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  1. Re:Audio Video monopoly, and korea on Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaints · · Score: 1
    Well, we're talking about the versions that ship with the OS, and XP is the current version of Windows.
    Fair enough though the fact that WMP10 is downloaded through the MS update service that is included with WinXP and is also used for OS patches & updates (not to mention the liklihood that it will be preinstalled on new systems) says that WMP 10 is probably more relevant. If nothing else, the statement might read 'two-three years ago MS didn't offer MP3 ripping for free but consumers didn't like that so now they do.'
  2. Re:media player on Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaints · · Score: 1
    If WMP just played standard formats without trying to be a little bundled media center like iTunes, I'm not sure there would be as much of a problem. But I could be wrong. That's not even getting into the fact you can't uninstall the damn thing, unlike iTunes and Quicktime Player (even on a Mac). Hell, this is the company that forced an IM client on every startup and didn't give an interface to disable it or uninstall it. Just to tie people to MSN instead of AIM. Freakin' crazy.
    I realize that posting here obligates you to hate all things produced withing a thousand miles of Redmond, but I'm LOOKING at the uninstall options for media player and windows messenger right now.
  3. Re:Audio Video monopoly, and korea on Microsoft Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaints · · Score: 1
    You were wrong. IF they wanted to include a media player, they wouldn't need to develop their own. What's more, they wouldn't deliberately leave out codecs for ripping CDs in the most popular audio format, mp3. It's fairly easy to see their motives if you examine their choices.
    Odd, when I look in my copy of WMP it includes the ability to rip to MP3. Heck, when I ripped a couple hundred CDs to MP3 it seemed to work just fine. Yes, in the version of WMP that shipped with XP you couldn't do that but that's not the current version.