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Leo Laporte
Live now: Windows Weekly 125 with Paul Thurrott. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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I am a complete mac fanboy but I love me some WW - Jordan Patterson
With wave in the news, I wonder if they will get to the Windows OCS server getting an XMPP and Live Gateway http://communicationserverteam.com/archive... - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
The video is very very trippy, i am kinda of enjoying it, Maybe your dog is playing with the tri caster. - Jordan Patterson
The tricaster knows you're going to replace it. - Ken Sheppardson
I cannot stress to you all this enough: WINDOWS WEEKLY IS THE BEST DAMN SHOW ON THE ENTIRE NETWORK. That is all. - Mark
Revision3 wishes they had a show half as good as windows weekly - Mark
That would be the big score... get one of the video folks at your party. - Ken Sheppardson
"I'd like to introduce to you Fred, who I'm sure you'll all recognize as Geeky Guy in Glasses from the rollout party video..." - Ken Sheppardson
I applied and yesterday I got an email that I was not selected - Chris Johnston
They're sorta like, you know... John Hodgman... - Ken Sheppardson
I'm sure the little girl just kept thinking "It's a paycheck... it's a paycheck..." - Ken Sheppardson
No ad/playback audio on Bitgravity - Ken Sheppardson
Leo the audio from the vids you are playing isnt coming through on bit gravity. - Jordan Patterson
Sorry a button was disarmed - it'll be there next time. - Leo Laporte
Item 1: Windows 7 launch parties I'm having one with Mary Jo Foley and Tom Warren in NYC and you are all invited We're giving away our copies of Windows 7 Ultimate And have you seen the hilarious Microsoft promo video for the Windows 7 parties? Related: New Windows 7 ads strike the right note Related: "The New Efficiency" is Microsoft's marketing mantra for Windows 7 - Leo Laporte
You have to buy the OEM version with hardware, correct? E.g. you used to have to purchase it along with a DIMM, a hard drive, etc. - Ken Sheppardson
House Party ad (censored version): http://adland.tv/commerc... - Leo Laporte
Home Premium for $99... http://www.newegg.com/Product... - Leo Laporte
I've walked into Fry's many times and purchased the OEM version along with a hard drive. - Ken Sheppardson
So instead of a "Family Pack" you just buy one retail copy and all the rest OEM for your household/business? - Ken Sheppardson
"Efficiency good." - Ken Sheppardson
Item 2: XP Virtual Mode is RTM, Microsoft Security Essentials is out, excellent Symantec fires back (of course) - Leo Laporte
Item 3: Windows 7 OEM pricing: $110 for Home Premium (50% off) - Leo Laporte
Item 4: Microsoft Security Essentials is out, excellent http://www.microsoft.com/Securit... Symantec fires back (of course) http://arstechnica.com/microso... - Leo Laporte
If one's already running something like AVG Free or some other free/shareware anti-virus, is there any reason to dump it and run Security Essentials instead? - Ken Sheppardson
hey Leo, does paul know how much the community loves WW? he never really hangs out on here so we can't tell him - Mark
I mean does he realise how good it is ?:D - Mark
I tried Security Essentials, went back to Avira because my AMD laptop slowed down too much. - Willem (@wim66) ☠
I know you love it Mark! ;-) It's definitely one of our top three downloaded shows. - Leo Laporte
The Apple Tablet is a home device, trip in van with kids, dorm room etc... - Rick
Item 5: The holiday 2009 video game season begins First up, Halo 3: ODST - Leo Laporte
Leo tell Paul to stop hating on Halo - Rick
Paul tell Leo to stop hating on Halo fanboys. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson
What makes you think there is an Apple tablet? - Chris Patterson
haha "this whole thing is screwed up" - Ryan
I am 15 minutes behind the live feed so am wondering what you ghuys are talking about. Love the Live Pause feature on bitgravity - Mark
You can pause the live feed with BitGravity and it will record upto 2 hours for you so you can return and not miss anything. - Mark
I'm gonna call Paul and tell him to stop hating on Halo - Matthew
will wave be a possible replacement for chatrooms or irc? - Matthew
It's a solution in search of a problem. =/ - Steve Mesik
LOL. Merlin Mann's tweets on Google Wave are hilarious. :D Latest one: Okay sorry. I take it back. Wave's "Playback" feature? WOW! Unrelated: the gun's barrel should be right up against my soft palate, right? - sunkenplanet
Audible pick of the week: Learn a foreign language with Audible Search for French, German, English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish or other languages Lots of different choices in lots of price ranges - Leo Laporte
Nice Google Wave discussion and visual for those who don't have the early invites... - Eric Matas
I really doubt it'll be scalable, in that you can't really open a "wave" up to the public. Very, very noisy. - Ken Sheppardson
Most people still don't "get" wikis. Take Google, for example, who just launched "Sidewiki" which is pretty much in no way a wiki. - Ken Sheppardson
Tip of the week: Use Libraries and Homegroup in Windows 7 Heck, use 'em together Libraries: A way to aggregate content together from the same PC. You can make your own Homegroup: A way to easily share Libraries (and printers) between PCs in your home - Leo Laporte
maybe this doesn't belong here.... but, any news from your sponsor (Audible.com) on when we can get an Audible.com player for android? - Bill Wead
No word yet - Audible provides an SDK and support, but the ultimate responsibility lies with the device maker (or OS maker). - Leo Laporte
Software pick of the week: Windows Live Movie Maker Free for Windows Vista and 7 users Excellent video editing And yes, it can import from DV sources. Output to HD, DVD, YouTube - Leo Laporte
Cold open: Today on Windows Weekly Paul and Leo scratch their heads at Google Wave, we plan our Windows 7 House Parties, take a look at Microsoft's Security Essentials. Windows Weekly is next.. - Leo Laporte
love u too... - Pam Gwenzi