Windows Weekly 88 for 1.2.2009

January 3, 2009 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
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Title: Zune Takes a Holiday (1:12:17)
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

1:20 Introductions
2:00 Holiday recap
5:00 The Zune takes a day off. ”World Wide Zune Outage” due to firmware bug.
12:30 Windows 7 Update – Paul using on his main production machine. Very stable but still some weird things here and there (mainly drivers). Public beta estimated to be available end of January.
22:40 HP’s Windows Home Server (MediaSmart Home Server) update.
29:45 MacWorld discussion. Leo’s talk titled, “The End of the World as We Know It.“
40:00 Plugins and the ecosystem surrounding MS Home Server.
44:00 XBox Red Ring of Death war stories. What do to and how to handle.
50:50 Holiday sales – reporting down across the board except WalMart and Amazon. No major drop though.
55:00 Audible Commercial – Book Pick: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)
58:00 Tip of the Week: For Windows Seven. Change the taskbar to “Never Combine” as default, or ”Combine When Taskbar is Full”.
1:09:20 Pick of the Week: Windows Live Suite (http://download.live.com or http://get.live.com)

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