Introduction

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is an extended version of the Windows XP operating system that allows you to use your PC as a digital media center: you can watch TV, record TV shows, play videos, watch your digital photos and listen to music.

MCE contains functionality for showing notifications when you receive incoming telephone calls. If you want to make use of this functionality, you have to connect a TAPI 3 compliant modem to your Media Center PC. But that’s not always practical.
Many MCE PC’s are located in the living room, next to the TV but far away from a telephone outlet. And many MCE PC’s are so called “small form factor” PC’s, with little or no space for a built-in modem or ISDN card.

So what do you need MCE Caller ID for?

With MCE Caller ID you can let your default PC, that has a connection to your telephone system, act as a server. This server sends notifications of incoming telephone calls over the network to other PC's.
By installing the client application on your Media Center PC, it wil show a notification every time you receive a telephone call.

But there’s more. With MCE Caller ID you'll see more than just the telephone number of the person who’s calling.
By making use of the Contacts information stored in Microsoft Outlook 2003, you can also see the name and even a picture of the caller.

MCE Caller ID is available for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

See the manual for the details.

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