Will Microsoft Continue WMC Support?

Berton said:

I can tell you as an absolute fact that Windows Media Center worked on Windows 10 as I loaded it as the dumb ass programmers forgot to disable it

So far the only issue I've had with WMP on Win10 is it won't play commercial video DVDs.

As far as TV, any issue may be due to Europe and other countries having the PAL format and North America and others using NTSC format.

WMP and WMC are two different beasts.

WMC will be supported in Win7 until 2019. In exactly the same way as it currntly is...
NO NEW features
ONLY security updates will be considrred unless you have a support contract with MS.

NoelDP said:

WMC will be supported in Win7 until 2019. In exactly the same way as it currntly is...
NO NEW features
ONLY security updates will be considrred unless you have a support contract with MS.

Win 7 will receive extended support (security updates only) until 01/14/2020. Does what you said mean WMC in Win 7 will reach EOL before then?

Berton said:

WMP and WMC are two different beasts.

I guess typos can happen to the betters of us.

Honey, I invented and own typos.

All an electric would have done is let you make typos a bit faster.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

NoelDP said:

WMC will be supported in Win7 until 2019. In exactly the same way as it currntly is...
NO NEW features
ONLY security updates will be considrred unless you have a support contract with MS.

Win 7 will receive extended support (security updates only) until 01/14/2020. Does what you said mean WMC in Win 7 will reach EOL before then?

Unlike MS, I tend to work on calendar years :).

Win7 went RTM in July/August 2009.
It has a 10-year life - so as far as I'm concerned it 'dies' in August 2019.
MS, OTOH, works in quarters - and from the release date (which was around October 2009) - and also starts its calculations from a date other than 1st Jan.
That's why the difference - and Win 7's EOL will be even more heavily publicised than was the EOL of XP, as the date approaches.

Well, I like M$ advertised EOL better. It will give me a bit more time to decide what to replace Win 7 with (and, right now, it doesn't look like it's going to be a M$ product).

Berton said:

I can tell you as an absolute fact that Windows Media Center worked on Windows 10 as I loaded it as the dumb ass programmers forgot to disable it

So far the only issue I've had with WMP on Win10 is it won't play commercial video DVDs.

As far as TV, any issue may be due to Europe and other countries having the PAL format and North America and others using NTSC format.

Oh you are way off on that one/ NTSC and PAL are Dead in broadcasting. All TV with a few exceptions in the USA and Europe is now digital and some is 1080 i HD or 720P. SD channels are 480P and have to be converted to feed an old analog TV. TV in the US Canada uses the ASTC and in Europe Australia etc DVB. All of it is just a digital stream wrapped in a scrambled carrier. The same chips can decode the data info depending on the TV firmware.

I can also clarify that Windows 7 will quite happily play both NTSC standard and PAL DVD and upscale them to 1080 to feed my Sony TV. I have a Blu Ray which I use for Blu Ray DVD Region one and at the incredible expense of $20 a DVD burner set to Region 2 to play PAL discs. As I use the computer for a media center that is a hell of a lot more flexible than a region free DVD player.