Friday, June 23, 2006
A Close-up Look at Vista Media Center
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is decidedly un-Microsoft-like. For starters, it has a gorgeous interface. It’s a poster child for usability, actually beating TiVo at its own game. It’s fast. And, at least in my household, it’s been surprisingly, almost shockingly reliable. So, you can understand why I’m holding my breath when I look at the big upgrade to Media Center that’s due at the end of this year in the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. Will Microsoft ruin a good thing? Will its revamped interface just add unnecessary flash and bog down performance? Will they fix the typo (Media Center techonologies?) in the copyright screen?"
I just finished going through the gallery of screenshots and the interface is indeed quite slick. And the article talks in some more detail about the slick user experience. One thing that sucks a little is the fact that it wasn't happy on a 2.8GHz machine with slightly low-end parts which means I will have to buy an expensive top of the line PC to run it.
I just finished going through the gallery of screenshots and the interface is indeed quite slick. And the article talks in some more detail about the slick user experience. One thing that sucks a little is the fact that it wasn't happy on a 2.8GHz machine with slightly low-end parts which means I will have to buy an expensive top of the line PC to run it.
