Details are scarce at the moment, but testers familiar with the recently leaked Windows 7 build 7048 confirm that Internet Explorer 8 is now an optional component in Windows 7. This is most likely a direct consequence of the EU investigation into the bundling of IE. Still, a few questions remain.
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Member since:2005-12-02
"Really? I don't recall this at all. I do recall wishing Microsoft would work with some of the other players to allow codecs interoperatability...
I think at that time I was either using the Sasmiki2000, as it allowed me to play pretty much everything in one player. These days I get by much happier with Media Player Classic in Windows abnd use Gnome-mplayer in Linux."
I remember it well. The only other player that I could find anywhere, at that time, was RealPlayer, which was way too expensive. I never heard of Simsiki2000, maybe that is a UK player?
"Heh...funny. Mind telling me where that was for sale to home users? Well they must have offered it to their technical crowd enthusiasts, right? No...? Funny how it was a flop when it was unavailable for purchase..."
Well, I can't speak from experience, as I am in the US. According to a friend of mine in London, they saw it at some electronics store, in a retail box. I cannot judge the accuracy of his statement, as I have not been to the UK in about 25 years.
Edit: Had wrong time frame for when I was there last 
Edited 2009-03-04 23:19 UTC
Member since:2005-08-07
Sasami2k. IIRC it was a Korean or Japanese program with an English translastion (much like some of the earlier versions of TMPGenc were. I was linked to a download for it by a friend in the shell-replacement community and used it for about two or three years. What I remember most about it was the right-click menu controls and learning the key-commands to run the program.
On the web programs lose their nationalities so long as they are good at what they do and they have a working translation in your own language.
Thom Holwerda disagreed...
Well based on his initial statements it certainly seemed as if that was what he was doing. His second post makes him look less like a turfer and more like someone with different experiences--but to claim that everyone was begging Microsoft to bundle their media player into the OS just doesn't ring true with what I saw during that time frame.
--bornagainpenguin
Member since:2006-02-15
Really? I don't recall this at all. I do recall wishing Microsoft would work with some of the other players to allow codecs interoperatability...
Well, you can't really call yourself an Average Joe, can you? Atleast my mom would have absolutely no idea where to start if her computer came without something to play video and music with, or without a web browser. From such a point of view including such applications makes perfect sense. All Linux distros do that, too, so it's hypocritical to complain about it.
As for interoperability..Sure, Microsoft should rather pursue that instead of trying to hinder it. But the point is, who does it benefit for Microsoft having to offer versions of their software without media player or browser? EU? Big corporations? Geeks who know how to fix any issues they might have? Or Average Joe?
Member since:2005-06-29
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2005-08-07
DrillSgt astroturfed...
Really? I don't recall this at all. I do recall wishing Microsoft would work with some of the other players to allow codecs interoperatability...
I think at that time I was either using the Sasmiki2000, as it allowed me to play pretty much everything in one player. These days I get by much happier with Media Player Classic in Windows abnd use Gnome-mplayer in Linux.
DrillSgt astrotuurfed...
Heh...funny. Mind telling me where that was for sale to home users? Well they must have offered it to their technical crowd enthusiasts, right? No...? Funny how it was a flop when it was unavailable for purchase...
--bornagainpenguin
Edited 2009-03-04 23:03 UTC