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Windows Media Center Update Delayed?
By Mack Male | June 20, 2007 at 2:00 pm
If you were looking forward to the next version of Windows Media Center, I have bad news for you - it looks like the project has been delayed. The update, which is believed to go by the Fiji codename, looks to be stalled according to Chris Lanier:
The beta program, which many of you may have registered for isn’t exactly moving along. The invites that were supposed to be sent out on May 31th have gone no where fast. This leads me to think that the target ship date for Fiji is no where close.
Chris suggests that Fiji may not see the light of day until late 2008. Ars Technica picked up the story too, and mentioned that DirecTV support, HD-DVD playback, and improved support for CableCARD are all rumored features of the update.
Of course, one should keep in mind that Microsoft has not officially described Fiji as a Media Center-specific update. There seems to be something of a lockdown at Microsoft when it comes to future versions of Windows, so it could very well turn out that Fiji is actually Vista SP1 or something like that.
Either way, it looks like Windows Media Center fans will have to wait a while for new stuff on the software side of things.
Tags: fiji, Rumors, software, Windows Media Center, Windows Vista
Topics: Rumors, Windows Media Center |
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:28 am
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