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How to Use Windows Media Center on a Leopard Network

Do you have a Mac Network?  Would you like to run Media Center on it?  Ian Dixon found an article on hackaday that will allow you to do it.

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WinHEC 2008: Windows Home Server & Windows Media Center Sessions Announced

Following hot on the heels of the PDC in October comes the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in LA in early November where attendees will get to learn more about Windows Home Server and the future of Windows Media Center, as well as what's planned for Windows 7.

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Microsoft Showcases Windows Media Center Momentum at CEDIA EXPO 2008

From distributed HD entertainment to automation and control, Windows Media Center is at the center of an ever-expanding ecosystem within the custom installation channel.

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Integrating Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server for the Average Family - Part 1

The first in a series of articles detailing how one network went from dilapidated junker to media hero with the help WMC and WHS.

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Samsung Attempt to Discover World’s Smallest Niche With the MediaLive Extender

Samsung announce the MediaLive Extender for Windows Media Center, but for a very, very targeted audience.

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Add-In: TV Manager Beta 3

TV Manager 3 for Windows Home Server reaches Beta 3 with a slew of fixes and new features.

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Win a $10,000 Digital Home Makeover From Microsoft

As part of the launch of the new Windows Media Center v2 Extenders, Microsoft are holding a competition in which one lucky winner can have their digital lives transformed from their current frustrated, disconnected experience to a digital enthusiast’s dream with $10,000 worth of new kit, including  a new PC with Windows Media Center, Extenders [...]

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Add-in Update: Recorded TV Manager 3.4.5 & MCE Collections Beta

Rick Drasch has updated his add-in, Recorded TV Manager, to version 3.4.5, as well as releasing a new add-in suite for Vista Media Center, called MCE Collections. Recorded TV Manager comes with the following changes: Version 3.4.5 Posted March 24, 2008 Startup Requirements- Improved the startup code regarding problems running the programincluding extended error reporting in the local eventlog. PERFORM_STARTUP_CHECK - Each [...]

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The Media Center Show, With Ian Dixon and… Me.

It’s a shame that I’m on The Media Center show this week having to discuss the Windows Home Server data corruption bug, rather than other more inspiring aspects of life with Windows Home Server, but there you go. Big thanks to Ian for getting in touch to help us communicate what the bug is all about, and [...]

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Welcome to Microsoft’s Steven Lindsay!

Please give a big welcome to Steven Lindsay from Microsoft, who will be a resident expert here at We Got Served on many aspects of Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center technologies. I’ll let Steve introduce himself, but as well as being a self-confessed digital enthusiast, he’s part of Microsoft’s new Windows Champions initiative which [...]

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