1) a good feature for a home multimedia hub...due to vastly change with the advent of discless based media
2) the cheapest way to distribute a huge amount of data where the net is not affordable or available..there are much better compression algorithms out there which will make a standard internet connection more than capable of getting it relatively fast. Discless based media will also be rushed in as companies like Microsoft, Nintendo and also Sony judging by the latest console the PSPgo because it will cut huge costs to put movies and games onto hard media
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
