Microsoft at it again

[Brian Ellis]

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1754121,00.asp

The retail prices of the stripped-down versions will be the same as that of their full Windows XP counterparts.

So the Europeans will pay for WMP, whether they opt to have it or not.

A quoi ça sert?

[schmosef]

Checkmate!

I can just see Bill Gates walking the MS campus and high fiving everyone he meets.

LOL!

[cjolley]

Originally posted by schmosef


Checkmate!

I can just see Bill Gates walking the MS campus and high fiving everyone he meets.

LOL!

In this case, I don't blame him a bit.
They asked for it and they got it.

@Brian: It could have been worse. MS could reasonably charged more for the "Reduced Media Edition" because of the cost of taking the stuff out.
Chuck

[schmosef]

Originally posted by cjolley
@Brian: It could have been worse. MS could reasonably charged more for the "Reduced Media Edition" because of the cost of taking the stuff out.

Yep

[xortam]

Originally posted by cjolley
... @Brian: It could have been worse. MS could reasonably charged more for the "Reduced Media Edition" because of the cost of taking the stuff out.
Chuck

Apparently there was 140 something files removed in order to rip out Windows Media.

[schmosef]

I just check the properties on the folder where Real player is installed and it has over 2000 files. And that total doesn't include whatever might have been installed to the windows/system32 folder.

140 for WMP isn't so bad.

[KvHagedorn]

Jesus.. I would rather pay for my media player and have it be a simple affair that just WORKS. RealPlayer itself has got to be the biggest adware out there.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I must be doing something wrong, my Realplayer folder only has 442 files, 31.2 megs and doesn't have any adware like behavior.

[schmosef]

I'd guess that the Real Player folder has some cached data. My folder size is 66.9MB. I do recall recently uninstalling the version I had and installing the latest version from their website. And then not using it more than a handfull of times.

Does that mean their uninstaller doesn't clean up after itself properly too?

[Jon P. Inghram]

From what I've seen most uninstallers leave crap sitting around, I've gotten to the point that I always check afterwards and finish the job manualy.

Oh, and I'm not defending annoying software like RealPlayer, but I just don't get any "adware" like behavoir from it is all.

[Marshmallowman]

So microsoft are saying their media player is worthless?

[Wombat]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
RealPlayer itself has got to be the biggest adware out there.

Have you tried RP10? They've removed all/most of that crap.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Wombat
Have you tried RP10? They've removed all/most of that crap.

No, because the main adware that annoys me so much is their constant insistance that I upgrade to that day's new release.

[Brian Ellis]

I refuse to have Real spyware on any of my systems for 2 or 3 years now. It simply tries to take over the whole 'puter and sends my firewall crazy. If someone sends me an RM file, I just don't look at it, for my own peace of mind.

I'm not really keen on WMP either, but that's another story. It doesn't object if you deny the single port it seeks to open on the firewall.

[Wombat]

There's no reason to ignore RM files. Go download "Real Alternative." It's quite good.