Change of plan.
I shall be ignoring W10 for the foreseeable future.
It falls at the first hurdle.
Completely fails to meet my basic requirement.
My PC will not function without Media Center.
I might as well delete the insider version now. I can't see I'll ever switch off W7 till they prise it from my cold, dead fingers.
Feature deprecation
- If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, or Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and you install Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed.
- Watching DVDs requires separate playback software.
- Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed as part of installing Windows 10.
- Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available.
- Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.”
- If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.
- If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.
Windows Media Center is
not part of Windows 10 and
won’t be available after upgrading to Windows 10. If you use Windows Media Center, we will alert you during upgrade that Windows Media Center is not available on Windows 10. We know that some users use Windows Media Center to play DVDs, and we are providing a free DVD playback app in Windows 10 for Windows Media Center users.
I don't use it for playing DVDs, my Home Cinema does that.
I use it as a TV/Movie archive and as a second live TV.
Downgrading to W10 will remove the ability to stream thousands of hours of material via HDMI to my HC.
I can't imagine how they think that nobody uses WMC !!!!!