Windows Media Center 7 has us itching to build a home theater PC worse than ever – and with the improved performance of the new OS, the hardware requirements for what we can get by with have ...

Windows 10 won't support Windows Media Center, and anyone upgrading will lose it. Fortuantely, you can choose from many alternatives to replace it.

But the folks at the My Digital Life Forums have come up with the tools needed to load Microsoft’s Windows 7-style Media Center application on computers running Windows 10.

Honestly, even if I were buying a new media center computer today or next year, I would still use Windows 7 and Media Center. I’ve used MC for years – but only for DVR and movies.

There has been a lot of discussion in the Windows Media Center community about the product's death. The theory is that Microsoft is throwing in the towel, focusing on the Xbox 360 and intends to ...

Unlike Windows 7, Windows 8 will not come with Windows Media Center as part of the operating system. It's now an add-on that can be purchased through the Add Features option in Windows 8.

Microsoft's powerful home theater centerpiece, Windows Media Center, is easily one of the best applications that ships for free with Windows. But you can still make it better—and take it into ...

We love Windows 7 Media Center, but at the end of the day we'd never give one to our mom and expect it to just work the way an embedded DVR like a TiVo or a Moxi would. But dependability isn't the ...

Windows 7 users, of course, can still use the pre-installed Windows Media Center, but as The Register reports, a former Microsoft staffer decided to put the SDK on GitHub for the sake of ...

The Netflix update should become available to your Windows 7 Media Center automatically, but if it doesn't, Engadget says you go to Tasks -> Settings -> General -> Automatic Download Options to ...

The Windows 7 version of WMC includes a long-overdue playlist builder. You can see it in action in this YouTube video . Vista users can accomplish roughly the same thing, but it involves a little ...