Microsoft has made Windows XP Media Center edition available to only a few large system builders, such as Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Sony, and Viewsonic. That complicates things for system builders who ...

Thanks to a discount coupon and some clever configuring, you can get an ultracompact, ultraloaded HP media center PC for $749 shipped (plus sales tax). Rick Broida Senior Editor Rick Broida is the ...

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

I have often joked that the inevitable result of the "convergence" of television and computer would be the need to reboot your TV every now and then. That actually happened this week. Twice. The TV in ...

Microsoft launches an updated version of its Media Center PC operating system for home multimedia systems, part of its effort to put multiple machines in every household. During her years at CNET News ...