Windows Weekly comes in live from CES this week, dealing with the latest news (or non-news) from Microsoft. At the very top of the show, however, Lenovo’s Henry Chai joins Paul and Leo to talk about the Ideapad UI Hybrid and Skylight Smartbook, both of which are purportedly impressive.
Coming off of the Ideapad, Leo points out that “slates” (or tablet PCs, as they’ve always been called) are clearly one of the biggest trends in consumer electronics right now, though their necessity is questionable. In fact, one of the most disappointing...
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 network, starts at about the 9:00 mark).
Apparently, web browsers are still stuck in the past and Microsoft isn’t too happy about it. Security issues with Internet Explorer 6 are getting more and more overwhelming every day and...
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 for the beta is also a hot issue, considering Leo really enjoys the virtualization aspect and believes we’ll see many similar applications in the future.
Leo talks about his recent attempt to use the developer build...
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 the scene, namely Internet Explorer 9. While the information on IE9 was scarce, it’s clear that Microsoft will be toying with GPU acceleration of the browser similar to the recent...
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 difficult on the small screen though he thinks they’re capable of light computing and/or watching ripped movies. Leo shares his experiences with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Paul tries to reveal some of the features of the OS that...
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 has been under plenty of scrutiny for the registry hack that he discovered that allows users to easily perform a clean install using upgrade-branded Windows 7 disks. Nonetheless, it’s a very useful, relatively...
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 introducing a lot of unneeded trepidation at every Windows launch.
After quickly going over the Xbox price drop and reliability issues, the guys move onto the issue with Microsoft Word and the current litigation going on in Texas over the matter. ...
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 button presses of the Windows 7 install memorized. This means he can basically do a full Windows 7 install, from scratch, without looking at the screen. That speaks volumes not only about him, but also about the...
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 about the recently reveals XP virtual mode is that it requires hardware that supports virtualization and a lot of Intel chips, even the newer one, do not. Why do things always have to be so complicated?
Microsoft in court again, Genuine Advantage...
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 so nix that.
Paul and Leo also touch on the rumors swirling around the Zune world recently and as far the “pink” platform Microsoft denies that they have any sort of phone device in the works. This isn’t saying much as they never produce phone...
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 from Vista. So many have been viewing Windows 7 as the rejuvenation of Windows, but when one of the most in-the-know people of Windows world says something like this it can’t be anything but a little disheartening. Maybe it’s time for a revolution, where is it?
The...
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 should have stuck with the Seinfeld ads for a little while.
When is something truly exciting going to happen in the Windows world? Things are moving along so incrementally these days. There are rumors of that new HD Zune though–
Windows...
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 the way of the future for a long time and the internet has made that notion go away very quickly.
Take a minute to feel the nostalgia, if you are too young to remember when CD-ROMS were all the rage– enjoy your youth.
Windows 7...
Apparently there are a fair amount of changes coming to Windows 7. Paul is privy to some of the details, but he is not letting anything slip. With the beta out earlier in the year seeming surprisingly polished many didn’t expect too many changes beyond that, but apparently Microsoft has been holding out. Maybe it won’t be launching so soon.
Unsurprisingly OnLive gets a lot of discussion time here. The talk starts at the 46 minute mark and Paul is very up on it. He makes a good point that no matter how skeptical you are, OnLive...
Internet Explorer 8 is finally out and it sounds like there are some good improvements, but nothing mind-blowing. Paul has done a review which you see over at the SuperSite for Windows. All we really need is for IE to be standards compliant.
Silverlight has seen some changes and is now capable of running local code similar to Adobe Air. This is very different from what Microsoft said they were doing with it when they first introduced it. Adobe Air has already taken off to some extent so Microsoft will have another uphill battle on their...
