Media Center in Windows 7 Professional!?

[ra990]

I have a bunch of recorded TV from my Win7 Home Premium box shared on the network.
From my Win7 Pro box, I accessed the shared folder and double-clicked on the .wtv files and....tada Media Center launches...in Win7 Professional

 

[GullyFoyle]

Yes, Windows Media Center is included in the Professional Edtion: Windows 7 Pro Features

 

[ViRGE]

Yep. Win7 editions are pure supersets. So you get MCE, Movie Maker, the whole 10 yards.

 

[nerp]

Yep. They learned their lesson with Vista that spending more for Pro shouldn't really mean not getting certian features in the much cheaper home premium. Corporations can easily ensure their pro workstations don't have MCE installed too.

 

[nerp]

Yep. They learned their lesson with Vista that spending more for Pro shouldn't really mean not getting certian features in the much cheaper home premium. Corporations can easily ensure their pro workstations don't have MCE installed too.

 

[alevasseur14]

I like that Win7's MC reads video ts folders by default now. I think the sounds they changed in the UI are a little overdone but it's not the end of the world.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Nice hack. I got tired of clicking the icon in the start menu,

 

[nerp]

I miss the netflix in 7 MCE but that is apparently going to reappear sometime around launch. I was loving that crap in Vista with my MCE remote. Made picking things to stream at night was very comfortable and easy.

 

[ra990]

Haha, sorry guys. I didn't realize that Media Center was now included in Pro. I was thinking it would contain the same features as Vista Business.

 

[Emulex]

more junk to disable by GPO at work well given that nobody plans to actually move to win7 that won't affect much for a while.