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Microsoft inside Microsoft Corp unveiled products that will allow TVs anywhere in the home to access video, music and photos stored on personal computers, in its latest effort to push its software beyond the desktop. It also announced the delayed launch of wristwatches that collect data via radio, demonstrated a year ago as part of Microsoft’s same effort to find new avenues of growth. As PC makers begin to move beyond computing and into traditional electronics like televisions, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said his company was committed to the same push, with products for home entertainment and media management. In his annual address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Gates demonstrated his plan for "seamless computing" with products that connect to or synchronize with PC hardware or Microsoft software. Gates said Microsoft
will unveil products later this year that will allow TV viewers to
access live and recorded TV
programs, music files, digital photos and other media stored on
their PCs. Called Media Center Extender, the new software package will provide up to five televisions remote access to PCs running the company’s Windows XP Media Center Edition. The software supports the copyright protection system known as digital rights management, so users can order media directly from Internet-based subscription services like Movielink via a TV, Gates said. — Reuters |
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