Columnist Stephanie Krieger has been working extensively with Windows Vista over the past year. In this article, she gives you the facts you need to reap the benefits of the new Windows Experience Index.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Adam “stand-in for Matt” Sweet, and Andrew “spline” Lewis (in place of Ade) talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff, including:

• After Groklaw claimed that Novell were ‘forking’ OpenOffice.org, we ask: is open source journalism becoming too sensationalist? (2.50)
• Nat Friedman from Novell talks about Novell’s view of their deal with Microsoft and where Novell are going next (17.05)
• Open Source killers: does Miguel have an angry minion army, The Floating Luis Villa Head of Death, and whether large necks are the sign of a murderer (49.57)
• Chris DiBona from Google talks about Google’s view of open source, what he’s up to at the moment, and where Google get their money from (55.56)
• We complain about the emails, completely unfairly. Send in your emails to show@lugradio.org! (73.50)

Columnist Tom Bunzel explains how to enhance productivity by leveraging Windows Vista features in 2007 Office system programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Columnist Derek Torres compares the improved features of Windows Vista to Windows XP so that you can make an informed decision about upgrading.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Adam “stand-in for Matt” Sweet , and Ade Bradshaw talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff, including:

• Jokosher 0.2 is now available; Jono and Aq explain why we’re not yet using it for LugRadio, what 0.2 does that 0.1 didn’t, and what’s next on the horizon for the best audio editor in the world (2.16)
• Simon Phipps from Sun talks about Java now being open sourced and what Sun are going to do now, as well as giving Pipex a kicking for his DSL connection not working (19.03)
• Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical emailed the OpenSuSE developers list to invite those developers to join Ubuntu. Jono gets a (pretty undeserved) kicking for this from the rest of the team and the nature of “party lines”, and defends himself admirably (34.30)
• Many, many emails, and email-prompted discussion, including more on release cycles, anechoic rooms, source for creative endeavours like art and music, open source pets that don’t need feeding, codecs, and Adam’s ring (50.25)