Windows Media Centre on 8.1 - Please Help

I am an IT professional... I've spent the last 30 minutes going round in an endless loop of pathetic instructions that lead me nowhere. I'm trying to install Windows Media Centre on Windows 8.1 Pro.
I firstly found this page:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs
Following the instructions
"Enter add
features in the search box, and then tap or click Settings."
Either takes me back to the same webpage in the URL above or to the legacy "Add/Remove" Windows features, neither of which is helpful.
So I looked up another page:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/get-started-with-windows-media-center
Enter Windows
Media Center in the search box, and then tap or click Windows
Media Center.
The only result for this as it isn't installed, is a web page. Which surprise, takes me around in another loop eventually back to the same web page after clicking eventually on
the link that says "Get it".
I can only assume there is something that is supposed to be appearing about adding features to the OS that actually isn't showing at all. 
This entire experience is absolutely unacceptable. 
Can someone PLEASE provide for me simple instructions to install this feature that actually work or resemble in the slightest what I am seeing on the actual operating system.

Try the procedure at http://www.ghacks.net/2013/09/18/install-media-center-pack-windows-8-1/ - just hit the Windows key and type features when the Start screen
appears.
There is no box to type in, just type the word.

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