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Activewin have uncovered what they are calling new information regarding Audio/Video in Longhorn, Microsofts next generation of Windows. Theres no link to the datas so I'll leave you with what we found on AW.

Windows Longhorn Audio/Video User Experience Working with audio and video devices in Windows will be easier in next generation Windows for both application developers and end users. The Audio Video Devices Group in the Windows division is working on both Windows platform and device UI enhancements that will make it easier for users to set up, test, configure, and improve their experiences with speakers, microphones, sound cards, video, and TV tuner cards. This session is an overview of new audio video device support infrastructure and UI that will make AV devices "just work" within Windows and Windows applications. Topics covered include AV device installation, setup, configuration wizards and Control Panels, Windows Volume Control and Application mixing, and an overview of the new Audio Video Preferences Control Panel.

View: New Microsoft Windows Longhorn Audio/Video Information - WinHEC
News source: Activewin

Whatever its originality, early numbers from qSearch, which include data collected since the beginning of the year, confirm what industry watchers have suspected for some time: Google leads the pack among search sites, with Yahoo -- which uses Google's engine to produce search results for Yahoo sites -- close behind.

Google.com accounts for 33 percent of all queries by English-speaking searchers, ComScore said. In the United States alone, Yahoo leads with 26 percent of the approximately 790 million searches performed in the states during the time covered by the qSearch report.

"We've seen (Google) move up to the No. 1 position in the last 12 months, based on worldwide activity," said James Lamberti, vice president of ComScore Entertainment and Media Solutions. "But Yahoo is much stronger domestically than people understood before our data became available."

ComScore attributed Yahoo's strength in the United States to its specialised sites like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Yellow Pages, where more than half of Yahoo queries took place.

ComScore's first report offered good news for second- and third-tier search sites. Dogpile, a "meta search engine" that queries a range of other engines, had a "visitor-to-searcher" conversion rate -- or the percentage of people who visit a site and then end up searching there -- of 83 percent. Ask Jeeves, a so-called natural language query engine, scored a 75 percent conversion rate.