Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble In Little Paul

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Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble in Little Paul

The rebirth of Windows Mobile, PC sales soar, and Google bitch slaps China.
[edit] Topics * PC shipments surge in holiday quarter o Biggest year-over-year quarterly gain in over seven years o Worldwide PC sales in quarter: Over 90 million, up 22.5 percent o US PC sales in quarter: Over 20 million, up 23 percent o Analysts cite availability of low-cost PCs. But we had these kinds of PCs last year. o I think there is one big difference between late 2009 and late 2008: Windows 7. o Top PC makers: HP, Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba o Biggest winners: Acer and Dell o Biggest loser: Possibly Apple, which fell to 5th place in US market despite strong sales o The netbook--and Windows 7--have contributed to a plateauing of Mac sales that started, go figure, in October. * Microsoft pulled Office/Word from its electronic stores and services o And it started appearing again within hours, depending on which service you're looking at o In accordance with injunction in i4i case * A new outlook for Windows Mobile o Microsoft has a plan to save Windows Mobile and it might just make sense o First: Support for capacitive touch screens o Second: A new generation of Windows Mobile 6.5 (either 6.5.3 or 6.6) devices with touch-friendly UIs o Third: Windows Mobile 7 o More at Mobile World Congress (February) and MIX'10 (March) * Nexus One fallout o The "superphone" not so super according to some reviewers o Some complaints about the cost of ending the contract as well o But I think it's fantastic o This is the first serious iPhone contender I've seen * Google and China o Other companies are involved as well o No one is saying this for some reason, but attack very clearly came from the Chinese government or its agents o Fallout: Gmail finally goes https:// by default * Funny Mosspuppet skit o Nice Thurrott reference o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klG1E8ui1hE * Video of Paul trying to steal Leo's coffee o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaEKtxMQGLE

[edit] Tip of the Week * Some New Year resolutions - things we can do better this year o Backup. Early and often. Locally and offsite (ideally to the cloud). Consider syncing critical data (documents, music, etc.) between PCs as well (or instead, depending on your needs). o It's time to say goodbye to "www" in URLs (we already stopped using http://). As a heads-up, Chrome does a superior job of URL prediction when typing. o Modernize and simplify. Doing more with less is more relevant than ever. Don't just "upgrade" your system/infrastructure. Do the right thing.

[edit] Software Pick of the Week * Simple AdBlock for IE - A simple browser extension for Internet Explorer designed to make ad blocking easy. Simple Adblock blocks all kinds of advertising from websites including flash ads, banner ads, rich media, slide-ins and fly-ins." * Thanks to Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas for the tip.

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