Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Nov 2005 20:04 UTC
A major UK retail store and three of the largest PC vendors worldwide still have no plans to sell the version of Microsoft Windows that does not contain its media player, five months after the version was released. Microsoft started offering Windows XP N, a version of Windows without a bundled media player, in June of this year to comply with last year's antitrust ruling by the European Commission.
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"I'm sure a lot of consumers are happy to be 'locked in.' The bring home their box, open it up and it plays media files... no work involved."
Yeah, basically. Why do you think that :inux isn't more popular with them?
"what? I need to find a plugin (and dance through how many hoops!?!?!) to get *mp3* support in my media player?! What about all those WMV files out there?"
Removing WMP as a punishment for MS is a stupid idea, that only causes trouble for the average Joe computer user. Forcing them to allow royalty free use of their protocols and APIs on the other hand, would have done a world of good.