The Windows Phone Experiment: Week One
DMZ writer Richard Gunther trades in his old iPhone for a Windows Phone. How hard is it to integrate Windows Phone into an Apple-centric life?
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Entertainment 2.0 #167 : Rethinking Microsoft’s Media Platform
While one new DMZ contributors incites impassioned responses from our readers with his thoughts about Media Center is it possible another might have predicted upcoming changes to Microsoft’s media strategy? Meanwhile, a new show comes to the Digital Media Zone next month, and we’re...
read moreShould Microsoft Really Do Media? A Look at Zune
If you ask people what kind of company Microsoft is, you may get varying answers (snarky quips aside), but the responses would probably converge around “software.” Windows, Office, Outlook, database software, the myriad of business tools…are all software. Sure, there are other aspects of...
read moreEntertainment 2.0 #165 : Good Grief!
Episode 165 is all about Windows and the number 8! We've got details on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, along with tons of content news!
read moreXbox LIVE Gold Discounted and Zune Music Pass Trial
Microsoft is offering 1 month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription for $1 and a 14-day free trial of Zune Music Pass via the Xbox Dashboard.
read moreEntertainment 2.0 #119 : What the WEC?
Entertainment 2.0 is back yet again with Josh and Craig. This week started off with more great emails from the listeners with great questions and useful tips. Most of the news of the week was dominated by speculation about Microsoft’s Zune portable media player and media service. First there...
read moreKinect Control Coming for Netflix, Hulu, and Zune this Spring
Tonight, during Microsoft’s CES keynote they announced an update to XBOX Live’s services for Zune, Netflix, and Hulu. Starting some time this spring you’ll be able to control all three services using your voice, or gestures, using the...
read moreRemote Simplicity: Using a Zune Remote in Media Center
Some times you just want to keep things simple or gasp keep it “Apple” like. That is the case with this nice little gem of a find. A user over at Life Hacker found out that with a simple registry edit you can use alternative IR remote controls within Media Center and even Windows Media...
read moreMicrosoft live streaming their CES keynote
Just like last year, Microsoft will be live streaming their CES keynote. No one is quite sure what MS will be showing but there have been rumblings… The company has worked a lot in the last year to bring Zune and Xbox Live content together and we have to assume they’ll continue to move...
read moreReview: Casa Tunes Multi-Zone Audio with Media Center
For years I have been slowly building up a multi-zone audio system in my home. The first system I had was based off of my Yamaha AV receiver that had a second zone output, to which I used to feed speakers in my garage. Later on I expanded that to also feed audio into my kitchen/living room area,...
read moreZune80 $149.99 With A/V Dock at Woot.com
If you just can’t wait for the ZuneHD and want to get your hands on portable media player now, you won’t see this price again until sometime after the HD’s launch. Woot has the Zune 80GB (normally $250) with the home A/V dock (normally somewhere north of $50 online) for $149.99 today. ...
read moreDoes Microsoft Allow Employees to Talk to Each Other?
Many people would call Michael Jackson dying a tragedy while others couldn’t care less. But I’m not writing this to talk about Michael Jackson. Well, sort of. What I want to talk about is the fact that his funeral was netcast in HD via inMusic in Canada. The cast wasn’t country...
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