November 8, 2004

Media Center Gets a Makeover PC World - Having mastered the home office, Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to take over the living room--and every other room--in your house. The company's Windows XP Media Center 2005 operating system, which will come preinstalled on Media Center PCs from companies like Dell, Sony, and HP, acts as a media server that can feed audio and video to any receiving device within network range. But don't trash your TiVo just yet. The new operating system lays a slightly tweaked version of the original Media Center interface on top of Windows XP Service Pack 2 underpinnings. PCs running it will begin shipping before the holidays. 5:47:47 PM

IBM puts Blue Genes up for sale The Register, UK - IBM has eagerly turned its Blue Gene supercomputing experiment into an actual product, putting the system on sale at starting price of $1.5m 5:45:16 PM