WHS 2011 gets Add-In ISO Mounter from electrongoo
Microsoft Is Taking IPTV Serious on the Xbox As Evidence by Its New Media Remote
Besides the new, slim Bluetooth headset you may have seen on some of the gadget and gaming sites this week, Microsoft also unveiled a new Xbox 360 Media Remote. It, of course, has buttons the mimic the A, B, X, Y buttons and D-pad navigation of the controller, but it also provides TV remote functionality [...]
Windows 8 Gets a Radical Facelift and Touch Functionality
Curious what the next version of Windows will look like? Well, now you can see a few screenshots captured at the D9 Conference. Microsoft Windows president, Steven Sinofsky, explains that Windows 8 will bring a unified interface across devices and form factors and leverage Web technologies (i.e. HTML5, Javascript) for interactive apps and widgets. The [...]
AirPlay Add-in for Windows Media Center Released
Talk about a match made in heaven? A developer by the name of Thomas Pleasance has just released a new add-in that brings AirPlay support to Windows Media Center. According to Ian at The Digital Lifestyle, the add-in works seamlessly. Just install Apple's Bonjour service beforehand and you're good to go. From that point, any [...]
Sony Embraces Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM Solution
Sony has just announced that they're going with PlayReady to protect their content and provide users with new ways to enjoy their purchased and rented media. A quick look at Microsoft's PlayReady page shows that Sony can allow users to download movies and begin watching them instantly, stream media to devices around the home, and [...]
Microsoft’s ‘It’s Very PC,’ ‘It’s Not Very PC’ Ad Campaign to Promote Slates Is Clever
I just got a kick out of watching Microsoft's "It's Very PC," "It's Not Very PC" ad campaign, in partnership with ASUS and its upcoming Eee Slate. The ads are clever and highlight how a Windows-powered tablet can work well professionally and for play. In fact, Microsoft is kind of showing that one can use [...]
Bet You Didn’t Know Windows Media Center Embedded Had a Showing at CES 2011
Attached is a demo of Prime Time's Windows Media Center Embedded IPTV set-top box recorded by TDL. You'll see that Prime Sense has refined the UI to better match its sensibilities and bundled it with a nice TV web browser and gyro + QWERTY keyboard remote. However, the part that you should focus on is [...]
Microsoft Predicted to Announce ARM Support for Windows at CES 2011; The Trouble Is They Already Do
There's a lot a buzz this morning that Microsoft is going embrace ARM processors so it can compete more effectively on the tablet front. Wall Street Journal's sources tell them that it is "part of a broader push at Microsoft to make Windows more 'modular' so that pieces of the operating system that are unnecessary [...]