Microsoft Awaits Punitive EU Judgment
Talkback If WMP wasnt bundled with Windows would we have to pay MS even more money to have the same as what we have now? ie £xxx.00 for Windows PLUS £xx.00 for WMP as opposed to the one price for the bundled lot?
[March 18, 2004, 20:09]
EC Gets Stuck In To XP Embedded
Talkback The Real problem for Real is not that WMP is free, it is that WMP is much better than their own spyware offering. Sorry but I have to say I am very happy that Microsoft provide the best Windows AV player Free with the OS.
[March 23, 2004, 9:57]
Service Pack 2: This Time, It's Serious
Talkback But now things have changed, things like Mozilla which I rely on and PowerDVD instead of WMP. I used to get, get, get with MS updates and free apps. I have heard so much anti-fuss about SP2 and have delayed it all this time, knowing how much it...
[April 4, 2005, 17:44]
Justice, The American Way
Talkback I don't mind Microsoft supplying WMP, MSN, IE etc.as optional components of the operating system. Whatever the Justice Department is taking, can I have some, and being a legal body, I think they should submit themselves for substance abuse testing...
[December 8, 2005, 15:46]
Microsoft Awaits Punitive EU Judgment
Talkback If you don't like WMP, run Real Player or QuickTime. I would second the other point that WMP is actually not a bad media player and that this also may have had some effect in its market share as well as the bundling with os
[March 18, 2004, 16:04]
Big Guns Line Up Against Microsoft
Talkback Personally I like Microsoft they're doing loads of R&D outside of instant profit making IT ideas like cures for Aids etc.and I like WMP, I also find WinXP is pretty compliant when I designate Firefox as my browser of choice.
[April 7, 2005, 5:37]
Media Player Row: Will The EU Read Between The Lines?
News In the case of media players, the EU is intensely interested in the assumption that when a default media playing technology, such as WMP, exists in Windows, end users will establish a preference for that media player.
[January 7, 2004, 11:45]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment Their only chance will be a WMP vs Quicktime type scheme wherein ms disables iTunes in vista and makes zune the default player. I too fill my ipod with my own music ripped using the lossless codec. As far as RayCT goes, I run into folks like him...
[November 25, 2006, 22:29]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment And seen how WMP 11 lets you back up your licences? Can't a chap make a joke around here? Anyway. Ballmer. He's the one who says that iPods are full of stolen music, and that Linux contains Microsoft IP.
[November 25, 2006, 15:42]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback Since practically all the most popular films are American, plus practically all major web news sites and portals like Yahoo, Msnbc, Fox news et al are using WMP exlusively, how exactly does the EU propose to stop WMP from dominating?
[June 27, 2005, 23:17]
RealNetworks Cries Foul Over Microsoft Antitrust Case
Talkback MOST PEOPLE do not have the choice - since MOST PEOPLE (I actually carried out a survey of this over the last few days by calling a large number of my customers) do not know how to remove WMP and install a different media player.
[April 8, 2005, 17:15]
Wiping The Slate Clean For Windows
Talkback Just cos MS have IE and WMP on windows it does not stop me installing Firefox (im using it now) and real player! I agree with the last person.anyone else who disagrees is, in short, wrong.
[December 2, 2005, 14:27]
Apple And Chips
Talkback Case in point; ipod/itunes.despite the number of competing music stores, they knowingly go it alone, despite the fact that this approach leaves a dual market - them, and everybody using WMP. Interesting speculations, but I can't help wondering...
[June 6, 2005, 14:10]
EC: A Q&A On The Microsoft Decision
News What happens if Microsoft does not disclose the specified information or offer a version of Windows without WMP within the deadlines outlined by the Commission? Is the Commission's case in line with US law as far as unbundling of the WMP is concerned?
[March 24, 2004, 11:20]
High Noon For Microsoft In EU Battle
Talkback They should just force Microsoft to include other players with XP or make WMP work with other codec’s. I just don’t see why this matters to the EU so much. Where’s the $5M going to go? What happens if Microsoft manages to get out of paying the fines?
[June 1, 2005, 14:23]
Bring The Tangible Benefits Of Linux To Your Organisation
Talkback About multimedia on Linux, it IS true less software has been written for the platform - however, people not afraid of using CLI will find Mplayer quite powerful (very large playback capabilities, but also encoding), and Xine is just more versatile...
[June 25, 2005, 8:30]
Justice, The American Way
Talkback I'm NOT forced to use WMP or MSN Messenger. I'm outside the US and I will wholeheartedly take Microsoft's side. The Justice Department is right in what it says.well in most ways. When I buy an OS, I WANT all the features that SHOULD come with it.
[December 8, 2005, 13:38]
Microsoft Prepares Scaled-down Windows For Europe
Talkback This would seem like an important part of placing WMP on an equal footing with its competitors. Why do I suspect that MS will make this scaled-back version as unappealing as possible? In addition to lacking a copy of Windows Media Player, the new...
[December 23, 2004, 11:39]
RealNetworks Fixes Security Glitches
Talkback WMP & Apple Quicktime are not perfect, but the choice is yours! Well, well, well, or not so well. So Real Player, the software download that arrives with its own fellow travellers within the download.
[June 26, 2005, 20:12]
