Windows Weekly 105

Windows Weekly Episode 105

Topics

• Windows 7 Release Candidate is here
  • Build 7100
  • Out now for testers, MSDN and TechNet subscribers
  • Goes out to the public on May 5
  • No new features, no new UI
  • Feature complete
  • Looks like a July/August RTM, September release
  • Microsoft confirmed to me for the first time that Windows 7 (and Server R2) will ship in 2009
  • Also: Windows Server 2008 R2 RC is out (Windows 7 Server)

• Revealing Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
  • This is the secret new feature I mentioned
  • Rafael and I have had this for some time now and were dying to talk about it
  • Adds a complete Windows XP with SP3 virtual machine to Windows 7 (Pro, Ent., Ultimate)
  • Run XP apps side by side with Windows 7 apps
  • Seamless, near 100 percent compatibility with all XP productivity applications
  • Basically an unmanaged version of MED-V

• Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 is also complete
  • Will ship to customers in May
  • Some minor new features
  • Nothing to get excited about

• Office 2007 SP2 is also compete and now available
  • http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/28/now-available-microsoft-office-2007-service-pack-2.aspx

• Microsoft continues to deny Pink/Zune Mobile rumors
  • What's really happening?

Tip of the Week

• Run built-in XP Mode applications side by side with Windows 7 apps
  • When you install new apps in XP mode, they appear on the Windows 7 Start Menu. But what about the built-in XP apps? (Like IE 6.) Here's how to get them running in Windows 7 too. [1]

• Slipstream Office 2007 SP2 [2]

Software Pick of the Week

• Panda Cloud Antivirus Another free anti-virus solution, note: 32-bit only

• Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is now available

Significant Products

• Link URL and optional brief description

Sponsors

Audible

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Picks

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Charles Turner

adtime: 0:32-0:42 and 50:31-56:25

GoToMeeting

Q209-2

adtime: 0:44-0:54 and 31:30-33:58

Production Information

• Recorded Date: April 30, 2009
• Release Date: May 1, 2009
• Duration: 1:11:32
• Log line:
• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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