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Microsoft Admits Media Player Update Bugs
Talkback I like the computer very much, but the media center is a joke from microsoft as usual. I recently purchaced a media center desktop computer; it was a bad mistake on my part. This is my second computer that I have purchaced from the same manufacter...
[March 15, 2006, 23:54]
Did Microsoft 'steal' Media Player 9 Technology?
Talkback What hasn't Microsoft stolen is a better question. Seriously! History keeps showing a pattern of MS using other people's hardwork; claiming they invited it, then settling out of court ten years later for pennies on the dollar.
[September 4, 2003, 9:48]
Did Microsoft 'steal' Media Player 9 Technology?
Talkback The problem I find with Microsoft software is the unreliability, and unfortuantly Microsoft is only where it is today because Corporations brought software early on, and have forced smaller companys to use microsoft to communicate with them...
[September 4, 2003, 10:22]
Did Microsoft 'steal' Media Player 9 Technology?
Talkback That's not a new thing to me, and that's the reason I use a mac. Many people know this fact (even makers of Star Trek Voyager dropped a few clues in one of the episodes) The only MS program I use is MS Office, which is required because the whole...
[September 4, 2003, 10:09]
Microsoft Admits Media Player Update Bugs
News If you've noticed your Windows Media Player acting strange, Microsoft has an explanation. The updates can cause issues when trying to seek, fast rewind or fast forward in Windows Media Player 10, Microsoft said.
[March 9, 2006, 8:00]
EC Awaits Microsoft's Full Antitrust Compliance
News The expected version of Windows without Microsoft's Media Player is being held up by technical issues, despite the release of the scaled-down operating system being a fundamental part of European antitrust reparations against the software giant...
[April 4, 2005, 17:15]
Still 'no Demand' For Media-player-free Windows
News Three of the largest PC vendors worldwide and a major UK retail store still have no plans to sell Microsoft's media player-free version of Windows, almost six months after it was released. Microsoft started offering a version of Windows without a...
[November 18, 2005, 14:30]
Microsoft Does DRM Flaw U-turn
News Last week, Microsoft declared Windows Media Player's method of handling DRM licences wasn't a security flaw, and said they wouldn't be issuing a patch. Two Trojans are already in the wild designed to exploit the mechanism, which affects both...
[January 21, 2005, 8:25]
RealJukebox Gets Features Boost
News In the increasingly desperate scramble to keep ahead of Microsoft's Windows Media Player, RealNetworks has added CD creation capabilities to its latest version of RealJukebox. The RealJukebox Update 1 media player has integrated Adaptec's popular...
[January 14, 2000, 13:54]
MS Takes Aim At RealNetworks... Again
News Microsoft's Windows Media Player 7.0, available for download Monday night at the stroke of midnight, promises an all-in-one player that also helps users organise their audio and video content. Version 6.4 was a pure media player, but Version 7.0...
[July 18, 2000, 10:00]
Hackers Hijack Microsoft DRM
News According to a warning posted on security company Panda Software's Web site, virus writers have released licence-protected multimedia files containing Trojan horses that overcome the anti-piracy features in version 10 of the Media Player and...
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
US Report: Glaser Levels New Charges Against Microsoft
News Microsoft and RealNetworks went at it again Friday, continuing Thursday's dispute over whether Microsoft intentionally broke RealNetwork's streaming media player. Thursday, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel that...
[July 27, 1998, 9:20]
IE Privacy Flaw Still Causing Leaks
News New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player, a noted security expert said on Tuesday. A Microsoft representative said the company issued a patch...
[January 16, 2002, 10:47]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name — Silverlight — and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the web. At the NAB Show, Adobe plans to announce the Adobe Media Player...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Microsoft Stomps On Media Player Bug
News Microsoft is warning people that a series of flaws in its Windows Media Player could allow a malicious hacker to hijack people's computer systems and perform a variety of actions. The flaws, found in some anti-piracy and storage features of the...
[June 28, 2002, 8:54]
Microsoft Debuts New Mac Media Player
News Microsoft on Friday quietly released a new Macintosh version of its Windows Media Player software. The new software follows the release of Apple's iTunes for Windows, which competes with the Windows version of Microsoft's media player.
[November 10, 2003, 8:00]
BBC IPlayer Launch On, Despite Crack
News The iPlayer, which is based on Microsoft's media player and DRM technology, is due to be launched on 27 July. Microsoft hastily patched Windows Media Player against it, but Viodentia, the anonymous distributor of the utility, cracked Microsoft's...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Microsoft Adds Privacy Controls To Media Player
News Unlike competing products or earlier versions of Microsoft's media player, the privacy policies and settings option is the first thing a consumers sees the first time the product is started. The newest beta, or test, version of Windows Media Player...
[August 28, 2002, 11:13]
Microsoft Ties Media Player To Windows XP
News Microsoft will require consumers who want to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to upgrade to the new Windows XP operating system -- a move that is reminiscent of the company's controversial decision to tie the Internet Explorer...
[April 25, 2001, 7:55]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News The four largest PC vendors have no plans to sell the media player-free version of Windows which Microsoft was ordered to offer by Europe's competition commissioner. Dell will continue to offer European customers Microsoft's Windows operating...
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
