[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> hmm.
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> Microsoft has taken the simple media player and transformed
> it into a 20 megabyte applications colossus. It reaches
it's the evil conspiracy between software and hardware companies;
software sizes must get bigger every year so hardware companies can sell
bigger, faster, more expensive hw!
> Forget about Napster and its various offspring. This is
> the way we all will be finding our music from here on out.
> Granted, we'll have to pay for songs (versus sharing and
> stealing them), but eventually the music companies will
> figure this out and attach a low-ehough price tag on per-song
> downloads. With WindowsMedia, you can search for streaming
> audio from your favorite radio stations, although the soft-
> ware isn't quite as wonderful as I'd like here: it couldn't
> find my wife's favorite WFUV station and once I did locate
> its stream it wasn't easy to add it to my favorites list.
behold, the god of usability, jakob nielsen will rule the world and bad
applications will be assimilated! (ermh, hopefully)
> The more time you spend with Windows Media software and web
> site, the more you can see that Microsoft is waging war on
> many fronts:
go read this bill's interview, but beware, it's quite long.
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue82/mag-gates-82-home.html
> when IE was brought into the operating system for Windows 95.5
> (the updates issued after 1997): now Windows Media player can
what was that? i've never heard such version. there was windows 95,
after that came OSR 2 release (OEM only) and after that was limited
testing version OSR 2.5 (was not publicly available, although some
copies was available at the 'net) OSR 2.5 was early beta of win98. First
time ms had IE installed by default in OSR 2 release.
// sakke
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