No Windows Media Center Update This Year

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120021,tk,dn031105X,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120021,tk,dn031105X,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Microsoft for the first time in three years plans to go without a new release of Windows XP Media Center Edition, a company spokesperson says. Instead, Microsoft plans to offer an update to Media Center Edition 2005 to refine some features, says Microsoft Product Manager Tom Laemmel, speaking in an interview at the CeBIT tradeshow here. That update would be "bigger than your standard Windows update, but smaller than a Service Pack," he says."</i><br /><br />So it looks like it will be 2006 until we see a true update for this OS. Dang. :?

[OSUKid7]

I really don't see the big suprise here. Did I miss something, or hasn't Windows XP been relatively the same since 2001, with the exception of some changes in SP1/SP2? Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 was just released. What's wrong with waiting till Longhorn for an update?

[Jason Dunn]

Microsoft has released new versions of MCE every year since it was first released, largely because there's so many things they need to fix/improve. ;-)

[OSUKid7]

Ah...didn't know that. Guess I haven't followed the MCE branch as closely.