Jason Dunn over at Digital Media Thoughts has some thoughts on the Microsoft Portable Media Center platform. You can read the article here. With the release of the Zen Vision (which doesn’t use the PMC UI), one has to wonder where does the Microsoft PMC stand right now? There are only a handful of hardware manufacturers willing to create PMC devices and most of them are much more expensive than they really should be. This ending quote sums up Dunn’s editorial:

With only three partners making the hardware (Samsung, iRiver, Creative), the PMC platform wasn’t exactly on strong footing to begin with. And now, a key partner releases a killer media device that’s not running the PMC OS. Where does that leave the PMC? Unless we see a new release of PMC hardware before the end of 2005, unfortunately I think that leaves the PMC dead in the water.

PMC where art thou?

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