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Windows Vista Media Center Edition

It looks like Longhorn’s offical name is going be Windows Vista

So does that mean that Media Center is going to be Windows Vista Media Center Edition or will there be some snapier title for it?
Win VS MCE???

Here is the Vista home page

13 Responses to “Windows Vista Media Center Edition”

  1. Phoenixfury Says:

    Personally I’m hoping Windows Vista will just include Media Center instead of it being a separate product. I’m also hoping Microsoft takes a hint from Suse Linux and actually put the 32-bit and 64-bit versions both on the same DVD. I am an owner of a custom built Media Center PC, and can’t see any reason why Media Center shouldn’t be included on the next version of Windows. Even if all the current PC’s on the market don’t have tunor cards, Media Center is still useful. I think this would be a logical move for Microsoft. They really need to do this.

  2. Ian Dixon Says:

    That is an interesting question. I can see the benefits in including MCE in the box. But would a corporate want MCE on then desktops
    That would explain the lack of software extender

  3. Backbone Blogging Survey Says:

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  4. annonymous Says:

    it’s called diamond

  5. Ian Dixon Says:

    annonymous - that will be its code name. was asking what will its actual name be

  6. Steven Says:

    “Backbone Blogging Survey” is very interesting, but nothing to do with the article.

    As of packaginh Media Center with Vista, I think that it should be done. Perhaps there should be two installation options, one with Media Center, and one without. For cooperations, the Media Center functions should be easy to disable.

  7. Nick Seal Says:

    It should just be called “Windows: Vista”
    Seriously, what new features are in Vista at launch that is not mostly marketing fluff? The new file system isn’t even going to be available at launch. All I see are increased security that should have been there years ago, and high system requirements to catch up to OSX. Vista NEEDS to have the media center application.
    Take a loss now on a decent application, which is by no means the best one out there, devower the free compition, and secure Microsofts place in the living room/dorm room. It was the best move Microsoft could make to put Internet Explorer in to Windows. Its free, its installed already… why look elsewhere. Sure they got sued over it, but 3 billion in net income this year says it worked. Just like the Gaming division looses 300 million a year, take a loss on the Media center, and make it an investment in not only retention, but to thwart off any small companies that actually need to make money off such a product. The microsoft standards can be futher pressed to consumers to further gain power in the industry, and it iss a good way to say F U to companies like sony that do not hold the windows addicts. Consumers are incredibly lazy, just give it to them, and they’ll be hooked. Match the features of free applications like MythTV, SageTV etc, let them play ogg, xvid, ogm etc. Let them burn to dvd. Take away most of the reason to use anything else. Make it easy to be addicted to windows. Oh, and give them real HD (not over the air garbage) support.
    Apple will have most of the features of media center by March 2006, and a significantly better overall operating system already. The improvements in vista are just playing catch up to OSX. Apple is also switching to Intel processors, which will reduce cost of ownership. So how exactly is Microsoft trying to sell this product? Current stock value reflects this problem, where profitability is bleeding away. The company makes money off addiction, so its time they started acting more like a drug cartel. Push the media center, and maybe I’ll stop loosing money on Microsoft’s stock.

  8. Tom Says:

    Having done some beta testing of Vista, the link and icons for media center are all there, it just doesn’t work, yet. From this preview, we can see that it will be included in the OS itself instead of a seperate OS. The DVD image that you install on your system is supposed to include all versions of the Vista OS including 32 and 64 bit versions.

  9. Ian Dixon Says:

    yes, since writing this I have got Vista December CTP and got Media Center working in it. It is looking nice

  10. Tony Says:

    Hi,

    I would really like to see support for multiple tuners of different types - for example, here in the UK, that would be Freeview (DVB-T) and analogue Satelite (or if MS can get a satelite capture card that can receive all Sky Channels, that would be excellent!)

    Other applications have this functionality, so I’m sure MS can ‘learn’ from these other applications…

    Thanks
    Tony

  11. jwb2k Says:

    Hi All,
    I am new to this forum but just wondered, for those who have installed Vista and are using media centre, what did you use for the video codecs required to watch TV in Media centre?

    Are there any good free sources for these codecs?

    Thanks a lot

    jwb

  12. Ian Dixon Says:

    Jwb - I haven’t got TV working in the December CTP build yet. I tried the Nvidia decoder but that crashed the PC.
    I think the next CTP is the one to try

  13. crx Says:

    I shot some video of the Windows Vista Media Center and put it up on my site for those of you who want to get a sneak peek at it. The new user interface is pretty sick and the navigation is much smoother. The video was shot at CES 2006.
    http://www.crxchai.com/?p=25

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