I guess it’s really no surprise that Microsoft would kill their Portable Media Center platform, considering the continually shrinking laptops and ever more powerful smartphones. And, as a former supervisor who often mixed metaphors might say, the non-PlaysForSure OEM-hating Zune really “threw a fork into the wrench.” Microsoft’s PMC interface and functionality were decent, so hopefully we’ll see the evolution of this technology bundled into Windows Mobile 7.