If MS promise of IPTV on the X360 comes true, there might just be another reason to own a X360 in your home. Ditch the old cable box and get TV goodness from the gaming console the “knows it can, it can, it can”.

The biggest problem? Holiday 2007! DOH
UPDATE:

It currently sounds like that IPTV will not be available in the current version of the 360. To support the new functionality you would have to get v2 of the X360 to be released near the end of 2007. If this is really true that is going to really stink for the 10.4 million that have their current version of the 360. Plus the HDMI rumor is now related to this v2 version. So far I have not found any 100% proof that this is true or not.

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How did MS do for the holidays?

MS stated at CES that it had sold 10.4 million 360 consoles in 37 countries. Even more impressive was the sale of 2.7 million copies of Gears of War in the eight weeks since official launch.

Where was Sony, saying that they had made a million blue ray diode lasers so they could “ship” 1 million unit by the end of the year to the US. Shipped, not sold, not that anyone asked for them, just shipped so they could collect dust in your local Wally world or BestUBuy.

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VSoft Technologies has just released Automise 1.5 update. Making an already great product even better.

Download your trial copy of Automise now. Better yet, download it and register it to support a great bunch of developers.

What is Automise? Refer to my original Automise 1 post.

Tate and Vincent (and whole VSoft team, keep up the awesome work)!

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VSoft Technologies has another excellent tool to add to your arsenal if you are a developer or even a system administrator, called Automise.

Tate and Vincent has taken their FinalBuilder engine and created a simplified, but extremely powerful automation tool. Do you have tasks you do everyday, every week, every month… you HAVE to look at this tool. Check this out:

What can Automise do?

Automise enables anyone to quickly and easily automate a wide variety of tasks by using the huge library of built in actions in Automise. An example of what is possible includes:

• file operations (copy, move, create, delete, etc)
• CD/DVD burning
• database manipulations using SQL or Stored procedures
• FTP operations (put, get, create directory, etc)
• Run VBScript or JScript code
• iterate files, folders, file content, lists, etc
• IIS 5 and 6 operations (start, stop, create website, etc)
• create zip files, unpack RAR files, etc
• manipulate XML files
• operate on the .NET GAC
• WMI operations
• and much, much more!

This is a great tool for any IT person working on the Windows platform.

Download your trial copy of Automise now.

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VSoft Technologies has released the latest upgrade to the automated build tool FinalBuilder. If you are a developer and do not use a automated build tool, you are doing something wrong!

FinalBuilder 5 includes as usual a huge list of new and updated functionality. Tate and Vincent have outdone themselves with every new release. I have personally used the tool from its early days and have never 2nd guessed the choice.

This is one company that listens to its users and take all suggestions about their product very seriously.

Do development on the Windows platform? Go and download FinalBuilder now!

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