The 2008 Summer Olympics takes place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24. With a free download service1 called NBC Olympics On The Go,2 you can catch up on TV coverage from NBC Sports. Select your favorite sports and NBC Olympics On The Go will automatically download the right events to your Windows Media Center-based PC. You can watch your selected events in up to HD quality, even when offline, and you can pause, rewind, or fast-forward the video.
Download NBC Olympics On The Go
To get NBC Olympics On The Go, start Windows Media Center and scroll to the Online Media menu. You’ll see an NBC Olympics graphic. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows Vista has barely passed its first eight weeks on the market and there are voices demanding a full autopsy of an early pronounced dead operating system. There are of course two perspectives on this, and they by no means share the same tune. On one end, there is Microsoft. At the other pole the are the end users, the original equipment manufacturers, the system builders, the environment of software and hardware developers. And there is an unnatural gap between Microsoft and Windows Vista on one side and the rest of the world
on the other, between what users want (Windows XP), and what Microsoft is offering (Windows Vista).
At this time, Microsoft is offering inhouse competition to Windows Vista with strong support for Windows XP. Such a move from the Redmond company is a strategic gambit, designed to sacrifice Vista for the time being and to prolong the expiration of XP. Read the rest of this entry »
THE NATIVES are getting restless, a blog post at Cnet urging Microsoft to dump Vista reveals. Accompanied by a picture of the Windows Vista Ultimate edition box labeled ” The Microsoft albatross,” writer Don Reisinger’s piece entitled “Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself” begins “While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology.”
After taking the Vole to task for the lack of value in Vista Ultimate, he goes on to build a case that Vista is a disaster and Microsoft should just dump it and start over. Disappointing sales, check. OEM PC sellers sticking with XP, check. Apple’s Mac sales surging, check. He writes “With each passing day, it’s becoming blatantly clear that Microsoft released Vista too early and the company’s continual mistakes and promises that can’t be kept are further annoying the Windows faithful.” Read the rest of this entry »
