Comments on: Windows Media Player 10

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:39:57 +0000

Microsoft’s two-headed Janus DRM technology is ready for prime time and the software giant has wasted no time integrating it into a revamped version of its flagship Windows Media Player (WMP).

Janus, which marries Windows Media DRM for Portable Devices and Windows Media DRM for Network Devices, is a key addition to the new WMP 10, which was released as a technical beta on Wednesday.

With the integration of Janus to the revamped WMP 10, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) has added support for premium, DRM-protected content on a range of portable devices.

It’s DRM’d up the whazoo for starters, second its MS, third it phones home non-stop and most likely will catalogue your media so MS can better serve you , third its MS,

fourth MS sees the fact that the OS mkt long term is a lost cause , they’ll delay it as long as possible though so they can establish (dominate) themselves in a new mkt, Apple will most likely be their next anti-competitve target…msPod anyone…Portable Media Center??

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:25:12 +0000

I use wmp9 as my main media player because the sound quality is better than anything else (I’ve tried them all). Hopefully wmp10 is an improvement, but to be honest I can’t think of anything I’d do to improve wmp9… those of you who are flaming it I wish you would elaborate.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:39:46 +0000

I wouldn’t use it personally. I have far too many others (6 of them) that do what Windows Media Player does, plus more and I don’t have to worry about being invaded by software that I don’t want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:02:35 +0000

lol, no doubt…on my one windozer machine I still have v6.4, just install the codecs (which are buried on MS’s site).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:58:46 +0000

“A great improvement on WMP9″

(Well, lets look at it this way: it couldnt get much worse)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:46:58 +0000

I have been testing WMP 10 in various beta stages and think it is a great improvement on WMP9.

I have a review of the current WMP 10 Beta up at:

http://www.wmp10.com

Regards

Marc Liron
http://www.updatexp.com