In praise of Windows Media Center
BetaNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft showed off developments on Windows Media Center last week at CES. Despite the Ballmer bluster, despite the inexorable march of Microsoft to seize control of all your screens, something important needs to be said.Specifically: Not bad, Microsoft.
We've come a long way from the schadenfreud-a-riffic 2005 CES keynote, when WMC crashed during Bill Gates's keynote demo.
Our brief visit with Windows Media Center was an encouraging look at a product that's gotten smarter, more flexible, and more fun to know with age.Some of the charm may simply mean that Media Center's edging out from under Vista's long black shadow.