Following that, it was renamed to Home Media Ecosystem ( HME) and the media server component was integrated into Windows Media Player and Windows Home Server. The first two releases of WMC were made available as stand-alone software, and included a client as well. Windows Media Connect ( WMC) is a UPnP AV server from Microsoft for Windows XP and later Windows operating systems, to share and stream media on a Windows computer to WMC clients.