Microsoft can push, will people buy, that is the question.

My impressions of what the average home user does with their PC are based on what I've seen. I'm excluding the computer types from that category of "average home user" because they are not. Heck, the average home user is likely to be still using dialup, either because high-speed is not available or because they aren't aware of the benefits or do not feel they are worth the extra cost.

How about the popularity of the low-speed, lost cost DSL/Cable tiers that run around $20/month with 768K down/256K up? I know several people who use those plans because they don't think that $50/month for higher speed access is worth it. I don't expect those people will be getting a media server anytime soon.