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Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released

Posted by simoniker on from the music-to-ears dept.

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?"

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  1. Oh goodie... by Digital+Avatar · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder how many metric shit-tons of spam, bugs, backdoors, and spyware are loaded in this version? I'll stick with WinAMP, thanks.

  2. Re:Like a sloth on downers... by atarione · · Score: 0, Troll

    ~~~~ porn into smaller directories. ~~~ no no no it's pr0n

    you insensitive clod.

    and I like to have all the pr0n in big directories by category.
    ie: 1> BDSM 2> BDSM 3> BDSM 4> your mom 5> did I mention BDSM?

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  3. Where's the "play" button? by chrysalis · · Score: 1, Troll

    WMP10 is bloated like hell.

    Start it and you got tons of flashing stuff everywhere and tons of buttons.

    Hey, the main purpose of such a tool is to play media files. Even finding the "play", "stop" and volume buttons is now difficult.

    That's getting ridiculous.

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  4. Re:Can't turn off update checking by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 0, Troll

    And if they didn't have automatic update checking, people would be whining and complaining that it doesn't auto update, so when a Media Player exploit goes around, thousands and thousands of Joe Sixpacks, who never update manually, will be infectable, and Microsoft should just build AuToMaTiC UpDaTeS into the damn thing....

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