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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedA PC for couch potatoes: Microsoft's new center for home entertainment. (Headliners).(Brief Article)
Video Business, September, 2002 by Donahue, Ann
Microsoft Corp is teaming with several computer manufacturers to develop an operating system that will give personal computers the ability to operate as an efficient home entertainment center, with everything from digital video recording technology to DVD playback to Dolby quality audio. "Every digital media enthusiast, every college student, every teenager, every apartment dweller will love this technology,' said Jim Allchin, group VP of the platform products group at Microsoft.
"It's an example of how innovation continues to make the PC even more central to people's lives." The Windows XP Media Center Edition has been sent to computer manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard and Samsung, with the notion that they will incorporate the operating...
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