Get your Media Center Update Rollup 2- October 15, 2005 In the immortal words of Thomas Hawk, "Hot Donkey!" Update here. Update Rollup 2 for Media Center adds the following features: Xbox 360 Extender functionality. Customers can seamlessly access digital music, video, photos, and standard and high-definition television and movies on Media Center Edition 2005-based PCs through any Xbox 360 game console in the house. (Come on, you know you want one...) Away Mode. Away Mode will bring the convenience, quiet performance and instant onoff...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2005/10/15/GetYourMediaCenterUpdateRollup2.aspx Microsoft and RealNetworks settle for $761M- October 11, 2005 Link here. http:www.msnbc.msn.comid9659973 I for one am happy to see this happen. RealNetworks has a of good, smart folks who have learned from past mistakes (as does Microsoft) and we're all still learning. Harmony is a good subscription service, though I personally prefer Yahoo! Music Engine for their personalization system. In the end, I think this agreement will be good for consumers. Rob hints that this could pave the way to better interoperability on everything...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2005/10/11/MicrosoftAndRealNetworksSettleFor761M.aspx |