Media Center PCs

The reason you own a personal computer has changed. These days, it’s far more likely to pump out music, photos and video than spreadsheets and text documents. Yet the way you interact with it hasn’t caught up: alone in an office, two feet from the screen, clicking away with a mouse and keyboard. There ought to be a better way. Companies have nibbled at the entertainment-focused PC interface before, but it took Microsoft to finally nail it, with the recently released Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005...

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