Comments on: Hackery, continued http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=877 Helping PC users make sense of Microsoft software since 1991 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Thomas Hawk http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=877&cpage=1#comment-2161 Thomas Hawk Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=877#comment-2161 Some of you may or may not recall Andrew Orlowski's fine piece of "exclusive" journalism on the eve of CES in 2004 when he came out and wrote that Microsoft was on the verge of killing Media Center. Orlowski reported that, "Windows XP Media Center will be folded into Microsoft's ever-changing Set Top Box strategy." "While Microsoft can comfortably afford to juggle its roadmap, OEMs have to face the consequences, and patience appears to be wearing thin. "We have to be more prudent in deciding whether or not to support Microsoft when it announces a new business plan," OEMs told the Korean paper ET News when they heard of the Smart Display being axed." In fact, not only did Microsoft not kill the Media Center PC or roll it into some set top box strategy, instead the used their spot at CES mere days later to give the Media Center PC it's biggest marketing push they'd seen yet from Bill Gates himself personally. And since they've gone on to continue to promote, market and push the Media Center PC strategy. Of course it's easy for Orlowski to hide behind the "Although Register sources decline to be named" in his article which he got 100% wrong and backwards. I don't read the Register anymore and I wouldn't put one bit of confidence in anything reported by Orlowski. Here's the article: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/06/whatever_happened_to_the_windows/" rel="nofollow">Link</a> Some of you may or may not recall Andrew Orlowski’s fine piece of “exclusive” journalism on the eve of CES in 2004 when he came out and wrote that Microsoft was on the verge of killing Media Center. Orlowski reported that, “Windows XP Media Center will be folded into Microsoft’s ever-changing Set Top Box strategy.”

“While Microsoft can comfortably afford to juggle its roadmap, OEMs have to face the consequences, and patience appears to be wearing thin.

“We have to be more prudent in deciding whether or not to support Microsoft when it announces a new business plan,” OEMs told the Korean paper ET News when they heard of the Smart Display being axed.”

In fact, not only did Microsoft not kill the Media Center PC or roll it into some set top box strategy, instead the used their spot at CES mere days later to give the Media Center PC it’s biggest marketing push they’d seen yet from Bill Gates himself personally. And since they’ve gone on to continue to promote, market and push the Media Center PC strategy.

Of course it’s easy for Orlowski to hide behind the “Although Register sources decline to be named” in his article which he got 100% wrong and backwards.

I don’t read the Register anymore and I wouldn’t put one bit of confidence in anything reported by Orlowski.

Here’s the article:

Link

]]> By: Jeff http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=877&cpage=1#comment-2162 Jeff Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=877#comment-2162 Give me a break. You're accusing Microsoft of something evil because it's trendy, not because you have any actual proof. Have you ever written software? Did everything work the first go around? I doubt it. The Firefox folks just had a similar problem, but with a release version. Do you think they were trying to keep third-party components from working? I think not. Give me a break. You’re accusing Microsoft of something evil because it’s trendy, not because you have any actual proof. Have you ever written software? Did everything work the first go around? I doubt it. The Firefox folks just had a similar problem, but with a release version. Do you think they were trying to keep third-party components from working? I think not.

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