Windows Weekly 101

Windows Weekly Episode 101

Topics

• Windows 7 build 7068 has leaked
  • No major changes this time around, but someone has hacked the installer so that you can install all of the retail product versions individually: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate
  • I've made up detailed tables comparing which features are available in each product edition
  • Some interesting Starter edition tidbits: The 3 app limit, weird limitations around the wallpaper, welcome screen
  • Related: AT&Ts subsidized netbooks starting at $49
  • Related: Gizmodo story about Windows 7 not working with third-party codecs is BS
  • Related: TechEd 2009 launch for Windows 7 RC? Maybe, but Microsoft is recommending that the press does not attend (!)

• Windows Server 2008 Foundation
  • This one is cool
  • Low-cost server aimed for low-end hardware and very small businesses
  • will cost $150, 200 .... only on new hardware, not retail
  • Single proc only, up to 15 users, no CALs, no Hyper-V or virtualization licensing
  • Clearly aimed at Linux
  • Ballmer: It's like a netbook version of Server

• Microsoft kills Encarta
  • Yet another Wikipedia-related death

• Conficker came and went on April 1
  • A complete non-event

• Everything Must Go is on for April 4
  • But ... will be the first of a few of these events this month. First one will be the big ticket items
  • Do it again a week from Saturday ... see how it goes

Tip of the Week

• Speed up IE 8! See Bigfoot while you're at it
  • With a nod towards April Fools: Ed Bott does it again ... not the good kind
  • But who knows, it may work if you upgraded on a messy system
  • http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=2443

Software Pick of the Week

• DOSBox
  • x86 emulator with DOS, lets you run DOS games in Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Like Wolfenstein 3D, mentioned last week, also Duke Nukem, etc.
  • http://www.dosbox.com/

Significant Products

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Sponsors

Audible

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Picks

The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Tom Weiner

Ad Time: 0:32-0:42 and 40:57-43:22

GoToMeeting

ad time: 0:43-0:55 and 19:35-22:02

• GoToMeeting.com/windows

Production Information

• Recorded Date: April 02, 2009
• Release Date: April 03, 2009
• Duration: 56:50
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• Edited by: Tony
• Notes: NA

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