Windows Weekly 192

Windows Weekly Episode 192

Topics

• Windows Phone news:
  • Microsoft claims it has found 3G data leak problem in WP7, blames unnamed third party app. This is clearly not the (entire) problem.
  • Software updates for Windows Phone? Where are they? And why isn't Microsoft on the same path Apple was with the iPhone in 2007??

• 2010 PC sales, part 2
  • Now that Apple's results are in, let's make a comparison between PC and Mac sales.
  • Apple sold 11.23 million Macs in CY 2009 and 14.4 million in 2010. YOY growth = 16.16 percent
  • PC makers sold 300 million PCs in CY 2009 and 248.5 million in 2010. YOY growth = 28.22 percent
  • Apple's CY 2009 market share was percent was 3.74 percent. For 2010, it was 4.42 percent
  • These are worldwide figures of course.

• The mystery behind the release of Windows 7 SP1
  • It's here. Or is it? The official release will be next week or the week after.

• A preview of the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate that's coming at end of January
  • UI changes, including cleaner-looking, squared-off tabs (Beta uses IE 8 style tabs), a new ActiveX Filter feature that can toggle ActiveX elements on a page-by-page basis, the previously-announced tracking protection feature, latest rendering engine from recent platform preview builds
  • Coming January 28

• Video game sales, part 2
  • We didn't have all the numbers last week. But we do now.
  • Nintendo won December with 2.36 million Wii consoles in December
  • Microsoft surprised with a record 1.9 million Xbox 360s sold in December and 3.27m for Q4
  • Sony trailed with 1.2 million PS3s in December
  • Microsoft's best month was only good enough for a number two showing, and let's face it, it wasn't that far ahead of the PS3
  • Microsoft now warning that it may fall short in January and February because it had to take stock to meet holiday demand.
  • Related: Some Dashboard updates this week (anti-piracy, Gamertag UI change)

• Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich has written a cyber-thriller, "Zero Day"
  • Coming in March, you can preorder it now.
  • http://www.zerodaythebook.com/

• OneNote for iPhone
  • Microsoft ships another iOS app. But where's the iPad version? More important, where's Office?

• Exchange vs. Google Apps in the battle of the nines
  • Google is exaggerating its uptime claims. Why isn't Microsoft fighting back harder?

• A few thoughts about Steve Jobs and Apple
  • He's irreplaceable. It's time to replace him

Windows Phone 7 App of the Week: Zombies!

• A Left 4 Dead-style game, but turn-based, and for Windows Phone: Kill the zombie horde on the go! (Actually, it's based on a board game)

Software Pick of the Week

• Air Video - Fixes a weird missing feature in the iPad and AirPlay and works pretty well. $2.99
• Eraser - Securely erase a hard drive so you can dispose of it--or give it away, or sell it--and not worry about someone stealing your data. Best of all, it's free

Significant Products

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Sponsors

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Picks

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Marc Vietor

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Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
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