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Well it's been a few days since Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft showed off the full world of Windows 8 at Microsoft's new Build conference and since we've had a few days to digest all of the news surrounding the presentation we figured it was time to toss our two cents into the ring.

Today's WinExtra on Windows podcast is where myself, Paul O'Flaherty, and Holden Page talk Windows 8. The interesting, the possible, and the questionable parts of Microsoft's riskiest bet yet.

Enjoy.

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Yes folks, Paul O'Flaherty and I are back to do a semi-special episode of WinExtra on Windows. Well it's not really a special, we talked about it during the week and how much we missed doing the podcast so we figured what the hell we'd break out the gear and see what happens.

It the listener response is there, good or bad, we will definitely think of doing the show again on some kind of semi-regular basis.

Anyway here's the show and hopefully you enjoy it. We start off talking about the whole HP story, of course, and then let the conversation head where it may.

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Get out your calendars folks because you need to mark this day down as one of the few times that I have absolutely refused to show the video for one of the stories that Paul and I talk about on today's show.

Yes it is that bad.

Show links.

UPDATE 4-Microsoft loses U.S. Supreme Court case on patent - Reuters

Microsoft offers Bing Streetside opt-out in Germany following privacy concerns - WinRumors

Get a Windows Phone for your Xbox LIVE avatard - Paul Thurrot (video of the ad)

Bing for Mobile Browse Gets More Social - Bing Blog

UPDATE: Nokia CEO Says Company Is Not For Sale - Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Desktop Player - Sriram's 2 Cents

Kinect Star Wars: First Impressions [PICS] - Mashable

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Today's big news is obviously going to be centered around Microsoft and Xbox showing off some new stuff at the E3 event but that didn't stop Paul or I from digging up some other interesting news in the world of Microsoft.

Hilarious: pranksters plant Windows logo on Apple store construction [Video] - WinExtra

Nvidia’s poison pill against takeovers – Microsoft - WinExtra

E3: Microsoft confirms Voice Search coming to Xbox LIVE - WinRumors

Microsoft to launch cloud-based 'Office 365' on June 28 - Tech Herald

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While we had a great time going through some interesting news headlines from the world of Microsoft Paul seem to take great pleasure in today's show in poking the Hodson more than a few times.

Show links.

1st Donation drive goal reached, two winners have Steam games to pick. - WinExtra

Skype Reverse Engineered - Skype Open Source

IE9 Battle for Beauty: online & offline game to fight for a more beautiful web, June 10-11 - Long Zheng

Project Orapa is the New Xbox LIVE Diamond Service with IPTV - GPT

Microsoft plans to turn SkyDrive into an application for Windows Live Wave 5? - Liveside

Sign of the times, Microsoft Hardware releases AES encrypting keyboard - WinExtra

How Marketplace Manages Bulk App Publishing - Windows Phone Developer Blog

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Well, there's no getting away from it, for today at least. The big topic of discussion is obviously about the Windows 8 reveal that happened yesterday both at the D9 conference and over in Taiwan.

So needless to say Paul and I have a few opinions about it.

Show links.

Microsoft joins patent review group to avoid costly litigation - Computerworld

Microsoft releases a full video of Windows 8 tablet interface - WinExtra

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad - Daring Fireball

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It's looking like Microsoft is heading into some pretty interesting time and we should start getting some glimpses of what that future might look like with Steven Sinofsky's appearance at the D9:AllThingsD conference today but we'll have to be happy right now with talking about what we do know of.

Show links.

Learning from the past Microsoft looks to control tablet specs - WinExtra

Microsoft To Limit Device Makers’ Chip Choices - Bloomberg

Microsoft incentivizing chipmakers and tablet manufacturers to form 'sole alliances'? (updated) - Engadget

Acer concerned on Microsoft rules for new Windows - MarketWatch

The mystery of Windows 8's new 'Protogon' file system - Mary Jo Foley

R2-D2 gets up close and personal with Kinect [video] - WinRumors

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