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West Midlands Police Take The Route To High-Performance Enterprise-Class Networking
White Papers WMP has faced the need to regularly enhance its network infrastructure to deliver high performance, high capacity, and high reliability-all against the backdrop of keeping costs down. On the advice of 3Com's Professional Services team, WMP...
[July 15, 2004, 0:00]
High Noon For Microsoft In EU Battle
Talkback And anyway WMP is free so why would you want to buy RealPlayer to get almost similar features of WMP. At least with WMP 10 you get a full equaliser for free. I’m not a Microsoft fan but by far WMP 10 is the best media player out of its rivals.
[May 31, 2005, 13:40]
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]
Windows Media: Watching You Watching DVD
News Each time a new DVD movie is played on a computer, the WMP software contacts a Microsoft Web server to get title and chapter information for the DVD," Smith wrote in his advisory. The metadata at issue lets people using WMP and XP navigate through...
[February 21, 2002, 12:06]
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]
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]
Public Gets A Look At New Windows Media Player
News The Inquirer.net also was offering free copies of WMP 11 on its site. WMP 11 will be available both for Windows XP and Vista, but on different timetables. WMP 11 has, so far, received favourable reviews.
[May 16, 2006, 8:45]
Monti's Verdict On Microsoft - Blow By Blow
News Microsoft retains the right to offer a version of its Windows client PC operating system product with WMP. In particular, it must not give PC manufacturers a discount conditional on their buying Windows together with WMP.
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
High Noon For Microsoft In EU Battle
Talkback To the chap who said WMP is free - why do you think it is free? Blimey, it's a bit 'Microsoft stooges of the world unite' around here isn't it. Or IE is free? Or Outlook Express? It's because the competition was there in the first place and the...
[May 31, 2005, 22:08]
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]
Hackers Hijack Microsoft DRM
Talkback usually when WMP asks you to download some DRM to listen to the file, you press no and can listen to it anyway. So this form of spyware is not going to affect me.
[January 12, 2005, 21:07]
EU Ruling Already Too Late?
Talkback I personally think that RealOne and all of the Real software applications are jokes, and bundling WMP with Windows is the best option, because the application is so much better and can do so much more for a normal home user.
[February 6, 2004, 22:21]
EU Ruling Already Too Late?
Talkback I personally think that RealOne and all of the Real software applications are jokes, and bundling WMP with Windows is the best option, because the application is so much better and can do so much more for a normal home user.
[February 6, 2004, 22:21]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
Talkback They alledgely stand up big and tall by making M$ unbundle WMP but then lie back and let M$ play silly beggars with a universal format. What a shower. Government is already admiting that they can not archive documents (thanks to M$ changing again...
[May 9, 2006, 19:04]
MyData-Live Pro
Downloads Media tools include Itunes/WMP playlist files, audio CD ripping, FLAC/WAVPACK compression, Unlimited voice recording, and Screenshot image capture. MyData-Live Pro is an Amazon WS powered information snapshot service.
[April 29, 2008, 3:31]
Microsoft Launches Media Player 10 Beta
Talkback Does the WMP Player support ogg vorbis files?
[July 2, 2004, 19:37]
Microsoft EC Appeal To Be Heard In April
Talkback Several years have gone by and WMP-based formats are spread, so rubbing out competition. Same old delay tactics again and again. Should the EU decision have any teeth it will be too little and too late.
[January 26, 2006, 10:55]
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]
