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After an email informing me the free media center add-on to Windows 8 was about to expire, I panicked and decided it was time to upgrade Electron to Windows 8. After my final Win7 backup to my home server, I nuked the system partition and loaded up Win8, which seemed to go pretty quick. It found all the drivers except InfiniTV which was a quick download (and firmware update), then proceeded with the standard CableCARD readyness check and TV guide setup. While I managed to get Win8 to auto login on startup, this article confirmed the "start media center on startup" option was deleted, so my upgrade was actually a downgrade. Everything else looked identical, so I definitely don't recommend the switch. My guess is the new Xbox will have some sort of centralized DVR function, making my media center obsolete, but I'll keep this downgrade for now and see if it's any less stable.