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Windows 7 Windows Media Center

Unlike Windows Vista, with just the Home Premium and Ultimate editions featuring Windows Media Center, Windows 7's editions, starting with the Home Premium SKU, and including Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate, will all offer users the component. With the availability of Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 Ultimate bet...

24 February 2009
07:45 GMT

Future Windows Media Center Developer Beta Programs

Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, codenamed Windows Fiji throughout the development process, was, by all accounts, a disappointment for all Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate users, who were expecting at least an upgrade for Windows Media Center, if not the next iteration of the product. However, there were few...

1 December 2008
14:51 GMT

New Microsoft Broadcast TV Platform for Windows Media Center TV Pack

Microsoft keeps rolling out goodies for Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, all the while leaving a bitter sweet taste in the mouths of users of the Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs. In this regard, following the finalization and release of Windows Fiji, Microsoft unveiled its new worldwide platform design...

12 September 2008
10:07 GMT

Enhanced TV, only with Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Microsoft applauded the capabilities of Windows Media Center in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista in terms of serving enhanced TV content, even though not all users of the two editions of the operating system will be able to enjoy them. This because enhanced TV materials are intimately connected wit...

11 September 2008
06:08 GMT

Leaked Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 (Windows Fiji) Is Now Live

CEDIA EXPO 2008 is the stage where Microsoft has gone officially live with Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008. Still, Windows Vista RTM and Service Pack 1 users running the Home Premium or Ultimate editions of the operating system will have to wait for Windows 7 in order to benefit from an upgrade to Windows Media Cen...

5 September 2008
09:36 GMT

Windows Fiji - Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 Leaked to Torrent Sites

Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, labeled as codename Windows Fiji, throughout the development process, has been released to manufacturing in mid-July 2008. Designed as an upgrade for the Windows Media Center component of the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista, Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 has been...

18 August 2008
07:48 GMT

Vista RTM and SP1 Windows Fiji - Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment. Fir...

11 August 2008
12:30 GMT

Microsoft to Detail Windows Fiji - Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Windows Codename Fiji is the prime example of Microsoft sticking to an absurd policy when it comes down to communicating details about its products to the general public. Even at just one month from the release of Windows Fiji, the Redmond company is keeping a tight lid on all details much to the frustration of Windo...

8 August 2008
09:08 GMT

Windows Fiji Has RTM'd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008

Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing. The Redmond giant sent Windows Fiji RTM emails to the select pool of customers who helped nudge the product forward through development milestones. Fiji has been from the get go to the finish line a product developed under wraps at M...

18 July 2008
13:24 GMT

Fiji vs. Windows Fiji

The Fiji government is taking on Microsoft, and Windows Media Center is well at the center of the problem. Debuted into development back in 2007, following the launch of Windows Vista, and currently in private Beta testing, Windows Fiji is designed as the next step in the evolution of the Media Center default compone...

26 June 2008
04:59 GMT

Fiji Still Cooking, But Vista SP1 Windows Media Center Update Is Live

With Windows Fiji still in the oven, Microsoft is also cooking updates for its current version of Windows Media Center which ships as a default component of the Ultimate and Home Premium SKUs of Windows Vista. The June 2008 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista is now available for download straight fr...

11 June 2008
06:55 GMT

Windows Fiji Leaked Screenshots: Windows Vista Media Center Feature Pack 2008

Codename Windows Fiji is on par with Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server when it comes down to the details available from Microsoft. This because Windows Fiji falls under the category of products developed under the translucency policy set in place by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engine...

2 June 2008
09:17 GMT

Windows Fiji (Media Center Next) Moves in Silence Alongside Windows 7

The Windows 7 operating system is not the only Microsoft product developed far from the eyes of the world. In fact, the Redmond company has successfully gagged almost all information related to products adjacent to Windows 7, including Internet Explorer 8, Windows Live Wave 3, and Windows Fiji. However, the next vers...

21 May 2008
03:58 GMT

With All the Focus on Windows 7, Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Whatever Happened to Windows Fiji?

It's fair to say that the Windows client projects are getting not only a great deal of play lately, but are also managing to capture quite an audience. First off, Microsoft is hard at work wrapping up with the first service pack for Windows Vista, as well as the third and final service pack for Windows XP. Accor...

30 January 2008
04:55 GMT

CES 2008: What's on the Windows Vista Media Center Horizon? Windows Fiji?

According to Microsoft, Windows Vista has passed the 100 million sold license milestone in 2007. During the introductory keynote at 2008 International CES, Robert J. Bach, President, Entertainment & Devices Division, revealed that "Media Center continues its success and is on the vast majority of the 100 million-plus...

8 January 2008
08:34 GMT

Microsoft Demonstrates Windows Vista Media Center

Just in case you managed to miss the worldwide Wow celebration, you should know that September 3 was synonymous with the five year anniversary of Windows Media Center. This is why Microsoft managed to indulge in a rather "subtitle" Windows Media Center display, demonstrating one of the main features built into the Ho...

5 September 2007
09:41 GMT

Will Windows Fiji Drop as Remote-Less as Vista's Windows Media Center?

Next month, Microsoft will celebrate the five-year anniversary of Windows Media Center. But, following the availability of Windows Vista, Windows Media Center will not be complete when turning five. Absent from the celebration, and "missing in development" is the Windows Media Center Remote. On January 30, 2007, Micr...

24 August 2007
03:28 GMT

New Build of Vista SP1 Surfaces Along with the Pre-Beta Version Released to Testers

There is a new build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 around in parallel with the pre-beta release that shipped to testers in mid July and that was subsequently leaked to torrent trackers. Microsoft is yet to offer additional details on its plans related to Vista SP1 outside of the crumbs the company managed to leak. ...

13 August 2007
12:23 GMT

Microsoft Doesn't Have the Slightest Clue as to What Comes After Windows Vista

Microsoft is not talking Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft is not talking Windows XP SP3. Microsoft is not... well you get the idea. Future product releases such as Windows Seven, Windows Fiji and even Internet Explorer 8 are taboo for the Redmond company with Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Li...

31 July 2007
13:18 GMT

Windows Fiji Delayed Until 2008

Windows Fiji, the official Microsoft code-name for the upcoming edition of Windows Media Center, will most likely be available toward the end of 2008. The connection between Windows Media Center and Windows Fiji was first confirmed by Charlie Owen, a product manager on the Media Center team, earlier this year. Owen m...

19 June 2007
06:18 GMT

Microsoft Updates Windows Vista Media Center

In mid April 2007, Microsoft opened up the registration process for beta testers for Windows Fiji, the upcoming version of Windows Media Center. And with Fiji cooking in the Microsoft laboratories, the Redmond Company has started tending to the existing releases of Windows Media Center. In this regard, at the beginni...

21 May 2007
10:47 GMT

Windows Fiji Beta Testers Wanted over at Microsoft

Has Windows Vista given you everything it can? Are you ready to move to the next level? Well, here is your chance to apply now and become a beta tester for Windows Fiji. Microsoft has opened the registration for the beta testing, the upcoming version of Windows Media Center codenamed Windows Fiji. Jessica Zahn, progr...

18 April 2007
05:45 GMT

First Rule of Windows vNext

So... Let's talk about Windows Fiji... As the rule above imposed as a part of the Windows Omerta only applies to Microsoft employees, you and me can just about speculate about everything, including let's say... Windows Fiji. If there still is any doubt left in your mind as to the association between Windows...

22 March 2007
12:31 GMT

Windows vNext Omerta - Microsoft Developer Gets Back in Line

Simultaneously with the commercial availability of Microsoft's latest operating system, reports related to Windows Vista were downgraded a level and became simply less news worthy. And all the attention tended to shift to the next version of Windows. In this context, there have been a lot of code-names circulate...

21 March 2007
10:06 GMT

Windows Fiji Drops Out of Band Before Windows 7/Seven/Vienna

Windows Vista, Windows Fiji and the Windows Seven. This is what we should expect out of Microsoft following the January 30, 2007 commercial release of Windows Vista. For some time, speculations have pointed out that Windows Fiji is in fact the first Service Pack for Windows Vista. As Microsoft is officially not comme...

20 March 2007
10:45 GMT


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