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What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center

Posted by timothy on from the does-both-more-and-less-than-I-realized dept.

Phopojijo writes: Microsoft has officially dropped Windows Media Center but, for a time, it looked like Microsoft was designing both Windows and the Xbox around it. That changed when Vista imploded and the new leadership took Windows in a different direction. Meanwhile, Valve Software and others appear to be tiptoeing into the space that Microsoft sprinted away from.

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  1. Re:And what a direction! by Opportunist · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, it's enough for me if it took it away from something I might actually have some use for and MS didn't put down their usual consumer-unfriendly, DRM riddled idiocy as the de facto standard.

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