It is rather unfortunate for 'AppleMacIntosh' (pronounced as one word), but fully understandable since WMP (pronounced wimp) has been in need of an organ transplant since it's birth. Features - supports media conversion and streamingAfter a two year hiatus, Microsoft's 'Windows Media Player ' is.well still on hiatus and threatening coma. Although there are many releases available for Android, iOS, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and even QNX, Haiku, Syllable, OS/2 we currently list only the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions. This media player is currently listed under GNU licenses and is available in more than 40 languages.Music with harshly worded threats by microsoft attached.WMP has become a political bone. Want to author MS content, convert or manage some DRM? Not happening on a Mac.Surely this could not have to do with the fairplay DRM crushing protected. They aren't there for WMP, QuickTime 7.0.3 is mostly transparent and those jobs are taken by applications like iTunes.Streaming of QuickTime files is also much handled much better and the software is free, even open-source. Arguments about the 'quality' of the files seems to be based on authoring vis a QuickTime (we could go w/ h.264 aac mpeg-4) file is FAR superior to a WMP file, but takes longer to encode. Most of this has to do with the file format being closed and proprietary.Unfortunately, many websites use this player. Try it on the other side.Even if MS COULD make a good version of WMP, there wouldn't be very many third party plug-ins in the Mac world because it is largely redundant.In fact, the ONLY reason this application is needed is to play more recent windows media files. Any argument about the status as a political item and one of platform morals is only entertained by the extremely ignorant.
Os X Media Player With Equalizer Update Its MacHowever, if this is the case, there plan is fatally flawed. Maybe its part of MS's strategy to try to get us to convert. Windows users have full versions of iTunes and QT and this is from Apple, a company that's total worth is less that that of the development cost for windows alone. This app is so far behind it PC equivalent that in many circumstances it is incapable of performing the limited task for which it was designed. It's not down to a deficiency on the part of mac hardware. If you have problems consider opening the site with something like Interarchy and downloading the File to your desktop as it will surely suck less than having to restream it.Why does MS not update its Mac versions of both this, WMplayer and Messenger to the same level as the Windoze versions. Super mario bros x 14 downloadI guess that goes to show that you get what you pay for.I seem to have written a novel. Microsoft can make good software for Macs we definitely have a better office package, even-though we don't have the full line up of higher-level apps (MS Project, etc). I'm not a MS hater, I see my computer as a tool, and I want the best I can get and Macs currently offer benefits that in my opinion PC's can't match.
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