IN THE BEGINNING, there was Xbox Media Center, and it was great. Despite the name, XBMC wasn’t born out of a Microsoft development team. It began as a homebrew project (for the first year, called Xbox Media Player), an open-source attempt at building a better media client for Xbox consoles. XBMC acquired a loyal fan base, its development guided by the nonprofit XBMC Foundation.
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