[CS-FSLUG] OT: Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstart

[Fred A. Miller]

"Looking at the existing offerings, Microsoft is hands-down making all the 
right moves, having what appears to me to be an almost insurmountable head 
start (though readers are always quick to remind me that I should never count 
Apple out).  So far, beyond portable DVD playing, no other company has 
managed to penetrate the market and the Internet with the technologies to 
mobilize digital video the way Microsoft has.   On the device side, through 
Microsoft's Plays4Sure program, the Redmond-based company's re-use of the 
DOS/Windows/PocketPC operating system licensing formula that creates 
competition among hardware manufacturers is once again working, this time to 
produce mobile video-capable offerings from Creative, iRiver, and Samsung not 
to mention the portable Windows Media Player capabilities of PocketPC-driven 
PDAs and telephones."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1350&tag=nl.e539

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