Windows Media Player. Not evil.
Well, Windows media player for OSX isn’t evil. It didn’t claim every media file on my computer as it’s own. It didn’t spawn small “helper” programs that want to fix all my problems for me. And frustratingly it didn’t even install a plug-in (the purpose of this whole adventure). It just sits there in the Applications folder with it’s shiny icon and plays Windows Media files when you tell it to.
Here’s Michael’s Video Postcard from NYC Since I didn’t have a plug-in, I had to look through the html code to find the actual file name to see the video.
Then I tried looking at it in Safari. Even though Safari didn’t have the plug-in, it found the embedded movie and found that Windows Media Player could play it and offered to open the movie in WMP for me. You just gotta love that.
Xian 07:31 PM, 03.21.03 - p-link
Comments: Windows Media Player. Not evil.
As Lead for WM Player, glad to see you had a good experience.
Sean Alexander - 09:48AM Saturday, 03.22.03
don’t believe the lies….the player is evil! it’s only trying to trick you!
Onna - 03:51AM Sunday, 03.23.03
Onna: I think the difference between you and me is that I’m running MacOSX and you are running Windows. MS software can and will do what ever it wants on MS’s OS. On OSX it just sits there and plays nice.
Xian - 11:33AM Sunday, 03.23.03
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