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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• 1:10 Introductions
• 2:43 Repurcussions & discussions from Microsoft of Paul’s coverage of Windows 7
• 4:32 Windows 7 build leaked from China – posted publicly
• 6:07 Public beta of Windows 7 coming in January
• 8:11 Discussion of some Windows 7 features – aerosnap on two monitors
• 9:20 Discussion of running multiple monitors including Apple 24-Inch Display and Dell’s 24 inch display.
• 12:40 Leo mentions new Thursday video-only show, “PC Perspective” and discuss hardware performance rating systems (noise, standards, etc).
• 14:10 Intel creating cheap graphic processors on a single die.  Case that today’s hardware is more powerful than most users need.
• 18:25 Verizon has new phone with “exciting use of Windows mobile”. Windows Mobile discussion follows…
• 27:30 Paul says the pullout keyboard on mobile phones isn’t worthwhile.  Just adds size and most times you type with one hand/thumb.  Leo agrees on screen keyboards are very useable.
• 30:10 Zune Phone discussion.  Fake?  Paul can’t comment which Leo says is a sign that it’s a real device.  Paul “thinks” it would be a Windows Mobile device with the Zune
  media center on it.
• 34:30 Discussion of the crap-ware found on PCs.  Should manufacturers charge NOT to install the crap on new PCs.
• 35:55 IE8 public beta is coming out soon.
• 40:00 Mentions Wakoopa.com to track how much time in certain applications.
• 44:20 Holiday Pick:  Microsoft’s retro clothing aka: SoftWear.
• 51:09: Holiday Pick: Microsoft LifeCam Webcam.
• 53:00: Holiday Pick: Skype account – $99 unlimited account.
• 54:00: Holiday Pick: Plantronics DSP-400USB headset
• 55:00: Holiday Pick: Plantronics Audio 480 Virtual Phone Booth Earbuds
• 56:00: Holiday Pick: Microsoft BlueTrack Explorer Mouse
• 58:00: Holiday Pick: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• 1:00:00: Holiday Pick: Apple Keyboard
• 1:02:00: Holiday Pick: OCZ Throttle Esata 32GB Flash Dr
• 1:06:00 Audible Commercial
• 1:07:00 Book Pick: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
• 1:08:00 Book Pick: iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
• 1:08:30 Book Pick: Cross Country (Alex Cross Novels)
• 1:09:40 Book Pick: A Child’s Christmas in Wales
• 1:10:40 Book Pick: Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
• 1:12:58 Vista Tip – Flip 3D replacement —  SmartFlip Utility
• 1:15:18 Reminder of the “Ultimate Steal” program from Microsoft.
• 1:18:30 The Dark Knight discussion
• 1:20:00 Software Pick: Google Chrome

Listen/download here: http://twit.tv/ww87