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Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January?

Not exactly news I know as Microsoft have been saying all along that Windows 7 beta will be ready early next year, but Ed Bott pins the date down to January 13th . I expect to see Windows 7 beta be shown off at Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote and then the...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 9:26 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Gizmodo:10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features

I keep meaning to record some video showing the Windows 7 version Windows Media Center running on my Xbox 360, I should have it down later this week. In the mean time Gizmodo have a nice top 10 list of Media Center features in Windows 7 . The screenshots...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 11:20 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Windows Media Center in Windows 7 Touch Control

Gizmodo have a nice video showing off Windows Media Center in Windows 7 being controlled by touch. This feature must be disabled in the PDC version as I couldn’t get it to work in my Q1. The UI looks very smooth and the scrolling reminds me of how HP...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 8:32 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Windows 7’s new “play all” decoders, encoders and transcoding capabilities

Long Zheng has highlighted some of the decoders built in to Windows 7. He shows how Windows 7 support additional codecs over Windows Vista, which is great as in my experience every time I download a codec pack it breaks Recorded TV playback. I was testing...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 9:39 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Video: Running Windows 7 on a Samsung Q1

When I was chatting with Steve from UMPC portal I promised a video of Windows 7 running on the Q1 and here it is, it’s just a quick look the PDC build of Windows 7 on the Q1. On the video I mentioned the audio problem and I have since given up trying...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 11:33 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: UMPC, Video, Samsung, Windows 7

Listen to me being interview on UMPCPortal.Com

The UMPC is an interesting form factor, I have had my Samsung Q1 for a while now and have had some good use out of it but the performance of Vista on it meant that it’s been left in a draw and the EEE PC comes with me instead. So when I got the...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 12:03 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: UMPC, Windows 7

DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?

Ed Bott has an interesting find about DirecTV and Windows 7. Long time follows of Media Center will remember that DirecTV announced they were bring DirecTV to Windows Media Center back at CES in 2006. Up to now there have been plenty or rumours but no...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 8:43 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

The Media Center Show #180 – Charlie Owen on the new Windows Media Center

Listen Here (mp3) This week I am talking to Microsoft’s Charlie Owen about the new version of Windows Media Center that will ship as part of Windows 7. Last week Windows 7 was shown off for the first time and Charlie posted details of the updated...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 12:00 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Podcast, The Media Center Show, Windows 7

Media Center SDK v6.0 (Windows 7 M3) First Impressions

Niall Ginsbourg the developer behind many great Windows Media Center applications has taken a first look at the Windows 7 Media Center development kit. (v6.0) It’s early days yet but I think Niall was impressed with some of the improvements and...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 8:31 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Windows 7 on a Samsung Q1

After having successfully installed Windows 7 on my test PC I thought I would try another machine, after some encouragement via followers on Twitter I decided to give it a try on my old Samsung Q1 UMPC. This is the original Q1 with 1GB of RAM and a Celeron...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 9:32 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Libraries & HomeGroup in Windows 7

One of the interesting new features of Windows 7 is HomeGroup and Libraries, this is the way all your machines are going to share content over the network. Brandon LeBlanc on the redesigned Windows Experience Blog explains how Libraries and HomeGroup...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 3:29 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Windows 7 Picture Gallery and first impressions

I haven’t had much time to play with Windows 7 yet so I thought I would post a few pictures. The installations tool under 20 minutes on my test machine and on a Hyper V session, its very much like Vista at this stage. It boots very quickly but I...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 1:59 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Platform updates for Media Center in Windows 7.

Charlie Owen has details of the changes to the Windows Media Center Platform in Windows 7 . If you working on Media Center applications then you will want to read the details of the updates, they seem to be small improvements rather than any major changes...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 5:47 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Got any questions about Windows Media Center in Windows 7?

While the details of the Windows 7 version of Media Center are just coming out I am sure there are lots of questions about the update. I am going to be interviewing Microsoft’s Charlie Owen on The Media Center Show and I would like to get answers some...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 5:28 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

HomeGroup in Windows 7

HomeGroup is a new features that is going to be great for Media Center users, there is not a lot of information out about it yet but it looks interesting . It’s a way to search and share multiple PC libraries, you can link all your Windows 7 computers...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 5:02 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Details of Windows Media Center in the PDC Build of Windows 7

Charlie Owen has the best look at the new build of Windows Media Center in Windows 7. Charlie has posted details of the pre-beta build of Windows Media Center and included some detailed screenshots. It looks like for the first time since Vista Windows...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 4:44 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows Media Center, Windows 7

Windows 7 at the PDC

I wish I could be at the PDC but other commitments mean that I can’t be there so I am watching the keynote about Windows 7 over the web. I should have my hands of a build of Windows 7 soon but here are some of the interesting bits of information from...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 4:23 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Windows 7 to be called Windows 7!

I was speculating about the name of Windows 7 last week and today Microsoft surprised me by announcing the final name as Windows 7 (interesting seeing as the version is actually 6.1). Mike Nash over on the Windows Vista blog says : The decision to use...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 11:29 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

What will Windows 7 be called?

I was reading Ed Bott’s blog post about Windows 7 final name and as yet there seems not to be to much speculation on what the next version of Windows will be called. As Ed points out Windows 7 shouldn't be called Windows 7 as its real version number is...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 11:29 AM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

Windows 7 pre-beta to be given out at PDC

I wish I could have made it over to the PDC this year as it looks like it will be the first public airing for Windows 7 . Attendee’s will be given a pre -beta copy of Windows 7 and I expect a lot of Windows 7 features will be talked about at the show...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 5:14 PM by Ian Dixon

Filed under: Windows 7

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Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January?

Gizmodo:10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features

Windows Media Center in Windows 7 Touch Control

Windows 7’s new “play all” decoders, encoders and transcoding capabilities

Video: Running Windows 7 on a Samsung Q1

Listen to me being interview on UMPCPortal.Com

DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?

The Media Center Show #180 – Charlie Owen on the new Windows Media Center

Media Center SDK v6.0 (Windows 7 M3) First Impressions

Windows 7 on a Samsung Q1

Libraries & HomeGroup in Windows 7

Windows 7 Picture Gallery and first impressions

Platform updates for Media Center in Windows 7.

Got any questions about Windows Media Center in Windows 7?

HomeGroup in Windows 7

Details of Windows Media Center in the PDC Build of Windows 7

Windows 7 at the PDC

Windows 7 to be called Windows 7!

What will Windows 7 be called?

Windows 7 pre-beta to be given out at PDC