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Media Center to hit another five countries
News Audiovisual quality has been a particular sticking point, Microsoft executives said at the conference, pointing out that people expect the sound and picture on a $1,500 (£843) media-oriented PC to be at least as good as those from a $99 DVD player.
[May 10, 2004, 9:40]
Media Center wins starring role
News Microsoft plans to start testing a new version of its Windows XP Media Center edition, which is a customised operating system designed for entertainment-oriented PCs. The software, code-named Symphony, is likely to make its way later this year onto...
[January 28, 2004, 8:05]
Smartphone & Pocket PC Oct/Nov 2006 MS Reader
Downloads The purpose of this magazine is to help you get the most out of your Windows Mobile device, and to that end we publish tips, how-to's, user profiles, enterprise-oriented articles, and Smartphone and Pocket PC reviews.
[August 14, 2006, 8:00]
Lindows tackles DVD, music
News Robertson, founder of MP3.com, started Lindows two years ago with the aim of offering a simplified, consumer-oriented version of the open-source Linux operating system. The media PCs appear to be a scaled-back response to Microsoft's heavily touted...
[January 29, 2003, 7:21]
Microsoft's entertainment PC to debut in UK
News Until now, sales of the entertainment-oriented PCs have been limited to the United States, Canada and Korea. Microsoft is taking Media Center further overseas, with plans to launch the PC entertainment software in China, Japan, Germany, France and...
[August 6, 2003, 15:00]
Steve Jobs: Tough times ahead
News After polishing Apple's lineup with the new flat-panel iMac, the school-oriented eMac, and now a rack-mounted server, chief executive Steve Jobs still has an adjustment to make. The entertainment-hub effort relies on Mac users upgrading to Mac OS X...
[May 15, 2002, 13:50]
Sony works with Palm on multimedia
News Sony has taken the lead with multimedia devices running the Palm OS in its entertainment-oriented Clie handhelds, but uses its own application programming interfaces (APIs) to support features not yet built into Palm OS.
[May 22, 2002, 12:50]
HP ditches Linux option for UK netbooks
News British customers can also buy HP's business-oriented Mini 2140, which comes with a choice between XP and Vista. HP is selling the Mini 1000 Mobile Internet Experience (MIE) edition, which uses a customised version of Ubuntu Linux and is aimed at...
[February 5, 2009, 12:10]
Jesse Berst: The hidden failure of Windows 2000
News But Windows 98 SE is more compatible with older apps and entertainment-oriented hardware. Due this autumn, Windows 2000 is the update to Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft's "serious" operating system for business workstations and servers.
[June 22, 1999, 8:49]
New version of XP Media Centre Edition to be released
News The entertainment-oriented Media Center OS is similar to other flavours of Microsoft's flagship Windows XP, but adds a second interface that can play movies, music, digital pictures or television and be controlled via remote control.
[October 6, 2004, 15:40]
AOL services to run on Symbian smartphones
News The first new services likely will involve instant messaging -- the "training wheels" feature every wireless carrier uses to give subscribers a palatable taste of data-oriented phone services. But the Web provider also intends to make "a broad...
[April 25, 2003, 8:25]
XP update to sport more than just fixes
News Service Pack 1 will introduce support for Mira "smart" display devices, the Tablet PC and the multimedia-oriented Freestyle graphical interface. Hewlett-Packard, for example, hopes to deliver a hybrid PC-home entertainment centre built around...
[March 1, 2002, 14:01]
Microsoft outlines its vision of the future
News But many of the new technologies, including a more communications-oriented interface, won't arrive at least until XP's successor -- code-named Longhorn -- ships in 2004 or later. Some of those technologies, such as support for Mira wireless devices...
[April 19, 2002, 7:31]
Storage newcomers target niches
News Taneja said the object-oriented approach sets Panasas apart from competitors. Paramount Digital Entertainment has used standard NAS boxes, but felt there was a better way to handle large amounts of video data.
[October 20, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft to open Passport to competition
News HailStorm has a large piece that is consumer-oriented," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. Here's a way to access an address book or music; those have entertainment value," Quinn said.
[September 20, 2001, 13:10]
Intel wants PCs to double as VCRs
News At the same time, the company is developing the Entertainment PC (EPC), a desktop design based on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, which manufacturers can use to create more entertainment-oriented PCs that come with...
[March 8, 2004, 8:40]
PC giants to grab spotlight at electronics show
News For PC-oriented companies, the move into entertainment gear also offers the hope of an escape from sagging computer sales. For instance, sources said, Sony plans to unveil several products, including the eVilla, an Internet appliance with a focus...
[January 4, 2001, 11:18]
Interactive TV: Whistler goes Hollywood
News The consumer version will include home-oriented features, such as some of the TV-like capabilities that are part of the current Microsoft TV platform. Whistler isn't the first Microsoft operating system that the company is attempting to position as...
[September 7, 2000, 8:31]
Media Center uses Web as a remote control
News Last month, when it announced Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, the latest iteration of its entertainment-oriented operating system, Microsoft had said it would offer such a feature. Microsoft has pressed play on a feature that lets people use...
[December 1, 2004, 15:35]
Gartner cuts PC sales forecast
News Microsoft did introduce a new version of Windows XP Media Center Edition, but that entertainment-oriented operating system is still a niche product, Smulders said. Citing concerns that computers aren't topping holiday wish lists, market research...
[November 16, 2004, 8:15]
