Do it Yourself Mojave
Yup. I’m 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 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 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 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 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 Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” — designed to try to distinguish perception from reality around Vista — I can’t 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 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 Vista RTM and SP1 Windows Fiji – Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment.
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11.8.2008 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 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 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 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 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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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 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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1.5.2008 TV Guide to Offer Web Video Search Tool
Gemstar-TV Guide International Incorporated, which has helped viewers navigate through thousands of TV shows for 53 years, now wants to do the same for Internet video.
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25.3.2007 Microsoft Office Live Meeting Takes TV Spotlight on 'The Apprentice'
Tonight?s episode of the TV hit challenges competitors to concisely demonstrate the value of Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005, and Microsoft?s Real Time Collaboration Group judges the winning team.
Since earlier this year, the Real Time Collaboration (RTC) Group has been co-op marketing Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 through a partnership with the reality TV show ?The Apprentice.? Tonight the group will play its trump card: Linking up with The Donald himself.
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1.12.2005 Microsoft's MSN Video Player is now live, streaming TV shows
As promised, Microsoft has now launched MSN Video Player, its latest venture into the video on demand market.
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3.8.2009 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Free Windows 7 Upgrades for Windows Media Center TV Ambassadors
Microsoft is ready to offer free upgrades from Windows Vista to the latest iteration of the Windows client for participants in a Windows Media Center testing program.
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14.9.2009 365 Days Later, Xbox 360 Unveils First Wave of TV Shows and Movies on Xbox Live
Xbox 360 offers the latest in entertainment options for everyone, from a library of 160 high- definition games expected by holiday to downloadable standard and high-definition TV shows and movies.
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22.11.2006 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008Windows "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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01.08.2008Windows ˜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
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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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29.07.2008Mojave 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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27.08.2008Mojave 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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26.07.2008Microsoft 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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24.07.2008Microsoft 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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29.07.2008Report: Vista to boost PC-TV tuner market
Microsoft's introduction of
Windows Vista for consumers
this year is expected to help
drive the PC-TV tuner market,
a research firm said
Monday.
Among the
Microsoft initiatives
positioning the OS for TV
programming is the software
maker's push to get PC-TV
tuner vendors to centralize
their drivers through the
Windows Update program,
according to the report from
market analyst firm
In-Stat.
"The most
common PC-TV tuner will enable
digital terrestrial television
reception and be integrated
with the PC as part of a
Microsoft Vista bundle,"
In-Stat analyst Chris Kissel
said in a statement. Tuners
that won't be part of the
Vista bundle, but will still
have a portion of the market,
include hybrid USB TV tuners,
PC-TV tuners for free-to-air
satellite TV services, and
pay-TV capable tuners.
By 2011, 50.8 million
PC-TV tuners will be sold
worldwide, generating $3.1
billion in revenue, In-Stat
predicts. Nearly 37% of all
PC-TV tuner revenue will come
from end users in Europe, and
32% from those in Asia.
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09.05.2007TV.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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12.01.2009The 'Forrester Experiment'
Joe Wilcox: I
suppose debunking reputable analyst firms is one way to attack negative Vista perceptions. But no way would have been
better.
First, it was the "
Mojave Experiment," which seeks to show
Vista haters can love the operating system if they think it's a new, unreleased Windows version. Now comes the "Forrester Experiment," where the
Windows Vista Team blog faults Forrester Research analyst Thomas Mendel's nasty report on Vista.
"Forrester Gets
Schizophrenic on Windows Vista" wrote Microsoft's Chris Flores on Friday, referring to Forrester report "Enterprise Trends: Vista Is Rejected; Mozilla and Apple Make Small Gains."
winbeta.org - 28.07.2008
French man attacks Microsoft over Vista name
Microsoft has been attacked
for its use of the Vista name
by a French man, who claims to
have registered the word as
the name for a new TV channel.
Philippe Gildas says
he registered the trademark
Vista in the autumn of 2003,
and has lodged an official
complaint with Microsoft. It
was intended to be the name of
a number of media outlets
aimed at the ˜older citizen.
According to French
website
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Inpact, Gildas is after either
an amicable settlement or will
be looking to push for a
lawsuit...
winbeta.org - 04.06.2007
In 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...
betanews.com - 17.10.2008
Stanford 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...
betanews.com - 11.10.2005
Beyond 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...
betanews.com - 11.04.2007
CES: Touring the Windows Vista Pavillion
The Windows Vista Pavillion at CES is a huge white tent divided into several sections demonstrating the various Windows Vista usage scenarios; Digital
Memories (photos), Music, Gaming, Productivity, TV & Movies etc etc.
We took a tour through the pavillion and checked out some of
the cool new devices on show - such as the HP MediaSmart TV and Samsung "back pack" Media Centre Extender.
We also sat down
with JP Wollersheim from the Windows Live team and ran through the updated work flow for digital photos on Windows Vista. From camera to PC to email,
photo printing labs and wifi enabled digital photo frames.
winbeta.org - 11.01.2008
TV Manager for Windows Home Server Now Out of Beta
Sarah Perez: In July, we told you about a new plugin for Windows Home
Server called TV Manager. This plugin lets you copy your recordings from a Vista Media Center PC or XP Media Center 2005 over to your Home Server for
storage and management. At the time we originally wrote about it, the plugin was still in beta. But now, the first version of the plugin has been officially released: TV Manager 1.0. With TV
Manager, you can view your recordings stored on your WHS in Media Center as if they physically resided on your PC. Recordings can also be deleted from
either the WHS Console or Media Center.
winbeta.org - 03.09.2008
Yahoo's TV widgets to be backed by Intel
What'll be behind the Yahoo TV widgets slated to show up later this week in set top boxes from Sony, Samsung, and other TV makers? A dual software
stack from Intel, officials said, in a demo for Betanews Sunday at CES...
betanews.com - 12.01.2009
YouTube TV site for Wii and PS3 consoles
It is no longer necessary to own Apple TV or TiVo digital video recorder or VUDU box to watch YouTube clips on TV. YouTube is joining MySpace, Yahoo
and others in bringing the web based features to the TV screen. YouTube blog reports that their TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot
television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables users to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with
just a few quick clicks of remote control. Users can browse and play videos from their PS3 or Wii based web browser by visiting YouTube TV site.
Read full story.....
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