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TiVo, MS, and the War for the Living Room

Posted by simoniker on from the ready-fight dept.

r-blo writes "Hot off his in-depth comparison of TiVo vs. Microsoft Media Center, Engadget has Thomas Hawk following up with ten things each that TiVo and Microsoft need to do to win the War for the Living Room. It won't be easy (like TiVo offering their OS as software for the PC. Not going to happen.) but I've got a feeling they might be better off listening up. Especially TiVo, since we're all rooting for them anyway."

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  1. firsting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    posting. meow. meow. meow.

  2. first post by underworld · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no, but seriously...

    first post....

    but i mean - does M$ _really_ compete with Tivo in this segment?

  3. slashdot still b0rked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if you can read this then i guess not! oh yeah,

    Tivo > MS

  4. Hello???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nobody's posted yet, and this article was put up at 12:32am. The war for the living room and nobody cares I guess.

  5. King Kong represented the Black man in America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    King Kong was taken from the jungle wild, big and black. The only thing which could tame him was the blonde female. King Kong was brought to America in chains to make the white man rich. But Kong wanted his white prize and when he tried to take her by force he was eradicated.

    This was a real perception in 1933. But after the Civil Rights movement and a change in American attitudes toward interracial marriages, the black man didn't have to share the fate of Kong.

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  7. First post - not! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just when I was boldly going for it - f*ck, database maintenance.

    F**k!