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First Looks at Windows Vista Media Center | |
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| Time: 07:18 EST/12:18 GMT | News Source: ExtremeTech | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP has had a hard time. Though it's hard to call it a poor seller, MCE certainly has a market penetration that represents only a tiny fraction of the many millions of computers running Windows XP. And why should it? Most users don't have nice hi-def TVs hooked up to their PCs, or TV tuners, or really any need to enjoy their music, video, and TV stored on their PC via a 10-foot user interface. It doesn't help that the first edition of Media Center wasn't very good, either. Then again, Microsoft bounced back with its second effort, Media Center Edition 2005, one of the most improved software products ever | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 11/30/2005 9:18:17 AM |
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"Though it's hard to call it a poor seller ... "
Especially considering that in August it was on something like 43% of all retail computers sold that month. I mean, they probably sold more computers with MCE on them that month than have ever run Linux. |
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