![]() MCEBuddy would cut commercials in the background. I loved having an HTPC with a bigass hard drive for recordings and Xbox 360s as set top boxes. Yeah, yeah, I know cable TV is dying, but even though I myself quit using it a couple of years ago, I will mourn the last great platform for DIY paid-for TV service. Still the only system that worked well and consistently with DRM protected channels on cable TV. Since this is the last version to support WMC, I guess it means that platform is officially dead dead. I was never a big fan of Windows 7 Aero look, too much needless gloss and the start button curve sticking up from task bar was silly. 8.1 and 10 are similar but 10 has gone down the oversimplification route a bit too much. Between 8.1, 10, and 11, possibly 8.1 is the least offensive in terms of UI Rounded corners in 11 just look silly, sillier than in OSX that it was copied from, and the task bar has problems (can't shrink it except with the registry, and when you do the two line time/date won't fit, focusing on touch screens even if you don't have one, and too much crap on the start menu. Microsoft has a split personality, clearly there are people who want everything to be a phone or tablet, but there are also a lot of people vainly trying to improve the products. ![]() On the same computer 8 was faster than 7 and used less memory. 8.1 fixed a bunch of the obvious failures, yet they 8.1 and 8 get lumped into the same category. ![]() Windows 8.1 wasn't all that terrible, once you get past the start screen. ![]()
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