Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh

Paul Thurrott

July 10, 2011

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I are joined by special guest Mary Jo Foley and discuss the Windows 8 schedule, Microsoft's pursuit of Android patent licensees, Facebook and Skype, PCs and simplicity, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, new improvements to Hotmail, Word Web App co-authoring, Xbox brand consolidation, the death of Zune Originals, and Verizon Wireless move to tiered data plans.



Running time: 1:50:25

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Picks and tips

Windows Weekly tip of the week: Windows users should drop Dropbox and use Windows Live Mesh with rare exceptions. Live Mesh is superior in some important ways and better integrated with Windows.

Also: Follow-up to last week. I mentioned that Firefox and Chrome lagged IE in businesses because of a lack of basic policy support. This is true of Firefox, but it turns out Chrome does have business-oriented deployment and management tools.

Windows 7 app pick: Ninite Updater. It's like Automatic Updates ... but for all of your apps. $9.99 a year.

Windows Phone 7 app pick: The Onion. The web's funniest e-zine goes mobile in fine form.

Mobile pick: Bing for iPad 1.1. Now with Lasso. "Simply lasso a word or phrase with your finger to do a search instead of copying and pasting into the search box. Search the way it was meant for the iPad."

Audible pick of the week: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson, narrated by Mike Chamberlain. Forget the zombie apocalypse. Once we have robots everywhere, the robot uprising is going to be the real problem!

About the Author

Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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