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Battery life: Windows 7 leaves Vista for dust
News Upgrading a newer machine from Windows Vista to Windows 7 might mean that you get to see the last few minutes of that DVD on a long flight. At a demo on Tuesday, Microsoft showed two... [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft fingers thumb drives for Windows 7 netbooks
News The move, which is still under consideration, is one of several things Microsoft has looked at to try to make it easier to upgrade machines that don't come with a CD or DVD drive. Its predecessor,... [26 Jun 2009]
Microsoft Windows 7 and business: Listening at last?
News As an example of the kinds of changes Microsoft made in response to the business feedback, Schuster points to the way Microsoft handled DVD playback. With Vista, Microsoft offered the DVD decoding... [05 Mar 2009]
Computing on the go
Comment Performance also falls a little short of the competition but it sports excellent battery life - measured at nearly 3.5 hours in silicon.com sister site CNET.com's DVD playback test. With a nod at the mainstream business... [04 Jun 2008]
Vista-XP downgrade software launched
News The first DVD sets up a partition on the hard drive and installs core XP files and drivers, while the second DVD installs the remaining XP files in the partition, said... [06 Feb 2008]
HP means business with energy efficient PCs
News The dc5700, which costs $800, and the dc7700, priced at $959, both include an Intel Core Duo processor, an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of memory, a DVD/CD-RW drive and Microsoft Windows XP Pro.... [13 Mar 2007]
Vista won't crack the living room, says AMD
News Advances in Windows Vista, such as increased support for high-definition video and new DVD standards, help PC technology in its battle for consumer living rooms, Rod Fleck, a fellow with AMD said in a... [24 May 2006]
BSkyB P2P deal warms studios to movie downloads
News Content cannot be downloaded onto more than one PC, transferred to other devices or burnt to DVD. The service is currently only compatible with machines that run Windows XP and will not... [10 Jan 2006]
Gates touts TiVo partnership in digital vision
News He also touted a new combination DVD player and digital video recorder from LG Electronics that connects with both regular Windows XP and specialised Windows... [06 Jan 2005]
Microsoft readies recordable-telly OS
News Much of the focus with the new version, which is codenamed Symphony, has been on improving the audio and video quality, with the goal being to rival consumer electronics devices such as DVD players and digital video... [06 Oct 2004]
Disney launches Mickey Mouse PC
News Embedded speakers, a DVD player, a CD writer and player, and a digital pen are also included. The system is preloaded with the Windows XP operating system and software for e-mail... [06 Aug 2004]
Sino the times: China to call the shots in tech?
News In research considering China's moves in areas such as operating systems, RFID tracker chips, entertainment media beyond DVD and mobile and satellite communications, professional services firm Deloitte reckons the rest... [28 Jul 2004]
Microsoft patches new Windows flaw
News First, Microsoft removed a feature in Windows XP that gave users the option to upgrade a DVD decoder, in a move designed to prevent malicious exploitation of the feature. Microsoft has... [12 May 2004]
Wal-Mart to sell Linux PCs
News The $698 SYSWM8006 has Intel's Pentium 4 processor, 256MB of memory, an 80GB hard drive and a CD-RW-DVD combination drive. The $398 Microtel SYSWM8003 comes with an Advanced Micro Devices Athlon XP 2400+... [01 Apr 2004]
Apple's Jobs: Macs could be Intel-based - but won't be
News At the same time, he said they will care a great deal if faster processors can speed the time it takes to encode a DVD or if it is possible to make a clear picture out of what was once a blurry photo. [06 Nov 2003]