Windows Media Player?

gfeiergfeier
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in macOS edited January 2014
Anyone know when it will be available for those of us who don't plan to buy Office X?
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  • Reply 1 of 27
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    I'd like to know this also. Or, would one of you people with an extra $400 for office post WMP to their iDisk or something for us poor folk?
  • Reply 2 of 27
    senior burnsenior burn Posts: 35member
    Because I am a nice guy I posted it to my server. My iDisk was full, so I put it on my mandrake box.



    [Link Removed At Request Of M$ Corp]



    I'm on cable, so it may not be the fastest...but spread the word while it's still up, and e-mail me at [email protected] if you have any questions.



    [ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Robert ]



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  • Reply 3 of 27
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Thanks Robert. Accessing the site was slow now. I'll try again later.
  • Reply 4 of 27
    senior burnsenior burn Posts: 35member
    I'm sorry for the slow speeds. I'm running far to many servers on my shitty cable connection.
  • Reply 5 of 27
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    Don't worry about the slow speeds. It's faster than it would take me to buy Office. I really should pay you or something, but if I had money I'd be able to buy it myself!
  • Reply 6 of 27
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    WMP.. yet another sucky product that MS threw together. This is even worse than QT for WIndows.
  • Reply 7 of 27
    kelibkelib Posts: 740member
    [quote]Originally posted by Sinewave:

    <strong>WMP.. yet another sucky product that MS threw together. This is even worse than QT for WIndows.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    What's so sucky about it? Works fine for me. Use it mainly for WebRadio and works without a hich. May put it on my iDisk later today
  • Reply 8 of 27
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Sinewave:

    <strong>WMP.. yet another sucky product that MS threw together. This is even worse than QT for WIndows.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I haven't seen anything really bad about it. Yet.
  • Reply 9 of 27
    kukukuku Posts: 254member
    It's not even fully backward compatible.

    IT is missing some old codecs that was in 7.x



    I suspect it's missing WMA too, but can't figure that out as of yet.



    ~Kuku
  • Reply 10 of 27
    sinewavesinewave Posts: 1,074member
    [quote]Originally posted by kelib:

    <strong>



    What's so sucky about it? Works fine for me. Use it mainly for WebRadio and works without a hich. May put it on my iDisk later today</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Move the window.. video stops..

    I've had it crash on me twice in the two hours I was messing with it. I also couldn't get it to play AVis
  • Reply 11 of 27
    senior burnsenior burn Posts: 35member
    I see that a ton of people have downloaded it. Hope it's working out.
  • Reply 12 of 27
    gfeiergfeier Posts: 127member
    Working fine! You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar (or a reasonable facsimile thereof).
  • Reply 13 of 27
    simonsimon Posts: 7member
    Having trouble installing. Downloads OK, I get the installer, run it, enter admin password, then ..... nothing. It just seems to quit when authenticating installer.



    Any ideas?



    Simon.

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 14 of 27
    mediamanmediaman Posts: 169member
    Maybe M$ has not publicly reliced this yet because thay have something better allmost ready?

    <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011211/sftu067_1.html"; target="_blank">Link to story 1</a>

    <a href="http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=23463"; target="_blank">Link to story 2</a>

    You never know?
  • Reply 15 of 27
    4fx4fx Posts: 258member
    [quote]Originally posted by Sinewave:

    <strong>WMP.. yet another sucky product that MS threw together. This is even worse than QT for WIndows.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Whats wrong with QT for Windoze? I was actually impressed by the improvements from version 4 to 5. I only know this because I am forced to use Wintels in my crappy school computer lab.
  • Reply 16 of 27
    kelibkelib Posts: 740member
    [quote]Originally posted by simon:

    <strong>Having trouble installing. Downloads OK, I get the installer, run it, enter admin password, then ..... nothing. It just seems to quit when authenticating installer.



    Any ideas?



    Simon.

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

    Beats me :confused: Try download it from my iDisk.



    Name: askell
  • Reply 17 of 27
    adam11adam11 Posts: 163member
    I couldnt connect to Robert..... anyone else ? Kelib were you offering it through your idisk (what is the username) ?



    Cheers

    adam
  • Reply 18 of 27
    senior burnsenior burn Posts: 35member
    I'm sorry everyone. I got a telephone call from M$, giving me "Take it off, or we're suing" orders. Hope enough people downloaded it.
  • Reply 19 of 27
    adam11adam11 Posts: 163member
    Cant tell from your profile..... nifty detective work on their behalf. Thanks anyway Robert... look after youself!





    Cheers

    Adam
  • Reply 20 of 27
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I must say that this OS X version of WMP is pretty bad. It's just as poorly threaded as the old version (menus stop playback, moving the window stops playback, etc.). Plus, the skinning can be very buggy when you try changing certain settings with a movie open.



    The only "improvement" is that it's a native version so it has the memory and multitasking provided by OSX.



    I'm not surprised they haven't made this public, but I just wonder if it'll be any better by the time it is.
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