Episode Details

This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes.

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Runner-up Titles

• Spicy takes and f-bombs
• Not pants
• Real scientists don’t use Excel
• We fixed it
• Private equity is coming for you
• Jerks on the phone… go!
• They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs

Rundown

• Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
• Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac
• Cloud News and Earnings
  • Clouded Judgement 10.20.23
  • Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot
  • Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users: CEO Nadella
  • Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call
  • Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms
  • How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development
  • Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages
• Passwords
  • Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit
  • 1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise
  • Passkeys (Passkey Authentication)
• Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement
• Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics

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