I wrote about Windows Media Center TV Pack yesterday and how it looked like Microsoft was going to royally botch it up. At the time it was all hearsay, but not any more. It looks like Microsoft decided to move up the announcement date for the TV Pack from next month to today. This is a situation where nobody comes out a winner. Read more

You may have noticed that I regularly tout Media Center as one of my favorite features of Windows Vista. I have even been using/loving it as my sole DVR for about three months now. It should come as no surprise then that I have been following the next iteration codenamed Fiji quite closely. While the software sounds good for the most part, I can’t understand why it seems that Microsoft is trying to make sure Vista Media Center (VMC) never takes off. Read more

For those of you who maybe haven’t heard about Microsoft’s latest OS “Mojave” you should check out their website for it before reading any further. Even if you’ve already heard about Mojave you owe it to yourself to check out the videos on their site before you read any further. Read more

SDTimes is running a story about details of a new operating system being developed at Microsoft called Midori. It is supposedly based on Microsoft’s Singularity operating system built entirely on managed code ala .Net.  This could be Microsoft’s first non-Windows commercial OS since DOS. If SDTimes’ details are right it may be the first OS to support one of the features I have been pining for for many years: cloud computing within the home. Read more

I recently had an issue updating Google Gears to be compatible with Firefox 3.0.1. The Firefox updater didn’t find any updates and if I installed Gears again it was still at the same incompatible version. It was only after I uninstalled it and installed it again that it finally worked. This made me realize something, updating software on your computer should be a lot easier than it is right now and Microsoft should be the one to do it.

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