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radiorahim
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posted 15 January 2006 03:00 AM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Looks like M$ is ditching the Mac version of their Media Player...just after ditching support on the Mac for I.E.

CNET News.com story


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SamL
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posted 15 January 2006 03:07 AM      Profile for SamL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As though any Mac user would want to use IE or WMP in the first place...
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Gir Draxon
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posted 15 January 2006 04:04 AM      Profile for Gir Draxon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by SamL:
As though any Mac user would want to use IE or WMP in the first place...

Hey... WMP isn't that bad


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radiorahim
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posted 15 January 2006 04:54 AM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I can usually get WMP streams to work with either Xine or MPlayer under Linux.

Actually I tend to have a harder time with Quicktime formats.


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