The Windows Media Center interface on Windows 8.1. With Windows 10, Microsoft is finally letting go of the long-neglected dream of turning the PC into a living room entertainment hub.

The Media Center Extender for the Xbox is already available for shipping at a suggested retail price of $79. Click here for all of GameSpot's CES 2005 gaming hardware coverage.

While Media Center has been a part of the operating system up until the latest version of 8.1, active development on the software actually ended back in 2009.

According to the ex-Microsoft employee, the Windows Media Center SDK does have a few useful tools for developers, which could help them create a testing-and-automaton framework for their own apps ...

Microsoft, you've really got to let us in on these kinds of things. We knew when the Zune was announced that the writing was on the wall for Portable Media Center. After a couple of years of flops ...

Windows Media Center debuted in 2002 as Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE), saw a long succession of updates through Vista and Windows 7, and finally ended up as an add-on for Windows 8.