It's a hybrid of XP Home and XP Pro with a media player utility added on.
Everything looks exactly the same as XP until you launch the media center, at which point it comes to the fore and presents the familiar (you have seen screenshots, right?) interface which you can use your mouse, or the media center remote to control. Whilst it is a full-screen app that takes over the PC - a swift click on the shrinky icon (top right) will put it in a windows, enabling you to continue to multitask.
It's just a fancy media player with a swish interface.
My advice is if you use it, install PureVideo. I have a Vista Ultimate install which has a version of media center included and DVD playback is truly awful quality without PureVideo.
Also, it's reasonably nice, but I'll stick to using PowerDVD due to it letting me muck about with settings.
Everything looks exactly the same as XP until you launch the media center, at which point it comes to the fore and presents the familiar (you have seen screenshots, right?) interface which you can use your mouse, or the media center remote to control. Whilst it is a full-screen app that takes over the PC - a swift click on the shrinky icon (top right) will put it in a windows, enabling you to continue to multitask.
It's just a fancy media player with a swish interface.
My advice is if you use it, install PureVideo. I have a Vista Ultimate install which has a version of media center included and DVD playback is truly awful quality without PureVideo.
Also, it's reasonably nice, but I'll stick to using PowerDVD due to it letting me muck about with settings.