On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:26:15 -0500, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Media Center Edition
>
> It's lets you watch TV, record TV, listen to music, play video files,
> etc all with a very nice interface. It's MS's well designed home
> theater PC. It's possible to do all those with other devices, or even
> build a linux box or mod an XBox to do all or most of it. But the
> fluid integration and ease of use of MCE is what is the real appeal.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:04:15 -0400, Bill Wheatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > What exactly is MCE?
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:26:40 -0400, Tyler Silcox
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Agreed. It's like the $25 student versions of WinXP, if MS doesn't want
> > > people to get it from the "usual" places (bittorrent, etc), then they
> should
> > > release their products to the public in an affordable package. Anyways,
> > > hopefully they'll realize this soon...like before next week's press
> > > conference ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Tyler
> > >
> > > _____
> > >
> > > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 9:16 AM
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: RE: XP Media Center news
> > >
> > > You might know more than I do. I don't really keep up with MCE too
> much,
> > >
> > >
> > > and I was interested when Raymond suggested that MCE would be
> installable on
> > > any machine, because I'd never heard that before. But then the guys
> across
> > > the aisle that I work with were discussing the MCE and thais exact topic
> > > came up. I basically repeated what they said and what I've learned from
> > > having to support MCE - meaning that we don't support MCE, only OEMs
> do. I
> > > think whatever information you have is probably right, though. I don't
> see
> > > why MS would not want the general public to have an MCE OS if they want
> one.
> > >
> > > - Matt Small
> > >
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