Microsoft Corp.’s next-generation Xbox gaming console will be more of a digital entertainment hub than its predecessor, making it even more of a PC hybrid than ever, according to Bill Gates. The console, code-named Xenon, is due to be previewed in an MTV half-hour special later this month.
He said Xenon’s software menu would be similar to that of the company’s Media Center edition of Windows…”If you’re used to that menu, when you use this Xenon you’ll see a menu a lot like that that lets you get photos, TV, music and all those different things.”
Engadget: In an interview with Peter Rojas, Gates said: “You’ll be able to do a lot of media things including storing music, playing music, connect up your player. There’s an overall media vision…”
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