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Much of what's changed in Media Center Vista is quite good. That is, in Media Center Vista, some bits of the UI have been switched over to the new style, but others-such as the screens you see when you select a TV show, video, photo, or song-are still stuck back in a weird XP Media Center time machine. Hopefully, I learned something.įirst, the version of Media Center that ships with Vista is a half-way house between the "old" (i.e., current) version of Media Center and a future version in which the UI will be completely overhauled. But as I sat there in the dark, working on this horrible project, I reflected on the past two weeks and the utter disaster that ensued. Much of the time required to go back to XP involved backing up and restoring about 80GB of recorded TV shows (mostly for the kids), copying back my tens of gigabytes of family photos and videos and music from the media server, and reconfiguring XP Media Center to understand our cable box, the channels we receive, and the shows I wanted to record. Yesterday morning, at about 3:15am, I finally finished exorcising Vista Beta 2 from my family's Media Center PC, replacing it with the factory version of XP Media Center it originally shipped with.
#MEDIACENTER 2006 INSTALL#
So what better way to put the Vista version of Media Center through its paces than to install Vista Beta 2 on the Media Center PC and let my entire family enjoy the testing process as much as I do? After all, this is the ultimate real-world test. They've never known any other way of interacting with televised content.
#MEDIACENTER 2006 FOR FREE#
(As I discussed a few weeks ago, Microsoft has made Beta 2 available for free to anyone with a broadband connection.) And although I wouldn't normally ask anyone I care about to run beta Microsoft software, we use an HP Media Center PC as our primary TV interface and have been using Windows XP Media Center since the first beta of the first version, way back in early 2002. Such was the case over the past two weeks, during which time I inflicted the public version of Windows Vista Beta 2 on them. Sometimes, I even get to share with the family.
#MEDIACENTER 2006 SOFTWARE#
And when it comes to prerelease software and even hardware, there's always a steady stream of upcoming products winding its way through the Thurrott household. for credit card processing.One of the perils of reviewing tech products is that you actually have to use them. Please Do NOT block Pacesetter Enterprises, Inc. Any fraudulent or prohibited activity will result in immediate removal / disabling of access for the Diagnostic Tool closing and locking of the eMedia account and NO refunds will be given for the purchase of license(s). Leasing, sublicensing, lending, selling, assigning and/or giving access to this software is strictly prohibited.
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