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This week in El Reg's enterprise and consumer tech-cast, our hosts Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela chat about slabs, VMWare's new desktop virtualisation strategy, Microsoft's Yammer buyout and more.

This week they discuss:

• Uncle Larry buys an island
• Google's new tablet, Nexus 7, leaked
• Microsoft Surface vs Google Nexus 7
• Who uses Google wallet?
• Microsoft buys Yammer for 1.2 Billion
• Lotus Notes flashback
• VMware goes deeper on the desktop
• Ed gets a new Drobo

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