XBox One
Even though I'm on a mini vacation this week; it occurred to me that the XBox one is another example of Microsoft being ahead of the rest again. How? As I was thinking about my own home technology I was reminded of the many Media Center PC's that we made that looked like home theater components, ran Windows Media Center, and managed online and broadcast TV. Unfortunately at the time online content was very limited. You could record and playback recorded tv. Remember the commercials? "Yeaaah cloud". But at the time no one wanted a PC in their living room and connected to there tv. You could however link your XBox 360 to your computer running Windows Media Center and see Netflix, recorded tv, pictures, etc. XBox 1 is what you get when you combine a media center PC and the XBox 360. The difference now is there is a lot more online content.