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Posted on 13 Nov 2007 at 11:26

Despite the improvements in Vista, Microsoft was planning to completely overhaul the Media Center software this year as part of a project codenamed Fiji. An open invite for beta testers was sent out in March, but since then the project has gone eerily quiet. It seems this almost certainly won't be ready for Service Pack 1, meaning that any further improvements to Media Center are unlikely to surface until the back end of next year.

XP - 7
Still the fastest operating system on the market for gamers, but unless you have a Media Center edition of XP it sorely lacks the home-entertainment features that are increasingly expected of modern PCs.

Vista - 8
The new, integrated Media Center gives Vista's home-entertainment facilities a healthy boost - let's just hope gaming gets a boost when DirectX 10 titles finally arrive in force.

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