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Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft today officially announced the public availability of Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta. These screenshots reveal how Microsoft is integrating music service subscriptions such as Napster and video service subscription from CinemaNow. Is Microsoft trying to start competing with iTunes with this new music service integration?"
"Warning!
This is a technical beta release. Before you decide whether to install this software, it is important to understand that the technical beta release does not have the stability of released Microsoft software..."
MS should use that everywhere. And WHO needs MS mediaplayers anyhow...
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There are certainly lots of good ideas that we, as a community, can build into mplayer through our own innovations.
There's something about seeing a neutered, paid-for-only Napster window inside Windows Media Player that makes me cringe. That it should come to this. I'll be sticking to SoulSeek.
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It seems that everything released nowadays is beta. "Beta" is the new trend just like using years for version numbers was the trend in the 90's. Just wait for this: Windows Media Player X - Beta 2004 Then it will be complete.
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Right, because I'd feel awful taking Microsoft's bandwidth!
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From the article:
this technical beta lays the groundwork for the great end-to-end digital media experience coming with the final release for Windows XP
I do believe I will be forced to struggle to contain my excitement...
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... it's not an essential part of the OS core??? hey, I wonder how did all those Windows users live (still do, as a matter of fact) without the amazing multimedia experience that comes with WMP10 ... err ... will come .... nevermind.
Oh well, you can bet they are building Longhorn around this baby as we speak, anyway - at least as far as the DOJ is concerned.
Has nobody noticed the great implications of this?
Finally MS is leveraging the Windows Media Player monopoly! This fits in nicely with their ongoing world domination plans.
iTunes is getting loads of publicity lately. And iTunes is being used on many Windows PC's! This is not what Bill Gates likes.
But Bill knows that every Windows has his media player on it. Why not make it so that you can buy Bills media files online which will only play with Bills player than will only run on Bills O/S? And let's make it so that when you launch Bills OS it pops up Bills media player that connects instantly to Bills online music download service? Why not have the payments bundled with MSN which is bundled on the OS?
This would be nice for Bill. Especially when he has about 90% of desktops in the wild.
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If you have a fast system. I wonder how my P3 600 would take all this new MS skinning if I was running Windows.
I'm Looking foward to this "free" hardware MS and Sun keeps talking about. With all this glitter MS keeps putting in their stuff it looks like a lot of people will need this free upgrade in order to run notepad.exe.
It's good to see that they've moved it back into a more-or-less rectangular window, instead of that horrible amorphous blob from the last 3 versions. On the downside, now they'll probably patent the use of right angles in a user interface.
that the technical beta release does not have the stability of released Microsoft software...
Released Microsoft software doesn't have stability either so what is the big deal?
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except wherever and whenever DRM won't allow it of course.
Someone could be in for a rude shock!