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? I personally would still use WMP as I still use MS IE instead of Netscape. ie £xxx.00 for Windows PLUS £xx.00 for WMP as opposed to the...
[March 18, 2004, 20:09]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Drops Mac Internet Explorer
Talkback What's next, they drop support for WMP for OS X, which hasn't been updated in just as long? Not like MS has updated IE for OS X since, what, 2003? So how are we affected by them "not longer supporting" it?
[December 19, 2005, 15:42]
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. Thank you MS I do not want to have to pay for second rate software such as Real or Quick Time.
[March 23, 2004, 9:57]
High Noon For Microsoft In EU Battle
Talkback To the chap who said WMP is free - why do you think it is free? It's because the competition was there in the first place and the 'freeness' is a residue of MS cheating to stifle that competition by using the cushion of the income from windows to...
[May 31, 2005, 22:08]
Justice, The American Way
Talkback I don't mind Microsoft supplying WMP, MSN, IE etc.as optional components of the operating system. If on the other hand they choose to use alternatives, the MS equivalents should be uninstallable - and optionally not installed in the first place.
[December 8, 2005, 15:46]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment And seen how WMP 11 lets you back up your licences? In a stroke, MS has demonstrated (1) when it names something, it means the opposite (Genuine Advantage, anyone? Of course it will work with Vista - there are patches already out there to do it...
[November 25, 2006, 15:42]
"Unclear"? Bwhahahaha MS - Already Dead To Consumers
Talkback Huge launches for zero results including: MSN ISP, MSN search, Talking Barney's, Home Networking, WMA music stores, WMP movie stores, Win Mobile, Tablets, Home Media Extender, backing HD DVD and last year's attempt to sell home servers .and the...
[January 9, 2008, 17:57]
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've watched the ms fanboys for years and it is something you just can't explain.
[November 25, 2006, 22:29]
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? Does this mean that MS is going to remove the stand-alone...
[December 23, 2004, 11:39]
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]
Microsoft Inspires New Lindows Name
Talkback And they're misusing it by forcing people to use IE, WMP, MS Office, and other Microsoft products. Microsoft is not being fined and punished simply "for being the best company in the world". It's the anti-competitive practices that are being punished.
[April 21, 2004, 16:35]
