With Windows 7 installed, the Media Center desktop showed “Star Trek” (the original series) as something I could watch. I clicked on it (as something to laugh at), Media Center came up, it asked me to agree to the terms of Internet TV, and then it showed me three seasons of Star Trek to choose from. I selected an episode, and it showed me another dialog, asking me to agree to the terms of installing the Internet TV Update for Adobe Flash! So apparently the show runs on Flash video.

Why is this a big deal? Because Microsoft already has a lot already invested in video streaming and their own technologies compete with Flash. Why would they use Flash on their own Media Center? Was it because CBS refused to reencode their videos to WMV? Or does this mean that Microsoft has already caved?