Microsoft Primed to Release Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/With+new+OS%2C+Microsoft+seeks+couch+potatoes%27+eyes/2100-1016_3-5368446.html?part=rss&tag=5368446&subj=news.1016.5' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/With+new+OS%2C+Microsoft+seeks+couch+potatoes%27+eyes/2100-1016_3-5368446.html?part=rss&tag=5368446&subj=news.1016.5</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With its eyes firmly set on the living room, Microsoft plans to release next month a new incarnation of Windows XP Media Center Edition, an entertainment-oriented version of Windows XP. The company has scheduled an Oct. 12 event in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, where it's expected to release an update to the operating system, as well as introduce the first crop of Media Center extenders--devices that allow television shows recorded on a Media Center PC to be watched on a television in another room."</i>

[Mike Temporale]

I've finally convinced my wife that we need a PVR. We'll hold off for the new version, and hopefully there will be some cool new features along with a nice range of case shapes and sizes. 8)

[makicr]

I guess that MSoft will not sell the OS separately (binding it to a system). I don't want to buy someone else's idea of the perfect media PC, I want to build my own.

Well, I guess it has to be Linux.

[Jason Dunn]

Well, I guess it has to be Linux.

Nah, just get Snapstream's Beyond TV3 and Beyond Media - they ROCK.