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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / August 2006Windows Media Player for Mac
Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? >Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? Beacause it was crap and they have better things to do ? Flip4Mac is a much better solution, since Quicktime is a native player for the Mac. Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs > >Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs me thinks it's becorse MS wants us to buy windows if we want to play wma/wmv with drm  Signature--------------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://swecams.telgebo.se> --------------------------------------------------- > me thinks it's becorse MS wants us to buy windows if we want to play > wma/wmv with drm Well to be quite honest, I don't find these files with DRM so often.... Most of the protected files I've seen were available on iTunes and used FairPlay. I'm not sure that would be a good strategy to make people switch to windows at this point. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > >Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? > > Beacause it was crap and they have better things to do ? Flip4Mac is a > much better solution, since Quicktime is a native player for the Mac. I'll second that. The only thing I miss from WMP9 is DRM support (again WMP9 for Mac was crap all around - even in their rudimental DRM support). Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire They did this because they want to move everyone from having WMP for mac to have flip4mac plugin, which also belongs to them now. Chris ----------------------------------------------------- > Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? No, Flip4Mac is owned by TeleStream, MS only publish it on their site as a convenience - they have nothing to do with the development or ownership of the Flip crew. Cheers - Neil >They did this because they want to move everyone from having WMP for mac to >have flip4mac plugin, which also belongs to them now. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >----------------------------------------------------- >> Why Microsoft cancelled development of Windows Media Player for Mac? ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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