View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/05/10/28/thurrott.on.front.row Friday, Oct 28, 2005 2:05pm MS Media Center \"more powe... Paul Thurrott has withdrawn his initial assertion that Apple's Front Row was a "rip-off" of Microsoft's Media Center. "I'll have to change my own opinion about Front Row and note that while the software is clearly aimed--or will some day be aimed--at the same general market as that for Media Center, it is only peripherally related to Media Center. That is, both software products provide a remote control-friendly, TV-viewable interface to digital media content. But Microsoft's approach is more powerful, with TV viewing and recording functionality and other features, while Apple's is simpler and arguably better looking, aiming for the iPod crowd, and not a high-end home theatre audience."