Another episode coming at you. In this 16th edition of MuchCast, co-founders Dan and Kevin along with Brian talk about the video games Scribblenauts and Shatter.
We then move into talking about new updates to the Microsoft Zune software.
But most of this week’s episode focuses around the return of prime time TV as we talk about Parks and Recreation, The Office and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
The gang also talks about the movie The Informant! and the newest release from Brand New entitled “Daisy.”
By now, most of us have heard bits and pieces about what Microsoft is planning to do with their next iteration of Office, 2010, including extending the ribbon interface to Outlook and any other program that were without and the collaboration enhancements allowing multiple users to not only edit a document together, but even display PowerPoint presentations in a remote web browse.
However, some interesting news came out earlier about a completely new method of access and use of (most of) the software suite – nearly full featured online versions accessible on any of the major web browsers. This isn’t a particularly revolutionary move, which is not uncommon when it comes to Microsoft, with Google Docs being so well developed for the past few years, but there is the potential for Microsoft to make a major splash with this release… and did I mention it will be free?
One of the new features that will be introduced in certain skews of Windows 7 is an application knows as XP Mode, a virtualized install of (generally) Windows XP that allows users to run Windows XP apps side by side with programs running on Windows 7. This seemingly opens up a whole new world of potential when it comes to using virtualization as security. Having a program running streamline with your main operating system while being completely isolated from the system itself would be quite a boon. Unfortunately, however, Microsoft may come through and chose convenience over security and leave a few holes open.
Microsoft has updated their Windows 7 development blog today with some depressing information about how they plan to allow users to migrate from the Beta version of Windows 7 to the Release Candidate – they want us to *shudder* DOWNGRADE to Vista then re-upgrade to the RC! Of course, they do provide a separate option that will allow users to do a direct upgrade, but the steps they list seem unnecessarily difficult and convoluted when compared to running the upgrade from Vista to 7
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Another episode coming at you. In this 16th edition of MuchCast, co-founders Dan and Kevin along with Brian talk about the video games Scribblenauts and Shatter.
One of the new features that will be introduced in certain skews of Windows 7 is an application knows as XP Mode, a virtualized install of (generally) Windows XP that allows users to run Windows XP apps side by side with programs running on Windows 7. This seemingly opens up a whole new world of potential when it comes to using virtualization as security. Having a program running streamline with your main operating system while being completely isolated from the system itself would be quite a boon. Unfortunately, however, Microsoft may come through and chose convenience over security and leave a few holes open.
