How's the Reception at Channel 9?
Next week, Microsoft's Channel 9 video blogsite celebrates its third anniversary. Channel 9's creators, three of whom have left Microsoft, positioned the blogsite as a "a way to listen in to the cockpit" of the company. Is it still? Was it ever?
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31.3.2007 Gates: Windows Vista Has Had 'Incredible Reception'
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, predicted that consumers would move to Vista faster than they did to past Windows upgrades.
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22.2.2007 Microsoft: Good Reception of Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801
Microsoft revealed that it was happy with the way Windows 7 was received at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, at the end of October.
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17.11.2008 Microsoft readying Channel 8
While rumors swirl that Microsoft might be considering buying FaceBook, the company is continuing to build out its own family of blogs, wikis, video and other community-outreach tools to connect with current and potential users.
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15.7.2007 Office Trial Causes Channel Conflict
Microsoft's Office Trial conversion program is so successful, the company now clearly competes with its retail and dealer partners.
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10.10.2007 Channel 10 Bill Gates Interview
This is an important night for Bill Gates, after 15 years and 11 keynote addresses, this will be his last as he begins the transition from Microsoft FTE (full time employee) to being a full-time Gates Foundation employee.
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7.1.2008 NBC to Control Cable Channel After Deal With Microsoft
NBC Universal is taking control of its flagging cable venture, MSNBC, ending the decade-old broadcast partnership with Microsoft Corp., the two companies said yesterday.
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26.12.2005 MSN Direct Goes High Def with Clear Channel
Companies collaborate to deliver rich data services on HD digital radio format to smarten everyday objects.
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10.1.2007 Vista Sales Estimates Indicate Dwindling Retail Channel
Comparing preliminary information released by NPD this morning regarding launch week sales for Microsoft Windows Vista versus historical NPD data for prior years, BetaNews has learned the news for Microsoft may seem even more daunting than at first believed:
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16.2.2007 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Win 7 changes coming in the next build
Windows 7 testers wanted more feedback from Microsoft. It looks like they’re getting it.
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26.2.2009 The 5 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Win
This week Stephen Speicher and his engadget column The Clicker discusses the five reasons why he believes Blu-Ray will win the battle against HD-DVD. Some of the major points made are format security, computer manufacturer support, and overall capacity.
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Why Windows 7 will win the netbook war
There’s been much debate recently on whether Linux will be able to strive in the netbook war once Windows 7 is released.
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2.2.2009 Businesses to get final Win 7 in July
Microsoft officials have said the company expects to release Windows 7 to manufacturing before the end of this month.
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10.7.2009 Netbook users not happy with Win 7?
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License.
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10.11.2009 Microsoft's Big Bet: Win Within the Web
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the best and biggest Windows release since Windows 95.
The company is making bold predictions, claiming Vista will be preloaded on as many as 200 million new personal computers in the first 24 months that the product is available. Windows 95 shipped on a mere 67 million new PCs during its first two years. These numbers are important. The prospects of nearly every product Microsoft makes ride on maintaining the ubiquity of Windows, which has in excess of 90 percent of the PC operating system market. It's been five years since the current Windows version was released, and Windows XP now is looking rather dated.
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15.3.2006 Win an Exclusive PGR100 Xbox 360!
Microsoft and www.oxm.co.uk are working together to allow fans to win a limited edition black PGR100 Xbox 360!
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3.4.2006 Microsoft starting to win over Linux servers
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
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10.4.2007 New improved Win 7 Logon screen chenger
This app will auto resize you image to fit you current screen resolution. Must be run as admin. Works great.
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19.3.2009 Nine of 10 corporate PCs can run Win 7
According to a survey carried out by Softchoice, 88% of corporate PCs in the US are capable of running Windows 7.
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19.10.2009 Malware breaks Win 7 UAC defenses
A recently conducted test by malware researchers reveals that eight out of ten malware samples used in the test, successfully bypassed Windows 7’s default UAC (user access control) settings.
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7.11.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009 Microsoft and Linux set to win smartphone war
Year-to-year growth in the smartphone market in 2005 exceeded 70 per cent and will continue to grow "robustly" for the next several years, with Linux and Microsoft emerging as the dominant platforms, In-Stat predicted today.
However, the analyst firm warned that the risk remains of consumers perceiving these devices as just very expensive feature phones.
In-Stat noted that a major problem affecting the appeal of smartphones is that many users do not download applications that make them more useful after they leave the store.
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28.1.2006 WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust
Microsoft’s anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
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25.7.2007 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 Power Pack 3 for Home Server announced, inc Win 7 support
Microsoft has announced Power Pack 3 (beta) for Windows Home Server today which adds important Windows 7 support to the list of features.
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17.7.2009 Update on Win 7 RTM availability, MSDN and TechNet August 6
Microsoft has just sent word that MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to get hold of Windows 7 RTM on August 6.
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21.7.2009 Critical security patch for IE released, Win 7 RC affected
Microsoft has released an out of band security patch (MS09-034) to fix remote exploits in Internet Explorer.
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28.7.2009 Apple attempt to gatecrash Win 7 launch with product updates
Apple unveiled several new products today, some of which have been rumored for quite some time.
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20.10.2009 Cheap Upgrade Versions of Win 7 Top Amazon Sales Charts
Microsoft's half-price promotion for Windows 7 upgrades have attracted the attention of Amazon shoppers, according to the company's sales rankings.
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28.6.2009Back from the PDC¦next up, WinHEC
Steven Sinofsky: This has been an amazingly special week for the Windows 7 team. Were all incredibly appreciative of the reception of Windows 7 this
week at the PDC. Thank you!
All of us on the team have been closely watching the news reports and blogs of those who have been
śkicking the tiresť of the Windows 7 pre-beta. The reception has been fantastic and were humbled by the excitement and enthusiasm for the release.
We know we have a ton of work ahead of us to get to beta and then the path to RTM, and the reception has definitely given us an extra special
motivation (though we were already pretty motivated).
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02.11.2008How's the Reception at Channel 9?
Next week, Microsoft's
Channel 9 video blogsite
celebrates its third
anniversary. Channel 9's
creators, three of whom have
left Microsoft, positioned the
blogsite as a "a way to
listen in to the cockpit" of
the company. Is it still? Was
it ever? Channel 9 was a
radical development for
Microsoft, because it sought
to provide developers with an
unfiltered inside view. The
rawness of the early videos
contributed to that sense of
being inside the company.
Lenn Pryor, then
Microsoft's director of
Platform Evangelism, was the
mastermind behind Channel 9.
In the year before he left
Microsoft, Channel 9 certainly
offered more view inside the
company, but it's debatable
how unfiltered. In past
conversations with Pryor, he
indicated the site worked
largely independent of public
relations influence. The
Channel 9 Doctrine makes a
similar position. However,
some developers see the video
blogsite differently.
"Channel 9 is little more
than a PR machine," said
Chris Martindale, a developer
with Interactive Business
Systems, in Oak Brook, Ill.
"I haven't really found much
use for that site since it was
first announced. Same with
their Channel 10 site."
Marindale emphasized, "I
absolutely love Microsoft
products, but I feel the
Channel 9 site is more of a
way for them to play at being
hip and cool as well as show
off their products and only
give their view on them."
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30.03.2007Full length Channel 4 shows available for UK Youtube users
Channel 4's 4oD shows are now available for UK users of Youtube. Following the deal that was brought up a while ago, Youtube is now starting to
host full-length episodes of top Channel 4 series, such as Peep Show and Gordon Ramsay's F Word, according to The Guardian. Youtube has posted
5,000 videos on the Channel 4 Youtube channel, 4,000 of which are full-length shows. The number is going to increase though, as sometime in early 2010
the full range of Channel 4's shows is expected to be available to UK users.
Read full story.....
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19.11.2009Add Channel Logos to Windows 7 Media Center
When youre browsing through the TV guide in Windows Media Center, have you ever thought it would be nice to see the logos for the television channels
in addition to their name? Well, theres an add-in application that can do this. The program called My Channel Logos comes bundled with a number of TV
channel logos and provides a simple application that lets you assign them to any channel in your TV listing.
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13.02.2009Pre-CES Giveaway: Win Vista Ultimate, Adobe CS3, Zune and more
In preparation for CES 2008, which kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, we have decided to give away a number of products that have been gathering dust
around the office. All you need to do to win is come up with a good question...
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03.01.2008TNT to Start Broadband Video
Channel
Cable network TNT will launch
a broadband video channel next
week called
"Dramavision."
Initially, the channel plans
to offer some of its original
programming, it said Thursday...
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10.08.2006How to Build (or win) a Tiny Windows Home Server
Donavon from Home Server Hacks has put together
instructions on how to build a tiny little Windows Home
Server using an ARTiGO Pico-ITX kit. It's an interesting read and an especially good pick if your main concern is low power consumption - the Pico
uses a staggering 13-watts of power at idle. While the board isn't the most plug and play compatible hardware out there for Home Server, this will
show you how to make it work.
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07.01.2009MTV Launches 24-Hour Online
Channel
MTV earlier this week
re-launched its college
channel MTV Uber (mtvU),
making it the first channel
from the network to be
available in its entirety
online. Previously, mtvU was
only available on the cable
systems of about 730 college
campuses...
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14.10.2005Win X Hosting Now Open.
Win X Hosting Open To Day. We
Do Windows And Linux Hosting
Plus Reseller Web Hosting...
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31.10.2006Microsoft, Fujitsu Tune In Digital TV
XP Media Center Edition products will have Fujitsu's digital reception technology built in...
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03.09.2005MSN Launches 'Search and
Win' Contest
MSN has come up with a new
plan to draw users away from
Google: free stuff. The
company launched a contest on
Monday that will give users a
chance to win prizes simply by
using the service's search
engine. Over $1 million in
prizes will be available
during the months of February,
March and April...
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13.02.2006AT&T to begin femtocell tests for improving cellular reception
A report from analysts at ThinkPanmure indicates AT&T will be releasing its own femtocell system with hardware provided by UK-based ip.access Ltd...
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26.04.2008Waiting for iPhone: Reading, PA
For all the buzz surrounding
the iPhone, the reception here
in Reading, a town about 65
miles northwest of
Philadelphia has been somewhat
muted...
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30.06.2007Microsoft launches its own blog for 'Windows 7'
The official marketing channel for the next edition of Windows was opened this afternoon, as Microsoft quietly raised the curtains on what it's
positioning as an open channel for ideas regarding what the company should add to its next OS...
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15.08.2008FCC's Martin resurrects 'a la carte' proposal, content providers respond
While Congress looks into the strange way the FCC chairman advanced his first, failed attempt to inject channel-by-channel programming into US law,
cable programmers set up a proactive defense against a possible second attempt...
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17.04.2008Channel 4 strikes deal with iTunes
Channel 4 is to make a selection of its hit shows available through iTunes in the UK, including Shameless, Skins, Peep Show and Black Books. The
latest episodes of current shows will not be available for download until the day after transmission. Channel 4 is pricing the cost of its shows to
match the BBC at £1.89 per episode.
The announcement is part of an escalation of Channel 4's digital media strategy following
news of a £50m creative fund for digital media projects.
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20.03.2008Gizmondo Getting Cool US
Reception
If you heard a loud thud over
the weekend, it may have been
Tiger Telematic's Gizmondo
finally launching in the
United States. The device,
whose sales in the UK -- where
it has been available since
March -- have been somewhat
disappointing, has received a
cool response from US
reviewers as well...
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25.10.2005Microsoft honing its 'better together' story for Windows 7 and Office 14
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and
Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to
trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to "work better together."
Microsoft isn’t planning to
integrate Win 7 and O14 to anywhere near the degree that it is integrating Windows Live and Win 7, sources say. But officials are looking for ways
that users who buy both of these new products will be able to take advantage of how O14 “lights up” on Win 7.
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15.01.2009Clear Channel to add 800+ station streams to Reciva device
To expand its already large base of listeners, Clear Channel announced it will make content from more than 800 stations available nationwide to users
who own Internet radio receivers made by a producer of parts for XM and Sirius...
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20.05.2008Broadcom Demos Integrated Comm Chip
Chipmaker Broadcom has
developed a way to integrate
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM
reception capabilities onto a
single chip, allowing
manufacturers to produce
devices with the functionality
without sacrificing cost, size
or battery life...
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