MS XP Media Center Edition (MCE) reaches 14 million units shipped
( in "Microsoft explains its Zune strategy":
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That's a growing base for a proletarian HA platform with prices closer to the XP Home than XP Profession (although MCE is a superset of PRO).
In MCE Vista, MS fixed the 'domain join' problem that MCE XP had
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so I plan to test it out in the near future.
Mouse and touchscreen performance (truly crummy in XP MCE) are also said to be improved and Tablet compatibility added -- all of which should be of interest to HA's in general.
... Marc Marc_F_Hult
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