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Windows Media Player Set To Lose a Feature on Windows 7 (onmsft.com)
With Windows 7 reaching its end of life in less than a year, developers are likely to begin retiring features for the operating system. Kicking off the process of retiring features is Microsoft, which is retiring a feature in Windows Media Player, according to updated support documentation on its website. From a report: New metadata for music, TV shows and movies, will not be added to Windows Media Player. This means that additional information such as cover art, directors, actors, and more, will not display on Windows Media Player. This change also affects Windows Media Center on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
I bet those who use that feature will be miffed. Both of them.
but you can turn off the automatic install of them, and decline to install the one that has this "feature" in it. since it's not 'security' related, it better not be in the monthly 'security only' updates and only in the 'security and quality' rollups... pretty piss-poor comprehension of 'security' or 'quality' either way.
this is a total shit move on microsoft's part. windows 8.1 has nearly four years left in its lifecycle... especially if windows 10's media player retains the feature...... or are they going to delete the 'legacy' media player outright on it (because their spyshit on 10 shows 'too many' people use it instead of the fucking 'apps')?
One less server tracking your viewing habits?
Good riddance!
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It's not about using it, it's about getting people used to the concept of "retiring features" such that they accept it instead of talking about how Microsoft is conspiring to cripple the OS like they did with XP and the associated malicious updates that broke critical features at the end. They start with stupid things nobody uses so that when they get to the real stuff they can go "retiring features has been going on publicly for awhile and nobody cared." Call it what it is: "crippling things you don't own which customers paid for in order to force them to pay you again."