Windows 7 Release Candidate, Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC, Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Packs, Zune Rumors, and more.

• Windows 7 Release Candidate is out, available on MSDN and TechNet.
• Windows 7 will feature a Windows XP mode, allowing XP apps to run seamlessly side by side with Windows 7 apps with near 100 percent compatibility.
• Windows Vista and Server 2008 Service Packs 2 are also complete.
• Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is complete and out now.

Software Picks of the Week: Panda Cloud Antivirus, a free antivirus solution, and Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 which is now available for download.

Audible picks of the week: Along Came a Spider, Unabridged, By James Patterson, Narrated by Charles Turner. For a free credit toward the audiobook of your choice, visit Audible.com/windows.

Software tip of the week: You can install and run Windows XP applications in Windows 7, for example Internet Explorer 6, using this technique.

Check out Paul's blog at the SuperSite for Windows for more information.

Thanks to CacheFly for the bandwidth for this show. The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Derek K. Miller.

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

This mailbag episode covers Conficker, Windows process control, NeXT, Ironkey, and more.

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For 16Kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written - Spinrite 6.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Dry your clothes quickly and easily with the Mini Countertop Spin Dryer.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

A follow-up look at Folding@Home, the world's most powerful distributed computing cluster, designed to perform computationally intensive protein folding simulations.

Our guest is Dr. Vijay S. Pande, Director of Folding@Home and Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University

Audible pick: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Abridged, By Michael J. Fox, Narrated by Michael J. Fox. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech.

Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Randal Schwartz

Guest: Vijay S. Pande

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Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech.

Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks [email protected], PodsinPrint

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Wash your clothes using less energy and detergent with the portable Wonderwash.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

Evernote, Facebook opens to developers, PBworks, iTunes and American Idol, royal email, and more.

Our guests are Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, and Sarah Lane

• Facebook opens doors to developers
• PBWiki drops the Wiki, becomes Works
• iTunes Leak Spoils American Idol...Maybe
• The Queen Sends Email to New Generation

Audible.com pick of the week: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Unabridged, By Jon Meacham, Narrated by Richard McGondale. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte

Guests: Phil Libin and Sarah Lane

NAB, iPhone hardware add-ons, hackintoshes, Amazon/Stanza, a billion apps, and more.

Audible pick of the week: Illuminatus! Part I: The Eye in the Pyramid, Unabridged, By Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Narrated by Ken Campbell and Chris Fairbank. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/macbreak.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

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Connect your external hard drive to the internet with the Pogoplug.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo

Make sure your blade is safely retracted with the LED-enabled Rapid Tools Rapid Edge.

Audible pick of the day: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, Unabridged, By Michael Brooks, Narrated by James Adams. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/gizwiz.

For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte

Martin's therapist speaks out about Sarah, Kazakhstan to build alien embassy, baby shaker app, a Ziploc surprise, and more.

• Martin's therapist comments on Sarah and Martin's relationship
• Kazakhstan: Government to build UFO base and alien embassy
• Dimethyltryptamine gnomes
• World record texting contest results in a $26,000 phone bill
• Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls
• No toilet? No bride.
• 'Miracle' bra saves Detroit woman from robber's bullet
• 'Baby Shaker' game pulled from Apple's iPhone App Store
• Wal-mart employee steals electronics, then posts them for sale on employee bulletin board
• Kindergarten Teacher Sends Bag of Poop Home With Student
• Maine town seeks way to get rid of dead cow stuck below river waterfall

Hosts: Sarah Lane and Martin Sargent

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