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sporkme:
you can download it at the windows phone home site

i just had to, to see what the future of listening to mp3s would be like for grandma

my opinions:

-bloated
-no benchmarking by contract
-DRM locked in
-momory hog

-functional, with some stuff i haven't seen before
-stable
-best thing they have done in some time (oxymoron i know)
-no registration and no expiration of beta (?)

dirty i know, but i am not in winders very often... i'll stick with a free player once 9 crashes once.  --all it has to do is put out sound!

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme / bob ]

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme / bob ]

voidmain:
Your rating will soon drop....

mobrien_12:
You forgot to mention: NO UNINSTALL on XP and ME platforms!

This is the perfect trap.  Download it.  Install You are locked in.  Next massive security flaw that pops up, you will have to download the patch or have your computer's system compromised.  The patch requires you to give Bill et. al root access to your box and install *&#$loads of DRM.  Only this time you don't have the option of  telling MS to go @#^% themselves and uninstalling their MP other than just uninstalling everything MS, which becomes a better and better idea every @#$%ing day they pull ^%$& like this.

And because of Microsoft's legendary security and @#^%ing desire to integrate EVERYTHING (so they have an excuse to kill competing software), you will get a security breach through outlook or MSIE or MS messenger or some other piece of *%&% program if you don't patch the MP.

Every freakin day I'm more happy that I have linux as the default boot on my PC.

Calum:
i'm afraid i do not believe that sporkme only downloaded this shit to see what other people are using.

personally, even though i have a windows dual boot setup, i don't think i have used winblows mediocre player once since my last reinstall (3 weeks ago, it's pretty bad at the moment due to some fucked regediting by a program called download accelerator). WinME comes with WMP 6.2 and 7.0, and i also have 7.2 on a CD. none of those has any uninstall, although you can just remove the files if you so desire, it's not hard.

Personally, again, i prefer 6.2, and more times than not 7.0 is corrupt on a default of winME anyway, i find, although not always, so what the deal is i do not know.

Anyway, what i am saying is, "upgrading" mediocre player is not worth the time or the effort.

nowadays i do not even bother to install photoshop, dreamweaver, all the programs i used to rely on in windows, purely because i have much better options open to me on the linux side.

i will admit to having word, excel, openoffice and acrobat reader on windows, purely because the linux version of openoffice.org will not open my girlfriend's CV for some reason. I'm not surprised, it's a Microsoft word document...

anyway, back on topic, mediocre player is not worth the upgrade, neither is lookout express, or msn messenger or any of the other useless crap they foist on you, so why fucking bother, is what i say!

Pantso:
Well, the M$ media player is really "spyware" in a broader sense. That is, although M$ claim not to collect any personal data (which I really doubt), they do on the other hand collect info about your personal preferences, like what kind of music you listen to more often, what movies you watch etc. At least to me that is purely violation of your privacy, despite of their demographic excuses.

Anyway, I'm on Linux only now, so that goes to all Windows users and dual booters out there. No matter how pretty and attractive Media Player looks don't use it.

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