As usual, Anand delivers a fact based impartial comparison unlike all the biased flamebait articles making the rounds targeted at fans.
Ironically it was the PS3 that advertised itself as a media center last time with bluray support. That didn't wok out well, but the 360 later pivoted to media very successfully and still continues to outsell other consoles.
MSFT has been up nearly 30% in the last couple of months. Since stock goes down after any big reveal (see iPhone5 and Google IO), that's actually a good thing.
"8 gigs of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 64-bit architecture and "practically silent operation." Super fast switching of TV inputs between TV, Gaming, Skype,IE etc. Runs the Windows NT kernel.
Kinect 2.0 also gets a substantial upgrade. Whitten promised the integrated camera will have a wider field of view, and the sensor will be able to detect more joints, to include rotation of wrists and shoulders. "When you are exercising it can read your heartrate."
"Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.
If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's your issue..."
What if that email was to a female kernel dev? What if a whizkid reads the kernel dev mailing list and goes asks their parents what deepthroating means?
Ironically it was the PS3 that advertised itself as a media center last time with bluray support. That didn't wok out well, but the 360 later pivoted to media very successfully and still continues to outsell other consoles.