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New Version Of XP Media Centre Edition To Be Released
News For the first time, Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition is supporting multiple tuners, meaning that consumers will be able to watch one channel while recording another or record two stations at once, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has...
[October 6, 2004, 15:40]
Microsoft Scales Back Longhorn For 2006 Launch
News Allchin said the software giant also plans a marketing effort to tout technological advances that are only possible when running Windows XP, such as the ability to connect to the portable Media Center devices that are set to debut later this year.
[April 12, 2004, 10:35]
Media Center PCs Win Wider Acclaim
News The two companies did not offer computers using the initial version of the Windows XP Media Center operating system, but are expected to enter the market once Microsoft introduces a new version of the operating system later this month.
[September 5, 2003, 9:15]
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. Media Center and Tablet PC, the other customised version of Windows XP, are...
[January 28, 2004, 8:05]
Microsoft Updates Longhorn Roadmap
News Also slated for this year are updates to the Tablet PC and Windows Media Center editions of Windows XP. The demo had a few glitches, but it eventually showed Longhorn to be better able to render multiple 3D images than its predecessor, Windows XP.
[May 5, 2004, 13:00]
HP To Promote .Net For Enterprise
News Evidence of the closer relationship can be found in several recent announcements: HP will be one of the first to offer PCs running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, and HP's services unit also recently won a deal to...
[September 24, 2002, 9:52]
Redmond Takes Aim At Your Home
News In its previous versions, Windows XP Media Center Edition was a niche product that sold on about 1 million PCs, mostly high-end machines that appealed to enthusiasts who wanted to record TV shows onto their computer hard drives.
[October 13, 2004, 9:10]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News The biggest one we did, of course, was the security release, XP SP 2, and if there's anything where the amount of work you see at the top versus the amount of work that's gone underneath, you have the highest ratio of security work.
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
Getting To Grips With Longhorn
News Although the company has added Tablet and Media Centre versions, as well as the Service Pack 2 security enhancements, a lot has changed since XP debuted five years ago. Last year, the company announced that it would pull out the new file system and...
[April 15, 2005, 12:30]
Open-source Firm Hires Ex-Microsoft Exec
News Brown sees devices powered by CAC software as appealing to people who want a device that does more than a TiVo-style video recorder but without the complexity and expense of a PC running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center operating system.
[November 16, 2004, 8:15]
Microsoft Sets XP Update Release Date
News In addition to various fixes, Windows XP Service Pack 1 offers features to support upcoming hardware: Windows Media Center PCs and the Tablet PC. These systems will include a second user interface for accessing Windows XP's digital media features...
[September 2, 2002, 8:01]
Windows Chief Fields Readers' Questions
News Interestingly, even though XP will be five years old by the time Vista ships (currently scheduled for the end of this year) the questions posted by many readers indicated that they need to be convinced that Vista will be a necessary upgrade.
[January 30, 2006, 9:35]
CES: Name Change And First Product For Rearden Steel
News Microsoft's eHome division is expected to make an announcement that the software giant is aiming to make PCs running the Windows XP operating system the entertainment centre of the home. The company will announce that its new name is Moxi Digital...
[January 7, 2002, 15:27]
MSN Update Leaked
News All recent test releases of Microsoft's products -- including Office 2003, Harmony (the code name for the next version of Windows XP Media Center Edition) and Windows Messenger 5 -- encourage testers to participate in the program.
[April 3, 2003, 15:35]
Microsoft To Extend Media Center In 2005
News Media Center and Tablet PC, the other customised version of Windows XP, are taking on added importance for Microsoft, which is still years away from shipping the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
[March 19, 2004, 16:40]
TiVo Switches Off UK Sales
News An early example is Sony's VAIO PCV-RXG408 (see the review here), and PCs based on Windows XP Media Center are also on the way. CNET News.com's Richard Shim contributed to this report. For the latest on everything from DVD standards and MP3s to...
[February 5, 2003, 12:18]
Microsoft Unveils Entertainment Software
News The technology, called Microsoft Plus Digital Media Edition for Windows XP and part of the Microsoft Plus product line, is designed to give users of standard PCs more features for editing and playing with media files, without turning to...
[December 17, 2002, 7:36]
Intel's Consumer Fumbling
News Like Centrino, PC makers receive marketing support from Intel if they build Viiv PCs with certain specifications, such as an Intel dual-core processor, Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition, Intel's networking chips, support for high...
[April 12, 2006, 13:35]
Deadline Looms For Demise Of Windows XP
News It said it will keep shipping XP media until the Microsoft mandated end date of 31 January, 2009. If a customer purchases a Vista system and wishes to downgrade and doesn't have the CD, they can contact our Help Center to get an XP downgrade CD.
[June 17, 2008, 9:12]
Privacy Groups Turn Up Heat On Windows XP, Passport
News A group of privacy organisations on Wednesday renewed their attacks on Microsoft's Passport authentication service and Windows XP, asking the Federal Trade Commission to mandate changes in Microsoft's new operating system.
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
