Oct 13th 2006
Windows Weekly 2
The Windows Shiv
Hosted by
Paul Thurrott,
Leo Laporte
What's new in Vista, and what's missing, Microsoft's compatibility shivs, and Amazon's nightmare movie store...
Records live every Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
On this episode Paul and I converse about Vista including:
- RC2 ships
- Vista Sideshow
- Windows compatibility shivs
- Features missing from Vista, WinFS, Monad, Sidebar
- Internet Explorer 7's "forced" upgrade
- IE 7 compatibility issues
- The registry lives on
- Ray Noorda passes on
- Michael Robertson says the Zune will be the flop of 2007.
- Too bad about the Rio Carbon
- Amazon's Unbox is a DRM nightmare
- Get free books and buy Paul's old stuff on his Internet Nexus blog
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- Paul's game of the week is Lego Star Wars II for Windows and Xbox
- Bend Internet Explorer to your will with IEForge's inline search extension
Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show.
Our album art is by Orion Day. The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Derek K. Miller.