Item 1: MIX'10 Windows Phone and the three great mis-reported non-events IE 9 and the weird backlash - What's really going on with the Platform Preview Is there a vast right-wing conspiracy? And why no Windows Live Wave 4 news?? - Leo Laporte

Tried the IE9 Preview and was very impressed with the graphics acceleration. Good to see them getting it together with HTML5. Takes the browser to a new level of performance. - Steve Wooding

Item 3: Windows Virtual PC update: No more hardware virtualization required http://www.microsoft.com/windows... - Leo Laporte

Item 2: Microsoft talks a bit about Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 SP1 And verifies what we've already talked about: It's a big deal on the server, not a big deal on Windows 7. - Leo Laporte

Item 4: Opera: Browser ballot is working (for them) Downloads double (to 17?) Meanwhile, smaller browser makers are now campaigner for even great exposure - Leo Laporte

Item 5: Tim Bray joins Google, lashes out at Apple http://www.tbray.org/ongoing... - Leo Laporte

Windows 7 Feature of the Week: Aero Themes http://www.winsupersite.com/win7... The fun bit: You can now easily rotate between different desktops. The bad bits: It's still not particularly multi-monitor savvy, glass color changes don't affect Explorer toolbar chrome. - Leo Laporte

Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Tablet PC-Style multi-select ... On any PC Enable it through Folder Options -> View tab, scroll down and near the bottom is a checkbox named "Use checkboxes to select items". This gives everything on the Desktop and in Windows explorer a little selection checkbox. Using those boxes to toggle selection is often easier than Ctrl-selecting each item, and it doesn't interfere with shift-select. Thanks to Rudy Raab for the tip! - Leo Laporte

Audible pick of the week: The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman (narrated by author) http://www.audible.com/adbl... "In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although best sellers such as Poor Richard's Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman, which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up." - Leo Laporte

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IE 9 Platform Preview http://ietestdrive.com Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows... Windows Phone 7 developer tools (free) http://developer.windowsphone.com/ - Leo Laporte

Tease: Paul reports from Microsoft's MIX 2010, a look at IE 9, and the trouble with cut and paste. - Leo Laporte

Here’s Paul Thurrott in July 2007, regarding the iPhone: And what’s up with the lack of cut/copy and paste? This is a basic OS feature that Apple included in the first Mac OS almost 25 years ago. It’s inexplicably missing from the iPhone, unavailable in any application or the wider system itself. Unreal. And here’s Paul Thurrott two days ago, in a post titled “I Love Windows Phone”: The multitasking is limited. Users will only be able to get apps from the Marketplace, and not from third parties. Gasp! Is it true that there’s no copy and paste? No matter. Windows Phone combines those very few things that were right about Windows Mobile — primarily some business functionality — with a much wider set of new functionality that is exciting in both scope and possibility. Unreal, indeed. - deleted