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Microsoft discontinued development of Windows Media Center in 2009, but enthusiasts have held out hope that the feature would get one more reprieve for Windows 10. Sorry, folks, that's not happening. I think there might be alternatives, folks
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Not many. XBMC and Plex (which is really just a branded XBMC) come to mind, but anything else?
And WMC did some things better than those guys. I like the WMC UI better.
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Those would be my first picks as well. And isn't XBMC open source? Give it the missing features 
TTFN - Kent
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Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. As long as you're willing to carry a mobile with a 400W power supply and dual graphics cards
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According to the FAA, there's a software bug in the 787 Dreamliner that can cause its electrical system to fail and, as a result, lead to "loss of control" of the plane. But why? The FAA says this is triggered by the aircraft's electrical generators, which could give out if they have been powered on continuously for over eight months. On the bright side: now you know the worst case for your flight delay
Aren't there grounds for having your "Professional Engineer" taken away from you?
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Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the faults I’m about to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it’s about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is terrifyingly dangerous. "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast"
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The Peter Principle suggests that all employees manage to rise to the level of their incompetence. "Scientifically proven"
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At a Windows breakout session during Build 2015 today, Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s operating systems group, talked more about the company’s favorite new term: “Windows as a service.” "Give away the razor; sell the blades"
Or:
"The first hit is always free."
"'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly"
"The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives."
"Once. Twice. Three times a lady."
OK, maybe not that last one.
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The article mentions Windows Store support for Win32 applications. I hope they are not planning to move desktop applications to be distributed exclusively through the store like metro apps.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think/hope that it's just an option, but everything they demoed this week seemed to come with a "Universal app" requirement.
I also hope there will still be distribution methods other than the store.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, soon the only code that will run on Windows is that which has been approved and signed by Microsoft. That will go a long way toward quelling malware, but I won't like it one bit.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: That will go a long way toward quelling malware, but I won't like it one bit.
Apple's method right now seems pretty decent. There is an OS setting where you can choose to only execute app store apps, execute apps store apps and approved / signed vendors or "wild freakin' west". I think the default is app store only. If you change it to app store and approved / signed vendors there is still a special technique (not easily done by accident) to run a non-approved / non-sign app. Once its been run once OS X remembers and allows it in the future.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Windows as a service.”
Does it come with a red light? That profession is, after all, what that phrase conjures up for me.
Marc
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You forgot:
"And the next time we wanna do a Vista or a W8, you're gonna take it and damned well like it!"
Looks like Weven will be the last Win OS I buy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Web developers should learn .Net, Java and C# to improve their employability but will not make as much as other IT roles in the UK despite high demand, according to new research. "Follow the money."
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David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. What technology will you be ignoring (later this year)?
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If you have ever been to the carnival or seen a movie depicting the carnival experience, there is always someone who is willing to guess your age and if they are wrong, you win a prize. Using machine learning and its newly released Project Oxford face detection API’s, Microsoft is bringing this game to the browser sans prize. All that computing power, to replace one carnie?
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well now, i'm 24, and according to the bloody machine i'm 48... the double!
my buddy loves it tough 
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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According to Microsoft, Edge is setting higher and better benchmarks than Internet Explorer 11 and comparable or better to other modern day browsers. Even in Octane 2.0 benchmarks, Edge outpaced Internet Explorer 11 and scored higher than Chrome Canary and Firefox Alpha. Because - as everyone knows - speed is the only factor when selecting a browser
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Edge is setting higher and better benchmarks than Internet Explorer 11
That's because the code base doesn't yet have all the cruft that eventually (and rather quickly) creeps into Microsoft products.
Marc
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I'm more interested in standard support since MS has been banging on that drum again about IE being as good as the competition. So I went over to HTML5Test[^], found someone else's Edge results and compared them to everything else.
The good news is that Edge is scoring 390 up from IE11's 336; which is neck and neck with Safari 8's 396. The bad news is that it's still well behind Firefox 35 at 449, or Chrome 39 at 501. The biggest chunk of Edge's feature gap appears to be in support for HTML form elements.
To find browsers Edge actually outscored, I had to drop Chrome and Firefox both all the way back to version 21. That's the May 2013 version of Firefox or the July 2012 version of Chrome. Averaging that we get that MS is still about 2.5 years behind the competition. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thank you for finding these. 2.5 years. 
TTFN - Kent
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How did you actually get data about Edge over there? I couldn't find it in the list (did I miss something?) And the latest version of IE (11.0.18) actually scores 348.
Anyway, I don't think that those results are more significant than a speed comparison, simply because the site also checks for draft specifications that haven't reached an official status (recommendation) yet and therefore, one cannot expect those to be working. Support for such features might have been left out on purpose.
It's funny that people (or better, developers) still beat IE for its lack of "standards compliance" just because it's really aiming to be fully standard compliant but not more - just because it doesn't support all that fancy prefixed stuff that other browsers introduced, they think it is less standard-compliant than the competition when it actually is the very reverse. In some way, Chrome and Co. are the IE of our time because they're acting like IE in the late 90s, providing a lot of non-standardized stuff, and developers step into that trap again by writing markup and code that treats these features as if they were a standard (and complain when things break in IE).
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