ZDNet WinHEC coverage: MS rewires your home PC
Apr 18, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — views[Updated 4:00pm PDT] ZDNet has created a special feature devoted to this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) held by Microsoft in Seattle, WA . . .
MS rewires your home PC
Microsoft invites engineers to converge in Seattle for WinHEC to hear the latest ideas about DVD, audio, video and other consumer computing technology. Is Bill Gates' dream that homes will be built around a PC just around the block?
- Gates: PC will rule home network
At WinHEC, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates lays out his vision of home networks, where a PC acts as a hub for video cameras, stereos, TVs — and even replaces the phone. - Microsoft leads push for next-gen IP
At its WinHEC conference, Microsoft asks computing professionals to support IPv6, a replacement of the Internet Protocol that underlies all communications across the Internet. - Microsoft hardware smiles on Bluetooth
Chairman Bill Gates plans to announce Thursday that Microsoft will sell keyboards and mice which use the wireless technology to connect to PCs. - Microsoft targets digital media
Microsoft unwraps a host of products, including the long-awaited 'WMV' format–a new way to encode video, that are intended to ensure its influence over music and video. - Allchin's brave new PC world
Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin tells hardware makers that innovation is the key to a PC industry revival–but it'll take more than cosmetic changes to part customers from their cash. - Microsoft serving up high-end Windows
Microsoft is working on support for a technology called non-uniform memory access, or NUMA, one method for designing large servers crammed with processors. - Palm-sized device packs PC punch
Startup OQO plans to show off an 'ultra-personal' computer powered by a Transmeta Crusoe chip and supported by a 10GB hard drive and 256MB of memory - MS plugs home network developer kits
Microsoft's new hardware and software developer kit will help design programs that will let your PC control home security systems, garage doors and even thermostats. - Microsoft takes a seat in your home
Now that PCs can do the same job as stereos and TVs, Microsoft will show off its technology for writing DVD discs, controlling PCs with a remote control and much more. - Microsoft Freestyle PCs: New digital hub?
Microsoft wants its Freestyle software to act as the nerve center of home entertainment. But with doubt over whether consumers are ready, acceptance could be elusive, analysts say.
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