Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed 484
An anonymous reader writes "Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store. There are more screenshots here with a download link." Reader Thomas Hawk writes "I wrote my Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Review today the first day the software was released and one of the first reviews on the product. I basically give it good marks but there are definiately some things that they can still improve upon."
An anonymous reader writes "Since I'm somewhat wary of Microsoft's new software (particularly DRM-laden Media Player types,) I was paying attention to the EULA and privacy agreements provided when downloading the software. Ironically enough, the privacy page linked from the installer (at time of writing) merely said "TODO: Privacy policy goes here". Most certainly an honest mistake, but in the meantime it appears there is in fact no policy on privacy (or it has not yet been taken into consideration) in WMP10."
TODO: (Score:3, Funny)
First Post goes here
Testimonial (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly it's a superior means of enjoying musical content over having that annoying 100 gram iPod Mini which you can actually forget you have with you, because it requires no bulky computer or extension cord and that insidious battery will last for up to 8 hours.
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, because your not going anywhere anyway.
5 years ago, who would have thought... (Score:4, Funny)
gasp
gasp
gasp
Re:TODO: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No Privacy Policy? (Score:5, Funny)
TODO:
Conspiracy theory goes here.
Not impressed already... (Score:3, Funny)
Open source? (Score:5, Funny)
Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed (Score:0, Funny)
I don't get it... (Score:1, Funny)
Does having your encoder encoded make for faster / better encoding?
Its a good thing... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's nice and all... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Reboot? (Score:3, Funny)
Screenshots show Privacy... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's nice and all... (Score:3, Funny)
Bug fixes (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Testimonial (Score:1, Funny)
ive just got one question.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No Privacy Policy? (Score:4, Funny)
No. You don't know if they've gotten around to writing it, you only know if they've gotten around to putting it into the code.
If you were a 'glass is half full' type of person, you might think "Oh neat, they're writing a new one. Maybe they'll make it less spooky." Of course, that's not as likely to shoot you up to +5 around here.
Re:Open source? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:anyone else? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's nice and all... (Score:1, Funny)
Yup. Just like there is a user-friendly Linux distro.
WMP != ITMS (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? Why is WMP being compared to ITMS? Apples to Oranges (no pun intended). WMP = iTunes/Quicktime. MSN Music = ITMS. Either somebody meant to say iTunes somewhere (but it still doesn't make sense), or this is an attempt to misinform the reader.
Given that Paul Thorrott is behind this, I'm not suprized.
(go ahead and search for him. Find something where he hasn't found some way to manipulate things to put MS on top. If he isn't on Microsoft's payroll, he should be)
Re:TODO: (Score:5, Funny)
TODO:
- write security policy
- remove testuser/testpass backdoor
- refer javascript and url holes to developers
- prepare blanket denial of security problems for press
Re:iTMS vs. WiMP10? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:iTMS vs. WiMP10? (Score:1, Funny)
Even Microsoft knows SP2 is complete shit (Score:1, Funny)
Nothing bolsters my confidence in Microsoft and Windows quite like a tacit admission that they expect lots of people to have problems and therefore will need to uninstall SP2.
Re:TODO: (Score:3, Funny)
They've had the last one ready for years.