Bill Gates Plots a Windows Future...

[ziess]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ne/4195177.stm

"The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device"

Ahhhhhha ha ha ha ha!
That'll be sorta like iTunes and the iPod.. iPhoto and any camera... that sort of thing then!

"Now we are up to literally hundreds of hundreds of partners who are building things that connect in with the Windows ecosystem and particularly the high end of that which is Media Center."

So why is no-one buying them then? I don't know one person who'd even consider a Media Center... Mac Mini on the other hand.. I know about 5 pc users who've got one already.

"...it's been a great three years for digital lifestyle innovation."

Sure has, but what have Microsoft brought to the table..?

[andychrist]

Maybe it should have been titled Microsoft Plots an Apple Future.

[dlloyd]

Heh heh. I think he's stunned and confused by all the great stuff Apple's been doing, and is trying to keep his head above the water

Go Apple!

[markceltic]

This was something amusing I thought of when I read this thread

[texanpenguin]

Windows Media Center Edition is great (for some people, with some hardware). It's one of those things that, if slightly tweaked, should have been an Apple invention (along with TV-tuner cards in the 20 inch iMacs).

I think Apple is really missing the boat with this sort of thing. I don't think there are many people who don't envision a future where we only have one set of screens throughout our house, which serve the purpose of TV, computer and telephone/videophone. With their Mac minis there is a perfect device for plugging in to AV equipment, but the software just isn't there!

There are groups on SourceForge etc., like the Mac Media Center group who are trying to develop something (anything) that can do what Apple should have made the Mac mini do to begin with.

[aicul]

Fully agree, mac integration is, in a certain way, not really moving forwards. Example:

Why wait for iPhoto v5 to integrate all media a digital camera generates - I'm talking about simple things such as mpeg.

I admit integration does not come easy. But Apple, stay true to yourself and integrate, integrate integrate.

[Giaguara]

Hm.. I for somre reason would not like to have M$ infiltrated to my TV (if I owned a PC running Windows). Keep TV as TV (since I never ever watch it anyway), keep my DVDs as DVDs, ... And I still don't get what is the minimum bandwidth that would be spent for watching TV? T1? I can't imagine wasting bandwidth to receive digi TV broadcast would even work on a DSL. Unless it was something like Realplayer quality.

[aicul]

Yes, but how many boxes will you have?