PC entertainment - handshake of Intel and Microsoft

After many years of developing similar types of entertainment products, but going on different paths to enter the digital entertainment room of users, Intel and Microsoft have so far decided to shake hands. together in the entertainment market.

In fact, the cooperation between the two big players in the information technology industry has been done in the last two years. At the same time, this cooperation also shows the efforts of Intel and Microsoft in providing users with the software they need.

Microsoft has a version of the entertainment operating system - Windows XP Media Center - while Intel also has a similar category of entertainment PC. In many cases Intel's entertainment PC is marketed using Microsoft's operating system. But these initial collaborative efforts did not yield satisfactory results when users still complained about the complexity of use, video quality or some other issues.

Don MacDonald, Intel's vice president of Digital Home Group, said efforts to make entertainment PCs easier to use are not small. There has been a lot of research work done.

Intel has just launched the new VIIV home entertainment system that is used on Intel microprocessor-based computers. Microsoft's Media Center operating system as well as other components are tested and show that they can live peacefully together. The Viiv entertainment technology PC is expected to be available by the end of the first quarter of 2006.

Intel's rival, AMD, has also announced that it has plans to develop its own entertainment PC.

Perhaps the first entertainment field that Intel and Microsoft want to look at is television. Previously to watch television - both traditionally or via cable - on Media Center, users had to have a separate signal converter. But recently Microsoft announced that the company has successfully developed a technology that allows users to watch television - both standard television and high-definition television - on a PC without a signal converter. . Microsoft's DirecTV can also allow satellite TV users to transfer TV content to Windows-based computers and other devices running Microsoft software. Intel also has similar content delivery contracts.

In short, our users will be the most profitable people in the cooperation of the two big players in this information technology industry. Let's wait for the results.