As mentioned yesterday, M$ was really pushing
WMC at MIX06. This
blog discusses the amount of sales they've pulled through the door in the last year and it's quite amazing. The Xbox 360 has the ability to run as a WMC aswell and the roll out of that is going to push this technology through the roof.
Apple have got their own version of this software,
FrontRow, which they are pushing with their
mac mini.
They basically do the same thing where you can push content to the device from other PCs around the house to display on a TV etc.
It'll be interesting to see where this all goes. BBC did a talk in teh Mix06 web cast showing how they were going to publish a weeks worth of movies to their web site for the public to download.
They've also just released the MSDN
developer library for
Windows Live technology. It covers Messenger, Search, Spaces, Virtual Earth and Gadgets.