Thursday, July 15, 2004
Microsoft Expands Media Center Options
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
"Selling Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs will soon no longer be the exclusive domain of mostly large, multinational PC makers, Microsoft says. In an effort to boost sales of premium versions of Windows, Microsoft will make the superset of Window XP Professional Edition available also to the system builder channel. This means that white box makers--the PC stores selling systems with no brand name--will also be able to build and sell Media Center PCs. "We've recognized that our work with Media Center going only through our large, predominantly multinational OEMs is something that we could actually take further if we were to directly engage the system builders channel," the head of Microsoft's Windows client business, Senior Vice President Will Poole, said in a presentation at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference."Well this is a start. I'd still like the opportunity to build my own MCE. :(
