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Microsoft's home entertainment center of the future | |
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| Time: 06:55 EST/11:55 GMT | News Source: Boston Globe | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Technology buffs of a certain age can remember when a ''home entertainment center'' was 8 feet long, built of cheap, heavy wood, and featured an LP turntable, AM-FM radio and a 19-inch picture tube - wide-screen TV by the standards of 1959. People seem nostalgic for every aspect of that bygone era, except for those old home entertainment centers, with their Leave-It-To-Beaver aesthetics and dismal ''hi-fi'' sound. But there's a lot to be said for the idea of an all-in-one home entertainment center, so much so that now the computer industry is embracing the idea, with a gentle nudge from Microsoft Corp. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 11/11/2002 11:43:04 AM |
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This story must be false. Since MS is a monopoly as dictated by Judge "Sleepy" Jackson, then everything they do is to benefit themselves and not the consumer.
New technologies? New features? No, this must be another company called "Microsoft". |
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