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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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An ex Microsoft employee recentlyopen-sourced theSDKfor the popularWindows Media Center. ThisSDKfile can help developers to further improve their applications.
As you already know, theWindows Media Centercomes pre-installed ondevices running Windows 7. Although most users are not fond of theWindows Media Center, still they didn’t like the idea of removing it fromWindows 10.
As a matter of fact, many users used a popular trick to run WMC onWindows 10.
If you still miss theWindows Media Center, here is a piece of good news for you. Charlie Owen, an ex-employee of Microsoft recently uploaded theSDKonGitHub.
Expect some bugs
It’s not an official release but still, you can use theSDKto bring back some nice memories. TheWindows Media Centerwas initially released withWindows XPback in 2002. It allowed users to use a remote device forplaying their media files.
You should keep in mind that Microsoft stopped supporting this service a few years ago and theMedia Centermay not work as intended on your PC.
However, the SKD version will help developers to improve their applications. Charlie Owen stated theSDKcomes withsome useful tools thatwill help them to develop similar applications.
Microsoft is eagerly contributing to the developer’s community by publishing its old applications onGitHub. Some of these examples are MS-DOS, theWindows File ManagerandWindows Calculator.
Feel free to dive deep into the newGitHub SDK projectto explore the technicalities of theWindows Media Center.
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Milan Stanojevic
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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.
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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.
