So I am the program manager for the following features in Media Center:

• Accessibility support - High contrast skins, MSAA,...
• Caller ID
• DVD playback UI
• LUA - Limited User Account interaction with MCE
• Media Discovery - How do you discover local media? Networked media? How does Media Center fit into your home networking setup?
• Messenger - And other communication/sharing scenarios
• Movies - Movies Portal, My DVDs, DVD changer connectivity, integration with VOD partners like Movielink
• Parental Controls
• Settings - So exciting.
• Text input/IME - How do you enter text in Media Center? How do you triple tap in other countries?
• TweakMCE - Power toy that gets 10,000+ downloads a month

(There are one or two other areas that should be on that list but I don't want to get your hopes up for Vista.)

Each of those features has a feature team made up of a developer, a tester, a designer, a usability engineer, a product planner, a user assistance person, and finally a program manager. As the program manager for those feature teams I drive the vision around the feature and we work together to pitch ideas to the larger team, get them approved, then get them built, tested and finally shipped.
12:04:31 PM   []

One last thing on cooling: a friend reversed the two fans (CPU fan and the side fan) inside the z555 and it now runs much, much cooler.

Since my z555 is in a fairly open space I don't have heat problems, but I imagine many of you might if your z555 is in a cabinet, so if you're the intrepid type you might want to try reversing your fans.
10:27:06 AM   []