Windows Weekly 407: Windows Phone 3.1

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss MS-DOS Mobile, Surface 3, a new Windows 10 build with Spartan, Xbox One, and more Microsoft news.

Running time: 1:44:44

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Tip of the week: Scroll inactive windows in Windows 10

A cool feature from Mac and UNIX finally makes its way to Windows.

Tip of the week #2: Be prepared to recover your Surface Pro 3 no matter what happens

This one is important.

Tip of the week #3: This month’s Games with Gold games are particularly good

Don’t forget to take advantage of this amazing Xbox Live Gold perk

Enterprise pick of the week: MDM features begin rolling out to O365 users

Commercial O365 users are getting a bunch of mobile device management features for free over the next few weeks

Codename pick of the week: Phoenix

MS has built an ‘experimental’ expense reporting app codenamed Phoenix. iOS testers wanted

Beer pick of the week: Bud Light    lol –Paul (don’t worry. just foolng)

Boulevard Brewing Tank 7

Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing is expanding distribution. Now in NYC. And this Belgian/farmhouse ale of theirs is very good: http://www.boulevard.com/BoulevardBeers/tank-7-farmhouse-ale/ 

Audible pick of the week: Becoming Steve Jobs

Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, narrated by: George Newbern.

Not clear we need yet another book about Steve Jobs. But here it is. The official biography is better, especially if you’re more interested in the products he made and less interested in a tortured rewriting of history.