Posts by Artslinger

It would be nice if MS would offer a Windows 8 media pack that would play every popular video and audio format including bluray support. I guess they figure the market is so small that is it not worth the effort.

Quote: Originally Posted by Osamede I don't understand. We have bulletproof desktop OS and you think this is" death"? Clearly you were not one of us who bought Windows 95 or ME and then turned to NT 4.0 for salvation. THAT was the...

Its seems the great age of the desktop PC and laptop is dying a slow death in the home, and in their place Xbox, tablets, and smart phones. They will continue on in the business environment for awhile.

All applications that run off Media Center will be history. I don't see many people upgrading to Windows 8 Pro just to get Media Center. There will be many people that will still use Windows 7 and WMC, but it will be a slowly...

Yeh I never got the whole Apple lovefest thing, over priced and locked down, no thanks. I did use Apple a long time ago before Adobe was available and working on the PC side.

People freaking out over the Metro design is why MS created a weird hybrid of the current Windows desktop and Metro. For better or worse I think they should of just bit the bullet and went 100% into a whole new UI.

Quote: Originally Posted by GreenEyez Yes, MS announced that there will be 3 in their official press release, but the RT version is for ARM tablets only, not for consumers. We won`t be able to buy that. I believe there will also be a...

Quote: Originally Posted by gcoupe OK, continue to believe that you'll get WMC8 in Windows 8. I'll just point you to Paul Thurrott: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/...edition-142857 Windows Media Center. For a small (and as...

Quote: Originally Posted by gcoupe 1. Look at the Announcement. 2. Notice that there is no mention of Windows Media Center in the features table. 3. Read the text in the announcement where it says: "Windows 8 Pro is designed to...

Quote: Originally Posted by gcoupe I don't think you quite understand - WMC is NOT going to be in Windows 8 (the consumer version). It has been pulled, because Microsoft want to save on unnecessary licensing costs. The only way we will...