Please Note: By following this giude, you do it at your own risk, we cannot be held responsible for any problems that may occur installing this software. If you would like to give WMC a try on your Windows 10 system, we show you how below. However during our limited testing there were no problems found. It isn’t officially supported by Microsoft, so there maybe issues. Now comes the good news, an online community has managed to make Windows Media Center install and run on Windows 10. Microsoft just isn’t interested in supporting Windows Media Center any more. Well, as far as Microsoft is concerned, Yes, Windows Media Center is over, and if you want to continue with it you must keep using Windows 7 or 8.1 and that’s becoming more and more difficult over time.

If upgrading to Windows 10 from an operating system with Media Center, it would simply be removed during the upgrade.

In May 2015 Microsoft announced that Windows Media Center would be discontinued and would not be in Windows 10. Consequently, the Media Center interface remained unchanged for Windows 8 and 8.1 users. Shortly after Windows 7's 2009 release, Microsoft disbanded the Media Center development team, thus abandoning any further software developments. It is also possible to watch, record and pause live TV. Content can be played back on a computers monitor or on a television through a connected computer or a device called Windows Media Center Extender. Windows Media Center can play slideshows, videos and music from local hard drives, optical drives and network locations through an attractive User Interface with either a keyboard, mouse or remote control similar to a TV remote. It was also available on Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8.1 Pro as a paid add-on. It was included in Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Media Center was first introduced to Windows in 2002 on Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). Windows Media Center (WMC) is a discontinued digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft.

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