Media2Go gets branding, release date
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
On Monday, Microsoft revealed that its Media2Go platform for mobile multimedia would be branded as Windows Mobile for Portable Media Centers and that devices base on this platform would ship in the second half of 2004, a full year later than originally expected. The Media2Go platform, first unveiled at the CES 2003 trade show last January, is basically a stripped down version of Microsoft's XP Media Center Edition software that runs on Windows CE .NET in small, handheld devices. Some analysts have described the devices, which provide digital video, home movie, digital music, television show, and digital photo slideshow playback, as "video iPods."