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Windows Media Player 9 Series And 10 Series Add-in For Microsoft FrontPage
Downloads This add-in enables new capabilities for FrontPage users including the ability to: Easily embed the Windows Media Player 9 Series or 10 Series control into FrontPage Web pages and SharePoint sites; Control the look and feel of the media playback...
[October 3, 2007, 8:39]
Microsoft And Nokia Agree Music DRM Deal
News Microsoft and Nokia have struck a deal that will see Microsoft's audio file format supported on Nokia-powered handsets, while adding more open standard support to Windows Media Player. These will work on Microsoft's Windows Media player, which will...
[February 14, 2005, 16:55]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Debuts New Mac Media Player
News The new software follows the release of Apple's iTunes for Windows, which competes with the Windows version of Microsoft's media player. Microsoft on Friday quietly released a new Macintosh version of its Windows Media Player software.
[November 10, 2003, 8:00]
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]
BBC IPlayer Launch On, Despite Crack
News Microsoft hastily patched Windows Media Player against it, but Viodentia, the anonymous distributor of the utility, cracked Microsoft's patch. The iPlayer, which is based on Microsoft's media player and DRM technology, is due to be launched on 27...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Microsoft Launches Media Player 10 Beta
News Our real rallying cry here for the player is letting you discover media, play it and take it with you," said Jonathan Usher, director of Microsoft's Windows Media Division. Microsoft released the first test version of its new Windows Media Player...
[June 3, 2004, 8:40]
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]
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]
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]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's Windows Media Player. While the music stores are restricted to the British and Western European markets, analysts...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
Windows Media: Watching You Watching DVD
News Microsoft on Wednesday amended the privacy policy for its Windows Media Player after a noted computer security expert warned that the software keeps track of the DVD titles people watch. In a Web advisory, computer privacy and security consultant...
[February 21, 2002, 12:06]
Microsoft: DRM Trojan Hole Is Not A Vulnerability
News Microsoft has denied that an anti-piracy "feature" in its Windows Media Player that allows a Trojan horse to run on a user's PC is a vulnerability. The Spanish security company said that virus writers had released licence-protected multimedia files...
[January 14, 2005, 12:15]
Microsoft Adds Privacy Controls To Media Player
News The newest beta, or test, version of Windows Media Player 9 Series prominently displays Microsoft's privacy policy for the program and offers consumers options for controlling just how much information they share when using the product.
[August 28, 2002, 11:13]
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]
Media Player 'skins' In Security Alert
News Microsoft warned Windows Media Player users on Wednesday that a flaw in the way the application handles the download of "skins," or interface colours and motifs, could allow an attacker to take over a victim's PC.
[May 8, 2003, 8:42]
