But as the reality of W8 sets in, this is what one of the most prolific developers for MCE had to say:
http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permal ... wser#34896"Redshirt is pretty bang on the MCML programming paradigm is a dead end. The fact that MCML hasn’t been ported to vs2010 is your first clue. The second is this shift away from Media Center to Live TV. For those few developers who are left in the MCML world my advice is to move onto a hobby more worthwhile.
What was the windows 7 marketing campaign? Something about ‘windows 7 was my idea’ well let me tell you windows 8 definitely won’t be your idea!
All welcome the new Calculator app for Windows 8 it’s called Media Center."
It does look like an end of an era. Which, I suppose, is kind of worse than languishing.
Anyway, my bad on the greenbutton mix up.
I don't get how some of you can be so closed minded to other possibilities. While we have a little pity party over the idea of this all coming to an end, why not consider the possibilities.
The quote above illustrates the reality. MCML is dead. Its been dead for a long time and the MB team has suffered through it to make something special. The fact that MS is killing support doesn't have to be the end of anything, nor lead to the conclusion that media center is gone. What it does mean is that now there is a chance at a fresh start, using a more modern and developer friendly base. Media center needed an overhaul to truly keep it going. It needs to be rewritten from the bottom up. That kind of investment from MS just isn't worth it in their eyes. So the next best thing would be phase out the current app (i.e. bring it over to Win8 for those that still want it), while at the same time start working on a new media application in WinRT in order to handle the same tasks. For the MB team, this could be great if it opens them up to easier development for add-ons, improvements, etc.
And in the worst case that MS doesn't create a proper replacement, I would still argue that the MB will have an easier time developing a stand alone app in WinRT then trying to work with MCML as they do now.