13 Things I Read Today - 07.26.15

1. Chinese government authorities injected $438 billion to stabilize the Chinese stock markets.

2. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins visits China every 90 days, where a nationalistic tone from the Chinese government has hampered sales.

3. Microsoft launches Windows 10 on Wednesday, July 29.

4. Windows accounts for 10% of Microsoft's stock value. $MSFT

5. Sales of boxed software are typically booked up front while cloud sales are booked a few at a time.

6. Microsoft is best known for execution and not innovation. It was late to a graphic-based OS, word-processing, and browsers; yet it came to dominate all three.

7. Microsoft is going "the full Abode" - meaning they will execute a cloud model that brings users more frequent updates as well as the ability to use their software on multiple machines.

8. Microsoft plans to make smaller and more frequent updates to the software.

9. Bing now has a 20 % market share, and Microsoft says it will turn a profit in the current fiscal year.

10. The biggest problem at Panera, the wait is too long. With twice the average quick-serve restaurant volume, Panera has a high-quality problem.

11. Panera's 2.0 business upgrade has the restaurant installing kiosks where customers can place orders.

12. Panera's 2.0 rollout has been slow - only about 100 out of 1,900 stores have been completed to date.

13. The first Scotland v England FIFA World Cup qualification games for over 50 years. The first match at Wembley on Friday, November 11, 2016.