaded Firefox or whatever. Yeah. Well do you want to make G suite of thing? Cause this is how you make G suite of things. Oh for sure. A couple of things though. This is only enterprise customers. This isn't your, every, your mom and dad's office subscription at home. Nobody has office subscriptions at home office three 65, no radio. It impacts everybody from what I understand. No, it's just enterprise customers, enterprise customers. And there's a group policy that the administrators can push out that will prevent it from happening. It's all three 65 pro plus. Okay. And you can prevent it from happening. But the benefit of this is that it will search across your, uh, enterprise SharePoint and one drive and everything. So it'll show you relevant company results in your search term. So if you go search, are you really, are you really saying this is good? It's, you're taking that stance. I'm not saying, I'm saying, you know, who had that technology, you know, had it AltaVista had that tech. Google has that tech. Yeah. But if it's integrated with your system, like this is, if you're running office, then you're using SharePoint and you're running in one drive and you want search results from those won't return. So the, it's an extension that can be prevented, can be removed. But the enabling it by default is the bad part. I'm going to quote Gretchen wieners. I've never done that before. Stop trying to make big happen. It's not going to happen. Never gonna happen. Did she say that or did the one with a mole on her cheek? I forget. I the one with the mall on her. Oh, what the hell is her name? Oh, dammit. I just wanted to say Wiener on the under the podcast. Of course you did. Uh, so, but in that same vein, so Microsoft, you know, we talked about this last week, so we can have wieners [inaudible] nice. So you know, we talked about how they, you know, they, they dropped, uh, you know, Microsoft windows seven became unsupported until it wasn't, but, but then you have, what was it, Germany that paid, um, 900,000, 900 grand to keep it supported. Uh, and then even though they said it wasn't supported, they had to release a support patch for it because tiled wallpapers were broken and people weren't doing it. They're just like, no, like, it like really, like literally that was apparently the only thing that was broken tiled wallpapers and they had to issue a patch for it. Uh, your desktop wallpaper might display as black when set to stretch. It's Microsoft stretched, not tall. It's still, well no, it's affecting stretch wallpapers and fill a fit fill. Tyler center options are still being worked. Working on for a is why the computers at city hall have to go down for an hour tomorrow and Hamtramck so we can patch all of our windows seven so we can't stretch or yeah, come on. Hey, still better than the city who for the longest time was the largest single windows Emmy in solid A's. Just saying. And then, Hey, let's just go for the trifecta. We'll just stick with the Microsoft team and get this story out of the way. Uh, 250 million Microsoft customer records leaked. Yay. Who's shocked? Anybody? Not anymore with anybody. Was it a, was it just an open file on somebody? One drive, 250 customer records spanning 14 years exposed online without password protection? Um, I don't even know where to start with this. Um, and like where do they come from? This thing's like a mile long book of, of w did you, did you see where the seat these things came from? Um, it's metadata. It's not all the personal crap was supposedly redacted, allegedly. Allegedly. It's, no, it, I'm, I'm quite sure it is everything that's out there. Um, so I, I did, I love this, uh, just because I've gone down this wormhole so hard, uh, the Disney app was far and away the most downloaded app in the fourth quarter. And how has that news anyway, somebody knows. And it was the most uninstalled after everyone watched lion King the third time and Mandalorian was done in another, like, all right, I'm done. Ah, see lot, I think a lot of people were saying that and then nobody actually did it. Why? Cause like everybody I know got their free year through the Verizon reason. I haven't canceled YouTube after Cobra, Kai, because you're too lazy to go. Effing canceled. They know it, but not the dude. I told you I went down. So here's an, so actually, here's my bitch about Disney plus. Um, so, you know, I've gone through, I went back and started bingeing the star Wars cartoons, uh, as am I right now just for this rebels? I'm in the middle of resistance. Okay. So, so like it would have been nice to know that there was a clone Wars animated movie before there was a clone Wars animated show. ...