Now this is crazy. I hate seeing one dominant player on the market (Microsoft or anyone else) as much as the next guy, but ordering Microsoft to remove Media Player from Windows (in Europe only)?!? What are we thinking?
Case in point: I don't know of anyone using Windows Media Player for general multimedia content playback. Personally, I use free version of
Zoom Player for video and inevitable
Winamp for audio.
I do use Windows Media Player sometimes - when I transfer MP3 music from the desktop to my Smartphone (Orange SPV E200, runs Windows Mobile 2003) I can do the transcoding to WMA and transfer to the phone in one step (the phone does not play MP3).
This move will not help any users, and will only theoretically help companies like Apple and Real to compete more fairly. If EU wants to punish Microsoft for monopolistic behavior, fine - but this is not the way. European Commission is just wasting our tax money...
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