Gates announced Windows Media Connect, technology for hardware manufacturers to use in developing "digital media receivers", or DMRs, which can play digital media files accessed on personal computers over home networks. Media Connect will let these devices automatically discover and access supported content on Windows XP-based PCs.
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It seems that Gates isn't really living in the digital age, wanting to resurrect the
old paradigm of an all-powerful entertainment industry, sending us lots of
canned entertainment content. In this vision, your once powerful computer will
morph into a TV set. You will pay (no doubt about that) for the same bullshit that was
given away for free in the 1950s.