Microsoft Trials Home Entertainment PC
News Microsoft has shipped an early trial version of "Freestyle" -- its new entertainment-centric PC design -- to some beta testers, a company representative confirmed on Thursday. PCs equipped with a remote control and an early, pre-beta release of the...
[June 21, 2002, 11:31]
Everex To Show Palm PC At CeBIT
News At 150g (including the two AA batteries that power it) and measuring about the size of a half-full deck of playing cards, the Everex Freestyle will be capable of being carried in the pocket, unlike current Windows CE 2.0 designs which are...
[January 15, 1998, 9:38]
Microsoft Puts PCs Into Heart Of Home Entertainment
News Microsoft delivered the first Freestyle entertainment PCs to testers in June. Originally code-named Freestyle, this entertainment version of Windows -- which will go by the name Windows XP Media Center Edition -- will appear on new PCs and PC...
[July 16, 2002, 8:19]
BT Fixed-line Phones Get Greener
News The telecommunications firm launched a new range of cordless phones — the BT Graphite 1500, BT Graphite 1100, BT Freestyle 610 and BT Freestyle 650 — on Monday. BT has claimed that 90 percent of its fixed-line handsets will be more energy-efficient...
[January 21, 2008, 12:07]
CES: Gates Wants Windows XP In Your Living Room
News Mira, now in development, will serve as a complementary product to a Freestyle-based PC and will deliver Internet content, serve as a portable game player in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox video game console, and allow consumers to shop online...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
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. It will provide a roll-up of critical updates and enabling technologies for devices like Mira, as well...
[March 1, 2002, 14:01]
CeBIT 98: Palm PCs Look A Lot Like PalmPilots
News Everex's Freestyle is the most compact of the four Palm PCs on show, being almost exactly the same size as a PalmPilot. It comes in three versions: the 150g Freestyle Associate is the basic 2Mb RAM system; the 8Mb Freestyle Manager has a foldable...
[March 24, 1998, 9:52]
CES: Samsung Chief Executive Unveils Home Gadgets
News Chin also unveiled the Home Media Center, one of the first products based on the Freestyle extension to the Windows XP operating system that Gates announced Monday evening. Freestyle includes applications for DVD and digital-music playback and for...
[January 9, 2002, 9:12]
XP Service Pack 1 At Testing Stage
News The service pack will also introduce support for new technologies -- such as Mira "smart" display devices, Tablet PCs and the Freestyle digital media interface -- and will radically change how much control consumers or PC makers have over...
[June 6, 2002, 14:09]
Microsoft Outlines Its Vision Of The Future
News Some of those technologies, such as support for Mira wireless devices, the Tablet PC and the Freestyle graphical interface, will begin to move Microsoft into the handheld device and home entertainment market.
[April 19, 2002, 7:31]
Microsoft Mulls Xbox-PC Connection
News It appears to focus on Freestyle, an extension to Microsoft's Windows XP operating system aimed at turning PCs into digital media jukeboxes, although the survey refers to the product as "NewPC. Badding added that the Xbox and Freestyle are targeted...
[May 30, 2002, 9:24]
Comdex '99: Everex Dumps WinCE
News The company announced plans for its colour-screen Freestyle 540 in March but confirmed at this week's Comdex it will not deliver the product to market. Another Windows CE product has been dumped, this time by Everex.
[November 17, 1999, 9:44]
Windows XP To Reflect Antitrust Changes
News The update will introduce support for Mira wireless devices and the Freestyle digital media interface. Microsoft this summer will institute some court-ordered changes to Windows XP intended to benefit consumers and increase competition.
[April 7, 2002, 7:01]
Intel's XScale Chip Gets Mira Votes
News Mira, Tablet PC and a new software interface called Freestyle essentially try to make it easier to file and edit entertainment files as well as attempt to inject a more dramatic sense of style into computing devices.
[April 15, 2002, 9:32]
Media Center PCs In The Spotlight
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced the new operating system software, then code-named Freestyle, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to officially unveil the Media Center PC on Tuesday, but Sunday...
[October 29, 2002, 8:35]
Presidential Parody Draws Millions Of Viewers
News JibJab's previous online success was a political comedy launched in 2000 that featured Bush and former Vice President Al Gore in a battle of freestyle rappers. This land is your land, this land is my land, and during the month of July, the...
[August 17, 2004, 9:55]
New PCs Restrict Copying
News Microsoft introduced the new version of Windows, code-named Freestyle, during January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday released additional details about digital entertainment PCs coming in time for...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Xbox UK Public Preview - Dates Announced
News Obviously Microsoft isn't planning to give consoles away, or even to let you purchase one, but if you're able to get to one of the four Xbox Xperience venues on the dates shown you'll be able to play the likes of Project Gotham Racing, Halo, Amped...
[October 23, 2001, 12:03]
