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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]
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 Further Scales Back Mac Plans
News Microsoft has officially halted development of its Windows Media Player for the Mac and plans no future Apple versions of its music-playing software, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. We have no plans to provide future updates or...
[January 13, 2006, 9:25]
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]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
News In South Korea, Microsoft has been found guilty of violating the Act by tying its Windows Media Player to the Windows server operating system, and its instant messaging program to the desktop version of
[December 7, 2005, 9:25]
Utility Cracks Microsoft DRM
News A patch pushed out by Microsoft to fix Windows Media Player's security flaw was subsequently cracked again by the originator of FairUse4WM, who identified him or herself only by the name "Viodentia". The digital rights management on Windows Media...
[July 16, 2007, 13:51]
Justice, The American Way
Leader In South Korea, Microsoft has been found guilty of abuse of trade — as it has previously in Europe and America — and, as in Europe, been told to unbundle Windows Media Player. Moreover, with Windows Media Player comes
[December 8, 2005, 13:15]
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. Later in the year, the company plans to release Adobe Media Player...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
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]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
News RealNetworks has criticised Microsoft for failing to provide a fully functional version of Windows that is unbundled from its media player, twelve months after the European Commission (EC) ruled that Microsoft was stifling competition in the...
[March 23, 2005, 16:40]
EC Freezes Microsoft's Punishment
News The European Commission has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to begin to offer a version of Windows without a media player this week. The US Justice Department has criticised the European crackdown on Microsoft, saying that its...
[June 28, 2004, 8:45]
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]
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]
MS Audio 4.0 Will Eat MP3...
News Windows Media Technologies 4.0 is here, a multimedia wonder that provides streaming video and audio through the ubiquitous Microsoft Media Player. William Hein, co-president of Restless Records in the US was also keen to praise Microsoft's efforts...
[April 14, 1999, 15:36]
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]
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]
Microsoft Hit With Another Antitrust Suit
News The complaint adds that Microsoft has wielded its "monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every Windows user to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
Too Little, Too Late From EU?
News According to recent reports, commissioners may settle for allowing big PC makers to choose what multimedia software to install on new computers, instead of forcing Microsoft to pull Media Player out of Windows altogether.
[March 8, 2004, 13:30]
Microsoft Insists Its Monopolistic Days Are Over
News Under fire for a marketing plan that may have improperly favoured Windows Media Player, Microsoft on Wednesday told a federal judge that it's trying hard to avoid any anticompetitive behaviour by employees.
[December 1, 2005, 11:50]
AOL Beefs Up Winamp
News And with its ability to stream Microsoft's Windows Media formats and its intention to add RealNetworks formats, Winamp could put AOL Time Warner in a position to muscle its way up in the fight for media player dominance.
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
