The Media Center Show No.149 – Ed Bott on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and more

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I have a great show this week even if your not a Media Center enthusiast. Windows expert Ed Bott joined me for a live show a couple of weeks ago talking about Vista Service Pack 1. We talked about many topics including Service Pack 1 and had some great questions from the chat room. Ed talks a lot of sense and helps puts the record straight on Windows Vista, he made a great statement “One of the things about the blogosphere is that it reduces every argument to one that can be shouted across a wall”. I have a couple of emails and an news on a new competition

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Show Times:

00:50 Coming up this week
01:56 Email – Update on DVD library
03:55 Email – Shorter end theme music
04:40 Send in your email for show 150
04:59 Microsoft Announces 2008 Ultimate Install Contest
05:24 The Ultimate Media Center Enthusiast Setup – Win an XBox 360 Elite and more!
06:12 Yougle 0.4.0 – Internet Video on Media Center
06:48 Steve Lindsay’s new video – The Top 5 Things YOU didn’t know you could do Vista Media Center
07:04 Niveus Adds Movie Gallery Interface to Aggregate Films
07:29 MceFM – Last.fm addin for Windows Media Center
08:04 Follow me on Twitter
08:31 A message from One Voice – download a free trial
09:50 Welcome to Ed Bott and the live audience in the chat room
10:36 Background on Ed
12:40 Blogs taking over
14:58 Perception problems with Vista
18:00 Vista driver issues
22:00 Getting a good Vista experience
25:00 Are OEMs a help or a hindrance?
26:43 Are Microsoft constrained by Anti-trust issues?
28:00 Modular approach for installing Windows
30:56 Windows Server 2008
32:12 Should there be a Windows Server 2008 Workstation?
34:00 X64 versions of Windows Vista
36:58 Should there be an embedded version of Media Center?
41:30 Virtualization
43:50 Application Virtualization
44:30 Vista Service Pack 1
45:00 Why have a service pack?
48:33 Will we see any major changes?
50:20 A great quote from Ed!!!!
50:54 Copying changes
56:08 The servicing stack
57:00 Changes to UAC?
1:06:19 Windows 7
1:10:00 XP issues when it launched
1:11:57 Should you install Service Pack 1?
1:14:00 Availability (it should be on Windows Update about now)
1:15:48 Ed’s Blog
1:17:37 Windows Vista Inside Out
1:21:49 Keep in touch and send your pictures in

Music by Ian Dixon

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