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Between flat screen TVs, cable boxes, DVD players, wireless routers, and the not-so-wireless cords required to make everything function, the modern home entertainment center has become too cluttered for most people, and IKEA is planning to fix that. The Swedish retailer plans to launch a range of AV-integrated furn...   read more

In a blog post published on Monday, Microsoft announced three editions of its upcoming Windows 8 platform: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. Windows 8 is the consumer SKU and it will include the updated Windows Explorer, Task Manager, better multi-monitor support, and the ability to "switch languages on the ...   read more

If there’s one thing that drives us crazy it’s a slow-booting Windows system. That’s why for Windows 8, Microsoft went back to the drawing board to redesign the boot process for speed. The key difference for Windows 8 is that as with Windows 7, the user session is closed, but instead of closing the kernel session...   read more

For all those wondering whether Microsoft will include Media Center with Windows 8 - the answer is yes. Media Center will not be in the first pre-release Windows 8 builds, Sinofsky acknowledged. Neither will some other features and capabilities, including Windows 7 games, DVD Creator, upgrade setup and “Dot Net 3.5...   read more

Remote Potato HD for the iPad is being released this week on July 12th. Not only can you stream your stuff and remotely access Media Center, you can also use an AppleTV as a Windows Media Center extender! Which is great if, like me, you have an older extender that doesn't support HD content. There's a live video de...   read more

Microsoft have announced the Release candidate of the Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Windows Home Server 2011 (aka Integrating Windows Phone 7 with your WHS 2011 Server). The purpose of this add-in is to enable Remote Server Management tasks and relay Media Streams for WHS 2011 including: Alerts Afte...   read more

Microsoft’s latest demo of Windows 8 showed the company’s path to tablets, a unique user interface and a lot of promise. But Microsoft’s biggest risk with Windows 8 revolves around the familiar themes that always haunt the company: Reverse compatibility and the need to make Windows the Swiss Army knife of computing....   read more

It looks like Google wants to change the way we use our PCs. According to this article their new Chrome PC will eliminate the need for firewalls, anti-virus and updates. It all works on the PC only running what is basically a web browser (surprisingly Chrome) and all you apps, files and so on are stored on the "clo...   read more