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Windows 7 available today, Kylie gets a new PC and other musings from GA-Day
Welcome to Windows 7 Release! OK, now you have your copy of Microsoft Windows 7. First, check that your PC will run it with Upgrade Advisor http://bit.ly/rP24L . And if you've got questions about Windows 7, look thru the posts from community experts on Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:24 PM by mthree | 0 Comments

Do you have advice for President Obama on the 2009 digital television (DTV) transition? He's listening…
As I posted here , the House voted to delay the DTV transition today, which the President is likely to sign into legislation. Now the Obama White House is fulfilling their promise to allow people to comment on new legislation, allowing a five day feedback Read More...

Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:14 AM by mthree | 1 Comments

My life as a customer: this week, it's about cable television… and more than the 2009 DTV move
My life as a customer. This week, it's cable television and the proposed digital television transition... not be confused with that other digital TV transition … as Tweeted today . If you read my post about my email and Tweet exchanges with Comcast , Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:25 AM by mthree | 4 Comments

Of interest: House defeats (and then approves) bill to postpone the digital television transition. Consumer feedback much?
Update , 1:39PM PAC: The House voted to delay the DTV transition today, and the President is likely to sign the legislation. As noted here , the As Kim Hart, Staff Writer for the Washington Post noted in her article today, Technical Difficulties: Switch Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:02 PM by mthree | 1 Comments

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The Washington Post's Kim Hart 'Technical Difficulties' on the painful Digital TV transition: Obama and the FCC can do something about it
As Kim Hart, Staff Writer for the Washington Post noted in her article today, Technical Difficulties: Switch to Digital TV May Not Be as Smooth as Advertised , many consumers are impacted by the transition to digital television (as I noted noted previously Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:57 AM by mthree | 1 Comments

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Obama's team requests to postpone transition: I mean the digital TV transition on Feb 17, 2009.
An interesting metaphor given the wet, rainy weather we have this week in the Redmond area: 40 days and nights from now, the television world should be changing to digital broadcast in the States. But not if Obama’s team request for a delay in digital Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:07 PM by mthree | 5 Comments

NBC Video Direct restores world order at home, saves my bacon
As I Twittered (tweeted? I'll get this right), sometimes you forget to do something: pick up milk on the way home, feed the cat or empty the dishwasher.  On the whole, not so serious.  And with a digital vide recorder or a Media Center PC, you Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:54 AM by mthree | 2 Comments

Reuters asks: Is PC the new black? Ask Microsoft
Just returned from the Company Meeting at Safeco field (that was fun) and happy to have a hand in one moment, helping my friends in Live Search (they know who they are, and how raising a few hands helps the cause ;).  Nuff said. Unfortunately, I Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:36 PM by mthree | 2 Comments

Microsoft partners with Netflix on Xbox Live (msnbc.com)
It's a long time coming, but good to see that after a few hints here and there, we finally have word from Kristin Kalning, Games editor on MSNBC in this article that beginning this fall in the States, the catalogue of streaming video titles available Read More...

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 5:26 PM by mthree | 1 Comments

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Gizmodo says Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV "is way better than cable or satellite"
Gizmodo this past week said of Microsoft's Mediaroom (our TV over IPTV solution) service via AT&T U-Verse and BT Vision in the UK... "... features... quick channel changing, multiple channel records simultaneously without a hardware tuner limit, multi-room Read More...

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 4:38 PM by mthree | 0 Comments

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Randy Pausch tonite on ABC News (April 9)
I'm off sick today and catching up on mail, whilst the kids are home for spring break. Mayhem ensues. The other day I posted at the top of the things-I've-read list the article on "Lessons from Randy Pausch" in Parade , a not-so-trivial piece in the often Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:48 AM by mthree | 0 Comments

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It's real: the Netflix survey to gauge interest in streaming movies via Xbox Live
With all the talk this weekend of HD-DVD (as Reuters noted this weekend ) and that main supported Toshiba "will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment" (as reported on Japan's NHK public broadcasting network), interesting to see the increased interest in Read More...

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 5:04 PM by mthree | 1 Comments

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The transition to digital TV will be promoted (and televised) in the States
Turns out I'm not the only one concerned about the digital TV transition in the States. Ina notes that Best Buy's CEO, Brad Anderson, said that the digital TV transition "posed the biggest threat to his industry, warning of the dangers if consumers find Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:05 AM by mthree | 4 Comments

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Of interest: Only 1,048 more Hulu beta invites available, via PCMag
Missed one of the last five episodes (or all five) of your favourite TV show? Perhaps you're hanging out at CES looking at the differences between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, and you didn't get back to your hotel on the strip to catch a live broadcast. Well, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:41 AM by mthree | 1 Comments

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The Bill Gates keynote (with Robbie Bach) and other CES 2008 coverage
Bloggers and the press are out in force at CES in Las Vegas, tonite covering Bill Gates' keynote at CES 2008 . You can find several entries listed here . Check out video coverage at Microsoft's CES site and on Microsoft PressPass . [More on the keynote Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:56 PM by mthree | 3 Comments

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