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I'll just throw some more links in here

http://libvirt.org/   (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/213)

Good choice of phone, I have the same!

For a laugh, if you have an old WP7 phone, play the game BulletAsylum on you old phone and the new.  I spy hardcoded timing loops....  But does go to show how much faster the new hardware is

I've just installed the new XBox dashboard and am posting this from IE on the XBox.

Seems to work really well, and I can now watch C9 videos stright on my TV without out having to download them first, though you have to use the MP4 download link to play; WMV's don't seem to work and the in page HTML5 player does not seem to have a way to go full screen; still a big improvement!

Now to go and see how well some of the Win8 features work with this.

BTW, I'me typing this on a wireless keyboard, but it only seems to work for text input, you can't scroll the page with the cursor keys, and there is no mouse support, you have to move around with the XBox controller, which actually is not that bad of an experience.

31 minutes ago, kettch wrote

@blowdart: Silliness seems to be key for me.

I'm the same the films I watch over and over aren't the 'best' I've seen, things like ID4, Armageddon, Down Periscope, The Core, Repli-Kate etc.

In fact the higher I rate a move on first viewing, the less likely I am to watch it more than once.  Action/Explosions tend to help though

I suppose it's because the films I watch most often, I tend to dip in and out of while doing other stuff so have to be easy to drop into and also to walk away from, if that makes sense.

3 hours ago, Dr Herbie wrote

So has anyone spotted any differences from the preview releases?

No Aero glass effects on windows any more.

This isn't meant to be a serious suggestion, but how about a multi-core device using Hyper-V and some of the remote-FX work.  That way you could have a parent partition that manages all the day to day stuff and could run add-ins manage the PVR system etc., and games ship as VHDs that get booted into a protected environment with it's own dedicated set of resources... 

@battlebottle: I still think that there is a niche in the market for a device with no contract and many days of battery life.  Is it worth's MS's time to create a new device I'm not sure, but if WP8/W8RT can live up to it's promises of shared core, shared hardware drives, much more reuse it might be a much easier undertaking.

42 minutes ago, Clint wrote

 I know the msft garage is going to get a make bot replicator and an Up 3d printer.

I would very much like to hear how these compare, they're the ones on my to-buy list, can't decide which way to go.

@spivonious: I follow the link to the market place and get told I can't install due to region or other restrictions.

Nice looking app, shame I can't get it in the UK!  What a croc of *.