Media Center: It’s Official…Wait Until Windows 7

Vista-Media-Center 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

Filed In: Digital Media, Microsoft, Tech News, Video and TV, Windows
August 8, 2008

Microsoft Wants Media Center To Fail…I Swear

Vista-Media-Center 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

Filed In: Digital Media, Microsoft, Tech News, Video and TV, Windows, Xbox
August 7, 2008

Mojave: An OS By Another Name Just Wouldn’t Be The Same

Vista2For 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

Filed In: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Tech News, Windows
August 4, 2008

Microsoft Midori: Micro Cloud At Home?

No-Windows 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

Filed In: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Other OS, Software, Tech News, Windows
July 30, 2008

Microsoft: Open Update For All

Windows-UpdateI 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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Filed In: Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Windows, Xbox Live
July 29, 2008

Take Off Your Beer-Goggles: Windows XP Wasn’t A Blockbuster!

XP-and-Vista I recently came across an article by The Economist where they mentioned how “embarrassing” it is for Microsoft that Intel will “continue to use Windows XP on the tens of thousands of PCs it has scattered around its offices, rather than upgrade them to Vista” and that “Vista is never going to be a blockbuster like XP”. (emphasis added)

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard mostly false statements like this, but I expected more from The Economist. This isn’t going to be a post about why you should or should not upgrade to Vista though, it is about the truth surrounding XP’s adoption. The facts after the jump. Read more

Filed In: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows
July 21, 2008

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