News is leaking out that Microsoft may be considering integrating media center functionality into the standard release of the next Windows operating system, codenamed Longhorn.
Currently XPMCE is sold as a separate product to XP Home and XP professional, but this new development would mean that a PC could be multifunction e.g. a laptop would be a media center when docked, but a tablet PC when undocked.
This would go some way towards placing Microsoft at the center of the digital home as users would be more likely to use functionality built into their existing OS, than switch to another, however similar.
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