Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 1: May the show begin

Windows XP Media Center Edition

In the coming months Microsoft will release Windows XP Media Center Edition, also part of the presentation today.

The Media Center Edition of Windows XP will finally provide the front end to PC based personal video recorders. If you’ve noticed, one of the biggest limitations to the acceptance of things like ATI’s All-in-Wonder Radeon as a Tivo replacement has been the interface. It is much easier to click a few buttons on your Tivo remote than it is to fumble around with a Start Menu, even if you have ATI’s Remote Wonder.

The Media Center Edition of Windows XP alleviates this problem by providing a very user friendly front end to the XP Professional OS. The beauty of the Media Center edition is that you can continue to use the OS just as you would Windows XP Professional but you can drop into the Media Center interface whenever you’d like.