Do it Yourself Mojave
Yup. Im now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC.
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12.8.2008 The Mojave Experiment - now with Silverlight!
Many of you might have heard of the Mojave Experiment, and some of you might have snickered at that site's use of another rich client technology. :)
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4.9.2008 Mojave Goes Prime Time
OMG. I saw a "Mojave Experiment" TV commercial on Scifi HD last night.
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15.9.2008 Windows Codename Mojave Is Live
Microsoft is mid-way on the road from Windows Vista to Windows 7, the next iteration of its Windows client, planned for availability no later than the end of January 2010.
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29.7.2008 What if Apple had conducted the Mojave Experiment?
In watching the many negative blog posts and comments about Microsofts Mojave Experiment designed to try to distinguish perception from reality around Vista I cant help but wonder how different the take would be if it were Apple doing the same kind of marketing campaign.
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30.7.2008 Microsoft looks to Mojave to revive Vistas image
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics.
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25.7.2008 3D TV
Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.
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13.6.2007 Windows Codenamed Mojave Closer to Vista SP1 than Even Windows 7
Windows codenamed Mojave is just around the corner and closer to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 than even Windows 7. The Reason for this is that Windows 7 is merely an evolution of the latest Windows client, while Windows codenamed Mojave is actually 100% Vista.
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28.7.2008 Vista Downloads Maxing Out Its Servers
Order the DVD instead, Microsoft says, as downloads of Windows Vista Beta 2 cause the company's servers to experience extremely high demand.
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13.6.2006 Watch Movies and TV On Your Xbox
On November 6, Microsoft Corp. announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and Warner Bros.
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7.11.2006 Windows Live for TV Beta
Windows Live for TV Beta is a rich, graphically-driven interface designed for people who use Windows Live Spaces and Messenger and Live Call on large-screen monitors and TVs.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft Is Gearing Up for Windows 7 Downloads
Even with Microsoft increasingly opening up on Windows Vista's successor, the hunger for Windows 7 details is far from being satiated.
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20.8.2008 Free Windows 7 Downloads Discontinued
The free Windows 7 ride is now truly and indisputably over! And, if you have failed to get on board this far, chances that youll be able to do so moving onward are very slim. On August 20th, 2009 Microsoft discontinued the free downloads of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100.
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21.8.2009 Free Opera Hits 1 Million Downloads
Just 48 hours after Opera Software removed the ads and license fee from its popular Web browser, Opera 8.5 has been downloaded by over 1 million people, the company said Thursday. The number is double Opera's previous download record, which it achieved in April with version 8.0.
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Firefox Tops 200 Million Downloads
The Mozilla Corporation on Monday celebrated the 200 millionth download of its open source Firefox Web browser, with the community planning parties to commemorate the event. The milestone was hit one year and nine months after the debut of Firefox 1.0.
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3.8.2006 Skype to launch Web TV service
The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers the best of the internet with the best of TV.
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18.12.2006 Satellite circuit for Google TV ads
After months of speculation, Google has officially jumped into the television business.
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4.4.2007 Windows Server 2008 RC0 Downloads
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate helps IT professionals to increase the flexibility and reliability of their server infrastructure while offering developers a more robust web and applications platform for building connected applications and services.
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26.9.2007 Microsoft: Vista SP1 RTM Downloads Available, but Not for You!
Only for MSDN subscriber! Make no mistake about it. The final bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available for download, but this does not mean that end users can get their grabby hands all over the service pack.
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15.2.2008 Microsoft airs first Windows 7 TV advert
Microsoft aired its first Windows 7 commercial last night at the 2009 company meeting and across TV stations in the US.
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12.9.2009 Windows Codename Mojave vs. Old Windows Vista
Microsoft has thrown the old Windows Vista in the same arena of public perception as a "new Windows operating system codenamed Mojave."
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30.7.2008 Microsoft giving away free graphics and TV cards
Microsoft is giving away free graphics and TV cards to it's Windows Vista Media Center testers during it's beta program. Testers are allowed to keep the cards after testing has been completed!
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Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 Firefox reaches 2 million downloads in 24 hours
Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after releasing Firefox 2.0 to the public on 24th October.
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29.10.2006 TV will be shut in 10 years, says Bill Gates
Riyadh, Nov. 10: Television as we know it today will become obsolete in the next 10 years, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He was speaking at the First Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh during his first visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
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11.11.2006 Vista testers get unexpected holiday gift: No TV
Media Center, which is included in the Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the Vista operating system, allows remote-control access to a variety of entertainment options, including television, for machines that have a TV tuner.
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5.1.2007 iTunes DVD deal focuses on Apple TV
Apple on Thursday announced that iTunes would get new movie releases from studios the same day as their DVD release, but the larger question is whether this move can give Apple TV more traction.
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1.5.2008Windows "Mojave" Experiment Hits The Web
Well, we've all heard about the Mojave experiment, Microsoft's scheme to show people who stuck with XP how great Vista really is. After demoing
Mojave to the consumers, they were then told that it was actually Windows Vista. The site below shows clips that were taken during the experiment.
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29.07.2008Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?
Is a new marketing campaign what Vista really needs? The first stages of it -- already under way with the Mojave Experiment -- are certainly drawing
attention to Vista. But in ignoring Vista's problems, could the campaign also be backfiring?..
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01.08.2008Mojave Experiment Updated
Microsoft's Mojave Experiment involved showing Vista to skeptical users whilst tricking them into thinking it was a new version of Windows and
recording their reactions.
David Webster who came up with the idea for the experiment has posted about an update to the Mojave website
which is now showing the demos subjects were shown. The site features Silverlight heavily and presents videos in a zoomable "cloud".
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27.08.2008Windows Mojave Video Posts
Chris Flores: Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the
results with the public.
For those new to the Mojave Experiment,
it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of better understanding
everyday users' perceptions of Windows Vista and seeing whether there really is a gap between perception and reality. We wanted to see how people
reacted to Windows Vista when they were not aware they were seeing Windows Vista. We recorded our discussions, and today you can see them for
yourself.
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29.07.2008Windows "Mojave" - Vista ad compaign
From the Windows Vista Blog:
"Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are
excited to share the results with the public.
For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few
weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of better understanding everyday users' perceptions of Windows
Vista and seeing whether there really is a gap between perception and reality. We wanted to see how people reacted to Windows Vista when they were not
aware they were seeing Windows Vista. We recorded our discussions, and today you can see them for yourself."
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29.07.200850% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows
Reports show that 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do so to download TV-series, quite an impressive number. In total,
over a billion TV-shows are downloaded every year, and this number continues to rise.
It is safe to say that BitTorrent is slowly
replacing Tivo. Some episodes of popular TV-shows such as Lost, Prison Break and Heroes get up to 10 million downloads per episode, spread over
hundreds of sites. This number is getting awfully close to the average number of viewers on TV in the US. However, the major difference is that the
BitTorrent viewers come from all over the world.
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14.02.2008Mojave experiment gets a Web site
Evidently spurred on by the reception it got at Thursday's financial analysts meeting, Microsoft has decided to move ahead with plans to turn the
Mojave project into a full-fledged Windows Vista marketing effort.
As
first reported by CNET News, Microsoft last week
interviewed XP users who were skeptical of Vista and showed them what it called a secret new version of Windows, "Mojave." It was in fact Vista.
The results, according to Microsoft executives, were almost universally positive, with participants expressing surprise when told it was actually
Vista they had been using.
For now, Microsoft has put up a
teaser site, with
plans to show the actual video footage next week.
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26.07.2008Apple Adds More TV Show
Downloads
Apple has beefed up its video
downloads on iTunes through a
deal with NBC Universal. The
agreement brings 11 TV shows
from NBC, USA Network and the
Sci-Fi Channel, which include
current primetime hits as well
as classics such as
'Dragnet' and 'Knight
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06.12.2005Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's
skeptics.
Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding
up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a
"new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was
actually Windows Vista.
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24.07.2008TV.com delivers TV content rather than just TV listings
CBS' TV.com, a site formerly providing information about television programming has begun its transition to a video site, and is expected to announce
some critical distribution deals today...
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12.01.2009iTunes to Offer TV Show
Subscriptions
Making the first move toward
offering subscription based
downloads through its iTunes
Music Store, Apple has joined
forces with Comedy Central to
offer TV shows on a monthly
basis for $9.99. The
"Multi-Pass" feature
would give iTunes users access
to 16 episodes of "The
Daily Show with Jon
Stewart" and "The
Colbert Report."..
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09.03.2006iTunes 7.3 supports iPhone, adds Apple TV photo streaming
Apple on Friday released
iTunes 7.3, the latest version
of its digital jukebox and
media cataloging software. The
new version adds support for
iPhone and delivers photo
streaming capabilities to
Apple TV.
iTunes 7.3
lets you activate your iPhone
service and will also sync the
Apple mobile handset with your
music, movies, TV shows, and
more.
In addition,
Apple said the new version
allows Apple TV owners to
wirelessly share digital
photos from any computer in
your home. The Apple digital
media hub was previously
limited to Photo syncing only.
iTunes 7.3 is
available as a
33.8MB download
for Macs and a
47.7MB
download for Windows.
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29.06.2007Report: TV execs dislike idea of price cuts at iTunes
Apple is trying to convince Hollywood to reduce prices of downloads of TV shows from $1.99 to 99 cents, according to a story in Variety.
The
trade publication reported Friday
that TV networks have shown little enthusiasm to price cutting, although Apple is telling them that lowering the cost will boost sales, according to
the story.
Last week, NBC Universal announced that it would not renew a long-term contract with Apple to sell TV shows via
iTunes. Many in the entertainment sector have wanted more control in pricing their products at iTunes, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs has held fast to his
model: most songs cost 99 cents and TV shows $1.99.
Apple accused NBC Universal of pulling out of its deal only after the network
asked for a price increase that would have forced Apple to charge customers $4.99 for a TV show. NBC has denied this and said that it only wants more
flexibility in iTunes' pricing. ..
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07.09.2007Xbox Live Gets TV, Movie Downloads
Microsoft late Monday
announced a major new
initiative to offer television
shows and movie downloads via
its Xbox Live service, further
transitioning the Xbox 360
from video game console to
consumer home entertainment
device.
Photos:
View images of Xbox
Live Video..
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07.11.2006In the digital age, $1 can get you TV Guide...the company
Macrovision sells TV Guide magazine to a VC firm for $1 -- about one-third as much as the $2.99 newsstand price for a single issue -- while holding on
to TV Guide Channel...
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17.10.2008Stanford Car Wins DARPA Robot
Race
This year's DARPA Grand
Challenge robot race across
the Mojave Desert had a much
more successful ending than
last year's event: entrants
actually completed the race.
Everyday consumer vehicles
were outfitted with computers
to completely automate the
driving process...
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11.10.2005Beyond TV Adds Digital TV Recording Support
Although it is not
CableCARD-like support,
SnapStream Media said Tuesday
that its latest update to
Beyond TV will allow users to
record select digital
television channels through
the software...
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11.04.2007Microsoft posts videos of users who liked Vista after thinking it was new OS
Microsoft has posted actual videos from its "Mojave Experiment," an effort to dispel negative stereotypes about Vista by making Windows users
think they were running a newer operating system that was actually Vista...
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29.07.2008Microsoft to post videos of users who liked Vista after thinking it was new OS
On Tuesday, Microsoft plans to post actual videos from its "Mojave Experiment" -- an effort to dispel negative stereotypes about Vista -- on a
recently set up "teaser" Web site, BetaNews has learned...
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29.07.2008Update for Windows 7 Beta (KB961367)
Install this update to resolve live and recorded TV issues in Windows Media Center, recorded TV playback issues in Windows Media Player, and MP3 file
corruption issues in Windows. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under
the Windows 7 Pre-Release License Terms.
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