Windows Unwrapped Episode 5 recorded Sunday July 17, 2011

Welcome to Windows Unwrapped your show for Windows related news, reviews, and interviews.

In today’s show we’re going to talk to the CEO of the worlds first Windows App Store, talk a little about Microsoft’s secret social network, and more…

Guest: Thibauld Favre – CEO of AllMyApps.com (Crunchbase profile)
AllMyApps.com is the first ever Windows App Store.  You can download new apps and keep your existing ones up to date easily with a single click just like you can on your mobile device.

We talk to Thibauld about the websites past, present, and future for software developers and consumers alike.   Very exciting!

Topics

Hotmail adds ‘My friend’s been hacked!’ feature to finger phishers

Will Microsoft Drop Windows?

Tulalip Leaked

Twitter and Microsoft Hammering Out Bing Integration -
PC Magazine.  Steve’s been working on a cool link filterer for twitter to get to the good stuff.  Microsoft is trying to get real time feed information to do something similar.  Google failed and just decided to make their own social site.

Windows XP last 1,000 days
“1,000 days left of Windows XP support has created a buzz on the web.  Companies should think about switching before the last minute as preparing the roll-out of a new OS is time consuming in itself.

“Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same requirements or lower”.  Interesting… (Tom’s Hardware)