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TiVo vs. Windows Media Center Edition
The Importance of writes "Two reviewers make head-to-head comparisons of TiVo and Windows Media Center Edition (here and here). TiVo still comes out ahead, but MCE is improving. Of course, some tout the flexibility of PC-based DVRs, while others question what this flexibility means when you have things like the broadcast flag and the INDUCE Act."
It's an awful lot of energy wasted trying to dislike something
Shady business tactics aside, Microsoft does produce some excellent server management tools, and great productivity software. I've learned that although I'm a huge F/OSS fan, it's hard to beat Visio.
Sometimes, they win because they deserved to. And if MCE eventually falls into that category, I might just buy it...
Sigs cause cancer.
it's hard to beat Visio.
Which is undoubtedly why MS bought Visio Corp., the guys who created it, circa mid-late '90s.
But I agree with you. MS makes some great products, and it's juvenile to overlook them simply beacuse "M$ is Evil, d00D!!!" Frankly, if for nothing else, MS should be given props for inventing the stuff (Office suite integration, e.g.) that the other guys inevitably come along and re-create less expensively, more securely, whatever.