Office 2010 is the big topic for this week, with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurott coming through to give you some tips on getting started. The Office Beta is currently public and Paul notes his preference of the Office Home and Business 2010 option, which offers Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote. The Click-2-Run option [...]
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Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009
November 22nd, 2009
Professional Developers Conference (PDC) talk starts off this edition of Windows Weekly, with Paul telling stories about the segment of most press groups that consist of LiveJournal “professional” bloggers who pal around with real journalists.
After a short flashback to last week’s episode with talk about Modern Warfare 2, Paul discusses the biggest news to hit [...]
Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots
November 15th, 2009
Modern Warfare 2 has seemingly infected all media this week, dominating the first half hour of Windows Weekly. The Call of Duty franchise leads to the topic of PC game distribution and Leo and Paul agree that Steam and Good Old Games take the cake.
Paul discusses Windows 7 on netbooks, deciding that productivity is still [...]
Windows Weekly 128: The Upgrade Conundrum
October 31st, 2009
This is a big week for Windows Weekly with the launch of Windows 7, for obvious reasons. At the top of the show, Paul and Leo talk at length about all of the issues on Microsoft’s end considering abrasive anti-piracy tactics implemented at the expense of consumers, including notorious false positives in the authentication process.
Paul [...]
Windows Weekly 120: Bing Is My Back-End
August 28th, 2009
Paul and Leo starts out this week’s episode by talking Windows 7 in the context of today’s OS X Snow Leopard release. Paul points out that at the launch of a new Mac OS, people don’t worry about things working how they expect them to, but this is a very real problem for Windows. This [...]
Windows Weekly 116: Bring On The Bugs
July 24th, 2009
Windows 7 is finished and in the hands of PC manufacturers. This sounds good, but unfortunately it won’t be commercially available until October. You can always still grab the release candidate though.
If you ever doubted that Paul knows what he is talking about when it comes to Windows, consider this, he has the screens and [...]
Windows Weekly 106: One Hundred Little Changes
May 8th, 2009
It is a pretty technical episode of Windows Weekly this week. There is not much going on in Microsoft land other than the Release Candidate of Windows 7 now being available to the general public.
Paul discusses a lot of the smaller changes that have taken place from the beta to the RC. One strange thing [...]
Windows Weekly 105: Paul’s Itties
May 2nd, 2009
Windows 7 is the focus this week, as it tends to be every week. The big feature recently revealed with the Release Candidate of Windows 7 is the built-in virtual XP mode. We speculated that this would be great for gamers, but as it turns out it is only allocated 256MB of RAM on load [...]
Windows Weekly 103: A New Kind of Death
April 17th, 2009
As weeks go by it is hard to imagine what new there would be to talk about in the world of Windows, but there are also some new facets of things to think/talk about.
It is hard to hear, but even the Windows man himself, Paul Thurrott, says that Windows 7 is not that far off [...]
Windows Weekly 102: Now With Unicorn Tears
April 10th, 2009
The Windows advertisements that have come out are casuing quite a stir. There have been a lot of bad sentiments about them, but at least they are getting people talking it seems. It is weird tosee Microsoft firing directly back at Apple when they are clearly not even close in terms of market-share. Maybe they [...]
Windows Weekly 101: The Turbo Button
April 4th, 2009
Windows 7 will ever be the first topic of this podcast, but this is Windows Weekly.
Nothing too exciting here. One interesting thing is that Encarta is officially dead. If you have been using computers for over ten you surely remember buying a computer and getting a 10 CD set of Encarta. CD-ROMS were viewed as [...]
Windows Weekly 133: A Fish Called Windows Audio Only
December 6th, 2009
Windows Weekly kicks off with some obligatory talk about Modern Warfare 2 and it seems that Paul is still addicted to the game. Paul also got a chance to appear on last week’s TWiT, which leads into some conversation about the future of TWiT (definitely worth listening if you’re invested in the content on Leo’s [...]