No new Windows Media Center this year

Some unconfirmed details about
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2006 have already leaked out (like that it's going to support
CableCARD), but now IDG is reporting that for the first time in three years Microsoft isn't going to issue a new version of their Media Center software. In the meantime the best we'll be able to expect is some sort of update and as of right now the next version of Media Center won't arrive until Longhorn arrives (there has been some speculation that
Longhorn would come integrated with all the Media Center software). Not to take a cheap shot or anything, but that could mean we'll be waiting a long while.