The good news: Two models of Asus Eee, the 1101HA and 1005HA, are eligible for free upgrades to Windows 7. The bad news: Your 1101HA needs to be preloaded with Vista Home Premium and your 1005HA needs to be preloaded with Windows XP Pro or Vista Business. More »
Boxee held a big developer’s meeting today in San Francisco, and boy did they pack in the announcements. Aside from Windows support, the platform as a whole now supports Digg, Tumblr, and MLB. Most importantly, it’s finally leaving alpha. More »
Windows 7′s UI is going to be unveiled by Ballmer and Gates tonight at All Things D during their interview. We’ll be there, so check back periodically to see what the Steves have, since pretty much all we’ve seen so far is Windows 7 under a Vista UI. [All Things D - Image Credit (Just a concept)]
The Gadget: Linksys’ slightly fancier Windows Media Center Extender, which streams the Windows Vista/XP Media Center interface over the network so you can watch live or recorded TV and downloaded files on TV in HD.
The Price: $US299
Branching out from their full-featured (read: Expensive) Media Centers, Niveus is introducing a Sierra Edition Media Server, which is also designed for the home-builder market. The Sierra, which is half the size of their normal units, also consumes “low power” and uses an HD DVD drive, 500GB storage, a GeForce “Series 8″, and 1080p streaming. It’ll be available in Q1 2008 for “volume integrators”, which means people who will be installing them in homes or other markets which you probably don’t qualify for buying this for yourself.
