Analysis: Windows Media Center to go mainstream in Vista
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Windows XP Media Center Edition OS may not yet be the standard home entertainment hub that Microsoft hopes it will be, but analysts said that could all change once the company releases the next consumer client version of the Windows OS later this year.
Though Microsoft has not gone public about whether there will be a separate Media Center release for Windows Vista, it's very likely the company will eschew a separate edition in favor of building Media Center features directly into the edition of Vista that goes out on most consumer machines, said Matt Rosoff, analyst with Directions on Microsoft.