Microsoft grudgingly offered an extra-cost Windows Media Center Pack add-on for Windows 8, which installed the required codecs and Media Center features to that version, but it was a straight port that included no new functionality. The team developing Media Center features was broken up in 2009, shortly after delivering the final Media Center code for Windows 7. Media Center, once a signature feature of Windows 'premium' editions, has been on life support for years. That decision shouldn't come as a surprise. Windows Media Center 'isn't compatible with Windows 10,' and it's not going to be. If you try to install the most recent build of Windows 10 on a PC running Media Center, you get this stark warning before setup will continue: We'll provide another option for DVD playback in the future.' The main scenario people used WMC for was to play DVD. He added, in two follow-up tweets, 'If you have WMC now, we'll have a DVD option for you in an update later this year. We can confirm that due to decreased usage, Windows Media Center will not be part of Windows 10. Microsoft's Gabe Aul has confirmed the news on Twitter: Any PC that is upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 will lose the Media Center functionality, and there's no way to get it back. The decision is a disappointment to the small but incredibly vocal army of Media Center enthusiasts, who had held out hope that a Windows 10 Media Center add-on, similar to the one offered for Windows 8, might appear at the last minute. In a private meeting this week at the Build developers' conference in San Francisco, a Microsoft executive confirmed to me that there will be no update to the company's Media Center software for Windows 10.

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