Three Disks by Anna LangovaNot 'new' news, but worth When I first saw this announcement, at first I was bemused, then outraged, then derisive. Then sanguine.

Not only has Microsoft dropped a bundled Windows Media Center, the company's full screen media interface including tools to watch TV broadcasts, videos, view photos and listen to music and access to third party services like Netflix, but dropped playback of DVD's.

A recent post at the official Building Windows 8 website announced that Windows Media Center will not be integrated into any version of Windows 8, but only available as an upgrade purchase. Media Center was included in many versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

This confused me at first. Wasn't the primary target of Windows 8 the Apple-dominated tablet market, for users to watch multimedia on the go? What about netbooks? Ultrabooks? Actually none of that content is on physical media, since  none of those machines have on-board optical drives. Read more of this post