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Over the last year and a half, we have looked at the Media Center PC in various forms. These included kluged setups with individual components, drivers and software on top of a Windows 2000 platform, all the way through its current incarnation based on Windows Media Center 2005......
As we've mentioned in the past, one of the areas we have been following is something we like to call the "Home Enterprise", and a particular aspect of it, the 'media center'. The concept of media centers covers a lot of territory. Like any 'buzz word' a lot of companies apply it to anything they feel even vaguely fits the definition. And, since there is no formal definition, that leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
Read more: The Media Center Redux - Or Thinking Outside the Box
You've heard it a million times before, but periodically archiving your data, performing a simple back-up, is a critical business and personal PC procedure. This isn't just a server issue. It affects desktops as well. In today's business environment of home offices, remote workgroups and VPN's, critical data is all too often being stored on desktop hard drives. The problem is, desktops are often ignored.
There is always one thing you can depend on from CES…it's just too big to cover in 4 days. With over 2700 exhibitors and about 2 million square feet of space you would need at least 2 more full days of exhibition time (about 15 hours) to be able to spend 1 minute with each exhibitor.......