Boxee is a free cross-platform media center and entertainment hub with social networking features that is a fork of Open Source XBMC media center software. As a “‘Social Media Center”, Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social networking features.
Boxee is still under development and is currently only available as Alpha releases for Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Apple TV, and Linux for computers with Intel processors, with the first Alpha made available on the 16th of June 2008. A Microsoft Windows Alpha version of Boxee was released in January 2009, but is currently available only by private invitation.

Boxee have said they are planning on releasing their own dedicated set-top box (hardware) for Boxee in 2009, and also plan to license their Boxee media center and social networking service as a third-party software component to other companies for them to use the Boxee software in their hardware, such as set-top boxes like for example cable-TV companies or tiny computers built-in directly into television-sets, Boxee has also stated that their goal is to have Boxee run on as many third-party hardware platforms and operating systems as possible.