Yes it is finally Saturday folks and we all know what that means here at WinExtra – it’s time for Paul O’Flaherty and myself to get together for another episode of WinExtra on Windows.
As usual we have a whole raft of stories to get through and amazingly this week we actually do just that without too much sidetracking.
Anyway here’s the various posts that sparked this weekend’s verbosity.
- Pre-SP1 Performance Boost for Windows 7 DirectX 11 Graphics Platform – Softpedia
- Separate update available to improve Windows 7 graphics – WinExtra
- CTOs warned to prepare for Windows 7 budget squeeze – The Register
- Windows Live Sync To Upgrade Storage To 5GB And Become Windows Live Mesh – TechCrunch
- Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, much of tech industry – Brier Dudley
- Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?) – TechCrunch
- Exchange ActiveSync to arrive on Hotmail on Monday – CNET
- Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7 – TechCrunch
- A billion to launch Windows Phone 7? I bet Microsoft is paying a lot more – Mary Jo Foley
- The Halo Effect: ‘It’s the reason people own Xbox 360s instead of PlayStation 3′s’ – Andrew Galbraith
- Microsoft Working on Real Time Phone-to-Console Game – WebLineIndia
Our software tips of the week.
Steven’s tip: WobZip – Online Unarchiver
Paul’s tip: Open Pandora
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