Active development ceased in 2009
Windows Media Center hasn’t been part of Microsoft’s plans since at least 2009, when Microsoft disbanded the team behind it and ceased active development. And the Media Center add-on that has been available for Windows 8 is a paid offering, even though boasts nothing new over the Windows 7 version. But Microsoft, it seems, has finally had enough.
When the Windows 10 Technical Preview first came out in late 2014, some people noticed it was possible to get the add-on to work with the new OS by providing a valid Windows 8.1 Media Center Pack product key. This method was, however, fraught with several issues, and Microsoft advised users against adding the software to Windows 10 Technical Preview, saying it “did not intend for you to be able to use a purchased product key on a preview build.” Looks like that was just a mistake, of which there won’t be any repeat.
According to ZDNet’s Ed Bott, a Microsoft exec told him during the course of a private conversation at Build that there would be no update to Media Center for Windows 10. Nor will the current version be available as an add-on. So, in other words, existing Media Center users will have to bid farewell to the software the moment they upgrade to Windows 10.
Seeing as how only a small subset of Windows users ever used it and given the rapid increase in the population of so-called “cord cutters” and “cord nevers”, Microsoft didn’t have much of a choice. Or do you disagree?
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