{"id":798,"date":"2009-01-09T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2014-10-22T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:33:03","slug":"windows-weekly-89-netcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2009\/01\/windows-weekly-89-netcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Weekly [#89] NetCast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title podcast\"><strong>Tripod, The Beta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/winsupersite.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Thurrott<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/leoville.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leo Laporte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macworld and iTunes tax, Ballmer at CES, Windows 7 and Windows Live, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary-Jo Foley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macworld 2009<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, at least they focused on the Mac for a change.<\/li>\n<li>iTunes goes DRM-free.<\/li>\n<li>But what about the iTunes tax? All or nothing to convert existing songs.<\/li>\n<li>Also, Microsoft raises Apple Tax issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ballmer keynote<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 public beta<\/li>\n<li>Windows Live Essentials is finalized<\/li>\n<li>Windows Mobile? No discussion of version 7, Zune Mobile<\/li>\n<li>No discussion of Vista numbers (Why: SEC; earnings announce soon)<\/li>\n<li>No discussion of Windows 7 schedule, SKUs (Why: Still working on it)<\/li>\n<li>Schedule: WinLive Wave 3 first, then IE 8, then Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>Confirmed: Only one Beta release for Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>No discussion of Windows Home Server? Weird. I\u2019ve had one of the new HPs for awhile \u2026 excellent<\/li>\n<li>There are new home server partners \u2014 new versions of the OS are coming this year too<\/li>\n<li>Xbox 360: 28 million sold so far<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Software of the week: Windows 7 Beta available starting Friday<\/p>\n<p>Tip of the week: Use Windows 7 Play To \u2026 to send content around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Audible pick of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/adbl\/site\/products\/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BKOT_001149&amp;BV_UseBVCookie=Yes\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House<\/a>, Unabridged, By Jon Meacham, Narrated by Richard McGondale.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Paul&#8217;s blog at the <a href=\"http:\/\/winsupersite.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SuperSite for Windows<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>get yours <a title=\"Windows Weekly #89\" href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/ww89\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripod, The Beta Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte Macworld and iTunes tax, Ballmer at CES, Windows 7 and Windows Live, and more. Guest: Mary-Jo Foley Macworld 2009 Well, at least they focused on the Mac for a change. iTunes goes DRM-free. But what about the iTunes tax? All or nothing to convert existing songs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,27],"tags":[6,258,222,208,198,203,247,260,177,197,183,206,251,380,178,224,358,359,216],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-note","tag-apple","tag-ces","tag-drm","tag-home-server","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-mac","tag-macworld","tag-microsoft","tag-netcasts","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-server-2008","tag-software","tag-vista","tag-windows","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-live","tag-zune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}