Microsoft Corp. to stop developing Windows Media Player software for Macs

[Daryl K davis]

Sorry I messed up the link

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[Les Kaye]

Links galore:

https://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Microsoft+Apple+Windows+Media&c=

(PS – According the the release, it’s not the end of the world)

[Tim Vaughan]

WMP is terrible, anyway. Quicktime is 100x’s far better in quality. The problem is Quicktime doesn’t always play on M$ machines (without constantly having to send clients to get QT updates), and WMV is terrible on every machine. It would be perfect in my opionion if M$ just stopped making lousy software and just added full support for Quicktime and other technology that is far better. (problem with that is they would be out of business. I think Office is the only decent thing made by them….)

Tim

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac allows you to play WMV in Quicktime with all the neat things one likes about Quicktime such as frame by frame jog. Flip4Mac also has an exporter in which you can make WMV. Of course we’d prefer H.264 but in a world where our clients most likely have WMP, it’s doesn’t always make sense to encode to a format that only QT7 can play.

[Sean Oneil]

It just MIGHT have been pertinent to post the meaning of the article, instead of just the sensational sounding headline:

“…and will instead offer free technology that lets people play Windows Media files using Apple’s own software.”

Sean

[Annaël Beauchemin]

[Sean ONeil] “It just MIGHT have been pertinent to post the meaning of the article, instead of just the sensational sounding headline:

“…and will instead offer free technology that lets people play Windows Media files using Apple’s own software.””

yes, this is in fact a good news. Windows Media Player for mac was an horrible POS (piece of software) in every aspect. It was ugly, buggy, old and didn’t have any smoothing when scaling (which the PC version does gracefully). Flip4mac is a releif.

[Tony! Hulette]

Also, the Flip4Mac player has been reduced in price to – Free. https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm or you can get one of their more robust and fairly reasonably priced solutions if you need to export/convert, etc. https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_upgrades.htm

Tony!