TechRepublic.com has a great article about Microsoft’s most recent fiasco with the Vista Release Candidate 1 version.
It seems that the Media Center features stopped working on December 31st because it only licensed the MPEG-2 encoding technology until December 31st.
Those Vista beta users who decide to continue to trust Microsoft for media center functions are supposed to be able to get their Media Centers operating again when they upgrade to official release versions of Vista.
The official release is scheduled to be available on January 30th. The Media Center functionality is in some, but not all, of the new Vista versions.
Welcome to the world of Digital Rights Management – Welcome to the world of Vista!
