Posted 07/23/08 at 11:02:50 PM by Mark Edward Soper

 For Windows Vista users who use Windows Media Center, there's good news and bad news:

The good news? The long-awaited "Fiji" update to WMC, officially known as the Windows Media Center TV Pack, was released to manufacturing last week. The bad news? Pick a pair: a) TV Pack is currently available only to OEMs. b) Nobody who knows exactly what TV Pack includes is telling, and the rest of us don't know.

Some long-rumored features, such as support for H.264 encoding (used by DirecTV), didn't make the cut, but exactly what's in "Fiji" is still a mystery. To find out the best guesses we've found about TV Pack, and when the rest of us might finally get our hands on it, join us after the jump.

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Posted 06/29/08 at 10:04:36 PM by Pulkit Chandna

The government of the small island nation of Fiji is not too pleased with Microsoft’s purported use of the country’s name for the upcoming revision of Windows Media Center. According to reports, Fiji’s government is still trying to convince Microsoft that it needs to seek official permission first – and impute more respect to the tiny country, before going ahead with its plans to launch Windows Fiji.

The country’s Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum wants the dispute to be resolved cordially. Interestingly, Microsoft’s annual turnover is many times Fiji’s GDP. But something could be more interesting then the economic disparity between the two: Microsoft’s possible obsession with the name Fiji, which might eventually cost it a few million dollars.

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Posted 12/14/07 at 05:24:16 PM by Mark Soper

Better performance and enhanced reliability are just part of what Vista SP1 brings to the table. Support for new hardware, new features, and much more is part of the package.

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Posted 12/11/07 at 05:22:14 PM by Mark Soper

Windows Vista SP1 includes 479 security and hotfix updates. Find out what's changing.

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Posted 10/17/07 at 10:26:04 PM by Mark 'Marcus Soperus' Soper

If you absolutely, positively, can't wait for the official release of Windows Vista SP1, you're just a few system hacks from getting it - today.

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