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The Engineer Behind Microsoft's TV Strategy
Continue to the story"[Bill] Gates in an email to Mr. Belfiore asked why Apple's remote control had just six buttons. The standard Media Center remote from Microsoft has 39 buttons. (Mr. Belfiore's explanation: Front Row computers don't have TV or digital video recorder functions and thus don't need as many buttons.) " Something tells me Apple's remotes will never have 39 buttons. I used to work for Joe.