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Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X Available

Posted by pudge on from the whoopee dept.

corsa writes "I found Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X on Microsoft's site today. I downloaded it and have it running under Panther. It seems to play WMV9 files, at least the few I've tried so far."

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  1. Crap, crap, crapapple! by Randy+Wang · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Of course, we shouldn't forget that Microsoft has quite some reputation for making crap for OS X.

    Exhibit A, being Internet Explorer, a shady alternative to Safari that comes packaged with OS X... when, sitting right next to it is a faster, smaller, and more functional program for the same purpose - Safari. Not much of a blow for Microsoft functionality, there.

    Exhibit B, being Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 - a previously wonderful piece of virtual machine software produced by Connectix, which will no longer support Linux in the new version, as described here

    And, finally, WMP9, a decidedly crap piece of software, as described by all those unfortunate enough to use it. Pity, poor fools.

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    --- Egads, I glow in the dark!