I don't really see why he is "stunned". If anything it must be because he has just found out.
Set-top boxes have been around for years supplying information over the wire that accompanies the programming with info about the show and the actors. Broadband suppliers are pushing internet, phone, tv and movies over the same fiber line. The convergence is already happening. That Windows media Center wants to take a big piece of this action is no surprise, but spare me the sensation.
Neither a lot of money nor a lot of people will give you good code. Good programmers and good QA does. Anyone remember the guy who was out to "publish a security bug a week", only to find Opera 9 was more secure than he had hoped?
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I don't really see why he is "stunned". If anything it must be because he has just found out. Set-top boxes have been around for years supplying information over the wire that accompanies the programming with info about the show and the actors. Broadband suppliers are pushing internet, phone, tv and movies over the same fiber line. The convergence is already happening. That Windows media Center wants to take a big piece of this action is no surprise, but spare me the sensation.
Neither a lot of money nor a lot of people will give you good code. Good programmers and good QA does. Anyone remember the guy who was out to "publish a security bug a week", only to find Opera 9 was more secure than he had hoped?
Opera did not port the browser. The Opera Desktop 9.1 static version runs right out of the box on the OLPC.