I was pulled away by an emergency at the last minute, but Mary Jo Foley, Iyaz Akhtar, and Peter "Dr. Pizza" Bright discussed Office on iPad and other rumors, Messenger's sooner-than-expected death, more Surface RT reviews, Surface RT hardware problems, and AT&T's release of the first round of Windows Phone 8 handsets in the US.

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Software pick of the week: Dr. Pizza's mystery pick
If he has one, which I think he may...
 
Enterprise pick of the week: BitLocker Admin Admin 2.0 (MBAM)
Hits beta 2 this week
 
Codename pick of the week: Hekaton
We don't have the next SQL Server codename (yet), but we do have one for its in-memory database engine. This is no Dominican Thrash-metal band