http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/ Engadget Comments for Sneak peek at Microsoft's Windows Vista MCE remote http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/"Will current MCE remotes and IR receivers work with Vista?"

From what I've seen, I have a current IR reciever and remote that came with a HP desktop system, and I hooked it up to my Vista Beta 2 system and it worked seamlessly. So, I think there will be absoltely no problem.]]>Oct 17th 2006 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
-Martha]]>Oct 17th 2006 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
It's "coming down the pike..."

move along, nothing to see here...]]>Oct 17th 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/I'll stick with my Apple FrontRow remote...only 6 buttons.]]>Oct 17th 2006 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
Leave it to Vista to make me feel like a 5 year old again.]]>Oct 17th 2006 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
Does that me the inverse is true?
"Great looking remote, hows it work?"
"It doesn't, it just looks great sitting there."
"Sweet! You're my hero"

Get some hobbies.

]]>Oct 17th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 17th 2006 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
So tell me, how would Apple design a remote that requires changing channels? Up/Down channel? Up/Down Volume? Do you really want to have to go back to a main menu to onscreen change these values. And try entering channel 921 using a 1980's arcade style menu. Looking at the FrontRow remote, how do I advance chapter to chapter rather than having to FF through a scene? MC Ihave 4 different speeds of FF or skip chapter. Something people have come to expect from a remote, as they are there for a purpose.

Will I like the shape? Maybe not, I would need to hold it in my hand to see. But in a year when Apple has another knock-off product (don't these guys ever have a new idea other than adding pretty colors and calling it revolutionary?), a remote with 40 buttons, have 1/2 the features of Media Center (to keep it simple for us, the stupid masses that could only aspire to be as brilliant as the one true God Steve), run only on Apple hardware, and able to communicate with only Apple software, it will then be called the greatest most brilliant thing ever created, why didn't anybody have this idea before, and then the PR coverup machine will kick in trying to dispell the lies from the Windows camp that Steve and his loyal cult fanatics ever said anything bad about a remote with more than 6 buttons.

But oh, it has already started. There was a patent filing by apple that showed a remote with a touch screen that had many different functions that were context sensitive (buttons would show/hide depending on your state). More than 5 buttons, brilliant, Steve does it once again! All bow before him! Want the state to be different (I want to control my TV now, not the DVD controls that are displayed to me now)? You fool, you don't know what you want, Steve knows better than you. So you will use your 5 button remote, all the wold must convert, and when Steve tells you you need one with more buttons, then you will be allowed to use one.

You will have my harmony and replace it with a FrontRow remote when you pry it from my cold-dead hands.
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the only thing worse than Apple-fanbois are Apple-haters.

more or less buttons is not better or worse, it just depends on the application. the traditional negative example for too many buttons is Word. a negative example for having too few is BMWs iDrive - it has only one button for everything, and is almost impossible to use, especially when driving.

cell phones or the original iPod are good examples of the "right amount" of buttons. it's more about the functionality than the number of buttons.]]>Oct 18th 2006 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 18th 2006 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/Oct 18th 2006 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/sneak-peek-at-microsofts-windows-vista-mce-remote/
With Kind Regards
Leon Bollerup
Team ORCA
http://www.orcadesktop.com

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