Microsoft has made Windows XP Media Center edition available to only a few large system builders, such as Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Sony, and Viewsonic. That complicates things for system builders who ...

Disclaimer, I have never used VM's myself, so this may be a silly question... but here goes... I use WIndows 7 media center to distribute tv and dvr recordings throughout my home to media center ...

A couple months back I gave you some tips on how to customize Windows Media Center, my onetime favorite Microsoft media management system. I’ll be honest: I’ve been thinking seriously about cutting ...

The RadioTime plug-in for Windows Media Center brings all the streaming radio stations of the world to your couch. For free. It’s a little-known fact that Windows Media Center can tune in local FM ...

It's no secret that Microsoft has a slight tablet, err Slate PC problem on its hands: Windows 7 certainly works on a "pad," but the user interface isn't meant for strictly finger input. The makeshift ...

Wood paneling and chrome made your dad's station wagon look like a million bucks, and they might also be just the ticket for Microsoft's fledgling effort to put a Media Center PC in every living room.

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

After hearing Bill Gates makes his keynote address at CES yesterday evening, we’re pretty convinced that The Register was dead wrong when they asserted that Microsoft had decided to kill Windows XP ...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is clearing its shelves of old Media Center PCs ahead of the launch of a new generation of the systems, one of which turned up at a store owned by Circuit City Stores earlier this ...

Gateway Inc. plans to release two additional Media Center PCs Thursday, hoping that consumer excitement over multimedia will boost what is forecast as a weak holiday season for consumer PCs. The ...

I have often joked that the inevitable result of the "convergence" of television and computer would be the need to reboot your TV every now and then. That actually happened this week. Twice. The TV in ...

Can you even believe that it has been over two years now since the first consumer priced HD component capture device hit the market? It doesn't seem that long to us, but if you're a Window Media ...