Windows Weekly 162

Windows Weekly Episode 162

Topics

• Windows 7 hits 150 million licenses sold
  • Sales are actually accelerating, now on track to sell 300 million copies in CY2010

• Windows Live Essentials Beta is here
  • Finally
  • Related: Hotmail is starting to roll out
  • Related: IE 9 Platform Preview 3 is here too, for developers
  • Related: Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

• Bing Spring 2010 updates
  • Still not a lot of respect for some reason, but Bing is turning into something pretty excellent
  • Great mobile apps too

• Hotmail vs. Gmail
  • Hotmail has Exchange ActiveSync support now, but is it good enough to unseat Gmail as the power user email provider of choice. **The short answer is no, but it's gotten a lot better and should be fine for "normal" users.

• TechNet Standard revisited
  • Why are there so many questions about this? [1]

• Skipping the iPhone 4
  • I'm waiting on Windows Phone
  • Related: iOS 4 is amazing. And I'm sure the iPhone 4 is as well.
  • Related: Amazon drops price of Kindle to $190. Now we're talking.

• How Paul's kids almost cost him $1000
  • Three fun episodes with the kids: Xbox 360 S/PC security/iPod touch in-game purchases

• Paul's road-trip: From Boston to Durango, Colorado - Thursday through next week
  • I'll be in Durango for next week's show

Software Pick of the Week

• Windows Live Essentials Beta
• Soluto

Significant Products

• Link URL and optional brief description

Sponsors

Audible

• Audible.com/summer
• Audible Big Listen - 1
• ad times: 1:05-1:16 and 1:14:20-1:22:28

Picks

Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Daniel Gerroll

Squarespace

• Squarespace.com/windows
• ad times: 0:34-0:48 and 18:24-21:51

CarbonitePro

• CarbonitePro.com - no other code or promo
• CarbPro #2
• ad times: 0:49-1:04 and 47:58-50:29

Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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