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Monday, November 24, 2003

Next two XP Media Center releases revealed
Mary Jo Foley does her usual bang-up job (that is, regurgitating information from public sources and then attributing a nonsensical quote to a supposed insider) of revealing the next two XP Media Center Edition releases, code-named Symphony and Slalom. Symphony will enter beta early next year and be released in late 2004; Slalom will be the Longhorn version of Media Center, and is due in late 2005. At the PDC, eHome technical evangelist John Canning talked about some of the features Microsoft is planning on making part of Slalom:

* Slalom will expose eHome metadata through WinFS;

* Recorded TV playback will be available, via the Longhorn Media Player. In fact, TV will be part of the "Longhorn Media Experiences" by the time Slalom ships. ("Experiences" seem to be synonymous with the Microsoft concept of "scenarios." Among the evolving Media Center experiences are the photo experience; the shopping experience; and the music experience.) ;

* Via the Avalon presentation system, greater "extensibility" will be possible. What kinds of extensibility? Notifications (such as trigger alerts, expiration notices, etc.);

* There will be more application programming interfaces added to the platform, especially for TV and remote-control capabilities.

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