I've been using my XBOX 360 to connect to my office PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition for a couple of months now and thought I'd post some thoughts here.

I love it. The UI of MCE is just fantastic; it looks great and is very easy to use. I love the way most of the elements are 'alive' like the slowly moving, fluid background and buttons and the little pinging noise it makes when you select something. My wife can use it without any problems at all, especially helped by the only one-button press on the remote needed to turn on the XBOX 360 and launch the media center extender software. Neat. If you haven't seen Media Center Edition running yet you should take a minute to give it a look over. A quick search on youtube should find you some videos of the user experience.

I've compiled a list of my experiences so far into an FAQ over on my blog and the Australian XP Media Center site which I'll update when I find out anything of interest.

I wonder how many others out there are using MCE...