8 Reasons You Shouldn't Upgrade to Windows 10 Just Yet

3. No More Windows Media Center

Remember that groundbreaking entertainment suite that began life back on Windows XP? The one that let you watch TV on your PC using a TV tuner card, view your photo collections in "stunning new slide shows", and browse your media library using "turbo scrolling"? Well, after 13 years of loyal, unappreciated service, Windows Media Center is coming to an end in Windows 10. Oh, Windows Media Center. We never really spent much time together. In the early days of Windows 7, you'd offer yourself up as a default program for listening to music or watching videos with irritating enthusiasm (even though Microsoft stopped updating you by the time Windows 7 came out). But as I settled into using programs that were, well, not nicer, but just more useful than you, you slowly slipped away into the dark recesses of my hard drive - doomed to years of remaining undeleted, yet unnoticed. Now you're gone, I wonder if there was more to you than met the eye, or if you just stuck around for too long - like a once-great boxer not knowing when to retire, and proceeding to get knocked out time and time again in their dotage. I suppose I'll never know, but you can take comfort in the possibility that at some point someone, somewhere, appreciated what you had to offer.