Windows Media Center has been great – very nice program guide, so easy to schedule a recording of an episode of Nova or a season of off-the-air shows.

After years of neglect, Microsoft is abandoning Windows Media Center for good.Anyone who upgrades to Windows 10 later this year will find that the living-room PC software is incompatible.

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Microsoft recently announced that after a dozen years, it would no longer include support for Windows Media Center (WMC) in the upcoming Windows 10. Here's how to set up a media center 2015-style.

Microsoft has announced its plans for Windows Media Center in Windows 8. Media Center is a full-screen interface for accessing media on a Windows computer. It includes built-in tools for watching ...

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 ...

I won’t be upgrading my current media-center PC to Windows 8. And I sure as heck won’t be paying for Windows Media Center, which continues to be a great asset in Windows 7. Let me know how you ...

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.

Windows Media Center won’t survive the upgrade to Windows 10, but DVD playback will. Gabriel Aul, an engineering general manager at Microsoft, ...

Windows Media Center doesn’t get as much attention as it should — it’s a very developed, smooth, and media-friendly product. It comes pre-installed in Windows Vista and 7, ...

Windows only: Media Center Studio allows you to create your own custom themes for Windows Media Center, allowing you to create a cooler, more customized WMC look more akin to what you'd expect ...