Zune wants your living room, finally to go international?
According to two job postings, Microsoft is targeting the living room with the Zune and is looking to expand the Zune Marketplace to international markets.
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2.4.2009 Vista Media Center takes over the living room
In June, I recounted my out-of-the-box experience with a new Dell PC running Windows Vista, starting with a failed BIOS upgrade, undergoing a successful repair, and establishing that the basic hardware and software setup was rock-solid.
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24.8.2007 Download Bing Wallpapers & Set as Desktop Wallpaper with Wallpaper Downloader
In past we had reviewed Bing Downloader tool to download Bing background wallpaper and here is wallpaper downloader which is a small utility to download bing.com background image and set as desktop wallpaper.
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18.9.2009 Better living without MS Office
Ten years ago to this very week, Apple called a truce in its market share war with Microsoft. After all, the Mac then had a 5 percent market share or so and the company and its OS plans were in disarray.
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11.8.2007 Is Windows Vista Living Up to the Dream?
November 8 is the official release to manufacturing date of Microsoft's latest operating system.
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10.11.2007 Is Windows Vista Living up to the Dream?
Windows Vista has had by no means an easy ride throughout 2007. That much is for sure. The latest Windows client has come under a barrage of criticism, and despite the fact that it has passed the 100 million mark by the end of the past year with its install base, it is still perceived as a Wow shot and miss.
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28.1.2008 The Ultimate Wallpaper
It was looking empty, so we created something special just for Ultimate users.
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9.3.2007 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 Wallpaper from Windows 7 Starter
Just installed Windows 7 Starter edition on a low-end spare notebook for testing purposes when I found this new wallpaper which ships with this edition of Windows.
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10.8.2009 Microsoft: a "Good Enough" Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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5.9.2008 Microsoft: a Good Enough Windows 7 Beta with Room for Refinement
Microsoft is in no rush to deliver the first beta of Windows 7. Even according to the official time table for the delivery of Windows Vista's successor, the Redmond company is just a few months short of the final deadline, and yet there is no Beta on the immediate horizon.
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8.9.20008 How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick!
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28.7.2009 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 MSN Wallpaper Manager from Windows Live Download
Many users love to have high quality beautiful wallpapers on their desktop and often we get bore with old wallpapers and we need to search and download more wallpapers from internet. It’s not easy to get such high quality wallpapers.
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21.7.2009 Download Windows 7 Helvetia Wallpaper Featuring Raquel Alvarez
Windows 7 and the mother of the Swiss nation are concepts that work perfectly well in a mix. And photographer Noe Flum hesitated little at the chance of shooting Helvetia and Windows together for a desktop background.
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8.9.2009 Leaked Windows 7 Details: Theme Files, Gallery, Packs and Wallpaper Slideshow
While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself.
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6.8.2008How the default Windows 7 wallpaper evolved
Gizmodo tracked down Chuck Anderson, the creator of Windows 7's box art, default wallpaper and login screen. In an exclusive overview of the
evolution of the Windows 7 wallpaper and login screen, the gadget lovers managed to secure some rare development shots of how Microsoft came to the
wallpaper that is now used worldwide. Chuck Anderson is a 20 something digital media artist living in the US. Both the login screen and wallpapers
took approximately four months, start to finish according to Gizmodo. They were achieved by a mix of pen and paper, wacom tablet and Photoshop.
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06.11.2009AMD: 'Digital Living Room' To Take Many Forms
Contrary to the prevailing
wisdom, the PC will not
necessarily be the centerpiece
of the so-called "digital
living room," according to an
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
(AMD) executive. Speaking at
the Digital Living Room 2006
summit here Tuesday (Dec. 4),
Joe Menard, vice president of
AMD's consumer business unit,
said the concept the digital
living room-the concept of a
sophisticated in-home
entertainment network-is
likely to take many forms to
suit various budgets, needs
and degrees of technical
savvy.
"There is
going to be no one usage
model," Menard said. "There
will be models when PCs end up
in the living room. There will
be models where PCs do not end
up in the living room." For
AMD, Menard said, this
philosophy represents a change
in thinking that evolved
partly from the company's
acquisition of ATI
Technologies Inc., which,
among other things, is a major
supplier of chips for digital
TVs. "For AMD, the strategy
used to be get a PC in the
living room," Menard said.
"Now it's to think about the
best usage case that a
customer wants and how we can
provide silicon to do that."
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07.12.2006Steve Jobs: Online Video in the Living Room a Hobby Market
No one in the technology space has truly figured out the living room. So says Steve Jobs,
as paraphrased by Silicon
Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer today. Job’s remark came from the Apple earnings call yesterday evening, as part of an admission that
Apple itself falls into that “no one” category, too.
The reason why this tough nut hasn’t been cracked is
revealed during the rest of the statement, though.
Here it is, in its entirety, courtesy of SAI...
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23.10.2008Cool Wallpaper Generator
Create visual stunning wallpapers from your personal photo collections. This Wallpaper Generator makes it easy to compose your most beautiful photos
to stunning wallpapers for your desktop!
Remember your last summer holiday a little bit longer, keep in mind your special
moments, or think of your sweethearts. With the Wallpaper Generator it never has been so easy to keep those moments in your mind.
Download now this free tool and start to create personal wallpapers! System Requirements: Windows Vista or Windows XP with .NET Framework 3.0.
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28.10.2007Microsoft Home of the Future v2.0
The Microsoft Home exhibit on
the Redmond campus has been
updated with new
technology.
In a
teenager's bedroom of the
future, the interactive
wallpaper will combine images
of friends, favorite bands and
places to create something
akin to an online MySpace page
in the real world. While the
images on these walls come
from projectors, companies
such as Philips are working on
thin organic light-emitting
diodes that could be applied
like wallpaper, said Jonathan
Cluts, Microsoft's director
of consumer prototyping and
strategy, during a tour of the
company's futuristic
prototype home.
"It's really a technology
that we believe is closer to
five to 10 years out, but we
do believe it's coming," he
said.
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02.10.2006Apple TV Begins Shipping
Apple said Wednesday that it
had begun shipments of its
Apple TV product, aimed at
solidifying its hold on the
digital entertainment
industry, and expanding its
presence into the living room...
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21.03.2007Connect an A/V receiver to
your Media Center PC
Software Test Engineer Nishant
Murarka takes you one step
closer to having an amazing
home theater setup in your
living room with your Media
Center PC...
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04.01.2006Vudu Joins On-Demand Movie Crowd
There's a new entrant in the growing on-demand movie space, but Vudu takes a slightly different take that may spur adoption or spell its doom.
Customers will be able to stream movies over the Internet to their living room, but must first shell out $399 USD for the Vudu hardware...
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07.09.2007Microsoft Brings Back the Media Center Extender
With a market likely a little more open to the need for online video in the living room than it was three years ago, Microsoft on Thursday
reintroduced the Extender line, meant to complement households with Windows Media Center PCs...
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07.09.2007Five bucks for an office desk? Nassau County holds online auction
Are you in the market for a really good deal on a computer cart, a wooden office desk, or a living room couch? How about a 30-foot patrol boat, or
your very own weather station? Nassau County, New York may have a deal for you...
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31.05.2008DeskScapes 2.0 Final Released
Animated wallpaper is now available to all users of Windows Vista as Stardock has released DeskScapes 2.0 today on
www.stardock.com. DeskScapes allows users to display video as well as dynamic content on the
Windows Vista desktop.
DeskScapes 1.0 was released in conjunction with Windows Vista Ultimate, but Stardocks DeskScapes 2.0 adds
support for all versions of Windows Vista. The free edition includes several animated wallpapers to show off what is possible; the premium edition is
priced at $19.95 and supports adding third-party animated wallpaper (hundreds are available) and includes additional premium content.
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06.05.2008Comcast cameras to start watching you?
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s
senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know
who’s in your living room.
The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your
profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content
from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically
tailored ads. Yikes.
Yikes indeed. Not that it directly affects me and maybe nothing will come off it, but just the fact they are
considering this says a lot about what kind of company Comcast really is.
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22.03.2008GUI Championship voting: Animated wallpaper
The semi-annual GUI design contest, GUI Championships has begun user voting on the best entries for animated wallpapers. Animated wallpapers are
quite a challenge to design properly. A good one should use little CPU, not be distracting, and still look as good as a static wallpaper. This
year's entries come from around the world and the categories are most original and most usable. View: GUI Championships website View:
Brad's write-up on the entries
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25.11.2008Windows 7 build 7232 leaks, with new wallpaper
It's that time again, another week and another Windows 7 build leak. They are really starting to flow now leading up to RTM and this time there
are changes to report. Last week we had 7229 leak and this week it's build 7232.winmain.090610-1900 that has wriggled out of Microsoft's
Redmond HQ and is being distributed across the net. The most obvious visual change is that a new default wallpaper has been set and there is no more
betta fish. The new wallpaper is named harmony. Windows 7 is still on track for a July RTM, and it's possible that it may even RTM by the end of
June.
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16.06.2009How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick! By default, Windows 7 includes several locations to choose
pictures and desktop backgrounds from, such as Windows Desktop Backgrounds, Pictures Library, Top Rated Photos, and Solid Colors. In this article, I
will walk you through the process of creating your own wallpaper collection through the registry, and how to customize it to your liking. This process
will help you categorize and sort your wallpapers efficiently, and allow you to use a mix of categorized wallpapers with Windows 7's new automatic
background shuffle without the need to lump everything together. Disclaimer: The steps in this article involve modifying the Windows registry.
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28.07.2009Mobile IPTV Experiment in Korea Could Compete with DVB-H, MediaFLO
A company with offices in Palo
Alto and Seoul called Thin
Multimedia Inc. demonstrated a
possibly disruptive concept: a
kind of embedded IPTV that
could endow handsets with the
capacity and functionality of
living-room set-top boxes.
The fact that Korean telecom
giants are investing billions
of won in mobile IPTV in areas
where DVB-H is already
popular, is indication that
there could be a real spoiler
in the midst for portable
digital television...
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15.02.2007Sony Previews High-End Media
Center
Sony entered the digital
living room Tuesday with a new
Media Center PC that takes
advantage of the latest
updates to the operating
system. The XL1, is a result
of collaboration between Sony
and Microsoft and features a
200-disc DVD changer with
burning
capability.
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20.10.2005Microsoft's CES 2008 Press Activities Listed
Microsoft Corp. has planned the following press activities for the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Jan. 7“11.
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, will deliver the pre-show 2008
International CES keynote address at 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 6, in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.
Admission to the keynote address will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis to accredited members of the media and analysts with
their official CES badges and badge holders. Credentials can be picked up in the CES press room at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), Room S229,
between the Central and South halls. Attendees may pick up only their own badge. The doors to the ballroom will open at 5 p.m. The media waiting room
will open at 3 p.m. Members of the media and analysts are encouraged to arrive at the theater well in advance of the opening to help ensure admission.
The keynote address will also be webcast live and on-demand at
http://www.microsoft.com/ces.
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04.01.2008Verizon Offering FiOS
Multi-Room DVR
Verizon introduced its first
multi-room digital video
recorder product for its FiOS
fiber-optic television service
Monday, hoping to take
advantage of a quickly
expanding market for such
services...
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15.08.2006How to: get Bing's daily photo as a Windows 7 wallpaper
No matter what you think of Bing as a search engine, you have to admit that the daily homepage photos are pretty cool. They range from amazing nature
photos to holiday sensitive events. Those images now have a new use, being wallpapers for your Windows 7 PC. One of Windows 7's lesser know
features is the ability to download new wallpapers via a RSS feed. Thanks to the efforts of Long Zeng from www.istartedsomething.com & makeuseof.com
you can now do just that. By using the code below, you can create a live daily updating bing theme.
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