WMC fans: Windows Media Centre is back!

[Motoko.]

Great news, it's one thing about Windows that trumps this sort of functionality compared to GNU/Linux

[remixedcat]

LOL he sure looked better when ducking egg treatments.

(was there another media tag on the same video??? wierd....)

hey the guy did him a favor with those egg treatments he should have charged ballmer 500 dollars for it!!!

[FaiKee]

This is from win8china.com, seems to be same as the win7 WMC,

[Owen W Veteran]

We always knew it would be back :-/

This is from win8china.com, seems to be same as the win7 WMC,

That's because whoever took that screenshot just copied the files across :p

[guru]

good. now how does this compare to XBMC ?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

now how does this compare to XBMC ?

Apples to oranges.

[FaiKee]

Actually some time ago canouna had already reported the same, maybe he just didn't even bothered to check into it or take screenshots.

[FaiKee]

LOL, windows 9???

from the latest MS win8 blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/08/building-a-power-smart-general-purpose-windows.aspx

[FaiKee]

Neowin News had reported about the "Metro background changer" function added to win8 new builds, this is another change:

In WDP, this is the gadgets window thru control panel:

win8china showed the gadget window from a new pre-beta build

http://www.win8china.com/html/279.html

The function "Get more gadgets on-line" is removed, maybe this operation has to be done thru AppStore.

Alos, the two-color pane in WDP gadget window, probably a color bug, is fixed.

[FaiKee]

Update to above post

Seems it's not about the AppStore:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/looking-for-gadgets

[FaiKee]

Believe it or not: :o

http://torg.mail.ru/news/19890/

[remixedcat]

WTF????????????????????????????????????

[FaiKee]

Yes, a Russian had told me this site is BS, like I said,.......believe it or not LOL, :laugh:

Anyway, something more interesting, the winver of the latest pre-beta build:

[remixedcat]

beta? and they aint done pitchin the winderz 7 yet..... methinks ms is smokin somethin

[Mando]

Why not? I do. It helps to have a 47" 1080p "monitor."

+1 TV n Wireless mouse FTW!

[FaiKee]

[remixedcat]

Dyper-v.... LOLz.

[FaiKee]

Infos on build 8155 (sha values) posted in SoftForum.ru - does it imply possibility of a leak ? :laugh:

http://soft-forum.ru/threads/microsoft-windows-8-winmain-builds-list-part-2.31323/page-4

[FaiKee]

canouna mentioned of a "new FS" in the win8 latest builds, it's not working atm so unsure it's a new FS or replacement of the "Protogon FS".

[remixedcat]

RE-RE File System......

[Aergan]

Eagerly awaiting a Windows 8 based WMC. Just hope the Xbox 360 compatability is working out of the box.

[FaiKee]

8158.0.winmain.111118-2210

8159.0.winmain.111121-1720

8160.0.winmain.111122-1913

[remixedcat]

why can't they say "screw this!' "let's call it microsoft metro xbox 720 MCE with Zune and Bing " and be done with it LOL.

[Pc_Madness]

Eagerly awaiting a Windows 8 based WMC. Just hope the Xbox 360 compatability is working out of the box.

Me too. :( Hoping for,

- Better cover art support for TV shows and movies

- PC being able to act as an extender

- Perhaps some kind of online store

- Stream media to mobile devices

Oh, and cheap extenders to go with it. :p Annoying spending $300 when other people are buying Apple TV's for $100 and chucking XBMC on em. :(