WindowsMedia in OSX

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macgregormacgregor
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I have not used any MS Office for OSX or any other Aquafied MS products and so maybe I'm late to this, but as I looked at the WindowsMedia screen shots it hit me as very strange to see how Apple-looking it all is.



The Aqua skin on Windows makes you start to wonder, who is influensing whom? I know this only will be seen by Mac users but still, will this submergence into Aqua somehow infect the MS-ites. I didn't realize until now how strange it would be for MS engineers to have to work on an Aqua look. Maybe its just another skin to them, but you have to wonder.



Also, how much did Apple have to disclose to MS to let them copy Aqua. I know this is just superficial stuff, but it seems more significant to me than what I first realised.

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    ricrocketricrocket Posts: 142member
    Interesting addendum...

    If you go to <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp"; target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp</a>, you'll see that the 'aqua' IE icon from the mac version of IE has been adopted by the windows version! As much as I hate windoze, I have to hand it to MS's Mac division, their mac products are almost universally better than their windoze counterparts!



    rr.
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    macgregormacgregor Posts: 1,434member
    And that pretty much explains the entire look of XP. Aqua with a few more Teletubbie colors with the saturation pushed way up.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    thentrothentro Posts: 231member
    well I got WMP for OSX today.



    Good: Yea new skin! I can play .asf with no problem



    Bad: I cant play .mp3, .mov, .mpeg, .avi, or .dv.



    Thats all the formats I have on my computer!! What trash



    :eek:



    [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: thentro ]</p>
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,185member
    I like the fact that I now have an OS X player, and when it works, it's great. But I often get a message " this codec is not supported" when trying to play a file. seems odd that the same file/URL will play on WMP7 under classic, but won't play on thier brand new OSX player.



    ... if i could get all this OSX stuff to work, i'd never use Classic (it's painfully slow on a 266-G3)
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by thentro:

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    Bad: I cant play .mp3, .mov, .mpeg, .avi, or .dv.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    What OS X media player plays .avi?
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>What OS X media player plays .avi?</strong><hr></blockquote>QuickTime Player will play some avi. Or, at least, it's supposed to. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> The only avi files I've had success with are those encoded in DivX. I can use the qtffmpeg.component to watch DivX movies in X. Otherwise, I'm stuck booting up VirtualPC. Ugh.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    The icons for XP were made by a bunch of Mac users... <a href="http://www.iconfactory.com"; target="_blank">www.iconfactory.com</a>



    Go figure, eh?



    I wouldnt be surprised if they made the icons for Explorer, etc
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    arbernautarbernaut Posts: 182member
    The icons for explorer were made by a compnay in teh UK - not IconFactory. Can't remember the name off hand...
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