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| Microsoft head for the digital living room |
| Saturday, January 08, 2005 at 11:18 by Rich Kavanagh |
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, Bill Gates and other Microsoft officials demonstrated how software is transforming the world of consumer electronics and enhancing the lives of millions around the globe.
In his keynote address at CES, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrated how new products and technologies are making it easier to create devices and software that work together. He also demonstrated new offerings from Microsoft and its partners that will make it easier than ever for people to access favourite TV shows, photos, music and video on a wide range of devices.
Bill Gates said at the show,
"This holiday season is a significant milestone for us - we've seen how the power of software can enhance consumers' digital experiences, ensure that they work together seamlessly and offer people more choices than ever before. The digital lifestyle is here to stay."
Home entertainment and digital video recorder (DVR) firm TiVo also announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that they had recently partnered with Microsoft.
The pair plan to innovative the recently launched TiVoToGo service to enable portability to multiple devices. The company began rolling out the TiVoToGo service enhancement to subscribers earlier this week and will work with Microsoft and other firms to enable consumers to take their entertainment with them wherever they go, to watch whenever they want.
Matt Wisk, Chief Marketing Officer at TiVo said,
"Now that millions of consumers are enjoying the TiVo service in their living rooms, we found that many of them had a desire to take that entertainment experience with them. By rallying other industry leaders around this opportunity, we can bring consumers that extended TiVo experience to a broad range of devices in a quick and powerful way."
Gates also demonstrated how television programs stored on a TiVo box can be transferred to a Windows based PC for playback on Windows Mobile devices, Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
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| This sounds like a lot of hot air again. Microsoft neither has a significant market share in mobile phones nor is it clear that the mass market is ready for another convergence device. I wouldn't bet the bank on this just yet. |
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would like a description of tivo - suspect there is a tie in to MS Train Simulator 2 that I have been waiting for |
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| what leadership style does micosoft use |
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| Click on one of the TiVo links in this article. |
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| i wonder what gates thinks about spending all that money trying to kill MP3 a while back trying to help us now BS? JUST WANTS MORE MONEY |
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| I have been consistently underwhelmed by declarations out of Redmond for about the last 6 years. M$ has gotten too big and too pervasive. All the really interesting stuff is coming from the small guys and M$ just jumps on the bandwagon after proof-of-concept has been established by the real risk takers. |
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| Why does your article not state that during the presentation for this new technology that it crash two times? |
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| We covered that in a previous article, which can be found here: http://itvibe.com/news/3168/ |
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